next. >> good afternoon . britain. it's >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday, the 2nd of july. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. the government is urgently investigating severe delays to the postal vote delivery. the royal mail says ballots packs are being delivered as soon as they arrive, but thousands fear they won't get there in time. we'll have all the details and another reform uk bombshell as a second candidate defects to the conservatives accusing fellow candidates of being racist and misogynistic. the labour leader says he'll clock off at six on fridays if he wins the election, but will he be a part time prime minister, or is he right to protect his family, time and an end of an era for one of our greatest ever sports stars, former wimbledon and olympic champion andy murray has pulled out of this year's singles tournament due to injury. >> at this, his last wimbledon .

>> at this, his last wimbledon. >> at this, his last wimbledon. >> and what a delight it is to have mrs. emily carver. well, emily christie's, but emily carver emily carver on the telly. >> emily. emily christie's at home. there we go. >> it's nice to have that delineation in life and may i say, i did invite tom to the wedding, and he was the life and soul of the party, as you could imagine. >> i think you said, hello to every single guest there, which is rather nice. it was very easy to be like, just so happy at such a wonderful ceremony with so much light and music and laughter and joy and love. and i should say there was lots of you who've given us such lovely well—wishes. a bit of speculation over when the actual date was, but yes, it was sunday and we had a fabulous time, so thank you for sending lots of love and well wishes. but we also want to talk about these postal votes. are you one of these people who's been caught

up in these delays? >> yeah, it's a big, big question because a lot of people, of course, will struggle to get to a polling station on the day. will people actually be disenfranchised due to these delays and what can be done about it? we'll be asking all of those questions throughout the show, but we want to hear your views and your stories. do you have a postal vote? >> yes. and what do you make of the fact that it's been estimated that 20 to 25% of people with a vote are doing it via the post? let us know your thoughts on that. gbnews.com/yoursay. >> well, let's get your headunes >> well, let's get your headlines with ray. >> thanks, guys. good afternoon. 12:02. your top stories this houn 12:02. your top stories this hour, sir keir starmer has refused to rule out the need for recounts of some postal votes can't be counted due to royal mail delays. the postal affairs minister is said to be urgently investigating after issues with the printing and delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct

contact with the company and visited depots as well . gb news visited depots as well. gb news asked sir keir if recounts may be necessary . be necessary. >> look, 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 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. >> well, health minister maria caulfield told us earlier that mr hollinrake is personally visiting those depots . visiting those 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 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 . 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. >> a candidate for reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives. georgi david says she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the, quote, vast majority of candidates of being, quote , racist and being, quote, racist and misogynistic. she's the second reform candidate to defect to the tories in two days. the pm is making a final pitch to voters today, urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority. he was up bright and early this morning, meeting warehouse workers in bedfordshire. he toured the ocado facility and even enjoyed a cup of tea in the staff canteen. then on this, the penultimate day of the election campaign, he spoke to workers in oxfordshire, where he said that labour can be denied that majority if just 130,000 people switch their votes. >> 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 all work incredibly hard and i want you to enjoy the benefits of that hard work and keep more of that hard work and keep more of your money for yourselves to spend on what you want, to and spend on what you want, to and spend on what you want, to and spend on your families . 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 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. former labour mp shaun simon told us earlier that the tories are trying to convince labour supporters their vote isn't needed . vote isn't needed. >> since they started doing it, ihave >> 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 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 him topple conservative seats like dominoes. sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority, which 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 suppues and leaks stop and turn water supplies into public benefit companies. the green party says it will abolish ofsted to help reduce stresses and improve wellbeing in schools. if they win the general election. the party is also pledging to scrap tuition fees and provide free school meals for all children . school meals for all children. meanwhile, continuous assessments would replace sats and co—leader carla is describing their education package as an a star offering . package as an a star offering. hurricane beryl is strengthening

into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean. the ferocious storm has already killed at least one person yesterday and inflicted large scale damage across entire islands. it's now moving towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge. the royal mint has honoured team gb and paralympics gb athletes with a new £0.50 coin comes ahead of the paris 2024 olympic and paralympic games . the collectable, which games. the collectable, which costs with starting prices costing from £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, quote, special good luck token . those are the latest luck token. 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. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:08 and there are just two days left until the uk goes to the polls. >> yes, the leaders are all pushing for your vote, but will they all arrive in time? that's they all arrive in time? that's the question today. >> it's as the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, sits out at royal mail for failing to deliver with a huge surge in demand. >> yes, the royal mail has, though, hit back at the government, saying there's no backlog in their system. and so it seems like it seems like the government is saying it's the royal mail's fault. the royal mail is saying it's the government's fault. so who's fault is it ? fault is it? >> well, at the end of the day, it's a circular firing squad and no one's getting their postal votes. but we want to know, have

you got your postal vote or are you got your postal vote or are you one of these people who is still there, sitting, squatting by your doormat, waiting for it to land? because my goodness me, time is running short and there could be people who do not get to vote. if this all goes wrong, we're going to be asking experts about what the recourse is for those who do want to vote. and the postal vote has not arrived. there are rights. there are emergency things that can be done so all is not over. >> yes, it'll be a bit of a nightmare actually, if you're planning to have a postal vote doesn't arrive and you can't get it there in time, alison says. though my husband ordered his postal vote in a timely manner, filled it in and sent it back last week. it's people leaving it until the last minute whilst they go. alison doesn't have any sympathy? >> no, but there are some areas. there are some areas where these postal votes arrived weeks ago and other areas where people are still waiting. it's a postcode lottery . lottery. >> well, shall we speak to theo chikomba? who's outside a delivery office for us? theo, give us a bit more detail on this. what exactly is the problem? >> well, as you can see, the

rains are coming down the clouds . it's all coming down today and it's been a lot of toing and froing between the post office and the government today. and now we understand that there are around 90 constituencies across the uk which haven't had their postal ballots arrive on time with only two days left. people are wondering what's going on. there's been criticism, particularly north of the border in scotland, where school children and their families went on holiday last week, friday. so inevitably a lot of them have gone out of the country on houday gone out of the country on holiday and they weren't able to get their ballots on time. and it's an interesting time as well , because most people would be able to make the most of proxy votes, which allows someone else to go and take your vote for you. but if you are not expecting this issue and you're hoping your ballot would arrive on time to your home, you now find yourself in this situation. now the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, has hit out at the postal service, and he said

it is investigating this issue, which is leaving thousands of people unable to do the postal vote that they wanted to for a number of reasons. some may be leaving the country on holiday or aren't able to make it on thursday. that deadline is 10 pm. for those who are looking to vote on that day. now, we have heard this morning that those who are unable to get those who are unable to get those ballots postal ballots in on time, they may have to go to their local voting centres to put their ballots in that way, which is, maybe not the ideal situation. they would have wanted to find themselves in. but the post office themselves say there isn't a backlog issue, and they say things are running as they should, but those places which they are , which they do which they are, which they do understand are having issues. they are investigating and they're saying the system is working and they are looking to ensure that those who are waiting for their postal votes are able to do so. so only two days left, and many people will be hoping that they arrive on

time. >> well, let's hope that that does take place. 90 constituencies. my goodness me, what a large number. but theo chikomba for now, thank you very much . much. >> yes, very interesting to think whether this could actually make a dent in the polls. well, in the actual vote on thursday anyway, joining us now, christopher hope from the labour battlebus christopher, bnng labour battlebus christopher, bring us up to date with what's going on. labour side . going on. labour side. >> yes, that's how labour are also concerned about this issue of postal ballots. we heard from stephen flynn, the westminster leader of the snp. we've heard from the tory side, of course, kevin hollinrake, who's the postal affairs minister. i asked sir keir starmer if he was worried about the issue of postal ballots and this is what he had to say. >> look, 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 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. >> and what's interesting there is i had asked him, will there

be any required recounts in some seats? and he said, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. now that does raise the prospect right now. tom and emily, of if people don't get their postal votes in time and they can't cast their vote in a seat where it might go just a few votes here and there could settle it. there could be calls for recounts of some seats going into next week . friday may not into next week. friday may not be the final day of this election campaign. >> chris, are you saying that if a postal vote arrives late, it could be counted in the event of a recount ? a recount? >> well, my question to that is sir keir starmer, which i think was cut off from that clip. but i said, will you should there be recounts in some seats if people's postal ballots are not counted? and he said we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. and i think that's very interesting because i think if this if this election is tighter than we, than we than the polls suggests. and in the past, in 2017, notably, the polls have

narrowed and been completely wrong. in some cases, you could see some seats, a call, an increasing call to recount the vote in some seats, if a pile of postal ballots are found and haven't been counted , and haven't been counted, and christopher on a on a different note, how are the labour camp feeling about these comments by keir starmer about clocking off on fridays at at 6:00? >> there's been a huge amount of interest in these comments. the suggestion from the conservatives that keir starmer will be a part time prime minister >> yeah, it's yes, what they're saying that, you know, of course, if he's busy, if world events happen on a friday night after 6:00, he'll do that. i mean, he's always said, hasn't he, that he observes the sabbath starting at 6 pm. with his family. his wife, victoria, is jewish, i should say. they're giving out pillows on the bus. can you see this? hang on, chris, we'll just listen here. >> hold on for one moment. we'll get you back in vision, which will be happening any moment

now. here we go. we can see. we can see it. yeah. don't wake up to five more years of the tories. my goodness , that's tories. my goodness, that's quite a quite a strange picture. >> there of. >> there of. >> i don't know how to describe that picture of rishi sunak. i don't know if it's dishy or otherwise. >> well, it looks a bit. it looks a bit. it's a bit like david beckham when he was asleep, wasn't he? and he's by by the artist sam taylor. johnson filmed him when he was asleep. but the point is, i mean , that's a different argument about don't don't mess it up. and don't make sure you vote. do vote for labour. the party is saying. or could they are concerned that these polls are could well be out and it could be much tighter than everyone thinks. but yeah , the idea that thinks. but yeah, the idea that there's no question that the tories are trying to show a young candidate up at 4 am. with with our colleague katherine forster , he gave up katherine forster, he gave up mcdonald's breakfast to colleagues on the press bus with them at morrisons just now. he is trying to show a vigorous young leader. of course, sir keir starmer is 61, but he's a

young 61. so i think whether they're trying to get some idea of vitality. but the message from the tory party is, is, you know, don't hand labour a huge, huge majority. >> yeah, well i suppose at least none of them are joe biden. but but christopher hope, thank you very much for joining but christopher hope, thank you very much forjoining us. live from the labour battle bus . from the labour battle bus. >> none of our candidates are in their in their 80s as far as i know. anyway, we've been talking about the postal voting situation. now we've got a response from royal mail. they say we'll be carrying out sweeps at our mail centres and delivery offices to ensure all postal votes in the network are identified and returned to the relevant local authority before the close of poll stations, they add. >> we will also have additional people on the ground in our mail centres on thursday evening identifying and pulling postal votes for delivery to local authorities sounds quite a complex mission, doesn't it? certainly. well, let's get the side from the from the conservative battle bus now , conservative battle bus now, where our political correspondent katherine forster is, because catherine, we've been hearing from the labour

party saying that don't wake up with rishi, but the conservatives seem to be promoting rishi's youth and vitality. >> so yesterday i was in a distillery with prime minister. >> they certainly are. and well, they might be. good afternoon to both of you. i was up at 2:00 this morning. this conservative battle bus departed from the hotel at 2:45 by a 4:45. i was on a visit with the prime minister at an ocado depot in luton, where he was helping pack people's shopping with quite a lot of help from some rather amazing robots. and by 7:00 we were in a morrisons where he was stacking the shelves with bread , stacking the shelves with bread, and then we moved on to somewhere else where he still is, so i can't tell you, but we're basically in deepest oxfordshire. we've been in a couple of super, super safe tory

seats if such a thing exists anymore. i think the problem for the conservatives is that such a thing does not exist anymore. we were in witney. that was, of course, david cameron's seat, it's currently held with a 15,000 majority, but the lib dems think they can take it. so we're now arriving for the fourth visit of the day and it is literally just after 12:00. the prime minister is going to be finishing up with an event late this evening back in london. so really quite an insane schedule. and i have to say, i've been with the prime minister to berlin, to warsaw and to vienna and the schedule has always been equally brutal. in the case of vienna, we were literally only on the ground for 12 hours, and that included, sleeping. you were talking about laboun sleeping. you were talking about labour. they were giving out pillows , weren't they? yesterday

pillows, weren't they? yesterday to journalists talking about don't wake up with another five years of rishi sunak. so the conservatives gift to us today, you might have seen this in a few attack ads. if you think labour will win, start saving. i have to tell you, it rattles. i've checked it. there's 15 coins in here. sad to say though, they're chocolate so they probably won't last the day. but anyway, they're clearly playing a very defensive game . playing a very defensive game. we are here in very safe conservative seats, but the prime minister talking to us just a little bit earlier, still seems to believe to play for. i did ask him, if he isn't frustrated with what he inherited from boris johnson and liz truss, and he said, look, you've got to deal with the cards that you've got. there's no point wishing you had four aces, but keen to talk about the future. but he seems to be optimistic. but i have to say, not very many of his candidates seem to be. >> well, katherine forster live from the conservative battlebus

with your plastic pig full of chocolate coins. thank you very much for joining chocolate coins. thank you very much forjoining us. much for joining us. >> yes, rishi sunak seems to be campaigning for a hung parliament at this point, which is strange actually, given that in the last election the conservatives campaigned saying that hung parliaments are terrible and we should avoid them at any cost and give the conservatives a majority, i guessin conservatives a majority, i guess in their mind a lot better than a labour supermajority. >> yeah, i suppose there'll be lots of people who think perhaps thatis lots of people who think perhaps that is the case, although i must be saying we talk about the economic situation in the country right now, buy shares in novelty, product companies producing printed pillows and little plastic pigs. they must be, they must be doing good business right now with all the parties. >> yes, i imagine, but another big story today is, of course, these reform defections to the conservatives. accusations from one candidate that the party is stacked full of racists and bigots, misogynists, whatever else, it's quite interesting. richard tice the chairman of the reform party, has come back saying that this is all part of

a some kind of conservative stitch up , suggesting perhaps stitch up, suggesting perhaps these candidates that were with reform weren't really with reform. is that what you understand from what richard tice has said so far? >> that seems to be what he's implying, that these were never really reform candidates in the first place. but i saw one journalist point out, perhaps a quite stark error in that it's that if the conservatives were going to set up people to be fake candidates, why then did they pull out only now and not before the ballots were printed? i mean, there is one seat. it's gavin williamson , gavin gavin williamson, gavin williamson's seat, who was of course , previously the defence course, previously the defence secretary, he managed to do a deal with his reform candidate before the ballot papers were printed. so he's one of the only conservatives where there actually isn't a reform ballot box there. so probably now one of the safest seats. i mean, if this was all a set up from the start, why wouldn't they all have done that and taken the reform option off the ballot paper? that's a fair point. >> but what about the allegation that, that these candidates may have been offered something,

offered a job or something from the conservatives, a little bit of a deal on the side, because it does seem odd to pull out at this stage. that seems more i don't know, there's always two sides to every story. and the truth is usually somewhere in the middle, isn't it? >> and i do think that we, of course, had huge scepticism when natalie elphicke defected from the conservatives to the labour party. what was she offered? well, it could be quite possible that things have been hinted at or offered in some of these reform defections to the conservatives, although it must also be said that this was an ethnic minority woman candidate , ethnic minority woman candidate, who defected after a story appeared in the times yesterday. or this morning's times published last night, which pointed to a reform candidate saying some pretty deeply misogynistic things, talking about j.k. rowling using very, very disturbing language and many women, julia hartley—brewer as well just, had a lot of bile to say. so perhaps that did spur this defection. >> maybe richard tice has come

out on twitter. it'll be interesting to see what, nigel farage has to say about all of this, particularly after that channel 4 undercover investigation that was revealed on air, but we're also going to be hearing from the prime minister very shortly in the next ten minutes or so. we're going to be back very soon indeed.

right. well, thank you very much indeed for getting in touch about postal votes. it seems quite a few of you, were planning to use a postal vote. sandro says i'm currently working remotely from portugal. for two weeks. i requested for my postal vote to be sent to my parents house, where i currently am. unfortunately, it only arrived in the post on friday, given it needs to be back in the uk by thursday evening, it's highly unlikely my vote will be

back in time. >> oh no. >> oh no. >> yeah, so maybe you've been stitched up a bit there. goodness. >> well, david says that postal votes for disabled people only others vote in person with id why not? surely safer, well, i suppose there is an argument there because we do have quite a liberal system of postal voting. literally anyone can request it for any reason, and there's no sort of check to that. other countries are more restrictive with who they give postal votes to. >> yes. i to.— >> yes. i mean, i was just looking at a little map. if i just consult my little map here, of the countries, we are one of very few countries that allow postal votes for any reason. there are some that allow for specific reasons. if you you have to meet certain conditions or if you're in another country for a period of time. but yes, it's only us and a few other european countries and north america that allow it for anything. is that the right thing? is that the right thing? >> well, of course it's. francis says. our postal ballot forms came weeks ago and are safely posted back. it was hard enough to decide, but i'm hoping i voted wisely. >> well, this is the thing i

personally think you should have to sit through the whole campaign before you vote. unless you have unless you have specific, you know, a reason to have postal vote. i mean, if, for example, the 2017 election had been two weeks earlier, perhaps theresa may would have won a majority. it could change a lot. a lot changes in a week in politics, a lot changes, but anne says, i applied for my postal vote on the 31st of may, received it on the 21st of june, posted it on 24th of june. bob's your uncle and you're from east yorkshire. so there you go. work well for, it worked well for anne. >> and bob's your uncle. a political saying, is it the marquess of salisbury , robert marquess of salisbury, robert cecil, who who was the uncle of a later prime minister, and therefore bob's your uncle. >> oh, well, there you go. >> oh, well, there you go. >> he's cake. >> he's cake. >> very interesting to know. anyway, in royal news, king charles has begun the annual holyrood week residence at the palace of holyrood house. he'll be accompanied by queen camilla, and the pair will undertake two days of royal engagements for the celebration of scottish culture, history and achievement and earlier today, as is

tradition, the stay commenced with the ceremony of the keys. well, let's cross over to edinburgh now and speak with gb news royal correspondent cameron walker, cameron, what is the ceremony of the keys and what else is planned for these two days? >> good afternoon emily. well, it's the ancient ceremony where the king is welcomed to his most ancient and hereditary kingdom of scotland. and that's exactly what happened this afternoon with a little bit of a twist. it is the traditional royal week where the monarch traditionally spends a week in edinburgh, in the palace of holyrood house. but it's being shortened slightly this year because of the general election and of course, the king needs to be back in london in time for friday to appoint the prime minister, whoever that may be. but it was in the beautiful gardens of holyrood house this yeah gardens of holyrood house this year. usually it happens in the four courts behind me. i'm told that's due to logistical reasons, but the military families and the special guests who were invited to watch the ceremony were treated to pipes,

drums and bugles of the second battalion, royal regiment of scotland, a mix of music, some sea shanties was in there, some musical theatre as well, perhaps a reflecting king charles's love of music. but when the king arrives, the royal standard was raised above the palace of holyrood house and the national anthem was played, as perhaps you would expect, and then the lord provost. that is the ceremonial leader of edinburgh, officially welcomes the king to the city of edinburgh. he's been the city of edinburgh. he's been the lord provost councillor robert aldridge, for a couple of years now, and he's been telling me how poignant it is being able to do the final ceremony of queen elizabeth ii to do the final ceremony of queen elizabeth 11 back in 2022 and taking on the role under king charles. >> absolutely, yes. i was very fortunate to be able to conduct a ceremony of the keys with, the late queen elizabeth ii, a ceremony of the keys with, the late queen elizabeth 11, so i have managed to conduct ceremony of the keys with herself, also with the king charles. but we also have a second ceremony of the keys when the general assembly of the church of scotland is on. with the high

commissioner. and this year the high commissioner was prince edward, the duke of edinburgh. so i've, i've had a real treat to see so many people. it's an incredible honour and privilege to be in the role at such an important historic time . but, important historic time. but, you know, i am . i always pinch you know, i am. i always pinch myself about how fortunate i've been. so it is, it is great and it was wonderful to be able to conduct a ceremony with the late, the late queen. >> well, following the lord provosts official welcome, the king told him i returned these keys being perfectly convinced that they cannot be placed in better hands than those of the lord provost and councillors of my good city of edinburgh. very traditional, very ancient words. there from his majesty the king, later on today he's going to be holding an investiture for scottish people who are receiving honours. the queen is holding a literary reception inside the palace as well. and then they'll all be hosting a

garden party. and unfortunately, the heavens have just opened, so i fear there may be a bit of a washout, like when prince william hosted a garden party at buckingham palace back in may with some of the younger royals. but it was beautiful for the ceremony of the keys, i can assure you i did not get too wet for that, tomorrow prince william is going to be here in edinburgh, joining his father, the king and the queen and duke and duchess of edinburgh and other members of the royal family to attend the thistle service at saint giles cathedral. there's also going to be a event welcoming or celebrating the 900th anniversary of the city of edinburgh. so lots of royal events happening packed into these two days. as i say, because of the general election. two notable absences though princess anne, the princess royal princess anne, the princess royal, she was also meant to be in scotland for royal week, but due to her continued recovery from that horse related injury in gloucestershire, she is not going to be in edinburgh. yesterday she apologised and said she was deeply saddened she could not be in canada to commemorate some world war i events there in newfoundland . i

events there in newfoundland. i believe it was elsewhere. the princess of wales. she is not going to be coming up to scotland as we understand it. she's not joining prince william, there, there because of her, of course, ongoing preventative chemotherapy . preventative chemotherapy. >> well, cameron walker, thank you very much. live from edinburgh for giving us that royal roundup. >> yes, indeed . well, coming up, >> yes, indeed. well, coming up, a rabbi has been harassed outside a mosque after being ianed outside a mosque after being invited to speak there. we'll show you the shocking footage and speak to an imam after your headunes and speak to an imam after your headlines with ray. >> cheers, guys. 1233 top 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 those postal ballots. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail, after the government acknowledged that there were issues with the printing and delivery of postal

ballot packs in some local areas . well, a candidate for reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives. georgie david said she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the, quote, vast majority of candidates of being , majority of candidates of being, quote, racist and misogynistic. a reform uk spokesperson said the party strongly disagrees with what they called sweeping comments about more than 600 candidates who are standing with the party. the pm 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 been reminding voters that labour can be denied that majority. if just 130,000 people switch their vote. 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,

quote, get on with the change. we need 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, which would have new powers to prevent sewage dumping, and 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 on 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

>> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:39 now. jewish community representatives have condemned the treatment of a rabbi at a mosque. that he'd been invited to speak at us . to speak at us. >> conservative candidate, rabbi arnold saunders, was filmed and shouted at by a man attending the mosque who was called a snake by the pro—palestine supporter, who asked him to condemn israel's actions in gaza. >> well, rabbi saunders says that he is feeling fine after the incident and did not feel threatened. >> well, imam and director at the oxford islamic information centre, doctor sheikh ramzy, joins us now. doctor sheikh , joins us now. doctor sheikh, thank you very much indeed for joining us this afternoon. this story is pretty horrifying, really, that this man was ianed really, that this man was invited to speak at this local mosque and essentially was hounded out . hounded out.

>> yes. firstly, i would like to apologise, give my apology to the rabbi, rabbi saunders , the rabbi, rabbi saunders, because i believe an apology i give my apology from the community, muslim community. because not all are the same. i know the rabbi. i met him some time ago, as i'm the some of the director of the interface for the international interface, some time, however, i would like to say, when a person, especially when the rabbi saunders went to the mosque , saunders went to the mosque, went to the mosque, and invited to the mosque, he has a four kind of respect. should people have for him first, he is a candidate for the for his for the parliament. that's a respectable things which you have to respect. the second one is a rabbi is a leader of his his people, his jewish people. he has to be respected. the third one, he is in the mosque, the place of worship, the place of peace is he has to be totally

respected. and of course, the last one is a he's a guest of the mosque, should be respected. i don't understand why this person person done that. however, this person does not represent an opinion of the muslim in this country. we are muslim, christian and jew. we are totally brother and always said we are brothers and we have to solve our differences, solve our friendship, especially in the countries, which is a, which is a multi—faith, multicultural . is a multi—faith, multicultural. and we do have many, many interfaith working interface. to going to the mosque, going to the church, going to the synagogue, going to the going to the many, many places. we are all together to bring a peace. and this person done very wrong , and this person done very wrong, very bad to our rabbi again. rabbi, i apologise, it is just you . welcome to our mosque

you. welcome to our mosque anytime. you welcome . anytime. you welcome. >> yes it is, it is so, i suppose disappointing to see because this was. this could have been a moment to bring communities together. the interfaith, sort of project of people speaking respectfully, understanding one another. and then just this operation happens andifsit then just this operation happens and it's it undermines the whole purpose. >> he come as a friend, he come as a friend, as a brother, as a brother. i come to the mosque, which i would i would have thought, if our prophet, peace be upon him, was there. if he was there, he would have been very angry with this person because anyone, anyone muslim, non—muslim, lgbt, whatever, whatever you want to call it, the, the, the, the atheist, all are welcome to come to visit the mosque to look at the mosque if they want to do prayer for themselves, they can do the prayer. the mosque is a place of peace and it should not be. >> and the problem is these types of events, these types of

events, jewish people will see this story in the press. they'll see it, and they'll worry that this issue of gaza is, you know, making jewish people a target is the division we should. >> we should we should integrate. not bringing this, bringing division. but i would like i would, i would like not to be division between this country or muslim christian jews or all are or all. and again our all religion brothers and we are under one umbrella. however, i would like to ask our rabbi . would like to ask our rabbi. rabbi, of course, i'm a leader, the same as the rabbi. are the leaders of the religion to other religions . if he, if he, if he religions. if he, if he, if he forgive because he's rabbi, if he forgive that person, he will find a lot of friends. he forgive that person, he will find a lot of friends . okay, find a lot of friends. okay, division, you understand what i'm saying? i understand what you're saying. >> thank you. they will have to leave it there because we're short on time. but thank you very much indeed, doctor sheikh ramzi, you're from the oxford islamic information centre. >> well, here are the general

election candidates for berri south, where, of course, that rabbi is standing. jeff armstrong is the reform uk candidate. seema ashraf is the workers party of britain candidate. michael elston is standing as an independent. stephen morris for the english democrats , andrew page for the democrats, andrew page for the liberal democrats, dan ross for the communist party of britain, arnie saunders for the conservative and unionist party, christian wakeford for the labour party and michael welton for the green party. >> well, lots of choices there now. in other news, sporting news andy murray will not play the singles, the men's singles at wimbledon today, having been battling to recover from a back surgery . surgery. >> well, the two time former champion had been battling to recover from that back surgery last weekend but has run out of time with his first round clash, which had been scheduled for this afternoon. >> yes, he has , however, >> yes, he has, however, committed to competing in the doubles competition. still, with his brother jamie. >> well, let's cross now to wimbledon for the very latest with gb news reporter charlie peters. because, charlie, there must be a lot of people disappointed today.

>> that's right tom, 11 britons will be competing today at wimbledon, but andy murray will not be among them. the 37 year old was set to take to centre court at 630 this afternoon to play court at 630 this afternoon to play against thomas masca, from the czech republic in his first round match at wimbledon. now andy murray ended a 77 year wait for a british man to win wimbledon in 2013. the next week was just three years. he won it again in 2016 and he's announced that this year will be the end of his singles career, and he wanted to have some sort of closure at wimbledon, where so much of his success has come. 11 finals across all grand slams. in all major competitions. but it isn't going to be the case because, as you said, ten days after you had a cyst removed from his back in surgery in order to deal with a spinal injury there that was causing some pressure on the nerve in his right leg, he hasn't quite

recovered in time, he said. on sunday that the area where the surgery took place on his back wasn't sore, but he didn't have sufficient feeling in his right leg to play today . yesterday he leg to play today. yesterday he was in practice playing against uk number one kyle edmund. he was leading across two sets in that practice but was unable to meet the fitness requirements today to kick off that first round match. now, in a statement , andy murray's team has said that unfortunately , despite that unfortunately, despite working incredibly hard on his recovery since his operation just over a week ago, andy has taken the very difficult decision not to play the singles this year. they went on to say that as you can imagine, he is extremely disappointed but has confirmed that he will be playing in the doubles with jamie and looks forward to competing at wimbledon for the last time now. andy murray, his career has been plagued with injury since his last grand slam win in 2016. since 2017, he had a full hip replacement and since

then he has not reached the second week of a grand slam. it will not be the fairy tale ending to his wimbledon career. >> well, we wish him luck for the doubles , but yes, very sad the doubles, but yes, very sad to hear that he won't be taking part in the men's singles. thank you very much. charlie peters there outside wimbledon for us. >> now coming up, we're going to be hearing from the prime minister, rishi sunak, the second reform candidate defects to the

good afternoon. britain. it's 10 to 1 now. the prime minister has been campaigning in oxfordshire. speaking to the press, he addressed news that a reform candidate defected to the conservatives. today. let's listen in. >> i've addressed these issues in the past, but what i would say is that what these candidates who are coming over to conservatives know is that a vote for reform is just a to vote for reform is just a to vote put keir starmer in number

10. and if you want your taxes cut, if you want your pension protected and if you want our border secure, the only way to deliver that is to for vote conservative candidates. >> it's quite a specific criticism, though. she is saying that reform candidates are racist . do you agree with that characterisation? >> well, we've seen some appalling comments that have been made that i addressed last week. and, you know, what we have seen is candidates and campaigners openly espousing racist and misogynistic views, seemingly without challenge. and that tells you something about the culture within the reform party. overall, that's questions for nigel farage. but on thursday there's a clear choice for people and if you want your taxes cut, if you want your pension protected and you want our borders secure and you want to vote to prevent a labour super majority, the only way to do that is to vote conservative. and that's the very strong message that these candidates and others are making a clear. >> there are some real concerns that some people aren't going to be able to vote because their postal votes aren't getting through on time. how worried about that are you and what can be done to solve it?

>> well, it's right that the royal mail have said that they will look at any concerns where they're raised because obviously we want to make sure everyone can vote because this is an important election. and in spite of what some people want others to believe that it's all a foregone conclusion. every vote matters and every vote matters, particularly if you want to prevent a labour supermajority. you want your taxes cut and your pension protected. the only way to do that is to vote conservative. >> let me ask you about that. you started this campaign on the front foot talking about policy, trying to get out there and sell a vision to the country. you're ending it. warning about a historically high labour majority . this historically high labour majority. this has historically high labour majority . this has been historically high labour majority. this has been a disaster for the conservatives, hasn't it? no. >> we've got a very clear agenda that i want to deliver in government, and that starts with cutting everyone's taxes at every stage in their life. but i also want to make sure we invest more in our national security. i want to make sure we get to net zero in a sensible way. and crucially, i want to continue to make progress cutting migration and stopping the boats. and that's a choice for everyone at this election. a for vote anyone

who's not a conservative candidate is a vote not for those things. i don't want to see people's taxes go up. i want to cut them. i want to see our borders secure, not become the soft touch of europe when it comes to illegal migration, as keir starmer would have us be. i want to invest more in our national security. keir starmer would cut that and i want to protect people's pensions, whether it's under labour, pensioners would face a retirement tax for the first time in our country's history. so that's why thursday is so important. a vote for the conservatives is a vote to prevent a labour super majority, but it is also a vote to have your taxes cut the borders that we have secure, and to have your pension protected. >> do you accept the criticism from your candidates? not from me, but from some of your candidates that this campaign has not gone well? >> well, i've been out with our candidates every day and that's why i'm fighting hard for every vote. and i was up at four this morning talking to workers because we've got days left to make the case to the british people that thursday's vote really matters for them, and it will have consequences. and i don't want people to sleepwalk into something that they then regret. a vote for the conservatives is a clear vote to have your taxes cut, to have our

borders secure, to have your pension protected and to prevent a labour super majority. and that's what i want everyone to focus on over the next couple of days. >> well, there we go, rishi sunak being asked about those comments. the defections from reform to his party. >> yeah. stopping short of saying he thinks the majority of reform candidates are racist, but saying some of them have said racist things. well, we'll be dissecting that more in the next hour. we'll also be speaking to labour's shadow education secretary, bridget phillipson. so don't go anywhere. this is good afternoon britain on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello again. i'm here with your latest gb news. weather forecast brought to you by the met office. we are going to see some fairly wet weather pushing its way southwards across many parts as we go through the rest of today and overnight. that's

due to a system that's currently just to the northwest of the uk for the time being though, as we go through the end of today, there is still some dry and at times sunny weather across parts of england and wales, with a few showers to watch out for. but further north of scotland, northern ireland and northern england, turning increasingly cloudy and also very wet. that rain and cloud is going to push its way southwards as we go through the night and because of the unsettled weather, it is going to stay pretty mild, temperatures generally staying in double figures. so a fairly wet start to the day for many of us. but some of the heavier rain is going to quite quickly clear away towards the east. if we take a closer look and across some southern parts by seven 8:00, apart from a bit of rain across east anglia, perhaps there should be some dry, perhaps even brighter weather for a time. different story further north, outbreaks of rain and quite a lot of cloud for many places with something a little bit more persistent pushing into parts of scotland and also northern ireland as we go through the morning, and this band of something a bit more persistent is then going to

gradually make its way eastwards as we go through the day. so staying pretty soggy for scotland and northern ireland, england and wales. some further outbreaks of rain don't look as heavy as what we'll have seen earlier on, but it is going to stay generally pretty cloudy. temperatures are still going to be a little bit below average for the time of year. we may just about scrape into the low 20s celsius, but because of the cloud and the wet weather and for some of us blustery winds, it's going to feel a little disappointing later on as we go through tomorrow evening, there will be some brighter skies developing across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but a scattering of showers mixed in with these and then some clear spells spreading to many parts on thursday, we can expect some blustery and wet weather in the north on friday. it's looking wetter for more of us. i'll see you again soon. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> well. good afternoon. britain it's 1:00 on tuesday, the 2nd of it's1:00 on tuesday, the 2nd of july. i'm emily carver , and i'm july. i'm emily carver, and i'm tom harwood. now, the government is urgently investigating severe delays to postal vote delivery. the royal mail says ballot packs are being delivered as soon as they arrive. but thousands fear they arrive. but thousands fear they won't get there in time. we'll have all the details . we'll have all the details. >> and another reform uk bombshell is the second candidate defects to the conservatives, accusing fellow candidates of being racist and misogynistic. >> and the labour leader says he'll clock off at 6:00 on fridays if he wins the election. will he be a part time prime minister or is he right to protect family time? we're hosting that debate and the end of an era for one of our greatest ever sports stars. >> former wimbledon and olympic champion andy murray has pulled out of this year's single tournament due to his injury at this, his last wimbledon .

this, his last wimbledon. now, of course , emily's back now, of course, emily's back after what was a pretty special four days away from work. what did you up to? >> i just got married, you know, casual casual casual , casual wedding. >> and of course, people have been asking, can we see a photograph? so we've dug this up. here are emily and patrick, the king and queen of gb news. strolling down the aisle there . strolling down the aisle there. >> yeah, there we go. now what? you don't know what? you can't. i'll give you a little bit of an insight into this. so it was raining and all overcast at the start of the day when i was getting ready, i was feeling a little bit, you know, a little bit disappointed that the weather had changed. but then. but then, tom, what happened? >> literally as soon as you sort of because there was sort of a bush at the back of this lovely sort of little garden where you came from behind the bush and

appeared for the first time in your wedding dress. and precisely at that moment the clouds part, the sun shines through just as you walk down the aisle. i mean, i don't know , the aisle. i mean, i don't know, i don't know which sort of dubai based weather company. you got to move the clouds . but clearly to move the clouds. but clearly it worked. >> oh, yeah, it was all us. we were praying. we were praying. of course we were. and i will give you i won't, this a bit mean to patrick, but he was a blubbering mess at the end of the aisle, no, not too bad. not too bad. but yes, i should say thank you to the wonderful guys at mickey photography who made that, those lovely photos, but, that's enough of that. that's enough of that . enough of that. >> there's politics to be done. we're talking about postal votes today. there's, of course, delays to some of these postal votes in 90 constituencies. are you affected ? do get in touch. you affected? do get in touch. gbnews.com/yoursay >> but let's get the headlines with ray . with ray. >> very nearly 1:03. your top

stories. so sir keir starmer has refused to rule out the need for recounts . if some postal votes recounts. if some postal votes can't be counted due to royal mail delays. it comes after the postal affairs minister was said to be urgently investigating issues with the delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas . kevin hollinrake is local areas. kevin hollinrake is understood to be in direct contact with royal mail and has visited depots. sir keir says every vote must be counted. >> well, look, we cross each bndge >> well, look, 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 pull together to make sure the ballot papers get where they're needed so that people exercise their democratic right to vote. so that's where my focus is at the moment. >> a candidate for reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives georgie david says she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the vast majority of candidates of being, quote, racist and misogynistic.

she's the second reform candidate to defect to the tories in two days. a spokesperson for reform said the party strongly disagrees with what they called sweeping comments about more than 600 candidates who are standing with the party. well, the pm is making a final pitch to voters today urging wavering tories to stick with his party and prevent a labour supermajority. he was up bright and early this morning, meeting warehouse workers in bedfordshire . he workers in bedfordshire. he toured an ocado facility and enjoyed a tea in the staff canteen . then on this, the canteen. then on this, the penultimate day of the election campaign, he spoke to workers in oxfordshire where he said labour can be denied that majority 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. 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 leader of the lib dems is urging voters to help him topple tory seats like dominoes. sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority, which 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 suppliers into public benefit companies . well, the green party companies. well, the green party says it will abolish ofsted to reduce stresses in schools 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 kids. meanwhile, continuous assessments would replace sats. co—leader caladenia 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 . across the eastern 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 towards jamaica, where it's expected to batter the shoreline with life threatening winds and storm surge . staying with storm surge. staying with international news, and police international news, and police in kenya have fired tear gas at protesters following a week of deadly clashes . there, people deadly clashes. there, people could be seen hurling stones at

riot police as clouds of tear gas wafted through downtown nairobi. the demonstrations beganin nairobi. the demonstrations began in response to the government's plans to introduce new taxes, which have since been abandoned. kenya has come under immense pressure from lenders to cut its debt, but there's also growing fury among voters over the soaring cost of living . and the soaring cost of living. and russia says it can't comment on a proposal by donald trump to end the war in ukraine because it doesn't know what it involves, the former president said during last week's debate that if he wins the us election, he'd have the war settled before he'd have the war settled before he took office. though, he offered no details of how the kremlin has previously said that any peace plan would need to reflect what it calls the reality on the ground. ukraine says president putin's proposal amounts to a demand for its surrender . all right, those are surrender. all 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 . slash alerts. >> well good afternoon britain. it's 1:08. a lot going on today , it's 1:08. a lot going on today, but our top story this hour with less than 48 hours. now to go before brits go to the polls, the government is conducting an urgent investigation into these postal vote delays. >> it comes as the postal affairs minister, kevin hollinrake, hits out at the royal mail for failing to deal with a huge surge in demand . the with a huge surge in demand. the royal mail has hit back at the government, saying there's no backlog in their system. >> so who's right? backlog in their system. >> so who's right ? joining us >> so who's right? joining us now is christopher hope from the labour battle bus , christopher, labour battle bus, christopher, these postal votes i was reading that, what they call the association of electoral administration. they estimate that 20 to 25% of people are

planning to postal vote or have done or so already. this could have quite the impact. >> that's right. tom and ellie. yeah. we join me now in derbyshire. we're waiting for a new another keir starmer event to happen. i've been with the labour battle bus all day and that's right, postal votes are a really a common way now for many of us to vote. 1 in 5 typically vote by postal ballot and the course concerns from all across the board, from the snp, the conservatives, kevin hollinrake, the snp, stephen flynn, the westminster leader for that party and now sir keir starmer has waded in. they're all worried about the impact of lost postal ballots that don't get to the right people on time, and people can't take part in this huge election that's happening on thursday. earlier, i asked sir keir starmer what his concerns were, and here's what he had to say. keir starmer a quick question. if some postal votes aren't counted because they're delayed by the royal mail, should there be recounts

in some seats on thursday? >> well, look, we cross each bndge >> well, look, 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 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. >> sir keir starmer talking to gb news. they're saying that we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. that is holding out the option. i think. oh, clearly he's saying in fact of having maybe some recounts of votes. if people if there's a pile of postal ballots that have been returned or have been delivered to the right people, big concerns here. i think amongst all the parties about the impact of these problems with the royal mail, the royal mail, by the way, have said these concerns are overblown and they don't recognise them in the same way. but there's no question i think this could be an issue going beyond the counting day for this election. on friday. >> people, many people , >> people, many people, particularly elderly people, will be relying on postal votes. this country, of course, has a

high proportion of people who use them, but disproportionately perhaps at least apart from maybe some seats disproportionately older people, more conservative leaning people do use postal votes. this could have a disproportionate impact on the conservative party >> it could do some. i haven't seen any actual and quite good to see the research on that. i haven't seen any research yet to show which age group, which demographic, which party supporters are more likely to use postal votes. but yeah, i think it's a concern across the board and certainly given there are, say, 100 seats, to according the mrp polling, which suggests they can go either way with a few hundred ballots cast. either way, this could be a real democratic issue of ensuring that we get the right election result come polling day. and i think that's the concern. >> right. well, thank you very much indeed, christopher. hope you're with the labour battle bus in the east midlands. >> now, in response to this story, royal mail has said we'll

be carrying out sweeps at our mail centres and delivery offices to ensure that all postal votes in the network are identified and returned to the relevant local authority before the close of poll stations. >> yes, they go on to say we will also have additional people on the ground in our mail centres. on thursday evening identifying and pulling postal votes for delivery to local authorities. it seems the royal mail are trying to put out the message that this is going to be okay. there's not too much going wrong, but the fact that there's having to be an urgent investigation into this . i wonder. >> yeah. well i suppose they do need to project calm collected authority, even if it might not be that entirely behind the scenes. scei'ies. >> scenes. >> well, joining us from the tory battlebus is our political correspondent, katherine forster. catherine, the conservatives must be pleased with these defections from the reform party . reform party. >> yes, indeed. a little bit of good news for rishi sunak, of course. when nigel farage came out and said that he was going

to stand for reform, that was in some ways their worst nightmare, wasn't it? because it led to a big spike in the reform vote. but twice now, in two days, we've seen reform candidates basically going over to the conservatives. so today it's, georgie david who was standing in west ham and beckton, and they have said that although, they have said that although, they have said that although, they have no doubt that the party senior leadership is not racist. says however, the vast majority of candidates are indeed misogynistic and bigoted. so quite a blistering attack. of course , richard tice, who was course, richard tice, who was the leader until nigel farage swept in, is absolutely appalled by this as more desperate by the tories. but yes, certainly this is good news. nigel farage has had a rocky week or so, hasn't

he? after the comments about, the west having provoked putin and ukraine and also, you know, and ukraine and also, you know, and now we have this, of course, and now we have this, of course, and also the, the caught on camera , comments at the end of camera, comments at the end of last week . so rishi sunak, last week. so rishi sunak, despite the polls . despite the polls. >> catherine, i think your feed is just a little bit too juddery. let's catch up with, catherine a little bit later on, we'll have to read out the candidate list, actually, for west ham and beckton as it was mentioned, we have emily bigland from the liberal democrats, louise austin, a trade unionist and socialist coalition. holly alice ramsay , conservatives, alice ramsay, conservatives, george david, reform uk, james edward asare, labour party, rob callender, green party, sophie naqvi, the newham independence party , coyote shiduo, the

party, coyote shiduo, the christian people's alliance, there we go. i think that was all right. i think that was all right. we should say that richard tice, the chairman of the reform party, has been doing quite a little work on social media, at least to try and push back against these defections, saying that this is all part of some kind of conservative plot , some kind of conservative plot, some kind of conservative plot, so it'll be interesting to see what nigel farage has to say about all this, too. i don't believe he's put anything out yet on the matter. >> i wouldn't be surprised if. well, of course, if there's a defection, it's not going to be entirely of the candidate's own volition . there'll have been volition. there'll have been conversations. there will have been , discussions between people been, discussions between people within the conservative party and the person who is doing the defection. so, of course, those conversations will have taken place. the allegation from richard tice is that perhaps there were offers of, of jobs or something else in the mix, or even that this is all planned before. isn't he even suggesting that, yes, there is a suggestion that, yes, there is a suggestion that that this person was never

a reform party supporter and was a reform party supporter and was a plant the whole way, but i find that very hard to believe, just for the simple reason that if you were going to pull a trick like that, why would you wait until after? lots of people have voted by post. why would you wait until just two days before the election to then do the defection? because there is a case where a reform candidate, defected just hours before the deadune defected just hours before the deadline to get on the ballot paper and therefore in one particular constituency, there is no reform candidate, which i suppose if you were going to allege a setup, that would be the situation that would be the most advantageous to set up, does your head hurt like mine? it's all getting a little bit complicated, isn't it, but there's lots of talk of a hung parliament, at least from rishi sunak. seems he's almost campaigning for one now. so joining us now is martin baxter, who is the ceo of electoral calculus now electoral calculus, i understand, have provided some recent figures on the election. can you explain what you've what you found? >> sure. we had a little look.

so just to put it in context, remember, there's about 46 million people in the country who are eligible to vote, and we expect about 31 million of them probably will vote on thursday or have voted by post, and we looked at the slightly hypothetical question is if exactly the right number of people change their minds, what would it take to get a hung parliament? >> and you could do that if just 1% of the voters, about 345,000 people, changed their minds , people, changed their minds, that's essentially labour supporters switched at the last minute to conservative or another party to stop labour from winning that seat, so you could. yeah, you could in theory, get a hung parliament with a small number of people changing their vote, but on the other hand . hi, tom. other hand. hi, tom. >> yeah, i suppose that in order for that to work, you'd have to pick a certain number of constituencies where those 345,000 people live and have no people changing their vote at

all in any other constituencies. and only the switching happening in those constituencies to just get it over the line. so perhaps a bit hypothetical, very hypothetical. >> yes. >> yes. >> a more realistic number. suppose you want to know how many people have to change their minds for the conservatives to get more votes than the labour party? that is a much bigger number. that is 3 million voters. so that's about 10% of the turnout. yeah, of the turnout. so that gives i probably a fairer idea of how many people would have to change their minds for this election to be radically different. >> and how many people . i guess >> and how many people. i guess this is hard to say, but perhaps you have some information on this. how many people make up their minds this close to the election? how many people will decide? have not decided yet. essentially >> that's a great question. i think probably my guess is not very many, because we ask people , do you know how you're going to vote yet? and most people say, yes, there are some. there'd be 5 or 10% who haven't decided. and of those, maybe

some of those people aren't going to vote in a way if they if they can't decide already. after five weeks of going on with this campaign between the parties, then maybe they don't like any of them and they're not going to vote, but i'm sure there will be some people who vote at the last minute and other people who see the ballot paper the last minute and decide to vote for count binface or somebody like that, you know, last, last minute. choices is, you know, in everybody's right to do, but i think the campaign has been going for on a while. so sort of the boring answer. the question, i think, is that the people who are interested have already made up their minds, and the people who aren't interested aren't interested. >> now, of course, martin, there is some variation across the pollsters, people are talking about the labour party , perhaps about the labour party, perhaps winning a tony blair scale victory and right up to the other end of the labour party , other end of the labour party, winning just about every seat in the house of commons. now, i suppose the truth might be somewhere in between those two, but i suppose there is no pollster saying really that a hung parliament is on the cards

at this stage. >> that's right. you captured it well, tom, but you have essentially said that the choice is between a very, very large landslide and a very, very, very large landslide. so, in fact, the polls are relatively consistent on that point. the polls are suggesting a labour victory and a labour victory on quite an impressive scale . so quite an impressive scale. so that at the moment is what it looks like . though for that not looks like. though for that not to happen, there would have to be quite a big polling error and probably some late swing. but on the subject of late swing, i do nofice the subject of late swing, i do notice today there's three polls have come in all three separate polls with a labour lead down to 15, whereas it used to be 20. so there is a bit of late swing . so there is a bit of late swing. so if the if that were to continue over the last few days and there were to be polling error, then things could be a bit more open. >> but at the moment is that is that narrowing to a 15 point lead because the tories are up or because labour is down? >> i'm just having a look at the figures now. it is the conservatives being up, actually, conservatives up and und reform are down little. so the conservative lead over

reform has widened out to checking 9. and if you remember, a week or so ago they were almost level pegging in some polls, so that yeah, nigel farage's party not doing quite as well. it was doing a few days ago . so there is some, there is ago. so there is some, there is some movement in the campaign. it was, it's been a fairly static campaign so far for the five and a half weeks, which is slightly boring for people like us, but there is a bit of movement now at the end, so who knows what's going to happen eventually. that is interesting. >> very interesting. that moves it, i suppose, from a conservative wipe—out scenario to more close to a 1997 scenario. >> well, thank you very much indeed, martin baxter, really great to get your expertise on all this. ceo of electoral calculus. yeah. i wonder you know, he did reasonably well rishi sunak in that debate here. perhaps the narrative has got a little bit clearer from the conservative side. >> he's taken the gloves off when it comes to the reform party as well. that that remarkable interview where he

spoke about being described, with a racial slur and used the racial slur himself, perhaps that cut through . that cut through. >> maybe, maybe. >> maybe, maybe. >> well, coming up, we'll be debating sir keir starmer's claim that if he becomes prime minister, he'll be clocking off at 6:00 on fridays. well, what do you make of that? we'll have the debate

right. welcome back. it's 1:25. right. welcome back. it's1:25. and lots of you have been getting in touch with your views, yes. >> particularly on this postal vote scandal, because steve says any postal votes marked for a defector should still be counted for the original party and give them the option to provide a replacement candidate in the event of a win. although i think that that rather misunderstands what these defectors have actually done, because they will

still be listed on the ballot papen still be listed on the ballot paper. the ballot papers have already been printed. defecting. now it's too late. they're still going to be a reform candidate. they're on that ballot paper for whom people can vote, whether by post or in person. now, of course, if that individual is elected, they could then defect and say, well, i'm actually say i'm this colour now. >> yes. okay. so once they're in, once they're in, if they are elected, they will then be of the party that they've defected to . but for now you will still to. but for now you will still vote for the candidate in their original party. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> gosh lots of defections, danny says no one should be allowed a postal vote unless they're severely disabled . lots they're severely disabled. lots of people share that view. lots of people share that view. lots of people share that view. lots of people share that view. danny, it does seem, does seem strange that we do it differently than most other countries in the world. >> it's more restricted in australia, new zealand and, lots of other. although canada, america , germany, poland, they america, germany, poland, they have basically the same system as us. as us. >> as us. >> well, so if you're in the country, how difficult is it just to go to down the ballot

box?i just to go to down the ballot box? i mean, they're pretty close by aren't they? yes. >> i mean, i suppose the argument is if people are on holiday, if people have a life that's allowed in some countries, if you're out of the country and you're abroad, then fair enough, then fair enough. >> anyway, keep your views coming in gbnews.com forward slash your say perhaps i'm too old fashioned and that postal votes are the way forward. perhaps even online voting should be how we do things. >> never never never never never neven >> never never never never never never, never, >> nevei’ never never never never never, never, never des >> never never never never never never, never, never says top, but. okay. question for you is sir keir starmer a part timer? the labour leader has been criticised for admitting that he will not do a work related thing or event after 6:00 on fridays. >> well, he says he reserves his friday evenings to spend time with his wife and his two children. but the conservative camp are accusing sir keir starmer of wanting to work a four day week and clock off early, perhaps a bit of a stretch because he did say 6:00 on friday. >> so to most people that might be a working week or what's considered it. but would you want a prime minister that clocks off at 6:00? political commentator reem ibrahim says, sir keir starmer sounds

incredibly privileged, while author and journalist rebecca reid says a work life balance is a good thing. good stuff, reem, so you agree that sir keir starmer is looking like a part time mp, part time politician ? time mp, part time politician? he is. time mp, part time politician? heis.andi time mp, part time politician? he is. and i tell you what, i do think a work life balance is really important. >> i think it's fantastic to want to spend time with your wife and your children, but effectively, i think what keir starmer was saying on this radio show is he was trying to come across as though he has that kind of work life balance, like he is a regular person. but actually the reality is for a lot of people, they do want to spend time with their families , spend time with their families, but they're not able to due to work commitments. you'd expect the same of the prime minister. and effectively i think it's quite insulting for somebody to sit there and say effectively that they're going to spend more time with their family and they're better for it. but actually there are so many people so many hard working people so many hard working people in this country that would absolutely love to spend more time with their children and their and their loved ones, and their and their loved ones, and effectively, they don't have

the time to do that. my question is, what will this actually look like in reality? if joe biden calls at 7:08 pm, will starmer just refuse to take the call? what does this actually look like? >> well, perhaps that's the question we can throw to rebecca reid. >> well, i'm somebody who actually has a child, and i also have boundaries about when i will work. and i have never missed bedtime, apart from on rare occasions where i've been by prearrangement away on holiday. >> but for the entirety of her life, i'm home at 7 pm. to do bedtime because there is nothing more important and there is no career more important to me. >> and i think we've had a prime minister who has very widely spoken about his very intense work schedule and not sleeping very much, and he hasn't done a stunning job. so i'm thinking maybe it's time to give a go to a guy who might be in bed by 9:00 on a friday and get a good night's sleep. well, of course, that's subjective, but reem reem ibrahim, surely , surely, surely ibrahim, surely, surely, surely even a prime minister needs a little bit of downtime, keir starmer did justify this by saying that , you don't always

saying that, you don't always make the best decisions when you have absolutely no work life balance . balance. >> i again, i'm not saying that prime ministers shouldn't have a work life balance. i think it's fantastic for everybody to try and have a work life balance . my and have a work life balance. my issue with this in particular is he's effectively trying to trying to portray himself as somebody who is a family man. that is, is a much better person than anybody else because he is prioritising time for his family. but actually the real problem with what he said was that he would unequivocally come what may, i think is exactly what may, i think is exactly what he said, not work after 6 pm. on a friday. and i think that we just cannot have that inflexibility for somebody that's going to have access to the nuclear launch codes, for somebody that is effectively going to be leading this country and leading the west in many ways against some of the most politically tumultuous times globally. we need to ensure that there are those people that are going to be more flexible with that. and i think it's not true in reality, of course, starmer will have to think about work

after 6 pm. because he would be prime minister by the end of this week. >> rebecca reid, is that not perhaps an issue that we should take with what was said ? being take with what was said? being prime minister is not like any other job, and perhaps trying to carve out specific, defined time at a time when your enemies around the world know that you won't be at your desk paying attention. i mean, it's just giving them a free shot, isn't it? >> no, i think if anything, it's a power move. a powei' move. >> a power move. >> like winston churchill famously had an afternoon nap and that was his time to recharge. >> it's perfectly reasonable and sensible to find your own rhythms in the way that you work best. and honestly, i think it'd best. and honestly, i think it'd be quite impressive if biden fings be quite impressive if biden rings and says, i want to talk to you. >> and they're like, sorry, kids with his kids. i think that says, no, we don't just jump when you say how high we find the way i think he'd like the balloon goes up. >> i do think if i do think if putin says, i'm on my way, he might be like kids, we're going to watch frozen later. >> but generally speaking, i think it's really strong and powerful to know what you need

to do a good job. >> this is a very serious discussion. but rebecca, you do always make me laugh. thank you so much to you both short and sweet. rebecca reid and reem ibrahim, good stuff. i think, frankly, it's unrealistic. and also, i don't imagine sir keir starmer a wouldn't rearrange matters if something serious came up, but it's worth discussing. it's worth discussing. it's worth discussing because he did say, come what may, fridays after 6:00. that is family time. >> yeah. good to see. well, stay with us because very shortly we'll be speaking to shadow education secretary bridget phillipson. you're watching good afternoon britain on gb news . afternoon britain on gb news. >> 1:32. i'm ray addison afternoon britain on gb news. >>1:32. i'm ray addison in afternoon britain on gb news. >> 1:32. i'm ray addison in the >>1:32. i'm ray addison in the gb newsroom. 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. kevin hollinrake is in direct contact with the company after the government acknowledged issues with the printing and delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas. a candidate for reform uk

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good afternoon. britain it's 1:38. and lots of you have been getting in touch with your views, especially on postal voting . voting. >> yes, you have now. clive has got in touch. he says the postal ballot rage. sounds to me that if labour don't get the results, they want, it will be like the referendum. we need to have another vote. the people didn't know what they were doing. i guess you're referring to the idea that what sir keir starmer said, that there may have to be

recounts. yeah. if some of these postal votes don't get through. >> although i think i have a hunch that this will affect more conservative voters than labour voters , do you think? i think it voters, do you think? i think it does skew older voters. now, there are some communities where there are some communities where there is also postal voting, but i think that's a small number of constituencies that it leans laboun constituencies that it leans labour. and in many, i think the average postal voter is probably older and therefore is more likely to be a conservative voter. maybe maybe, let us know. although a lot of people abroad can be younger and they vote with the postal votes anyway, mark says it's a bit late to investigate postal delays with just over a day to go. yes, that's exactly what i was thinking. yeah. it is a bit late, isn't it? if you haven't got it by now, will it be? you know, it won't get there in time. although if, if, if it arrives on the date, you can take your postal ballot to your local polling station and you can vote physically with it. >> you don't have to post your postal ballot. >> that's no good if you're out of the country. >> no it isn't. it doesn't help in that case, but you can get a

proxy vote. you can get an emergency proxy vote. can you do that any time out of the country? you can get that any time you can do that on the day. it's a bit of work, bit of time. as long as you have someone trusted there probably preferably a family member, you can proxy vote in an emergency, like when you lose your passport and you have to go for an emergency meeting. >> emergency appointment. i've had to do that once, anyway, in sporting news, andy murray will not play the singles at wimbledon today. he's been battling to recover from back surgery. >> well, the two time former champion had been battling to recover from that back surgery last weekend, but has run out of time now with his first round clash, which had been scheduled for this afternoon. >> yes, he won't be taking part. he has, however, committed to competing in the doubles competition with his brother jamie. >> well, let's cross to wimbledon now and get the very latest with our reporter charlie peters. because, charlie, this must have been a disappointment for many fans in attendance today. >> yes. good afternoon sports fans. well, there are 11 brits in action today. but andy murray

will not be among them. he was due to play against thomas makatsch of the czech republic at 630 on centre court , but he's at 630 on centre court, but he's withdrawn this morning, as you said, ten days after that back surgery, he had due to a cyst on his spinal cord, which was putting pressure on the nerve in his right leg. now, on sunday, his right leg. now, on sunday, his team said that there was no sensitivity around where the surgery took place, but he hadnt surgery took place, but he hadn't fully recovered. the feeling in his right leg. he was playing against carl edmund, the british number one, yesterday in some practice warm ups withdrew from that after a couple of sets. but this morning he's out of the competition. he will not be competing in the singles. very disappointing news. and in a statement andy murray's team said unfortunately, despite working incredibly hard on his recovery since his operation just over a week ago, andy has taken the very difficult decision not to play the singles this year. as you can imagine, he is extremely disappointed but

has confirmed that he will be playing in the doubles with jamie and looks forward to competing at wimbledon for the last time. well, earlier this afternoon i caught up with some tennis fans to get their reaction to that news. >> you're not surprised, given the press recently, but yeah, sad because it's his last tournament. >> isn't the last wimbledon apparently so, yes. >> very sad. >> very sad. >> we're really disappointed. >> we're really disappointed. >> yes, it would have been lovely to see him in the singles. >> i like, andy murray. i don't know that he's i just came to show to show to see. he to see him playing. so he's not playing today. >> it's a shame. >> it's a shame. >> we thought we'd be here for a swansong, but we're not. >> but we'll cheer on jack draper anyway. >> yeah. disappointing but at least we've got another brit to cheer on in the third game on. >> so that's all good for us. >> so that's all good for us. >> well, andy murray broke a 77 year drought without a british men's champion in the singles at wimbledon in 2013, when he defeated novak djokovic. the next wait was just three years when he won again in 2016. but

since 2017 he has been plagued with injuries, a hip replacement and he hasn't made the second round of a grand slam since. but hopefully on thursday, playing alongside his brother for the first and last time in the doubles, we may see a happy ending to andy murray's wimbledon career . wimbledon career. >> well, let's hope so. >> well, let's hope so. >> let's hope so. thank you very much indeed. charlie peters there outside wimbledon. i'd be very disappointed if i was hoping to see andy murray and then he pulled out. interesting that he's going to do the doubles anyway. yes. >> i wonder if that just gives him a bit more time to recover. >> yes. well, the new dash cam footage has shown military horses on the loose through central london yesterday. again? >> yes, the video from a taxi driver in pimlico catches two horses from the household cavalry mounted regiment after they were spooked by a bus. >> yes, this is now the second such incident in just three months. that's involved army animals breaking loose in the caphal animals breaking loose in the capital. is this somehow on the

rise, let's speak to equestrian amelia palmer to get her thoughts on this, amelia. now, the second time this has happenedin the second time this has happened in in three months, it seems rather bizarre to those who don't understand such matters. what do you think is happening here? >> i think in london you've got to imagine being a horse. you've got a prey animal, horses have obviously eyes just on the sides of their heads, there can be so many different factors. you think you've got a bus, you've got rubble, which is disrupting kind of the exercise that they normally do. some horses are more anxious than others. a lot of the time they'll be bringing in new horses into regiments, and sometimes it can be completely random. i mean, i've had horses in the past that will spook an ominous leaf or a menacing dustbin. so i wouldn't necessarily say that this is something that people should be worried about seeing these animals on the roads. but yeah, it is. it's bizarre that it's happening, but i think the army have definitely got the right riders and the right people

involved in selecting these horses, that it's a safe environment for people to be in still. >> so if it is perhaps inevitable that we will see incidents like this, we know cities are incredibly busy. lots of things that are unexpected going on, cars honking their horns and building work and buses and all the rest of it. do we need to start having a conversation about whether horses should be allowed in busy urban environments ? urban environments? >> i think that's a conversation that has gone on for many years. i think the household cavalry are very aware of the risks that these horses are exposed to. i think it's possibly educating the london public and the british horse society does a lot of really important work in making sure the general public is aware of what you should be doing around horses. and i think that obviously it's very bizarre that obviously it's very bizarre that these horses are in pimlico. i was watching the footage and i used to live quite near there, so i was surprised to see them there, but i think people just do need to be a bit more aware. it's kind of being calm, being quiet. obviously

people are afraid of horses, right? but if you flap and you get in their way, that then causes a lot more problems, obviously traffic can't really help it, but just slowing down, stopping being five minutes late to wherever you're going is a lot better for you than having a horse go through your windscreen. >> trust me. >> trust me. >> yes, it's quite incredible seeing that footage of, as you say, such a central location in london, not where you expect to see horses just galloping freely down the road. can you explain just a little bit about what it's like to see a horse get spooked? because i'm not an equestrian. i don't horse ride, so i don't really know what you're looking for or what exactly happens. is it a sort of twitch? and then they can suddenly react? what exactly happens? >> it can be exactly that. it can be something as small as a twitch, more often than not, horses are incredibly rational animals. and i know from that video where he's just jumped in front of a taxi or a bus, it does not prove my point at all, but they're they're normally very good. quite often, if a horse is about to spook, you'll feel it underneath you . and

feel it underneath you. and speaking to the equestrians more than the non equestrians , you'll than the non equestrians, you'll feel it. and horses get more stressed when there isn't somebody on their back. imagine it's a bit like having a blanket on your bed. you've got that reassuring weight. you've got something that you know is there. suddenly if you lose that and you lose kind of the person that's giving you all of these controls and signals of to where 90, controls and signals of to where go, how quickly to go, that can be incredibly stressful for them. so it doesn't help in that instance that i think the public doesn't necessarily know to what do, but yeah, it can be incredibly stressful for them . incredibly stressful for them. you've got your main source of kind of your provider that suddenly no way near you, and you've just got so many external triggers and different things going on around you, it's difficult for them. definitely >> we were just looking at images of those two, household cavalry horses that had bolted and one, of course, with the, with the blood down, down its front. i mean , really front. i mean, really distressing images, i'm sure for a lot of people. but perhaps the most remarkable part of this

story, apart from, of course, the imagery of it, was the fact that these horses are now healthy. one of them, indeed, was back on parade only last week. >> yeah, it's a real, real tribute , i think, to the army in tribute, i think, to the army in general , and tribute, i think, to the army in general, and also to tribute, i think, to the army in general , and also to the nature general, and also to the nature of horses. they're very amenable. they're very willing, and you can put a horse out that's had a traumatic experience, and you can say to it, right, we'll give you a couple of weeks off, a couple of months off, and they are willing to go and do that again, and again, going back to the army, it's a real testament to the fact that they go through such a rigorous selection process not only with their riders, but also with their horses, you look with their horses, if you look at horses that the at all of the horses that the great time. they're not .

time. they're not. just in this city environment and that's the . best. >> breed, bellingham. whether he could be a disciplinary action. more

good afternoon . britain. it's good afternoon. britain. it's eight minutes to two. now, here's an interesting poll that has just come out just in the last few minutes. it's for the sun done by jlp partners, very respected polling firm of 16 and 17 year olds. and get this, labouris 17 year olds. and get this, labour is in first, as you'd expect. but the reform party is in second on 23. now that's a bit higher than the normal

average, but when you break it down by gender, it is extraordinary. amongst 16 and 17 year old males , reform is on year old males, reform is on first place, joint with 35, although amongst females that drops down to 12. this is so interesting. >> now we've talked a little bit on this show about the social media effect that reform videos and tiktoks and whatever else are being seen by young people most more than any other party. and clearly they're appealing to young well, to teenage boys, teenage boys, teenage boys are getting behind reform first place amongst teenage boys. >> but but teenage girls, they're in third place. so the average out in second place. but they're third place with teenage girls and the green party is in second place. there is a growing gender gap, particularly amongst younger brits. >> this is absolutely fascinating, very interesting to interested to get your views on this, why do you think the boys versus the girls is so different

when it comes for support for reform? lots of people always think young people are socialists , don't they? socialists, don't they? >> well, so of course the labour party is saying give votes to 16 and 17 year olds. maybe it's the reform party's going to start saying this. >> well, very interesting indeed . let us know your thoughts on that one. i'll be very interested to see what people say about this. what the different, you know, why they think there's such this gender divide among our teens and conservatives amongst female, 16 and 17 year olds, 0, according to this poll, 0. goodness me. >> much more on that after this . >> much more on that after this. >> much more on that after this. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello again! i'm here with your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. we are going to see some fairly wet weather pushing its way southwards across many parts as we go through the rest of today and overnight. that's

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain. it's 2:00 on tuesday, the 2nd of july. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver. the government is urgently investigating severe delays to postal votes, delivery . the royal mail says ballots packs are being delivered as soon as they arrive, but thousands fear they won't get there in time. we'll have all there in time. we'll have all the details . the details. >> and another reform uk bombshell as a second candidate defects to the tories, accusing fellow candidates of being racist and misogynistic . the racist and misogynistic. the reform chairman has hit back . reform chairman has hit back. >> the labour leader says he'll clock off at 6:00 on fridays if he wins the election. but will he wins the election. but will he be a part time prime minister, or is he right to protect his family , time and an protect his family, time and an end of an era for one of our greatest ever sports stars, former wimbledon and olympic champion andy murray has pulled out of this year's singles tournament due to injury. >> at this, his last wimbledon .

>> at this, his last wimbledon. now votes for 16 and 17 year olds. this is one of labour's flagship policies. if they win the election. but, some curious polling out. yes. >> new polling by jlp partners. now, the guy that runs jlp used to run polling for downing street. so they're serious players here. they've polled 16 and 17 year olds and the results might surprise you, the labour party is in first place, but only on 39. second place is the reform party on 23. now that all doesn't look too out of kilter until you break it down by age. when you break it down by i'm sorry, by by sex, by gender, males , have reform in first males, have reform in first place. joint first place on 35. although amongst female 16 and

17 year olds that drops to down 12. >> it's so interesting that gender divide. i find it very interesting because lots of people have been talking about this, how girls are going more liberal, progressive and boys are going more small. c conservative. is this what's happening here? is this, you know, support for reform uk from these youngsters? is that what we're seeing? well we've seen boys going more right wing girls going more left wing. >> we've seen it in the united states where not so much amongst millennials but amongst generation z, people who were born around the turn of the millennium. the young males tend to be more and more right wing, and we've seen this again in european elections. the parties that have of the radical right, i mean, the national rally in france or or alternative for deutschland in germany, they tend to be getting votes not just from older people, as perhaps is the stereotype here, but younger voters are being more radical in their voting

patterns. so what might the labour party be unleashing if we get votes at 16? >> i've got some theories about why there might be this gender divide, but i'll. i might save them for a little bit later. i want to think it through properly because i don't want to go ahead and, you know, insult half of the population by suggesting why it might be. but let us know your theories as to why there's so much support among 16 and 17 year old boys, especially for the reform party. gbnews.com/yoursay. but let's get the headlines with ray. >> thanks, guys. 2:03, our top stories three leicestershire police officers are under investigation for potential misconduct over how they dealt with triple killer valdo calocane . two constables and calocane. two constables and a sergeant made inquiries into alleged assaults by calocane on two colleagues at an industrial estate in leicester. he then went on to kill students barnaby webber and grace o'malley—kumar, along with caretaker ian coates.

zacchaeus. sir keir starmer has refused to rule out the need for recounts. if some postal votes can't be counted due to royal mail delays. it comes after the postal affairs minister was said to be urgently investigating issues with the delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas. kevin kevin hollinrake is understood to have visited depots. sir keir says every vote must be counted. >> well, look, we cross each bndge >> well, look, 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 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. >> a candidate for reform uk has suspended her campaign and defected to the tories. georgie david says she's frustrated and dismayed by the party and accused the, quote, vast majority of candidates of being , majority of candidates of being, quote, racist and misogynistic. a reform uk spokesperson said

the party strongly disagrees with what they called sweeping comments about more than 600 candidates who are standing for them miss david is the second reform candidate to defect to the tories in two days. meanwhile, the prime minister has said that the party hasn't acted quickly enough. >> well, we've seen some appalling comments that have been made that i addressed last week. and, you know, what we have seen is candidates and campaigners openly espousing racist and misogynistic views, seemingly without challenge. and that tells you something about the culture within the reform party. overall, that's questions for nigel farage. but on thursday there's a clear choice for people and if you want your taxes cut, if you want your pension protected and you want our borders secure and you want to vote to prevent a labour super majority, the only way to do that is to vote conservative. and that's the very strong message that these candidates and others are making a clear 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 is urging voters to help him topple conservative seats. he says like dominoes, sir ed davey is highlighting his party's plan to create a clean water authority , which would have new authority, which 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 turn. water suppliers into public benefit companies. turn. water suppliers into public benefit companies . some public benefit companies. some international news and police in kenya have fired tear gas at protesters following a week of deadly clashes. people could be seen hurling stones at riot police as clouds of tear gas wafted through downtown nairobi. the demonstrations began in response to the government's plan to introduce new taxes, which have since been abandoned. kenya has come under immense pressure from lenders to cut its debt, but there's also growing

fury among voters over the soaring cost of living . russia soaring cost of living. russia says it can't comment on a proposal by donald trump to end the war in ukraine, because it simply doesn't know what it involves. the former president said during last week's debate that if he wins the us election, he'll have the war settled before he takes office. though he's offered no details of how. the kremlin has previously said that any peace plan would need to reflect what it calls the reality on the ground, whilst ukraine says president putin's demands would force it to surrender . hurricane beryl demands would force it to surrender. hurricane beryl is strengthening into a potentially catastrophic category five storm as it moves across the eastern caribbean. the ferocious storm comes unusually , unusually early comes unusually, unusually early in this year's hurricane season . in this year's hurricane season. scientists are saying that 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 . with life threatening winds. those are the latest gb news headunes 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. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:08 and we begin this hour with some extraordinary polling that has just been released within the last hour. joining us now is christopher hope from the labour battlebus and christopher, the labour party want to introduce votes for 16 and 17 year olds. and today we finally have a bit of understanding about how 16 and 17 year olds might vote. >> yeah, tom. hi. well, i'm here

in, in, derbyshire , here at a in, in, derbyshire, here at a manufacturing plant with with the sir keir starmer battlebus. he's making a speech. just as we speak now to workers. but that's right. extraordinary polling here from jl partners. they looked at voting intention amongst 16 and 17 year olds. that's the group, of course, who can't vote because the voting age is 18. as things stand, labour want to look at bringing that to down 16, don't they? as in scotland and other other other other votes we have in this country, they found that 39% of people aged 16 to 17 would vote labour and fascinatingly, 23% a quarter of those would vote reform reform uk nigel farage greens 18, lib dems 19, the tories just 5. and that always i'm fascinated by two things and maybe not surprised at 4 in 10 young people , mid to late teens want

people, mid to late teens want to vote labour, but a quarter wanting to vote. reform says to me that what's nigel farage tells us all the time that young people are flocking to him through his tiktok messaging, through his tiktok messaging, through him appearing on i'm a celebrity get me out of here is cutting through to the younger base. so if this change does happen, it's quite fascinating. who might benefit alone with this trend in this country ? this trend in this country? >> we've seen this in the united states. we've seen this in some countries in europe, this sort of gulf emerging between girls and boys, young women and young men. it's very interesting indeed.the men. it's very interesting indeed. the sun are suggesting that nigel farage would actually benefit from this labour policy of giving votes to teenagers, perhaps not what they planned . perhaps not what they planned. yeah >> no.and yeah >> no. and nor is it what you expect. i haven't seen the gender breakdown , emily. you gender breakdown, emily. you described that in boys and girls, but you might think that maybe more young boys are attracted to reforms. stronger

position on on on on the national flag and patriotism. >> and can i just interrupt you to bring you that gender breakdown, the big, because it is fascinating. the jlp poll finds amongst teenage boys , 16 finds amongst teenage boys, 16 and 17 year old boys, reform is in first place, but amongst girls reform is in third place. therefore, it averages out in second place. i mean, it is the most extraordinary polling first place on 35% amongst teenage boys. >> yeah, well, that that is an extraordinary. and it's exactly what nigel farage, the reform uk leader, has been telling gb news repeatedly that he is getting a lot of cut through with his tiktok videos. a very active and quite an innovative social media profile that clearly cut through . and i think the new audience he found with that itv programme, i'm a celebrity get me out of here, is clearly working, i should say the big issue by the way, away from voting intention for 1617 year

olds at the moment is postal ballots, and who is getting them, sir keir starmer has told me here on the election, but battlebus for labour. he thinks there may need to be some recounts in some polls because of people haven't cast their their ballot, they haven't got it or even they haven't been delivered when they've been sent off. here's what we had to say earlier. keir starmer a quick question , if some postal votes question, if some postal votes aren't counted because they're delayed by the royal mail, should there be recounts in some seats on thursday? >> well, look, we cross each bndge >> well, look, 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 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 . the moment. >> they have sir keir starmer saying that he'll cross that bndge saying that he'll cross that bridge when it comes to it, but there is every chance that dozens of seats could be quite tight seats. and if they find bundles of uncounted postal

ballots on friday or over the weekend, that could be a big issue, a political issue that pushes the actual final result of this election into next week. >> yes. very interesting indeed. thank you very much, christopher. hope you are on board the labour battle bus for us. us. >> us. >> well, we should say what the royal mail has said in response to this story, they're going to be carrying out sweeps at royal mail centres and delivery offices to ensure that all postal votes in the network are identified and returned to the relevant local authority before the close of polling stations. >> they also add we will also have additional people on the ground in our mail centres. on thursday evening, identifying and pulling postal votes for delivery to local authorities. so there you are, a bit of a keep calm and carry on message from the royal mail. >> well, on to some huge sports news. now there are fears that jude bellingham could be banned from england's quarter final game against switzerland amid a

disciplinary investigation into a rude gesture made during sunday's match against slovakia. >> us uefa have confirmed they are investigating the 21 year old midfielder over a potential breach of the basic rules of decent conduct. there is a. could england's superstar really miss out on a chance to bring football home? well, let's ask sports broadcaster aidan magee, aiden, this is quite an extraordinary story, isn't it, really, jude , superstar player really, jude, superstar player for us in the england team. he's been scoring the goals, the few of them that we've had . and how of them that we've had. and how serious is this? is it a real possibility that he could actually be booted out for the rest of the tournament ? rest of the tournament? >> in short, no, i don't think we're going to see him banned. the these this apparatus or this investigative kind of legislative legislative legislator exists within uefa because they want to show it as a deterrent to players who maybe want to take things a bit further, maybe want to reveal political messages on theirt shirts, maybe want to even

display gestures that could be construed as even ruder than the onesjude construed as even ruder than the ones jude bellingham displayed ones jude bellingham displayed on sunday evening. >> now, the reality is that, yes, they'll take their time. it has to go through a framework of, of, of scrutiny, if you like . but i think in reality england will get a message tomorrow. the faa, they'll get a message from uefa, probably in the next 48 hours that jude bellingham will be cleared to play. they can't leave it too long because clearly, if he is to be banned, then england needs to make a contingency plan tactically and get their training right. that wouldn't be fair to make them wait too long, but i honestly don't think they'll have to wait a very long time to find out that yes, it will just be a fine which will be paid by the player. there'll be an apology issued by the player. in fact, i think he's kind of issued a semi apology already by saying it wasn't as everybody construed it to be. and i think that realistically will be the end of it. but i think there's no doubt whatsoever that we'll see jude bellingham playing for england on saturday. >> well, what was his excuse again? >> sorry , again? >> s o rry, sorry again? >> sorry, sorry. just he did tweet something out didn't he?

what was it. >> yeah. so what would happen is that somebody within within the fa will have recognised the issue. now i think we can see what it all is. i mean, it looks for all the world as if it's a gesture towards the slovakia bench, who may have been giving him some issues during the game. he claims it was towards a supporter, but it's very much in the moment, isn't it? i mean, like this guy is 21 years old, they were. i've said many times before, there is no gig in sport like playing for england. they've not won anything since 1966. and so yes, you're going to feel the pressure. there are two players there in the picture that we can see who did the damage on the day for england, and i don't feel that there's anything too much to be read into this. but he did release a statement. yes. or immediately after the game, in fact, just apologising and saying there was no no offence meant towards the slovakia team or their bench and that it was a private joke. so he doesn't really issue an apology for what he did, but he has attempted to at least explain it away. i think you'll see an apology in full when the matter is cleared up in the next 48 hours. as i say. >> yeah, the words in full. he he he quote, tweets a video of

this gesture with a yawning emoji. and then a big x emoji saying an inside joke gesture towards some close friends who were at the game. nothing but respect for how that slovakia team played tonight. a shaking hands emoji to finish off that tweet, it has to say that quite a few people online haven't taken that at face value, and it became a bit of a meme in and of itself, with people using the same words nothing but respect for how and then disrespectful things , and sort of using it as things, and sort of using it as a as a contrast. do you think that that's genuinely what the what happened or is this a sort of post—hoc, explanation? >> yeah, it's i know , i think >> yeah, it's i know, i think look, reading between the lines, you know, if we're taking it, you know, if we're taking it, you say taking the apology or the semi—apology at face value, i don't think anyone's really doing that. they kind of know what he meant, but they also, i think, tom, there's a degree of understanding that this was a hugely pressurised goal. england was seconds from going out. sometimes you get reactions in the moment. yes, we can all see

what it is, but is it the biggest crime in the world? is it? is it deserving of a ban in a match? i don't think so. i think it seems a bit much. >> it all seems a bit much, but uefa have to have some kind of some kind of disciplinary process in place. >> what you'll see is a fine. i think that's fair. i really do, because you can't just let players get away with doing whatever they want. but he won't be banned. >> also, he is a massive role model, for lots of young men and boys, every player it is important to, to uphold some standards, i guess, but another not doing any harm whatsoever to be reminded of that now and again. exactly exactly. aiden. another story. cristiano ronaldo, he's laughed at for crying after missing a penalty . crying after missing a penalty. >> i think it was actually quite sad. last night we saw a player who is at the very end of his career. he's taking near—enough every free kick on that pitch, even the ones that reveal an impossible angle to score from. and it's a player who's too powerful within that squad. he's playing on the side, players who've won the champions league and yes, he's an extremely important player in portuguese

football. he's extremely important person within world football, but he's clearly more powerful than his manager. he's clearly more powerful than his team—mates and everything he was trying last night. it's all very well if you're trying all these things and they're coming off, but they're not. he was given a chance to score from 12 yards in normal time, which would have spared the inconvenience of extra time and penalties. and he still missed. and so they've created this monster themselves . created this monster themselves. yes. he's just some would say he's earned the right to do that because he's been a superstar player over the last 20 years. but he's becoming a problem now for portugal. all's well that ends well. they went to penalties. they went to extra time or penalty. extra time then penalties. i should say he did earn some kind of redemption by scoring the first redemption by scoring the first redemption by scoring the first penalty. >> and yet aiden bbc said here, well, they branded him mistero p&0, well, they branded him mistero p&o, we can see it. we can see it in the bottom of our screens here. this is a screenshot from the bbc, is that right to do? is that appropriate or are they just having a bit of a laugh. >> it's a bit of a laugh, for

goodness sake. i mean, like, you know, it's not exactly prominent on the screen. i mean, i saw that last night. i didn't even nofice that last night. i didn't even notice it on the bottom left hand side. but yeah, it's quite it's quite funny. and i think that most people could see that he's some of these free kick free kicks. tom were taken by by taken by ronaldo when they should have been taken by the players. he's acting personally and not for the team. that would be my view if i was managing his team back then. that's what i would say, that that's what i'd be saying. that's how i'd be critiquing the situation. but nobody in that squad, in that, in that whole structure of portuguese football is powerful enough to challenge him. and that's the problem, because there's one thing getting past slovenia in the second phase, it's going to be a big problem when the bigger sides work you out later in the rounds, so do you think it's a bit harsh to say, you know, he needs to man up or that's a bit on pc these days? >> you can't really say that, can you, man up but, you know, get over it and stop crying. is that all a bit? is that a bit mean? >> well, honestly, i don't think it's necessarily mean, but i just think that it's slightly unedifying. i think that a player of his stature should not

be doing that when the game is not done. by all means save your i know it's emotional. i know we can't always control when that comes to the surface. it comes boiling to the surface, but that does not need to be done before extra time. and i suppose people will come back to me and say, well, hang about, what about paul gascoigne when he cried in italia 90? well, to be fair, he got on with the job and he delivered a performance in extra time, which almost yielded a victory. cristiano ronaldo missed a big, big chance in normal time last night. he was on free kicks and corners, which he shouldn't have been on. and as i say, paul gascoigne was was as i say, paul gascoigne was was a real shining light for england that night. cristiano ronaldo was a problem for his team, no question about that. >> all right. well, thank you very much indeed, aidan magee, for running us through. those two were footballing stories. sports broadcaster, of course. >> yes. well, coming up, we're going to be speaking with the former attorney general, sir geoffrey cox, about his party's chances with less than 48 hours now to go to until people go to the stay with

us. well. welcome back. it's 2:25. let's return now to that news that another reform candidate has defected to the conservative party, saying the majority of candidates for that party are racist. >> well, joining us from the tory battlebus is our political correspondent . katherine forster correspondent. katherine forster bnng correspondent. katherine forster bring us the latest on this. what's being said by the conservatives and what's being said by the reform party. >> yes. good afternoon . well, >> yes. good afternoon. well, this is the second reform candidate in two days, isn't it? that has gone over saying they didn't want anything more to do with the reform party. so of course this is good news for the conservatives because, it looks likely at the moment that the reform party is going to cost the conservatives dozens of seats in the general election. but richard tice, who, of course, was leader up until

nigel farage swept in just a few weeks ago, has said that this is more desperate corruption by the tories. their implication is that the tories had sort of put in paper candidates that were always going to go over to, to them . them. >> oh, it is constantly the case when we try and connect to these battle buses. sometimes the connection does fall, but i think it is interesting that we're talking about these reform party defections at the moment, because they come after a series of scandals from reform candidates and this particular defection today. the candidate was saying she didn't want to be associated with some of the scandalous things that others have said. it's notable that last night, the times reported that there was one reform party candidate who'd said a whole host of misogynistic insults. i think we can see a picture of this article up on screen now. a reform candidate advocated for

nicola sturgeon to be shot, called jk rowling a wild, misogynistic insult, starting with a b, and a little bit later in this article. actually, i was surprised to find my own name in the article it read in 2021, he used the c word to describe david attenborough and tom harwood a gb news journalist who he also said was and do be aware that some viewers might be offended by these words that we used. about me, the prince of prick had no comment . i have to prick had no comment. i have to say, when i when i was told by a friend that, do you know you're in the times today and i'm like, no, you were like, oh, am i? i'm in the times alongside david attenborough. oh, i'm sure this will be a very respectful thing that has clearly been written, but no, i was just called a c word by, by a reform uk candidate. >> i feel like you love it, don't you? you know, you know, it's better to be noticed, i guess, than go unnoticed. very

interesting, i mean, there is there is a bit of an effort going on, isn't there, to try and find all the things that reform candidates have said in the past. there is i think it is fair to point that out. there has been since the reform party started polling quite well . started polling quite well. >> yes, i think i think there has been an effort but but ultimately, is it illegitimate to point out that actually and nigel farage has said this himself, they had to pick a lot of candidates with very short notice. they will not know a lot about the background of some of these candidates. and, and of course, they themselves said that they were let down by their vetting company. now, that is that doesn't that's nothing to say about the views of nigel farage. that's nothing to say about the views of richard tice. but it is to say about the views of some of the reform uk candidates, that they, they have said some pretty nasty things in the past. yes >> and i guess the farage. yes, he did say he spent what, £1.7 million on this vetting company and that they haven't done their job. so he's going to be taking

it up with them. but they have that absolutely massive rally, didn't they, on sunday in birmingham. i think those are pictures from there with the 5000 people. so clearly a lot of people are still supporting the reform party. absolutely >> yes. >> yes. >> thousands of people in pyrotechnics as well. i mean, it all feels a bit american. >> it does actually. >> it does actually. >> yeah, quite, quite. donald trump. >> yeah, a little bit. well, we know nigel farage and donald trump are friends. they are they are more than just acquaintances. they are friends, but yes, lots and lots out there in the press as people dig into what people have tweeted in the past, what they've said in the past, what they've said in the past, all of this sort of thing, let us know what you make of it all. but these defections to richard tice , the chairman of richard tice, the chairman of the party, coming out to say, well , essentially that the party, coming out to say, well, essentially that this is a conservative plan or conspiracy of one thing or another, but of course they'll need to present some evidence to back up that claim if it's to be believed. >> and all of this coming in the context of new polling that says amongst 16 and 17 year olds amongst 16 and 17 year olds

amongst 16 and 17 year old teenage boys, reform is joint first place, but amongst girls much further behind. really interesting stuff, much more to dissect. but don't go anywhere because in just a moment we'll because in just a moment we'll be heading to wimbledon to find out what people think about former champion andy murray pulling out of the singles competition. but before all of that, let's get your very latest news headlines with ray addison . news headlines with ray addison. >> thanks, guys. it's 230. our top stories this hour. three leicestershire police officers are under investigation for potential misconduct over how they dealt with triple killer valdo calocane. two constables and a sergeant made made inquiries into alleged assaults by calocane on two colleagues at an industrial estate in leicester a month later. he went on to kill students barnaby webber and grace o'malley—kumar, along with caretaker ian coates . along with caretaker ian coates. the chairman of reform uk, richard tice, has accused the conservatives of placing, quote, trojan horse candidates to

spread lies about. the party comes after a second reform candidate suspended her campaign and defected to the conservatives. georgie david accused the vast majority of candidates, quote, of being racist and misogynistic. a reform spokesman described her comments as sweeping and her actions as, quote, sad and strange . sir keir starmer has strange. 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. it comes after the postal affairs minister was said to be urgently investigating issues with the delivery of postal ballot packs in some local areas. kevin hollinrake is understood to have visited depots the pm 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 is can be denied. that majority, quote , if just 130,000 people

quote, if just 130,000 people switch their vote. but 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 , on with the change. we need, 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 gb news. >> .com. forward slash

>> well. good afternoon. britain it is now 2:35, and we're joined by conservative sir geoffrey cox. sir geoffrey, thank you very much indeed forjoining us on the show. how concerned are you and how concerned should we

be the public about these postal vote delays? it's looking like perhaps thousands of people may not get their vote in. >> well, i think we should be concerned. certainly. i have had such reports, and i know that many others have , which will many others have, which will mean that other parties will to some extent. we get them every election. but it does seem slightly more this time, and i think we will need to have a review and inquiry into it, because plainly, what is fundamentally wrong is that people should be deprived of their vote. >> it should be an inquiry , >> it should be an inquiry, especially coming from a former attorney general. but sir geoffrey, this could potentially affect the conservative party more than other parties. we know that the conservative vote tends to be older people, and more older people are more likely to have a postal vote. >> well, we'll have to see. i don't think necessarily there

has been a huge increase in the number of postal votes being demanded, which i think is one of the issues we will just have to see if there are well documented and attested examples of really quite a lot of people not being able to vote. that of course, could conceivably affect outcomes which it would be catastrophic, really, for outcomes to be in jeopardy if significant numbers haven't arrived. but i don't think we're in that position at the moment. i think to some extent, in many cases in elections, we do get these reports. i think what we'll need to do is review it, and i understand the election commission is saying that is what it will do, and would you support, recounts in the case of marginal seats, if there is, if there is a view that perhaps some postal votes have gone uncounted, would you support sir keir starmer seems to suggest that he would. >> well, i don't think they'd be recounts. i think the returning officer will have to deliver an

outcome if he doesn't have ballot papers. he's got to count what's in front of him. what could happen, i suppose. but i think we're a very , very long think we're a very, very long way from it. is election petitions to overcome, to overturn the outcome of an election that would, as i say, be catastrophic. i hope the problem isn't that serious. >> well, fingers crossed, but, on to the substance of the issues of this campaign. now because we have heard from sir keir starmer that he would want to protect time on friday evenings after 6:00, to not be doing work as prime minister, to spend time as his family. of course , rishi sunak today has course, rishi sunak today has been saying that being prime minister is a full time job. is that a bit unfair to sir keir starmer, who, after all, says that perhaps he'll perform better if he has some time off? >> well, i think this story is a little bit of campaign froth. you get them in every campaign. to some extent. the lib dem leader is specialising in

campaign froth with his stunts, and i think this is not really a serious story. i think what the real question is, if there is any real question in this , is any real question in this, is why keir starmer has said it, because he knows perfectly well that you can't knock off at 6:00. as prime minister, you couldn't even do that on a friday. as attorney general, the question is why did keir starmer, knowing perfectly well that it can't be the case? why did he say it ? and i rather did he say it? and i rather suspect that it's the same with most things that keir says, which is that it was to please the audience. he had in front of him at the time. >> well, your party has leapt on this, haven't they? just a bit calling him sir sleepy, saying that he's a bit weary and all this. is that a bit unfair in your view? it sounds as though your view? it sounds as though you might think it is. >> well, i just don't think this is a really serious story. i think it may well raise some questions, as i've said, about why on earth the leader of the

opposition thinks that a prime minister can carve out regularly time at 6:00 on a friday. i mean, putin z and others won't wait until it won't be kind enough to wait until to do it before six on a friday. if they're going to pull any actions. so i think, i think the reality is he knew perfectly well it wasn't so. and i rather suspect we'll find that he does. if he's elected, work on fridays just as i did as attorney general. >> now, of course, something else, the prime minister has been saying is that a hung parliament is within reach. it seems that, to some extent, the conservative party has rather conceded that it can't win a majority. and the best it could possibly hope for is the one outcome it campaigned most to avoid last time around. i'm old enough to remember when boris johnson went to the country saying, hung parliaments don't work, give me a majority. why on earth is rishi sunak now saying let's have a hung parliament,

please ? please? >> i think the point the prime minister is making is that in a round about 100 or so seats, a very small number of electors will make the difference around 130,000. and we can still stop any labour majority . if 130,000 any labour majority. if 130,000 people decide to put their cross by the conservative box. and the reason for doing that is that this campaign run by the labour party, it's mask slipped. the other day that the keir starmer defined working people, the people that he would seek to protect from tax rises, as those with savings or those without savings. now that means we know what's going to happen. if you've saved a few pennies, or if you've looked after your retirement, or if you want to leave something to your children that you've worked hard for. labouris that you've worked hard for. labour is coming for you and the worry is that we are sleepwalking into a one party state with a vast majority, and

the labour party will have not told us what they're going to do, and we will wake up to something we really don't like, and that is the message the prime minister is saying to those 130,000 people who could make all the difference, whose pens are poised over the reform box, or the liberal democrat box, or the liberal democrat box, vote conservative, because by voting conservative, you will prevent a labour supermajority. >> okay. well, thank you very much indeed for your time, sir geoffrey cox, a conservative, of course . thank you very much course. thank you very much indeed. >> now to some shocking news. the six times winner of england's best kept village has pulled out of the competition because of the smell of raw sewage coming from the river that has become unbearable. >> yes , this caught our eye this >> yes, this caught our eye this morning. chalfont saint giles in buckinghamshire has had to withdraw after experiencing raw sewage being dumped into the river misbourne since january. >> well, let's speak now with

pansh >> well, let's speak now with parish councillor from chalfont saint giles , robert gill. saint giles, robert gill. robert, this is a pretty shocking story, no longer the best kept village, i know. >> it's appalling, we've had to pull out of this year , and this pull out of this year, and this year was quite a special year for us because we were going to be able to go into the cup winners cup. >> so , yeah, apart from not even >> so, yeah, apart from not even being able to enter, we'll, we'll lose the chance of that of winning that award as well, which is pretty harsh on all the all the parishioners in the village. >> and i read from reports today you've given a quote to the to the telegraph, i'm sure among others, about how gutted you are and that this is all to do with the thames water. that's who you're blaming. >> indeed, upstream of where we are, there is, a large balancing tank where a lot of sewage is collected from a variety of different parts of the other villages upstream of us, that has been used since january as a means of overflowing the sewer into the river, and you know,

this this sewage has been running down from there from sort of january time, in a completely sort of uncontrolled manner. i, i'm probably unfair to say, but it's certainly been running into the river and running into the river and running down. >> and as you can see from the pictures there, we've now got sewage, fungus and appalling smells, levels of nitrates and phosphates and ammonia far higher than they should be. and it's just causing an absolute nightmare in the village. >> goodness me, i thought we'd solved this problem with joseph bazalgette in the 1860s, but clearly, clearly, things have got worse since. but i wonder, robert, if you think our party's being straight with us when they try and tell us that we can fix this very easily, we just need to pass a new regulation. ultimately to fix this big problem. it's going to require big money, is it not? >> absolutely, it's going to cause big money. and i think we need instead of just finding these companies, we need to find

a different way . a different way. >> so instead of just taking the money from them, we actually need to force them to use the money that we that we that we, we get from them to actually do the work. so it's not about taking taking it away from them. it's about saying , right, we it's about saying, right, we find you this much that will have to be used now to fix the problems that cause otherwise, these things are never going to go away because we're talking about hundreds of millions of pounds pounds now to do these sorts of repairs, which is far more than i've heard from any, any of the parties as yet. >> and, robert, just before we let you go, can you just describe how bad this stench is? is it affecting everyone who lives in the village, or is it only in some areas right by the river? just explain. paint a picture for us. >> yeah. the village is kind of lived in a dip, so the centre of the village is in you come away from the road, you drop down into this dip and that's where the river runs over an evening, sort of. after about 7 or 8:00, as the sort of temperature drops and the wind stops blowing, a smell rises out of the river and

fills the centre of the village. so pretty much everybody that lived in the shop, in the centre, all suffer from that smell. and, you know, some of the people i've spoken to, they feel like they're being attacked. you know, they're putting things into their keyholes to stop the smells leaking into their houses. pretty, pretty disgusting goodness me. >> well, thank you very much indeed for telling us all about it. and i do hope that something can be done to rectify this. i mean, you don't want to be living in a beautiful village like chalfont saint giles and have that ruining your every day. thank you so much. robert gill, parish councillor, chalfont saint giles. >> now on the way, we'll be heading back to wimbledon as british tennis ace andy murray pulls out of the singles competition. more on that after

good afternoon. britain. it's just coming up to ten minutes to three. and the labour party

leader, sir keir starmer , has leader, sir keir starmer, has been speaking in derbyshire about the choices that voters have on thursday. >> there's one of the big things on the ballot on thursday is putting an end to this government of self—entitlement . government of self—entitlement. in my views, we've had a government where they made covid rules and told all of you to obey them and then they disobeyed them themselves. i thought that was pretty disrespectful. they handed out covid contracts to their mates at huge cost, taxpayers cost. and then as you saw in the election, the first instinct when the date of election was known was not how do i get to the country with my message? but how quickly can i get to the bookies? >> right. well, those were the words of sir keir starmer a little bit earlier on, but let's finish. why not with a bit of sporting news? very disappointing. sporting news actually . andy murray will not actually. andy murray will not play actually. andy murray will not play the singles tournament at wimbledon today, having been battling to recover from back surgery, he's decided that he's only going to play the doubles. >> yes. so the two time former

champion had been battling to recover from that back surgery last weekend, but has since run out of time with his first round clash, which had been scheduled for this afternoon. >> well, shall we speak to charlie peters , who is in charlie peters, who is in wimbledon for us with the very latest, charlie, you've been speaking to people. how disappointed are they to learn that andy murray will not be competing in the singles? >> significant disappointment. in fact, many of the people that we spoke to queuing up to get into the courts here hadn't learned that andy murray was not going to be playing at 630 against thomas makatsch, the competitor from the czech republic, for this first round match in his last season in men's tennis at wimbledon. now, the 37 year old andy murray, he was recovering from a back injury from surgery that was conducted ten days ago with a cyst on his spinal cord being removed. now on sunday, his team

said that the area where the surgery was conducted that was no longer an issue, but he hadnt no longer an issue, but he hadn't fully recovered , feeling hadn't fully recovered, feeling in his right leg because it was causing some nerve damage there, causing some nerve damage there, causing some nerve damage there, causing some pain and limiting his range of motion. now yesterday we saw andy murray practising against kyle edmund, the british number one. he played two sets there, actually beat him in both of those sets. but today, this morning he said he could not play in the 630 centre court match. so we will now learn that he will play with his brother jamie in the doubles his brotherjamie in the doubles on thursday, with the first and last time that they compete alongside each other. and in a statement, andy murray's team said that unfortunately, despite working incredibly hard on his recovery since his operation just over a week ago, andy has taken the very difficult decision not to play the singles this year. as you can imagine, he is extremely disappointed but has confirmed that he will be playing in the doubles with jamie and looks forward to

competing at wimbledon for the last time. well, earlier today, let's hear what people here in wimbledon had to say about andy murray's withdrawal . murray's withdrawal. >> not surprised given the press recently, but yeah, sad because it's his last tournament. >> isn't the last wimbledon apparently so, yes. >> very sad. >> very sad. >> we're really disappointed . >> we're really disappointed. yes. it would have been lovely to see him in the singles say like, andy murray, i don't know that he's, i just came to show to show to see he to see him playing. >> so he's not playing today . >> so he's not playing today. >> so he's not playing today. >> it's a shame. we thought we'd be here for a swansong, but we're not. >> but we'll cheer on jack draper anyway. >> yeah, disappointing, but at least we've got another brit to cheer on in the third game on. so that's all good for us. >> three grand slams and two olympic gold medals. but since 2017, after a hip replacement , 2017, after a hip replacement, andy murray has not made the second week of a grand slam since. in his final season. it wasn't to be here either. >> well, he's had an absolutely

fantastic career. thank you very much indeed . charlie peters, our much indeed. charlie peters, our reporter there outside wimbledon. a disappointment, but good that he's still playing the doubles. >> yes. good that he still gets a swansong in kind of a sort, although perhaps not the singular glory that he was hoping for. well, that's it from us today on good afternoon britain. of course. join us again at midday tomorrow, where we'll bring you the very last day of campaigning in this general election. but up next it's martin daubney. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello again. i'm here with your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. we are going to see some fairly wet weather pushing its way southwards across many parts. as we go through the rest of today and overnight. that's due to a system that's currently

just to the northwest of the uk for the time being though, as we go through the end of today, there is still some dry and at times sunny weather across parts of england and wales, with a few showers to watch out for . but showers to watch out for. but further north of scotland, northern ireland and northern england , turning increasingly england, turning increasingly cloudy and also very wet. that rain and cloud is going to push its way southwards as we go through the night and because of the unsettled weather, it is going to stay pretty mild, temperatures generally staying in double figures. so a fairly wet start to the day for many of us. but some of the heavier rain is going to quite quickly clear away towards the east. if we take a closer look and across some southern parts by seven 8:00, apart from a bit of rain across east anglia, perhaps there should be some dry, perhaps even brighter weather for a time. different story further north, outbreaks of rain and quite a lot of cloud for many places with something a little bit more persistent pushing into parts of scotland and also northern ireland. as we go through the morning, and this band of something a bit more persistent is then going to gradually make its way eastwards

as we go through the day. so staying pretty soggy for scotland and northern ireland, england and wales. some further outbreaks of rain don't look as heavy as what we'll have seen earlier on, but it is going to stay generally pretty cloudy. temperatures are still going to be a little bit below average for the time of year. we may just about scrape into the low 20s celsius, but because of the cloud and the wet weather and for some of us blustery winds, it's going to feel a little disappointing later on as we go through tomorrow evening. there will be some brighter skies developing across parts of scotland and northern ireland, but a scattering of showers mixed in with these and then some clear spells spreading to many parts. on thursday we can expect some blustery and wet weather in the north on friday. it's looking wetter for more of us. i'll see you again soon. bye bye. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> a very, very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to you. it's 3 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster. all across the uk. on today's show, rishi sunak has denied suggestions that the tories general election campaign has been a disaster. but with his party still miles behind labour in the opinion polls, he's now urging voters not to gift sir keir starmer a supermajority. next up, the royal mail is facing a fresh scandal this time over postal votes. thousands of voters have still not received their ballot papers, meaning their vote might not make it in time, perhaps even necessitating a recount. so is it time to sack off the postal voting system once and for all? meanwhile, king charles has begun his official stay in scotland by receiving the keys to the city of edinburgh, which is celebrating its 900th

anniversary. the king and queen will