andrew pierce and bev for andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so good morning. it is a day of huge political significance. after 14 years in the wilderness, labour are setting out how they're going to change your life with the promise to take the brakes off britain, housing, education, energy, health. what exactly are they planning? >> and elsewhere, labour's housing plan. sir keir starmer will pledge to tear up planning restrictions to build 1.5 million new homes across the country. how will the nimbys, me included, react ? included, react? >> we've got an overcrowded prison crisis. plans are afoot to fast track removals of removal of foreign criminals. they're being reviewed by ministers. these inmates make up 12% of the prison population and cost the taxpayer £47,000 each to accommodate and stateside more support for donald trump, friends and foes of the former president have endorsed him overnight at the republican national convention. >> and that comes as former pm bofis >> and that comes as former pm boris johnson urges him not to

forget ukraine after appointing running mate jd vance. >> and does it take three to tango? or contestants who appear on bbc strictly come dancing are going to be given chaperones after complaints about the behaviour of two former professional dancers . professional dancers. >> and it's a massive day. of course, it's the king's speech. amidst the pomp and ceremony, king charles in his carriage with his head gear on and all the robes. and so on. it's a key political day as well, because the labour government are going to be setting out in these 30, 35 bills their plans for the country, not least bev votes for 16 year olds and the housing issue, the building issue we're going to have pat mcfadden on the show this morning to explain what it might mean for you. >> are you worried about it? are you going to have a huge housing estate or some sort of massive industrial warehouse in your field behind your house?

gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, the very latest news with sam francis . with sam francis. >> a very good morning to you from the newsroom. it's just after 9:30. and as we heard there, the top story this morning, there will be pomp and ceremony as the king's speech is delivered later, setting out the new government's priorities. it's the second time king charles has addressed parliament dunng charles has addressed parliament during his reign. the speech is expected to contain more than 35 bills, with the prime minister saying he wants to take the brakes off britain . the focus brakes off britain. the focus will be creating jobs, building houses and improving transport, with downing street already confirming there will be legislation to start bringing railways back into public ownership. it's also expected to address a ban on zero hours contracts and giving employees the right to switch off from work outside of office hours. well former black rod david leakey says the ceremony is steeped in tradition. >> everybody thinks my goodness,

this is archaic. how the heck do we have a system where one of our houses in the houses of parliament have have lords wearing red robes ? well, they wearing red robes? well, they wearing red robes? well, they wear their red robes for one hour every year, rather like going to somebody's wedding or baptism or birthday party, and you get dressed in your glad rags, the peers where their glad rags. just once a year, when the king comes to parliament for the king's speech >> the latest figures show inflation held at the bank of england's 2% target last month. all eyes will now be on the central bank and whether it will cut the interest rate. this summer. the government says the data is welcome news, but prices, they say, are still high because of the economic chaos inherited from the conservatives shadow leader of the house of commons, chris phillips, accused labour of shameless spin and suggested the party will introduce what he's calling sneaky tax rises . sneaky tax rises. >> this stuff, the rachel reeves has been saying, claiming that

the fiscal position is worse than she expected is obvious nonsense. >> the obr obviously assess our fiscal position. they publish their own forecasts a few months ago that she obviously saw, and we've seen today's inflation figure staying down at 2% on target lower than the eurozone , target lower than the eurozone, lower than the usa. growth topped the g7 and dame priti patel is entering the conservative leadership race, according to the telegraph. >> the former home secretary is reportedly assembling a campaign team funded by high profile tory donors. the 52 year old is expected to make a formal announcement by the end of next week. it's the first time she's running for leadership after being urged by fellow mps to join the race. so far, no other candidates have officially declared their plans . those are declared their plans. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis more throughout the morning 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. it's 935. this is britain's newsroom on gb news live across the united kingdom with me, bev turner and ben leo while andrew pierce is on his holidays. >> very good morning to you. hope you're doing well . now the hope you're doing well. now the prime minister says he will quote, take the brakes off britain by tearing up planning restrictions to build 1.5 million new homes. now yesterday, not sure if you saw bev. i could see caused a bit of a stir. i tweeted this, i said let me just get the tweet up. why? i'm a nimby exhibit a cheap characterless houses in toytown estates made of mdf. is this the best we can do? and labour wants to bulldoze the countryside for these monstrosities accompanied by, if you're listening on radio, pictures of a i mean, i must say a very lacklustre, horrible looking new build housing estate that's being erected near my home in west sussex, to be fair, the majority

of people agreed with me 2000 likes, 600 comments. there were a few comments though, which said a home is a home. just be grateful we need more houses. and my response to that bev, is what's happened to the aspiration of our nation? are we happy with any old tap cheap developers whacking up these homes made of cardboard? i've slept in a few new builds. if you're sleeping upstairs, you can hear a conversation in the kitchen downstairs. there's no greenery, no provisions for parking, and a lot of the time, no local schools, no decent roads surrounding the area, no gp's hospitals. is this the best we can do? no. do we want to see our countryside bulldozed to the ground in replacement of these things? >> the thing is, i have to admit i've got a dog in this fight, right? my other half works for a company that builds eco friendly houses like the most green positive houses in the country. and although sometimes we're a little bit early about the eco zealotry, one thing i absolutely am on board with, and not because i've got a vested interest, is that we need to be building amazingly insulated

homes so that people can reduce their bills and they can look nice as well . so they shouldn't nice as well. so they shouldn't be brick built. that's just so old school to be building houses with bricks. now they need great insulation. they need solar panels on the roof so that you can generate your own electricity and even give it back to the grid. you could you maybe have an air source, heat pump, all this stuff that is really, really expensive to retrofit on old fashioned brick houses. you should be having them as standard in all houses. and i didn't really know much about this. as i say, until i went to visit the houses that my other half builds and then i was like, yes, this is the future. these monstrosities that you've they are not the future, but apparently it's to do with who's funding the political parties. partly >> well, some people attacked me for that tweet. they said i would be grateful for a home like that, my response is, look , like that, my response is, look, i'm sticking up for you. you were being ripped off, paying for three, five, £600,000 for these houses by developers who are making massive amounts of profit for houses that probably cost them a couple of quid to put up. >> yeah, with no imagination

about the community as well. there should be shared green spaces. there should be off street parking because i still like a car, you know, i know that's a bit old fashioned, but there should be ways of making these communities beautiful and self—sufficient. so you're not always reliant on a french owned energy company to provide you with your gas, electricity. and do you know what? >> if they built houses akin to, say, the king's amazing project in poundbury beautiful new buildings with character, with class? if they built these new builds akin to that, or at least with a bit of flair and pride in what they were doing, people like me wouldn't care. so much with these new build estates going up on on bits of greenland and the countryside. but when you're putting up absolute monstrosities like that. no, no. thank you. >> massive day to day, all of the politics that labour have been talking about for at least the last, well, i'm going to say 14 years, but at least the last year and particularly that six weeks running up to the election , weeks running up to the election, they're going to lay it all out for us today, and you're going to find out how it's going to

affect your life. we're going to have the pomp and ceremony of the event. they're going to outline their political agenda. and it's just two weeks, of course, after coming to power. >> yeah, more than 35 bills are expected to be unveiled during the event. constitutional expert doctor craig prescott joins us now to break down exactly what happens today step by step. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. now look i guess it's a day of two halves. you've got the royal aspects, the pomp and ceremony and, you know, the very bizarre rituals, including holding an mp hostage. maybe you can explain what that's about, but also the legislative aspect of it. and labour's plans for the future. first of all, can we touch, please, on the royal aspect and the ceremony? why do we do this still? >> yes. good morning. it's good to join you. primarily the royal aspects reflect that the king is part of parliament just as much as the commons and the lords and the importance of today is that this is the only occasion in which all three parts of parliament meet the king enters the house of lords and then requests the attendance of the house of commons and so, you

know, this is the only occasion when all three parts of parliament meet and it is when the king outlines the legislative agenda of his government , you know, it is his government, you know, it is his majesty's government . and today majesty's government. and today is where we very much see that his majesty part of that term , a his majesty part of that term, a rather unique across the world. >> do you think, doctor prescott, in how we open our parliament in this way ? parliament in this way? >> yes, it's something that, you know, is derived from the 14th century or so and has been amended over the centuries . and, amended over the centuries. and, you know, it reflects that the uk doesn't have a codified constitution that it hasn't had, that constitutional moment where much of this is , is modernised much of this is, is modernised and put on a more contemporary footing, and it reflects that , footing, and it reflects that, that we have a historical constitution that has adapted and changed over, over the centuries. the only parallels

are those countries that, were former members of the british empire, where they have their own equivalent of this. so, you know , this sort of, ceremony know, this sort of, ceremony today has been exported around the world, you know, with britain's colonial past. >> doctor craig, do you do you think or get ever get the feeling that everything that's great about this country ceremonies such as this. i mean , ceremonies such as this. i mean, some people like jeremy corbyn, he called it nonsense . but this he called it nonsense. but this is what makes us great. and unique and iconic across the world and admired by many. do you ever get the feeling that there is an agenda at play to kind of erode away this kind of thing ? thing? >> there's always been discussions of this nature, indeed for several years, for around. queen victoria didn't attend parliament herself, the ceremony was adapted . so there ceremony was adapted. so there has always been these discussions, but ultimately they

haven't really got anywhere. we've continued with ceremonies like this because, as you say, it is something that the state takes very seriously. it's something the parliamentary authorities take seriously. and you know, it does provide those iconic images that go around the world, you know, i've had interests from america, australia , and south africa, australia, and south africa, sort of over the past few days to, you know, explain just what's going to happen today. and, you know, that is that is a you know, a big benefit of it, that it does attract interest around the world and adds to that idea of soft power that britain has and excels at. >> just to elaborate for us, if you would, what ben alluded to about an mp being taken hostage, what happens? craig >> so essentially this is to ensure the safe return of the monarch from parliament. so essentially, one of the government whips, i think it's samantha dixon. if my memory is right , she will, you know, go to

right, she will, you know, go to buckingham palace and will essentially watch the ceremony there. and only when the king returns to buckingham palace will samantha dixon be released and able to go and attend the commons later this afternoon. i think, in principle, she'll sit and watch the ceremony and maybe have a glass of dry sherry or something. >> oh, nice. well, we'll be watching the ceremony, but we won't be doing that. and unfortunately, can we not organise a sherry or a whisky behind the scenes? do we know how that mp is selected? craig. she's the mp , labour mp for she's the mp, labour mp for chester north and neston. how did she get selected? do we know? >> yes. she's one of the government whips. she was appointed as part of starmer's formation of his government . and formation of his government. and you know, it's always one of the government whips that take on this role . okay, okay. this role. okay, okay. >> doctor craig prescott, thanks for joining us this morning. forjoining us this morning. very much. appreciate it, you just want to just want to play you this clip. i was talking about the erosion of our

national identity and everything that makes us unique. do you remember this clip from the states? well, is when the mps were getting, served in taking signed in. it was clive lewis mp, the labour mp , who decided mp, the labour mp, who decided to have a little twist. this is what he did. >> i take this oath under protest and in the hope that one day my fellow citizens will democratically decide to live in a republic. until that time, i do solemnly , sincerely and truly do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king charles, according to law . charles, according to law. >> well, he got a lot of stick for that, for trying to be a smart alec. and now, after a complaint from a royalist group, he has now been forced to retake the oath. no. and do it properly. on please. >> that's ridiculous. really? yeah, of course it is. i absolutely defend his right to stand there and say that . stand there and say that. >> well, why, why, why be an mp and work in parliament if you want a republic, why be an mp? >> have an opinion on things you feel really strongly about. >> at least it's manners, it's

decorum. you're in the houses of parliament. there's tradition, there's ways of doing things. and actually labour talk about the grown ups being back in the room. i mean, come on, that was juvenile. no. extreme. >> no, i thought he i thought he did what he had to do whilst staying true to himself and what he believed in. i'm all right with that, ben. right. what do you think? gb news. com forward slash your say up next, though, the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster, pat mcfadden, is going to tell us exactly how labour plan to take the brakes off britain. yes. >> and why 16 year olds. yes. those who can't drink smoke, fight for the country are in school. should the vote. don't miss it. you're with

tick. hello. welcome back. it's 948. you're with ben and bev on britain's newsroom. only on gb news this morning . news this morning. >> so it's a big day. so keir starmer is going to pledge to take the brakes off britain by tearing up planning restrictions to build at least 1.5 million

new homes. >> the plans will be announced in the king's speech and they aim to, quote, turbocharge housebuilding, including, crucially on the green belt , crucially on the green belt, where labour's national campaign coordinator, pat mcfadden, joins us now, >> good morning, mr mcfadden. lovely to see you, we've seen you on gb news, a huge amount over the last few months. what's it like? first of all, being in government, how is it being on that side of the fence now? yes. >> well, i think in truth we're still getting used to that change, >> you know, i and other politicians like me in the labour party have had this word shadow in front of their name for many years, having lost four elections in a row. so it was an enormous change to sit around the cabinet table for the first time and see there's a little nameplate you have in front of you to see that the word secretary of for state the colleagues that i'd been serving alongside in recent years, and you see the fruition of that in

the king's speech, which is going to be published today, because this is the first legislative programme from a labour government for many, many years . so what you're labour government for many, many years. so what you're seeing today, apart from initial meetings and so on, is the, first fruits, if you like, the first fruits, if you like, the first real legislative action following the general election result a couple of weeks ago . result a couple of weeks ago. >> mr mcfadden. so doing the rounds this morning is the theory that you are going to introduce votes for 16 year olds. today, i'd like to ask you , olds. today, i'd like to ask you, please, why you think 16 year olds have the knowledge and the foresight to be able to vote when they can't drive, they can't get tattoos by alcohol , be can't get tattoos by alcohol, be called for jury service, can't get married without asking their mum and dad for permission, can't adopt a child and by law , can't adopt a child and by law, of course, they're still in school. and by the way, don't pay school. and by the way, don't pay tax. why do you think this is such a good idea ? is such a good idea? >> well, i think they could do some of the things that you said you can drive when you're 17.

16. you know, i don't want to speculate too much about the measures that are in the king's speech today. we're in a slightly, you know, that period where i can't talk about individual bills, but that, policy was part of our manifesto. we think there's a good case for doing this. i think the list you've given, you know, i do think many 16 and 17 year olds have an interest now. they can exercise responsibility. they already have the vote in scottish elections, for example, without any problems as far as i've seen, so this is a measure that we talked about during the election. but let's wait to see the king's speech later today. >> i think perhaps some of the concerns about that is that it's starting to give adults powers and adult freedoms. maybe to children, and that might be what some people , parents some people, parents particularly will be concerned about. if you allow 16 year olds to vote, then what else will 16

year olds be encouraged to do, which might undermine the family and the role of parents? >> oh, i think that's a bit dramatic , our 16 and 17 year dramatic, our 16 and 17 year olds are still children. they're young. certainly but i think they're, you know, not beyond children at that age. i've got children at that age. i've got children approaching this age myself . i children approaching this age myself. i like children approaching this age myself . i like to children approaching this age myself. i like to think of children approaching this age myself . i like to think of them myself. i like to think of them now as , young adults. by the now as, young adults. by the time they get to , that age, time they get to, that age, there are other things you can do when you're 16 and 17, as we've discussed . but let's wait we've discussed. but let's wait to see what's in the actual king's speech sure, sure. >> i mean, my 16 year old, they might think they're an adult, but it's my job to point out to them that they're not. but let's move on to the planning issue , move on to the planning issue, if we can, because this is a huge one. and obviously rachel reeves the chancellor is pinning the growth hopes of this country on this building initiative . so on this building initiative. so can you guarantee, pat, that these houses will be fit for the future? fundamentally, will they

be good houses with good insulation, with good energy provision? because that, i think will help override some of the concerns of the nimbys . concerns of the nimbys. >> i think that's a really good point, things have to be built to a proper standard, i don't think it's just about building houses. i think very often when people object to a housing development, it's partly because it's just housing. they want to know, where's the gp surgery going to be? where is the primary school going to be? where is the bus route going to be? so we have to think about things in terms of a whole community. and i do also want to say to your viewers, because i've done quite a few interviews on this this morning, we are still in favour of brownfield. first, we are still in favour of the priority for housebuilding being in those parts of built up areas which don't have housing on it. at the moment. for example, in my own city of wolverhampton , we've got a lot wolverhampton, we've got a lot of derelict factory sites that

have been lying there for decades without things built on them. those sites should be the first priority for housebuilding and they will be. >> we're fast running out of time, mr mcfadden, but thank you for joining us. very much forjoining us. very much appreciated, and we'll catch up with you shortly. >> yeah. interesting. right. lots more to come this morning. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom. alex has your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. yes, there will be some wet and windy weather pushing into northwestern parts later on, but for many today it is a fine and sunny picture. yes, plenty of blue skies around first thing and there will be lots of sunshine to come as we go through the day though. some cloud bubbling up and also a scattering of showers around the showers could be quite hit or miss in nature. so many of us will avoid them and they don't look especially heavy,

especially compared to some recent days. temperatures especially in any sunshine, will be getting a bit higher than they have been recently. highs of around 25, possibly 26 celsius, and quite widely. we're looking at high teens or low 20s as we go through this evening, and for many it is looking largely dry. 1 or 2 showers continuing perhaps across some parts of england, and wales, but most places having a decent end to the day with some late sunshine as well. a different story further north, though, a bit more cloud pushing into parts of northern ireland, the winds picking up here and a similar story for western parts of scotland out towards the outer hebrides and elsewhere across scotland. perhaps a few more showers possible than further south, but also some sunny spells to end the day . sunny spells to end the day. here through the night we are going to see the cloud, the blustery winds and the rain spilling a little bit further eastwards across much of northern ireland, across parts of scotland and perhaps into far western parts of wales, to elsewhere across other parts of the uk. it should stay dry overnight and there will be some clear skies, but because we have

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labour promised to take the brakes off britain in the king's speech this morning. cameron walker is at buckingham palace. >> yeah, the second king's speech of his majesty's reign. but the first written by a labour government. more than a thousand soldiers and around 200 horses taking part in the pomp and pageantry as the king and queen and imperial state crown escorted from buckingham palace to the palace of westminster and labour's housing ambitions, sir keir starmer is going to pledge to tear up planning restrictions to tear up planning restrictions to build at least 1.5 million new homes. >> how will the nimbys such as ben leo react and more support for trump ? for trump? >> friends and foes of donald trump have endorsed him overnight at the republican national convention, and it comes as the former prime minister, boris johnson, urged him not to forget ukraine after appointing running mate jd vance. >> and it's going to take three to tango. apparently, contestants will appear on bbc.

strictly come dancing are going to be given chaperones after complaints about the behaviour of three former professional dancers. how bizarre . dancers. how bizarre. in that strange that boris johnson went over to see donald trump, to tell him not to back off the ukraine conflict, he's gone before starmer. >> i know starmer spoke to donald trump, but he has. >> i know starmer spoke to donald trump, but he has . yeah donald trump, but he has. yeah bons donald trump, but he has. yeah boris johnson, he's pipped him there. but boris of course, accused of snubbing peace talks accused of snubbing peace talks a few years ago in ukraine. >> scuppering in fact i think was the word. anyway, what do you think gbnews.com/yoursay first, though, the very latest news with sam francis . news with sam francis. >> bev. ben, thank you very much and good morning to you . it's and good morning to you. it's exactly 10:02. and as we heard there , there'll be pomp and there, there'll be pomp and ceremony at the king's speech as

it's delivered this morning, setting out the new government's priorities. it's the second time king charles has addressed parliament during his reign. the speech is expected to contain more than 35 bills, with the prime minister saying he wants to take off the brakes of britain. the focus will be creating jobs, building houses and improving transport. downing street has already confirmed there will be legislation to start bringing railways back into public ownership. it'll also address a ban on zero hours contracts and giving employees the right to switch off from work outside of office hours. former black rod david leakey says the ceremony is steeped in tradition . tradition. >> everybody thinks, my goodness, this is archaic. how the heck do we have a system where one of our houses in the houses of parliament have have lords wearing red robes? well they wear their red robes for one hour every year, rather like going to somebody's wedding or baptism or birthday party, and you get dressed in your glad rags, the peers where their glad

rags, the peers where their glad rags . just once a year, when the rags. just once a year, when the king comes to parliament for the king's speech >> the latest figures show inflation held at the bank of england's 2% target last month. all eyes will now be on the central bank and whether it will cut the interest rate this summer. the government says the data is welcome news, but that pnces data is welcome news, but that prices are still high because of what they're calling the economic chaos inherited from the conservatives shadow leader of the house of commons. though chris philp has accused labour of shameless spin and suggested to us this morning the party will introduce what he's calling sneaky tax rises. >> this stuff the rachel reeves has been saying, claiming that the fiscal position is worse than she expected is obvious nonsense. the obr obviously assess our fiscal position . they assess our fiscal position. they published their own forecasts a few months ago that she obviously saw, and we've seen today's inflation figure staying down at 2% on target lower than the eurozone , lower than the the eurozone, lower than the usa. growth topped the g7. >> dame priti patel is

reportedly entering the conservative leadership race. the former home secretary is said to be assembling a campaign team funded by high profile tory donors, with the telegraph saying a formal announcement is expected by the end of next week. it will be the first time she's put her hat in the ring, after colleagues urged her to stand. so far, no other candidates have officially declared their plans and in thailand, traces of cyanide have been found in teacups inside a hotel room where six people were found dead in bangkok. police say the three men and three women were likely poisoned by one of those who died in the room of the grand hyatt hotel, which was locked from the inside . which was locked from the inside. investigators say money may have been a motive after evidence showed that financial investments had been made among the group. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sam francis. much more still to come with bev and ben for the very latest gb news direct to

your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good morning to you. 1005. ben and bev with you on britain's newsroom only on gb news live across the uk on tv and radio. big discussions this morning about planning. bev of course, set to be a big part of the king's speech today, where labour unveil 30 to 35 bills, their plans for the future of their plans for the future of the country, great story in the mail today. the 20 most likely areas for labour's new towns, their buildings revolution. so number one, the cambridge area . number one, the cambridge area. number two the m1 corridor around milton keynes . then it's around milton keynes. then it's the thames estuary, south hampshire, the midlands, particularly around birmingham, leicester, nottingham, hale, near manchester, roundhay near leeds, then oxford , norwich, leeds, then oxford, norwich, reading, stratford upon avon, taunton, exeter, harrogate ,

taunton, exeter, harrogate, preston, carlisle, guildford, peterborough, swindon and chelmsford. if you live in any of those areas, be warned that labour are coming for you. they're coming to build these ghastly, in my opinion, new build homes, new build estates which look horrible, soulless, characterless and they're going to dig up vast swathes of the green belt for it as well. or you might have a young person in your life and you think, brilliant, we need some more housing so that my 25 year old can get on the housing robert hur don't know. fine. my point is though, these developers are building these very flimsy, horrible houses. again, they're completely soulless and they're ripping you off. they are ripping you off. they are ripping your kids off. three, four, five, 600 k for houses. that cost them a couple of quid, i think it's a complete scam. and in addition to that, as i said, they're tearing up the beautiful countryside and one part of this discussion, which is emitted quite frequently is immigration. if you're letting in 300,000 people a year into the country, you wouldn't need all these houses. so deal with immigration and then deal with houses. otherwise you're just chasing your tail for years completely.

>> it's just a circle all the time, isn't it? let's see what else people have been saying. sorry about this. i've got one for you, beth. thank you . sorry. for you, beth. thank you. sorry. they said that this this website. of course. you talk to each other as well, which is nice, because you get to know each other. it doesn't mean sometimes it's a bit tricky for us. it's quite. >> it's quite frantic at times. >> it's quite frantic at times. >> can read out john says bev, i get it. >> you'll be putting your foot forward for strictly on behalf of gb news. >> well, that would be lovely. if they're watching, i would love to learn to dance properly and you get really fit, don't you? >> well, you reckon they wouldn't touch you with bargepole? >> i don't think they would go. they wouldn't, would they? >> because of your outspoken views? yeah, i think so. i've got a theory on that. i mean, it probably wouldn't be shouting about lockdowns while i was doing the tango, to be fair, but, you know, i have a theory on that, that in a couple of years, five, maybe ten years, that companies, corporates, broadcasters, they'll do a complete u—turn on this whole sort of pc view on the world. and actually people who were previously you know, keep him over there because they're nutters or too outspoken for our brand. i think they'll start to welcome the damehood incoming.

>> ben. i'm no doubt about it. when people realise i was right. a lot of you are commenting as well about this idea that 16 year olds should be able to vote. steven said. 16 year olds can join the army of course. i think we said that they can't. they can't fight on the front line, of course, but they can, of course, join the army . we of course, join the army. we were discussing it, weren't we, about whether you should be allowed to vote? i think my reservation about not letting them vote is this the things that we don't let 16 year olds do is because they are dangerous. so driving is dangerous, drinking alcohol can be dangerous. smoking cigarettes is dangerous. there's always a risk . i think with politics, risk. i think with politics, i feel like the government is dangerous, so i want them. i want our young people to be engaged to and be motivated and educated about politics. and that might mean voting, but they've had such little life experience. >> what do they know about the world? they they've never had jobs, most likely unless it's beenin jobs, most likely unless it's been in a cafe or something . been in a cafe or something. they haven't got kids. of course, you know, they can't get married without asking their mum and dad for permission. i mean, i'm, i'm the other way. i'd say

you can't vote until you're 25 and you pay tax. >> it's not all about the tax though, is it? and they're in education and they're dealing with they're often the victims of crime. and they have an opinion on the tech world more than we would necessarily . and than we would necessarily. and so i think i'm all right with it. there's a lot of what labour are going to do. it worries me and keeps me awake at night. but i think on this i think it's a sign of what next? >> asylum seekers illegal in the vote, illegal migrants whilst they're here, that's what they're here, that's what they're trying to do in the us. >> i don't consider 16 year olds in the same bracket as asylum seekers. >> no, but but my point being, it leads down a path. >> the only thing in terms of using our imagination what it leads to. i think the thing that does worry me is starting to see a 16 year old as a child, and also kind of undermining the family a little bit, that the child has a relationship with the state rather than the family, but anyway, let's move on. on. >> on. >> good point. okay. all right. well, as we know, labour, they are set to quote take off the brakes of britain today during the king's speech as part of the state opening of parliament. >> the king is going to make his speech at about half 11 this

morning. and outside buckingham palace, now on a beautiful, sunny day, it's gb news royal correspondent cameron walker to tell us the significance of the occasion . morning, cameron . occasion. morning, cameron. >> good morning bev. well, it's only the second king's speech of his reign. but the first, of course , written by a labour course, written by a labour government. it's been an incredibly busy summer for his majesty the king. he's had two trooping the colour. he's had, he's had the state visit of japan as well as the d—day celebrations. but because of these summer election, he now has state opening of parliament. so despite his ongoing cancer treatment, which sometimes we forget about , i treatment, which sometimes we forget about, i think he is determined to carry on with his duty and of course, his head of state. he has to open each new parliamentary session and that's exactly what's going to happen this morning. but as well as the king being incredibly busy, the army and the armed forces incredibly busy, were expecting around 1100 soldiers and 200 horses to either escort the sovereign or line the routes down to the palace of westminster from buckingham

palace, comprising of the grenadier guards, irish guards , grenadier guards, irish guards, coldstream guards as well as the raf and navy as well. they've been rehearsing in secret very early in the morning over the last few days for this pomp and pageantry that we are so used to now here in central london. so the king and queen will depart from buckingham palace in a carriage procession, followed by, or i should say in front, behind even the imperial state crown, which gets its own carriage procession. of course, the crown which the king wore on his way back from the coronation, comprising of more than 2800 diamonds. and it's that that the king will wear in the house of lords, sitting on the house of lords, sitting on the throne when he delivers the speech. so when the their majesties arrive at the palace of westminster at the sovereign's entrance, they will go sovereign's entrance, they will 9° up sovereign's entrance, they will go up to the robing room, where the king will don the imperial state crown, as well as the robe of state. he will be escorted as well by the sword of state. he will then process through with her majesty the queen. the royal gallery , before taking his gallery, before taking his throne in the house of lords to deliver that speech. elsewhere. we have two separate 41 gun

salutes in green park , which is salutes in green park, which is very close to where i am, so it's going to get very loud. the first for the state opening of parliament. but the second to celebrate the queen's 77th birthday, which is falling on today. so no rest for her on her birthday. she's having to carry out her constitutional duties as the consort of the monarch, sitting beside him in the house of lords today. there's also going to be another gun salute in edinburgh at the at the edinburgh castle for the queen's birthday, as well as the state opening of parliament. tower of london firing a gun salute as well. so very busy here in central london, this morning. >> wow, what a day in store. we have, cameron and this is what makes britain great, makes britain great as far as i'm concerned. the pomp , the concerned. the pomp, the ceremony, the identity, the history, the culture. apparently, the king is going to change into an 18 foot red velvet cape and also wear the imperial state crown encrusted with. get this 2886 diamonds and hundreds of other jewels, 17

sapphires, 11 emeralds, 269 pearls, pomp definitely . pearls, pomp definitely. ceremony? definitely. and i'm here for it. thank you. cameron, outside buckingham palace. >> i'm here for it. do you know, did you catch that bit there when cameron was saying, is that the imperial state crown goes in a carriage of its own? i remember that from last time thinking how there's a hat going down the street in its own carriage. it'sjust down the street in its own carriage. it's just so ridiculous. >> i can see why people think it's obscene from the outside. you know, americans can. >> i mean, so can i. it's irrational. it's illogical . irrational. it's illogical. right? but it's also it's rather wonderful and it's ours because it is our identity. right. let's go to chris hoke now, our political editor from westminster, because of course, this morning, chris, it is as much about the pomp and the pageantry. but it's also massively about the politics of course. do we know what to expect in the king's speech? is it basically pulled from the manifesto ? manifesto? >> it is indeed a morning, ben and morning, bev. yeah. welcome to a sun drenched palace of westminster. i was last year for gb news in the dark. it felt like most of the time back in

november. and now we're back here with a new state opening of parliament for a new labour government. yeah, we're expecting as many as 35 bills. that's quite a lot more than they had in 1997. after that, labour landslide. that means we won't be doing this again for two more years, and we'll be looking at the detail of what this labour government wants to do. i'm struck by how limited in in ambition it is. do. i'm struck by how limited in in ambition it is . if you shut in ambition it is. if you shut your eyes, you can imagine a tory government doing a lot of these measures on border security , smoking ban, football security, smoking ban, football governance. i bill martyn's law for protection for those in terror attacks. a lot of it is carry over things which the tories did, the things that leap out as interesting and more, more aggressively pro—labor agendais more aggressively pro—labor agenda is no question the planning reforms, as ben is saying , get more homes being saying, get more homes being built. i would say, ben, the reason why homes maybe are less quality is the land is so expensive. if the land value comes down, we might get better homes. i think that's the idea of the government's policy anyway. and also new new powers for workers and to refuse to

work zero hours contracts, a renters reform bill, all these areas. but for a government that's waited a part, it's waited 14 years to get into power. i am struck by the lack of ambition in what we've been told so far. of course, all of this is speculation. until the king delivers the speech around 11:35 am. in the building behind me, live on gb news choppen >> is there a feeling, perhaps, that labour have, looks at what happened with liz truss, who came flying out the blocks with all these, you know, extravagant reforms and ideas, and maybe they just want to play it a bit, play they just want to play it a bit, play it a bit safe, you know, i mean, i guess borrowing the 16 year old, voting scheme, but they just want to get into government, get their heads down and crack on without any really scandal or controversy around their plans. >> but i think you're right. i mean, we spoke and bev turner dunng mean, we spoke and bev turner during the campaign. i mean, they advocate change, didn't they? but change really means no big change. nothing to scare the

horses. if you like. and that's the point they want to do. they want to make sure that we're back to a kind of a five year governing programme. i mean, really, this is going to take politics back to where it used to be. i think in the 2010s and 2000, when you've got a government trying to push through an agenda and then you have little flare ups of opposition, maybe to planning issues, or maybe it's to workers, workers rights and that kind of thing. so i think it's away from the drama of a leadership battle every so often. and back into actual politics. and maybe many people welcome that. >> and what happens after the speech, chopper, as of kind of tomorrow and going forward, what then ? then? >> well, we're facing days of king's speech debate when you have mps stand up and debate what the government's legislative programme is and looking forward to next week. we've got the first prime ministers questions on wednesday next week . and that will see, of next week. and that will see, of course, roles reversed . rishi course, roles reversed. rishi sunak for the opposition party. the tories taking on the newly

newly, swept into power sir keir starmer. so it's roles reversed and we are expecting, the next few days we'll hear more detail on the tory leadership campaign, details of that, of the timetable out tomorrow. and then over the next few weeks, we'll see candidates declaring their hands. see candidates declaring their hands . so politics hasn't gone hands. so politics hasn't gone away. but for right now it's about these ideas and they are interesting. i think alesha has mentioned renationalising the railways, by the way. that's a big labour idea, but i think, i think you might see some tension in labour ranks come september that we've waited so long for a forward for a landslide labour government . is this all they're government. is this all they're going to do? >> okay, christopher, thank you. it's going to be a busy day. enjoy the sunshine. >> we'll speak to you later. chris, as well. right. let's go to the break. find out next why millennials are cutting off their parents. that's right. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> hello. good morning to you. welcome back. it's ten 1021. rather. ben and bev with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. i am standing in for andrew pierce this week. who's on his holibobs, isn't he, bev. >> that's right. now mike parry and stephen pound are in the studio with us. good morning gentlemen. right. massive day politically, isn't it , today politically, isn't it, today mike? yeah. and the issue that i think is going to affect most people at home is going to be this planning. yeah. ripping up the legislation . does he know the legislation. does he know how hard it's going to be. do you think . you think. >> well the problem is that within the next labour government, the next five years, we're being told that more powers will go out to the country , more powers will go to country, more powers will go to the, devolved countries and all that. so it's spreading more power to the people. the only problem is with planning. it's already with the people on a very localised basis, isn't it? and every planning application will be appealed and appealed again, and all sorts of

objections will be put up. the reason nothing ever happens in this country, i think we've been waiting now 50 years for the third runway at heathrow. and the problem is that there are so many bars to planning applications that you can introduce into anything that is planned to be built in this country. it never happens and i don't think this will happen. and by the way, i'm in support of building lots more houses in this country. it's one labour policy which i actually support . policy which i actually support. if you leave a train in north london going to manchester or liverpool after you've got past wembley and high and arsenal's ground, the rest of it's all green fields and it's beautiful. >> yeah, the train to newcastle the other month, it's beautiful. >> it is so but there's lots of it, there's lots of it. and what i'm saying is on some of those green fields, you can definitely build houses and spread it away from the south—east. why not? >> you get my tweet up from from yesterday that we played a bit earlier. yeah. it's beautiful. yeah i never appreciated but it's a waste of land. >> well, it's a complete waste of land. >> a beautiful land like that and erects these horrible flimsy because you've got to have

houses. >> and by the way, i wouldn't mind if it was useful land. and you saw a load of sheep, a load of cattle, and a load of corn growing. you don't. they're just green fields. >> just design them. >> just design them. >> they're just no good to anybody. put houses on them. >> hang on. hang on a second. for a minute. i'm sorry. i was a bit gobsmacked to hear that you actually approved a one aspect of labour party policy. i'd quite like to have the clip of that, if you don't mind. but look, the reality is we're not talking about building on these verdant fields, these green and pleasant lands. we're actually talking about building on what is, in fact, may technically be green belt, but in fact, is grey belt. not not just semantics, though. >> is that not? no. no tinkering around with the language to make it. i'm sorry. >> look, a car park in welwyn garden city may be within the green belt area, but it's perfectly feasible to build on it. yeah, i was chair of planning for years and years in ealing, where i come from. yes, i came to loathe the great crested newt and the slowworm because the number of housing applications that actually got held up because of that. but the reality is, one thing they haven't talked about is you can't build new stuff in london because the national grid cannot. >> i totally agree, you told me this last time we were here together.

>> yeah, but all i can say is the daily mail and they've almost gone sort of mike perry damascene conversion here because they've actually got on their front page today. you know, it's not, not how but when. yeah. but the greyfield sites are not profitable enough for most developers. >> the way you make money out of housesis >> the way you make money out of houses is you build four houses an acre and you double your money for the cost of the land. and you can't do that on greyfield site. so they're stopping bank land banking at the moment. >> most of the big builders i could mention their names million sue me millions of acres. the land banking. >> it's all very good talking about where we're going to build these houses, what they should look like. but dominic cummings gave a very interesting interview in the last couple of days.i interview in the last couple of days. i think it was overnight where he was talking about the so—called blob, where keir starmer, labour, they're going to they're in government and they've got all these bright ideas. but cummings, as we'll play ideas. but cummings, as we'll play this clip in a second, was explaining that the civil service the judiciary, the bureaucracy won't allow them to get anything done. let's have a quick look at this clip. >> people are looking at, at starmer now and thinking like, is he serious about planning reform? is he serious about this? but what people don't really understand is that the very first thing that will happen when starmer and sue gray

sit around the cabinet table shortly , is that a bunch of shortly, is that a bunch of officials, explained to them that, sorry, prime minister but a lot of this is not just about political will. we understand that this is your priority. however, there are a whole bunch of processes around things like environmental reviews and planning stuff, which is hard coded into primary legislation and a judicial review structure. so you're going to have planning review one appeal, one judicial review one appeal, one judicial review appeal of judicial review. duh. then after that, in about 4 or 5 years, you'll have an environmental review. one appeal to judicial review, supreme court. and if you look at like real projects for things like building an actual road or building an actual railway, now the actual timeline for the project, like the a66, right, is like this thing for six years, then that thing for six years, then that thing for six years, then that thing, and then after 25 years or so, they actually start digging. >> he's right, isn't he? so of course, dominic cummings used to

be chief adviser to boris johnson. how are labour going to get through that? >> boris johnson sorry, cummings. he believed in dominic cummings. he believed in dominic cummings believed in this creative anarchy. really? they're destroying it. but look, we've got sue gray, whose name was mentioned there now, when sue gray was sue khan and she was running a pub in newry, you know, and i have to say, she is one tough woman. and the person that she talks about in terms of admiration is, oddly enough, george osborne, when he first came into the treasury, he absolutely shook up the treasury. and he said, and don't forget the word the blob actually comes from michael gove. he's the one who talked about this great negative force of that. that's actually holding everybody back. look, those things are about planning appeals. you can actually legislate for those planning appeals. you can actually legislate for this. but ultimately you have to make a choice. is it the interest of the nation that we actually house our citizens in proper housing? and i take your point, leo, about the quality of the housing. but ultimately we are simply not building enough housing. and we cannot we cannot allow ourselves to be held back by by this great blancmange that it's actually suffocating. >> and don't underestimate the, the, the strength of local feeling . now, i live in epsom. feeling. now, i live in epsom. right. and you wouldn't think that if you went into

wetherspoons in epsom, the main conversation wetherspoons in epsom. it's a very big one as well. very nice. yeah, it's called the assembly rooms but you wouldn't think that the main topic of conversation there would be nobody's building any houses at the bottom of my garden, but that's all they talk about. and if you go further into surrey, dorking, they've got great protest movements already. so you're not building houses here. >> christopher hope said he thought that the king's speech today was not terribly ambitious from labour and actually, if it is 1.5 million houses over the next five years, that's only 300,000 houses a year. the tories target anyway. they got roughly a they got close to that. they've got about 240,000 a year i think. so isn't that ambitious really. >> well, the most successful prime minister in terms of house building we've known in this country since the war was harold macmillan. and don't forget, we also had five new towns were built, you know, places like letchworth and welwyn and that. so we can actually do it and they can actually become part of they can actually become part of the community, part of society. we can actually do it. and i think it is ambitious. but the interesting point that mike said is there's a slight

contradiction here between devolving power to the regions . devolving power to the regions. yes, and centralising planning power. and that is why i think keir starmer is meeting all the regional mayors. is he not? >> it's not just about housing, though, because in fact it's about transport and infrastructure. it's about transport, but it's also what else they're going to build because pat mcfadden said this morning, another radio station actually about the fact that they need data centres. so there's for instance, there's one that's in in the pipeline, which is two data centres in somerset, in london. on no, this one's m25 in london's greenbelt. greenbelt which are what's the size of it. it will blow your mind 1.7 5,000,000ft2 of data centre. how many, how many football pitches? >> that's right. >> that's right. >> but steve stevens already pointed out massive. there's not enough electricity in this country to serve all these new houses. not in the southeast. well, absolutely. you mentioned this on a show. a couple of weeks ago, and during this week i read that three developments in west london have had to be scrapped because there is no infrastructure to supply power to those housing estates. >> gb news yes, you did . >> gb news yes, you did. >> gb news yes, you did. >> yeah. these sites, it's

three, quarter of a million pound quarter of 1,000,000ft2 warehouses. basically, they're going to have to have 171 backup diesel generators. >> so energy intensive . >> so energy intensive. >> so energy intensive. >> so energy intensive. >> so make it make sense. nothing seems to gel together. >> does it? no. >> does it? no. >> also, by the way, just to add all this is just hot air and nonsense because we are letting in hundreds of thousands of people into this country each yeah people into this country each year. yes and to keep up with demand, you're going to have to be building houses every couple of minutes. it's insane. and no one talks about the migrants. >> i totally agree the 300,000 announced this morning is half of the figure i understood we had to build to just stay still. you know, just to be paddling water, we need 600,000 a year. i'm surprised that the ambition is only 300,000 a year. >> people say, well, you know, we need immigration to grow gdp and so on. gdp per capita is contracting. it's of course it is. it's a complete myth that migrants are good for the economy. >> well, chris philp said this morning it's not about too few houses, it's about too many people. it is. but on the other hand, look, we're pretty much at stasis now between births and deaths. i think, you know, we

don't want to end up in a situation like japan. >> birth rates going down, isn't it? >> well, you know, you have an awful problem where, i mean, there's going to be like, you know, one person working for every 15 people retired in japan. yeah. we've got to bring people in. >> oh, don't worry, we've got universal basic income coming in under labour, right. >> that's another story. >> that's another story. >> we've also got to build it in wales. >> let's not go about the second child. >> think i'm joking? now look, buckingham palace, we're looking at some pictures here. we, the king and the queen will of course be leaving soon in their carriage with the imperial state crown in its own carriage. of course, we'll go ahead with them to make their way to the house of lords at this morning. so we will keep you abreast of those movements there. let's also, though, gentlemen, touch on this other story, which is the one that caught my eye, what about jo cox, did you want to do this one? >> should we do this one? >> should we do this one? >> let's do that one. millennials, you are turning against their families. unbelievable. this story. yeah. >> unbelievable . unbelievable. >> unbelievable. unbelievable. this is a two page spread in the daily mail. it says, growing number of millennials are deciding to go no contact and cut off their parents to protect their mental health. and it's

all egged on by a series of campaigns on social media. this is so 1984 ish. it's so dystopian. i can't believe it. but, they do give an example of some very famous people already into this. and one of them, of course, is meghan markle, who, you know, who has had a fallout with her father, hasn't spoken to him, even since she's been married and become one of the most famous people in the world. and yet it's a growing trend. they illustrate one particular case in here where a daughter hasn't spoken to her dad for 12 years, 12 years, and yet when a family member died who was a grandparent, nobody would pass on the message from one side of the family to the other. >> millennials born between 81 and 96 mark steyn sorry, the deterioration of the family, isn't it? >> if the day dawns when we're accepting meghan markle. meghan markle is our role model is the day. no i'm not. i'm saying she shoot myself, but she's the best pubuc shoot myself, but she's the best public example of it. >> not realising it. no i think this is this is a nonsensical i mean, i was one of nine children

and some of us got on better with our parents and the others did. >> it's just it happens to be perfectly normal. but the idea that this is some new sort of social urge, some mores where you don't have contact with your parents because of your mental health. yeah. i mean, i have to say, it's the mortgage health that actually concentrates the relationship between me and my kids. believe you. me. yeah. and i love them. by the way. yeah. >> we love you, stephen. for that. right. it's all, obviously wonderful scenes down here from buckingham palace. >> a beautiful, sunny day here in london. we're going to bring you that as it develops, you know, so very quickly, when i actually asked somebody, one of the royal equerries about the stagecoach with a separate crown and they said, well, her majesty doesn't wear her indoor crown in the coat. >> she comes into the robing room. then she changes from the outdoor crown to an indoor crown. i said, of course, it's very heavy as well. >> thousands of an outdoor crowd. anyway, we're going to go to buckingham palace shortly, but first, your news headlines with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after half past 11.

and the top story this morning is, of course, that the king's speech is expected to take place in the next half hour or so, setting out the new government's priorities. these are live pictures here. you can see on your screen as hundreds gather in crowds outside buckingham palace and the mall in central london to see king charles, who will address parliament for the second time during his reign. he is expected his majesty is expected to leave buckingham palace shortly. the speech is also expected to contain more than 35 bills, with the prime minister saying he wants to take the brakes off britain . the the brakes off britain. the focus will be creating jobs, building houses and improving transport, and downing street has already confirmed there will be legislation to start bringing railways back into public ownership. it will also address a ban on zero hours contracts and giving employees the right to switch off from work outside office hours . in other news, the office hours. in other news, the latest figures show inflation held at the bank of england's 2%

target last month. all eyes will now be on the central bank and whether it will cut the interest rate. this summer, the government says the data is welcome news, but added that pnces welcome news, but added that prices are still high because of the economic chaos they say inherited from the conservatives inherited from the conservatives in thailand. traces of cyanide have been found in cups of tea inside a hotel room where six people were found dead. police say the three men and three women were likely poisoned by one of those who died in the room of the grand hyatt hotel in bangkok, which was locked from the inside. investigators there say money may have been a motive after evidence showed financial investments had been made among the group and dame priti patel is reportedly entering the conservatives leadership race. the former home secretary said to be assembling a campaign team funded by high profile donors, with the telegraph saying a formal announcement is expected by the end of next week. so far, no other candidates have declared their plans . those are

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financial report. >> so we're hoping to bring you live pictures very soon of the prime minister, sir keir starmer, leaving downing street. we're going to be. is this him? there he is. no, he isn't. there he is. >> it's not raining . >> it's not raining. >> it's not raining. >> there he is. it's not raining obviously. now labour in power apparently is just going to it's keir starmer, the first prime minister who carries that red file around with him all the time because it's got prime minister of the united kingdom not the first lord of the treasury, first lord of the treasury. >> that's right. yeah. >> that's right. yeah. >> we'll ask chopper who's got the expertise when we go back to him very shortly. all the build up to the king's speech coming up to the king's speech coming up at half 11. but for now, this is britain's newsroom on gb news we'll be ina

tick. >> at 1040. this is britain's newsroom. bev and ben, this morning. >> very good morning to you. now, we're going to go straight to buckingham palace, where gb

news royal correspondent cameron walker joins us now news royal correspondent cameron walkerjoins us now ahead of the walker joins us now ahead of the king's speech today. and all the pomp and ceremony that entails. good morning cameron , what's good morning cameron, what's going on down there? the sun is still shining. looks pretty glorious. >> good morning ben. it certainly is. and the royal regalia procession has just left literally in the last two minutes. buckingham palace, two separate carriages. the queen alexandra's state coach with four bay horses containing the imperial state crown, containing more than 2800 diamonds, which the king will wear when he delivers his speech at buckingham palace. you just see the household cavalry beginning there, escorting the carriages down the mall towards the palace of westminster. down the mall towards the palace of westminster . the cap of of westminster. the cap of maintenance is all inside the carriage and the sword of state's familiar of course, being used during the coronation service as the second carriage behind it. the king edward, the seventh town coach with two bay horses containing mr david turner, who's a sergeant of

arms, colonel duncan dewar, who's another sergeant of arms and the crown jeweller, is in the motor car. who is mr mark appleby as well? this, of course, is the regalia procession just for crown jewels. no members of the royal family inside that carriage , but family inside that carriage, but i think it's pretty traditional. lots of pomp and pageantry , that lots of pomp and pageantry, that the crown has its own carriage. and that's exactly what we're seeing, being escorted by literally hundreds of soldiers , literally hundreds of soldiers, around 200 horses as well, taking part in these two processions from buckingham palace down the mall, past horse guards parade and to the palace of westminster. when the crown arrives at the sovereign's entrance of the palace of westminster, the house of lords side of the building, it will be taken into the robing room ahead of his majesty the king's, arrival, where, when he does so, he will be. he will put on the crown as well as his robe of state, as well. so it's an incredibly kind of important symbolic moment, because the crown, of course , symbolises the crown, of course, symbolises the monarchy being head of state.

the king being head of state, and the fact that he will be wearing it during the king's speech shows that it is his majesty's government. although, of course it's the labour government who writes the speech. it is the king who delivers it, and it is the king who opens each parliamentary session. >> well, it looks wonderful. we've also got michael cole, royal expert in the studio with us this morning. michael, how many of these have you witnessed and does it change at all over the years? >> very many. is the short answer to that . beverley and answer to that. beverley and good morning, ben. good morning, in fact you asked a question earlier. does this happen anywhere else in the world? and actually in grenada in the caribbean, i also saw the queen, the late queen, open parliament at wellington in new zealand, and she did the same with the gown , the garter sash, the gown, the garter sash, the tiara, the same ceremonial went on, not with quite the splendour of here. now this is a very,

very important occasion. the speaker of the house, sir lindsay hoyle, has said that the state opening of parliament is the hottest ticket in town. and he says it does wonders for the tourism industry by bringing people in and people can connect with our great traditions. but it is rather more than that . it is rather more than that. since 1681, bill of rights and all that, the primacy, the importance of parliament after a general election, the monarch gathers the parliamentarians, the people who've been elected to serve him or her as the new government together at westminster. for this occasion. and of course, it is very much the same ceremonial that's going on and has been going on for a number of years. but with subtle differences, we will see. of course. it's a long time. the queen was there for so many years, and she made the ceremony very, very much her own. and of course, in this country , it's

course, in this country, it's not keir starmers speech. it's the king's speech. it's the king's government. administration is carried out in the name of the monarch. and the law is applied in the name of the monarch and the monarch. in the monarch and the monarch. in the westminster system reigns, but does not rule that is the way we run things and many, many nafions way we run things and many, many nations around the world. it's the westminster system and we've exported it successfully to canada, australia and new zealand and other realms of the of the king, now 14 realms around the world. so the ceremony is very important. it's just not. it's not just something out of alice in wonderland and everybody looking like as if they're in a pack of cards. it's central and it's the most significant constitutional ceremony that the monarch personally performs , and that's personally performs, and that's why it is, given such prominence. and we're seeing it here. the glory of it all. >> so what's going on here with

these, these horses? >> michael, what is happening now is that the household cavalry will be waiting to escort the irish state coach, within which will be the king and the queen. now, of course, there have been some incidents from time to time . the duchess from time to time. the duchess of york, sarah fergie, her father, major ronald ferguson, was in command of the escort one yeah was in command of the escort one year. and there'd been some trouble with the ira and security was a little bit sort of questionable. and he, ronnie decided to ride very, very close to the queen's carriage. and when they got to the victoria tower, he explained it to me. he said the queen started calling out to me and i thought she was going to say good escort , good going to say good escort, good escort. but what she was saying was ronnie , you're too close. was ronnie, you're too close. they want to see me, not you. >> hahahahaha . >> hahahahaha. >> hahahahaha. >> so you do get those little insights, but it's very important.

>> the household brigade, the five guards regiments and the two mounted regiments, the life guards and the blues and royals are the queen's. and in the past and now the king's personal bodyguard. so they accompany the monarch on his way to parliament, when the monarch arrives at the victoria tower, the royal standard will be broken over the tower 400ft up on a flag post to say the monarch has arrived, and they will progress inside being met by the lord great chamberlain with his wand of office, and they will go to the robing room , they will go to the robing room, where they will then get into the robes for the procession into the lord's chamber. inside, there will be 200 peers of the realm. there's 800 of them, actually, but only about a quarter of them will be able to get in. and then we'll see the time honoured ceremonial where

the lord great chamberlain will give a signal to black rod, who will then stride through the house of commons to the commons chamber and bang on the door, and be refused entry. well, this is very important symbolically, because that says that the commons doesn't take orders from the king and the king summons the king and the king summons the commons, and then the commons will progress and process to the house of lords. >> so we have all that to look forward to this morning. don't go anywhere. we're going to take a very quick break. but the king's speech course, on britain's newsroom

next. >> hello. welcome back. 1050 ben and bev on britain's newsroom on gb news. some breaking news. now we're joined by our home and security editor, mark white, with some revelations about plans to disrupt today's king's speech and the ceremony. mark,

what's going on? >> yes, indeed. this is a protest group, youth justice, who were planning, they'd said, in fact, publicly they were planning to disrupt the events around the king's speech. and so the police have moved in. this operation is ongoing. and so far , operation is ongoing. and so far, ten members of this protest group, which is effectively an amalgamation of just stop oil campaigners and those palestinian pro—palestinian protest groups, they've said that they were going to disrupt the proceedings around parliament or the procession and all of the above, so the police have arrested ten so far. they're telling us that there is a group of another 20 to 25 protesters that they know about that are on victoria embankment and are in the process of arresting those individuals as well, they've said in a

statement to the police that they, you know, while legitimate protest is absolutely, you know, accepted as part and parcel of the democratic process, anything that moves into disrupting events will not be accepted or tolerated. and that's why they've moved into arrest. >> do we know where they are, mark? are they will they have access to get close to the king and queen? >> well, this is it. one of the real concerns in any big public eventis real concerns in any big public event is the point where your vips, your principals are out in the open. and we know, of course, will the prime minister in going from downing street to parliament, has to be, usually in a motorcade heading towards parliament at that time, the king as well, leaving from the palace, heading up the mall and heading over to parliament as well. in that procession is

always a point where they are at increased risk. the metropolitan police, and all of the security services are used to being able to manage these big public events . but that doesn't mean events. but that doesn't mean that there isn't a risk. and we've seen it in the past with protesters. trying to disrupt jumping in front of motorcades and processions and the like . and processions and the like. there's always the, the threat from terrorism that underlies everything. but these days, more likely are the activist groups. and that's what we're seeing playing out. >> so this is this relatively new group, isn't it? youth demand. they've said youth demand. they've said youth demand will be will be disrupting the state opening of parliament. we disrupt because it is our duty to fight back in every way we non—violently can, because we refuse to despair, but instead are full of hope that another way is possible. do we expect there to be more disruption then between now and

half 11? you know what? we've got to move on, guys, stephen poundis got to move on, guys, stephen pound is still with us in the studio. michael cole is still with us in the studio. it's a huge political and royal day. we will be bringing you everything. thank you so much. mark white. as well, >> back in a tick with all the extensive coverage. but for now, alex has your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> morning. here's your latest gb news. weather forecast coming to you from the met office. yes, there will be some wet and windy weather pushing into northwestern parts later on, but for many today it is a fine and sunny picture. yes, plenty of blue skies around first thing and there will be lots of sunshine to come as we go through the day though. some cloud bubbling up and also a scattering of showers around the showers could be quite hit and miss in nature. so many of us will avoid them and they don't look especially heavy, especially compared to some recent days. temperatures, especially in any sunshine, will

be getting a bit higher than they have been recently. highs of around 25, possibly 26 celsius, and quite widely. we're looking at high teens or low 20s as we go through this evening, and for many it is looking largely dry. 1 or 2 showers continuing, perhaps across some parts of england and wales , but parts of england and wales, but most places having a decent end to the day with some late sunshine as well. a different story further north, though a bit more cloud pushing into parts of northern ireland, the winds picking up here, and a similar story for western parts of scotland out towards the outer hebrides and elsewhere across scotland . perhaps a few across scotland. perhaps a few more showers possible than further south, but also some sunny spells to end the day . sunny spells to end the day. here through the night we are going to see the cloud, the blustery winds and the rain spilling a little bit further eastwards across much of northern ireland, across parts of scotland and perhaps into far western parts of wales, to elsewhere across other parts of the uk. it should stay dry overnight and there will be some clear skies, but because we have some relatively warm air across the country, temperatures aren't going to drop much, so a pretty

mild warm start to the day on thursday . as we go through thursday. as we go through thursday. as we go through thursday itself. more wet weather towards northwest and parts and blustery winds and the rain continuing, especially across western parts of scotland, could see some totals building up, but across the rest of the country, across particularly england and wales, lots of fine sunny weather yet again , temperatures could be a again, temperatures could be a touch up on today, but it's likely to be even hotter by friday. could get into the low 30s by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb. >> welcome back to britain's

newsroom. it's a very exciting show this morning on gb news. of course, with me, bev turner and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. now it's the state opening of parliament. the pomp, the ceremony that goes with it. king

charles, as we can see right now, is leaving buckingham palace. we're joined by an array of expert panellists today, including former royal correspondent michael cole, who can talk us through what we're seeing and hearing right now. michael. >> yes, well, there we are. we're seeing the irish state coach, leaving buckingham palace. >> this was just a few moments ago. apparently we're not seeing this exactly live. okay >> well, it's a time honoured ceremonial. the windsor grey horses pulling the carriage. and inside we will see the king and the queen travelling together in state the mile and a bit to the palace of westminster. from one palace to another , where palace to another, where ceremonially he will open the new session of parliament by reading the king's speech which is an outline with a little detail of the government's

proposed programme of legislation for this parliament. >> we're slightly nervous this morning because mark white is here with us. there's been some arrests already today, mark, how many people have been arrested at this protest from youth demand? well, ten people arrested so far from a group called youth demand, which is a protest group, an amalgamation of just stop oil, environmentalists and pro—palestinian groups. >> they had threatened to carry out an operation disrupting this procession that we're looking at now. and so police moved in. they've arrested ten people so far. however, another 25 members of this action activist group are we're told, on the embankment at the moment at embankment gardens, and there is an ongoing police operation by the metropolitan police to move in and to arrest those individuals as well, because of the threats that this activist group made to try to disrupt the

progress of this procession . progress of this procession. >> rafe heydel—mankoo is with us as well. rafe no suggestion that there may be a physical threat to the king and queen at this point, but how will the palace itself respond to this sort of disruption? will they be very well organised in terms of expectation? >> unfortunately, in this day and age , everyone has to expect and age, everyone has to expect that this sort of thing is if not inevitable, a very a very real possibility. look, one of the great benefits of living in a constitutional monarchy is that we enjoy the right to protest . it's the fundamental protest. it's the fundamental thing which the crown guarantees . thing which the crown guarantees. but, you know, there's another protest taking place today by republic, the anti—monarchy organisation. they have gone about this, the correct way. they have secured permission, they have been given their site and they're engaged in peaceful protest. what we are talking about now, what mark is referring to is a very different thing. it's actually an attempt to disrupt the constitution of this country, because that's what this ceremony is. we are seeing the living embodiment of our constitution displayed before us, almost being

re—enacted. and to interfere with that is actually to interfere with the democracy of the nation , because this is the the nation, because this is the opening of parliament. >> we're also joined by former labour mp stephen pound, stephen just we saw it with jeremy corbyn when he was i was about to say, indicted into the commons. he was he took the oath and the slightly the wrong word. he called the ceremony nonsense. we saw it with clive lewis, the mp, saying that, you know, he wanted a republic and so on. why do these people hate everything that's great about this country? >> well, you'd have to ask them. but i mean, in all honesty, what do you think? you know, as far as i'm concerned, the house of commons sits in the name of god and the monarch. every piece of legislation that we pass has to be ultimately approved by the monarch. we have to. we cannot make laws unless they are approved by the monarch. and, you know, i accept that that is what the state that we live in. but i think clive lewis has actually having to go back and re swear now he is, because apparently he wasn't actually legitimately a member of parliament because of all that. rather nonsense. but this umbrella organisation, this weird bunch of people, i mean, my first thought was, is this a distraction technique that we

used to see in northern ireland, where people would say they're going to do something, then then distract, you know, the forces of law and order. but in all honesty, what kind of people announce that they're going to do this sort of disruption? and unless they are longing to have their collars felt and they're longing to be victimised, and then they can say that we're martyrs of this dreadful state. as far as i'm concerned, if you imagine a group of people trying to drag their reputation even lower, this would be the scenario that you would undertake, i guess. >> i guess they preannounce it because it gets some headlines. they probably know there'll be arrested. and that is the intention. it's embarrassing. they want they want the headlines, don't they ? we're headlines, don't they? we're going to go to gb news. political correspondent katherine forster who i believe is in westminster now. catherine, what's going on? where you are. >> yes. good morning to both of you. well, the sun is splitting the stones. it's quite a contrast from when i was last here for the king's first speech. that was back in november with a different government. the weather was very gloomy, but behind me , the roads

gloomy, but behind me, the roads are closed off of course, there is a band playing. i think they're playing . anything goes they're playing. anything goes at the moment. but just a few minutes ago, very, very surreal. they were playing the theme tune from top gun maverick with all this british pomp and pageantry. so a couple of very beautiful, carriages with horses. one of the horses not too happy at all, but was brought under control. but the king arriving at about 11:20, here, going into the house of lords. then black rod will go and knock on the door of the commons. the commons will close the door in his face, emphasising the sovereignty of the house of commons. and then all the mps will troop along to hear the king's speech. at about 1135. in terms of what to expect about 35 bills, and a few of them carried over from the last government. so rishi sunak's

smoking and vapes bill, we expect to be in there. martyn's law and beefed up terror legislation. but of course, lots from the new government particularly focused on, building. they want to build 1.5 million homes renationalising the railways and national energy company. sir keir starmer, tweeting on x in the last hour or so , saying today we set out or so, saying today we set out new laws to create wealth in every corner of our country to make people better off. also, they have borrowed the language of a vote leave the brexit days, take back control, they say so big plans, but of course getting growth, which is their central mission, is very, very much easier said than done because we've had an economy that's been pretty much flatlining since the financial crisis. as a result of

that, we, you know, haven't seen the growth in income to boost our public services. there's not a lot of money around. so huge, huge challenges , but lots of huge challenges, but lots of pledges that things are going to get better . let's see what happens. >> okay. katherine forster there at westminster. thank you so much. let's go now to cameron walker outside of buckingham palace, i presume. what have you seen so far? cameron >> yeah. the sovereign's carriage escort. well and truly underway here in central london just around five minutes or so ago, the king and queen departed buckingham palace. they are still continuing on the way to the palace of westminster in the diamonds jubilee state coach pulled by six windsor grey horses . there's a number of horses. there's a number of other carriages in that procession containing members of the royal households. i also have been given details by buckingham palace to exactly what they are wearing. so his majesty is wearing the admiral of the fleet, royal navy number

one dress with cap and sword when he arrives at the palace of westminster. he will, of course, put on that imperial state crown which travelled in the carriage procession a little earlier on, as well as the robe of state. the queen, on the other hand, she will be putting on the george iv state diadem and robe of state. it is all this pomp and pageantry that is going on hundreds and hundreds of people are lining the routes here around the queen victoria memorial, down the mall and then towards westminster as well. the imperial state crown of course, originally made in the, originally made in the, originally made in the, originally made for queen victoria's coronation but used dunng victoria's coronation but used during the state opening of parliament, 2868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and five rubies, as well . so it is a emeralds and five rubies, as well. so it is a day of pomp and pageantry. but the king has a very important constitutional role here, as we've been discussing in the studio and

here in westminster and in central london as well. he is the only one as head of state who can open a new parliamentary session. he will be reading the king's speech. we think around 1130 inside the house of lords, sat on the throne wearing his royal regalia, including the imperial state crown, of course, written by the labour government's, the first labour governments of his reign. but the second king's speech of his reign. >> okay. thank you very much , >> okay. thank you very much, cameron. from a beautiful buckingham palace. now back in the studio, we've got the a team here. we've got our royal experts, rafe heydel—mankoo and michael. not literally the a team, but yeah. and he's a barack obama fool. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> well done. i knew you'd have an impression . stephen. an impression. stephen. >> interesting on bj baracas. >> interesting on bj baracas. >> right. what are we seeing here? >> michael well, coming down whitehall here we have the irish state coach with the escort of the life guards drawn by the windsor grey horses. as cameron was just saying . and a big, big was just saying. and a big, big treat for where where katherine forster , our reporter and good forster, our reporter and good colleague, was standing just by there as a special privilege. the pupils of westminster school

are allowed to stand there and give an extra large cheer when the king arrives. and of course he will then go inside and be robed and go into meet and greet his lordship's the peers of the realm. now there are 800 of them. there's no bigger legislative body in the world except in communist china. 800 of them. they're all on £320 a day, by the way, which we're paying day, by the way, which we're paying for as taxpayers. and maybe we'll hear in the king's speech from, the prime minister's plans to limit to some extent the membership of the house of lords, which is getting scandalously large and is open to misuse, i think, by some of the of the members that will be perhaps a feature of this, of this speech, which we're going to hear today. but going back to the protesters, stephen pound said, what sort of people are they ? i'll tell you, people are they? i'll tell you, they're pure oil and they're irresponsible and they do

whatever, cause they have a tremendous amount of damage in the process. what happened to the process. what happened to the kind politics, the new politics, the tolerant politics that we were advised was going to be coming with this new massive the non disruption. >> michael rafe this talk us through what we're seeing here. would you . so yes. would you. so yes. >> so now the carriage with the royal party is arriving at the sovereign's entrance to parliament and the palace of westminster was actually built specifically for this day . the specifically for this day. the very layout of the building was designed to show off the state opening of parliament as majestically as possible. and so the sovereign is now arriving at the sovereign is now arriving at the sovereign's entrance. they will. he will then be met by the earl marshal, who organises coronations and state events, and the new lord great chamberlain, lord carrington , chamberlain, lord carrington, who will then lead a procession to the robing room and from there through the royal gallery into the house of lords. then black rod will go to the house of commons to summon to some of

the members of the house of commons. and that's all laid out wonderfully in the in the very fabnc wonderfully in the in the very fabric of the building, because the idea here is to show the evolution of our democracy. what we're seeing here is theatre. it's theatre, which is a lesson in history and a lesson in the constitution. and here, of course, we can see the interior of the house of lords, which is the one time of the year when all the elements of parliament come together the crown, the house of lords and the commons create the crown in parliament. but also here, of course, we see the judges, the king on the bench, we have the judiciary here as well as the executive. all of the privy counsellors are there being the king in council. so we have here the executive, the judiciary and the legislature all together in this great sort of authoritarian scene, which is a great, wonderful lesson of why we are the world's oldest continuous , the world's oldest continuous, unbroken democracy. >> stephen pound there's some elements of today which have happened behind the scenes, including a gas lit hunt for

explosives . the staff members go explosives. the staff members go down to the cellars of the houses of parliament looking for explosives. in a nod to the failed 1605 gunpowder plot. what's it like as an mp? you've done 20. how many? >> 22 years? >> 22 years? >> what's it like? >> what's it like? >> time off for good behaviour? this is an extraordinary, extraordinary case. i mean, one of the problems with searching for the gunpowder is, of course, that the palace of westminster has moved so much, you know, long before it was rebuilt in 1834. and, you know, the, the river used to get used to wobble around all over the place where they now search is nowhere near where guy fawkes, a man who is variously described as a freedom fighter and the only person to enter parliament with honest intentions, you know, was actually searching for the gunpowder. but look what does happen. i used to love taking schoolchildren on this procession, this route, because they come in through the sovereign's entrance, and then they come up the stairs and into they come up the stairs and into the robing room. and i think, rafe i'm sure everybody around this table knows that there's a certain section of the wainscotting there of the linenfold panel on which contains within it a secret toilet and because the idea

should her majesty or his majesty now require that facility, then this secret panel opens. and i was told on very good authority , not the duke of good authority, not the duke of norfolk, but by somebody of equal stature. that should the monarch actually make use of this, it is immediately destroyed and smashed so that it doesn't end up on ebay in the morning. and so it's that and of course, the school kids used to love that. and i say, look, look around the royal robing room. you will actually see depictions of the christian virtues, you know, charity and hospitality . know, charity and hospitality. and that is the key important thing because that's where the monarch says the monarch may rule the nation, but subservient to god. and i think that's an incredibly important point. >> so there are more than two thrones then, stephen. >> oh, very good. >> oh, very good. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i should just say what we're now seeing . the honourable corps now seeing. the honourable corps of the gentlemen at arms assembling these are the bodyguard of the sovereign, founded by king henry the eighth, you have to be under 55. the average age is 52. they always look old to me. and now i realise i'm actually the same

age as the honourable corps of gentlemen at arms and they rank between the major and colonels, and they are always accompany the sovereign, along with the yeomen of the guard. at any of these important state occasions. but what a glorious room that is. i think this is a fine the finest chamber of any legislature in the world, designed by by pugin . pugin. designed by by pugin. pugin. pugin, who went mad famously because his attention to detail was so, was so great. but it is one of the great splendid buildings of the world, and it's lovely to see this taking place. >> what is amazing is when you come in there, the place is full of duchesses and people, all with tiaras, and when the tv lights come on, the bling explodes in front of us all the diamonds flash. it's like going through 101 speed cameras at the same time. it's an extraordinary sight. >> stephen's quite right, because when the monarch enters, the full lighting is put on. it's very, very stagey. this is a beautiful, tableau. it's a beautiful tableau . and there's beautiful tableau. and there's nothing quite like this neo—gothic chamber in the world. the two thrones upon which the king and queen will sit are

modelled exactly on the coronation throne across the road in westminster abbey , road in westminster abbey, reimagined by pugin, but reimagined by pugin, but reimagined brilliantly. incidentally, the man who walks in front of the monarch but backwards, holding a wand , the backwards, holding a wand, the lord great chamberlain, that is, an office that alternates between two families, the carringtons and the chumley's. and when there's a change of reign, then the other family takes over. so the chumley's had it for an awful long time. 70 years, while the queen, the longest throne and one of and one of the perks of being lord great chamberlain is you get to take the consort's throne home with you when it's not in use. >> and so if you went to see david chumley at hamilton, the throne would be there. it's just oneinch throne would be there. it's just one inch shorter than the sovereign's throne. apart from that, they are and, you know, hostage. >> that happens on the night before . yes, yes. before. yes, yes. >> explain that to our viewers . >> explain that to our viewers. >> explain that to our viewers. >> one member of the house of commons is held hostage in buckingham palace and vice versa. so just to make absolutely sure that loyalty is observed, do we know who it is

today? >> who the hostages do? >> who the hostages do? >> it's a female mp, isn't it? >> it's a female mp, isn't it? >> that's right. >> that's right. >> it's, samantha dickson, who is always one of the government whips. it's usually the government whips, samantha dickson, it's the third. >> the third. sorry. the third. senior whip, who's also vice—chamberlain of the household. and it's her role to act as a messenger between parliament and the sovereign. >> but exactly the same thing happensin >> but exactly the same thing happens in america because when the president goes to the capital to give his address to the union, the state of the union address, one member of the government, one of the secretaries of state, stays in the white house in case for some reason and maybe it's not that outlandish, the whole of the government and the president are wiped out while they're actually in the capital. so at least there will be one government minister from the administration still alive. >> i think we're imminently going to see black rod, and i'll get the expertise of you. stephen michael and rafe about who black rod is, what the procession means. and you know, the ceremony means in terms of that. but mark white, if we just come back to you briefly about these arrests in light of what

happened with donald trump over the weekend, is there a heightened security concerns today with what's going on? >> there's always heightened security around these big state occasions , especially as you occasions, especially as you have the movement of very senior people, royal family members, the king, of course, from the likes of buckingham palace up to the palace of westminster. and it's at that point when there is the most risk. so they're well used to this. they guard the route, they have the same sort of things that we've been talking about over the weekend with these advanced police units that go in and for search explosives, make sure there's no line of sight areas that there could be. for instance, snipers will there be will there be police snipers in westminster now? >> on certain buildings you will see police snipers on rooftops. >> would you mind just recapping what's happened with these arrests? >> who's been arrested? how many? why? >> well, this is a group called youth demand, which is an

offshoot, effectively, of the activist groups like just stop oil and the pro—palestinian groups , they had threatened to groups, they had threatened to carry out a protest that they planned to disrupt the state opening of parliament, and so the police moved in. they've arrested ten so far. however, there's another group of some 25 activists who are on victoria embankment , just in the gardens embankment, just in the gardens there. they're now surrounded by metropolitan police officers who are moving into that crowd and arresting them one by one. anyone who's covered protests will have seen this many times before. they effectively, i think the term that was used over the years was kettling. they they effectively put a secure police cordon around them, and then they just go in and pick them off one at a time, take them away and remove them from the scene. >> very difficult, isn't it, though , to account for one lone though, to account for one lone person with a gun, as we saw at the weekend with trump ? far be the weekend with trump? far be it from me to correct either of

you to royal experts on my left, but apparently it was the diamond jubilee state coach that the king and queen were in this morning. really? >> well, that is a change in tradition, but it's no no , it's tradition, but it's no no, it's understandable because the diamond jubilee state coach is the most modern of the state. >> coaches in australia made in australia. they they took it in 2040. it's got suspension. can i ask you a stupid question. >> does it have bullet—proof glass . glass. >> do you know i did actually look into that but i forgot what l, look into that but i forgot what i, what i found out. that was a while back . while back. >> if it does, they wouldn't have said so. by the way, what we're looking at here, the entire diplomatic corps, ambassadors and so on are all invited. and there's a premium on places in the galleries to actually see the ceremonial. many of these diplomats, ambassadors and lesser people have never seen anything like this before, and they never will see anything like it again. that is an interesting change. thank you for bringing that up that they used. it's a magnificent coach made in australia and it's

the only really modern one. all the only really modern one. all the other ones, most of them date from the victorian era. >> why was it made in australia? >> why was it made in australia? >> just i think well, they made the australian state coach in the australian state coach in the 1980s and they're very they're a great it's the same company that made them both frecklington and they very very well they do it very well and it's got wonderful pieces of our history in it. pieces of hms victory. but importantly it's got that suspension and it's got heating and air conditioning which are all things that of course, when you're at the age of our king and queen, are more important. >> and by the way, of course, the queen 77 today. >> happy birthday to her. correct. that is her birthday. yeah, she married a toyboy . of yeah, she married a toyboy. of course. he's about, he's 75. nothing wrong with that. he'll catch up, he'll catch up. he'll be 76 in november 14th. >> michael is the queen having a. is she missing out by her birthday? falling on today? what would normally happen on the queen's birthday? >> well, wouldn't you say you'd like to go to parliament on your birthday? i mean, this is this is quite extraordinary. an event like this, all the great and the

good gathered together in one small room. i'm sure she will enjoy it immensely. maybe she'd like to go back to the palace afterwards, and perhaps have a small drink, and maybe even a cigarette on the quiet. but this is duty. this is what they do. >> queen does she? >> queen does she? >> she does. how many? >> she does. how many? >> how many a day? >> how many a day? >> every privy, every now and then, but not near the king outside, i think. or well away from him. but that makes her more human. it makes her more down to earth with people and, she's tremendously good news for him . and people warm to her. and him. and people warm to her. and we saw that in jersey and guernsey. how much she she did. well apparently she sprained her ankle today. we probably won't see that she'd be wearing a long. yesterday she sprained her ankle , we won't be seeing that. ankle, we won't be seeing that. she'll be wearing a long gown. the king will be sitting in the throne on as we look at it on the left hand side and the queen next to him. and i think the prince of wales will be there, and he will be in his seat at a lower level, not at the top of the rostrum. there and there you

see, as i say, a fine collection of peers of the realm in their robes, which they don't wear very often and many of them don't actually own. i think they are hire them, don't they, stephen? i think they would. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> he's even ravenscroft. yeah. and they've got ravenscroft. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> you're right. we've got, lord west, we can see their former admiral in the royal navy who's laboun admiral in the royal navy who's labour, a labour, labour, labour peen labour, a labour, labour, labour peer. of course, we also have a new labour. we have a new labour law chancellor in the person of miss mahmood. and traditionally the lord chancellor, who hands the lord chancellor, who hands the speech to the sovereign , the speech to the sovereign, then walks backwards down the stairs and last year we did have that with alex chalk, the then lord chancellor, also wearing the full bottomed wig. so we remained to see whether that tradition will be continued. >> lord chancellor alex chalk is about six foot seven, which made it quite tricky. >> shabana mahmood, who is the present one, is a much shorter than that, but it was absolutely amazing. about this is when the speech is handed to the monarch, and the monarch then reads the

speech. and it's not their words, it's the words. it's an obvious point, but a lot of people don't actually appreciate this. and i wonder, the first ones! this. and i wonder, the first ones i went to when the late her majesty read tony blair's speech back in 97, and it was all about banning fox hunting. and i can still remember her voice almost breaking. and prince philip was next. and i said, what did he say? but it is marvellous. and this is so uniquely wonderful about our constitution . the about our constitution. the monarch and the legislature actually come together and it's enunciating the program through. and, of course, what's in the king's speech is then the legislation is then the legislative. >> it's a press release, isn't it? it's a press release for the yeah it? it's a press release for the year. it's what it's what the agenda is. summary. it's signpost. >> it's a statement of intention. >> now here, here you see here you see black rod going off on his duty to, to, to summon the. yes. it is her to summon the commons. i think the lord, the lord chancellor, normally sits on the woolsack. when presiding over the commons, but that has been removed to accommodate all the peers for this great day. and the procession from the

commons will begin very, very soon. yes, we're picking up the mace in the commons chamber, which is the symbol of the power of the commons and goes with the speaker leading , preceded by his speaker leading, preceded by his learned counsel, and they will continue through the palace of westminster to the lords . westminster to the lords. >> so black rod is sarah clarke. she was appointed lady usher of the black rock. black rod, rather, in november 2017, formally taking up the role in february 2018. so there are 775 members of the house of lords. >> we'll bring you that footage back in just a moment, how will they decide who gets to be there today? rafe do we know, >> well, they all be there. >> well, they all be there. >> can they all be there at one time? presumably not. >> they can't. they can't all fit. they can't all fit in. and isuppose fit. they can't all fit in. and i suppose not not not not not not everyone goes in. >> and so get there early with your towel. >> like a sunbed. you can't get there. >> this is a problem because i mean a number of them, their lordships are not in the first

fine flush of their youth, and they're having to sit there for a couple of hours beforehand. and i don't want to keep referring to mick duration, but i mean, this this is an aspect of it. you know, you're sitting there for quite a long time, so it's only the people who can stay there. but there are certain people, you know, like the lord chancellor, lord chamberlain, you have, you know, black rod, you have the gold stick pursuivant. and was it the dutch cap of state, all those weird things like that. you know, there are those people who are entitled to be there, but the rest of them, it's just first come, first serve. but the interesting thing is that the bar of the house of lords, which is the only place the commoners from the commons are allowed to approach it, can probably maybe accommodate 25 people, and there are about 600 people from the house of commons desperate to come in there, forcing their way, hiding behind the curtains, pushing in at the last minute. and of course, it's supposed to be this dignified procession from the commons to the lords, where the prime minister and the leader of the opposition walk together, pretending that they're friends and then everybody. then you can see them desperately trying over here. and it's that's that's when you actually see the dignity is slightly diluted and diminished. >> of course, one of the things we're thinking, we're hoping to see is whether whether lords reform will be one of the things

mentioned in the king's speech because what's being proposed is the year, an 80 year mandatory retirement. although the king himself, given his age, might be thinking whether that's an appropriate age to retire as well. but we haven't seen the black rod ceremony just yet. what we did see was the arrival, the speaker's procession. so the speaker is now in the commons chamber with the mace , and once chamber with the mace, and once the sovereign sits down on the throne, he will then nod to black rod and black rod will then proceed across central lobby to the to the commons chamber to summon the peers to some of the members of the house of commons. unfortunately, the one tradition has ended and that was your your your colleague stephen dennis skinner, who would always come out with a wonderful, wonderfully witty barb . but we haven't had that barb. but we haven't had that for a few years because he's no longer in the chamber, you know, where's barbara windsor or something? >> but what's interesting, i mean, i happened to have just been informed that the one member of the commons who did manage to get to the head of the procession in between the prime minister was none other than richard tice. >> is that right? >> is that right? >> yeah. if you have a look at the films. is that correct,

mate, >> well, they've gone to parliament, certainly, with nigel farage as well. >> so if anyone could get in the camera, i think we can rely on them. done that. >> good for them. >> good for them. >> somebody on gbnews.com/yoursay has said 735 lords on £350 a day, just to sit there , stephen pound and have to there, stephen pound and have to be there for five minutes. >> they pop in before lunch and they've got their beer money haven't they. well, they go out and they can have a nice time. >> they obviously spend more on your beer. >> interestingly, we have, of course, a bicameral parliament, two chambers. there are many countries around the world very respectable democracies that only have one. i'm thinking of new zealand, denmark , israel. new zealand, denmark, israel. they are unicameral parliaments. and there's a very strong argument . do we need the house argument. do we need the house of lords, particularly as it's being used more and more as a parking place for x, one might even say failed politicians, and they've got a job for life and

they've got a job for life and they jemmy an unwelcome mps out of the commons. they jemmy an unwelcome mps out of the commons . they get offered of the commons. they get offered a peerage in order to give up their seat because, here we see their seat because, here we see the procession of the monarch . the procession of the monarch. >> rafe. if you can elaborate , >> rafe. if you can elaborate, the monarch is walking past now the monarch is walking past now the cap of maintenance , the the cap of maintenance, the ancient symbol of monarchy that has always carried at these events, and the her majesty and his majesty now approaching the dais where they will be seated on the thrones. >> they're accompanied by their heralds garter king of arms, and all the other heralds and pursuivants. and we see the lord great chamberlain as well to her majesty's left we have her companions, previously known as ladies in waiting and modernisation, that she went through by ending the role of ladies in waiting and to their left we have the sword of state, which is always precedes the sovereign. and we now await for the king to signify to black rod that he's ready to receive his loyal members of . parliament.

loyal members of. parliament. >> and then we will hear him say, pray, be seated, and that will be my lord. pray be seated . will be my lord. pray be seated. >> septfontaines . >> septfontaines. >> septfontaines. >> with the white wand. there we see the lord great chamberlain . see the lord great chamberlain. >> black rod serves essentially . in. >> what's happening now? right

>> what's happening now? right >> and so now we're waiting for black rod, who is essentially the sergeant of arms for the house of lords and the king's messenger to proceed to the house of commons. that's a view from inside the house of commons. >> black rod as the senior doorkeeper. >> and so now we see the arrival of black rod, who will summon the members of parliament to the lords. >> mr speaker, the king commands this honourable house to attend his majesty immediately in the house of peers . house of peers. >> another mace will be carried by the serjeant at arms, who will lead the speaker. and then there will be a pairing of the members of the government with their equivalent number on the opposite benches, and it will be a bittersweet moment, i'm sure, if that's an understatement for rishi sunak, who just eight months ago walked alongside keir

starmer as prime minister, and now those roles have been reversed. what we also had just before then we had the doors of the house of commons were slammed shut into the face of black rod, who then had to strike the door three times with that black rod and that is done to, in a sense, symbolise the independence of the house of commons. this dates back to 1642, when king charles became the last king to enter the house of commons to arrest five members, and after that it was decided that they had to have a symbol by which they could demonstrate their their independence from the crown speaker lenthal said, i have not eyes to see, not ears to hear , eyes to see, not ears to hear, but what the house command me. >> if you actually go to that door now, you can see the bashes on the wall there. great indentations in the door of the commons just by the where the doorkeepers sit. >> we saw prime minister keir starmer there walking along with his shadow. of course, now rishi sunak they seem to be chatting quite convivially. stephen,

after weeks of tearing chunks out of each other in the run up to the election. >> but isn't isn't that a good thing? >> you came on to my point. that's exactly what i was going to say. there is something quite lovely about this event today. in a world in which people became become very entrenched in their opinions and have a very binary position and we see political tensions bubbling over across the world, even culminating in assassination attempts. i think this is a day for the uk to be very proud, actually, of the fact that we handle these state occasions with such dignity. i think it's a really important reminder that we do this very well. stephen, what will it be like for those people who are mps for the very first time? >> well, they will be, on the one hand, absolutely confused about this because they'll be terrified of doing the wrong thing and because there's a lot of doorkeepers there who have a marvellous way of sort of raising an eyebrow and saying, i'm not sure you would want to do that, sir or madam. most of those people will try to get into the into their lordships house, into the house of peers, but they won't be able to because there simply isn't enough room. so a lot of them will be milling around central lobby. but those who can come in

and a lot of people will actually be watching this. all the screens in the house of commons will actually be showing this live. so a lot of people will be sitting in the tea room in portcullis house actually watching it. and i'm pretty sure that most of them will be overwhelmed. there'll be 1 or 2 people who, you know, who wish to make a sort of a silly fool of themselves and make some silly comment, but most people will actually see this is the british constitution. this is an endunng british constitution. this is an enduring constitution. and by and large, it served this nation pretty well. >> well, michael cole, this is the people's channel. i'm going to play devil's advocate here. some people on gbnews.com/yoursay are saying, including colin pompous guff for money absolutely nothing. >> it's very, very important for the symbolism of this country. >> it has a purpose and it's all to do with continuity. that's a very comforting thing. if you live in a country where there is no continuity, where there's chopping and changing, and what we're seeing now is our best defence against dictatorship and autocracy , because every piece autocracy, because every piece of legislation has to be signed off by the man there. we're watching the king eventually,

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king's speech 2024, well, dozens of pieces of legislation. they're announced, including full support for ukraine and its people playing a leading role in providing ukraine with a clear path to nato membership elsewhere, a seek to reset the relationship with european partners and work to improve uk trade and investment relationships with the eu . relationships with the eu. critics, of course, of labour warning that would come, for many, many months in advance of the election. and bev, i'm not sure what you made of this one. plans to halve violence against women and girls . women and girls. >> i've never quite sure why that half figure comes from. i think it's very it's sort of high risk really, to , to say high risk really, to, to say you're going to half such a statistic with so many variables, i think for me, of course, it is a brush stroke speech. there can be very little detail on a speech like that. it is meant to lay out their ambitions. he talked about greater rights for renters, of course, landlords. that is bad news. if you own a house and you rent that out. he talked about

leasehold and commonhold reform. we don't quite know the detail of that, a football regulator. yes. to make, football sustainable, to increase its sustainability. mike paris joined us in the studio as well here. we've still got rafe heydel—mankoo michael cole and stephen pound. mike, what was the take out for you from that? >> well , the football >> well, the football regulator's been bouncing around for years, and my argument against that has always been we do have a regulatory body. it's called the football association. and if they did their job properly and were strict with the way they interpreted rules, you wouldn't need a football regulator. look, the whole of the king's speech just a few days ago, sir keir starmer said my government, you know, the next few years will tread more lightly on your life. are you joking? they've announced here possibly millions of new jobs in civil servant type roles . if civil servant type roles. if you're pushing out devolution, if you're saying we're going to create all these new bodies all over the place, then you're expanding the state. and he said, only a few weeks ago, no,

we'll tread more lightly on your lives. no you're not. i mean, just just the green energies bill, that's hundreds of thousands of people are going to be involved in trying to achieve a mad target of zero net by 2030. honestly, i've never seen a king's speech with so many bills in it, which involves so much spending, so many more people working from the state, and more freedoms being taken off the individual stephen powis i think you've totally misinterpreted it that look. no, i haven't even i've interpreted it my way. >> you've interpreted it your way, but you've not interpreted the right way or the sensible. >> well, look, it's your way or my way. i'm sorry. you're not right necessarily. >> hang on a second. let me just respond specifically to a couple of your points. you're talking about the transition to green energy. at the moment. we have a huge number of people employed in the fossil fuel industry. i'd rather see them actually working on green energy instead of us importing wind farms from south korea. you're talking about, well, they're importing oil because ed miliband has now cancelled all licences in the nonh cancelled all licences in the north sea. >> he has. so we're so we're importing he hasn't new licences, he new licences, new licences, he new licences, new licences a hell of a difference.

>> so the existing ones. but look when you're talking about devolving powers, you're not talking about creating whole new structures all over the country. you're talking about moving civil servants, either out of their jobs or out. >> that's worked well in wales, hasn't it? yeah. do you think wales needs any more autonomy, considering it's the worst run country in europe? >> well it's a it's a fairly low bar, but the point being that if you've got a country which isn't well run, you have the power to chuck them out. >> what you know, they don't in wales we are the most centralised country in europe. >> and as far as i'm concerned, the more autonomy we can give to local people to make local decisions in local interests, the better. >> the more bureaucracy, more civil servants, less bureaucracy, less less control from whitehall. >> no longer the man in whitehall knowing best but you in epsom knowing best. what's best for epsom. >> oh, so the certainty in wales, then, doesn't employ many people. it keeps employing more and more people. no it does, it does. and the more people it employs, the more inefficient it gets. well that's what the record tells us. >> what do we make of this? i didn't quite get the full the full description, but a nod to i new legislation to regulate the

powerful , quote unquote, ai revolution. >> well, good luck with that, though . though. >> it's going to be there was always going to be something in there, wasn't there, about the ai revolution. again, i think it was it was a brush stroke. it was it was a brush stroke. it was a nod. here we have the technocrat in waiting and the and he went before, so rishi sunak and keir starmer, they're talking looking very friendly to one another. you know gone are the animosities of the run up to the animosities of the run up to the election. we've got jeremy hunt there in the background. you could see rachel reeves, a new chancellor, smiling. angela rayner was smiling. the sense of satisfaction that they are there, that they are in power . there, that they are in power. mike, we have to surely wish the new government well. >> well, i wish the country well, and i hope the new government does things which makes all our lives better. but frankly, i just don't get it. the number of bills introduced in the first king's speech you will know better than me, steve. and years ago it was lucky if

there were two bills introduced in the king's speech. no, there's 35 bills in the king's speech. >> the average used to be 25. the longest ever, i think, isn't it? >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> it's, as, as stephen said, it is a very, very full, king's speech, a very ambitious one, all of it. i think, without exception, had been trailed very thoroughly before this had happened. i think it's the first king's speech ever that men managed to mention vapes, junk food and gender conversion therapies, which were , of therapies, which were, of course, conservative policies. >> yes, that are now being an active indeed. >> but what is interesting, i mean, do people learn from the past if they forget the past? are they bound to repeat the mistakes of the past? because when they talk about renationalising the railways, maybe there's nobody in the government who ever remembers british railways and british rail, because what we have now and i came on one of the privatised rail services this morning, it was expensive, yes,

but it was 100 times better than what used to be before. but it's not always like that. >> i get the train a lot and it's £90 to get from the south coast to central london. a lot of the time the trains are cancelled, they're late. they don't even, you know, if they bother to tell you why they're late or they're going to be late or it's too expensive, then maybe stomach it. >> but you're absolutely right. >> but you're absolutely right. >> it's a disgrace. >> it's a disgrace. >> will renationalisation michael and i covered those rail strikes. we were outside the headquarters, first of all, in marylebone and then at euston. weren't we? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> yeah. on. yeah. and british rail as it existed, it shortened its name . okay. its name. okay. >> but i need to interrupt you. i'm afraid we need to bring you the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news . weather on gb news. >> hello. welcome along to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. >> a fine day out there. >> a fine day out there. >> i'm feeling quite warm. it's going to get a bit warmer as

well over the next few days. >> certainly for some of us under the influence of this high pressure system. >> but notice there are weather fronts just creeping in towards the west . they'll bring a bit the west. they'll bring a bit more cloud this afternoon to the west of scotland. maybe 1 or 2 showers over the highlands, but for most places it's dry and fine. we had some early morning mist and some cloud is now developing. it's not blue sky everywhere, but generally sunny spells and so a bit of sunshine will lift the temperatures up into the low to even mid 20s in the south—east. could get up to 25 celsius in the london area. a little cooler in the far north—west, and the cloud will continue to thicken across western scotland as we go into the evening. perhaps just a few more clouds drifting in here. but for most of scotland it is going to be a fine end to the day, with temperatures still 1920 degrees at 5:00 this afternoon . fine, two in belfast afternoon. fine, two in belfast but increasing cloud to the west of northern ireland. we will see a few showers just coming in here to end the day for most of england and wales, though a pretty pleasant summer's evening and it'll stay fine and dry

across england and wales overnight. but for scotland and northern ireland we will see that cloud continuing to thicken up, outbreaks of rain trickling into northern ireland, certainly across western scotland, where it could turn heavy in places towards the end of the night. some mist and fog likely across parts of england and wales, and maybe the odd shower into west wales, but for most dry, quite a warm evening, but nothing too oppressive . 14 to 16 the low in oppressive. 14 to 16 the low in most towns and cities . a wet most towns and cities. a wet start, then, for western scotland on thursday said that rain could be heavy for a time in the morning we'll see some showery rain across southern and eastern scotland for a little bit of time to the middle part of the morning and it's

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good afternoon . >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> britain. >> britain. >> it is 12:00 on the day of the state opening of parliament. yes. the king has delivered a speech outlining more than 35

bills that the new government will be introducing over the course of this parliamentary session. >> yes, and of course, there was an awful lot to get stuck into from that king's speech. >> as tom says, 35 bills announced so we'll be analysing what exactly the new labour government has in store. but of course, reflecting on what is a momentous occasion for our country, the royal family and of course, the constitution will have a number of fantastic guests with us throughout the show. >> we should say that we are just waiting for the king to leave the palace of westminster. >> this is , of course, a full >> this is, of course, a full scale pomp and pageantry ceremony. it's not one of those dress down years where the king, doesn't wear his his full crown, his his royal regalia. that's all. here today. it's a proper, full scale state opening, delighted to be joined in the studio by the former government special adviser, james price , special adviser, james price, and the political and

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