armada? farage is calling a star armada? next up, new chancellor rachel reeves has promised to rip up rules on planning within days and build thousands of new homes on green belt land to ease the housing crisis , with pylons and housing crisis, with pylons and windfarms also given the go ahead, will britain's green and pleasant land be forever changed? i'll also bring you a big interview with nigel farage and as you'd expect, the new member of parliament for clacton on sea has not pulled any punches. and stay tuned to hear from the tory member of parliament who wants to be the party's new leader, who say he's mr farage has no future in the conservative party and england laid their penalty. demons finally to rest against the swiss on saturday and now all eyes are on our semi—final clash against the netherlands on wednesday. big question is it time for gareth southgate to do the unthinkable and drop a shattered harry kane? that's all coming in your next hour.

welcome to the show. so we have a new prime minister, a new cabinet, a new change. do you feel the country has changed or is everything still the same? are we still facing the same old problems on immigration, on housing, on overcrowding in our prisons and plus england ? wow. prisons and plus england? wow. they finally did it. absolutely legendary penalty performance. but now looking ahead, who do you think the thing that we all most feared the most now is the thing we're best at. but on the field we need to improve. is it time to drop harry kane? he looks completely worn out. now get in touch with all your views usual ways. plus keir starmer is cosying up to brussels already on the first monday of his government. didn't we tell you so ? gbnews.com/yoursay you so? gbnews.com/yoursay you always get involved. but first it's your headlines with sam francis .

francis. >> very good afternoon to you. it's just after 3:00. the top story from the newsroom. this afternoon. and downing street has admitted the summer will be challenging for the new labour government as the first boat of migrants since the general election has crossed the english channel. today, the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by a border force vessel and then taken to a migrant processing centre in dover harbour. it brings the total number of migrants crossing the channel so far this year to now 13,500 people. that's up 12% on the same time last year. 13,500 people. that's up 12% on the same time last year . well, the same time last year. well, those latest small boat arrivals come as the former prime minister, 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 labour's policy. instead, yvette cooper insists that setting up a new border security command will bnng new border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the english channel. and it comes after sir keir starmer

announced the rwanda scheme is, he says, dead and buried , he says, dead and buried, claiming he's not prepared to continue with gimmick politics. but conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told us earlier he thinks that is a huge mistake. >> setting up a major new approach to law enforcement against the criminal gangs who are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. this will be a major new border security command that will bring together the work of the national crime agency, the work of the border force, the work of the border force, the work that happens around the channel work that happens around the channel, but also the way that these networks stretch right across europe to go after the gangs that are profiting from this dangerous trade in people and undermining our borders. >> well, yvette cooper's comments come after sir keir starmer announced that the rwanda scheme is dead and buried, as i just mentioned, and claimed that he's not prepared to continue with gimmick politics. and we've just been heanng politics. and we've just been hearing from sir kevin hollinrake as well. on the conservatives comments regarding yvette cooper's statement . well,

yvette cooper's statement. well, the prime minister has been meeting leaders in northern ireland vowing to end instability and sir keir starmer has also insisted his government can get a better deal with the eu than boris johnson managed to achieve. and he then went on to wales, where he met with the first minister of wales on the last leg of his uk tour to reset the relationship between westminster and devolved nations. apologies. there for the wrong camera shot. let's take a listen. >> 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 gangsis this in terms of smashing the gangs is completely flawed. it won't work. of course. you smashed the gangs, but that's not the only solution. you need . not the only solution. you need. >> well, the prime minister is continuing his uk tour. the

chancellor's announced there's no time to waste in boosting economic growth, and that she's making it her national mission. in her first major speech, rachel reeves, the chancellor has promised major changes to speed up infrastructure projects and to unlock private investment. and she's also argued that 14 years of conservative rule has, she claims, 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 in ukraine. >> russia has denied deliberately targeting a children's hospital in the caphal children's hospital in the capital, instead claiming the

damage was caused by kyivs own air defence missiles. if you're watching on television, you can see here live pictures of the scene where that hospital has been attacked and left in ruins. these are the latest pictures where rescue workers at that hospital are now searching the rubble for survivors. president vladimir zelenskyy saying in the last few hours that he does believe more survivors are still to be found and held a one minute silence whilst on a trip to poland. that attack comes as reports of at least 20 people killed and over 120 injured, after missiles reportedly hit multiple cities across ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy saying today as well that the world should see what russia is and what it is doing. moscow, though , says it did target though, says it did target objects of ukrainian military and infrastructure and aviation bases, but has denied targeting any civilian infrastructure in the us. joe biden is vowing to

stay in the race for the white house, claiming losing is not an opfion house, claiming losing is not an option against donald trump in a message to democrats in congress, the president said voters alone pick presidential nominees, not pundits , donors, nominees, not pundits, donors, nor the press. he's also told american media he's confident the average voter still wants him in power. it comes amid calls from some democrats for biden to step aside and let a younger candidate take on the role. that's after his shaky debate performance. however, he claims he simply had a bad night and staying in the us . hurricane and staying in the us. hurricane beryl has made landfall in texas after approaching after the approaching storm, rather has forced the closure of major oil ports and flight cancellations. beryl, the earliest category five hurricane on record was packing winds of up to 80 miles an hour, but the storm is now expected to weaken. last week, beryl swept through jamaica , beryl swept through jamaica, grenada, saint vincent and the grenadines, toppling buildings and power lines and sadly killing at least 11 people. those are the latest gb news

headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm sam francis back for another update. >> at 3:30 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. >> thank you sam. now we start with the labour government's plans to tackle the migrant crisis. and if they needed reminding of the scale of the task facing them , well, they task facing them, well, they certainly got that today. gb news viewers can see the first illegal channel migrants to arrive in the uk since labour came into power last week. and let's cross now to dover and speak to our home and security edhon speak to our home and security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so a new government, a new dawn, the same old problems yvette cooper today , old problems yvette cooper today, vowing the border security command will be a major step change in uk enforcement efforts .

change in uk enforcement efforts. but mark, it appears that people smugglers didn't get the memo. they're still rolling in. >> well, they are , and that's >> well, they are, and that's all to do, really, with the break in the weather. after a week of bad weather, conditions improved overnight and that allowed the people smugglers to start pushing off the boats from the shores of france again. and just hours after that first boat load of 64 migrants crossed illegally and were picked up by border force and taken here to doven border force and taken here to dover, we can now confirm that a second small boat is attempting to make that crossing. that small boat is making slow progress . according to our progress. according to our sources, it might not make it to uk waters. often they don't, but it's making its way slowly. but surely towards that half way point. if it does get there, it'll probably be into the evening, but it just shows you, as i say, the second that the

weather conditions improve and it's starting to bubble up a little bit in the channel at the moment. but when there are those breaks in the weather, that's when the people smugglers are pushing the boats out, irrespective of whatever government is in power at one time and says , just like the time and says, just like the last government said, that they are going after the people smugglers because that's exactly what rishi sunak's government and of course, liz truss and bofis and of course, liz truss and boris johnson before them tried to do with smashing the people, smuggling gangs, giving ever more money to the french to try to stop them launching from the beaches there. in the first place. but you're right, beaches there. in the first place. but you're right , yvette place. but you're right, yvette cooper today has said martin, that this new border security command will work in a different way . there will be more way. there will be more resources, money that should have gone to the rwanda scheme now being funnelled into the border security command. that will mean more staff and more in

the way of expert resources , the way of expert resources, such as the intelligence services, to go after the gangs further up the chain , setting up further up the chain, setting up a major new approach to law enforcement against the criminal gangs who are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. >> this will be a major new border security command that will bring together the work of the national crime agency, the work of the border force, the work of the border force, the work that happens along the channel work that happens along the channel, but also the way that these networks stretch right across europe to go after the gangs that are profiting from this dangerous trade in people and undermining our borders. >> so yvette cooper there is confident that the new approach that they are adopting , confident that the new approach that they are adopting, bringing together where many of the agencies that have already been brought together are already across the other side of the channel and working with their colleagues in europe and elsewhere to smash the gangs. she's convinced that the new

command are set up by the new labour government will actually be more effective than what's gone before . gone before. >> so mark, the big question is, is there anything remotely new under the bonnet of this, or is it stuff we've all heard before? is it merely reheated offerings ? is it merely reheated offerings? >> well, i think critics of this scheme, as put forward by the new labour government, would suggest that it is reheated. i think it is true to say that there will be millions of pounds of extra funding that's going into this new command, money that would have gone to the rwanda deterrent, which is no longer going there. as keir starmer confirmed over the weekend that it is now dead and buned. weekend that it is now dead and buried . but weekend that it is now dead and buried. but in doing that, of course, there is an interesting dilemma for this new government going forward in what to do with those asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers, asylum seekers that they want to get rid of

from the uk, and indeed other illegal immigrants. what do you do when they are like so many of those coming across in the small boats from countries like iran and syria and iraq, countries that you would never be able to send those asylum seekers back to because it would be disputed and successfully disputed in the courts. so what do you do with these people if you don't have a country like rwanda, a safe third country, to send these people to? >> that's a big question. thank you very much for joining us. mark white there from dover. the boats keep continuing to roll in. and as you just saw there, a second small migrant boat is attempting to cross the channel as we speak. let's talk now to kevin saunders , who's the former kevin saunders, who's the former chief immigration officer of uk border force. kevin, welcome to the show. so a new government, same old problems. >> yes. good afternoon martin. >> yes. good afternoon martin. >> it is. it's exactly the same isn't it, the new border force

command is going to get loads of money, but i'm not quite sure what they're going to do with it all, i understand that that the home secretary is going to put a thousand officers into it. well, where is she going to get them from, and, what are they actually going to do? because you've got to look at the, the problem that we've got in northern france . and the problem northern france. and the problem is not the so much the gangs , it is not the so much the gangs, it is not the so much the gangs, it is the migrants that want to come to the uk. all the gangs are doing is facilitating that. you have to make the uk less attractive, which is what the conservatives were trying to do with rwanda. now rwanda's gone . with rwanda. now rwanda's gone. there is nothing to make the uk look , unattractive. in fact, look, unattractive. in fact, it's the converse . it looks very it's the converse. it looks very attractive to come now . so

attractive to come now. so that's the big problem . that's the big problem. >> kevin, a lot of people before, this election were saying that scrapping rwanda. >> you've argued for many, many months that off shore containment, deterrent is the only thing which gets rid of that pull factor. day one. that's been ditched. instead, people have been saying this effectively appears to roll out the red carpet with no deterrent. and how on earth can you smash the gangs when it's a multi, multi million pound industry? if you get rid of one gang and another one will just crop up into its place once it come in. >> yes it will. which is why that instead of going after the gangsin that instead of going after the gangs in isolation, which is what it would appear that, the new home secretary is saying we have to make the uk unattractive. we have to say to the migrants, look, you're not going to get, the red carpet treatment when you get here. did

you know martin, that the kurds in northern france have actually got a name now for keir starmer ? got a name now for keir starmer? they think he's because they think he's going to be so wonderful for, illegal migration. >> what what's the name that i think they're calling him the happy man. you know the. well well, he might they might think he's the happy man, but a lot of, viewers watching gb news won't be especially happy if it seems all this tough talk won't precipitate in cutting down the numbers. kevin, if you understand how these gangs work, you understand how the networks operate. with that deterrent factor gone of rwanda now, we all know it was imperfect. i mean, only two people went and they volunteered. but with that gone with the likelihood of being deported. so vanishingly small, it's like 2% are ever deported. they can they can say they come from a country where their life would be in danger.

the human rights industry steps in this plan on day one. kevin saunders, is it going to is it going to cut down numbers or is it going to actually make britain more attractive? >> i think it makes the uk look a lot, a lot more attractive. and i think we're going to have some big, big problems because we have to house all the people that are here now. i believe over the weekend that the deputy prime minister said that they were going to be shared out across the uk to every single local authority. so everybody is going to get a bit of pain , but going to get a bit of pain, but you've got an extra 52,000 people who are now going to be claiming asylum because rwanda has been scrapped. so the 52,000 that were, classed as illegal migrants and unable to claim because they arrived in an unregulated manner can now claim

good news, isn't it? >> yeah. and as you say, kevin saunders, angela rayner has said , saunders, angela rayner has said, you're right that every constituency will be expected to take its fair share. that's the kind of deal that the european union has. they share their immigrants out across member states. and added to that, 1.5 million social houses will be built. but guess what? asylum seekers will be legible for that. i put it to you again, kevin soros with offers like that on the table, do you expect to see numbers going down in terms of small boats? any time soon? >>i soon? >> i don't think the numbers will go down. no. the numbers the numbers are bound to go up. the question is, how high will they go, and that that's that's they go, and that that's that's the next question. however however, if the home secretary wants to do a deal with the french, if she wants to get over to paris, have a chat to the french minister of the interior,

persuade him to put the gendarmerie maritime onto the channel to stop the boats , we channel to stop the boats, we could get a little bit of a result. i mean, there's one that mark white was talking about a few minutes ago was actually escorted to the halfway point by a french vessel. now that cannot be right. >> well, it happens every single day when sailing conditions allow. kevin sawers and as for the gendarme, i think they might need them on the streets of paris. bedlam in france at the moment. i don't suppose they'll particularly care about asylum seekers coming over the channel in ever greater numbers. kevin saunders, former chief immigration officer of uk border force, always an absolute pleasure having you on the show, my friend. now i'll have lots more on labour's plans to tackle the migrant crisis throughout the migrant crisis throughout the show, and there's plenty of coverage on our website, gbnews.com, and you've helped to make it the fastest growing national news website in the country. so thank you very much . country. so thank you very much. now brace yourself now because

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semi—final showdown with the netherlands. now, some very , netherlands. now, some very, very strong words from the new chancellor of the exchequer , chancellor of the exchequer, rachel reeves. she's branded the conservatives record in government as 14 years of chaos and economic irresponsibility, and economic irresponsibility, and insisted economic growth will be labour's national mission . mission. >> 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 . services. >> well, we can now speak with the head of policy at britain remade, sam demetriou. welcome

to the show , sam. so it's to the show, sam. so it's a traditional part of a new government coming to power. the first thing they do is blame the last lot for the dreadful state that we're in. and here we go again. but this time, sam, we really, really are in a pickle. old mother hubbard has gone to the cupboard . not only is the the cupboard. not only is the cupboard bare with £2.7 trillion in that, how can labour grow their way out of this mess? >> the number one thing labour can do and i'm very glad that they've decided to make this a priority , is to fix our planning priority, is to fix our planning system. so it is easier to build the homes new sources of clean energy, transport links, data centres , film studios, centres, film studios, reservoirs that our country desperately needs and fixing that, if it can be done, will make a big dent in that £140 billion gap. >> she talked about. >> she talked about. >> but where will the money come from for that? i mean, we don't have money to build houses. is it going to be relying on

private to money assist all the way along? because at the moment we just don't have any money left at all? >> well, the great thing about planning reform is it's essentially free for the taxpayer. the problem is at the moment is we've made it too difficult for private businesses to invest in building homes, invest in building new factories, new sources of clean energy, so it's not a problem for the taxpayer if we make it easier to build these things, it's it really is. it's one of the rare free policies. now, the reason why it hasn't been done in the past is because it's typically something that's quite contentious. >> there are a lot of people who object to development, and i'm not saying that those people should be ignored or their concerns shouldn't be addressed. >> but the problem is, for too long, we've listened to their concerns, but we haven't listened to the concerns of the people who want cheaper bills, who want to see their rent go down, who want to get on the housing ladder. one day down, who want to get on the housing ladder . one day they've housing ladder. one day they've been forgotten about. so rebalancing the debate so that

more projects can go ahead will help ordinary people . help ordinary people. >> well, you look at the basics of supply and demand, sam. we can't build enough houses for the amount of people coming into britain every year. immigration is completely out of control. we need to build a city. the size of a newcastle and a nottingham every year, simply to cope with those who arrive, let alone to make them at all affordable. isn't that the issue, deal with the numbers coming in, then we wouldn't need to build as much and rents might come down. this is the basic case of there's too much demand, so population growth is definitely a factor in housing costs, but it's not the only factor. >> if you look at our failure to build, we were failing to build even when immigration was negative. >> and the problem is that it's not one of the things is as people get richer over time, as they have more money, they tend to want to buy bigger homes, they tend to want more space, and they tend to want to move to the places where the best job

opportunities are. and that's adding as much pressure . so it's adding as much pressure. so it's adding as much pressure. so it's a factor, yes, but we need to build homes . a factor, yes, but we need to build homes. even if net migration was zero, we would still need to build millions of homes. >> sam, do you think we're being softened up for inevitable tax rises? we're going to hear a lot about how the government's been left in a terrible position by the previous lot. there's no money left at all. is all this just feathering the nest for? i'm afraid it's either austerity, which they can't do. they'd be absolutely hammered if they went down the george osborne route printing more money, which we know we can't do. there's no such thing as a free lunch. and the only other way is to raise taxes . way is to raise taxes. >> so i think we definitely didn't get the debate we deserved during the election . no deserved during the election. no one was really frank about the state of the public finances. we knew in advance that we didn't have money to go, we needed a lot more money to invest in our pubuc lot more money to invest in our public services, and we needed to bring down the tax burden. and that wasn't really discussed properly in the debate , in the properly in the debate, in the election debate. but it does also drive home the importance

of focusing on these essentially free, pro—growth reforms. if you don't fix planning, if you don't, you know , make it don't, you know, make it possible for us to build infrastructure at the cost that the french or the spanish or the germans do. rather than the sky high costs that we do. so that if you want to build a road, for instance, between, kent and essex, it doesn't require a 359,000 page planning application, which is what it does at the moment. we need to change that, and if we can change that, and if we can change that, and if we can change that, then it means that taxes won't have to go up by as much. it means that there'll be more money for public services, and that's got to be the priority. >> okay, great food for thought. thanks for joining >> okay, great food for thought. thanks forjoining us. sam demetriou, head of policy at britain room. thank you very much. there's lots more still to come between now and 4:00. and we'll bring you an extended interview with mr nigel farage as he starts his first full week as he starts his first full week as a member of parliament. but first, it's your headlines with sam francis.

>> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon to you. it's just coming up to 3:32. and the top story this afternoon, downing street has admitted that this summer will be challenging for the new labour government as the first boat of migrants since the first boat of migrants since the general election has crossed the general election has crossed the channel. this morning, the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by a border force vessel and taken to a migrant processing centre in the harbour of dover. it brings the total number of migrants crossing so far this year to 13, and a half thousand people. that's up 12% on the same time last year , and on the same time last year, and the latest small boat arrivals come as 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 he says, dead and buried, claiming he's not to prepared continue with gimmick

politics. and the chancellor is announcing that new labour government is ripping up planning rules to build more homes, claiming she's prepared for short term political pain to get britain building again. in her first major speech, rachel reeves said she ordered officials to produce an assessment of the financial mess left by the conservatives and she's also argued that 14 years of tory rule has cost £140 billion in lost growth in ukraine. the president there is vowing to retaliate after a russian missile strike has killed at least now 29 people, and left a children's hospital in the capital in ruins. these are live pictures of the scene where that hospital has been damaged, left in ruins. and you can see there various people from the emergency services attending to the scene, hoping to recover as many survivors as possible . the president, possible. the president, volodymyr zelenskyy, saying he

does believe that there are people still to be found. it has been the largest barrage of missiles across ukraine overnight for several months. world leaders, meanwhile, are preparing to head to a nato summit tomorrow where volodymyr zelenskyy is expected to call on kiev's allies to give a firm response to today's attack . and response to today's attack. and in france, voters are 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 it would top the poll. protesters had clashed last night 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 coming in second place. and finally, 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

planemaker has pleaded pleaded guilty to a fraud charge following the deaths of 346 passengers and crew in 2018 and 2019. but families of the victims have criticised the decision, saying it allows boeing to avoid full responsibility . those are the responsibility. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis polly middlehurst will have your next update at 4:00. until then, have a good afternoon . a good afternoon. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> and let's take a quick look at the markets for you this afternoon. the pound will buy you $1.2843 and ,1.1846. the price of gold this hour,

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welcome back. it's 339. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. later in the show, we'll cross live to paris, where the french are revolting once again. after a hard left alliance won yesterday's election. now as promised to our big interview with nigel farage and the reform uk leader has been speaking to charlie peters, who joins me now

in the studio in westminster proper. sit down with nigel farage, the magnitude of the task facing him is enormous. what did he tell you? >> well, the big thing we're focusing on, first and foremost is the small boats. the new home secretary, yvette cooper, has launched this border security command, and i asked nigel farage what he thought of it. and if he thought it would be successful. >> look, you know, border security command is just a name. have a think about what's been done over the last four years. oh. the royal navy are going to be in the channel. the raf will be in the channel. the raf will be patrolling the channel we've heard this again and again and again. i mean, do you not think that all of our intelligence services hadn't been working very hard on this for the last four years? of course they have. none of this works unless you deport people who come illegally. interestingly the last labour governments did deport a lot of people tens of thousands a year in some years. since then, the european court of human rights has become more activist, more engaged, more

involved in a broader area of our lives. i don't think all the while we're involved with that. all the while, we observe the principles of a 1951 convention that applies to the united nafions that applies to the united nations that is now hopelessly out of date and was designed for a post—war world. all the while, those international agreements sit above british law. i don't think will solve any of this. and the some evidence that the trafficking gangs have been telling people over the last month, just wait until labour win , and then you're guaranteed win, and then you're guaranteed that, you know, to stay . you're that, you know, to stay. you're guaranteed you won't go to rwanda . so if we get some calm rwanda. so if we get some calm weather over the next few weeks, the numbers coming will be enormous. >> and you've obviously been very critical of the tory effort on maintaining the borders. i expect we'll hear more of the same dealing with labour's approach. you've described your own party's arrival into parliament as a sort of a bridgehead, just the five mps with 14% of the vote. is that a

disappointing feeling? >> breakthroughs are never disappointing. i mean, breakthroughs are always good. the first part of the post system is absolutely brutal. you know, we could have got over 4 million votes and no seats under this system. if we had pr, we'd be nearly a hundred seats. i think the appetite for electoral change is going to come. i mean, just think about this for every one reform mp, there are 800,000 votes behind them for every labour mp, fewer than 30,000. so you have first past the post can stop parties with big vote shares getting a small number of seats, but equally it can give the labour party with a third of the labour party with a third of the vote. two thirds of the seats. so i think the argument for electoral reform is going to become very strong. >> but the biggest proponents of that argument is the liberal democrats, with 72 mps of around 12% of the vote. have they been in touch with you since the general election last week? to say that they'd like to campaign with you to push forward

electoral reform? >> no, they haven't, but i'm perfectly happy to work with them on it. it's been something they've campaigned for decades . they've campaigned for decades. sadly, when nick clegg had the chance over a decade ago, we had a referendum on a system that wasn't proportional, was preferential and couldn't be explained in a sentence. quite how nick clegg sold the pass on this. i will never, ever know . this. i will never, ever know. there is a clear majority of the british public now think the system doesn't work . these system doesn't work. these results prove the system doesn't work. and actually the low turnout shows you that just so many people can't see the point of taking part in these elections . elections. >> now, during the campaign, you said that the tory brand was dead, but in the eyes of many commentators, they've actually exceeded expectations by avoiding that sort of existential wipe—out are some of their mps flirting with joining reform now? suella braverman making some comments over the weekend? would you let her into reform ? >> reform? >> look, i mean, here's the point. they're already in civil war. i mean, you know, the election result, the ink is

barely dry on the paper and they're at war. you know, you have people like suella braverman, people like the father of the house, sir edward lee, who say, oh, we must welcome nigel into the conservative party. and then you have the other wing , which is have the other wing, which is david cameron. william hague , david cameron. william hague, and a big majority of the of the, of the 121 mps who would want nothing to do with me, with reform. yeah. i'm being used at the minute as part of the argument in the middle. but the truth is, it's a broad church, the conservative party with no shared religion of any kind at all. they will go into a i suspect, lengthy period of internecine warfare. they are not an effective political force. can five mps in the house of commons make a difference? well in the commons itself we can make arguments, but it's in the country. it's in the country where i'm going to be campaigning, you know, right up to the local elections next year

and on to, you know, welsh parliament elections, etc. in the years to come. and i think we have a major opportunity to build a mass movement, grassroots organisation. and that's where the opposition will come . come. >> i during your campaign, you faced several physical attacks, some in this town. in fact , now some in this town. in fact, now on election night, we saw some labour mps facing intimidation from independent candidates. what do you make of that and what have you thought about the discourse that's followed with some people saying this is about toxic masculinity? does that sound about right to you? >> so a year ago on gb news, i started saying over and over that we're headed for sectarian voting in british politics. and as with everything i do, everyone says what a load of nonsense i'd guests on the farage show saying you're talking complete rubbish. well, we saw a specimen of this in the local elections earlier this year. local elections earlier this year . and yeah, we have five mps year. and yeah, we have five mps

elected to the house of commons on a blatant anti—israel ticket and all that that implies. and jess phillips just about scraped back into her west midlands seat . back into her west midlands seat. she was barracked pretty horribly at the count. and she goes on lbc and says, oh no, no, no, it's just because they were men. i mean, even when it's staring you in the face, they can't recognise the truth of what they've created . don't what they've created. don't forget labour opened the door, the conservatives accelerated it. i mean, a third of a million people came last year from the indian subcontinent. now, look, the vast majority are going to be great people. the vast majority will integrate the vast majority will integrate the vast majority will integrate the vast majority will prop up local cricket clubs. the vast majority, a lot of them will become doctors and do terribly well. but there will be a significant number of that third of a million that not only don't integrate with our way of life and our culture, but actually seek to overturn it. and that's what's going on. >> fascinating stuff. charlie

peters strikes me. they're now the dust has settled on the campaign. nigel farage is really seeing the magnitude of the task ahead of him. >> absolutely. and it's a national task because he needs to build a political party. and we heard back when he launched his campaign, when he got stuck into the election, just past that, he felt a sense of regret before doing so, that he was letting people down. and that was a kind of a spur of the moment decision. and he hadn't realised until he got back into the game, as it were , how much the game, as it were, how much work needed to be done. and we've heard complaints from him over the weekend that the party had more than a few bad apples among its candidates . among its candidates. insufficient vetting had been done, but that's because there's no structure in reform uk. there aren't local associations. the membership needs work and all of that's being done while he's trying to build this national movement. so a significant effort to be made there to build that infrastructure, if reform is to be successful. >> do you want to be an excellent interview? as ever, thank you very much for joining

me here in westminster. now england's footballers are just two games away from winning their first major trophy for 58 years, and they're doing it because of gareth southgate. or is it in spite of him? i think you know what i think on that matter. love the fella i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news

welcome back times 351 i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. 4:00 i'll get reaction to sir keir starmer's comment that labour has already started to try to build closer ties with the european union. please don't tell me they're going to try and take us back to brussels. now, if you're anything like me, you spent much of saturday biting your fingernails to the bone. but after two hours of torture, england finally did it. they booked their place in the semi—finals of euro 2024 after they beat switzerland on penalties. and as my senior

producer , who's an everton fan, producer, who's an everton fan, hasn't stopped reminding me endlessly . goalkeeper jordan endlessly. goalkeeper jordan pickford was england's hero. they now play the netherlands in dortmund on wednesday, and we can now cross there and speak to our man jack carson, who is on the ground. jack the mouth is watering. what a tantalising clash we have with the netherlands coming up . netherlands coming up. >> oh yeah, definitely martin. i think it's going to be made even more tantalising by just how many fans are actually going to be in this city and arriving within the next 24 hours, 75,000. it's reported dutch fans are going to be in this city because , of course, the border because, of course, the border with the netherlands is only about an hour away. here from dortmund, so 75,000 fans are meant to be making the journey. only 8000 are meant to be out. to be able to get into the stadium have been allocated, allocated tickets by uefa. 30,000 england fans are meant to be here as well, so it's going to be the whole city is going to be a sea of white england, white england fan shirts and oranje dutch fans shirts. but just

really how is how is gareth southgate has set the team up? of course he went back to a back three, which we've not really seen since the last european championships back, of course, when they were played in 2021. one of those key players in that tournament was luke shaw. he after 139 days out, is back fit again. he made his appearance of course laid on in the quarter final. he's been speaking at a press conference today, the last four months have been really tough , tough, >> i think obviously at the start, i was expected to come back a lot sooner. but, you know , back a lot sooner. but, you know, i went through quite a few setbacks, to be honest . but, i'm setbacks, to be honest. but, i'm here now, yeah . and it was here now, yeah. and it was really nice to get on the other night, i've been itching to, to get some minutes. it's been a long while, but yeah, no, really pleased that i was able to get get on the pitch and get some minutes. and of course now luke shaw speaking there about the journey that it's taken for him to get back a call with gareth southgate risk taking him to the tournament in the first place, knowing that he wasn't fully fit

going into the group games. >> you know, he's been very honest there about how there have been those setbacks, but certainly england looked more balanced when he came on. of course, within that back five we were able to get further up the pitch. but whether gareth southgate sticks to that system is the big question. on wednesday , because of course we wednesday, because of course we don't want to be too open at the back with the likes of cody gakpo for the netherlands, who of course is the joint stock cup top scorer in the tournament, so yeah, going to be a tough one. wednesday night. martin. >> yeah. jack carson i can taste your excitement. looking forward to it mate. you have a great time out there and stay safe now. labour have only been in power for a few days and already sir keir storm has said they're trying to build closer ties with the european union. it didn't take them long, did it? and call me mystic meg. but we've been saying this on gb news for some time. the conservatives left the cat flap unscrew to brussels ipso keir starmer about to unscrew it. we'll talk about that next. i'm martin daubney on gb news. britain's news channel. now it's your weather with alex

bercow. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello, i'm here with your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. it is going to turn pretty wet for many of us as we go through the rest of today, overnight and into tomorrow, because there is a system that is pushing its way northwards and this is going to bring a lot of cloud and some heavy, persistent rain, especially across parts of the southwest as we go through this evening and overnight with a warning out because we are likely to see some disruption, some flooding is possible , as well as some is possible, as well as some difficult driving conditions to that rain will spread across much of england and wales as we go through the night. so a wet picture. for many of us it does mean temperatures are generally going to hold up, so a mild start to the day for many though. further north across parts of scotland in particular here there will be clear skies overnight. so it could be a bit

fresh first thing. however, once the sun comes up we will see our temperatures lifting a little bit. although they are likely to stay a bit below average for the time of year generally, but are mostly fine. picture through the morning across much of scotland. rain starting to push its way in across parts of northern ireland and spreading across much of the northern half of england and wales. two further south, the heavy , persistent rain will have heavy, persistent rain will have cleared through by around 8 or 9:00 in the morning, but it is going to stay pretty cloudy for many and there will be further outbreaks of rain, these continuing as we go through the day and there could still be some heavy ones. the more persistent rain though will be spilling its way across parts of northern england into northern ireland and into southern scotland, across the far north—west of scotland , clinging north—west of scotland, clinging on to some drier weather for a time like i said, though, temperatures are a little disappointing for the time of yeah disappointing for the time of year. we may just about scrape into the low 20s where we get any drier or possibly brighter breaks that rain in the north continues to edge a bit further northwards, the far northwest of

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>> away . >> away. >> away. >> away. >> a very, very good afternoon to you. and a happy monday. it's 4 pm, and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, it's only four days into a labour government, but already prime minister sir keir starmer is wooing the eu with talk of closer trade deals on the cards. is this starmer's first step in reversing a brexit? remember he spent three years in opposition

campaigning to cancel. next up, new home secretary yvette cooper today unveils her border security command with the goal of cutting illegal immigration. we'll be live from dover, where as you can see, the boats are still continuing to roll ashore with the rwanda bill scrapped. what will we see? what nigel farage is calling a star armada arrive at dover and stand by for arrive at dover and stand by for a big, exclusive interview with former immigration minister robert jenrick, the man, who many say will be the next leader of the conservative party. and you don't want to miss what he says about nigel farage. he puts the boot in and england laid their penalty. demons finally to rest against the swiss on saturday. and now all eyes are on our semi—final clash with the netherlands on wednesday. is it time for gareth southgate to do the unthinkable and drop a shattered harry kane? that's all come in between now and 6:00.

welcome to the show. always a delight to have your company so a new week, a new dawn, a new prime minister, a new cabinet, a new start. but the same old problems labour party realised today. despite announcing their tough crackdown on illegal immigration, the boats simply continue to roll ashore. it's almost like the people smugglers didn't get the memo. and with the rwanda bill cancelled , are the rwanda bill cancelled, are we going to see more and more arriving on our shores and do you trust the keir starmer on brexit again , the first monday brexit again, the first monday of a new parliament and he's already flashing his garter to germany, to ireland, to brussels. do you think inexorably, we're going to be clawing back into the european union death by a thousand treaties. get in touch. usual ways. gbnews.com forward slash yoursay. but now it's your headunes yoursay. but now it's your headlines and it's polly

middlehurst . middlehurst. >> martin thank you. and good afternoon to you. well, the top story from the gb newsroom today is that downing street has admitted the summer will be challenging for new labour government as the first boatful of migrants since the general election crossed the english channel this morning . the group channel this morning. the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by border force officials and taken to a migrant processing centre in dover harbour . and processing centre in dover harbour. and then this afternoon, another boat was seen attempting to make the crossing as well. from france. that bnngs as well. from france. that brings the total number of illegal migrants crossing to the uk so far this year to more than 13,000. that's up 12% on the same time last year. well, the latest small boat arrivals come as the 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 >> we're setting up a major new approach to law enforcement against the criminal gangs who are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. this will be a major new border security command that will bring together the work of the national crime agency, the work of the border force, the work of the border force, the work that happens around the channel work that happens around the channel, but also the way that these networks stretch right across europe to go after the gangs that are profiting from this dangerous trade in people and undermining our borders. >> yvette cooper. well, that comes after sir keir starmer announced that the rwanda scheme is dead and buried, he said, claiming he's not to prepared continue with gimmick politics. the conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told gb news this morning he thinks that'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 a 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 won't work. of course you smash the gangs, but that's not the only solution. you need. >> kevin hollinrake there. well, the prime minister has been meeting leaders in northern ireland today vowing to end instability in the region. sir keir starmer insisting his government can get a better deal with the eu than boris johnson ever managed to. he then went on to wales, where he met with the welsh first minister on the last leg of his uk tour, trying to reset the relationship between westminster and the devolved nafions. nations. >> it's very important to me to reset relations with scotland ,

reset relations with scotland, northern ireland and wales because i want to make sure that we collaborate. there's mutual respect and trust as we deliver for scotland, for northern ireland and for wales. here in wales it's particularly important because what i said before the election is that a labour government would be a game changer, because you would have a uk government working with the welsh government delivering for wales, rather than the conflict that i think we've seen too much of over the last 14 years. >> sir keir starmer. last 14 years. >> sir keir starmer . well, the >> sir keir starmer. well, the other big news today, of course, the new chancellor setting out her agenda this morning and announcing there's no time to waste in boosting economic growth and saying she's making it her national mission. it was her first major speech. and rachel reeves promised major changes to speed up, speed up infrastructure projects and unlock private investment. she also argued 14 years of conservative rule had cost the country £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. >> rachel reeves, now in international news russia has denied deliberately targeting a children's hospital in ukraine's caphal children's hospital in ukraine's capital, instead claiming the damage was caused by kyivs own air defence missiles. well, more than 30 people are reported to have been killed in the missile strike and over 120 injured after the target was hit, as well as multiple cities across the country. president volodymyr zelenskyy saying the world should see what russia is and what it is doing . moscow,

what it is doing. moscow, though, says it did target ukrainian military infrastructure and aviation bases but denied targeting civilian infrastructure. news from the united states and joe biden is vowing to stay in the race for the white house, claiming losing is not an option against donald trump. in a message to democrats in congress, the president said voters alone pick presidential nominees, not pundits, donors or the press. he's also told american media he's confident the average voter still wants him in power. that comes amid calls from some democrats for biden to step aside and let a slightly younger candidate take on the role. after his shaky debate performance on tv last week. however, he claims that was simply a bad night for him . was simply a bad night for him. now, hurricane beryl has made landfall in the united states in texas after approaching storm forces and closed and forced the

closure of major oil ports and disrupted flights at airports. storm beryl was gusting at up to 80 miles an hour. that weather system, now expected to weaken as it trails across the southern united states. last week, of course, storm beryl sweeping through jamaica, grenada, saint vincent and the grenadines, toppling buildings and power lines and claiming the lives of at least 11 people. those are your latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm polly middlehurst. i'm back with more in half an houn i'm back with more in half an hour. see you then for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you polly. now we start this hour with changes to the uk's relationship with europe and labour. say that and labour say they're already starting to

work. olivia, let's go to olivia utley. olivia. so tell us about the plan. >> so david lammy has been doing this tour of various countries in europe, poland, sweden . and in europe, poland, sweden. and he's talking about resetting the relationship with the eu. now, labour party have said over and over again during no plans to rejoin the customs union, rejoin the eu in general. but it does sound a little bit as though david lammy is keen on some sort of partnership with the eu. whether that would be making specific deals, possibly in the chemical sector and in the veterinary sector as well. the eu have said that they are not interested in reopening the negotiation with britain. i mean, it could be they weren't interested in reopening that negotiation under the conservatives because they didn't think they would get a better deal under the conservatives. might the relationship be very different for labour? either way, i think it'll have brexiteers getting very, very worried indeed. and

let's not forget of course, that a lot of brexiteers are labour voters , so they won't be happy voters, so they won't be happy at all about this. lots of these places in the red wall area, which were lost by labour in 2019 and won by, by by labour, lost by labour in 2019 to boris johnson's conservatives and then won in 2024 by labour. those are brexit brexiteer seats. if that's an adjective i can use , that's an adjective i can use, how will they feel about the idea of david lammy resetting relationships with the eu ? i relationships with the eu? i think the way they're going to sort of package this up because obviously the labour party is very aware that that, you know, talking about rejoining the eu is unpopular. people want the brexit era just over. people don't want to talk about it anymore. they're going to say that this is the only way to achieve growth. and that's what we heard a lot about in rachel reeves speech this morning. i was there and rachel reeves essentially was saying, as we knew that she would , now we've knew that she would, now we've seen the figures. things are

worse than we realised before. so they're sort of laying the ground for both deals with the eu and possibly raising taxes and david lammy is on a charm offensive. >> he's going around germany , >> he's going around germany, he's going around poland and sweden and the irish premier, he said. they will do all they can to move closer ties to the european union now corbyn mystic meg, olivia but a lot of people would have seen this coming. we've heard time and time again from the labour party, from all of the top brass. we won't have a second referendum. we're not going to reverse brexit. but is this a more covert way of doing it? the sort of death by a thousand treaties approach, a piecemeal deal with the germans, a piecemeal deal with the irish, a piecemeal deal with the irish, a piecemeal deal with the irish, a piecemeal deal with fishing quotas. this, to me, whiffs of a slow march towards rejoin. >> i think that could well be right. i mean, as you say, the labour party has been very, very clear that it won't be rejoining the eu. i think both the

conservatives and labour are aware that people just don't really want to talk about brexit either way anymore. and actually it was astonishing really, given how the last ten years have unfolded, how little any conversation of brexit or britain's relationship with the eu featured in the campaign at all. so, as you say, what seems much more likely than a sort of big referendum or a push to rejoin the customs union is the labour party quietly doing deals with various european countries and potentially sort of, sector deals with the whole of the eu sort of specific sector deals in chemicals and in veterinary , as chemicals and in veterinary, as i say. so not actually technically rejoining , but sort technically rejoining, but sort of perhaps very, very slowly moving towards a model which is, aligned, shall we say, with the eu . eu. >> that's basically a slow march towards rejoin. olivia utley always a pleasure to have you in the studio. thank you very much. i'm joined now by the chief executive of the independent business network and the former ceo of labour leave, brendan chilton . brendan, welcome to the chilton. brendan, welcome to the show. no way on earth will be

rejoining the european union. we've heard endlessly from the labour party, and yet it's the first monday morning of a new regime and closer deals , closer regime and closer deals, closer alignment. top of the menu . call alignment. top of the menu. call me a cynic. is this a long march towards towards rejoining the european union ? european union? >> well, i campaigned for us to leave the european union just as strongly as many others. >> i don't actually believe this is the march back to europe. one of the things the labour party said in its manifesto , and which said in its manifesto, and which successive labour figures have said, is that we will not be joining the eu customs union or single market now on the specifics of this, we have to remember this is taking place under a framework set up by the previous conservative government. >> there will be a renegotiation of several, not a renegotiation, but a resetting of several strands of our relationship with europe next year. so this was going to happen. whoever won the election now for the specific

issues that keir starmer and david lammy have raised, namely the first one that is most important to me and probably many of your listeners is the migrant crisis, we've got to work with europe on this. >> and unfortunately, the last government didn't, which is why we had so many crossing the channel not far from where i am now in kent, >> we can't simply say we're going to stop the boats if we're not going to have a conversation with the french, who control the other half of the channel, >> and similarly with the belgians as well. >> and then, of course, other countries further in europe. to encourage them to take action to stop those people moving through europe and coming to the uk. so i don't see this as a threat to brexit or a reversal of brexit. >> i see it as actually beyond brexit. brexit has happened and we're now dealing with an assortment of issues outside the european union . but we always european union. but we always said outside the eu we would still work with the eu, but we already work with the french before we give them half £1

billion a year. >> and the numbers went through the roof , 13,500 small boat the roof, 13,500 small boat arrivals already this year, 12% increase on the previous year and on the first day of this new dawn, the boats are still rolling into dover. but on the point of the brexit deal itself, michel barnier was an excellent negotiator. baked into that deal or treaty clauses which will catch anybody who tries to toughen up on brexit. the fishing quotas they're up for grabs in 2026 and if we if we try and change them , then we try and change them, then we could lose out on getting cheap electricity from the european union. and anyway, we hear from brussels all the time, brendan, they don't want to tinker with they don't want to tinker with the deal . they're happy with the the deal. they're happy with the deal the deal. they're happy with the deal. they want a full rejoin. or we can we can clear off. so this might sound great on paper. this might please the remain voting bloc of the labour party. but in actual fact, brussels don't want to renegotiate. they want us back in to.

>> well, of course the, just deaung >> well, of course the, just dealing with the first point on the boats. >> yvette cooper has today announced the new beefed up, border security force. >> of course, labour only won the election on thursday. the boats are still going to roll, unfortunately, but once that border force is in place and we hope we can get people recruited and trained up over the summer , and trained up over the summer, we should see those numbers coming down. but you are absolutely right. the last government did give the french an enormous amount of money, but unfortunately they didn't put the infrastructure in on our side of the channel to stop those boats crossing. labour are hopefully going to tackle that with the new border force. now, on the specifics of the treaty, once again, i don't disagree with you, the treaty negotiated by boris johnson was a terrible treaty. >> he gave an enormous amount, to the european union , to the european union, including, by the way, northern ireland, which is essentially, a satellite of the european union, >> if we can have a negotiation,

under keir starmer or changing certain aspects of the treaty, i mean, as far as i'm aware, we haven't had a definitive no yet from the european commission. if we get a definitive no , then we get a definitive no, then it's done for. but if we can come to an arrangement whereby it is easier for businesses to trade between great britain and northern ireland, if we can get those boats stopped and if we can come to other arrangements that improve trading relationships. i'm all for free trade. if we can have better trade. if we can have better trade with europe and other countries around the world, let's do it well, brendan. >> trade , imports and exports to >> trade, imports and exports to the eu have all increased since brexit, and michel barnier has warned all along any kind of renegotiation means we must accept freedom of movement that many think will be a total betrayal of the brexit referendum. look, we've got to leave it there. thanks very much for joining us. the former ceo of labour leave brendan chilton. pleasure to have on the show. thank you very much. now it's time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to win

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welcome back. your time is 423. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. later in the show, we'll cross live to paris, where the french, as you can see, are revolting again. after a hard left alliance won yesterday's election there. but back to britain now. and the labour government's plan to tackle the migrant crisis of today under the microscope and if they

needed reminding of the massive scale of the task facing them, well, they sure got it today. gb news viewers can see the first illegal channels migrants to arrive in the uk since the labour party came to power last week. and let's cross live now to dover and speak to our home and security editor, mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so, yvette cooper's shiny new policy, the border security command will be a major step change in uk enforcement efforts. mark two boats have now rolled in. it seemed the people smugglers, they didn't get the memo . memo. >> yeah. the first of those boats. entered into uk waters at 1030 this morning and shortly afterwards it was intercepted by the border force catamaran hurricane. and then those migrants, 64 are producer counted, arrived here at dover harbour and then were offloaded for initial processing at the border force processing centre

here at dover harbour. and now we're getting word that a second small boat is in the channel, making very slow progress. it might not make the line. some of them don't, but it's trying to get to uk waters. and of course it knows. the people smugglers know if they get to that halfway point, then they'll be picked up by either border force or a lifeboat . now, it will be lifeboat. now, it will be interesting to see. i think martin, what is going to unfold in the weeks and months ahead as we get right into the summer and more days of being flat calm than bad weather, as we've had over recent weeks. and if we get bumper numbers of migrants arriving illegally in the uk still coming, in a few months from now, it's going to be quite difficult, i think, for keir starmer and for yvette cooper. the new home secretary, to argue that this policy of not having a

deterrent like rwanda and instead just going after the people smugglers to try to smash them, is the right policy. but having said that, if eddie cooper this morning, she said that she believes that this approach, this new border security command , is the right security command, is the right approach, setting up a major new approach, setting up a major new approach to law enforcement against the criminal gangs who are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. >> this will be a major new border security command that will bring together the work of the national crime agency, the work of the border force, the work of the border force, the work that happens along the channel work that happens along the channel, but also the way that these networks stretch right across europe to go after the gangs that are profiting from this dangerous trade in people and undermining our borders. >> well, that first group of channel migrants have now been taken away from dover harbour, taken away from dover harbour, taken just down the road to the main processing centre at manston. after that, more

detailed processing has taken place. they will then go out to accommodation and what will be interesting to see is in the weeks and months ahead, what happens with the accommodation, because you've got a yvette cooper and keir starmer saying quite , vehemently in the run up quite, vehemently in the run up to the election that they were not going to send people out to hotels any more, costing £8 million a day, that they're going to look for alternatives. let's see what the alternatives are . are. >> thank you. mark wyatt, live from dover, a brand new government, a brand new policy. the same old problems. thank you very much for joining the same old problems. thank you very much forjoining us. mark white. now joining me now is henry bolton, the international security and border control expert henry , welcome to the expert henry, welcome to the show. so it's the first monday of a new government. we have a new policy in place, the border security command. do you have any faith that it will deliver on its promise ? on its promise? >> not particularly . >> not particularly. >> not particularly. >> martin, the detail is important in this. >> and what's been happening up

till now is the national crime agency. >> border policing command has been liaising with interpol, liaising with european police forces and so on to try and crack down on on organised criminals smuggling people to the uk . but criminals smuggling people to the uk. but within criminals smuggling people to the uk . but within the european the uk. but within the european union , what i would like to see union, what i would like to see is that projected beyond the european union to north africa and so on to turkey, because that's where the real work needs to happen , we need to prevent to happen, we need to prevent them getting to, to the european union in the first place, the other thing that i'm not quite sure about on this is, you know, what is their answer? what is labour's answer? it's slightly different elements of it . different elements of it. >> but the to the rwanda deterrent being taken away. let me explain . me explain. >> the real key thing for rwanda was that it was a solution for the people who come across on boats who have originated in iran, in syria, in afghanistan,

in places like that, that we have no access to and are not going to be able to return them to. so rwanda was an alternative instead of sending them back to afghanistan, which we couldn't do, we could send them to rwanda. well, what are we going to do with those people now, there is no answer coming from there is no answer coming from the government so far on that. the other thing, there's no answer on, and i keep asking the question, martin, if you ever get the opportunity to ask the home secretary, please do. are they or are they not intending to join or intending to try and join the eu's asylum and migration pact, which the eu's recently adopted? because if so, yes, they'll stop the boats, but not by dealing with organised crime, simply by taking a proportion of those asylum seekers who reach the european union into the uk, thereby giving them a free ticket into the uk. they don't need a boat anymore. now, is that the plan? ikeep anymore. now, is that the plan? i keep asking it and i'm getting no answer whatsoever . no answer whatsoever. >> well, it's funny you should

mention that, tam fry, because also on this monday morning there are talks about closer ties with brussels , closer ties ties with brussels, closer ties with the eu, and you're dead right hand michel barnier has repeatedly said you cannot cherry pick. if you want extra help, then you will have to have free movement and take your quota . on that point, do you quota. on that point, do you think we are beginning the slow march towards rejoining? >> yeah , undoubtedly. i don't >> yeah, undoubtedly. i don't think that's the, i don't think there's a decision made that thatis there's a decision made that that is the, the, the end state that is the, the, the end state that labour wants. i think what we're going to see is we're going to see this. there's this meeting that, that keir starmer has, has called in, blenheim palace. i think there are about 50 leaders from across europe who are going to be there. he wants to talk about removing trade barriers, freedom of movement again, all this sort of thing. i'm sure the asylum and migration pact will come up. there will be defence and foreign policy coordination, part of the eu's foreign security and defence policy, he

wants to be part of that . now, wants to be part of that. now, that's not rejoining, but it is tying us once again to the european union and european union rule making and collective rule making. the thing is, i suspect they will see how all of that goes. and with the majority they've got at the moment, i don't see why. and i'm not trying to plant the idea in their minds. i'm sure they've got it, why they couldn't initiate a second referendum. they could pass a law for another referendum and it's going to fly through, i'm sure. so this is, you know, this is something that the conservative party, this is a risk that the conservative party and reform totally neglected in, in their run up to this campaign, and i think that's a great shame. they weren't listening on, on the immigration thing. they weren't they weren't talking about the foreign policy and the defence policy side of things. not to any extent. these are major issues that are going to influence the future direction of the united kingdom, i believe. >> certainly, there's much, much to watch, keep control of our

borders, keep control of our brexit. henry bolton, always an absolute delight to have you on the show. thanks forjoining us. thank you. there's lots more still to come between now and 5:00. we have an exclusive interview with robert jenrick, the former immigration minister who many say and believe will be the next conservative leader. but guess what? he doesn't hold back when he hits out at nigel farage. you will not want to miss that interview. but farage. you will not want to miss that interview . but before miss that interview. but before that, it's time for your latest news headlines and it's polly middlehurst. >> the headlines this hour. downing street's admitted the summer will be challenging for the new labour government as the first boat of migrants since the general election crossed the engush general election crossed the english channel this morning. the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by border force officials and taken to a migrant processing centre in dover harbour. it brings the total number of migrants crossing so far this year to 13,500. that's up 12% on the same period last

year , and the latest small boat year, and the latest small boat arrivals come as the former prime minister, sir tony blair, is urging the new government to bnngin is urging the new government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. but the home secretary, yvette cooper, says it's not part of labour's policy. she insists setting up a new border security command will bnng new border security command will bring an end to people smuggling across the channel, and the chancellor has announced the new labour government is ripping up planning rules to build more homes, claiming she's prepared for short term political pain to get britain building again. it was her first major speech as chancellor and rachel reeves said she's ordered officials to produce an assessment of the financial mess she called it. but left by the conservatives. she's also argued that 14 years of conservative rule had cost the country £140 billion in lost growth . ukraine's president is growth. ukraine's president is vowing to retaliate after a russian missile strike killed at least 29 people and left a children's hospital in ruins in

the capital. that's after russia launched its biggest barrage of missiles across ukraine for several months. meanwhile, world leaders are preparing to head to a nato summit tomorrow , where a nato summit tomorrow, where volodymyr zelenskyy will call on kiev's allies to give a firm response to today's attack. and in france , voters are adjusting in france, voters are adjusting to their new future after parliamentary elections, there won't be a right wing government there. marine le pen's national rally came third, despite expectations it would top the poll. protesters clashed with riot police in paris after the results were announced, leading to a likely hung parliament. the left wing new popular front coalition predicted to win with president macron's centrist government in second place. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

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welcome back. it's 438. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now , the race to replace gb news now, the race to replace rishi sunak as leader of the conservative party is set to commence soon. with growing speculation over who could take oven speculation over who could take over. one of the names that's tipped to be the new leader is the former immigration minister, robert jenrick. and i'm now joined in the studio by gb news political editor chris hope , who political editor chris hope, who sat down with mrjenrick earlier today. >> that's right, he's a former immigration minister. he's one of several we expect to stand. kemi badenoch suella braverman priti patel and others. the 1922 committee of backbench tory mps. they meet tomorrow to decide who the new chairman is and then gradually we'll get into gear , gradually we'll get into gear, maybe have a new tory party leader by october. but i started my longer interview on on the youtube channel of gb news, but there's a shorter one now. i started by asking him if he personally blames rishi sunak for the disastrous election result. last week . result. last week. >> i think rishi is a good man who worked extremely hard and

tried his best as prime minister. i think it wouldn't go as far as you wanted on immigration. he wouldn't and i think there is an important lesson for the party there, which is that you have to deliver on your promises. you should never take your voters for granted and just assume that people who have voted conservative in the past will vote conservative in the future. that has led to the rise of reform. it has given the space for reform to prosper. you know, two thirds of the constituencies that we lost on thursday, the margin of defeat was less than the reform vote. so my task is now how do we bring those people home? i want all small c conservatives, whether it's in the north of england and the midlands where i represent or frankly, anywhere in this country, to feel that the conservative party is their natural home. that's what we've got to set out now in the weeks and the months ahead. as we begin this process of rebuilding our party on to today. >> then labour's in charge.

we're hearing from rachel reeves this morning. they're planning to bring in housing targets and rip up planning rules. you were housing secretary. is that something you fail to do? >> well, when i was housing secretary, we managed to get housing starts up to the highest level since 1987. after the last labour government. remember left housing starts at their lowest peacetime levels since the 1920s. so we should take no lessons from the labour party on housing and home ownership. let's see what rachel reeves has to say on this. let's see what rachel reeves has to say on this . i don't think to say on this. i don't think you can begin to fix the housing crisis unless you tackle the migration crisis, because, remember, you'd have to be building a new home in this country every five minutes, day and night. 365 days a year, merely to keep up with the number of people who are arriving legally, arriving legally arriving, that's not even the illegal migrants. and join the campaign. we learned from angela rayner that she wants to build social houses purely for refugees and illegal migrants, rather than for british people. and our children and grandchildren, which seems a very strange priority to me.

what we as conservatives for stand is home ownership is helping the next generation onto the housing ladder. but we don't want to ruin our beautiful countryside. i believe you can do that by focusing those homes in the big urban areas of this country. let's wait and see if that's the approach of the tension, though, isn't it? >> if people don't like new homes near them, if they're not appropriate homes, do they? i mean, is it wrong to be a nimby nowadays? >> well, i want to build more homes, you know, i want young people to have the dream of home ownership. that's a core, fundamental conservative belief. but i think you can do that in the right way. that's why when i created housing targets, for example, we did a 30% uplift in the big cities opposed by labour last time. and it's why i worked with roger scruton to make sure that homes could be built beautifully, in keeping with the history and the heritage and the vernacular of areas . let's see vernacular of areas. let's see if labour keep that agenda going on on illegal migration. >> i mean, illegal migration is a matter of controlling who comes in. and that's a matter that you can control legally as a government by by dealing with,

with the issue of visas, illegal migration. labour's answer rwanda is now dead and buried. they're going to build a new border command. >> i was not surprised , but >> i was not surprised, but very, very frustrated that the first act of this incoming labour government was to scrap the only credible deterrent that we have, the rwanda policy deterring a bit, wasn't it? >> we saw evidence in ireland. >> we saw evidence in ireland. >> it was. we saw it in ireland. we've seen anecdotally through what journalists like yourself are hearing in the camps in northern france. keir starmer has essentially surrendered to the people smuggling gangs. he has said it's open season now to come to the uk. we have no deterrent, we have no way of removing you come here. and i confidently predict, and i don't do this with any pleasure, that this summer will see a huge number, a record number of small boat arrivals. and it will be because of the intervention. the first thing that this incoming labour government has done,

which is to scrap our deterrent and the policy that they've announced is hopelessly naive. instead of having a deterrent, they said they're going to create some new border command. it might work, though. well, it seems to it seems to be replicating what we already have. you know, yvette cooper said she's going to hire a leading military figure to run this. well, we already have one. i hired general capps, a war hero who served in iraq and afghanistan. he used to run sandhurst to do this job. has he been fired by yvette cooper as her first act? we'll find out. you know, this is not a credible way to secure our borders. and i'm afraid this is a foretaste for what's to come. >> okay, well, what's to come? might be you might be leader of this party. maybe by october. do you want to stand? >> i honestly think this is just a few days since we suffered this devastating defeat. look, i'm sure there will come a time for discussing things like that in the future, but i think that's a self—indulgent argument to have today. what i am interested in is ideas and

principles, not individuals and personalities. and i think the task for the conservative party right now is twofold . one is to right now is twofold. one is to understand again, what do we actually believe in you know, of course we should be a broad church, but we have to have a creed. the conservative party has to understand its beliefs and have a coherent set of principles upon which to unite around . and secondly, we need to around. and secondly, we need to get back into the business of opposing this incoming labour government . and that business government. and that business begins today. that's why i'm here on your show. that's why i'm highlighting what they're doing on illegal migration and crime , incidentally, because crime, incidentally, because keir starmer is also saying that he's going to release dangerous criminals onto our streets rather than keeping them in prison. there's a job to do for us. now, i'm not saying that he's saying not everyone should be in prison. >> not saying the danish one shouldn't be in prison. he's saying that he'll. >> so he'll release the ones well that he considers are not dangerous. well, there's a reason that they're in prison, chris. that's because they are criminals. and he's just hired a prisons minister who is on the record saying that he wants to

have very low. only a third should definitely be there. >> just a very briefly on what you think conservatism is, just the idea of it. is it what is it in your world? what is a tory? >> well, it's somebody who believes in secure borders, in our sovereignty, in low taxes, in the family, in strong defence. yeah, those are the sorts of principles we need to unite around. as i say, there's a long history of the conservative party being a big tent, but it's got to be a strong tent. it's got to be a broad church with a creed. okay. something we can unite around. that's what i hope to play a part in. >> just finally, finally, briefly is the answer. boris johnson is his or is his time been and gone? >> robert jenrick i think boris is one of our most brilliant conservatives . i said during the conservatives. i said during the campaign that he should come back and he did, albeit at the at the very last minute . i would at the very last minute. i would be very happy to see boris back actively involved in party. indeed, i'd be happy to see him in parliament. this is a moment in parliament. this is a moment in which all of the strongest players need to be on the pitch. the conservative party has got to rally around, rebuild our party and if boris wants to be party and if boris wants to be part of that, i'd be delighted.

>> and just finally working with you. want to get reform of supporters on side? does that mean you'll be working with nigel farage in parliament? >> look, i respect nigel. he and i share a number of things in common. we obviously both believe in strong borders. but no, i don't think that nigel can or should be part of the conservative party. he said that he doesn't want to join the party. he said he wants to replace the conservative party, and as long as that is his view, there can't be a role for him in there can't be a role for him in the party. but i will work with anyone who shares my determination to secure our borders and to hold an open borders. labour party to account for everything they do. >> robert jenrick thank you for joining us on gb news robert jenrick with his summation of what happened last week . robert what happened last week. robert jenrick there the usually the recently returned mp for newark then and interestingly saying he wouldn't allow nigel farage back in his party. don't forget the predecessor as prime minister rishi sunak, told gb news last october it's a broad church . october it's a broad church. nigel farage could be a tory if he wants to be, not if he's leader. >> fantastic stuff chris. thank you very much for joining us.

superb as ever. now after she crashed out of wimbledon, the row over emma raducanu shock decision to pull out of the mixed doubles rumbles on. did she deny andy murray his big wimbledon farewell, or was judy murray the real problem? the ultimate helicopter mum put raducanu's confidence in a tailspin. i martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel

welcome back. it's 10 to 5. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. emma raducanu has been criticised for a decision to pull out of her mixed doubles match at wimbledon. with, of course, sir andy murray on saturday due to stiffness in her wrist, which denied him the chance to play his final time there. well, she has since been knocked out of the singles, losing to qualifier lulu sun in the fourth round. i'm joined now

by the sports journalist ben jacobs. ben, welcome to the show and for once we're not talking about football. do you think this whole mixed doubles thing has overshadowed emma raducanu performance as a single judy murray poking a nosey , yeah, i murray poking a nosey, yeah, i think judy murray responded , think judy murray responded, astonishing when the news was released, and has since clarified that her comments were sarcastic. >> this, as you say, was before emma raducanu was defeated by lulu sun. and had she played in the mixed doubles with andy murray, which would of course have been his wimbledon farewell there may, had she gone through, have only been a period of about 24 hours of turnaround time. >> so part of the decision was perhaps with that in mind, even though she ended up getting knocked out. and the other factor, as you rightly say, is the risk. but interestingly, that risk strapping pretty quickly disappeared in the 24 hours after this storm has started to subside. so you can view it both ways. players have to take precautions if they're carrying an injury, but it was also the scheduling and the load of ultimately playing singles

and mixed doubles, and i think murray would have probably made the same decision if he was building up to a singles match with a chance to reach the quarterfinals versus mixed doubles . and you're worried doubles. and you're worried about your own physique and stamina, then you have to pick one or the other. so i do sympathise with radacanu, but i can understand why the british pubuc can understand why the british public are maybe disappointed because they've been denied an andy murray farewell. >> it just seems that , judy >> it just seems that, judy murray really is acting out of self—interest all along. as you say, emma was perfectly entitled to put the singles performance first. and has this overshadowed matters? you know, this helicopter mum with sharp elbows has put raducanu's confidence into a bit of a tailspin. >> i think in in reality, it's a good thing that we've had clarity from judy murray that she was being sarcastic and maybe she realises that she's added fire to the flames. if you like, and that naturally means that people are talking about emma raducanu, when actually the reality is that andy murray, i

would imagine empathises with raducanu and maybe can end this story by saying so publicly and backing sadiq khan. it was, you rightly say she's fully entitled to focus on her game. singles tends to come above mixed doubles. that partnership was very much a last minute pairing. it was sentimental. it was there to put two grand slam champions at wimbledon together in order for sentiment purposes, to give murray the best possible farewell. but you can't script tennis, and when you schedule it in the way it was, she probably did have to pick one or the other, regardless of whether or not she could play in both, which you have to make that decision before the game. that she lost rather than after it. >> ben jacobs we have to leave it there . we're simply out of it there. we're simply out of time. you're in dortmund for the football very, very envious. speak to you soon, no doubt. now rachel reeves is our country's first female chancellor of the exchequer, and she's already took the boot into the tories. stand by to find out why. she reckons that the uk has £140 billion worse off. i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel. now it's your weather with alex burkill.

>> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello, i'm here with your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. it is going to turn pretty wet for many of us as we go through the rest of today, overnight and into tomorrow, because there is a system that is pushing its way northwards and this is going to bring a lot of cloud and some heavy, persistent rain, especially across parts of the southwest as we go through this evening and overnight with a warning out because we are likely to see some disruption, some flooding is possible , as well as some is possible, as well as some difficult driving conditions to that rain will spread across much of england and wales as we go through the night. so a wet picture. for many of us it does mean temperatures are generally going to hold up, so a mild start to the day for many though. further north across parts of scotland in particular

here there will be clear skies overnight. so it could be a bit fresh first thing. however, once the sun comes up we will see our temperatures lifting a little bit. although they are likely to stay a bit below average for the time of year generally, but are mostly fine. picture through the morning across much of scotland. rain starting to push its way in across parts of northern ireland and spreading across much of the northern half of england and wales. two further south, the heavy , persistent rain will have heavy, persistent rain will have cleared through by around 8 or 9:00 in the morning, but it is going to stay pretty cloudy for many and there will be further outbreaks of rain, these continuing as we go through the day and there could still be some heavy ones. the more persistent rain though will be spilling its way across parts of northern england into northern ireland and into southern scotland, across the far northwest of scotland , clinging northwest of scotland, clinging on to some drier weather for a time like i said, though, temperatures are a little disappointing for the time of yeah disappointing for the time of year. we may just about scrape into the low 20s where we get any drier or possibly brighter breaks that rain in the north continues to edge a bit further

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>>a >> a very, very good afternoon to you. and a happy monday. it's 5 pm, and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, new home secretary yvette cooper today unveils her border security command with the goal of cutting illegal immigration. but with the rwanda bill scrapped, will we see what nigel farage is

calling a storm order? arriving on our shores? next up, labour are planning the early release of thousands of prisoners to ease the pressure on britain's overcrowded jails, with some cons looking at only serving 40% of their sentences. is this soft justice or a grim necessity ? and justice or a grim necessity? and in a desperate bid to keep le pen out of power, france has lurched to the left as macron looks to form an unholy alliance with france's version of jeremy corbyn. with policies priced at ,200 billion. will this coalition bankrupt france and england finally laid their penalty demons to rest against the swiss on saturday and now all eyes are on our semi—final epic clash against the netherlands on wednesday . but netherlands on wednesday. but whisper it. is it time for gareth southgate to do the unthinkable and drop a shattered harry kane? that's all coming to you now. 6:00.

well, to the show. always a delight to have your company. well, it's the first monday of a new government. the first monday of a new cabinet, of a new dawn of a new cabinet, of a new dawn of a new plan to control our borders from yvette cooper. but guess what? the people smugglers didn't get the memo. two dinghies, two small boats have already arrived . there were 64 already arrived. there were 64 on the first gb news brought you that exclusively, and we'll have more throughout the day. can. sir keir starmer, despite the tough talk, do what rishi sunak never did. can the labour party stop the boats? today is day one already. it looks like they're not quite achieving that. get in touch. do you have any faith in this new system? gbnews.com/yoursay is the address to get in touch, but now it's your headlines with polly middlehurst.

>> martin, thank you and good evening to you. well, the top story from the gb newsroom tonight is that downing street has admitted the summer will be challenging for the new labour government as the first boat full of migrants since the general election crossed the engush general election crossed the english channel this morning, the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by border force officials and taken to a migrant processing centre in dover harbour. it brings the total number of migrants crossing so far this year to more than 13,500. that's up 12% on the same time last year. and the latest small boat arrivals come as the former prime minister, sir tony blair, is urging the new labour government to bring in digital id cards to control immigration. but the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy. instead yvette cooper insisted setting up a new border security command would bnng border security command would bring an end to people smuggling across the channel >> we're setting up a major new

approach to law enforcement against the criminal gangs who are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. this will be a major new border security command that will bring together the work of the national crime agency, the work of the border force, the work of the border force, the work that happens along the channel work that happens along the channel, but also the way that these networks stretch right across europe to go after the gangs that are profiting from this dangerous trade in people and undermining our borders. >> new home secretary yvette cooper speaking there. well, it comes after sir keir starmer announced the rwanda scheme is, in his words, dead and buried , in his words, dead and buried, claiming he's not prepared to continue with what he described as gimmick politics. the conservative mp and former government minister kevin hollinrake told gb news this morning he thinks that'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 smashed the gangs, but that's not the only solution. you need . not the only solution. you need. >> kevin hollinrake well, the prime minister's been on his way around the united kingdom this morning , meeting leaders in morning, meeting leaders in northern ireland, vowing to end what he called instability in the region. sir keir starmer has also insisted his government can get a better deal with the european union than boris johnson managed to achieve. he then went on to wales, where he met with the welsh first minister on the last leg of his uk tour. design. he said to reset the relationship between westminster and the devolved nafions westminster and the devolved nations , it's very important to nations, it's very important to me to reset relations with scotland, northern ireland and wales because i want to make

sure that we collaborate. >> there's mutual respect and trust as we deliver for scotland, for northern ireland and for wales here in wales, it's particularly important because what i said before the election is that a labour government would be a game changer, because you would have a uk government working with the welsh government delivering for wales, rather than the conflict that i think we've seen too much of. >> sir keir starmer. well, the other main news today, of course, was the new chancellor setting out her agenda and announcing there's no time to waste in boosting economic growth. and she said she's making it her national mission to do so. it was her first major speech and rachel reeves underlined major changes to speed up infrastructure projects and unlock private investment. she also argued 14 years of conservative rule, she said, had cost the country £140 billion in 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. >> rachel reeves let's bring you up to date now with events in ukraine where russia has denied deliberately targeting a children's hospital in the caphal children's hospital in the capital, instead claiming the damage was caused by kyivs own air defence system. more than 30 people are reported to have lost their lives and over 120 others are injured after missiles hit multiple cities right across ukraine. president zelenskyy says the world should see what russia is and what she's doing. moscow says it did target ukrainian military infrastructure and aviation

bases, but denied targeting civilian infrastructure. and in the united states, joe biden is vowing to stay in the race for the white house, claiming losing is not an option against donald trump. in a message to democrats in congress, the president said voters alone pick presidential nominees, not pundits, not donors, nor the press. he also told american media he's confident the average voter still wants him in power. and it comes amid calls from some democrats for him to step aside and let a younger candidate take on his role. after his poor performance in a television debate last week. however, he simply claims he had a bad night. and just lastly, storm beryl has made landfall in the southern united states, in texas, to be precise , after texas, to be precise, after forcing the closure of major oil ports and causing flight cancellations, storm beryl was gusting at up to 80 miles an

hour at one point, but the weather system we're now seeing is expected to weaken last week, we saw storm beryl sweep through jamaica , grenada, saint vincent jamaica, grenada, saint vincent and the grenadines, toppling buildings and bringing down power lines. there as well as claiming the lives of at least 11 people. those are your latest news headlines from the gb newsroom. i'm polly middlehurst and i'm back in half an hour with more. see you then. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> you, polly. now we start with some very, very strong words from the new chancellor of the exchequer, rachel reeves. and she's branded the conservatives record in government as 14 years of chaos and economic irresponsibility, and insisted economic growth would be

labour's national mission. well, i'm joined in our studio by our political correspondent, olivia utley. olivia, welcome to the studio. as sure as night follows day, it's time to tell the nafion day, it's time to tell the nation how potless the country is. the blame game starts . is. the blame game starts. labour did it in 2010 with that famous note from liam byrne. there's no money but this time, olivia. by jove, there really is no money. >> well, absolutely. and we did all suspect that as soon as labour got into power, they would look at the books, spend a weekend looking at the books, and then slowly start laying the groundwork for higher taxes. and that seems to be exactly what's going on. rachel reeves, this morning said, yeah, well, now i've seen i knew that the public finances were in a bad state, and everything i've seen so far very much confirms that, she , i very much confirms that, she, i suspect, will follow this up at some point with tax rises. now, she has a little bit painted herself into a corner with this because she's promised over and over again during the election campaign campaign that the three main taxes . so national

main taxes. so national insurance, income tax and vat won't rise and the labour party, keir starmer also said repeatedly that none of the commitments in the manifesto were dependent on tax rises. but when we tried to pin him down and i tried to pin him down many times on this about whether he ruled out rises in fuel tax, very, very important for lots of our viewers, inheritance tax capital gains tax. he wouldn't rule them out. and what i suspect is that rachel reeves talks about the need for growth . talks about the need for growth. she talks about how bad the pubuc she talks about how bad the public finances are and a little way down the line, the ground is prepared and the tax rises start coming in. she's not going to do an emergency budget . she's big an emergency budget. she's big on the sort of secure genomics thing, and the idea of having an emergency budget doesn't exactly spell stability to the world. so i think we can expect the budget in probably november, and by that time they'll just be sort of ramping up the honeymoon phase. they'll be looking at the pubuc phase. they'll be looking at the public finances, and i suspect we might see a tax rise. then i think we can throw to a quick clip of what rachel reeves, the

new chancellor, said earlier , new chancellor, said earlier, new chancellor, said earlier, 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 . services. >> and the libya, as sure as night follows day, they blame the last lot for doing a fiscally terrible job. some things remain constant. isn't the elephant in the room, though, that both of the parties spent billions and billions of pounds during lockdown. so you can blame the conservatives all you like , but the labour party you like, but the labour party wanted that sooner, harder and longer. and now, old mother hubbard, she goes to the cupboard and that cupboard is bare. but they all have their

fingerprints on that . fingerprints on that. >> well, i think that is a very, very good point. it is fair enough for rachel reeves to say that there isn't any money. i think that is true. but yes, as you say, the elephant in the room is that we closed down the economy for three years. of course, they were going to be consequences to that. and that was before you factor in the war in ukraine, which obviously massively raised energy prices. so yeah, rachel reeves is right to say that there's no money left. she's right to be talking about going for growth. i mean, obviously every chancellor before her has talked about going for growth. it's easier said than done. she's talked in her speech today. it was a it was an impressive first speech from the new chancellor, first speech to the treasury. she talked about improving productivity in the uk, which is basically an all time low, one of the lowest among the g7. how labouris of the lowest among the g7. how labour is going to manage that while also bringing in their new deal for working people, which will essentially make it impossible for employers to sack anyone. removing all flexibility from the labour market, i think will be a very, very important

question because a really, really fixed labour market doesn't tend to be that compatible with improving productivity. >> olivia, could we also have a little look at a snub, a snub from the cabinet? we're obviously familiar with who the cabinet does actually have in it, but a certain name was left out. she's not very happy about it, and she's bitten back today. tell us more. >> well, really, really interesting this. so almost every post in the new cabinet has been filled. as you would expect by those in the shadow cabinet, the exceptions are people who lost their seats. so thangam debbonaire couldn't be dcms secretary. we've got lisa nandy instead. the only other exception to that rule is emily thornberry, who is going to be the attorney general, who was the attorney general, who was the shadow shadow attorney general has been snubbed. she isn't in the cabinet at all. this seems to have taken her greatly by surprise. she she made a post on twitter today saying she's very surprised and disappointed by this, but pledging her lifelong loyalty to keir starmer. anyway, by the time the election happened, i

spoke to a lot of conservative mps who said that the problem with the party, one of the many problems with the party at that stage was that so many people in in the party, so many mps had at some stage over the last, decade and a half, been ministers. so many of them have been sacked. there were lots and lots of grudges going on. there were lots of personal, you know, anger about who you sacked me and brought her in. you shouldn't have done that, blah, blah, blah. i feel as though this, emily thornberry incident has sort of kicked that off for keir starmer. he now has, i would say, at least one enemy on the labour backbenchers. >> a lot of eyebrows raised. thank you very much. olivia utley always a pleasure. thank you very much for joining us utley always a pleasure. thank you very much forjoining us in our studio. now to the crisis in britain's prisons and the new labour government is reportedly considering plans to release inmates early after they spent just 40% of their sentences in jails. and it comes at a time when prisons are almost full. in fact, they're bursting at the seams. there's even been talk of

a one in, one out policy. shame they can't do the same on our borders. but joining now to discuss this is retired prisoner governor vanessa frake. vanessa, welcome to the show. it's always a pleasure to have your company. so is this an example letting people out after only serving 40% of their sentences? if it's a four year sentence or below, is this a sign of the labour government already going soft on crime, or is it actually just a grim necessity ? grim necessity? >> well, i think i think it's more like a grim necessity. whatever you decide to do to help the overcrowding crisis is , help the overcrowding crisis is, is not going to be a quick fix, whether that's investment, building more prisons. >> making right the old victorian prisons that we've currently got. so i think you know, in the, in the short term i think yeah , probably this this i think yeah, probably this this will help it will help, certainly the judges and the

courts for, i mean, we can't possibly have a state of affairs where somebody is convicted and there is not enough room in a prison to send them down, so i think as long as they are risk assessed individually, and managed well outside and obviously any conditions upon their release are met, then i'm afraid we're going to have to, you know, have a, have a sort of suckit you know, have a, have a sort of suck it up and see, you know, in in two thousand and seven, between two thousand and seven and 2010, the labour government then released early release on around about 81,000 prisoners. >> so it's not something that we should be completely surprised at from this labour government. >> and vanessa, we're seeing stories. there are only 700 spaces left in the entire prison system for men in england and wales . that's really approaching wales. that's really approaching being full to the absolute rafters. how much of this new

policy do you think , is policy do you think, is a flavour of what we might see under james timpson? flavour of what we might see underjames timpson? he's under james timpson? he's labour's new prison minister. of course, of timpson's, locksmiths. and you know, the where you get your shoes done at supermarkets. that company famously employs ex—cons. it's very big on redemption. it's a great idea in principle, but redemption can go wrong, can't it, if you're releasing the wrong kinds of people too soon. >> yes it can. you know, there are many instances when you know , are many instances when you know, prisoners have been released and committed further horrific crimes. absolutely. but, you know, i think, personally speaking from my own point of view, give james timpson a chance. he is the first prisons minister that this country has had, of somebody who actually knows something about prisons . knows something about prisons. we've had probably near 13, 14 prison ministers in the last so many years , and none of them many years, and none of them have have done anything to help the prison service. you know, we are in the position we are today

because of the 14 years of lack of investment, lack of , staff of investment, lack of, staff overcrowding, you know, poor vetting procedures, poor equipment, old prisons that are no longer fit for purpose , and a no longer fit for purpose, and a poor rebuilding of new prisons sort of track. so, you know , sort of track. so, you know, he's got he's he's certainly got his work cut out for him without a doubt. so it is. >> and vanessa on that final point, the idea of, well, if the prisons are full, why don't we build some new nics. what would you say to that? >> well, i mean, you know, to my mind that isn't just the answer. but there are, you know, some of our prisons are over 200 years old. they're old victorian prisons, you know, wandsworth, the inspectorate said about them having raw sewage running down the landings. well, that's just not acceptable. it doesn't meet health and safety. it doesn't meet decency standards. you know, and is that really what we want as a, as a country? no, of course it's not. so i think,

yes, there does need to be a prison building system and good prisons and modern prisons with prisons and modern prisons with prisons with good technology to combat mobile phones, drugs in prison . we need to look at our prison. we need to look at our vetting procedures and how we support our staff, vetting procedures and how we support our staff , without a doubt. >> see if you know what it really, really is a delight to have your expertise. i always enjoy having the show. thank you very much for retired prison governor vanessa frake . thank governor vanessa frake. thank you. great stuff. now it's time now for the great british giveaway and your chance to win our biggest cash prize so far, an incredible £30,000. and it's totally tax free, which means you'll get the lot to do whatever you like with. and here's all the details that you need for a chance to become our next massive winner. >> summer could be a scorcher with your chance to win £30,000 cash. our biggest cash prize to date. >> it's totally tax free, which means you get to spend every single penny however you like. >> what plans would you make with an extra £30,000 cash in

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channel. welcome back. your time is 524. i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. there was a shock result in france's elections overnight. the left wing alliance defied the polls and beat marine le pen's hard right national rally. but as his centrist prime minister resigns, what does a hung parliament mean for president macron? well, joining me now to discuss this is the journalist peter allen. peter welcome to the show. so can you set out for us precisely what happened a couple of weeks ago? marine le pen was set on course for an historic victory. now it appears an alliance has been formed to keep her out of power. tell us more. >> that's right. martin. effectively, what happened was a month ago, the national rally did extremely well at european parliament elections, winning about 33% of the popular vote across france . this figure was

across france. this figure was replicated in opinion polls suggesting they were the dominant force in french politics at the moment. because of that, president emmanuel macron decided that there should be a parliamentary election. there was no need for that election. but he said , look, if election. but he said, look, if this party really is so popular, let's have a bit of democracy in the country . let's, allow people the country. let's, allow people the country. let's, allow people the chance to put a lot of national rally mps in the french parliament. it was a two week election over two rounds, and, last night, the second round, it was expected to lead to a national rally absolute majority in the national assembly. but that didn't happen. why? because other parties, and most notably , other parties, and most notably, left wing parties, created a popular front. how that effectively worked was that candidates dropped out of some

multi—candidate constituencies in the second round, give one candidate a free run at the national rally candidates, and that led to the national rally being pushed into third place. emmanuel macron's together coalition was in second place, and in first place again was this new popular front, which is made up again of a coalition of left wing parties, many of whom don't get on at all and probably have very little chance of governing together. but they've achieved what they wanted to achieve, which is pushing out the national rally and keeping marine le pen and her young protege, jordan bardella, who's only 28, out of power. martin. >> but peter allen, that coalition could come at a great cost. first of all, some of the policies on that left wing ticket, bringing the retirement age back down to 60, add them

all up rumoured to be ,200 billion worth of damage to the economy and some of the characters this guy called jean—luc melenchon , the french jean—luc melenchon, the french jeremy corbyn. in fact, he makes corbyn seem quite moderate. >> yes, he's been around a long time. jean—luc melenchon. he stood to become president of france for many years. he also leads quite a big party in the national assembly , france national assembly, france unbowed, it's called, he does have his constituency. he does get a lot of votes. he has one of the leading figures on this coalition remember his party, france unbowed, did not win the election. it's very, very important to say that he was just a member and his party was just a member and his party was just a member of this coalition, and i have to say, martin, personally speaking, i don't think he's got a chance of being appointed prime minister as he thinks he does. and i don't thinks he does. and i don't think that that party will dominate the french parliament,

let alone a new french government. i think emmanuel macron, in the end, it's down to him now who he chooses to be his prime minister, who he chooses as a government. so these huge spending plans of france unbowed and melenchon, i don't think, are actually going to become a reality, actually. >> and peter allen, we were just seeing pictures on screen there of widespread civil unrest on the streets of france. we have the streets of france. we have the olympics in a heartbeat. time what's the mood on the streets of france? it looks pretty volatile. >> yes, that's a huge concern. this month was meant to be the start of a huge celebration of everybody uniting behind these magnificent games, they've put paid billions to put them on here in france and all this kind of divisive politics was meant to be forgotten. but, there was trouble. i was out in the repuquue trouble. i was out in the republique in central paris last night seeing the pictures there,

and it did get quite hot at times. there was a lot of tear gas used, no baton charges. having said that, i have to say martin, that, i've been watching riots in paris for the last 20 years. they happen all the time . years. they happen all the time. they are part of the political process. france is nothing if not a revolutionary nation. they're always attacking each other and fighting each other. we have paramilitary police here. they don't exist in the same way in britain, policing by consent is what the british way is. the french pay all these thousands of, officers to go out with batons and all kinds of weapons to fight the citizenry. all very, very common, i'm afraid. okay, so but i do agree. i think there will be more of this as we push towards the olympics . and it's going to be olympics. and it's going to be pretty ugly when the eyes of the world are going to be on france. >> okay, peter ryan, thanks for joining us once again. the french are revolting. thanks for joining us on the show. now i've got a couple of emails to go

through before the news on the subject of are we on the long road to rejoining the european union? sir keir starmer's government cosying up to brussels on the first monday of the term? jeff says this of course, sir keir starmer is going to get his back into the eu. i call him second referendum. starmer it's only a matter of time before they say, let's put it to the people again. and on the topic of small boats, the new plan from yvette cooper to stop the boats. and he says this why don't we just call border force what it is? it's the border ferry force. nothing is ever going to change. and paul quickly adds this. come on. sir keir starmer is an ex human rights lawyer. i don't think his heart is in this job. and then catherine quickly adds, every government, including the last lot, could have stopped the boats if they wanted to. that's the problem. they just don't want to. now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, and i'll cross live to dortmund ahead of england's euro 2024 semi—final clash with the netherlands. but first, it's your latest news headlines with polly middlehurst .

polly middlehurst. >> martin, thank you . the >> martin, thank you. the headunes >> martin, thank you. the headlines this hour. downing street has admitted the summer will be challenging for the new labour government, as the first boatful of migrants since the general election crossed the engush general election crossed the english channel this morning . english channel this morning. the group of 64 illegal migrants was intercepted by a border force vessel and taken to a migrant processing centre in dover harbour. that brings the total number of migrants crossing so far this year to 13,500. that's up 12% on the same time last year, and the latest small boats arrivals comes as the former prime minister, sir tony blair, urged the new labour government to bnngin the new labour government to bring in digital id cards to help control immigration. but the home secretary says it's not part of labour's policy. instead, yvette cooper insisted setting up a new border security command would bring an end to people smuggling across the

channel people smuggling across the channel, and the chancellor outlined her plans to build more homes this morning, claiming she's prepared for short term political pain to get britain building again. in her first major speech, rachel reeves said she's ordered officials to produce an assessment of the financial mess left by the conservatives and ukraine's president is vowing to retaliate after a russian missile strike killed at least 29 people and left a children's hospital in ruins in the capital. it's after russia launched its biggest barrage of missiles across for ukraine several months. meanwhile, world leaders are preparing to head to a nato summit tomorrow . volodymyr summit tomorrow. volodymyr zelenskyy, president of ukraine, is going to call on kyiv's allies to give a firm response to today's attack by russia . and to today's attack by russia. and in france, voters are facing a new political future after parliamentary elections. but there won't be a right wing government. marine le pen's national rally came third in the

polls, despite expectations it would win. protesters clashed with riot police in paris last night after the results leading to a likely hung parliament. the left wing new popular front coalition winning with president macron's centrist group . those macron's centrist group. those are the latest news headlines for now. i'm polly middlehurst more in half an hour. see you then for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> let's take a quick look then at the markets for today in the pound. buying you $1.2831 and ,1.1844. the price of gold is £1,850.16. an ounce, and the ftse 100 is closed for the day to day at 8200 points.

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welcome back. the time is three. it's 538. even i martin daubney on gb news now. prince harry has found himself once again at the centre of a massive row. after being nominated for an award named after an american war hero killed in afghanistan. the duke of sussex is set to be honoured with the pat tillman award for his work with the for the invictus games, but sources claim he is now stunned by the backlash he's received. but is

the backlash justified? well, let's pose that question to the former bbc royal correspondent and great friend of the show, the legendary mr michael cole. michael, always a delight to have you on the show. do you know what, michael? i'll be honest, the only thing i'm stunned about is the fact that prince harry is stunned. >> yes, he says it's a bitter pill. >> well, there's no way of sugar coating this pill, martin, because actions have consequences. >> and what he's been doing over the last four years has not gone down well in america. and 68,000 people, mainly americans, have signed a petition that he should not receive . he should not be not receive. he should not be given this. >> pat tillman award. >> pat tillman award. >> mrs. mary tillman , who is the >> mrs. mary tillman, who is the mother of the late pat tillman, she said, well , she described she said, well, she described prince harry in the following terms. she described him as this controversial and divisive

individual , controversial and divisive individual, a privileged person. she said it should go to somebody who actually does things unheralded. and she said she was shocked and she wasn't consulted about the prince. and there we see him in happier times receiving this award. >> now , pat tillman was a >> now, pat tillman was a genuine war hero . genuine war hero. >> he was a football player for the arizona cardinals, and he gave away or gave up a £3 million contract in order to join the army. after 9/11, and he and his brother joined the he and his brotherjoined the army . and unfortunately and army. and unfortunately and tragically, he was killed 20 years ago in afghanistan. >> sadly by friendly fire. but that doesn't take anything away from him. he was awarded the silver star and the purple heart, and this award . espn heart, and this award. espn recognises service and also service connected with sport.

now we know that prince harry did a great job in setting up the invictus, meaning unconquered games after he'd seen the warrior games in america. >> and we know that he served nobly and valiantly in afghanistan as a commander of an apache attack helicopter command. commendations are due there. but all of that, of course, was pre meghan. >> and after he married in 2017 and then scooted into self—imposed exile in california, well , we don't need california, well, we don't need to draw you a picture. >> we know that what's gone on and in america, you know the late queen was held in high regard. and a lot of people have been saying have been commenting on this. well, where is the service, of prince harry? he's turned against his own commander in chief, i.e. his father. and he said some very ungallant and unkind things about the princess of wales and indeed his brother.

so 68,000 people have signed this petition. the award would be given on thursday night. >> there is a complication, martin, because the mc , the host martin, because the mc, the host of the ceremony would be serena williams. >> now serena williams is a big buddy of meghan markle, so perhaps it might be rather difficult for husband to harry say i'm not going there. >> but if i were giving him pr advice, that's an unlikely thing. but if i were, i would say that he should either politely decline the award because it is so controversial or he should not accept it in person because we don't want to see him being booed, do we? >> well , some see him being booed, do we? >> well, some people might rather enjoy that, michael, but let's, let's let's leave our own opinions out of this. but isn't the point here that, prince harry seems to exist and meghan markle, the sussexes in general seem to exist in this vacuum where they simply don't get the temperature test of what the

pubuc temperature test of what the public are thinking. it's clearly an award that harry, as an individual, isn't, fit to take. when you look at the mothers reaction, and you can only you can only ascertain from this , michael, that it's a pr this, michael, that it's a pr stunt that espn think this was a goodidea stunt that espn think this was a good idea to. they're all completely out of touch. my sister was married to a us serviceman. i know america, i know how they think about their veterans deeply , deeply care veterans deeply, deeply care about them. and to turn this into a pr stunt, a bauble they spectacularly misread the room. >> michael cole i think so. espn, of course, were looking for ratings and i think they've they've actually miscalculated here. >> they've tried to defend the award by saying, well, he's done such a great job over ten years for the invictus games that is undoubtedly true. but other people have countered by saying, yes, it's all about him now. and here we see them in, in british columbia at whistler , because

columbia at whistler, because they're going to have very soon winter games for the those who have been unfortunate enough to be wounded and injured in conflicts around the world, all very commendable. but if it's an ego trip, people see through it. you know, people are not fooled. they get the right idea . and if they get the right idea. and if they don't get the right idea, gb news tells them what the right idea is. >> and do you think that he will turn the award down, or is it simply gone too far? now he has to go with this. >> i'm wondering if he's ever listening to pr advice or if the advice he's getting is any good. >> you know, you can have many. yes men around you saying yes, yes, yes, but occasionally you need an abominable no man who's going to say no. this is a bad idea. >> and you'd look much more , >> and you'd look much more, respectable, much more gallant, much more noble, if you understood. >> listen to that , mother. mrs. >> listen to that, mother. mrs. tillman, who lost her son aged

27, 20 years ago to friendly fire in afghanistan. listen to what she said. she said it should go to somebody much more humble . not somebody who's humble. not somebody who's privileged, not somebody who's got immense amounts of wealth, not somebody who , as you not somebody who, as you intimate lives in a bubble , intimate lives in a bubble, where their own estimation of themselves, seems to be the paramount one. always a big mistake to believe your own pubuchy. mistake to believe your own publicity . and it seems to be publicity. and it seems to be that prince harry is only listening to one person, and she is the one closest to him . is the one closest to him. >> okay, we'll have to leave it there. michael cole, perhaps you could be the abominable snowman and put your big foot up harry's backside. thank you very much for joining us on the show. always a pleasure. now get ready, because the england squad is gearing up for a simply massive euro semi—final clash with the netherlands. but is it time for gareth southgate to do the unthinkable and drop his shattered captain r harry , harry kane? i'm martin daubney on gb news.

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dismal performances. luke shaw could start the game for england after he made his comeback from injury in saturday's penalty shootout win over switzerland . shootout win over switzerland. >> the last four months have been really tough, i think obviously at the start i was expected to come back a lot soonen expected to come back a lot sooner. but, you know, i, i went through quite a few setbacks to be honest. but, i'm here now , be honest. but, i'm here now, yeah. and it was really nice to get on the other night, i've been itching to, to get some minutes. it's been a long while, but yeah , no. really pleased but yeah, no. really pleased that i was able to get get on the pitch and get some minutes. and of course now hopefully get some more in the next game . some more in the next game. >> well let's speak now with sports broadcaster chris skudder who is in germany. chris, welcome to the show. as you know, i always had complete faith in gareth southgate's boys. we did it. we vanquished the demons of penalties. the big question is can we do it again now? >> you said they were rubbish, martin and they weren't going to do it. i told you they would and

they did, you know. listen, it's you get this far and you just win. simple as that. and, i, as i said, the other day when i was in, in dusseldorf, there's more to come for england. i just feel, you know, we haven't seen anything yet, but it doesn't matter either way. i just think they're playing within themselves and getting to this stage of the tournament. now it's really about getting over the line and that togetherness and looking at some of these pictures today there's as a and you saw bukayo saka there and phil foden the smile on the face says a lot. they they are playing for gareth southgate. he might be getting all kinds of pelters at home and all over the place, but the players like him and you know, that is so , so and you know, that is so, so important. not the greatest tactician we know that, but it's just, you know, that that final furlong which you just those words you just use, that's it for england now wednesday semi—final and then we all hope a final on sunday against either spain or, france. >> now chris who would have

thought that penalty is historically our achilles heel became our strongest moment, an astonishing set of penalties, both from those who put the ball in the back of the net and from the keeper, jordan pickford, who played tremendously talk back in britain now , though, is turning britain now, though, is turning to harry kane. he looks extremely tired. is it chris skudden extremely tired. is it chris skudder, do you think, off the record altogether to think about dropping keano zero chance of kane being dropped? >> i know he's not been playing very well. you've got to remember. i mean, he was injured towards the back end of the season and it's not really looked up to it as he. but you know he has scored two goals. and if a chance does drop to harry to anybody in england team you'd probably want it to fall to harry kane. there's a games get very tight from here on in now. and you've got to remember that that gareth southgate and i talked about that togetherness. his big thing is that harmony. and he does stick by the big

players. he doesn't like to make substitutions until they concede a goal. as we saw the other week, which might be an argument for why don't why doesn't he change it earlier. that's a fair argument. but you know, he does stick by the big players. so i'll be amazed if he drops harry kane. i really would. i think the only chance of any changes will be that he'll probably bnng will be that he'll probably bring back mark gay, who was suspended for that last win . suspended for that last win. he'll probably come back into the defence at the expense of konsa. the defence at the expense of konsa . and we just heard from konsa. and we just heard from luke shaw there as well, didn't we? whether he'll play start on the left hand side. that must be a big temptation for southgate. but i've got a feeling that he'll again stick by another of his favourites, kieran trippier on that left hand side . on that left hand side. >> okay chris, it's got a quick 30s here. can the three lions roar or will the future be bright. the future be orange? >> they're going all the way to the final. sure of that martin won't need penalties this time. you know. listen in their history, england had only come from behind to win knockout matches twice before the last week. they've done it twice in

the last six days against slovakia and the win against switzerland as well. so times are changing . they're winning at are changing. they're winning at penalties, it really feels honestly that this is england's time and i think they're going all the way to the final anyway. >> normally i would say at this point, have you been drinking? but you've been right so far, chris got an optimistic all the way. thank you very much for joining us. enjoy the match. you take care my friend. that's all from me for now. dewbs& co is up next, presented this evening by bev turner. and then if you haven't had enough of my ugly mush, i'll be back on your screens at 7 pm. right here on gb news. don't forget to join us from 6 am. tomorrow. it's breakfast with eamonn and isabel, followed by britain's newsroom at 930 with andrew and bev and then tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday . and of course, then i'll midday. and of course, then i'll be back tomorrow at 3:00 until six. i've been martin daubney on gb news the first day of a new laboun gb news the first day of a new labour, first monday of a new labour, first monday of a new labour government. has anything changed? now's the time for your weather with alex burkill.

>> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> hello, i'm here with your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. it is going to turn pretty wet for many of us as we go through the rest of today. overnight and into tomorrow, because there is a system that is pushing its way northwards and this is going to bring a lot of cloud and some heavy, persistent rain, especially across parts of the southwest. as we go through this evening and overnight with a warning out, because we are likely to see some disruption, some flooding is possible, as well as some difficult driving conditions to that. rain will spread across much of england and wales as we go through the night. so a wet picture for many of us, it does mean temperatures are generally going to hold up. so a mild start to the day for many though further north across parts of scotland in particular

here, there will be clear skies overnight so it could be a bit fresh. first thing. however, once the sun comes up we will see our temperatures lifting a little bit, although they are likely to stay a bit below average for the time of year. generally but are mostly fine. picture through the morning across much of scotland, rain starting to push its way in across parts of northern ireland and spreading across much of the northern half of england and wales. two further south. the heavy, persistent rain will have cleared through by around 8 or 9:00 in the morning, but it is going to stay pretty cloudy for many and there will be further outbreaks of rain, these continuing as we go through the day and there could still be some heavy ones. the more persistent rain though, will be spilling its way across parts of northern england into northern ireland and into southern scotland, across the far northwest of scotland, clinging on to some drier weather for a time. like i said, though, temperatures are a little disappointing for the time of yeah disappointing for the time of year. we may just about scrape into the low 20s where we get any drier or possibly brighter breaks that rain in the north continues to edge a bit further

northwards, the far northwest of scotland, clinging on to some fine weather through the evening . fine weather through the evening. elsewhere, quite a bit of cloud and there will be some outbreaks of rain around, some very wet weather to come across northern parts on wednesday. otherwise there is a drying trend as we go through this week by by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb

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versus the boats, it's going to make entertaining viewing. yvette cooper came out swinging today, talking of, well, more task forces and we'll tell you how many people came across already on small boats today. what chance do they have to fix this mess? plus, the former barrister and new pm must surely understand law and order, so maybe we should have faith in his plans to release thousands of prisoners. does that fill you with hope for safer streets? plus, eton school for boys is leading the way in protecting their pupils from the perils of smartphones by banning them. good for them , i say. now, good for them, i say. now, should an all state school children be afforded the same protections ? this first monday protections? this first monday of the new regime, lots to discuss in the next hour. but first, the latest news headlines with polly . with polly. >> bev. thanks very much indeed.

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