minister, leaving women's minister, leaving feminist campaigners furious. it's because she said this to the bbc about women. >> two years ago it was definition of a woman . definition of a woman. >> well, i have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a women actually is . actually is. >> and shocking. smoking statistics. smoking related cancers have reached a record high despite a fall in smoking rates. why might that be.7 we'll rates. why might that be? we'll crunch the numbers for you and shadow cabinet. >> lord david cameron has quit frontline politics. funny that. as sunak announces his interim top team, is anyone listening to the tories and sir tony blair will speak at the future of britain conference this morning. >> he's going to detail his hopes for the new labour government. you don't want to miss that .

miss that. and what you don't want to miss is mine. and andrew's reaction to what he has to say. so let's cross live now to tony blair, who's speaking at the annual future of britain conference in london. >> are also against us. and this assumes we face nothing like another pandemic, whose bill was another pandemic, whose bill was a whopping £373 billion, or an energy crisis, which costs 52 billion. and we have some deep structural health problems. there are rising numbers of long term sick of working age , big term sick of working age, big increases in disability benefits and in mental health spending. so we have a an unsustainable situation . britain is not alone situation. britain is not alone in this. as you can see, most developed nations face a similar challenge, though britain is in

a worse position than most . the a worse position than most. the simple and unavoidable truth is that unless we improve growth and productivity and drive value and productivity and drive value and efficiency through our pubuc and efficiency through our public services , we as a public services, we as a country, britain , are going to country, britain, are going to become much poorer, much poorer, and therefore our politics, even more divided and fractured . now more divided and fractured. now that might make us pessimistic , that might make us pessimistic, but i do not share the pessimism. on the contrary , i pessimism. on the contrary, i don't think there's ever been a better time to govern, a better time to effect change, a better bafis time to effect change, a better basis for optimism and a surer bafis basis for optimism and a surer basis and reason for hope. if we understand how the world is changing and how we use that change to change our country in

the short term , as we the short term, as we highlighted last year , some highlighted last year, some clear early wins can help on growth and productivity , as my growth and productivity, as my institute has never tired of pointing out. and as the new government indeed has pledged to do, planning reform , seemingly do, planning reform, seemingly dry subject has the best potential of delivering a boost to growth by conventional means. but that's not just for infrastructure like renewable energy , but also, crucially for energy, but also, crucially for housing and a better brexit deal will also help . but there is will also help. but there is only one game changer. i think effectively the 21st century technological revolution . this. technological revolution. this. here is a quote from the head of the imf . but frankly, it could

the imf. but frankly, it could have been from the head of virtually any global institution in the world already prior to 2022, we were living through a tech inspired revolution . and we tech inspired revolution. and we can see that by looking at the companies which now dominate global markets. but then compare them with the corporate giants of 1997. and in the purple, obviously are the technology companies. but note not simply the domination of tech companies today. and incidentally, see the two pharmaceutical companies in the list, both of whom are offering the new weight loss drugs . but offering the new weight loss drugs. but see, offering the new weight loss drugs . but see, the size of drugs. but see, the size of today's giant companies.

drugs. but see, the size of today's giant companies . some today's giant companies. some ten times the market cap of the giants of yesterday . and now , giants of yesterday. and now, with the breakthrough represented by generative ai, there is going to be another revolution on top of this existing one. the opportunities are huge. the risks are huge , are huge. the risks are huge, but there is absolutely no doubt that this is an era of transformation . as our two young transformation. as our two young speakers were saying, just a moment ago, things which were impossible . advances which would impossible. advances which would have taken decades will happen in a few years or months . the in a few years or months. the value we can add the improvements in efficiency we can make , the radical benefits can make, the radical benefits in outcomes that we can secure could be truly revolutionary. if

we seize the opportunity and there will be many well meaning parts of our system and politics, who will resist, who will downplay the opportunity and focus on the risk ? but the and focus on the risk? but the biggest risk is not being too bold, but too timid . the task bold, but too timid. the task before us is a great renewal. to before us is a great renewal. to be the first nation to show the full opportunity of governing in the age of artificial intelligence . in this new world. intelligence. in this new world. will either rise or fall . now will either rise or fall. now the enormous blessing for the uk is that we are fortunately strong in the very thing which will determine success in artificial intelligence . we have artificial intelligence. we have some of the world's best

universities after america and china. we're in third place in many of the key indicators we have in deepmind. as we shall see later today, one of the best, possibly the best artificial intelligence company in the world. but we're in danger of forfeiting our position . universities clinical position. universities clinical trials, data centres these are the things vital to building strength in sectors like life sciences , financial services and sciences, financial services and manufacturing. and of course , in manufacturing. and of course, in al itself . so focusing on manufacturing. and of course, in al itself. so focusing on this ai itself. so focusing on this is the 21st century industrial strategy for a forward looking british government already the private sector is starting to

adopt ai at scale , increasing adopt ai at scale, increasing investment , adopt ai at scale, increasing investment, making savings , investment, making savings, changing recruitment . you see changing recruitment. you see there the goldman sachs prediction of a $1 trillion investment in al over the next years by the tech giants and other leading companies over the next decade , the adoption of ai next decade, the adoption of ai will add significantly to growth and over time, could and should raise growth rates well over 2. but we need government policy to lean in and accelerate its adoption . the tpi paper earlier adoption. the tpi paper earlier this year had 22 recommendations covering everything from infrastructure to skills to

procurement, infrastructure to skills to procurement , to reform of the procurement, to reform of the capital markets to boost investment . however, for investment. however, for government, the most exciting opportunity the tech revolution can offer is in respect of government itself. over the past months , tbi has been working on months, tbi has been working on policy reports about al, which for obvious reasons, we didn't pubush for obvious reasons, we didn't publish during the election, but we're publishing them now . and we're publishing them now. and here is what they show . the here is what they show. the report on how ai can be applied to the tasks of the public sector . that a fifth, a fifth of sector. that a fifth, a fifth of workforce time could be saved just through applying existing ai solutions, creating £10 billion in annual savings at the end of the first term, government , and 34 end of the first term, government, and 34 billion at the end of the second. we then

did a specific analysis of the department of work and pensions, donein department of work and pensions, done in collaboration with faculty. ai, one of britain's leading ai companies , showing leading ai companies, showing how again presently available ai solutions could reduce backlogs , solutions could reduce backlogs, reimagine job centres and cut benefit fraud . then there is benefit fraud. then there is health care . we are living health care. we are living through a time of huge advance in medical science and treatment. all of it accelerated by artificial intelligence and the application of ai by artificial intelligence and the application of al to data . the application of al to data. cardiovascular disease, obesity, cancer all are being changed by means of . prevent and cure means of. prevent and cure helping to reduce the crippling economic cost of preventable

disease . for the first time, disease. for the first time, a health care system geared to prevention rather than cure is within our grasp . today, a new within our grasp. today, a new tb report prepared with the help of andrew scott and his team of economic modelling experts , economic modelling experts, shows in dramatic terms the link between preventive health care and wealth . and wealth. >> so that sir tony blair to give him his full moniker. speaking at something called the future of britain conference, it's being hosted by his tony blair institute, which is an extraordinarily successful billion pound industry. frankly, it's one of our viewers, said confidence trickster, nodding to his sponsors there. >> your response at home was one of exasperation. fury and confusion about why tony blair is on the stage today. in the

first week of a labour administration, but basically taking the reins off sir keir starmer. >> it's a bad look, look, this conference will have been organised probably months in advance, but it's very bad time for sir keir starmer because we know that blair's a lot of his people have worked in starmer's private office when he was leader of the opposition, they provided lots of policy documents and on sunday, in the front page of the sunday times, blair was laying down the law to starmer on immigration, saying, you've got to sort immigration out, otherwise there'll be a problem with reform rich coming from him when he calls most of the immigration problems. this now will look like keir starmer is being told to what do. >> yes, he clearly is. i mean, look, one of the things he said there is he said you know, one of the things that we're going to do for growth is planning reform . and tony blair said it's reform. and tony blair said it's a seemingly dry subject. no, tony blair, it is not a dry subject. it is a dry subject. is it all you're bothered about is expanding your technocratic ambitions across the globe and filling your coffers at the expense of the british people? but if you are a person living in this country, actually

planning reform is really important. >> really is , because it's what >> really is, because it's what the definition of green belt is, because they're going to build on green belt. and i heard the new local government minister, jim mcmahon, earlier talking about it won't be on the rolling hills of england. well, that's all right then . yeah. well hills all right then. yeah. well hills roll. they won't build on them. >> let's talk to former labour mp bill rammell, a friend of the show. morning, bill. you can probably sense our frustration and certainly my anger that tony blair has taken this week to burst onto the stage and to talk about what are effectively globalist vision for this country . we need to sort our own country. we need to sort our own house out before we start talking about putting money in the in the pockets of the tony blair foundation . blair foundation. >> well, look, it's a non—profit making organisation. and i think tony was talking. how much is he worth, bill? >> how much is tony blair worth? how many millions? how many hundreds of millions is that man worth as a former prime minister? >> and how much is john major worth, and how much is something

like what tony blair is worth? >> nothing like it. >> nothing like it. >> i don't think that's actually true. and this is a non—profit making foundation. let's cut to the chase . he was talking an the chase. he was talking an awful lot of sense about the priority for growth , the priority for growth, the priority for growth, the priority for growth, the priority for planning reform, and the use of technology. this conference had been planned as andrew said, months and months in advance, none of it takes away from the way that this labour government , led by keir labour government, led by keir starmer, has frankly hit the ground running, reaching out to all parts of the united kingdom to try and restore the union. tackling immigration, turbocharging growth through significant planning reform . wes significant planning reform. wes streeting meeting with the junior doctors through the bma today to get a resolution to their dispute that we desperately need . i have to say, desperately need. i have to say, after three four days in power, this has been a really good start. >> were you not uncomfortable that there was blair on the front page of the sunday times laying down the law , an op ed laying down the law, an op ed article? shouldn't he have

waited ? not the first weekend of waited? not the first weekend of a new government and now , a new government and now, knowing that this conference was being held this week. now you heard me say earlier, of course, this was booked months in advance. but the big article telling him what to do on immigration and then the conference today, it does create an impression, which i suspect blair doesn't mind , that he's a blair doesn't mind, that he's a very much back in vogue with in in terms of charge . in terms of charge. >> well, i mean, i do think and you know , there was one sentence you know, there was one sentence in tony blair's article at the weekend, about cutting immigration that has got a lot of headlines. and i do think tony should recognise one that that this labour government is committed to cutting immigration, both illegal immigration, both illegal immigration, but also legal migration, but also should recognise that the inheritance of this labour government, led by keir starmer, is so much more challenging than when tony came to power in 1997. now, you know,

tony's done what he's done. this conference was long planned. be in no doubt moving forward. and keir has demonstrated that clearly, clearly over the last few years with ruthless leadership of the labour party that he is in charge, and he will set the direction for the party and the government. >> bill, bill, stay with us. >> bill, bill, stay with us. >> we've got to take a quick break, tony blair said. there we will rise or fall. at the moment my fear is he will rise. we will fall. stay with us. britain's newsroom

950. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> so, before the break, we heard from sir tony blair, the former prime minister, and we're talking to the former labour mp, bill rammell. bill you were elected in 97. in that blair that first blair landslide. i don't think the atmosphere has any comparison . i was reporting

any comparison. i was reporting the blair landslide in 97 as a political correspondent for the times. then there was huge excitement, genuine optimism about this young, telegenic prime minister, this landslide has been predicated on the smallest share of the vote, probably ever for a government with a majority, why isn't there the same enthusiasm for starmer ? the same enthusiasm for starmer? >> i think, in major part because the country is punch drunk after the chaos and division of the last 14 years of the conservatives, the lies , the the conservatives, the lies, the deceiving, the economic chaos, constant change and no sense of purpose and direction and yes, that's about the last conservative government, but that infects people's attitudes towards all parties and i think that's why, and i've said it previously on your programme, i think this is probably the first government elected with a landslide without enthusiasm. but i think there is the prospect of delivering real,

measurable change that will begin to reconnect with people . begin to reconnect with people. and as as i said earlier, if you look at the early steps of this labour government over the last 3 to 4 days, they very much have hit the ground running and it will be about delivery. it will be about demonstrating that we can reform the planning system that we can build the houses that we can build the houses that are needed , that we can that are needed, that we can generate the economic growth to enable us to invest more in pubuc enable us to invest more in public services. and i think as that happens, you'll begin to see greater support moving forward. >> bill, do you not worry when you hear tony blair talking in that way and i would also say rishi sunak before him about al being the solution to all of our problems. do you never wonder about the question, what are people going to do forjobs? people going to do for jobs? because i inevitably a lot of this tech changes and we have to move with the times. we cannot be complete luddites when it comes to technology. we have to accept some of it . but it really accept some of it. but it really worries me when i hear tony

blair speaking in a sort of utopian megalomania way that this is going to save us all we never hear. and the jobs people are going to do are x. >> i think there's a modicum of truth in that, bev, a lot their hold on technology can help us to get greater productivity within the public sector, and thatis within the public sector, and that is welcome . but we also that is welcome. but we also need to be interventionist to actually, protect, for want of a better phrase, some of the worst excesses of ai and technology, and particularly to work out and protect where the jobs of the future are coming from. and if you want a contrast between this labour government led by keir starmer and the last labour government led by tony blair, this is a government that's going to be much more interventionist , going to be much more interventionist, in going to be much more interventionist , in the going to be much more interventionist, in the jobs market, in industry, you know, one of the big things that's been happening over the last few daysis been happening over the last few days is the negotiations with tata steel. to the state,

intervening to support and maintain british jobs. i think the i think the tories, the last labour government. >> no, i think the last tory government was talking to tata about intervening . i think about intervening. i think they're just carrying on where they're just carrying on where the last the tories left off. >> we're doing it much more effectively and we're going to deliver a result over the next few weeks that will protect thousands of jobs in wales and elsewhere within the uk. but i'm making a broader point that, you know, you you need a government that meets the challenges of the age that you're living in. and i think this labour government, led by keir starmer, is going to be much more interventionist than when tony blair was prime minister. all right. that's a good thing . good thing. >> okay. thank you. we really appreciate your time this morning. loads of you getting in touch. you're incensed by tony blair bursting onto the stage this morning. we'll get to some of those messages. >> the man who's caused all the problems with migration in this country don't go anywhere, is the weather with alex a brighter

outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news morning, welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. >> some places having some fine weather today, but for most of us expect rain could be quite heavy and for many it's going to be a cool day as well. already raining across much of northern england, north wales that rain spreading into northern ireland and southern parts of scotland. further south, the rain is more on and off, with parts of the midlands largely dry through this morning. some heavy showers possible across the far south—east of england and actually northwest scotland , actually northwest scotland, generally staying fine through the day. some good spells of sunshine here if it brightens up later over northern england and parts of the midlands , feeling parts of the midlands, feeling quite warm and humid and may spark some heavy and thundery showers. but for much of the day southern and central scotland is going to be wet and that rain is drifting up into northeastern scotland and once it arrives here, it's going to last through the night. and indeed for most of tomorrow, as well. but for

most of today, at least, the highlands and the western isles and the northern isles of scotland dry and bright, most of northern ireland, though dull and soggy, that rain will be heavy in places here too, brining up over northern england and the midlands this afternoon. quite warm and humid here, but that could spark some thundery showers. quite a lot of cloud across the south with some showers here, but the heaviest rain further north in this band. and as i said, once it sets in oven and as i said, once it sets in over, particularly northeast scotland, likely to last through the night and for much of tomorrow as well. still some heavy showers this evening over northern england and we'll see more showers coming in through the night across parts of the south. staying fairly wet too for much of northern ireland. quite a warm night with temperatures in towns and cities holding up at 14 or 15, the rain persisting over parts of northern scotland. we do have a met office yellow warning in place that rain could cause some disruption. a different day over northwest scotland, with outbreaks of rain here. slowly further south we'll see something a bit brighter. some good spells of sunshine, but still a potential for1 or 2

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gb. news >> well . >> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 >> well. >> good morning. it's10:00 on tuesday, the 9th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so a big rise in defence spending or not, as russia bombs a children's hospital in ukraine on the eve of the nato summit, the former head of the british army calls for more money for our military, warning we're only fit to fight for a month and we've just been subjected to sir tony blair's vision, former prime minister has urged the new labour government to embrace artificial intelligence as a game changer in fuelling economic growth of course he did. and there's a row over the new women's minister. not

surprising. the prime minister has appointed anneliese dodds to the role. feminist campaigners are furious because this is what she said. anneliese dodds to the bbc just two years ago it was definition of a woman . definition of a woman. >> well, i have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is . actually is. >> the statistics on smoking related cancers, which have reached a record high with 160 people being diagnosed every day. this is despite a fall in smoking rates and before midday, with no dip into the popular conservatism. >> post—election conference speakers include jacob rees—mogg, lord frost, speakers include jacob rees—mogg, lord frost , suella rees—mogg, lord frost, suella braverman. we'll keep an eye out for liz truss after she lost her seat at the general election, as did, of course , did, of course, jacob.

davis is with us, so we're going to talk to him about tony blair. we're going to talk to him about the army, the strength, and also what the tories should do after their worst defeat ever. >> and i'll be googling an island to go and live on while tony blair is in charge. gbnews.com/yoursay to let us know your thoughts this morning. give me your island ideas first though, the very latest news with mark . white. with mark. white. >> good morning. it's10:00. the main headlines from the gb news centre, labour ministers will sit on the government front benches for the first time in 14 years, when parliament returns this afternoon, 643 mps were gathered to elect a speaker, with sir lindsay hoyle expected to put himself forward once again . they'll also swear an again. they'll also swear an oath ahead of parliament's state opening next wednesday, and sir keir starmer will speak for the first time at the despatch box as prime minister tonight, the

prime minister will head to washington to join other nato leaders. the summit will mark sir keir starmer's debut on the world stage , with support for world stage, with support for ukraine at the top of the agenda.the ukraine at the top of the agenda. the labour leader has already pledged his unshakeable support for the alliance. the prime minister will also meet with us president joe biden at the white house, where they'll discuss the special relationship between both britain and america. well, the summit comes as world leaders condemn russia's missile attack on the main children's hospital in kyiv. well, these are live pictures at the scene of that strike. as rescuers continue to sift through the rubble, ukraine's president zelenskyy says 37 people, including three children, are now confirmed to have died . more than 170 others have died. more than 170 others were injured when the missiles struck in broad daylight on

monday . pay negotiations are set monday. pay negotiations are set to get underway between england's junior doctors and the new government . representatives new government. representatives from the british medical association will meet department of health officials to try to end the long running dispute. 11 strikes over 20 months have caused widespread disruption to millions of appointments. health secretary wes streeting has previously said he would not agree to demands for a 35% pay rise. the prime minister said the government will set up a council for regions and nations dunng council for regions and nations during a meeting with mayors and downing street. well, a warning for those watching on tv. the following footage contains some flash photography. greater manchester's andy burnham and mayor of london sadiq khan were among those who attended this morning. sir keir said he's planning to loosen whitehall's

tight grip over big cities and regions through a new partnership approach. it follows warnings by the local government association of a £6 billion funding gap in the local authority sector. conservative mayor for the tees valley, ben houchen, told gb news the meeting went well. >> it was very positive actually. i was really pleasantly surprised that he was really energetic, really keen. he wanted to work with us and he was very open to the idea of much more devolution, which has changed with different prime ministers over the last 10 or 15 years, depending on which one it is. so ultimately we're going to have to keep him to his word. if he keeps his promises, then it looks very promising for further devolution and ultimately it looks very promising that we can get on and deliver for our regions . regions. >> suella braverman is blaming liberal conservatives for the tories election defeat . speaking tories election defeat. speaking at the national conservatism conference in washington, the former home secretary said the party was taken, had taken a good hiding and lost more than 250 seats because they failed to

keep their promises. mr braverman is among the likely candidates to succeed rishi sunak as leader of the conservatives conditions at harmondsworth immigration removal centre have been branded the worst in the country by the prisons inspector, according to the report . violence and drug the report. violence and drug use were rife at the site in february. the inspection also revealed several serious suicide attempts . mitie care and attempts. mitie care and custody, which runs the centre, said that they would work tirelessly to implement the report's recommendations as soon as reasonably practicable . as reasonably practicable. thames water says it will run out of money by the end of next may, unless it can get further funding. britain's biggest water firm, which is in debt by more than £15 billion, has just 1.8 billion in cash reserves that it needs new funding to maintain and update its infrastructure.

after investors pulled the plug on 500 million of emergency cash earlier this year , it could earlier this year, it could leave the new labour government with a difficult decision over whether to nationalise it, something they've said they will not do well, those are the letters gb news headlines for now. i'm marc white, more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom, live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. i'm delighted in the studio with us is the senior tory mp who still standing like a lot of your colleagues, david davis, congratulations. you are one of only 120. you're almost part of an extinct species. >> oh well, not quite . it's

>> oh well, not quite. it's pretty great. >> it was pretty grim and it was a terrible campaign. >> yeah, it was a terrible campaign. i mean, central office did a bad operation. they just were very poor, and of course we were. i mean, the commonest comment on the doorstep was, you know, when you get your act together , we'll vote for you. i together, we'll vote for you. i mean, it's all to do with disunity. and we want to talk to you about blair and stuff. >> but just before we do, i want to ask you. i there is a growing view. i was in the house for a bit yesterday . it's too soon to bit yesterday. it's too soon to rush into a leadership contest. nobody really knows who these candidates are. you've got a lot of new mps. why not have a caretaker prime tory leader? somebody senior, somebody who's perhaps been a cabinet minister? david i'm looking intently at you. >> yeah, i know i can see that coming . coming. >> hold the fort until december because i was at tom tugendhat's due last night. he's a minister going to run for the leadership. he said, nobody wants to hear from you. just go and lie under a stone. >> i agree with the argument of delay and the reason is very simple , opposition is incredibly

simple, opposition is incredibly different from government . what different from government. what we need is somebody who is brilliant at opposition, right. because no matter how grievous this defeat is, this huge labour majority is incredibly fragile . majority is incredibly fragile. yeah. loads and loads of people with with majorities in the hundreds. labour members. yeah. majority. so we could if we did it properly sweep back. and so the two options one is end up like william hague brilliant speaker but completely defeated by circumstance and one extra seat at the end of it. or we could get it, get this, get our act together properly. do the selection of the leader properly and maybe defeat labour next time round . now, to do that, time round. now, to do that, you've got to pick somebody who's good at opposition. we don't know whether any of them are good opposition or which ones are. so give them, give them a few months and hold a thing after december. i have to say i think it's rishi sunak's duty to stay on, deal with some of the obvious problems in central office. some of the

obvious problems on finance, the other issues that you don't want to distract a new leader and give the party time to make a measured and sensible assessment. there's nothing special about doing it now. christmas is easily early enough. >> yeah, i agree, and after the day mark of the election campaign, his campaign, he should own that. and going early. his mistake he should. he will do the right thing won't he. >> oh i think he will. i mean look he's a very honourable man. but you know, understand if you're standing at the despatch box as the leader of the opposition and you ask a question, something wrong with this hospital or wrong with that transport system, it's your fault. that's that's all starmer has to say. we are cleaning up your mess. and that will be true for the first two years. so there's no rush. in fact, there's no rush. in fact, there's a there's a very, very big premium in giving the party a bit of time and not letting not putting in a new leader until we've got through that first grim six months. i agree . first grim six months. i agree. >> how did you feel seeing sir tony blair standing up there today telling us his vision for this country? >> it was wonderful. it was just

wonderful . look, six months ago, wonderful. look, six months ago, people who actually understand i were warning us about it. you know, the experts, the people who design the systems. right? then we have tony blair, who did admit when he was prime minister that he had struggled with his o—level science. right. yeah. telling us that we should embrace ai and that somehow is the answer to everything, so it's nonsense. i mean, but but but what's also interesting about this is the fact that he's come out so quickly, instantly. we've got a new labour government, actually a new in every sense of the phrase , a new every sense of the phrase, a new labour government. it's a blairite government, isn't it? >> because we know all the policy documents he wrote for starmer beforehand. big article in the sunday times and sunday about what he's got to do on migration. he calls all the migration. he calls all the migration problems by the way, with, well, it was at least it'd be a little bit more, less, more subtle. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> not very shown his hand. so quickly. >> he has shown so many people who've been waiting. i think he's got going on. i think he's got overexcited. he did. but you

know. but the but the similarities are astonishing. i mean, there's a phd to be written about this gordon brown was the one who encouraged extra immigration. why? because it made the growth numbers look better, not the growth per capha better, not the growth per capita , not the wealth of capita, not the wealth of individuals, but the growth numbers. a lot better. he did that deliberately, right? all of the other things he did deliberately. he fiddled the books bluntly . he came in and books bluntly. he came in and said, now we've seen the books, now we've seen the, quote, secret books. there are no secret books. there are no secret books, right ? all these secret books, right? all these things are coming down the road . things are coming down the road. pfi, this horrible private finance initiative, private finance initiative, private finance initiative, private finance initiative, which is government on the never, never. you know, brown did that to take all this money off the off the national debt . he did that. and national debt. he did that. and for 50 billion of resources, we paid 275 billion of taxpayers money. and we're still paying for it, and we're still paying for it, and we're still paying for it. and we'll pay for it again, because that's because reeves has said she's going to do the same. so all of the things you saw in the first blair government, you're going to get in the second blair government, which is what this is. >> what did you think about tony blair even on sunday? you know,

barely sort of 48 hours after the election, from friday morning , writing about his morning, writing about his ambitions for digital id system in this country. what did you think? well, we civil liberties very much at the heart of i. >> i defeated his id card idea before . oh no, actually, it's before. oh no, actually, it's not true. i didn't defeat it . he not true. i didn't defeat it. he defeated it. i don't know if you remember. they wanted an id card. 80% of the public agree with this. and then one day the government lost two cds with everybody's records. yes. do you remember that? and all of a sudden it went from 80% in favour to 70% against. i wish it was me. it was actually them, and that will happen again. you know, some he wants all the health records in one place. >> yeah, yeah . >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> so and then they'll get leaked, you know, and you know and all, all our most intimate details . so, he is let me and all, all our most intimate details. so, he is let me put it this way. his comments are more inspirational than practical. >> he'd like them to be practical, though. he'd like to be. bill rammell was saying then , be. bill rammell was saying then, because i made this accusation

that i think he has conflicts of interest financially, tony blair and what he's saying, of course, he and bill said, you know , he's he and bill said, you know, he's probably just as rich as john major. well, john major's worth £20 million. tony blair is it says he's worth 60 million. i think it's a lot more than that, i think. >> i think that's a takings for one month, actually. yeah >> must be his net worth is for every dodgy despot in the world, hasn't he? >> and he's. >> and he's. >> oh, he's the middle east. >> oh, he's the middle east. >> he's probably china i don't know about. >> are you a little frightened? >> are you a little frightened? >> no . i mean i think look, the >> no. i mean i think look, the story i told you about id cards, this will happen time and again. things will go wrong, you know, and the public will see. we've had a rehearsal of this. we've seen it before. so at least this time, hopefully we'll be a little bit more prepared for it. but you know , the whole but you know, the whole everything's on a teeter totter, you know, in five years time we could have a desperately oppressive not not in the eastern european sense, but but an oppressive government in the sense of intrusive government . sense of intrusive government. too big tax is too high, too

much interference in everybody's life and so on. you could have that or you could have a collapsed labour government and a tory government coming instead . a tory government coming instead. that's what really that's the range of options. yeah. and it is that huge this time. let's just ask you one final question, david, because pressed for time, starmer is off to the nato wmmw >> we saw what happened in kyiv with the bombing of the children's hospital. not a coincidence done in daylight. they knew exactly what they were doing. should the head of the former head of the british army saying we could only fight a war for a month, if that , the tories for a month, if that, the tories were going to raise spending to 2.5 to 2.5% of gdp immediately, labour said they will, when they can afford it, they've got to do it immediately. >> yeah they have. and 2.5 is not enough either. >> it should be 3, shouldn't it? >> it should be 3, shouldn't it? >> but so it should be 3% across nato because it's all of nato that's under threat. yeah, on the first hand. but the other side of this is this, and i'm afraid the head of the army, the ex head of the army has got some responsibility here. we've got to learn to spend our money better. yes. we waste money in this, in defence, in this country, like going out of fashion. we've got to build our

reserves. i mean, actually, we could build 100,000 reserves quite quickly if we wanted to . quite quickly if we wanted to. and they're just as good as regular soldiers. >> when you go every weekend or every second week, all of that, you learn the tricks. >> you know, you learn the games, you learn the tactics, you learn the skills, but also you learn the skills, but also you bring to them. you know, if you're a software, specialist or you're a software, specialist or you're a software, specialist or you're a doctor, you bring your civilian skills into it too . so civilian skills into it too. so you have a much cleverer army, too, in cleverer not not in the sense of iq, but. >> and they're committed. >> and they're committed. >> yeah. and of course, they're , >> yeah. and of course, they're, they're volunteers by definition, not doing it because they can't get another job, you know. so i think and all this talk you had talk in the past about conscription that's never going to happen. it would always be too late anyway. but what could happen is a much, much bigger reserve army. and much smarter use of money. fewer big, expensive tanks, lots more cheap drones that sort of thing. a rethink a complete rethink is what's needed. >> well, david, we are delighted that you're still there talking some sense. >> yes. >> yes. >> thank god you won. thank goodness. >> thank god you won. thank goodness . thank you, david goodness. thank you, david davis, right up next, can britain become a clean energy

superpower under labour? word salad. net zero. secretary ed miliband thinks so. we'll try and work out. do you have any idea? andrew, what a clean energy superpower is? >> it's when he creates gb energy. this new company they're going to create which they say will cost 8 billion. add nought. >> yeah. it might make you poorer. this is britain's newsroom on gb news

>> 1020. this is britain's >>1020. this is britain's newsroom @gbnews. andrew fryston bev turner. we've got our panel here. have we got some fouls? >> and piers pottinger are with us. gentlemen, good to see you. let's talk to piers first about the tories. >> you've been known the tories for years. and years and years. piers, i was saying to david davis , delay it. we don't need davis, delay it. we don't need they don't need a tory leader until he says december. not a bad idea. get a caretaker. maybe unless they keep rishi in the job or have a caretaker. somebody like david davis, an

elder statesman, and then the tories can get themselves organised. >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, nobody's ready for them . them. >> i think david would be a superb chairman of the party, but it's right because the problem is with the existing bunch, those that are left, none of them have been in opposition before . absolutely. and being in before. absolutely. and being in opposition is a different skill to being on the government benches. and we've got to find that it needs to emerge. and it's a question of who is going to be good at the despatch box, who's going to capture the imagination of the voters? and also who's going to stand up to the obvious , mr charisma, nigel the obvious, mr charisma, nigel farage in the house, because if they don't find someone good, farage will be the person who will ineffectively be the voice of the opposition. that's why they should take their time. >> and in a way, it needs to be somebody that hasn't been entirely on side with the rishi sunak. because, as david davis says, when keir starmer stands up and says, but it's all your fault. exactly. somebody like suella braverman would probably 90, suella braverman would probably go, yes, i agree, but i would do

it differently. yes that's the only possibility. >> personally, i think they need a fresh face somehow. yeah. and i think, you know , the word at i think, you know, the word at the moment very strongly is, is robert jenrick. and i mean, he was a disastrous immigration minister and also he's written, in my view, an appalling piece in my view, an appalling piece in the telegraph today about prisons, which again, when he was in the, in the home office, you could say, well, that's your fault, mate , too. and of course, fault, mate, too. and of course, that's, that's what the government will do. the whole time. now it's your fault. and they're already doing it. i mean, of course, it's an absolute nonsense . rachel reeves absolute nonsense. rachel reeves saying i only discovered yesterday how bad it was. not true. she's known for months how bad it was . yeah. and they're bad it was. yeah. and they're just paving the way to put up , just paving the way to put up, horrifically taxes and hit the middle classes in england in the most terrible way. >> okay , well, sam, let's move >> okay, well, sam, let's move on. we've got a lot of time to decide on who might be the next leader of the conservatives. i hope, hopefully. can i do drama? yeah, you can do it, sam. yeah. okay it's keir starmer sparks a row this week because he's he's

appointed the women's minister as anneliese dodds. i think we've got the audio of anneliese dodds being asked what a woman is . here you dodds being asked what a woman is. here you go. listen to this. >> it was a definition of a woman . woman. >> well, i have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is. i mean , you look at actually is. i mean, you look at the definition within the equality act, and i think it just says, someone who is adult and female, i think, but then doesn't say how you define either of those things. i mean, obviously that's then you've got the biological definition, legal definition. i with respect, i didn't ask for that. >> what's what's the labour definition . definition. >> well i think with respect, emma, i think it does depend what the context is. surely >> oh here we go. she's and she's equalities minister sam. that's brilliant. she can't define a woman. this >> i just think this is such a ridiculous story. and it's a gotcha question because the reality is for the past, god knows how many centuries we've defined a woman based on herself

and eve. >> actually, yeah. since adam and eve, thousands of years. yeah, but. >> and that's always been based on self—identification or perception. so does someone present as a woman, you know, does someone present as a man? you assume you guys all assume that i'm a man, but that's based on how i'm presenting to you. you haven't asked me to, you know , drop my trousers and prove know, drop my trousers and prove it. you haven't asked me to provide you any papers. you're not likely to. well, good. thank you. i appreciate that, and i think it's just the kind of there's this ridiculous sort of gotcha question of define what a what a woman is. basic question. >> but the equalities minister, what's a woman? >> well, a woman is doesn't seem to it depends on the context, but it does depend on the context doesn't it. >> but so but you are born male. >> but so but you are born male. >> i am, so far as i'm saying. >> so even if you present it to me as a, as, as more feminine, if you had a dress on this morning and you've been sat in makeup, you would still be a man, but you wouldn't know , is

man, but you wouldn't know, is what i'm saying. >> i could be, i could be a woman right now. i could have women's parts and i could just be wearing what i chest binder. >> i want to live in a world that believes in truth at the most important issue that underpins everything. >> can i can i just say on this tony blair, we were he was telling keir starmer what to do today in his speech at the tony institute on sunday in the sunday times, he was also telling tony keir starmer on immigration. but he also said don't get caught up in all this wokery. this is exactly what sam's talking about and what the new equalities minister is talking about. yes, of course, it's absolutely crazy. >> i mean, if you can't define the word woman, why is she a woman's minister? yeah. what does that mean? she doesn't know . does that mean? she doesn't know. i mean, it's ridiculous. and we're only arguing about this because of a small minority in this country, and it's a tiny minority. >> 1. yeah who are unsure about their sexuality . their sexuality. >> and the fact is, there are men and women. and we ought to just be bold enough and strong enough to admit that if people want to pretend they're someone

else, fine. good luck to them. i've got no problem with that. but the fact is, a man is a man, and a woman is a woman. and stop. >> actually, question about we're not arguing about this because trans people, we're arguing about this because a very small minority decided that persecuting trans people was good politics. >> who know we're deciding this because a very small but very noisy group of trans activists decided to attack people like me. >> when i was booked to talk at a legal firm on international women's day. this is ten years ago, and i was told i couldn't stand because i'd once liked a tweet of an article in the daily mail written by graham linehan. that's where this started. >> i don't think that is where this started, though. it started it started with people like graham linehan. >> cancel jk rowling . >> cancel jk rowling. >> cancel jk rowling. >> well, who's cancelling jk rowling is what she's going to have. she's going to have 10 billion instead of 25 billion. >> she's been banned from speaking at universities by this lobby. >> she's been asked not to

speak. she's not been invited to speak. she's not been invited to speak at universities. well, why is it cancellation that you that you say there's better people to speak at a university than jk rowling? i can speak think about a thousand people that are better to speak at a university than a billionaire that spends all her life on twitter. i mean, what's she got to add? >> denigrate a woman who's got millions of people into reading books? kids? i mean, you're denigrating there's a billionaire. what's wrong? if she's a billionaire, she's a billionaire because her books are so successful and they're good. >> yeah. and she could have used all. she's a billionaire that could have used all of that power and all of that influence to help people. she chooses to spend her time on twitter attacking a tiny, vulnerable minority. >> she's not attacking the minority. in fact, quite the reverse. it's the minority who are cancelling her and preventing her from speaking. i believe in freedom of speech. you clearly don't. i mean, i think it is absolutely absurd that this tiny minority of ludicrous activists have created an issue that never existed before. they've created it themselves because they're

attention seekers more than anything else, and it is a waste of time and money for us even to be discussing it. >> if you believe in freedom of speech, will you condemn waterstones who have fired fired an employee who criticised a writer who who attacks trans people? it subsequently turned out that writer has a history of tweeting things that certainly in my view, are racist for using her freedom of speech to defend trans people. the waterstones fighter will you protect? will you speak out for me? who? for using my freedom of speech to defend trans people has been attacked repeatedly by by the anti—trans lobby? you know, this is not a one way street. >> i don't i don't believe there is an anti—trans lobby. >> there's definitely an anti—trans lobby. >> lobby. not in the same way that there is the trans activist lobby. there are those who are pro—women, i would say, as opposed to a pro women's spaces, women's rights , women's women's rights, women's identity, biologically born

women , those people, and i put women, those people, and i put myself in this category, do not wish any harm on any individual that wants to live a life that is opposite to the gender in which they were born. we don't wish them any harm, whereas the trans activists wish biological women harm and have actually attacked women at protests. >> well, let's i mean, let's talk about these these pro—women campaigners. graham linehan, speaking at a conference in ireland on the same platform as anti—abortion campaigners. let's talk about the pro—women protesters who harassed a cis woman who won a1a ten k just because she looked a bit mannish. let's talk about the ones that attacked a woman in in a women's toilet because she had a women's toilet because she had a pixie cut and they thought she was too mannish. she didn't conform to the sort of 1950s style of woman. >> get back to the point, the equalities minister cannot define a woman. >> the equalities minister can define a woman . actually, she's define a woman. actually, she's aware of the legal definition. she's aware of the biological definition. >> don't you think? this whole

horrible, divisive issue would be really simply solved if someone like anneliese dodds said yes, a woman, a biological born woman's woman? and there is also trans women? yeah, that is it . simple. distinguish between it. simple. distinguish between the two because i will distinguish between you as a man. and if there was a man sat to next you who dressed as female, that would be it for me , female, that would be it for me, a trap. no, all the way around. all the way around. if it was a woman, that would be a trans man. >> oh, but i don't think that's okay. with the exception of a very small group of, group of conditions. and for example, if you're putting someone in a in a cell with them, then that would be part of the, part of your assessment, your risk assessment that you do for all sorts of things. yeah. but with the with the exception of that, this is a really arbitrary and unnecessary definition. >> before we go to the news, the gentleman on blair, did you think about tony blair pretty difficult for starmer, isn't it?

sunday, a huge article from blair. tuesday, if there is again, it's beginning to look like he's not pulling his strings from the back. pulling from the front. >> oh yeah . and of course, the >> oh yeah. and of course, the great mandelson is very involved too. in fact, one of his company, global counsel, they are paying for a special adviser to rachel reeves. interesting and it's i wonder about the ethics of having a paid special adviser to the chancellor of the exchequer from a lobbying firm. i find that really, if that if that happened and if a conservative did that, there would be uproar. but mandelson's got away with it because of his cosy nature with starmer. yeah. mandelson and blair are pulling the strings of starmer. it's quite clear and horrific. >> it does look unfortunate, doesn't it? the big article on sunday, knowing he's doing the conference on tuesday, which would of course sam been organised months ago. it's a bad look. >> yeah. i mean he's trailing his conference isn't he. he wants people to wants people to come to it. i am going to agree with piers though. i think it is

absolutely wrong for private companies to be paying for paying companies to be paying for paying for spads. that's a that's a real problem. and if that's a real problem. and if that's happening early on in starmer's administration, then that's something he needs . he that's something he needs. he needs to get right and get it right immediately. because you can't have that . can't have that. >> okay, gentlemen, thank you so much. we've run out of time, but you will be back in the next houn you will be back in the next hour. first, though, the very latest news headlines with our very own mark . white. very own mark. white. >> it's 1032, the main news headunes >> it's 1032, the main news headlines from the gb news centre. labour ministers will sit on the government front benches for the first time in 14 years, when parliament returns this afternoon, 643 mps will gather to elect a speaker, with sir lindsay hoyle expected to put himself forward once again. they'll also swear an oath ahead of parliament's state opening next wednesday, and sir keir starmer will speak for the first time at the despatch box as prime minister. the new cabinet

is meeting this morning for the second time in just three days. ministers arrived in downing street to discuss sir keir starmer's key priorities for his first 100 days in office. at the heart of that agenda moves to radically boost economic growth, build hundreds of thousands of new homes and tackle illegal immigration. well, tonight, the prime minister will head to washington to join other nato leaders . the summit will mark leaders. the summit will mark sir keir starmer's debut on the world stage with support for ukraine at the top of the agenda.the ukraine at the top of the agenda. the prime minister will also meet with us president joe biden at the white house, where they'll discuss the special relationship between britain and america . peace negotiations are america. peace negotiations are set to get underway between england's junior doctors and the new government. representatives from the british medical association will meet department of health officials to try to

end the long running dispute. 11 strikes over 20 months have caused widespread disruption to millions of appointments. the prime minister said that the government will set up a council for regions and nations during a meeting with mayors and downing street, a warning for those watching on tv. the following footage contains some flash photography. well, greater manchester's andy burnham and mayor of london sadiq khan were among those who attended this morning. sir keir said he is planning to loosen whitehall's tight grip over big cities and regions through a new partnership approach. it follows warnings by the local government association of a £6 billion funding gap in the local authority sector . thames water authority sector. thames water says it will run out of money by the end of next may, unless it can get further funding. britain's biggest water firm, which is in debt by more than

£15 billion, has just £18 billion in cash reserves. it needs new funds to maintain and update its infrastructure. after investors pulled the plug on £500 million of emergency cash earlier this year. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm back in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> 1035 this is britain's >>1035 this is britain's newsroom on gb news now. >> cancer cases caused by smoking are at an all time high, according to cancer research uk. we're going to bring on that next. so for a quick

break. welcome back. it is 1038. this is britain's newsroom. >> cancer cases caused by smoking are at an all time high. according to cancer research uk. >> analysis suggests that 160 people are being diagnosed per day. that's nearly £58,000 yeah >> it's a time, isn't it, when we're supposedly smoking less now the charity are calling on the new government to revive rishi sunak's legislation to phase out smoking, which would ban young people from ever being able to legally smoke . well, able to legally smoke. well, joining us now is head of public affairs and campaigning at cancer research uk. sean walsh . cancer research uk. sean walsh. >> and simon clarke is the director of forest, an organisation that represents adults who choose to smoke tobacco. but we're just trying tobacco. but we're just trying to bring simon up, so this is sean. good morning . sean, it sean. good morning. sean, it does seem strange, doesn't it, when we've got less smoking, that actually lung cancers are going up. >> yes. it does seem a bit counterintuitive, doesn't it ?

counterintuitive, doesn't it? >> but the point is that there are still 6.4 million people in the uk who continue to smoke and smoking, as we know , is the smoking, as we know, is the leading preventable cause of canceh leading preventable cause of cancer. and what we're seeing with these figures today from cancer research uk is actually the lag effect of people who are smoking ten, 15 years ago, and thatis smoking ten, 15 years ago, and that is now manifesting sadly, in, in smoking related cancer, as you say , the number of cases as you say, the number of cases caused by smoking increasing by 17% since 2003. i think the key thing behind the statistics is for every one of these people, it's a family member, you know , it's a family member, you know, it's a family member, you know, it's a family member, you know, it's a friend. and for us at cancer research uk, it's a cancer that could have been prevented . so as you say, we are prevented. so as you say, we are calling on the new government to deliver against their manifesto commitment, which was to introduce legislation to progressively phase out smoking

and provide support for those people who do smoke to help them quit. >> shani louk i used to smoke and i'm very glad i stopped 25 years ago, whatever it was, but i just don't understand, andrew. but i don't understand how that proposal by rishi sunak was ever going to work effectively. they were going to ban people from a certain age, from ever being able to buy cigarettes. but unless people have got an id card when they're 23, how are they going to know the retailer whether they're entitled to buy the fags or not? >> well, that was one of the pieces, that were being was being discussed when the legislation was first being put through parliament, as you say, people, what the legislation was. >> just remind people what it was. >> so the purpose of the legislation was to increase the age of sale of cigarettes by yeah age of sale of cigarettes by year. every year. so effectively, if you were 15 now, you would never legally be able to buy cigarettes, cancer research uk supports the legislation. it's supported by medical practitioners, it's supported by the public. and

importantly, when the bill was going through parliament, it was also overwhelmingly supported by all parties. we know that tobacco and cigarettes is a killer. we know that it's a product that, if used properly, will kill the people who use it. and like you, andrew, i smoked when i was younger , and we know when i was younger, and we know that the majority of people who do start smoking smoke when they were young. so the more we can do to defer that moment so people don't get hooked and addicted. i found it incredibly about you. i found it so hard to give up smoking. i've got an 11 year old son. i've got a five month old baby, and i look at both of them and i just hope that they are never legally able to purchase tobacco, because i know the damage it does from my own family history to people's health. and when we look at an nhs that is struggling, you know, to meet demand, we see the cost of smoking to the economy and to the nhs. smoking costs about 1.9 billion every year to the nhs in england alone. you

know, whatever your views on the current government, they are working with a challenge that the previous government had. how do you prevent people from getting ill in the first place? how would you reduce demand on gp services? how do you reduce demand on the nhs? how do you help people live longer lives? this is a key piece of legislation that would achieve that. and the statistics we published today from cancer research uk highlight how important that is. >> okay. thank you . sean, head >> okay. thank you. sean, head of public affairs and campaigning, cancer research uk sean walsh there. let's talk now to simon clarke, who's the director of forest, an organisation that represents adults who choose to smoke tobacco. good morning. simon, your response there to what you heard from sean, this idea that nobody should be allowed to smoke because it is so dangerous , smoke because it is so dangerous, >> yes. good morning. well, i completely reject that. i think it's all about educating people about the health risks of smoking. and can i start by saying that i fully accept that

there are serious health risks associated with smoking? i mean, there cannot be a sane adult. indeed. i don't think there are many teenagers who are not well aware of the health risks of smoking. likewise, i welcome any new research that educates people about those health risks . people about those health risks. but this argument in this report suggesting that the number of cancers caused by smoking in the uk has reached an all time high does strike me as a bit misleading. i mean, we heard from sean that it's it shows a lag effect of people smoking 10 or 15 years ago. but the reality is that smoking in the uk peaked in the 1950s. that was when 80% of men smoked and 40% of women were smokers , and smoking rates were smokers, and smoking rates are currently at their lowest ever recorded levels. so i do think we need to put that in perspective , especially when perspective, especially when we're talking about introducing draconian legislation. now, cancer research , like the entire

cancer research, like the entire tobacco control industry , wants tobacco control industry, wants tobacco control industry, wants to introduce this generational ban on the sale of tobacco , ban on the sale of tobacco, where you're going to raise the age of sale by one year, every yeah age of sale by one year, every year. and within ten years, we're going to have this ludicrous situation where a 30 year old, for example, will be allowed to purchase tobacco, but allowed to purchase tobacco, but a 29 year old won't. and it'll continue year after year after that. and it's utterly crazy. i mean, what's what it's going to do is apart from infantilizing young adults who should be allowed to make up their own minds because once you're 18, you're legally an adult and you can do all sorts of things at the age of 18, you can drive a car, you can join the army , you car, you can join the army, you can possess a credit card, you can possess a credit card, you can purchase alcohol if you can do all those things. and of course, you can vote. and the same politicians who want to introduce this policy also want to reduce the voting age to 16, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. but the reality is, once you're 18, you're legally an adult and you must be treated

like an adult. and that means being allowed to make what some people might regard as the wrong decisions. but that's life, and that's all about living in a free society. the main thing is that we are educated about the health risks. but once you're 18, you must be allowed to make decisions for yourself. >> do you think that under this new labour government, simon, we might see a relaxing of these rules and the idea that maybe as an adult, you can make your own decisions. they like this legislation or is it going to go the other way? >> it's going to go the other way. >> i mean, it's ludicrous. >> i mean, it's ludicrous. >> i mean, i have to say, i don't think there's much difference between the rishi sunak government and the keir starmer government in terms of the nanny state. i mean, i do think the rishi sunak policy, when he announced it at the tory conference last october, i mean, it was just a political gimmick. he was running out of ideas. he decided to pull a rabbit from the hat and he thought, oh , this the hat and he thought, oh, this will be very popular. but clearly it made absolutely no difference whatsoever to the

conservative government's popularity. i mean, we heard from sean that the public is behind this policy. well again, it depends what question you ask in opinion polls, when we've carried out opinion polls through a reputable, pollster, we find that actually about two thirds of people think, if you can, you know, drive a car at 18 and purchase alcohol and do all these things , you should also be these things, you should also be allowed to purchase tobacco. so it's not as easy as simply saying people are behind this. and i think when people realise what are the consequences of introducing a policy like this, for example, it's going to clearly boost and fuel the black market because it's not going to protect children. children. there is already a law in place banning the sale of tobacco to people under the age of 18. if you want to protect children, then crack down on anybody who is selling tobacco to people under the age of 18. don't discriminate against young adults and infantilize young adults. >> okay. all right simon. thank

you simon clark is the director of forest, an organisation which represents adults who choose no labouh >> we're going to reintroduce that that legislation. it's unworkable. you ain't seen nothing yet. it's unworkable. are you 29. you can't have any cigarettes then. well, no, i'm 30 you say, i say prove it. you have to have your driving licence, id card. >> he's going to get much worse than that. right. up next, can labour finally end the constant junior doctor strikes health secretary wes streeting is going to try. this is britain's newsroom live across the uk on gb news

it's 1051. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. andrew, on the telly. new health secretary wes streeting will meet with junior doctors this afternoon in an effort to end strike action and discuss what's the betting they've already agreed it to junior doctors, who say their pay has been cut by

more than a quarter over the last 15 years, and they're still putting up for demanding a 35% increase. so can he end the strikes at least? well, to explain all of the above, charlie peters is with us. what's going to happen , charlie? what's going to happen, charlie? >> well, wes streeting says that any union worth their salt would come knocking on the government's door if they did meet that 35% pay demand. so that's highly unlikely. that's not going to happen . wes not going to happen. wes streeting has said as much, and i think we've heard yesterday from rachel reeves about her claim that the public finances are the worst they've been since the second world war. some tory critics saying is that really is that the case, the actual crash in 2000, is that, well, possibly. but also , is that the possibly. but also, is that the case? all the information is in the public. we have the obr, we have the parliamentary records. what do they know now that they didn't know last week? but they there is this perspective being put out that this is pretext being laid out for a more conservative approach to dealing with these strikes. we've had 11 in 20 months from junior doctors. the last one saw, which was just before the general election, only ended on the 2nd

of july . 23,000 staff walked of july. 23,000 staff walked out, 62,000 appointments cancelled at least. and it comes as the nhs waiting list has almost doubled from the pre—covid levels . millions are pre—covid levels. millions are waiting for appointments. over 6 million are on a waiting list. this is a significant issue that they're dealing with, but should they're dealing with, but should they meet that 35 pay demand? well, earlier today, gb news anna riley was in hull and she asked the good people there what they thought it's all to do with pay- >> they're all greedy. they all just keep wanting more and more money. where's the love in the world? i'm at hospital all the time. do you know what i mean? the doctors are on strike. i'm sat there for 12, 13 hours. >> i don't think they should go on strike because there's people in the hospital. what people in the hospital? what? need help. and them get them getting told to wait ten, 15 hours. i think the doctors should go on strike to get enough money as is. >> to be honest, i've heard that they had a big pay rise already 35. there comes a point where you think, well, are they being

a little selfish ? a little selfish? >> well, professor philip banfield , who's the chair of the banfield, who's the chair of the bma council, on the first day of this new labour government on friday, he issued a statement directed at wes streeting, the new health secretary and the labour government more widely, saying we know that you're going to approach this as a journey. you're not going to meet those demands immediately, are you? as wes streeting, as always said , wes streeting, as always said, as the labour kind of government in waiting has always said, but we'll see what that journey will lead to . is there going to be lead to. is there going to be some bargaining that meets them half way? what percentage is acceptable, and can they get a significant level to be met? when rachel reeves says the pubuc when rachel reeves says the public finances are in disaster, that's the deal. >> within hours, but it's all stitched up beforehand. >> i think that's unlikely. >> i think that's unlikely. >> i think that's unlikely. >> i really do have very cynical of you, andrew pierce. right. still to come, our very own political correspondent, katherine forster has an amazing personal story. you do not want to miss this. it's britain's newsroom on gb news, the people's channel. here's alex with the very important weather.

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> morning. 11 am. on tuesday, the 9th of july. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so we've been subjected this morning to sir tony blair's vision for the country. the former prime minister urged the new labour government to embrace artificial intelligence as a game changer in fuelling economic growth , and scottish economic growth, and scottish mps are arriving. >> the prime minister makes a surprise appearance outside number 10 for a group photo with those new scottish labour mps and the popular conservatism

post—election conference is underway in london. >> we'll bring you any highlights . highlights. >> this small gathering, i imagine, and the women's minister are. the prime minister appoints anneliese dodds to the role , leaving feminist role, leaving feminist campaigners furious. not surprising. this is what this woman, who's now the equalities minister, said to the bbc two years ago. >> it was definition of a woman. >> it was definition of a woman. >> well, i have to say that there are different definitions legally around what a woman actually is . actually is. >> he's got 410 mps keir starmer or 415 maybe. i can't remember. and he comes up with an equalities minister who can't define a woman. mind you, he was struggling until tony blair told him what it was. >> are you frightened yet? >> are you frightened yet? >> are you frightened yet? i >> are you frightened yet? i am. let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay a lot more to get through the next hour. first, though, the very latest news with mark . white.

news with mark. white. >> good morning. the latest headunes >> good morning. the latest headlines from the gb news centre. labour ministers will sit on the government front benches for the first time in 14 years, when parliament returns this afternoon, 643 mps will gather to elect a speaker, with sir lindsay hoyle expected to put himself forward once again. they'll also swear an oath as head of parliament's state opening next wednesday, and sir keir starmer will speak for the first time at the despatch box as prime minister. the new cabinet has met this morning for the second time in just three days. ministers assembled in downing street to discuss sir keir starmer's key priorities for his first 100 days in office. at the heart of that agenda moves to radically boost economic growth, build hundreds of thousands of new homes and tackle illegal immigration.

well, tonight, the prime minister will head to washington to join other nato leaders . the to join other nato leaders. the summit will mark sir keir starmer's debut in the world stage with support for ukraine at the top of the agenda. the labour leader has already pledged his unshakeable support for the alliance. the prime minister will also meet with us president joe biden at the white house, where they'll discuss the special relationship between britain and america. the summit comes as world leaders condemn russia's missile attack on the main children's hospital in kyiv. well, these are live pictures at the scene of that strike, as rescuers continue to sift through the rubble. ukraine's president zelenskyy says 37 people, including three children, are now confirmed to have died. more than 170 others were injured when the missiles struck in broad daylight on

monday . pay negotiations are set monday. pay negotiations are set to get underway between england's junior doctors and the new government. representatives from the british medical association will meet department of health officials to try to end the long running dispute. 11 strikes over 20 months have caused widespread disruption to millions of appointments. health secretary wes streeting has previously said he would not agree to demands for a 35% pay rise. the prime minister said the government will set up a council for regions and nations dunng council for regions and nations during a meeting with mayors in downing street. a warning for those watching on tv . the those watching on tv. the following footage contains some flash photography , while greater flash photography, while greater manchester's andy burnham and mayor of london sadiq khan were among those attending this morning's meeting. sir keir said he's planning to loosen whitehall's tight grip over big cities and regions through a new

partnership approach. it follows warnings by the local government association of a £6 billion funding gap in the local authority sector. conservative mayor of the tees valley ben houchen told gb news the meeting went well. >> it was very positive actually. i was really pleasantly surprised that he was really energetic, really keen. he wanted to work with us and he was very open to the idea of much more devolution, which has changed with different prime ministers over the last 10 or 15 years, depending on which one it is. so ultimately we're going to have to keep him to his word. if he keeps his promises, then it looks very promising for further devolution and ultimately it looks very promising that we can get on and deliver for our regions . regions. >> reform uk leader nigel farage has arrived at for parliament his first day in the commons. he was alongside his party's four other new mps, including chairman richard tyson, former tory party deputy chairman lee anderson. mr farage says he is setting his sights on the new government and claims it could be in trouble pretty quickly.

suella braverman is blaming liberal conservatives for the tories election defeat. speaking at the national conservatism conference in washington, the former home secretary said the party had taken a good hiding and lost more than 250 seats because they failed to keep their promises. mr braverman is among the likely candidates to succeed rishi sunak as leader of the conservatives thames water says it will run out of money by the end of next may, unless it can get further funding. britain's biggest water firm, which is in debt by more than £15 billion, has just 1.8 billion in cash reserves. it needs new funds to maintain and update its infrastructure . after update its infrastructure. after investors pulled the plug on £500 million of emergency cash earlier this year. it could leave the new labour government with a difficult decision over

whether to nationalise it, something they have said they will not do . conditions at will not do. conditions at harmondsworth immigration removal centre has been branded the worst in the country by the prison's inspector. according to the report , violence and drug the report, violence and drug use were rife at the site in february. the inspection also revealed several serious suicide attempts. mitie care and custody, which runs the centre , custody, which runs the centre, said they will work tirelessly to implement the report's recommendations . well, those are recommendations. well, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm mark white. i'll be back in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> very good morning. this is

britain's newsroom thank you for joining us this morning. gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce you've been getting in touch at home. i did say earlier i wanted an island to go and live on canvey island, isle of wight, isle of man. i'm aiming a little higher than that. >> andrew lundy island. >> andrew lundy island. >> well, mark has got in touch and he said apparently there's the beverley islands. ever heard of the beverley islands? no, no, i haven't. apparently they're an uninhabited canadian arctic circle group. >> off you go . you might be >> off you go. you might be a bit lonely in an area called long way for your mum and dad to go in an area called nunavut. >> i'm so disappointed that you're so keen to see me go and live on an uninhabited island. >> as the staff here are already packing, they're packing their bags , jul said. bags, jul said. >> i'd rather was gone . i'd >> i'd rather was gone. i'd rather have tony blair than keir starmer any day. oh >> we don't know what starmer is like yet , stuart says. like yet, stuart says. >> is it true that the labour ministers will not talk to gb news? well, no, not i don't think that is true. no.

>> i talked to darren jones, the to chief secretary the treasury, yesterday and i said can i give you some advice, minister? shave the beard. looks ridiculous. scruffy, looks scruffy. >> well , maybe that's not scruffy, looks scruffy. >> well, maybe that's not going to endear them to come and talk on gb news. >> no, he stopped. >> no, he stopped. >> talk for about three minutes about his beard. he said do you really think so? i said thatcher did not allow cabinet ministers with beards. you meant to be networking, andrew. >> if they were women, you meant to be telling them how welcome they would be. and we don't mind if they come on with their scruffy beard or not. >> well, he heard me , >> well, he heard me, >> well, he heard me, >> just hang on. sorry. we're loading the comments, freya says labour's plan , divide and rule. labour's plan, divide and rule. jackie said, do you not think the public should vote for the new conservative leader ? they new conservative leader? they have time to have an election for the leader that no one voted for the leader that no one voted for in sunak. but of course, the conservative party members they did should vote for yes. >> well, of course there are some mps who are survived the blitzkrieg last week. that's the right word. who is saying that members should be excluded? brilliant idea. as if they you know, they trudged the streets, knocking on doors, trying to get people out to support their mps

last week. of course they deserve a vote in the leadership. >> i couldn't agree more, valerie says starmer and biden can discuss what they have in common, such as being the puppets of previous leaders . puppets of previous leaders. ouch. and i wonder if andy burnham sat in keir's number 10 chair to try it for size when he's going to replace him in just a few months time? oh, valerie, what do you know? i don't think that's very likely. it's not very likely. >> keir starmer fell under a bus. it would be wes streeting or rachel reeves. >> we're not hoping for that. no, no absolutely not. >> i mean i mean, yeah , >> i mean i mean, yeah, theoretically, but yes, >> but you know, if he's gone in four years, five years, which he may well be, i honestly think that's quite likely i do. yeah. i don't think they're going to be there for more than a term. i can't, i can't lie, maybe i'm just hopeful, will starmer ask biden what a woman is? says keith wayne said making the prime minister look like a puppet. just because tony blair gives a speech and his opinion is short sighted, it's very sad. gb news bashing labour and twisting things to make the party look bad will not change what the tories have done to the country over the last 14 years.

>> i think starmer should ask biden do you know who i am ? biden do you know who i am? >> he wouldn't know who he is, would he? >> that would have been the killer question, wouldn't it, in that interview. >> and wayne, on your point of kwasi like critical feedback here. i appreciate your criticism. we aren't bashing labour and twisting things. we know how bad the last few years were, particularly in my opinion. i don't really think the 14 years was disastrous, i really don't. i think the last four years were disastrous, but actually we there has been a suspicion that this government is merely keir starmer in all but name. and tony blair is running the show. and to come out hot out of the blocks on the tuesday morning confirms that suspicion. yeah >> right now last week our very own gb news, political correspondent, katherine forster, thought she'd be outside downing street following the highs and lows of the election results. but instead she found herself in a mother's worst nightmare after her two sons, matthew and andrew, were reported missing in bali. >> that's right. so catherine endured as she puts it, the worst day of her life before

finally, after 40 hours of no sightings, the pair were located located well earlier. gb news breakfast spoke to catherine and her boys. here's their story . her boys. here's their story. >> actually, it was my idea. >> actually, it was my idea. >> and when did you realise this is not such a good idea ? is not such a good idea? >> oh, quite. quite early on i think it was like maybe two hours in. we were like, should we turn back now ? and we decided we turn back now? and we decided to go off and that was our last mistake, because when we went up the rest of the mountain phones died and got lost up there. >> so this is a volcano in bali. and instead of speaking to locals and taking the advice, which would have been hire a guide, make sure you've got expert advice getting up this mountain, you decided to use technology which lots of people do do, and use an app on your phone to help you navigate it. but what went wrong? andrew >> i think it was just a complete lack of preparation. you know, just went out there . you know, just went out there. no power banks like, we were

just completely unprepared, and we hadn't done the research. >> so your phone ran out of battery, and you just didn't know the way down. literally. >> that simple. >> that simple. >> once you're at the top. we were expecting to see, like, tour groups and stuff that we could , but nobody, nobody. could, but nobody, nobody. >> no one. >> no one. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> why was that? >> why was that? >> do you know the top of the volcano was so it was 3000m up. >> so it was in the clear clouds. yeah. and the terrain was so sheer, there was no way for us to go around the top to where the tour groups would have been. >> gotcha. >> gotcha. >> so when we got there, we were just like, whoa . the risk of just like, whoa. the risk of going, trying to go around is much too high. >> well, meanwhile, catherine, was was working away. it was voting day on thursday, and, we're not allowed to cover any politics on thursday, so it was a bit of a lull day for you. and that's when you started to get the bad news. >> i woke up at 6:00 and, they'd arranged a proxy vote from bali ,

arranged a proxy vote from bali, and i thought, well, i'd better check how they want me to vote. so i tried to ring them at 6:00. he didn't pick up, tried to meander. he didn't pick up. i thought, oh, they'll get back within a few minutes. they were amazing at keeping in touch and they didn't. and after about 15 minutes i thought, i'll go see where they are. i tracked on find my phone and matthew's last location was two days ago at the top of a volcano , and it was top of a volcano, and it was a bit worried then, but i thought, oh, it's a glitch, you know? blah blah blah. and then i got a text from a friend saying, can you give us a call? a bit worried about them, and then spoke to a girl they'd befriended who was in sweden, but they'd met on their travels. and she told me that they'd gone up the mountain. by the time i found out they'd been missing for 30 hours, they'd gone up the mountain on the tuesday night, british time. this was the thursday morning without a guide, and they'd told her it was really hard, and she told them to turn back, but they hadn't. and they'd sent screenshots from this app. with this trail that they were following on the app .

following on the app. screenshots of the app in case there was a problem , and a there was a problem, and a snapchat of a matthew avatar at the top. and she said, i know they made it to the top because i could see that his phone had nearly died, but the trail had actually closed many years ago. so the app, we'll need to make sure that that gets taken off the app. but you know, technology, save them in the end because it was the screenshots and it was the messages that they'd sent. but they should never have been without a guide. >> and catherine, for context, you've got three children. yeah. you sadly lost your husband just a few years ago. 20, 21, and they were fearing for the lives of your of your boys. what was running through your mind? >> yeah, i have a 15 year old, and my 90 year old dad was down staying. he'd been looking after the 15 year old while i'd been on the election , campaign. but on the election, campaign. but my husband had died of a heart attack very suddenly shortly after i started working here in 2021. so i've literally got the three of them. and before they'd

gone away, i'd said to them, you know , please be careful. i can't know, please be careful. i can't take any more trauma. and on the monday i'd spoken to them and i couldn't talk to them for long because i was with the prime minister on it was a gin tasting. the then prime minister, rishi sunak, on a visit to a gin distillery. i was about to go and taste gin and i was like, i can't talk to you for long and they mentioned a hike in passing, but i didn't know the details. and i said to them, look, don't go off on your own. you know, people get lost. jay slater , michael moseley go jay slater, michael moseley go in a group and matthew's exact words to me were, mum, we're not stupid . stupid. >> it turns out teenage boys can be a bit stupid. >> yeah, well, boys goodness, boys are boys , aren't they? boys are boys, aren't they? you've got boys, you know. >> you've got a boy. my eldest, who, is a similar age to those would absolutely could. i could imagine him doing that. the thing is, they think they're invincible, don't they? do. yeah. and poor catherine, she's she's been through so much. funnily enough, her two boys are lifeguards at our local pool, and i'd never met them, but i

knew they lived in the area. and i was swimming one day, and i saw these two boys, and i said, who's your mum ? they thought who's your mum? they thought i was a bit mad. and they said , was a bit mad. and they said, why? i said, it's a katherine forster redheads. yes it is. and i said, i worked with your mom @gbnews and they are lovely, lovely, sensible, kind boys. they just, they just put their mum through the ringer, but they're back safe and that's the important thing. >> yeah. up next we're going to westminster . it's >> yeah. up next we're going to westminster. it's a big day. lots of mps now enrolling as mps being sworn in for the first time. there will also be the sweet speaker, sir lindsay hoyle. will he be reinstated ?of ? of course he will, because he's a good speaker. all

>> 1120. >> 1120. >> this is britain's newsroom. you know that by now. i'm bev turner. and this is andrew pierce. >> so we're going to back to downing street to talk to our political editor, chris hope, the prime minister's chair, and his second cabinet meeting since the general election . and i

the general election. and i think he's there now , chris think he's there now, chris hope, is he there ? so he's also hope, is he there? so he's also been meeting with new scottish labour mps, of which there are a flippin lot. there he is. there's chris hope, chris. oh, it's raining. there you are. you get a labour government. it doesn't stop raining . doesn't stop raining. >> it really is raining again and again. >> i'm standing in front of the screen talking to you. andrew and bev. it's always pouring with rain in downing street, but never mind. we soldier on, as does the government. it's day five of this government. of course. today you'll see on gb news the new speaker, lindsay hoyle , the old speaker, sworn in hoyle, the old speaker, sworn in again for the new term. i should say, sir lindsay hoyle. and then we'll see, of course, sir keir starmer, he'll be third to take the oath to the king after the father of the house, edward lee, and the mother of the house, diane abbott, then we'll then we'll see. keir starmer, then we should see the leader of the opposition, rishi sunak, both probably wishing each other well, talking about the election. it's more of a general

knockabout as as mps cram in, the numbers of labour mps will be quite interesting. they'll be all down, the government benches overflowing. they've been told by whips they can't go on to the other side. andrew and bev. so the other side should have the lib dems opposite them at the far end from the speaker's chair, where the snp were in great number in the last parliament, and then the tory party towards the speaker's chair, the 130 or so tory mps. so all change. this is democracy. this is how it works. and i think you've heard earlier from the 12 metro mayors, they're in there seeing the prime minister for the first meeting ever as a group, 11 plus one tory, all labour plus one tory, that went well. ben hawkins said he found it very positive meeting you heard language there from, tracy brabin. she called it a productive discussion about how we'll grow our economies after that. sir keir starmer, the prime minister, he held a his cabinet, the second one after the one on saturday, the second one in the past four days. he

said he wants them to all focus on growth in their departmental areas and also move that cabinet around the country. so we'll be seeing a lot more so—called regional cabinets. i think , as regional cabinets. i think, as this pm tries to ensure that growth happens across the country, a big change. well, a smallish change today is the department of levelling up, housing, communities and local government has had its name changed back to simply the ministry of housing, communities and local government. the idea of levelling up that boris johnson term has gone along with the tory government. >> interesting , christopher, >> interesting, christopher, there'll be loads of new you'll know the number of how many mps who haven't been mps before . who haven't been mps before. brand brand new wet behind the ear and the sort of details of democracy that we don't really consider. but this is the sort of day to do it. and what will life look like for them now? i mean, some of them, of course, will have kept job positions on hold. they'll have had jobs, they'll have had to resign from on, on on friday morning. i mean, huge transformation for those individuals. what happens

now for them . now for them. >> yes. well, they'll be shown into their their offices. i mean, as things stand, i think mps have until monday. the old mps have until monday. the old mps who lost their seats to vacate the premises. i was at an event last night. i think andrew was there, a birthday for , party was there, a birthday for, party say, a birthday party. more of a leadership campaign launch party for tom tugendhat, who's standing, we think will be standing, we think will be standing to be tory leader. lots of frankly bitter and quite sad. tory mps there trying to scramble around, get their gear out. they've been told by the 1922 committee and party hq they've probably got they'll be paid probably for those longer serving mps until april next yeah serving mps until april next year. so there's quite a big cushion, i think, for the mps leaving parliament, although they're very upset with rishi sunak. he's doing currently been ringing around them, to be fair to him, he's almost a masochistic strategy. by richard rishi sunak ringing around these tory mps to apologise and some of them have put the phone down

on him. some aren't happy at all and it carries on. so today the 22 committee electors, new chairman and tomorrow, unbelievably, you might think, but perhaps bravely, mr sunak is going to address the 1922 committee, now that's going to be an extraordinary meeting because some tory mps, as andrew knows from last night, are absolutely spitting tacks about having this early election. they could be in power for six more months if they just held their nerve, but they're not. and instead of going to nato summit instead of going to nato summit in washington, like i'll be going to later with the prime minister mr sunak is going to be beaten up by his backbenchers tomorrow. and that's his fault, though. and it's all on him. and he's making clear he owns that, that that defeat last week new mps though they're being shown around. there's a there's a there's quite a big operation a kind of air operation if you like in parliament at the moment they're being and they're being walked around all their offices and showing where to go and how to wear their special lanyards and where to go. so there's lots of help for them to get started . of help for them to get started. their big thing, though, i leave you, is to do these big maiden

speeches on a policy area they care about, and they will happen over the coming weeks. but as things stand this week, it's all about swearing them in. that takes a while. >> all right. thank you chris. christopher. hope that it literally hasn't stopped raining , literally hasn't stopped raining, has it? since labour came to power. >> the dawn of a new, new era. >> the dawn of a new, new era. >> piers pottinger. >> piers pottinger. >> well, it started raining when rishi called. >> the election did actually very good. >> i mean, downing street. downing street . yeah, well, i downing street. yeah, well, i mean, but some of these mps who chris has just been saying are so bitter, actually a lot of it's their fault too, because the party was split, divided the tory rebels. how often did we read about them ? and if they had read about them? and if they had been a united party and put a brave front on it, as they used to do in old times and kept their differences behind closed doors , they'd look a very doors, they'd look a very different party and it would have been a much better campaign. >> suella braverman attacking the tories the day before the election. yes. >> well, i mean that was stupid. and i think suella braverman is

very much yesterday's person. i don't think she's got any chance of being the next leader. and i'm sorry, but i think we've had enough of her and she she hasn't achieved anything. and of course the rwanda scheme was completely hopeless from day one, was never going to work and hasn't worked and is over. so yeah, some four fs is also with us. >> sam, let's talk about this story that broke yesterday in rachel reeves speech. this is about the labour government now lifting this de facto ban. effectively. it was on new onshore wind farms. is this the solution to all of our energy perils? >> well, it could be part of the solution. it's. and it's good to see. i like that wind farms are going to be treated the same way as any other infrastructure project. so that means that they go to. >> are you a human rights barrister for wind farms? now yes, but wind farms have their

rights. >> yes. rights for wind farms. but i don't think we're going to get rights for wind farms, though, because the biggest bottleneck is the national grid. so yes, we've removed one bar to wind farms, but it takes at the moment up to ten years to get any new, whether it's a solar farm or wind farm or whatever, anything new plugged into the national grid. and so there's about 200 billion of investment currently just sort of gummed up. why does it take ten years? because the national grid isn't big enough. we don't have the grid. it doesn't go to enough places. it doesn't have enough capacity. so we're in a really problematic situation where you've got and solar farms, for example, being proposed , not example, being proposed, not where a solar farm is going to work and be really effective and also not cause problems for the local community, but where it can get a grid connection. and so you've got local communities really, in many cases , really, in many cases, justifiably angry about these things because they're in the wrong place. and even when they're plugged in, they're not

going to be as effective as they could be because they're in the wrong place. so labour, it's all very well to remove. footnotes 57 and 58 of the national planning policy framework, which is what it is . but that's got to is what it is. but that's got to be the first step. it can't be the last step. >> ed miliband is very excited about this, piers. oh, i'm sure . about this, piers. oh, i'm sure. >> oh very exciting. >> oh very exciting. >> well climate emergency i'm told that green energy, the company he's heading up, is now known as a m d another miliband disaster , and when starmer went disaster, and when starmer went up to scotland to see swinney, he promised that a green energy limited was going to be based in scotland . and of course, that's scotland. and of course, that's one way of making sure miliband stays as far away from westminster as possible, because they didn't let him out at all dunng they didn't let him out at all during the election. no, i mean, i think, you know, and what the labour party are going to do them the metro elitism is, is coming out of every pore. they're ruining the countryside. so they're going to put 1.5 million homes up. they're going to put all these wind farms up .

to put all these wind farms up. they're going to put the data centres and lots of new lots of new prisons, which will, i'm sure, delight all the people in the countryside. and this shows that a it's impractical. b it's how long is this going to take? as as sam has quite rightly pointed out , as as sam has quite rightly pointed out, it's going to take a long time to get this stuff happening. and certainly you can't build 1.5 million homes in even five years. to be realistic . even five years. to be realistic. that but then the very big issue is how on earth are they going to pay for it? and it's obvious now they're going to be whacking up our taxes and putting a special duty on driving for cars. pay by the mile. all of this is coming. all of the stuff they were terrified about having to admit during their election campaign. but it's happening and it's going to happen very quick. >> makes a point about the countryside, too. a lot of these areas where we might get these big housing estates, if they're going to build 1.5 million houses. sam, in five years, they're going to be in true blue

areas, which have now got labour mps . yeah, that's going to be mps. yeah, that's going to be a problem for rachel reeves because the local mp might have a very small majority labour in a very small majority labour in a say , not in my backyard, mate. a say, not in my backyard, mate. the old problem and this is this is not a debate because i'm going to agree with piers again and say it's a it's both a political problem, but it's also a policy problem. >> so and again with the houses, the housing plan is for is, is to make it easier to build on the, on the green belt or bits of the green belt that the they're calling the grey belt. yeah. but the problem with that is again, they're looking at the wrong bottleneck. there are a million permissions extant for houses. you could build a million houses or start building a million houses tomorrow. if you wanted to get on with it. no, they've got the permission. they've yeah. they've got. so the bottleneck isn't people getting planning permission. it's people building out the planning permissions that they've got. so what labour. what labour really run a risk of

doing is really annoying. loads of people in true blue constituencies or people in the country, which is a political problem, but it's also a democratic problem. >> why aren't why aren't the developers building? >> they wait for the land. they're waiting for the land values. >> yeah, the incentive is to hold on to the land. so the land value goes up because you you make more when you build a home, when you build something, you take a financial risk, right? because you've got to put money into doing that. buy it. yeah whereas if you keep the land, the value of the land going up and it will go up because it's got planning permission. so that helps it go up. and how can a much less risky to build on go, but actually , well, mandatory but actually, well, mandatory house building targets, which is what she said yesterday. >> i mean that's so central government knows better than local councils . local councils. >> well that's the problem we're having. i don't think so. >> in the next four years, is it not? don't go anywhere. time for your latest news with mark . white. >> good morning. it's 1132 white. >> good morning. it's1132 i'm mark white in the gb news centre. labour ministers will sit on the government front

benches for the first time in 14 years. when parliament returns this afternoon, 643 mps will gather to elect a speaker , with gather to elect a speaker, with sir lindsay hoyle expected to put himself forward once again. they'll also swear an oath on sir keir starmer will speak for the first time at the despatch box as prime minister. the new cabinet met this morning for the second time in just three days. ministers departed downing street after discussing sir keir starmer's key priorities for the first 100 days in office. at the heart of that agenda are moves to radically boost economic growth, build hundreds of thousands of new homes and tackle illegal immigration. well, tonight, the prime minister will head to washington to join other nato leaders. the summit will mark sir keir starmer's debut on the world stage, with support for ukraine at the top of the agenda. the

prime minister will also meet with us president joe biden at the white house where they will discuss the special relationship between britain and america . the between britain and america. the summit comes as world leaders condemn russia's missile attack on the main children's hospital in kyiv. these are live pictures at the scene of that strike as rescuers continue to sift through the rubble. ukraine's president zelenskyy says 37 people, including three children, are now confirmed to have died. well, some breaking news now and three people have been arrested after a man was shot dead in walsall in the west midlands. the victim, who was in his 20s, died at the scene. another man was also wounded and is receiving treatment to his injuries, which are not believed to be life threatening. all three men arrested remain in custody as west midlands police detectives continue with their investigation . pay negotiations

investigation. pay negotiations are set to get underway between england's junior doctors and the new government representatives from the british medical association will meet department of health officials to try to end the long running dispute. 11 strikes over 20 months have caused widespread disruption to millions of appointments. well, those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm back in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! >> cheers! >> britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . report. >> here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2807 and ,1.1836. the price of gold is £1,845, and

£0.92 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8196 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you. mark white, now up at noon. good afternoon, britain, with emily and tom. they are here with us. have you got on the show today, guys? >> oh, it's an exciting day today because new mps, all these new mps are going to be flooding into westminster around about 2:00. >> we'll start seeing that. and there's quite a ceremony that goes on to elect the new speakeh goes on to elect the new speaker. now it's everyone knows it's still going to be sir lindsay hoyle, but there's the sort of rigmarole and ceremony that involved for the first time since the election, sir keir starmer and rishi sunak having to stand next to one another and walk from the commons to the lords. i am so fascinated to see their body language. will they chat? of course , famously, when

chat? of course, famously, when jeremy corbyn and boris johnson walked next to each other in the same thing, they didn't exchange a single word. now will they be more magnanimous this time? >> i think there will be a few pleasantries, don't you? >> and of course, when the speaker's awkward, though, when the speaker is elected, he will be literally physically dragged to the speaker's chair. david davis is one of them. i don't know who the other one is. >> it might be father of the house, might be sir edward leigh, and it was nearly jeremy corbyn, because if it had been the other way round and corbyn had been sworn in a few seconds earlier, he would be father of the house. could you imagine independent jeremy corbyn? >> i want to know. >> i want to know. >> i want to know because this is irking me . is irking me. >> what you make of all this mayor getting more mayors, getting more power under this new devolution bill. i'm very worried about this. >> and they will they will soon be knocking on the door saying , be knocking on the door saying, forget the power, we want the money well, and they will cause it. they will. >> the real recipe for more tax increases. i say though, hang on, he's mr devolution though i think this is a thoroughly good thing.

>> it could be a terrible thing. it could be that we have a massive labour majority in westminster for the next ten years. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> isn't it going to be a good thing in local areas if people think, hang on, my taxes are too high, hang on, there's too much overbalance here. if we can get ourselves a ben houchen, if we can get ourselves an andy street, we're not the united states of america, though we're quite a small nation. >> the state of wyoming is half a million. with devolution so far is the fragmentation of our country rather than bringing everyone together. >> well . oh no, everyone together. >> well. oh no, i'm in favour. >> well. oh no, i'm in favour. >> between midday and 3:00, emily and tom and of course, you'll see nigel farage taking his seat. >> yes. >> yes. >> very exciting. >> very exciting. >> quite a moment, andrew, can you guess what's coming up next? take it away, >> they'll always hit you and hurt you. defend and attack. there's only one way to beat them. get round the back. catch. if you can. because i'm the england man. no idea what this is about . england man. no idea what this is about. this england man. no idea what this is about . this is britain's is about. this is britain's news. why do i just read while i'm told? or is it something to do with football ?

>> welcome back. it's 1141, >> welcome back. it's 1141, >> which was a football wrap. >> which was a football wrap. >> apparently . >> apparently. >> apparently. what? >> apparently. what? andrew >> apparently. what? andrew just got to read out there was the john barnes football wrap . john barnes football wrap. >> shall i do it again? again? okay. they'll always hit you and hurt you. defend an attack. there's only one way to beat them. get round the back. catch me if you can, because i'm the england man. >> it's very good. i mean, it was sort of more poetry that time as opposed to rap, but i liked it because i was just baffled at first. >> i thought it was something to do with bully dogs about bully dogs or football. >> right. let's see what everyone's been saying at home, brenda said . scrap all the brenda said. scrap all the mayors , save a lot of money. mayors, save a lot of money. yeah, a lot of you are saying this. actually, s atkinson says i've never agreed with devolution giving mayors whose skills are undisclosed, massive powers without democracy means

they can never truly represent they can never truly represent the people they are meant to be serving. several years ago, there was a local survey in my area where nearly 80% of people were against it. but once again, the people were ignored. we needed local referendums, more about devolution before any government introduced new unwanted mayors and further devolution. a lot of you aren't a big fan of this idea of devolution. >> no? well, it's another layer , >> no? well, it's another layer, isn't it? yeah. another layer of government, another layer of expense, another layer of bureaucracy. >> it does feel like that. >> it does feel like that. >> i'm i tell you what, i've heard a lot in the last 24, 48 hours is a lot about task forces. oh, they love a task force, don't they, labour? >> and you think what? what? we live in london. what? how is how is the london mayor sadiq khan improved any of our lives? he's brought in that wretched ultra low emission zone. he's expanded it. cycle lanes everywhere. oh this turned london into a car park. broken parts of it are 20 mile an hour like that. that idiot man, he did it in wales. >> it's awful. >> it's awful. >> what's the point? >> what's the point? >> jen raises a good point . >> jen raises a good point. rachel reeves. tax advisor on lbc floated the idea of means

testing state pensions as he's unked testing state pensions as he's linked them to other benefits. this would break the social contracts between the between the government and all workers. i could totally see them doing that. >> and if you remember, during the election campaign, the tories said they would bring in a legislation to ensure that, that, you know, the state pension is never taxed and labour refused to sign up to it. so is that coming? because that would be means testing. yeah. they attacks it wind farms as well. >> michelle has said wind farms are ugly, expensive and will have to be buried in massive turbine graves in 25 years. you're so right, michelle. this is what people don't realise. those. they are vast. the wind turbines. you don't realise when we see them on the telly, when you see them in person, they're enormous and they're noisy and you can't recycle them and they're noisy. so landfill with wind turbines. >> rachel reeves said the ban on onshore wind farms is absurd, and yet we know that the water based turbine farms are much more productive. and of course they are. >> yeah, of course they are. and you know what a more environmentally friendly gb news has suddenly got renewed purpose

under this new regime because it was all very well holding the tories to account. and we did that. i think we did that. well, we did, but actually now what we've got is bbc, channel 4, sky news are not going to ask the tough questions of this administration because i think they're largely sort of agree with what they're doing . so gb with what they're doing. so gb news, i'm sorry, but you're going to need us. you're really going to need us. you're really going to need us. you're really going to need us in the next 4 to 5 years. don't you agree? >> i do, i certainly do, i certainly do. >> and we're going to get these ministers and labour mps on tv. there'll be a lot more of them coming on. of course , because coming on. of course, because they're now in power. there's over 121 tory mps. and as i said to david davis today, the tories should crawl under a stone. that's months because people don't want to hear any more from them. we've heard quite enough, have their arguments in private sort themselves out and come up with a leader in six months time. >> yeah, you're going to need us. you really are. send biscuits. we've not had any biscuits. we've not had any biscuits today . biscuits today. >> send biscuits to feed my own again. >> keep britain's newsroom on our. he's such a diva. you and jennifer lopez. you got so much in common. >> times are very hard, right? >> times are very hard, right? >> still to come. we're going over to germany to soak up the

atmosphere for england's semi—finals in the euros against netherlands tomorrow. andrew might do another football wrap. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> apparently it's the semi—finals of the euros tomorrow. and, of course, as you all know , we're playing the all know, we're playing the netherlands. come on. england! >> oh, your heart was nearly in that. >> and our very own andrew pierce is going to be dressing up in england kit tomorrow. hang on, i'm not here tomorrow. i'm on, i'm not here tomorrow. i'm on holiday. tomorrow is this tomorrow? well, it's. oh, i might change my only wearing the shirt. >> i said i'd wear the full kit if it got in the fact. no, if we get in the final, i'll wear the full kit. >> you said you were getting it out. >> but here's the thing. i don't have an england shirt, so somebody's gonna have to get me one. i don't want somebody's smelly one. that they're going to get out of the laundry basket. honestly diva, right? >> our man on the ground in dortmund, jack carson joins us and he'll be in his england shirt . no he's and he'll be in his england shirt. no he's not. morning

jack. right. where are you. what's the atmosphere like in the build up to tomorrow night? >> well we're here in dortmund city centre. this is where tens of thousands of england fans are meant to be gathering over the next 24 hours. we've started to see now a little bit of a trickle. a few england shirts, maybe one of them can can give one one of theirs to andrew to borrow tomorrow. but a few england shirts are starting to trickle in here into the city centre. ahead, of course, of that semi—final, england's second european championship semi—final in a row in the last two attempts. a gareth southgate, you know, has got the criticism and he's had the criticism and he's had the criticism over this tournament so far for how well and how poorly. maybe rather england have played so far in this tournament. but he's certainly managed to get us this far, which is certainly more successful maybe than we've been in previous tournaments. when we've seen the heartbreak, heartbreak that we've had. so there's been plenty of things to talk about in this tournament one, the performances and on the pitch, but off the pitch, the england fans have been following this team around germany, some

of them now, as i mentioned, starting to arrive in dortmund. we spoke to a few of them that have already got here earlier on. >> so. so jack, now are you going to be watching the match? are you going to be watching it in a bar with all the england fans, with a large stein of lager and some bratwurst ? lager and some bratwurst? >> well, when we're in dusseldorf, all of the all of all down the street, there was tvs outside. there were people drinking beer. i mean, just here you can see there's quite a few tellies. actually, they're already set up here. ready? because of course, we've got the first semi—final tonight, spain versus france. so england will be looking very carefully tonight to see where who of course, we might well be facing if we do manage to get to that final in berlin. so there's plenty of tvs, plenty of chairs that i'm sure plenty of people that i'm sure plenty of people that will be out here later on. 75,000 dutch fans are apparently set to be making the trip here to dortmund, because the border with the netherlands is only about an hour away from here, where we are in dortmund , to where we are in dortmund, to 75,000 orange orange shirt

holland fans are meant to be coming over 30,000 england fans, so that clash is going to be quite interesting when they start to have a bit of a chant off, i'm sure later on and into tomorrow. ahead of that semi—final, has the atmosphere been largely friendly though? >> jack it doesn't seem like there's been some of the troubles that we sometimes associate with football matches . associate with football matches. >> yeah, i think certainly when we're in dusseldorf for that, for that quarter final there, i mean, there were germans on the street. of course there was lots of swiss fans, lots of dutch fans as well , of swiss fans, lots of dutch fans as well, england fans. and everyone just seems to be having a bit of friendly banter with each other really. so it's all been quite light hearted. it's all been quite well humoured and as i was mentioning, we have been speaking to a few england fans who have already arrived here in dortmund a little bit earlier on. here's what they told us. >> i think we got one of the best squads in the tournament. i think we've progressed. you know, we've got to play our own football. yeah just play our own football, get at him . football, get at him. >> can i put you to a score prediction two new england

think. >> would you a good performance. so i think a little bit more optimistic to be honest. >> the end of the day, you know we're england, we're we're going to we're going to win it definitely 100. >> i'm confident optimistic i think yeah i think, would you would you a big game i think, the players have got it in them to produce i think, i think i think we're a good chance . think we're a good chance. >> so there's some nice quiet confidence, i think, from the england fans there. they you know, they realise, you know , know, they realise, you know, they've been out here watching some of these games you know going to the stadiums. some of these games you know going to the stadiums . they've going to the stadiums. they've realised that maybe that criticism of gareth southgate, maybe hasn't been as justified as maybe it's been seemingly over the past few weeks. england are in another semi—final, all eyes here in dortmund on wednesday. just a quick question. >> what's the response like from the england fans? when you see the england fans? when you see the gb news? mike >> we have met that many gb news viewers out here. it's been quite incredible every time we've gone up to them. oh where are you from? gb news oh yeah, we watch gb news. so yeah, it's been quite fun to to see, see

that support out here in germany as well. >> brilliant. thank you jack. thank you for your representing us over there in come on england . us over there in come on england. >> come on england. i'm not going to sing that rap again though, i promise you, emily and tom, save us from this. >> we'll see you soon. can i do the rap again? >> you want me to? >> you want me to? >> no, no. that's enough . >> no, no. that's enough. >> no, no. that's enough. >> well, it's back to school for members of parliament, and there'll be some professorial marches of rishi sunak and keir starmer next to each other for the first time since the election. not just that , some election. not just that, some naughty schoolboys at the back, perhaps kicking up a fuss. naughty schoolboys at the back, perhaps kicking up a fuss . what perhaps kicking up a fuss. what will nigel farage do? we'll have it live. >> we will indeed . and what do >> we will indeed. and what do you make of labour's plans to hand our mayors more powers? that's for good democracy or bad. could it be very costly indeed? let us know your experience of your local mayor and all that to come and more. >> we'll also be discussing should the uk defend spend more on defence. all to come after your weather. >> looks like things are heating

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>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon . britain. it's >> good afternoon. britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday, the 9th of july. i'm tom harwood, and i'm emily carver. who's got the power? the prime minister meets metro mayors in downing street with a promise to push power away from whitehall. but is this just a further layer of meddling, tax raising politicians and nato calls this evening, keir starmer flies to washington for his first summit as prime minister. >> he's under pressure to raise defence spending, a promise he refused to commit to during the election campaign . election campaign. >> why england fans are fuming

over the choice of this german referee. who's to take charge tomorrow in the semi—final showdown with the netherlands? we'll find out more and this afternoon we'll see keir starmer and rishi sunak together in parliament for the first time since the election. >> what will the body language be like? we'll be live for the ceremonial selection of the speaker of the . speaker of the. house of commons. >> now, emily and i disagree on this one just a bit. just a little bit. should local mayors, these metro mayors, the people like, andy burnham or , ben like, andy burnham or, ben houchen have more power to control their local area ? no, control their local area? no, that's a clear one. why do you think not? >> in my humble opinion, i am willing to be proven wrong. if this becomes a fantastic exercise in empowering local citizens, i worry that it

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