in an nations across the uk in an attempt to reset their relationships with westminster .7 relationships with westminster? >> dougie beattie has more . >> dougie beattie has more. >> dougie beattie has more. >> we are at stormont, where keir starmer arrived at 8:00 this morning. he's meeting with parties to discussing their problems and trying to reset that relationship. he will be leaving here at 1030 and heading directly to wales and tory leadership race. >> jeremy hunt has ruled himself out. suella braverman seemed to be hedging her bets over the weekend, but who can rescue the conservative party now? we're going to talk to one defeated mp who's furious about their failings. >> i'm breaking overnight in france , a left wing coalition france, a left wing coalition colluded to halt the rise of marine le pen's national rally in the second round of election voting. there have already been riots on the streets of paris. we'll find out exactly what happened and where does this leave french politics? >> and a big weekend of british

sport, of course. tennis defeat, football victory and after 56 races without a win, lewis hamilton won the british grand prix for a record ninth time. >> and i was i was in westminster before i got here this morning. obviously, lots of former tory mps going into clear their, clear their desks , new their, clear their desks, new boys, new girls going in. but of course the big moment will be, i think when nigel farage arrives. of course he's speaking today in his constituency in clacton and we'll be there a big rally for one of the great victors of the election. >> we're hoping to hear from nigel this morning. so stay with us. let us know your thoughts as well. gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, the news with sam francis . first, the news with sam francis. >> beth. andrew, thank you very much. and good morning to you . much. and good morning to you. it's just after 9:30 and a recap

then of the top stories this morning. well, with the prime minister in belfast on his uk tour this morning, his top team is keen to show they're hitting the ground running. announcements today are being made on reforms to planning laws. more dentist appointments and teacher recruitment. the chancellor is expected to say there's no time to waste in boosting economic growth, and that she'll make it a national mission. in her first major speech in about an hour's time, rachel reeves will promise major changes to speed up infrastructure projects and to unlock private investment. she's also set to argue that 14 years of conservative rule has cost £140 billion in lost growth . £140 billion in lost growth. former prime minister sir tony blair is urging the new government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. however, the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy. instead, yvette cooper is insisting setting up a new border security command will bnng border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the english channel. it comes after sir keir starmer

announced the rwanda scheme is dead and buried. he says , dead and buried. he says, claiming he's not prepared to continue with gimmick politics. conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told us this morning. he though , thinks it's a huge he though, thinks it's a huge mistake. >> one thing about the verandah legislation is, for the first time, illegal migrants coming over the channel went into detention rather than into hotels. what labour government will do by scrapping that legislation, the release all those people from detention and they'll now go into hotels or council flats. that's absolutely wrong. we warned it at the time the labour party strategy on this in terms of smashing the gangsis this in terms of smashing the gangs is completely flawed. it won't work of course you smash the gangs, but that's not the only solution. you need. >> kevin hollinrake there. speaking to us earlier this morning on breakfast. well, france faces an uncertain future after parliamentary elections there, but it won't be a right wing government. marine le pen's national rally came third, despite expectations it would top the poll. protesters clashed with riot police in paris after

those results were announced. you can see those scenes there on your tv screen from last night. the left wing new popular front coalition is predicted to win with president macron's centrist group coming in second place. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sam francis back with you in the next half hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> so the first week of a new government sun is shining. >> the rise of a brave new dawn. actually, i'm quite excited. >> i'm absolutely terrified. >> i'm absolutely terrified. >> yeah, i know what you mean, >> yeah, i know what you mean, >> but i'm terrified. >> but i'm terrified. >> the tories had had 14 years.

what did they do with it? not a lot. i heard one of the so—called leadership contenders yesterday. she was the health secretary its name is going to come to me in a second. asked one of the great achievements of 14 years of tory rule, she said gay marriage, is that it? i mean really, really victoria atkins? that's right . really? that's it. that's right. really? that's it. gay marriage . what about gay marriage. what about stabilising the economy after the crash of 2008? what about that ? that? >> do you know what? i was reading all the papers this weekend, and of course, tony blair was hot out of the blocks. of course he was straight away with his digital id plans. now, this is what he's been trying to get through for years. people keep calling them identity cards. it's not going to be like that. it is a it's a it's a effectively a sort of track. and trace system for the 21st century. and i feel like i'm now looking back and going, maybe rishi sunak wasn't entirely on board with that idea, and now i feel like keir starmer is going to be and i really i'm so worried about what this future looks like now. >> well, johnny reynolds, who was doing the broadcast around

yesterday, he's business secretary, isn't he? he said we're simply not going to do that. but the fact that blair wrote it in the sunday times front page piece in the sunday times, we know blair talks to starmer all the time . some of starmer all the time. some of blair's people are in starmer's private office in the labour hq. he's he's a he's a major player in the new government. >> of course he is. >> and of course who else was writing in the mail on sunday yesterday, david blunkett, what does david blunkett been trying to get through for years? identity cards. the key figure in blair's government and the idea that tony blair was writing yesterday that this is going to be the solution to migration, and no doubt this is going to be one of the topics we're going to be talking about non—stop. now. how to fix migration under yvette cooper. good luck with that. smashing the gangs. >> but also what an outrage of blair to talk about problems with migration. >> his rotten iraq war triggered all the problems in the middle east which started all this. this huge upheaval in the middle east, which we've never recovered from. and hang on, when your eastern european countries joined the eu, he was

told to have transitional arrangements to limit the numbers. he didn't. we were expecting, what, 70,000? it was 750,000 in year one when on saturday night it broke that he'd appointed sir patrick vallance as the science minister. >> i cried one of the, he was the doctor, wasn't he? >> i'm not. >> i'm not. >> i'm not joking. >> i'm not joking. >> i'm not joking. >> i actually cried and my partner was like, what's the matter? and i just had my head in my hands. and i said, i just in my hands. and i said, ijust i'm so scared that a man who's making decisions about our health, our science, who was not remotely rooted in evidence based decisions during the most critical time of recent memory, probably in my lifetime . i find probably in my lifetime. i find that really frightening because i want somebody making decisions about science and health to believe in evidence based decisions and protocol and medicine. and he didn't. >> and then, of course, we heard jacqui smith was the britain's first woman home secretary under laboun first woman home secretary under labour. i was on the telegraph when we did the great expenses scandal. her on her expenses were two porn films, if you recall , £20. apparently it was recall, £20. apparently it was her husband had claimed for them .

her husband had claimed for them. she got into all sorts of difficulties and we've been a big story in the telegraph about this. and she said i would not go into the house of lords because people have been beset by scandal. shouldn't apparently that because that was a decade ago. it doesn't matter now. she's going into the house of lords as a member of the government , as lords as a member of the government, as an lords as a member of the government , as an education government, as an education minister. memo to education minister. memo to education minister. don't put filthy, horrible porn films on your expenses and pay. expect the taxpayer to pay for them . taxpayer to pay for them. >> honestly, let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay first impressions of this new government now. >> but but i still say let's. >> but but i still say let's. >> we've got to wish them well. and i do wish them well because it's for the for all of us. and so there's a lot of good will. and, i thought his speech on the steps of number 10 was. i mean, do you remember the woodentops? you probably don't. yeah. so woodentop he so wooden. but, look, you don't have to be charismatic. >> don't matter . tony charismatic. >> don't matter. tony blair's in charge now. likely contenders in the tory leadership battle are starting to emerge. >> who's in the mix? our former

business secretary kemi badenoch, the former immigration minister robert jenrick. he in fact quit the government over immigration. tom tugendhat, who was a defence minister, and the former home secretary, priti patel, and suella braverman. >> but can anyone save the party? well, joining us now is former conservative mp for yeovil, marcus fysh. good morning marcus. thank you so much for joining morning marcus. thank you so much forjoining us. a very much for joining us. a very sorry. good morning that you lost your seat last week. why did this happen. what's your assessment of what went so badly wrong for the tories ? wrong for the tories? >> well, just to say at the beginning , i >> well, just to say at the beginning, i think you're absolutely right to focus on, some, some of the things that labour are doing. we absolutely wish them. well, because we all have to try to, to, to make the national effort a successful one. but the reality is that, yes, this is a potentially quite, worrying government in some respects, whether it's on digital id cards or what they might do with a central bank digital currency, there are lots of really big issues where we

need non—authoritarian voices to be strong and so, yeah, one of the things that worries me about it is that the right of politics, looks like it is going to remain split and that that potential labour government could, could be in power for a very long, long time. and so that's, you know , why i think that's, you know, why i think it's important to try to focus on the future about how we, solve that essential problem with our politics, and i think we need to be honest about it and honest about where things stand. and at the moment, in all the leave facing seats in all of the leave facing seats in all of the seats where, the sort of, ordinary working people had voted for us in the conservatives in the past, in recent elections. the fact is that they either in large part stayed at home or they voted reform, and until that there's a

prospect of that changing , i prospect of that changing, i think there is absolutely no chance whatsoever of a centre right party being elected in the uk. again, isn't your prescription marcus or solution? >> much more radical that the tory party just has to almost be unravelled? perhaps even get a new name and a completely new identity? isn't that what you're suggesting? >> so, i just want to be clear. i mean, i'm very grateful to all of the people who voted conservative for me and up and down the country. i know that they are very loyal to what is a very, old and old institution. and it's had a lot of qualities over the years. but, i just want to sort of be rational about where we are. and i think the tory party does need to have a quite serious soul. soul searching about what it what it is. there for. and i think, you know, the just sort of

pretending that, nothing's really happened and it all goes back together easily. and if we just try and say some more, centre right things in opposition, that people will believe that the conservative party is the thing to support in the future when they have seen that when in government, those things are, are not as important to them, then i just think it's not, you have to question the core viability of it as an electoral force. and if you and if you can't be confident that it has that chance of being the centre right party that everybody gets behind again, then i think it is worth thinking now, early on about whether there's a different way of doing things and at the very least, a wholesale reconstruction of the brand, which has, let's face it, had its gerald ratner moment . yeah. its gerald ratner moment. yeah. over recent weeks. >> marcus, can i just i think is the minimum. >> yeah. there's another party

that did rather well at the election. it got over 4 million votes. reform many of the values and policies on immigration, you would support. i'm sure isn't the is the answer, perhaps rather than reconstruct and recreate the tory party that a lot of people like you think i'm to off reform. >> so, i think the thing is, that reform at the moment isn't really a it doesn't have the sort of serious professional organisation, and it's easy for people to have a pop at it saying that it's x, y, z . it's saying that it's x, y, 2. it's sort of two focused on one one, one person or a couple of people, and it doesn't have that full sort of professional, policy development platform and really deep, deep thinking about how you implement change and what that means in terms of a political structure and organisation structure to be able to effectively deliver that and deliver it in a way that is

irreproachably of the centre right and centre so that it can appeal and that those small c conservative things that i would espouse and which most of the population want to vote for, are definitely seen as mainstream. you know, that's that is the core issue that it has, going anywhere further so that that would have to happen, i think, before, before that, that could before, before that, that could be considered. okay. >> we i don't think it's impossible that they could get there , but, i think that the there, but, i think that the tory party itself needs to reinvent itself , tory party itself needs to reinvent itself, and i think it needs to take a long, hard look at, what it's what what it's done. >> and. okay from what i've seen, many of you marcus members . seen, many of you marcus members. >> i'm so sorry. >> still a bit deluded about that. >> the clock is against us, unfortunately. don't worry,

marcus fysh , great to talk to marcus fysh, great to talk to you. former conservative mp for yeovil . yeovil. >> i'll tell you on that. his majority in 2019 was 16,000 marcus's. he lost by 12,000 last week. that is the most. >> did he lose to the lib dems or to labour, lib dem. >> but they were lib dem with a huge.so >> but they were lib dem with a huge. so there was a swing against him of 26, 26. >> unbelievable, unbelievable. no wonder he's hacked off. now the prime minister is carrying on with his tour of the uk as he tries to reset, as he says, the relationship between westminster and the devolved nations. a few hours ago he arrived in northern ireland. >> well, joining us now is from stormont. is our very own gb. news, northern ireland reporter, dougie beattie dougie. >> well good morning and welcome to stormont. this morning about 8:15 cavalcade came in right up through the royal mail drive to the castle and met the first minister and deputy first minister. and then travelled here to the parliament buildings

where it met. he met the speaker of the house, and he has gone inside and now having meetings , inside and now having meetings, separate meetings with each individual party, trying to reset that relationship, because of course, under the tories here things were, slightly, shall we say, tetchy for want of a better word. but that came along to a lot of things. the rwanda deal, of course, seen a lot of immigrants going south of the border, people here now worried that because labour have come into power and the threat of rwanda is no longer here, that they will come back north across they will come back north across the border into northern ireland. other things that will be on the agenda today, of course, is the legacy bill, like the rwanda bill, keir starmer said that he would do away with the tories legacy bill that was looking at historical, killings. and so forth in northern ireland. and of course it was the labour, the last labour prime minister, that was here just before gordon brown, tony blair that gave out those letters of comfort in queen's

pardon and mercy , that that pardon and mercy, that that really only allowed one side of the community to have their day in court . so it the community to have their day in court. so it will be quite, quite risky for him today and amongst certain amounts of the community. >> okay, dougie. thank you. dougie beattie then lovely lucky northern ireland. look at the sunshine out the weather this weekend. we talk about the fact that didn't stop flipping raining. >> is this because we've got a labour government? >> the sun shines. oh, no. >> we lost wimbledon, we won the football, but we won the football, but we won the football, right? >> talking of which, up next, british tennis star emma raducanu, who's been in the headunes raducanu, who's been in the headlines all weekend, some would say for the wrong reasons, we'll look at it, what is next for the

>> 951. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. and the broadcaster paul coyte is here. all that sport? yes. >> did you have a lovely time ? >> did you have a lovely time? did you watch all of it, andrew? no, i know bev did. no. >> well, i didn't exactly. >> well, i didn't exactly. >> okay, fine, i was at henley

regatta when the football was on and everybody had it on their phones when it got to the penalty shoot, so there was no big screen. no, no no not really. no. the rowing was more important that weekend, so that was quite exciting. and then i watched the tennis , actually sat watched the tennis, actually sat on the sofa at my mum's house yesterday, a bit of emma raducanu that was quite nice, quite relaxing. >> where should we start? >> where should we start? >> football, why, yeah. brief bit of football. >> we won the on the penalty. >> we won the on the penalty. >> we won on penalties. >> we won on penalties. >> the bad the game was not great. the penalties were magnificent. right. which is, you know, which is not what we're known for. >> win again. >> win again. >> say again. >> say again. >> did we not deserve to win the game again? i think we probably deserve to win it just about. >> but as far as the penalties were concerned, that was a different thing altogether because we've got history, bad penalties. how many times do we look back on penalty shootouts, our demons? i think, you know, i hate i'm not superstitious, but yes, i think we probably have the difference was confidence in the difference was confidence in the penalties. they practice them. see there's what you can never put the whole thing

together in practice. it's just impossible. it's i know for example, like adam peaty, often the swimmer, you know, our greatest swimmer of all time, he practices for the olympics by putting headphones on, closing his eyes and having the noise of fans and try it. but you can't recreate any of this. but what they've done is that they've tried that with training, and then they've had people shouting and just trying to recreate it, but they were all very, very cool, brilliant. >> so i want to get through all of these topics. who do we play next? >> we play the netherlands on wednesday. >> brilliant, right? emma raducanu she was going to play in the doubles with andy murray and then she pulled out. she had and then she pulled out. she had a stiff wrist. got a very hard time for that. >> that's a very bad look. >> that's a very bad look. >> see i don't know i can understand it being a bad look and i can understand. i mean anne diamond was livid. livid about the whole thing in the first place. the thing is, andy murray calls up and says, look right at the last minute. do you fancy playing the doubles? and you go, you're not going to go? actually, i'll think about it. yes, she probably didn't expect to go as far in the singles as she did. so then she had the

game on sunday and this would have been saturday night, so it's probably a good call off. >> i think her career is important. >> i think i agree with you. i think it's unfortunate. i think it's unfortunate, but i also think that andy murray had an amazing goodbye on centre court andifs amazing goodbye on centre court and it's almost like, well, everybody said goodbye. >> sue barker interviews with his brother . his brother. >> lovely. exactly. and that's the way to go. and then you'd have to go to an outside court and play, so we're fine with that. >> and then she did. >> and then she did. >> she did rubbish on her own didn't she. >> yeah, she did she i mean there were too many unforced errors. i mean she played, lulu sun who was from, she's from new zealand, 123rd in the world. right but not playing like that. but the irony is, is that she's a qualifier. just like radacanu was when she made her name. and who knows who beaten the number nine seed in the previous round ? nine seed in the previous round? i know, but you can do it on numbers. but it doesn't work like that. the other girl was very good now out and we didn't get done. >> we didn't get to it. but lewis hamilton won the grand prix as well at silverstone, which was wonderful. >> the world's the world's, yes. bofing >> the world's the world's, yes. boring sport still to come.

>> reform uk leader nigel farage and mp, who's going to be holding a celebration in clacton? here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . solar sponsors of weather on. gb. news >> hello there. very good morning to you. this is your gb news. weather forecast provided by the met office. if it's prolonged summery weather that you're after, i'm afraid this week is not going to provide it for everyone. whilst most of us have a slack pressure pattern to start off monday, increasingly our attention will turn to this area of low pressure that is very slowly pushing its way in from the southwest. already starting to see some rain into the likes of devon and cornwall, and increasingly that will begin to spread its way in elsewhere as well. winds strengthening 30 to 35 mile an hour. gusts possible around some exposed coastal areas, turning quite dull and grey here. elsewhere, there is a decent amount of sunshine to start off the day, but we will start to see some showers developing later on in the sunshine, though actually pleasantly warm. 19 to 21 c. feeling very cold though underneath this cloud and rain.

more around 15 to 16 c for your evening rush hour. then there will be some showers around for scotland to watch out for. some of them could be on the heavy side. just take care as you are travelling home again. a few showers for northern ireland and parts of northern england as well. the best of the brighter spells really across the central slice throughout a good portion of the day. still around 20 c there in leeds, even at 6:00. but it is going to be a much wetter conditions as we end the day here across the far southwest, turning heavier as that rain begins to push its way in some very low cloud as well, turning murky really not a pleasant end to monday at all. and that band of rain will slowly push its way into wales central areas of england, skirting into northern ireland and perhaps the far southwest of scotland. as we move closer towards tuesday. quite mild underneath all that cloud, though , temperatures not though, temperatures not dropping much below 13 14 c. but a chillier start across the far north—west of scotland, and it is this area that will see the best of the sunshine really right throughout tuesday, managing to stay driest

elsewhere. it is going to be a very unsettled day to come. some heavy pulses perhaps even some thunderstorms developing around southeastern areas at times start feeling humid in amongst all of that highs of 21 c, but still not the most pleasant of days. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 >> well. >> good morning. it's10:00 on monday the 8th of july. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me. bev turner and andrew pierce. >> so get. get britain building. keep watching. because this morning the new chancellor, rachel rees, she's going to announce labour's ambitions to defeat the nimbys and build 1.5 million homes. the property industry excited. but are you and tory leadership race? >> jeremy hunt has ruled himself out . suella braverman seem to be

out. suella braverman seem to be hedging her bets over the weekend, but who can rescue the conservative party now? >> nigel farage is on a victory lap . the reform uk leader is lap. the reform uk leader is holding a rally in his clacton constituency today. he's the new mp, of course, to celebrate his party's election success. we're hoping to talk to him and breaking overnight in france, a left wing coalition colluded to halt the rise of marine le pen's national rally in the second round of election voting. >> there have already been riots on the streets of paris. we'll find out exactly what happened and where does this leave french . politics? lots of. you've been getting in touch. so far with your thoughts on our new government and our new prime minister. after the weekend, there was a lot in the paper telling us what might be on the agenda with labour. gbnews.com/yoursay. first, though, the very latest news headunes though, the very latest news headlines with sam francis.

>> bev and andrew, thank you very much. well, it's 10:00 and very much. well, it's10:00 and the top story from the newsroom this morning, sir keir starmer insists that wales has enormous untapped potential as he continues his uk tour to reset the relationship between the westminster government and the devolved nations. the new prime minister will meet first minister will meet first minister vaughan gething in cardiff later. his visit to the welsh parliament is part of a whistle stop tour, also taking in scotland and later northern ireland. earlier, sir keir starmer met with the first and deputy first ministers in belfast, michelle o'neill of sinn fein says the new government is a chance for a reset of relations . reset of relations. >> we've taken every opportunity to press home the need for a proper funding model for here, in order for us to be able to reverse the damage that the tories have inflicted on us for 14 years. so look, time will tell in terms of in terms of their delivery and what they want to do to actually assist us. >> us. >> the chancellor is expected to

say there's no time to waste in boosting economic growth, and that she'll make it a national mission. in her first major speech later, rachel reeves will promise a major change to speed up infrastructure projects and unlock private investment. she's also set to argue that 14 years of conservative rule has cost £140 billion. she claims in lost growth, former prime minister sir tony blair is urging the new government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. however, the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy . it's not part of labour's policy. instead, yvette cooper insists setting up a new border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the channel. it comes after sir keir starmer announced the rwanda scheme is, he says, dead and buried, claiming he's not prepared to continue with gimmick politics. conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told us this morning he thinks that's a huge mistake . the education a huge mistake. the education secretary has kicked off her plan to transform the image of

teaching, to and recruit 6500 new teachers, bridget phillipson is writing to those in the sector, explaining the valuable role they'll play in the new government's agenda. and she'll also meet teaching unions later this week . the new defence this week. the new defence secretary has pledged to step up the uk. support for ukraine's continued fight against russia. in a meeting with president zelenskyy, john healey announced last night that britain will fast track military support within the next 100 days. that new package includes 50 small military boats to support river and coastal operations and 40 de—mining vehicles , and also de—mining vehicles, and also from the new labour government. sir keir starmer has vowed to rip up what he's called boris johnson's botched brexit deal, following labour's landslide election win. the prime minister says that work has already begun to build closer ties with the eu, and his new foreign secretary, david lammy, has started talks in europe , started talks in europe, promising the uk, he says, will be a good neighbour to its

european counterparts. he wants to reset relations to tackle challenges like support for ukraine and climate change. however, labour insists that the return of freedom of movement is not on the table . france faces not on the table. france faces an uncertain future after parliamentary elections, but there won't be a right wing government after last night's election results. marine le pen's national rally came third in the exit poll, despite expectations it would come out on top . protesters clashed with on top. protesters clashed with riot police in paris after those results were announced, leading to a likely hung parliament. the left wing new popular front coalition is predicted to win with president macron's centrist group in second place. a group of bereaved parents here in the uk has written an open letter to ministers urging the government to examine stillbirth rates and to examine stillbirth rates and to explore why they are higher for black and asian babies. data from 2021 suggests that black children are twice as likely to die at birth in england,

compared to those who are white. campaigners say it sends an unacceptable message to some women, though nhs england says it is investing £10 million over the next year to reduce inequalities and boeing has agreed to pay £190 million in fines to us authorities to avoid a criminal trial over two crashes of its 737 max jetliners. the plane makers pleaded guilty to a fraud charge following the deaths of 346 passengers and crew in 2018 and 2019. families of the victims have criticised the decision, saying it allows boeing to avoid full responsibility . royal news full responsibility. royal news and the king and queen will visit the senate later to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the welsh parliament. the royal welsh will form a guard of honour as the king sees them for the first time as their colonel in chief. his majesty and queen camilla will be greeted by primary school children,

community leaders and the first minister vaughan gething. inside the king's harpist will also perform for her first time in the new role, followed by some speeches and poetry readings . speeches and poetry readings. well, news from the us officials are warning people living on the texan coast to expect power cuts and flooding. that's a storm. barrels on course to hit there. later. residents have been seen stocking up on fuel and essentials, with several coastal areas under evacuation orders. the hurricane has already left a deadly trail of destruction across the caribbean. 11 people now known to have died following the high winds and heavy rain . the high winds and heavy rain. and finally, emma raducanu says that she has no regrets after a difficult end to her wimbledon campaign yesterday. a last 16 defeat to qualifier lulu sun ended british hopes in the singles, and it followed her decision on saturday to pull out of a mixed doubles match with andy murray, which ended the two time men's champion all england. club career. raducanu was attempting to protect a sore

wrist and back. she says . those wrist and back. she says. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sam francis back with you at half past ten for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> welcome back to britain's newsroom , live across the united newsroom, live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> we have in the studio somebody who was there at the start of the blair landslide. denis macshane that's your constituency . constituency. >> i've got rotherham. yeah, >> i've got rotherham. yeah, >> doesn't feel anything like the same. i was reporting on it for the time . so the excitement for the time. so the excitement when blair strode up numbered up downing street with cherie. not the same with starmer. not quite the same with starmer. not quite the same. >> very honourable reasons. i mean, that had been 18 years of

a conservative government, including the great thatcher experiment, frankly , the brexit experiment, frankly, the brexit pm's liz and rishi. and who's the other one? oh, boris. i mean, they're not remotely in the thatcher league. and also we came in with luckily with lots and lots of easy wins , and lots of easy wins, abolishing hereditary peers, abolishing hereditary peers, abolishing foxhunting, making the bank of england independent, being friends again with europe. those options aren't genuinely aren't really open for sir keir starmer. and tony was a very, very young, boyish person. keir actually this year, same age as when clement attlee became prime minister in 1945. well, he did all right. he did brilliantly. if claire does as well as that, we'll all be delighted . we'll all be delighted. >> we saw david lammy, giving his speech to say how excited he was as a new foreign secretary, and he came out with this statement about being the first black foreign secretary which isn't true, which isn't strictly true. but also because of james

cleverly. >> but james cleverly, his parents are from sierra leone. >> david lammy's parents are from guyana. >> i mean, the thing for me is it's just it worries me, dennis, this identitarians per cabinet that we're going to see are people who are obsessed again, yet again, as it feels like we've moved from a time where we should be obsessed with how much melanin there is in someone's skin, and it feels like we're going to be pushed back in that direction. and i don't think thatis direction. and i don't think that is very much the mood of a lot of the people in this country. >> broadly, i agree, i suppose i was the first polish, irish, europe minister, but i didn't mention it. i remember dennis skinner coming up to me and saying, here then, were your dad really polish? i said, dennis reed, who's who ? it's not reed, who's who? it's not a state secret. yes, he was wounded fighting the germans in 1940 and then came over to britain to continue the fight. hence i'm here. so i slightly agree with that. i wouldn't play the, you know , i'm black, i'm the, you know, i'm black, i'm brown card because actually

we've had the most diverse cabinet in history on public services. >> we did first asian descent, prime minister, and nobody really ever mentioned it. >> and he only i think he only talked about his hindu faith once. >> he did, he did that i'm aware of. >> they underplayed it if you like. yeah. was that the right thing? probably dennis i think. >> oh, completely correctly, i think he overplayed the fact he didn't drink. he didn't eat, he didn't drink. he didn't eat, he didn't he didn't he didn't do anything normal. but yeah, i mean it's preposterous. i mean, rishi, for heaven's sake, was a is a pure product, a product of the english elite education, winchester and oxford. i mean, what is more english than that? it's the people who cause all the trouble. >> let's go back to lammy. >> let's go back to lammy. >> his first job, he says, is to refocus our relationship with the eu. i see talked about in the eu. i see talked about in the sunday papers, we'd all have been briefed by the foreign office, no doubt they're even looking at the issue of free movement of people. now that would be hugely contentious because during the campaign they said nothing on free movement. >> i don't think david did do that. and i just heard darren jones, who's this very sharp, very, very watch him, watch him .

very, very watch him, watch him. he's going to be a star, star number two at the treasury. and darren is as pro—european as i am. but he made very clear that in the election, labour did not propose returning to the single market. single market is a big one. if you want to rejoin the single market, one of its obugafionsis single market, one of its obligations is free movement. the swiss accept it, the norwegians accept it. the swiss accept it, the norwegians accept it . we prefer norwegians accept it. we prefer to get all our immigrant workers now from india , pakistan, now from india, pakistan, nigeria instead of from poland or bulgaria or portugal. i mean, that's our choice. we've made it. >> and how is keir starmer going to navigate this relationship with with the eu now , dennis, with with the eu now, dennis, what do you because it's going to upset a lot of people if he does start to move us back towards well, it's going to please an awful lot of businesses if they can start trading again, it's going to please an awful lot of old people, possibly, if they can start retiring to europe again. >> it's certainly going to please young musicians and artists. it will please every university if we can reconnect

to european funding and share with the european scientists and specialists and the know how and the joint research. so it'll be it'll be whatever happens. i mean, the fact that maybe sir keir takes a holiday in france that proves he's going back to europe, well , but that proves he's going back to europe, well, but he's that proves he's going back to europe, well , but he's got to be europe, well, but he's got to be careful because, look, nigel farage's party did incredibly well last week. >> five mps more than they expected. but more importantly, dennis, for you as a labour man, they're in second place in nearly 100 seats in certain seats working class, what i would call old fashioned white working class seats , where working class seats, where migration, immigration is a huge issue. we saw blair sticking his oar in yesterday in an article in the sunday times saying they've got to have a big, strong policy on migration. if you start going wishy washy on that and free movement, that would be a big, big. and going back on brexit, that would be a big problem in those seats. >> of course it will. but there's also a massive majority in every opinion poll in the last few years saying that the people now think it was a

mistake. i mean, they're not stupid. we've lost 4% of our gdp. we're becoming we're going into that zone of european countries like italy or spain, you know, great history , but not you know, great history, but not very rich. i mean, if you take out london, britain has got the same living standards as missouri. and i did a lot of campaigning in the, well, the provinces outside of london. and i'd forgotten because i'm now based in london, just how poor so much of england is. and you go to the same cities in france or in germany or the netherlands, and they're a lot ncher. netherlands, and they're a lot richer . so i completely agree richer. so i completely agree with you and believe me, i mean, sir keir starmer has disappointed an awful lot of pro—europeans. darren jones just reaffirming it this morning. they don't want to put europe in any way on the agenda. but on the other hand, you can't take geography off the agenda. >> well, let's put it on the agenda because we had elections in france overnight. so marine le pen national rally did well in the first round, came first.

more than a third of the vote pushed into third place last night because of tactical voting. but we've now got jeremy corbyn's twin brother. yes his party won the largest share of the vote. is there a difference between these extremes? >> well, between jean—luc melenchon, i can never work out whether i should compare him to dear old jeremy or dear old george galloway , but he wouldn't george galloway, but he wouldn't want them running your country. he is exactly in the same bag as marion. they both support putin, like nigel farage does. and so we have this problem now in france of the french said no to marine le pen, but no to everybody else . everybody else. >> and the left very much colluded, didn't they , colluded, didn't they, overnight. so there were 200 candidates from the left pulled out of this second round to avoid splitting the vote. >> if you forgive me, so did all the candidates who came second or third in macron's party and the greens, in the liberals and the greens, in the liberals and

the conservatives, there was a broad agreement that it would be too dangerous for france. i don't i hate to use this word, but marine le pen just reeks of the 1930s and that politics for france, if the french people if democracy worked and they were voted in. >> wait a second. >> wait a second. >> we've just had the biggest tactical voting election in our history, and nobody i don't think anybody is saying that all the people who voted tactically last thursday are somehow denying democracy. >> i don't think i don't think many people did vote tactically. oh, we don't have that same tactical history of voting as they do on the continent . they do on the continent. >> but i take a different view. i think they've been foolish. i think marine le pen has dodged a bullet because i think the chaos now that's going to flow in the next year or two, because there'll be no agreement. the government will probably fall. they might have to be another election. she can stand back on the side. >> she can. you can't fault. >> she can. you can't fault. >> macron was pulling all the strings . strings. >> and believe me, the far left guy will say exactly the same

thing. i mean, i've been listening for 24 hours, 48 hours writing, commenting on the french elections, and i've been listening to mr mr mel stride, but he only represents one of the five parties in the coalition. people keep talking about a left party. there isn't there's a heterogeneous coalition. it would be like having in britain you had the labour party, the greens, the liberals , and i don't know, liberals, and i don't know, whatever's left or the trotskyist parties all saying we're going to vote against a stop. marine le pen. it's up to her. and this is the point . this her. and this is the point. this was an election to elect a government to run the country. it's like our dear nigel put him in front of a european parliament election. he always comes top . yeah. and. okay. he's comes top. yeah. and. okay. he's won in clacton. congratulations. and i wish him well in the commons. but he took an awful long time to get there. and people are very happy to protest in france by voting for marine. but the idea of putting her in charge, i mean , mr bardella, charge, i mean, mr bardella, a very young 28 year old, proposed prime minister. he's arab,

italian, background. and he said that people born in france to foreigners , people of a foreigners, people of a different colour, should not have the automatic right to french citizenship. it doesn't m atter. >> matter. >> it didn't mention the colour. >> it didn't mention the colour. >> doesn't matter what colour. oh, no. no. well it was look , oh, no. no. well it was look, put it bluntly, he was very clearly targeting muslims. now america and france for 200 years have had this idea that if you happen to be born on the french soil, on american soil, that's it. no question, no argument. you're french, you're american . you're french, you're american. he is proposing to take away that right? or custom or tradition for very obvious reasons, because they're dog whistling all the time. and the french people have said, we like a lot of what you say, but we're not putting you in charge of our lives. >> okay? all right. dennis really interesting. thank you so much. denis macshane. right up. next little quiz for you to tackle this overcrowding crisis. labouris tackle this overcrowding crisis. labour is considering plans for prisoners to serve as little as, what, 80% of their sentence? 60%

or 40% of their sentence before they're let out to go free. we'll tell you the answer next yeah we'll tell you the answer next year. with britain's newsroom on

gb news. whenever it's 1021. this is britain's newsroom. andrew, you're on the tele . we're joined you're on the tele. we're joined by political commentator. it looked genuinely surprising, didn't he, benedict spence is here. and former labour advisor. >> matthew laza good morning. >> matthew laza good morning. >> can you stop being a bad influence on him? matthew >> i'm going to come back to sitting next to you, giving me all the labour gossip. >> i can't say on air right now. >> i can't say on air right now. >> you just left it, kept it rolling whilst they were just. >> you literally nearly said it on air because we were on the telly. right. listen, let's start with this. rachel reeves, she's going to be talking to us any minute now. our newly appointed chancellor of the exchequer. first woman to do so. is that relevant? i don't know, she's going to bring back house

building targets. benedict, how is she going to manage this when she's going to come up against all the same problems that every government ever does, which is people saying, i don't want your houses in my backyard. >> well, this is one of the joys is now sort of a commentator on the opposition. i can just sit there and sort of lob criticisms. it's very easy to criticise and it's fun as well, she's talking about building a 1.5 million new homes during the course of the next parliament, which, for the record, will not actually meet the demand that we currently have. but it's a start. and if it happens, fantastic. but as you allude to, they're going to run up against all sorts of problems, not least of which the fact that a lot of these new labour mps are not in safe constituencies. they have quite small majorities and they're going to have the same phenomenon that tories do, which is they think, oh, i'm in westminster. i quite like this job. i don't want to lose it. i don't want people to vote against me when i say, actually, we're going to have a housing estate here and who knows, maybe a reservoir for water here because you know, who needs water, right? >> but that was kind of relevant running up to the election. but we got 4 or 5 years now, four years before the next. so, i mean, actually, maybe they will be emboldened to think, you know what, it's fine. i'm going to be

here for a while. i'm going to build my houses. >> not if you've got a majority of 22. >> yeah, i hope i hope that they will be bold on this because the country really does need a plan reform. but, you know, michael gove, who was a very effective operator, you have to say whatever else you could say. he was very effective in whatever role he took. he tried very hard and ended up actually facing a party that ended up making it worse, you would have thought that the conservatives facing the existential barrel of destruction that they did, would have figured this out, that you need to actually facilitate growth. things need to improve. they didn't do it, actually. will there be that same sort of desire among labour backbenchers? i don't know, as i say, we can hope. we can hope that they do put this, priority first and that actually labour, that the party is sort of, discipline is strong enough to make it happen and to be fair, keir starmer is very good on discipline. we've seen that rather a lot in his time as leader of the opposition. but we do have to wait and see because it is something that has dragged the country back for a while. >> it's quite fun, isn't it? a change of dynamic. i mean, go on then. how are you going to do it, >> so look, it,- >> so look, i it, >> so look, i think benedict is absolutely right. and they were all absolutely right that this

is a this is going to be a tncky is a this is going to be a tricky situation when you've got labour mps. the guy in poole in dorset not expected to win, got a majority of 18. yeah, and if you've got a majority of 18 votes, every, every residents group that come to you with a petition against, no matter how grim the thing that they can see out of their kitchen window is on reality, if they think it's beautiful and they want to save it, you're going to go along with it. so the key thing is for keir and for the cabinet is this whole theme of, country before party. are you effectively going to say to your mps, no, you know those and risk getting a smaller majority next time, but do the right thing and get more votes. >> so she's going to lay down a compulsory, compulsory target for housing, but also she's going to reform local councils so that they will be how is she going to reform it? >> well, one of the things they're going to do is their special money. there's new money for planning departments because at the moment i don't have anybody. i try to have an extension, but anybody you speak to, even if you're trying to get an extension, we're not talking about an extension. >> we're talking about how are they going to reform it. so that force out. so, so a green belt is going to have 4000 houses. how are they going to reform it

so that a local planning authority can say to whitehall, no, but out we're the local planning authority. we've got local councils here. we don't want it. yeah. >> well that's going to be the big clash of the two. so just on the it's not just if all housing projects at the moment, a lot of them, the house builders will tell you are literally because of austerity. there's like three people in the planning office in a district council and they can't get it through on the on the second point grey belt. is this is this new phrase we're going to hear a lot about, which is, you know, how some of the green belt is actually flipping ugly. yeah. you know, and some of it is car parks. it's, you know, it's old. >> it won't be much of that. >> it won't be much of that. >> well, there is, there is some of that. and you need to start there. let's start with something andrew. but i mean it's not going to be easy. and that's why keir was saying he's not got a magic wand that it's going to take time. but at least they're hitting the ground running. and you know they've got to make this the number one priority because we need to we can't we need to build our our way to success based basically not just houses, but key, as benedick was saying, infrastructure because, you know, we don't want a labour government in four years, five years time with yet another water crisis or whatever. those

are the things that end up tripping governments up or the sewage issue continuing. so, but it's not a bad start for the first 25. well, let's say she's going she is going to be talking probably in about the next five minutes or so. >> rachel reeves. so we will hear she's talking specifically about this, what she does have planned for this, i think it's i think it's a key, absolutely key policy issue. >> this i mean, there's four green party held constituencies now. so they have the opportunity to do something very funny, which is build absolutely everything in those four constituent nuclear power stations. everything frack, do it all because, you know, what are they going to do? protest. and they're not a party of power. they're not a serious party at all. but yeah, you're right. it's about the sluggish growth in this country. almost all of it comes down to the lack of ability to do anything. and it's not just housing, as matthew says, it's things like railways, it's things like power. and, you know, it has knock on effects to things like agriculture as well. but whether or not this is going to be a key thing, though, because you know, one of the main things that people, the main gripes that they have is the aesthetics of things. it might sound like a really sort of simple thing, but how things look, are they built to last that sort of thing. and one of the things that i think

might genuinely raise concerns is, okay, you're going to build hundreds of thousands of houses per year. how long are they going to last? what are they going to last? what are they going to last? what are they going to look like? if you want to get local authorities on side, local people on side, you need to address that sort of scandals about this, haven't we. >> we have quality of but there's another issue here. >> how do you make the developers who own the land build on it? yeah, because a lot of them sit on this land for years and years, wait for the property price, for land value to go. how do you make them do it? >> i mean, one of the issues that i've found is actually when we talk about affordable housing because everybody agrees that housing is unaffordable, but it's that desire to build new housing that is affordable housing. well how are you going to turn a profit on that? ultimately, that's the opposite way around. you need to be making the houses as good as possible so that the existing stock, the poorer quality stock, the older stock becomes the affordable housing. that's how you need to go about it. and that's an issue that i think labour will run into. it'll want to say, look, we're building all of these houses and x number of them are affordable, at which point you go. so that's driving the prices of everything else up.and the prices of everything else up. and it means it's shoddy quality to begin with. yes. and it's shoddy quality to begin with. so affordable housing is

not necessarily what you want to be doing. >> and they should if she's serious, if they are serious about the green agenda and saving the planet, they have to make all of these new houses brilliantly insulated, ideally generating their own energy as well. solar panels, air source. make sure that i'm kind of on board with that as a almost like as a law. >> a new dawn has broken, has it not? ben. yeah, well, this is. >> well, let's get you up here. >> well, let's get you up here. >> well, let's see. no, but everybody else, carol vorderman, where's yours? i mean, let's see, because they have to . but see, because they have to. but what i like about those sorts of housesis what i like about those sorts of houses is actually that they generating their own power and they're not reliant on the grid. and i quite like the self—sufficiency of that idea. >> i mean, benedict summed up with what's going to be great about the new green mps is going to be there's a massive there's a massive split in their parliamentary group because two have got elected for sort of traditional, you know, woke constituencies, for want of a better phrase, urban progressive constituencies. the other two have got elected because they've campaigned against, guess what, the pylons that are needed to take offshore, offshore wind power to your house. >> beach is going to talk about this whole new network of pylons that she's going to put across the country.

>> and i thought again, good luck with that. >> should we talk about prisons, benedict, you feel quite strongly about this, don't you? oh, of course i do. >> the labour party's brilliant idea for how we're going to deal with the prisons backlog is not to build new prisons capacity. it's just going to be to release them early. and, you know, there are some arguments about having too many people of a certain kind of criminality in prisons. there's a good argument to be had for that. and the poor rates of return we get on reform in our prisons . that's fine. our prisons. that's fine. >> all those women who haven't paid their tv licence , they paid their tv licence, they should be let out straight away. i mean, probably yes. >> actually, no. if you're the bbc, the bbc sometimes have me on. i'm here to say absolutely no. you are the worst kind of criminal. my pension. yes. i'm on there at least once a month, it's honestly though, there is an issue with this, which is that half over half the prison population in this country are in prison for violent or sex offences. you can't actually spin that to anybody and say, oh, here's an idea. we're going to let these people out on some sort of community sentence and it'll magically work without the infrastructure already existing. 20% of murders committed in this country are committed by people out on remand. people who should be in prison. the attack line

should be from the labour party. look, the tories closed 17 prisons whilst they were in power. they were not a serious party of law and order. they thought that they could smash the ministry of justice and everybody would be fine. because who cares about lawyers and prisoners? fair enough, but that's why we're in this situation. however, they've gone for an ideological route, which is the opposite. it's not to say there aren't enough prison spaces, it's to say there are too many prisoners. how are you going to spin that one? >> and when they and when there's a hideous offence re—offend, somebody comes out. they've let out early. this 40. they're going to let out, which is an astonishing number. so and there's a ghastly prison offence committed that will come back on the justice secretary very quickly . quickly. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and so it should. >> and so it should. >> and so it should. >> and i don't think it is an ideological driven. there literally aren't any prison places. the prisons are absolutely full at the moment because, as you say, the tories closed prisons and failed to build new prisons. i think one of the best appointments is james timpson of the eponymous timpson chain, who've done so much work with prisoners in rehabilitating them. he's the new prisons minister. and yes, he said that he thinks few people should go. so it's about but that we should have the prison places where we rehabilitate the sort of middle

grade people who are going to come out. and for serious offenders, obviously, we need to build to make sure we have the right prison capacity. so we're not having murderers on remand. so and people are passing through the system, and that does mean paying the lawyers because you can't send a murder to prison if you haven't had a trial. >> but letting out. they're almost going to empty half of prisoners. nearly half are going to be let out early. >> well, i mean, at the moment pretty much this is this is people are going to have another 10% taken off the sentence because at the moment they are there's no room for any new prisoners to come in. literally dunng prisoners to come in. literally during the election, the prisons were full. remember we saw you know, because of the purdah period, it wasn't you know, it wasn't a major story. but we they literally cannot send people into prison. but labour remains very committed to prison for those on serious offences. but rehabilitation for those not and i would and that's what i think. that's why having james timpson there is totally non—ideological. he's ideologue, you know, he's not he's not some woke lefty, human rights lawyer. >> he is somebody who is ideologically of the opinion that we should be sending fewer people to prison because they don't need to go in the first place. and he cites the scandinavian model as an example that works in scandinavia because it's not the uk. it's a

very different kind of society. it's actually a lot more community based, much more homogenous. it's far easier to let people serve their sentences in the community. i don't really see how you can do that. when a significant portion of the prison population in this country are born overseas, many of whom should, in fact be deported, they should all be deported, they should all be deported and are not. >> they should be all be deported. yes. but the other thing, benedict, is how many times have we seen people coming in from outside? it's a great idea. we had one of the bp bosses was a minister in brown's government. >> the goats. >> the goats. >> the goats. >> the goats? yeah. >> the goats? yeah. >> the goats? yeah. >> the government of all the talents they start, they stick it for about a year or two years. >> they can't stand it because they are suffocated by the civil service who say you can't do that, minister, that's not the way we do things, minister, how is this guy, mr schumann, going to make it any difference? >> it's going to be very difficult. and this is the other thing. apart from planning reform that is required in this country, is civil service reform. again, the conservatives talked a lot about civil service reform and they achieved the square root of nothing. if anything, they possibly made it worse. so that'll be something else that if sir keir starmer wants to get even half of his agenda through, he's going to have to deal with that, because many people have this idea that the civil service is

ideologically captured by the left. some are, but it's much more about procedure. that's what they care about. >> who is his chief of staff? starmer's chief of staff, sue gray, who spent a lifetime in the civil service. so she he'll be saying to her, you can't do that, prime minister. >> that's not how the civil service, i think he's a creature of it. >> she's a creature of it. but she knows where the bodies are buried, and she knows what she would like to change because she's obviously met frustrations in it as well. and there's the why are the government hitting the ground running is they did a lot of work on the transition, not just the talks with the government. ministers ground running though. >> you've been in power for two days, why else would you expect them to be doing well then? >> limping, running, limping, walking slowly? no. andrew i've got a shambles of the government that we saw before. >> it's amazing that 14 years to get ready for this, because the total focus in delivery on bread and butter issues, which is what you're seeing from day one, so, so well, the tories tear themselves apart. >> we should be judging them on of such a great start. apparently benedict, am i missing something here? >> no, i honestly, i think that there's a bit 14 years of tory failure. >> he's made a speech. >> he's made a speech. >> no, it wasn't all failure. the passport office works fantastically. not sure what

else does, but there's one thing. >> and he's put harriet harman in the house of lords, who, as far as i know, thinks the house of lords should be demolished overnight. >> well, that's why she's there. >> well, that's why she's there. >> she's got a hammer. she's just upset, andrew. >> and she's a great parliamentarian. >> she must be cross. >> she must be cross. >> you're not in there because everybody else is. >> why get me in there? well, and his wife, i cried on saturday when i saw that patrick vallance had been given position. >> i thought of you, bev. i thought of you. >> how did you feel? >> how did you feel? >> not brilliant, but i honestly, i care more about prison reform because that for me provides a much more immediate threat. so timpson was slightly worse to me. >> come on, ben, it's going to take them, at least in the last four years. >> it's going to take at least another four years for that to happen. there are prisoners lending that out now. >> living in a digital prison under this lot. get used to the idea of prison, but only because we can't build physical ones. >> that's why it has to be digital. >> i can defend the only thing i know because tony blair of course, was was straight out of the blocks. >> didn't take long, did he? >> didn't take long, did he? >> big piece in the weekend. >> big piece in the weekend. >> didn't take long cards, not cards. >> don't use the word cards, not cards. >> identity. if only there were cards. >> and i hate the fact that i've

been hearing broadcasters all morning talk about id cards. card sounds kind of twee. it sounds like something you take out of your jeans, and you give it to a police officer and a big, tall hat. not going to be that matthew. it's chilling. go on, defend it. >> well, i actually don't think it's going to happen, but because i think that there will because i think that there will be a kickback and of course it will be one of those wedge issues that that army of well, they said it would they said no in the campaign. >> they said no in the campaign. >> they said no in the campaign. >> and it's all actually the blair ministers who haven't come back, like alan johnson, who've been saying they think it's a good idea. blunkett had previously said he thinks it's a good idea. before we joined the campaign. so it's actually i think it's going to be a key issue whether starmer sticks to the promise of the campaign and says no, particularly because although obviously there's no deal although obviously there's no deal, there's no cabinet committee like there was with the liberals when blair came in. there's obviously going to be there are going to be aware that they've got 72 lib dem mps who will make that a wedge issue, and would it help them, you know, the lib dem mps, you know, encroach on some of these sort of, the places they used to be, civil liberties, places like the university towns. >> i don't think the lib dems are against it, do you? >> well, i think they are still

i think they're still against it. >> not this lib dem. >> not this lib dem. >> they, they're quite right wing. this new lib dem mp. so classical liberal business secretary jonny reynolds, he, he did actually come out this morning because of tony blair's forcing them to deny it. >> he's come out this morning and said that he said i can rule out id cards for you again. is it in the cards. not going to be a card. it's going to be going to be your eyeball, so but but the idea that they're going to that this will be a solution for immigration, illegal immigration that doesn't stack up for me. make that make sense? >> i can't it doesn't add up. it's giving the veneer of an added sense of security on the border. >> we're going to cross the chancellor of exchequer . chancellor of exchequer. >> i have begun the work necessary to deliver on that mandate. our manifesto was clear. sustained economic growth is the only route to the improved prosperity that our country needs, and to improve the living standards of working people . standards of working people. where previous governments have been unwilling to take the

difficult decisions to deliver growth, or have waited too to long act, i will not hesitate . long act, i will not hesitate. growth was the labour party's mission in opposition. it is now our national mission. there is no time to waste . this morning no time to waste. this morning i want to outline the first steps that this new labour government has taken to fix the foundations of our economy so we can rebuild britain and make every part of our country better off. but first, let me address the inheritance . i have repeatedly inheritance. i have repeatedly warned that whoever won the general election would inherit the worst set of circumstances since the second world war. what ihave since the second world war. what i have seen in the past 72 hours has only confirmed that our economy has been held back by decisions deferred and decisions ducked, political self—interest put ahead of the national

interest. a government that put party first and country second. we face the legacy of 14 years of chaos and economic irresponsibility. that is why, over the weekend, i instructed treasury officials to provide an assessment of the state of our spending inheritance so that i can understand the full scale of the challenge, and i will present this to parliament before the summer recess. this will be separate from a budget that will be held later this yeah that will be held later this year. and i will confirm the date of that budget alongside a forecast from the office for budget responsibility in due course . all governments face course. all governments face difficult decisions . i will not difficult decisions. i will not shnnk difficult decisions. i will not shrink from those choices. those choices are made harder , choices are made harder, however, by the absence of the economic growth necessary not only to balance the books, but also to improve living standards .

also to improve living standards. new treasury analysis that i requested at the weekend shows that had the uk economy grown at just the average rate of other oecd economies, this last 14 years, our economy today would be over £140 billion larger. this could have brought in an additional £58 billion in tax revenues in the last year alone. that's money that could have helped revitalise our schools, our hospitals and other public services . growth requires hard services. growth requires hard choices, choices that previous governments have shied away from, and it now falls to this new labour government to fix the foundations. there is no time to waste. we have promised a new approach to growth, one fit for approach to growth, one fit for a changed world that approach will rest on three pillars stability , investment and reform .

stability, investment and reform. let me turn first to stability . let me turn first to stability. in the run up to the general election, i set out the crucial first steps in our economic plans to deliver economic stability so we can grow our economy and keep taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible. and that commitment stands. i emphasised this commitment in a meeting with the governor of the bank of england on friday, and i will do the same when i meet the chair of the office for budget responsibility this week . these responsibility this week. these institutions are guarantors of our economic stability, and i will not be playing games at their expense . over the weekend, their expense. over the weekend, i made clear to treasury officials that the manifesto commitments that we were elected on will be kept to, and they will be delivered on. that includes robust fiscal rules, and it includes our commitments to no increases in national insurance and the basic, higher or additional rates of income tax or vat. now, i know that

there are some who will argue that the time for caution is past , who hold that the platform past, who hold that the platform on which we were elected , the on which we were elected, the platform that the british people voted for last week, can now be swiftly forgotten. that we can toss aside those fiscal rules or renege on our tax pledges that a large majority in parliament means we have the license to row back on the principles of sound money and economic responsibility . i money and economic responsibility. i know money and economic responsibility . i know that many responsibility. i know that many of you aren't used to hearing this after recent years, but i believe that the promises that a party is elected on should be delivered on in government, and we will do so . we do not take we will do so. we do not take lightly the trust of voters who have been burned too often by incompetence, irresponsibility and recklessness, and to investors and businesses who have spent 14 years doubting whether britain is a safe place to invest and let me tell you,

after 14 years, britain has a stable government , after 14 years, britain has a stable government, a government that respects business, wants to partner with business and is open for business in an uncertain world, britain is a place to do business. let me turn to how we will unlock that private investment that we so desperately need . before the desperately need. before the election, i announced labour's plans to launch a new national wealth fund with a remit to invest and so to catalyse private sector investment in new and in growing industries . and and in growing industries. and in march, the former governor of the bank of england, mark carney, agreed to lead a task force on the establishment of a new national wealth fund. i can tell you today that i have received the report from that task force, and i will be announcing the next steps in short order, alongside investments must come reform because the question is not whether we want growth, but how strong is our resolve? how

prepared are we to make the hard choices and face down the vested interests? how willing even to risk short term political pain to fix britain's foundations? the story of the last 14 years has been a refusal to confront the tough and the responsible decisions that are demanded. this government will be different and there is no time to waste. nowhere is decisive reform needed more urgently than in the case of our planning system . planning reform has system. planning reform has become a byword for political timidity in the face of vested interests and a graveyard of economic ambition . our economic ambition. our antiquated planning system leaves too many important projects tied up for years and years in red tape before shovels even get in the ground. we promised to put planning reform at the centre of our political argument, and we did. we said we

would grasp the nettle of planning reform, and we are doing so today. i can tell you that that work is underway over the weekend, i met with the prime minister and the deputy prime minister and the deputy prime minister and the deputy prime minister to agree the urgent action needed to fix our planning system. today alongside the deputy prime minister, i am taking immediate action to deliver this labour government's mission to kick start economic growth and to take the urgent steps necessary to build the infrastructure that we need, including 1.5 million homes in the next five years. the system needs a new signal. this is that signal. first, we will reform the national planning policy framework , consulting on a new framework, consulting on a new growth focused approach to the planning system before the end of the month , including of the month, including restoring mandatory housing targets. and as of today, we are ending the absurd ban on new onshore wind in england. we will

also go further and consult on bringing onshore wind back into the nationally significant infrastructure projects regime, meaning decisions on large developments will be taken nationally, not locally. second, we will give priority to energy projects in the system to ensure that they make swift progress and we will build on the spatial plan for energy by expanding this to other infrastructure sectors. third, we will create a new task force to accelerate stalled housing sites in our country, beginning with liverpool's central docks, worcester parkway, northstowe and langley. sutton coldfield, representing more than 14,000 homes. fourth, we will also support local authorities with 300 additional planning officers across the country. fifth, if we are to put growth at the centre of our planning system , that of our planning system, that means changes not only to the system itself, but to the way that ministers use our powers

for direct intervention. the deputy prime minister has said that when she intervenes in the economic planning system, the benefit of development will be a central consideration that she will not hesitate to review and application where the potential gain for the regional and national economies warrant it. and i welcome her decision to recover. two planning appeals already for data centres in buckinghamshire and in hertfordshire . to facilitate hertfordshire. to facilitate this new approach, the deputy prime minister will also write to local mayors and to the office for investment to ensure that any investment opportunity with important planning considerations that comes across their desks is brought to her attention and also to mine . the attention and also to mine. the deputy prime minister will also write to local planning authorities alongside the national planning policy framework. consultation making clear what will now be expected of them , including universal

of them, including universal coverage of local plans and reviews of green belt boundaries . reviews of green belt boundaries. these will prioritise brownfield and greenbelt land for development to meet housing targets where needed, and our golden rules will make sure that the development this frees up will allow us to deliver the thousands of affordable homes too, including more for social rent. sixth, as well as unlocking new housing, we will also reform the planning system to deliver the infrastructure that our country needs together in these early days of this new labour government, we will ask the secretary of state for transport and the secretary of state for energy security and net zero to prioritise decisions on infrastructure projects that have been sitting unresolved for far too long. and finally, we will set out new policy intentions for critical infrastructure in the coming months ahead of updating relevant national policy

statements within the year . i statements within the year. i know that there will be opposition to this. i am not naive to that, and we must acknowledge that trade offs always exist in any development may have environmental consequences, place pressure on services and rouse voices of local opposition. but we will not succumb to a status quo which responds to the existence of trade offs by always saying no , and relegates the national no, and relegates the national interest below other priorities. this labour government has been elected on a date to get things done, to get britain building again. we will make those tough decisions to realise that mandate . with these steps we mandate. with these steps we have done more to unblock the planning system in the past 72 hours than the last government did in 14 years. be in no doubt we are going to get britain

building again. we are going to get britain's economy growing again and there is no time to waste. we will end the prevarication and make the necessary choices to fix the foundations. we will introduce a modern industrial strategy to create good work and drive investment in all of our communities. we will reform our skills system for a changing world of work. we will tackle economic inactivity and get people back to work. we will take on the hard work of reforming our public services to make them fit for the future. we will work closely with our national, regional and local leaders to power growth in every part of britain. and we will turn our attention to the pension system to drive investment in home grown british to business and deliver greater returns to pension savers . i returns to pension savers. i know that voters trust cannot be repaid through slogans or through gimmicks , only through

through gimmicks, only through action. only through delivery. the treasury i lead is proceeding on that basis . i was proceeding on that basis. i was appointed to this post less than 72 hours ago upon my arrival, i told treasury staff that the work starts straight away. that work starts straight away. that work has begun. i have commissioned and received economic analysis from treasury officials on the lost growth of the last 14 years, which i have set out today. i have instructed treasury officials to prepare an assessment of the state of our spending inheritance to be presented to parliament before the summer recess. i have started work with the prime minister to make the necessary preparations for the establishment of a growth mission board, and that board will meet before the end of this month , focused squarely on month, focused squarely on reviving our country's economic growth and prosperity. i have established a new growth delivery unit here at the heart of the treasury. i have received

the recommendations of the national wealth fund task force, and will shortly be announcing the next steps . and in these the next steps. and in these first 72 hours, we have done more to reform the planning system than previous governments have done in 14 years. there is much more to do. more tough decisions to be taken. you have put your trust in us and we will repay that trust. the work towards a decade of national renewal has begun. there is no time to waste and we are just getting started. thank you very much. >> well, that was rachel reeves, of course, the new chancellor setting out her ambitious plan for growth. she did keep saying, we need reform reform one. at least one of our rowers said, well, i'm glad she keeps saying that. at least that's the only thing that's true. >> do you know there used to be a concept called localism? it was local. people know best, local councils know best. that's now gone .

now gone. >> it is. but i have to be honest, the way that this country has gone, it has been becoming increasingly clear that even though people do recognise the country needs growth and it needs new houses, people are becoming incredibly sort of stubborn. not all people, of course, but a very sort of active political minority at a local level in opposing things near them. and there are many reasons why , as i sort of reasons why, as i sort of touched upon, it might be to do with changing demographics or aesthetics, or it might simply be to do with things like house prices. given that now actually the value of property is the sort of the single source of financial assets in this country, there are many reasons why that that was once true, i'm afraid. has stagnated. and whilst i'm not keen on the idea of a government riding roughshod over local authorities, we have got to a point now where something does have to change because people can't be trusted to approve anything, and so we're going to get a whole new forest of wind turbine farms on land. >> she said the ban was absurd. before the ban was to reflect often local , yeah, objections. often local, yeah, objections. >> they'll still have to go through the planning process.

but the blanket ban, which the tories introduced, remember? so basically it's reverting to the policy that we had under, you know, under the tories in the initial stages before this absurd blanket ban, saying you can't have a single wind turbine anywhere, onshore was just daft. we need them in places where there's support for them and where they make economic and ecological sense, she said. >> they're going to reform the national planning policy framework, she said. they're going to have mandatory housing targets . can't argue with a bit, targets. can't argue with a bit, quite a bit of that. but some people are getting in touch with us to say there's the dictatorship planning decided nationally , not locally. nationally, not locally. >> well, there is always a national. yeah, i mean, localism, which was a sort of which is a cameron esque buzzword, wasn't it? has gone as a buzzword . there's always a buzzword. there's always a national planning framework because we need to think nationally about things like reservoirs, because we don't. i know it's been raining the last few weeks. we do, you know, if we have a hot, you know, a hot summer and the hosepipe ban comes in, people will be blaming the other way. >> hey, gentlemen, we've run out of time. >> we've run out right. next,

newly elected mp nigel farage is holding a rally in clacton. we'll bring you that. let's see how the weather is a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb. >> news . >> news. >> news. >> hello there. very good morning to you. this is your gb news. weather forecast provided by the met office. if it's prolonged summery weather that you're after, i'm afraid this week is not going to provide it for everyone. whilst most of us have a slack pressure pattern to start off monday, increasingly our attention will turn to this area of low pressure that is very slowly pushing its way in from the southwest. already starting to see some rain into the likes of devon and cornwall, and increasingly that will begin to spread its way in elsewhere as well. winds strengthening 30 to 35 mile an hour. gusts possible around some exposed coastal areas, turning quite dull and grey here. elsewhere, there is a decent amount of sunshine to start off the day, but we will start to see some showers developing later on in the sunshine, though actually pleasantly warm. 19 to 21 c. feeling very cold though

underneath this cloud and rain. more around 15 to 16 c for your evening rush hour. then there will be some showers around for scotland to watch out for. some of them could be on the heavy side. just take care as you are travelling home again. a few showers for northern ireland and parts of northern england as well. the rest of the brighter spells really across the central slice throughout a good portion of the day. still around 20 c there in leeds, even at 6:00. but it is going to be a much wetter conditions as we end the day here across the far southwest, turning heavier as that rain begins to push its way in some very low cloud as well, turning murky really not a pleasant end to monday at all. and that band of rain will slowly push its way into wales central areas of england, skirting into northern ireland and perhaps the far southwest of scotland. as we move closer towards tuesday. quite mild underneath all that cloud, though , temperatures not though, temperatures not dropping much below 13 14 c. but a chillier start across the far north—west of scotland, and it is this area that will see the best of the sunshine really right throughout tuesday, managing to stay driest

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> morning. 11 am. on monday, the 8th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so in the last few moments, the chancellor rachel reeves, has said that she will introduce mandatory housebuilding targets and slammed past governments for refusing to take tough and responsible decisions . responsible decisions. >> and the labour and a labour mp has spoken at emily

thornberry says she's surprised and disappointed after she was snubbed from sir keir starmer's cabinet. she served as shadow attorney general for almost three years and got nothing , and three years and got nothing, and nigel farages victory lap reform uk leader and mp nigel farage is holding a rally in clacton this morning following the party's election success. >> we're going to be grabbing a word with him before midday and overnight in france, a left wing coalition colluded to halt the rise of marine le pen's national rally in the second round of election voting. >> there have already been riots on the streets of paris. we're going to find out exactly where this leaves french politics and the state of the . euro. the state of the. euro. >> and we're going to hear from sir keir starmer as well this morning. he's been talking. he's doing a whistle stop tour. >> he is around the uk , scotland >> he is around the uk, scotland last night and this morning in a place in northern ireland, wales. >> and then we will hear from

him. we will. and it was amazing. matthew, last saying he's hit the ground running. what else would you do in the first couple of days of a new government? you're not going to hit the ground and fall over, are you? >> no, no. well, we want to know what you think is. are you impressed so far? gbnews.com/yoursay a lot to talk about. it feels like the whole energy has changed, hasn't it ? energy has changed, hasn't it? we can really hold power to account now that we've got a labour government. i'm quite excited about it. >> yeah, and they're new and they're fresh, as opposed to the tories were tired past their sell by date and looked it a bit like us. >> right. we're all rejuvenated. here's sam francis with the . news. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:00. the top stories from the newsroom this morning. and i just want to start by bringing you a breaking line that we're hearing from ukraine this morning, where a children's hospital in kyiv has been hit by a major airstrike this morning as russia launched

a barrage of missile strikes across ukraine. these are the live pictures coming to us from the ukrainian capital this morning, where rescue workers are now in the process of searching through the rubble for any survivors at that children's hospital. it's understood the attack is the biggest bombardment of ukrainian for capital several months now, and across the country, at least 20 people have been killed in the attack, around 50 others injured , attack, around 50 others injured, according to the interior ministry. will we will of course, bring you any more details on that story as we get them. but for now, we know that there has been a number of deaths and rescue workers continuing to search the site of that attack on the children's hospital in kyiv. this morning . hospital in kyiv. this morning. here, sir keir starmer is insisting that wales has enormous untapped potential as he continues his uk tour to reset the relationship between the westminster government and the westminster government and the devolved nations. the prime minister will meet first minister will meet first minister vaughan gething in cardiff later, and his visit to

the welsh parliament is part of his whistlestop tour , also his whistlestop tour, also taking in scotland and earlier northern ireland, where sir keir starmer met with the first minister and deputy first minister and deputy first minister in belfast. sinn fein's michelle o'neill says the government is a chance for a reset of relations . reset of relations. >> we've taken every opportunity to press home the need for a proper funding model for here in order for us to be able to reverse the damage that the tories have inflicted on us. for 14 years. so look, time will tell in terms of in terms of their delivery and what they want to do to actually assist us. >> us. >> michelle o'neill there, speaking earlier this morning following that visit from the prime minister. well, as he continues his tour this morning, his top team, sir keir starmer, that is, is keen to show that they're hitting the ground running. announcements are being made on reforms to planning laws , made on reforms to planning laws, more dentist appointments and to teacher recruitment. well, in the last few minutes the chancellor has announced that there is no time to waste in boosting economic growth and that she's making it her national mission. in her first

major speech, rachel reeves has promised major changes to speed up infrastructure projects and unlock private investment. she's also argued that 14 years of conservative rule has, she says, cost £140 billion in lost growth . cost £140 billion in lost growth. >> i have repeatedly warned that whoever won the general election would inherit the worst set of circumstances since the second world war. what i have seen in the past 72 hours has only confirmed that our economy has been held back by decisions deferred and decisions ducked, political self—interest put ahead of the national interest. a government that put party first and country second. >> meanwhile, the education secretary has also kicked off her plans today to transform the image of teaching to and recruit 6500 new teachers. bridget phillipson's, writing to those in the sector, explaining the valuable role they'll play in

the new government's agenda. she's also expected to meet teaching unions later this week. and former prime minister sir tony blair is urging the new labour government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. however, the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy. instead, yvette cooper insists, setting up a new border security command will bnng border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the channel. and that comes after sir keir starmer announced the rwanda scheme is dead and buried, he says, claiming he's not prepared to continue with gimmick politics. but conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told us this morning he thinks that is a huge mistake. >> one thing about the verandah legislation is, for the first time, illegal migrants coming over the channel went into detention rather than into hotels. what labour government will do by scrapping that legislation, the release all those people from detention and are now going to hotels or council flats. that's absolutely wrong. we warned it at the time, the labour party strategy on this , in terms of smashing the

this, in terms of smashing the gangsis this, in terms of smashing the gangs is completely flawed. it won't work. of course. you smash the gangs , but that's not the the gangs, but that's not the only solution. you need . only solution. you need. >> conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake there. well, conservative mps will choose a new chairman of the influential 1922 committee later today or tomorrow . gb news understands tomorrow. gb news understands the committee will coordinate the committee will coordinate the conservative leadership election following the resignation of rishi sunak following the tory defeat last week. sir graham brady retired as committee chairman following his decision to stand down as an mp. so far, sir geoffrey clifton—brown and bob blackman are expected to stand. senior tories want rishi sunak to stay in charge until around september or to october avoid an interim leader being required . in leader being required. in france, voters are now facing an uncertain future after parliamentary elections. there but there won't be a right wing government. marine le pen's national rally came third, despite expectations that it would top the poll. protesters

were seen clashing with riot police in paris after those results were announced last night, leading to a likely hung parliament. the left wing new popular front coalition is predicted to win with president macron's centrist group in second place. boeing has agreed to pay £190 million in fines to authorities in the us to avoid a criminal trial over two crashes of its 737 max jetliners . the of its 737 max jetliners. the plane makers pleaded guilty to a fraud charge following the deaths of 346 passengers and crew in 2018 and 2019. families of the victims have criticised the decision, though, saying that it allows boeing to avoid full responsibility . and lastly, full responsibility. and lastly, before we hand back to andrew and bev, some sport for you, emma raducanu says that she has no regrets after a difficult end to her wimbledon campaign yesterday. a last 16 defeat to qualifier lulu sun ended british hopesin qualifier lulu sun ended british hopes in the singles and if followed, raducanu's decision on

saturday to pull out of a mixed doubles match with andy murray, which ended the two time men's champions all england. club career. radacanu says she was attempting, though, to protect a sore wrist and back . those are sore wrist and back. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sam francis, back with you for another update 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 . gbnews.com forward slash alerts. >> britain's newsroom and gb news with andrew pearson bev turner. so labour are pledging to remember their. their ringing declaration they're going to smash the people smuggling gangs. well we've got some breaking news on the illegal migration front because we're going to go to our home security ednon going to go to our home security editor, mark white for the latest. and i'm not surprised. mark, what you're about to tell us. >> us. >> yes, indeed. we can reveal

that the first small boat migrants of the new labour government have now arrived in uk waters. they arrived in the engush uk waters. they arrived in the english channel at that halfway point, just in the last few minutes . they're point, just in the last few minutes. they're in point, just in the last few minutes . they're in the process minutes. they're in the process of being taken off a small boat, which was escorted across by a french patrol boat to that halfway point, and they're now being transferred on to the border force catamaran hurricane for the journey back here to dover harbour, where they will go through what is now a routine process of being put through the border force processing centre here at dover harbour, before then being taken to the main processing and holding centre at manston in kent. and then, of course , being sent off to course, being sent off to accommodation now . it will be accommodation now. it will be interesting to see in the coming days and weeks when more of these small boat migrants

arrive, as we expect what labour is going to do about that because they vowed to end the use of hotels as well. the hundreds of hotels that we saw under the last conservative government that were requisitioned by the home office for use by about 50,000 migrants, tying up hotels that are vital to communities right up and down the country for sometimes years. at a time. the vow to end that they have also , vow to end that they have also, incidentally today, set up their promised small, border security command, a rebranding and, we're told, a different way of working with more resources that will be diverted from the rwanda scheme, which they have also now said is dead and buried . so millions of dead and buried. so millions of extra pounds , according to the extra pounds, according to the new government, will be siphoned away from the rwanda scheme and put into this new border

security command that will bring together border force, immigration enforcement, the national crime agency and the intelligence services with a view, according to keir starmer, of smashing the people smuggling gangs. that's going to be a tough ask really, for this new unit. however well resourced it might be, because of course, the people smuggling industry is not just a multi—million but a multi—billion pound international trade and you can take one gang out, but others will very quickly pop up to try to tap into that lucrative revenue stream . so a very revenue stream. so a very difficult summer probably ahead for the labour government. they will learn fairly quickly how intractable this whole issue of trying to stop the boats coming across the english channel is. with that breaking news, now that the first small boat of the

starmer government has arrived in uk waters around about 50, we believe migrants on board that boat are being transferred to the border force vessel hurricane , hurricane, >> can i just ask you briefly, mark, how quickly can the new home secretary's, task force, whatever they want to call it, get to grips with the situation and quotes, smash the people smuggling gangs. something i gather the tories never tried to do when they were in power. haha >> well, the thing about this is they have of course been out there trying to dismantle the people smuggling gangs for years. anyway, that is what they have been tasked with by the previous conservative government. so they're doing that. of course, there will be the new injection of money. there will be the addition of the likes of the security services in there, and they say they will be looking at things such as migratory patterns, the routes used by the people smugglers and the like. but to

be honest, the conservative government or at least all of the, the various outlets and agencies under the conservative government were doing just that. so let's just see if this reorganisation of the structure and the way of operation will make any difference. i think it's unlikely to make much in the way of a difference in the summer, as we get into the very flat, calm conditions. we've had a week, incidentally, of very bad weather. so that allowed, of course, rishi sunak in his dying days in office, to suggest that they are lining up on the other side of the channel waiting for a starmer government to cross. but actually it was a week of bad weather that prevented them from crossing. what's happened overnight is that weather conditions have calmed and sure as night follows day when those weather conditions come, then of course the boats start coming again. >> okay, thank you. mark 50 illegal immigrants coming over,

presumably wearing red labourt shirts and keir starmer flip flops. >> thumbs up, thumbs up saying thank you, keir. >> honestly, i have to say i'm excited to see how they're going to handle it. they're going to smash the gangs , apparently. yeah. >> yvette cooper nobody ever thought of doing that before but didn't she? >> didn't she famously hold up a sign saying immigrants welcome here or some illegal immigrants welcome? i think she was famously known for doing that. so let's see. it's a very busy desk. i'm trying to be optimistic. i'm trying to be positive. >> we're going to cross now to the prime minister who's been speaking in belfast as part of his uk tour . his uk tour. >> good morning and thank you for being here. i've had the opportunity this morning to have discussions with the first minister, the deputy first minister, the deputy first minister and all of the political parties in the northern ireland executive . and northern ireland executive. and i've made clear that being here on day three of the new labour government is a clear statement of intent about the importance of intent about the importance of northern ireland to me and my government, about resetting

relationships and moving forward in a respectful, collaborative way. and we've had very constructive and positive discussions this morning. i have been very clear that my government has a mandate for change, for stability here in northern ireland, and a different way of doing politics, and i'm very pleased to have had the opportunity. so so early on in this government to be here, to have those discussions which have gone very well this morning . have gone very well this morning. the prime minister and a large part of the population have morad tahbaz, emma pattison and wokester. >> so how do you convince them that more money will be coming ? that more money will be coming? >> well, thank you very much. i mean, a number of issues were discussed this morning and as you would expect , finance came you would expect, finance came up, the health service came up,

casement park came up, and we addressed those constructively. i understand the case in relation to investment and financing in particular, and we will work to resolve those issues constructively. today was very much about the way in which we will address those issues, those challenges, and to be very clear about the importance of it to me, and the collaborative way in which we will take this forward. and so that's the main and most important thing about this morning's discussions. thank you . thank you. >> well, that's the prime minister in northern ireland. he is doing his national tour, as you'd expect. he's done scotland after northern ireland. he's going to wales. up next, though, all eyes will be on joe biden at the nato summit this week. what will he do next? he's under huge pressure now because he did that interview, didn't he, just a few days ago, which didn't actually, put to put to bed all the doubts about him . he's 81, could be 181 about him. he's 81, could be 181 as far as i'm concerned. he's

clearly not up to it any more. and they've just got to do the right thing in terms of clear off key messages coming gbnews.com/yoursay we will read them while we take a quick

break. panel. the back. >> benedict spencer matthew laza are back with us. it's 1120. we're a little bit shellshocked. we're a little bit shellshocked. we can't believe how much the news agenda has changed in the safe space of three days. are you enjoying it, matt? >> i'm enjoying it. but it's also going to be much harder work for me. so i can't just trot out my catchphrase. >> you can't! >> you can't! >> but what you are going to keep saying is 14 years of tory chaos. yes you know, you can't. >> you can't make it up. 14 years of failure in five minutes. >> i can't keep trotting out my catchphrases. if that's not something everybody in the labour party is saying this morning, i don't know what is right. somebody who can't keep trotting out anything, apparently, is biden. the campaign team gave journalists specific questions to ask during

this crunch interview . benedict this crunch interview. benedict on friday, how did he do? >> i mean , he did as well as >> i mean, he did as well as could be expected, given that he was given all the help in the world, plus an adrenaline shot to the heart before he went on. >> honestly, i mean, the fact that he is as as of yet still the candidate it looks like he's still going to be the candidate. i still don't see how they could get rid of him as the candidate. it's truly astounding. and it's it's truly astounding. and it's i think it shows a real breakdown of actually the media ecosystem in the united states that so many people in both the political and the media spheres were able to convince themselves that talking about joe biden's cognitive functions was a right wing talking point, that it wasn't real, that it didn't exist. and then on national television, for the whole world to see. there was that real moment of, oh my word, it's true, and it's worse than we thought. >> it's disgraceful what's happening, because the democrats have been engaging in a very high level cover up about the full extent of this man's mental decline, and it's tragic, interesting. when he gave in the interview, he talked about i talked to world leaders and he was struggling. he couldn't name one.then was struggling. he couldn't name one. then he said he'd spoken to

the prime minister of england. the interview should have said, what's his name? >> yeah . yes. and i was waiting >> yeah. yes. and i was waiting for him to say, which is actually the big question that you ask any are people with suspected alzheimer's who asked who the prime minister is? when my father was tested for alzheimer's, he was asked, who is the prime minister? >> and i think it was john major. i can't remember. and he said, of course i know who it is, of course. but he didn't. yeah, he couldn't answer it. so why didn't stephanopoulos why didn't the democrats sympathising journalists, former bill clinton , bill clinton? bill clinton, bill clinton? >> i wonder why question . >> i wonder why question. because the world would have known by your question, haven't you ? you? >> yeah. i mean, look, the person who has the fate of, in my view, of the of the whole world is the first lady is jill biden is the only one who can persuade him. he said he only god almighty could persuade him not not to stand. that's probably, i suspect that is joe biden in his marriage. >> exactly. that is god almighty. and let's all pray that she does it. she was on the record last week as saying, my husband's presidency is not being ended. >> on one interview. >> on one interview. >> yeah. and look, i think, you know, despite his stay, i actually think that overall the presidency has been a good presidency. >> but not now, but not now. >> but not now, but not now. >> and that's why you're seeing

we've seen this overnight. we've seen more democrat lawmakers, more congress, members of congress come out and say , a congress come out and say, a private call, but but briefed that they can go the, the, the head of steam is building. i don't think he will be the candidate. >> i think given that biden is a devout catholic and he says that only god could tell him not to stand, the pope has the opportunity to do something very funny and intervene and say, do you know what? maybe it's time to go. >> yeah, that would be that would be. there's no joking about that because the pope gets i actually heard a story about the pope directly intervening in a european country, taking a migrant boat. >> so if you can deal with one specific, a migrant vote and the leader of the free world, that's quite a step up. >> pope francis. yeah. >> pope francis. yeah. >> now, biden called starmer and there was a little bit was released. i'd love to hear the unexpurgated version. >> i don't think that's going to be happening any time soon because i wonder how reveal. >> sorry, who am i talking to? >> sorry, who am i talking to? >> yeah, sort of 45 minutes of just going. what? i can't hear you very well. >> this isn't a good line anyway. so sad, because he's got anyway. so sad, because he's got a great record of public service. but in one of blair. >> but in one of the interviews

over the weekend, he said he was the first black woman to serve with a black president. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> look, i think that woman has anybody. >> he also said he's going to beat donald trump in 2020, which is, you know, great. it's desperately sad. you know, both for him on a personal level that he is being put through this. and i do think he is actually being put through this as much as he says this is to do with him, it's not. and it's sad also because they've they had all this opportunity of the party to get another candidate on the ticket to prime somebody, prep them to go up against donald trump. they haven't taken it. it is too late now. >> but if it wasn't for benedict bennett, if it wasn't for obama organising this debate sooner, this debate would have happened in august, on the eve of the, convention. then there'd be no chance at all. well, i do think that that's why it was organised earlier. >> because they tried to flush out. but if they then fail to do so, then it's an even more elongated campaign where everybody is just acutely aware that he is not fit for the office. and again, given that actually throughout his tenure as president, the democratic leaning media talked a lot about

donald trump's cognitive function to then set up somebody who very clearly is deteriorating against donald trump, who doesn't actually really have to say very much at all to look like the bigger person. yeah. i mean, what a backfiring situation that is. how on earth, again, i'm just going to keep on saying, how on earth can people have been so negligent, so blind to the truth, and perhaps so blind to their own desire to grab, hold and keep hold of power? yeah >> they've allowed, in a strange way. >> it's. you say it's about keeping hold of power. they'd be better chance of keeping hold of power with several other candidates. so they've failed in their duty of care to the bidens. never mind. as a party. >> but again, this is about you know, we all know that the us or us politics, politics works in a slightly different way. if you're out, if your president is out, there is no guarantee that you'll be brought back in by another presidential candidate, mainly because they've been governors or they've been senators. they have their own teams. and as i say, especially if you've overseen the staff, if you've overseen this administration, who's going to hire you in another presidential administration? probably nobody. >> but if they do touch chuck him out, they don't. >> they have to go to the vice

president, a black woman. can the democratic party, a party about, women's rights and inclusivity, inclusive of another black woman? >> what? >> what? >> overlook the woman who's she's not interested, and she says, well, i know, but you know, but okay, take her out the equation. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> can they really overlook the vice president? wouldn't that cause a such a row? cause a such a i'ow? >> cause a such a row? >> i think they can't overlook. they can't overlook the vice president. for a white bloke, you might be able to compromise on a white woman. so the gretchen whose surname i forgot, and the governor of michigan, who is the current favourite of the flavour of the week you've never heard of? most people have never heard of? most people have never heard of here, but, i mean, she is a sea of democrat in a in a midwestern. she's a you know what i'm trying to say, an icon, a lighthouse. >> you're having your you're having your biden moment, my biden moment. >> you'll be you'll be getting in a minute, right. >> which ones we want to get in. i want to talk about tourists, maybe 6 million people. these two stories are connected. really? 6 million people are going to work from the beach. this summer, benedict. because they can take advantage of flexible working practices. but

then, similarly, across the in spain, you've got a lot of protesters saying , go home protesters saying, go home tourists. and sometimes, especially in the islands tenerife and lanzarote, they're actually, protesting against what they call digital nomads. >> yeah. i mean, i assume that this is going to be brits working from the beach abroad, because though the weather here is appalling at the moment and there's very poor 400 5g coverage and a lot of our coastal areas. so, you know, bonchamps. but yes, working abroad, it's this sort of dream, isn't it, for a lot of people that actually, you know, the exchange rates are a lot lower. you can get, you know, you can have quite a nice experience out there, but it isn't entirely popular because of the hollowing out a lot of a lot of these mediterranean countries communities. if you then have the influx of digital nomads, which governments, let's be clear, have been very keen to get in to bring in money that then obviously pushes up the pnces then obviously pushes up the prices of everything else. i know that, for instance, in lisbon it's been a really big thing where, you know, they try to sort of kick start their economy by bringing in as many of these digital nomads as they could from abroad. italian towns have done the same, you know, towns that have had, you know, completely hollowed out. their population has moved away

because there are no jobs . but because there are no jobs. but it does have that then accountability. but you also have these sort of the, the upper market areas where there was never a problem for people going to the amalfi coast, for instance, has limits on how many people can go because there are just far too many people for the infrastructure to cope. and it is. i completely understand why a lot of these locals in these areas, even though they need regeneration, they need money that isn't what they want their lives to be, which is basically just a window shop, a window dressing opportunity for people to come and live a good life whilst they are struggling to find work in the first place. nobody. >> and it's often gentrification because in places like athens, which is one of the current, it's the new lisbon, it's the current hotspot for digital nomads. it's pushing property pnces nomads. it's pushing property prices up because hipsters are moving into kind of traditionally working class areas, pushing property prices up, and of course, people are paying up, and of course, people are paying taxes in their home country because, you know, if you're working for a british company, you're still a british worker, but you spend 90% of your time in another country, you're still being taxed in britain, and therefore you're not contributing to the country. >> it's fascinating. and i think and the idea is that they're not particularly big spenders when they get there. so they might sit in an internet cafe and nurse one cappuccino all day

using the wi—fi and working away, renting somewhere airbnb and not really, and certainly not getting involved in the local community. they're not learning the language from afar, are they ? are they? >> people might manage a few spanish. >> got to be honest, it's not just brits. >> americans are a real they're the real drivers of this and they are the ones who. yeah, there is this romantic idea in america that, oh, you'll go back to europe and your pace of life, quality of your life, it will be better. and then you get there and you realise, oh, nothing quite works. but that's fine, because i've got more money than everybody else. and there is that added level of obnoxiousness and sort of ignorance of local culture. and you don't want to stereotype too much, but it is certainly a thing within the us tech community, and that's who digital nomads are. >> how do we stay healthy and live forever? matthew laza well, we basically put it down to a full english every day. >> it's making me hungry now. oh, i had a massive one on saturday as the election recovery a massive. i had a kind of half american, half, you know, full english and a full american combined. >> did you cook it or were you? >> did you cook it or were you? >> no, i actually went. i'm a man of the people. i went to my local spoons. good, good.

>> but what is half american ? >> but what is half american? >> but what is half american? >> half. >> half. >> so it's pancake, you know, it's pancake. it was pancakes, but with but with sausage and 999 but with but with sausage and egg as well as bacon. so it was a kind of combination. >> had you drank much alcohol the night before? no. >> i haven't had a drink since before the election. no, no, because i spent election night, of course, with our wonderful gb news viewers in essex. yeah >> what starts on friday night? >> what starts on friday night? >> because i was doing i was doing more, more talking on saturday, and i wanted to keep myself. aren't you good? >> and you still haven't had a dnnk? >> and you still haven't had a drink? no, but. but this, this since last week before the election. >> but this 104 year old gordon was talking about. he's in. he's in the sun. we haven't got a copy of this. i haven't seen this story, but he's he says he he you need to eat less but have a full english. >> yeah i think eating less. there is a lot of correlation between calorie restriction and living longer. and that's been proven in all sorts of animals and in human beings as well. but you also always you get genetic outliers. i remember at one point the world's oldest man was 103 year old ukrainian who drank vodka every day and smoked every day of his life. >> sometimes people are just bullet—proof my sort of guy. >> not not the smoking, but the

vodka. >> yes. yeah, right. >> yes. yeah, right. >> benedict benson matthew laza. >> benedict benson matthew laza. >> thank you so much. well, you've had a drink by the time you've had a drink by the time you next year. >> are you now on the wagon? >> are you now on the wagon? >> no, no, no. >> is this the new. is this now live under labour. >> it's like remember when peter mandelson, after the 97 election was only hot water with squeezed lemon. yeah. that's you know country first. it's got to be clearer minded. >> now he can't just trot out his catchphrases. exactly right. here is the very latest news with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 11:30 and we'll start with the latest developments coming to us from kyiv this morning, where we understand that a hospital there, a children's hospital, has been hit by a major airstrike as russia launched a barrage of missiles across ukraine. these are the live pictures for you. of that attack. where? the pictures. we don't have those pictures. apologies. but we do now know that at least 20 people have been killed across the country in that latest attack. the biggest bombardment of ukraine

for several months now across the country, multiple people killed, as i say, and around 50 others injured, according to the interior ministry. you can see there the pictures of the rescue efforts as they continue into the early hours of this morning at that children's hospital . at that children's hospital. here, just days after the new labour government has come into power, the first channel migrants have reached uk waters. gb news can reveal this morning. these are live pictures of the channel where a small boat carrying dozens of migrants has now reached the port, where those migrants are being brought ashore. the weather improved overnight, allowing people smugglers to start launching boats again. it's the first successful crossing since 85 migrants arrived two in dinghies on the 1st of july and follows reports suggesting that large numbers of migrants were waiting for a labour government before crossing, believing that labour's decision to scrap the

rwanda plan would act as a so—called pull factor. meanwhile, former prime minister sir tony blair is urging the new government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. however, the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy. instead yvette cooper insists setting up a new border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the channel. and it comes after sir keir starmer announced the rwanda scheme is dead and buried, claiming that he's not prepared to continue with the gimmick of politics. and as a new labour government enters its first full week in power, a number of announcements have been revealed today, including plans to liberalise planning laws, boost dentist appointments and recruit more teachers. the new prime minister, sir keir starmer, has spent the morning in belfast, where he's been meeting with the heads of the main parties at stormont and the uk's first female chancellor is promising to make it a national mission to kick start economic

growth . rachel reeves has used growth. rachel reeves has used her first speech in office this morning to reveal some of the planning changes that she says are on the way, pledging to restore mandatory housing targets and also ending a ban on new onshore wind in england. the chancellor has previously called the planning system the greatest single obstacle to economic success in the us. boeing has agreed to pay £190 million in fines to authorities there to avoid criminal trial over two crashes of its 737 max jetliners. the plane makers pleaded guilty to a fraud charge following the deaths of 346 passengers and crew . families of passengers and crew. families of the victims have criticised that decision, though, saying it allows boeing to avoid full responsibility and finally, in sport , emma raducanu says she sport, emma raducanu says she has no regrets after a difficult end to her wimbledon campaign last night. in her defeat to qualifier lulu sun, which ended british hopes in the singles, it followed her decision on saturday to pull out of a mixed

doubles match, with andy murray ending his all england club career. raducanu says she was attempting, though, to protect a sore back and wrist . those are sore back and wrist. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sam francis, back with you at midday 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. >> honestly, tom and emily are here with us. >> we had one job apologising. >> we had one job apologising. >> i've just been saying sorry. normally at this time during the adverts i bring in some biscuits. you do for a very, very hungry mr andrew pierce. and sadly, sadly, i've forgotten the biscuits today because the production team failed to get us our digestive biscuits. >> he's got jammie dodgers today. oh, he would have been treat. >> yeah, i'd say go and get them now. >> you have never need to know what's more like a drama queen

in your life. >> no divas here, no divas here. right? what have you got on the show, guys? >> today we've got quite a lot coming up, actually. we're going to be hearing from nigel farage. we're going to be hearing from robert jenrick, who looks like he's throwing his hat in the ring when it comes to the tory leadership. so we'll find out more. >> and he's he's going to get braverman votes because she's not going to get anywhere. >> suella braverman the former home secretary, he's already got, danny kruger. >> it's very, very interesting looking at the sort of three figures who are out of the blocks. first, yesterday you had jenrick , victoria atkins and jenrick, victoria atkins and suella braverman. yeah, i think of all of those three. and of course there are many more people we haven't yet heard from kemi. we haven't yet heard from james cleverly, ian duncan smith has been touted, but i think of all of the people who've so far declared jenrick sounded the most lucid, sounded the most, well put together. >> i think he's worth a good outside bet. yeah. >> there's something, there's something a bit, you know, the leader of the canadian tories currently 20, 25 points ahead in the polls and almost inverse

situation is here. he's called, pierre poilievre, there's something a bit about him that's about jenrick and of course jenrick resigned from his cabinet position because rishi sunak wouldn't take immigration seriously, in his words. >> so that will go down well with the party membership. >> i'm sure if victoria atkins really thinks the tory government's best achievement in the last 14 years was gay marriage, dear god, they always work it out, don't they? >> they always trot it out. >> they always trot it out. >> all that and more from midday. up >> all that and more from midday. up next, find out why a patrol team in bradford is making headunes team in bradford is making headlines with britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1141. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce >> now, a new patrol team in bradford is making headlines as it moves to control anti—social behaviour in the city centre to improve safety and security for residents. >> gb news yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley went to find out more.

>> what's happened . to the >> what's happened. to the surveilling the streets of bradford to tackle rough sleeping? >> substance misuse. street drinking and other anti—social behaviour . drinking and other anti—social behaviour. that's what a new privately funded patrol team aimed to do in the city centre. in an effort to boost business. it's a scheme run by the bradford bid, which represents almost 600 businesses. >> he's making sure that the reporting issues that they come across that will have a negative impact on the city centre. so you mentioned anti—social behaviour. absolutely. report that into the relevant people generally, the police, to be quite honest, street drinking to the council for the public space protection order and the police. so it just depends on what the issue are, what the problem is. they'd have no powers of arrest. you know, that kind of thing. but seeing somebody walking around with a radio on, a body cam potentially with a direct link through to cctv, it really reassures and it gives businesses that confidence that

there are people out there that are looking after the place on their behalf. >> the patrol team helps to bndge >> the patrol team helps to bridge the gap between police, the council and businesses. >> you've got someone sitting there potential begging for, money of people or maybe could be potential people. so we'll be looking out for things like this, engaging with them, seeing if they've had any help , any if they've had any help, any support, or if you could signpost them to the right people or if there's any anti—social behaviour , anything anti—social behaviour, anything going on, any shouting will engage with that loud music. we'll engage with people, you know, doing stuff that, you know, doing stuff that, you know, just attracts attention of the public visiting, visiting the public visiting, visiting the city. hi, tom. yeah, hi. >> nice to see you. >> nice to see you. >> the tales green pub has already seen the positive impact of the patrols. >> it just makes you feel a lot safer. and not only our customers and our staff safe, but kind of. the whole city centre of bradford is a lot safer when you've got people like these guys coming in and checking on us and making sure everything's running smoothly,

you can see fights, you can see, like drug use, quite, quite frequently, although it does get deau frequently, although it does get dealt with. it's sometimes something that isn't, isn't really welcoming, welcoming for bradford with shoppers feeling the financial pinch, this scheme also aims to increase footfall in stores. >> it's tough everywhere throughout the country. you know there's a cost of living crisis, people are hard pushed with utility bills, their mortgages, their rent payments . so we have their rent payments. so we have to make it easy for them to come here. not more difficult. >> bradford is the city of culture 2025, and it's hoped these patrols will encourage more people to visit in the run up to next year. anna riley, gb news >> well, thank you for that. fascinating actually. now still to come, we're going to bring you the latest on the fallout from the french election as president macron has rejected his prime minister's offer of resignation. well, it's all his fault. the early election. this is britain's newsroom on gb news.

>> you know well we. >> you know well we. >> i thought we had some upsets in our election last week. pretty much as the polls have been predicting. but the french president, emmanuel macron, has now rejected his prime minister's offer of resignation, asking him to stay in office for now. >> this comes after shock results. as we just said in the elections, the left wing alliance defied all the polls to beat marine le pen's right wing national rally. >> so they turned turn it completely on its head because you had the week before when national rally won. yeah, macron humiliated, but the left was very excited and but they all combined to keep marine le pen out the voting system. well let's speak to the journalist alex seal, who specialises in french politics. alex, morning to you. before we talk about the overall picture, i've sort of got this. this is just my instinct. she may be. marine le pen has dodged a bullet because

we are now going to get complete chaos. there's no overall majority. the prime minister wants to resign . macron doesn't wants to resign. macron doesn't wants to resign. macron doesn't want to let him go. the left wing coalition is full of people who really can't stand the sight of each other, the leading figure being their very own version of jeremy corbyn. it could be that this whole left wing coalition implodes in a matter of months, in which case marine le pen standing on the sidelines, maybe her and national rally are the beneficiary. >> well, you know, france is facing a political deadlock. it might take weeks or months to form a new government, gabriel el tel, the french prime minister, went to see emmanuel macron this morning at the elysee palace. and emmanuel macron asked him to stay on to ensure the stability of the election . and after the election election. and after the election and also, it's just 18 days to go until paris hosts the olympic games. so overall, no party has

a majority. so emmanuel macron is really, facing a lot of problems to build a coalition. he might have to build a coalition with the right wing and the left wing. so it will take ages to form a government and as alex, just to do this, on the eve of the olympic games, the eve of the olympic games, the great olympic games, the great international showcase for france, to and have political turmoil, and you could even have a prime minister resigning on the eve of the olympics, or even dunng the eve of the olympics, or even during them. i think emmanuel macron wants him to stay on maybe until after the olympic games until september, and maybe it's emmanuel macron who who decides who to name as a prime minister. so he'll be working hard with other, members, maybe of france and unbowed, la france insoumise and, and left wing politicians and right wing politicians and right wing politicians in order to find a capable prime minister who will

really change things in france. and people voted for the far right for the national rally because some people were angry. the cost of living crisis in france and people can't pay their bills. so really, it's a really terrible what's going to happen. really terrible what's going to happen . well, there's going to happen. well, there's going to be a deadlock right now, and i think it's going to happen throughout the olympic games. and throughout that period. and now emmanuel macron will have to, find a prime minister. he has to discuss with with other political parties . so it's going political parties. so it's going to be deadlock for french people , to be deadlock for french people, but they like to speak about politics and so it's going to really entertain them all throughout the summer. >> thank you. alex. alex suella a french journalist. and we haven't got to any of our emails on this show. can you stop messing with your phone, andrew? >> well, i was trying to google what the name of the french

prime minister because i don't remember his name. >> oh. the younger. no he didn't get it because we were going to get it because we were going to get the 28 year old who was the whiz kid of french politics. >> but of course, he now doesn't get in, because of this. extraordinary. well, we think our voting system is extraordinary. macron decides. i know it is ridiculous. >> and i say, i've got the olympics in less than two weeks. >> amazing. >> amazing. >> there's rioting on the streets of france and also, you know, the right wing do feel very hard done by because there was this extreme collusion effectively by the left, which i know, i know the europeans, they love a bit of, strategic voting, don't they? it's all very they just feel would feel scarred if a le pen got into . a le pen got into. >> but i think, i think this she's the beneficiary because there's going to be chaos and horse trading and division and riots. and what if this all reflects on the olympic games? macron won't be forgiven. and the whole the left wing coalition she's well out of it. >> well, let's see what you have been saying at home, robert has said it is a tactical coalition formed to stop le pen. the parties involved in the

coalition fundamentally disagree with each other. so this project may not last very long. le pen got the highest vote share, and a lot of you commenting on what rachel reeves was saying today about the planning issues here, titch says, i warned you all months ago about labour's grey belt. that's right, locals need to push back hard when they come to push back hard when they come to build a block of flats or a wind turbine in your back garden, she said. >> the ban on wind turbines was absurd. >> look, shove them in the ocean, shove them in the ocean. >> there's enough of it. >> there's enough of it. >> a mike has said planning laws are not easy to change. and he's right, you see. it's all very well. rachel reeves saying, oh, we're just going to change the planning laws. well, you know who's going to be lining up now? are all the lawyers in the background going? excellent. this is going to take us a while and make us a lot of money. but we do have to do something with planning. we want to see more houses built. we want to stop that. that block of houses isn't. >> yeah, but people don't tend to want them in a nice green belt land, which they're now going to call grey. >> yeah. well, some of it, some of it is great. i think the grey

line is sort of some of that stuff that we would call infill isn't it. you've got a town, you've got another town. you've got to be careful when you come into lots of railway stations. >> you see all this brownfield land. why don't they build on that? >> well they're going to and it's all going to be marvellous. it's all going to be the sunny uplands. >> and the new trains are going to run on time as well. >> and that is it for today. we have made it to the end of the show. we will be back tomorrow morning. >> the brave new dawn and it is quite exciting, i have to say. >> i think it is. we're trying to i'm trying to be positive. i promise you i will try that. is it from us for this morning? good afternoon. britain is next with emily and tom. we'll see you tomorrow. >> two big important interviews to set off the political agenda for the week. not only will we be speaking to nigel farage with his new bridgehead cohort of reform mps, but also touted tory leadership contender robert jenrick . jenrick. >> yes, indeed. and we may have a new government, but the same old problems. the boats are very much still arriving. we're going to be live in dover to see what's happening and of course emma raducanu was she right to drop out of the mixed doubles?

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon. britain it's 12:00 on monday, the 8th of july. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. the new chancellor delivers her first major speech. rachel reeves has vowed to boost britain's economic growth as well as housebuilding. but what will that mean for green belt land? >> and a significant moment in britain's migrant crisis? the first boat under labour has arrived. how will the new government deal with this growing issue? we'll be live in

dover and nigel farage is in clacton today celebrating his electoral success. >> the reform uk leader will join us live as his party membership sees a large boost in numbers . numbers. >> and as emma raducanu crashes out of wimbledon, the row over her shock withdrawal from the mixed doubles rumbles on. did she ruin andy murray's big day ? she ruin andy murray's big day? >> and of course, it's a huge news day. a new parliament, a news day. a new parliament, a new government, a new prime minister. and we're going to be heanng minister. and we're going to be hearing not just what's happening on the government side of things, but also how this new opposition is forming. >> yes, it's all going to be very interesting. you must have been delighted hearing rachel reeves talk so much about planning. >> oh, yeah. it's my it is my favourite subject, but, i don't know. i think there were a couple of really encouraging things immediately this

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