gb news. well >> morning 930 on thursday, the 29th of august. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so should smoking be banned even outside ministers are considering stopping smokers lighting up outside of pubs, sports stadiums and play areas . and play areas. >> righteous repairing relationships the prime minister's european tour takes him to france , where he pledges him to france, where he pledges to inject some hope into britain . to inject some hope into britain. >> and we're going to be joined by a political biographer, sir anthony seldon, whose new book truss at ten, has a few shocking accusations about the former prime minister, liz truss. don't miss that. >> and thames water woes the

struggling water company says bills will have to rise by more than £260 a year. that's 59% higher than they are at the moment and it's one year on from ulez expansion throughout london. >> small businesses want more support, more than 70% of fines haven't been paid but has it made any difference to the air quality.7 we'll let you know . quality.7 we'll let you know. let us know your thoughts. oh, nearly fell over there. that would have been a good start to the day, wouldn't it.7 gbnews.com/yoursay first for the very latest news with sam francis . francis. >> beth. andrew, thank you very much and good morning to you. just after half past nine, the top story this morning. it's being reported that smoking could soon be banned in many outside spaces, including in pub gardens and in some parks,

according to what the sun newspaper says are secret whitehall papers. ministers are reportedly considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs, and stadiums. the government, though, says it won't comment on those leaks but has confirmed it is considering a range of measures to make britain smoke free. last month's king's speech included a promise to revive rishi sunak's plan to continually raise the smoking age, meaning that today's young people won't ever be able to buy cigarettes . two men have been cigarettes. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a wheelchair user was stabbed in east london. police found jade anthony barnett injured after being called to a fight. the 38 year old, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident, according to his friends in two thousand and seven, died at the scene in clapton. his family have this morning described him as joyful, cheerful and caring . as joyful, cheerful and caring. troubled thames water says it

needs to hike customer bills by nearly 60% by 2030, or warns it will become uninvestable. britain's biggest water supplier made those demands in its response to regulator ofwat's proposals to cap household water charges. the firm says the restrictions aren't tenable and it could prevent the recovery of the company. conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat is expected to accuse labour of having no plans and no vision to improve the country, in a speech he's due to make later today. it suggested the shadow security minister will also allege the government is being dishonest about its tax choices. tax choices. he wants to make it clear that labour are, he says, pretending they have no option because of a so—called financial black hole . experts are warning black hole. experts are warning we could face a surge in measles cases as children return to school in the coming days. the uk health security agency is urgently asking parents to make sure their children are protected against the illness.

figures show outbreaks since the autumn of 2023 have resulted in the highest number of cases in the highest number of cases in the country since 2012. the world food programme says it's pausing the movement of workers in gaza until further notice. that's after some of its staff came under fire there. it happened close to an idf checkpoint just after the team had delivered humanitarian aid into the central area of the strip. that comes as israel claims a full fledged war is now underway in the west bank. as it targets so—called islamic iranian terrorists. palestinian authorities have said hospitals are under siege. there and finally, not a single ticket has been sold. but oasis are expecting a sold out tour. they've now added this morning three extra dates to their uk tour next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on those more shows. one in manchester, in london and in edinburgh. tickets finally go on sale on saturday. those are the

latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> very good morning. it is 935. this is britain's newsroom on gb news and me, bev turner and andrew pierce. and we are rather incensed this morning. all credit to the sun newspaper for having this exclusive about the fact that it looks like keir starmer's government are going to beef up the incoming restrictions on vaping and smoking to include andrew no smoking to include andrew no smoking outside of restaurants, stadiums, pub gardens , pub stadiums, pub gardens, pub gardens, pub gardens. >> yeah, the next thing it will be in the street. yeah. because once you start it doesn't stop.

and there's even talk amongst the more extremists on this policy, of which one of the biggest extremes is sadiq khan, the london mayor. he actually wants smoking banned from council houses. i was brought up in a council house. my dad puffed away on his roll ups. his old hoban outrageous that he couldn't have had his fag when he got in from the factory. >> it is outrageous because what individual in a in a pub garden. >> you see, we all do things which are bad for us the most dangerous thing that we probably do every morning is get in a car. that's the most dangerous thing you get on the back of a motorbike. that is because he has to get it quite quickly. that's not just for fun, but, you know, we all do dangerous things, don't we.7 we you know, we all do dangerous things, don't we? we do. and to what extent are we? you happy with the government telling you you can or you can't do this because it might potentially harm you as an individual. and we know what's for best you. thatis we know what's for best you. that is what we're hearing from this government. >> yeah, it is this idea they

know best. and the other thing is, how is it going to be enforced? who's going to enforce it? the publican won't want to enforce it because it's going to cost him business. pubs are really up against it already. i mean, the pandemic nearly killed the industry. >> third of pubs closed after the pandemic and they're still closing every week. >> and pubs, i would argue, are an important part of british culture. >> it's jobs , it's generation, >> it's jobs, it's generation, it's growth, it's money in the economy . it's also about economy. it's also about relationships. >> it's also none of my business, actually, if somebody wants to smoke outside. so the other night i was my partner, we had dinner outside in a terrace of a restaurant, and over there some people were smoking fine . some people were smoking fine. good. let them. yeah. didn't bother me. >> completely agree. >> completely agree. >> what was worse for my lungs would be presumably the cars that are driving past. >> so are we going to ban the cars now? >> it's exactly because they don't like cars either. >> this government, the risk benefit of all of life, that is what we all have to do. every day. we decide our parameters of risk and this government are deciding your parameters of risk

in the minutia of your life. i don't smoke, i've never smoked . i've. >> well i did i stopped when i was 40. i wasn't a big smoke in a sense. i used to make a point to the pub. yeah, i used to like to the pub. yeah, i used to like to have a fag after dinner. yeah. if i had a glass of wine, i'd have a cigarette. but i could go two days without smoking. but i stopped because i thought it's silly , it's silly, thought it's silly, it's silly, but people come to my house, they can smoke in the garden. are they going to ban it from my garden? >> you know, one of the areas they're talking about. yeah, possibly one of the areas they're talking about banning it is outside of hospitals now . is outside of hospitals now. we've all been there, outside the hospital. someone that's hooked up to a drip smoking a fag. right. and i always look at them and i think, oh, crikey, that's quite a choice. however if you have a terminal illness and you are spending your last few weeks or months of your life in hospital, knock yourself out , in hospital, knock yourself out, smoke yourself into the grave. as far as i'm concerned, have whatever , whatever makes you whatever, whatever makes you happy and have a large gin and tonic while you're at it. quite so. i'm just appalled by the suggestion that this would happen, but i'm not remotely

surprised because all we're heanng surprised because all we're hearing from sir keir starmer. >> we'd like to hear what you think is making choices for you. do you agree? perhaps you think it's the right thing for government to do because smoking is not good for anybody. that's right. and it's and smoking is a huge pressure on the nhs. so thatis huge pressure on the nhs. so that is the counter—argument. >> but but not as much as as obesity. this is the thing obesity. this is the thing obesity has overtaken smoking now in terms of the things that are going to kill us. so just wait. it'll come for your chips next. yeah. >> let me eat chips in the street. >> no , it it's really serious. >> no, it it's really serious. and people say, well, it's just a trivial thing. you don't have to say it's really serious because the thematically, it underpins the kind of march towards a totalitarian government that sounds exaggerated, but i don't think it is. >> let's talk to somebody who will be directly affected by this. steve latto is owner of the criterion public house in saint andrews in scotland, a fabulous part of the world. morning to you, steve. good morning. what's your what's your view of this now? i don't know whether this will apply in scotland , whether they're going scotland, whether they're going to make it a united kingdom,

but, you know, if it starts in england and wales, it will be coming your way soon. how bad will this be for your business? >> i think we we're in a bizarre situation where we're in both camps here. we've got a small outdoor area where we've got eight tables and in scotland we don't have the outside land outside the front of the pubs that a lot of the english and welsh pubs do. and so our outside area is quite tight and we've got some screens around it as well, just to, to protect us from the ever present wind that is in scotland. so we actually don't allow smoking at the moment in our outdoor area or vaping because of the proximity of the tables together and because we do a lot of food, we find there is more palatable for the majority of people that we don't allow smoking . however, it don't allow smoking. however, it should be up to the publicans, decision to be able to do that.

they know their customers best, they know their business best. and again, it's just another legislation that's getting brought in that seems to be needless and pointless at the moment , needless and pointless at the moment, certainly from from our industry, because we're managing it, as best we can. and there is the, you know, the wet led outlets that that don't have food and will probably be absolutely, completely against this. and the food led outlets will have a 5050, view on, on, on the situation. so it should just be left alone . as far as just be left alone. as far as i'm concerned. i think people are managing it well at the moment. >> of course, steve, is that loads of pubs and restaurants made really great provision for outside seating space because of the pandemic, which will attract people , especially on the warm people, especially on the warm weather, will attract people to go and it definitely will attract people who like to have attract people who like to have a cigarette occasionally with a drink, you know? so in a way it feels like two steps forward for

the hospitality industry and then three steps back. how hard is this at the moment? >> absolutely. i mean, i think, you know , we're what are we four you know, we're what are we four years down the line now from, from covid. and i think a lot of places are just finding their feet now with regards to it and another point of legislation and another point of legislation and another point of not visiting the pub or a reason not to visit the pub or a reason not to visit the pub or restaurant is, you know, it'll be a nail in a lot of coffins on top of that, you know, the cost of living at the moment , the inflation costs that moment, the inflation costs that that both consumers and businesses are facing at the moment as well . moment as well. >> got friends, steve, who, if i go to dinner with them, they regularly pop out of the restaurant for a fag. now this legislation will will catch them , legislation will will catch them, they'll stop. and i know what will happen. they won't go out to the restaurant because they won't be able to enjoy it. if they can't have their fag. this is going to happen to pubs. if people can't nip out from the pub for a fag, yeah, they're not

going to go to the pub, they're going to go to the pub, they're going to go to the pub, they're going to stay at home and buy a cat a few cans from the supermarket. another nail in the pub coffin. >> absolutely. and i think there's bigger issues at the moment as well. when you, when you look at the flavoured vapes side of things as well, that, that has dominated it. we've got more, we've got less and less people smoking and more and more people smoking and more and more people vaping. so they seem to be targeting the wrong side of it. and like i say, i think certainly in the licensed premises, since the smoking ban came in and, and businesses have had to adapt to, to how that happens. and like you rightly say, covid has brought in a lot of outside areas, which is which has been fantastic, this, this legislation just seems that step too far. and they should be concentrating on other things that are more damaging to, to to, health at the moment. and, and there's a lot bigger issues out there than, than smoking outside, >> keir starmer was very clear, at the beginning of this week about the fact that this budget in october is going to be grim

for everybody. what do you need as a, as a pub landlord, steve, to help you ? vat reduction to help you? vat reduction presumably would be a good one. >> yeah. i mean, the vat reduction is huge for the hospitality industry across the board, whether it's the accommodation side of it. i think what a lot of people don't realise is that when we purchase, food from, from a wholesaler, from bucha, from a, our baker, we don't pay vat on that amount, but we pay full vat on the, the selling price of it. so what normally happens when we buy a keg of beer? we will reclaim the vat on the keg of beer and then it works out to be about 11 or 12%, i think in total that we pay. but on all food side of it and all accommodation side of it, we actually have to pay back that full 20% back to the government, every time. so that vat reduction that we received dunng reduction that we received during covid was a huge lifeline

in scotland as well. we didn't and we've not received the rates benefit that's happened in england as well. so i believe in england as well. so i believe in england it's 50% or 75% rates reduction for hospitality industry , whereas the scottish industry, whereas the scottish government got that money to do it. they didn't pass that on to the hospitality industry as well. so we've actually had a rates increase in the last two years as well. >> okay. all right. thanks for joining us this morning. that was steve latta owner of the criterion in saint andrews in scotland. let us know your thoughts on this this morning. >> up next we're going to be talking to the author who's turned liz truss's 49 days prime minister, into a textbook on how not to govern. with britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> are right. we're a little bit incensed this morning about the fact that sir keir starmer's

government are considering banning smoking in all sorts of pubuc banning smoking in all sorts of public spaces outdoors. >> it's a classic bit of kite flying. it's the sun. i've got the story, they've got the documents and i think they'll do it. and remember rishi sunak had that bizarre policy of stopping children from a certain age buying, smoking. >> well, that's still in there. and that's so this is an extension of it. >> but that is a policy by the way, which was also unenforceable. yeah. because so if you were born in a certain year you never able to buy smoking. so when you get to 27 what year were you born. oh no, you can't have a cigarette. i mean unenforceable. yeah. >> but at that point you've got your digital id and you're going to have to show it to buy anything. welcome to your digital prison. honestly, i hate being psychic, but it's true, right? truss at ten. >> sure. this is the latest book from the esteemed political biography, sir anthony seldon. it's out today. it looks in depth at liz truss, 49 days as prime minister. >> one of the shocking claims in the book is that she considered cutting cancer treatments to fund tax cuts. her chancellor at the time was, of course, kwasi kwarteng, and he spoke to nigel

farage on gb news last night. >> i can categorically state we never talked about reducing cancer treatment . why would i cancer treatment. why would i mean, it would have been absurd politically to have done that . politically to have done that. anyway, earlier on today you said i wasn't involved in any conversations about restricting healthcare. that's true. but that doesn't mean the prime minister and her team didn't discuss this. you're chucking her under the bus? no i'm not. yes you are. yes you are. i'm not doing that . i'm saying i'm not doing that. i'm saying i'm being very careful, i think so i was very careful in my wording. i said very careful. to me it was i said i didn't have any of those conversations, but if those conversations, but if those conversations, but if those conversations took place in other bits of the government, i wasn't privy to them. i wouldn't i didn't know about that. that's what i'm saying. i mean, seldon is a renowned biographer. this is quite a claim, isn't it? yes. i'm surprised that he made that claim. and also it wasn't sourced. i mean, i think the official that they or the special adviser they quoted said we were looking at expenditure cuts.i we were looking at expenditure cuts. i don't think he said that we were specifically looking at

reducing cancer treatment, which would have been an outrage. i mean, it would have been morally wrong . wrong. >> well, the esteemed biographer is really is political biography. sir anthony seldon joins us now. sir anthony, morning to you . that is a pretty morning to you. that is a pretty explosive allegation to make against the former prime minister. you obviously can't tell us who you spoke to, but you're certain it's true? she actually contemplated banning or restricting cancer treatments on the nhs to save cash. that would have been politically catastrophic . catastrophic. >> yeah. so what happened was that following the, absolute catastrophe of the mini—budget and the reaction against it, suddenly that had to be a £72 billion of, of cuts that had to be made. and officials came up with a list of, of cuts that had

to be made and could be made a shopping list and a tax cuts to cancer treatment on the nhs was on that list. now, that was obviously a drastic scenario. how seriously did did liz truss see that list? i would assume that she would have done. she was certainly saying, i don't believe that cuts can't be made . believe that cuts can't be made. that was one of the things that she was saying. but but she was not herself, advocating it. it was just one of the things that the, her disastrous and kwarteng disastrous budget had put this country in. i mean, to get british perspective on that , british perspective on that, george osborne's austerity involved about £30 billion of cuts . this was 72, 73 billion. cuts. this was 72, 73 billion. so over double the incredible,

austerity post 2010. so it was drastic and it called for some really drastic possible measures. so they saw that list. we can only assume that they would have read the information that they were given. but the book doesn't suggest that she was herself advocating that. it's just that she was advocating severe cuts . and as advocating severe cuts. and as we then know, other things happened and she decided to cut , happened and she decided to cut, kwasi kwarteng, her own chancellor >> sir anthony, your book is also it's devastating about her 49 days in office. she effectively failed every single test you set. sum up why she was such a bad prime minister because she didn't have the right character. >> she modelled herself on ronald reagan and on margaret thatcher, but she didn't appear to have learned that margaret

thatcher took up to two years preparing the ground for the radical policies like the 1981 budget and the subsequent policies that came. you can't just come in, any leader can't come in and try and make terrible such a massively significant changes without preparing people. you can blame the system and say that they're all against you. but that's not what leaders do. it's not what margaret thatcher did. the successful leaders in british history. i'm so sorry. >> i'm so sorry. we have to interrupt you. her tenure was short. that interview was also too short. but we have got to say goodbye. anthony seldon for now. alex, with the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hey. good morning. here's your latest gb news weather

update brought to you by the met office. plenty of sunny spells around as we go through today, but also quite a few showers for some of us as well. we've already seen some of those showers developing across far northwestern parts, but they are going to become more widespread as we go through today, especially across scotland. but some showers for northern ireland and northern western parts of england and wales as well. further south and east, a greater chance of staying dry. and here there will be a decent amount of sunshine on offer too, and in the sunshine it will feel pleasantly warm . although pleasantly warm. although temperatures not quite as high as they were yesterday . more as they were yesterday. more showers to come as we go through the end of the day. across parts of scotland, there will be some sunny spells in between those showers, but worth bearing in mind as some of the showers could be a little bit on the heavy side, and there could be some brisk winds at times towards the northern isles too. also some showers as we go through the end of the afternoon into the evening for northern ireland, and some parts of england and wales. but here the showers really are going to be

pretty isolated. most of us will avoid them and it is going to therefore be a pretty dry end to therefore be a pretty dry end to the day with some late sunshine around as well. many of the showers across scotland and northern ireland will actually clear away as we go overnight. so for many it is going to be a dry night with some clear skies. and with that we are going to see temperatures dipping a little bit lower than you might expect for the time of year. it is still just about summer for the time being, and we could see some fog patches across parts of northern ireland, wales and southwest england first thing on friday morning through friday itself, there could be some further blustery showers affecting the far north northeast of scotland and perhaps some brisk winds towards the southeast at times, and 1 or 2 showers elsewhere. but on the whole it's looking like a dry and often sunny day. and with that again feeling pleasantly warm in the sunshine, temperatures ranging from mid to high, teens in the north to low, possibly mid 20s. further south by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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>> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's 10:00 >> well. >> good morning. it's10:00 on thursday the 29th of august live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with me, bev turner and andrew pierce >> so should smoking be banned outside? believe it or not, that's what ministers are considering doing. stopping smokers lighting up in pub gardens, sports stadiums , gardens, sports stadiums, children's play areas and small parks and repairing relationships. >> the prime minister's european tour takes him to france today as he pledges to inject some much needed hope into britain. good luck. >> thames water woes the water company says bills are going to have to rise by more than £260 a yeah have to rise by more than £260 a year. that's a staggering 59% higher than they are at the moment . moment. >> and that could mean that thames water customers are

paying thames water customers are paying an average of nearly £700 by 2030. that comes as britain's largest water utilities company battles with ofwat to raise its bills . bills. >> and they've let down the bbc. bbc boss tim davie has slammed presenters huw edwards and jermaine jenas after their recent scandals, and he told his staff they must build trust with viewers again . viewers again. >> well, it's tim davie going to get the £200,000 back then from huw edwards well, the money that he was paid after he was arrested from on allegations he knew he was going to have to admit to in court also. >> i mean, i'd feel a bit hard done by if i was jermaine jenas being put in the same conversation as huw edwards. he's a criminal who is a criminal. by tim davie . that's criminal. by tim davie. that's not okay. i've got a bit of a problem with that. if i was

jermaine jenas, i'd be talking to a lawyer right now, i think. yeah, let us know your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. first, at the very latest news headlines with sam . with sam. >> very good morning to you from the gb newsroom just after 10:00. and the top story this morning. ministers are believed to be looking at a potential smoking ban for outside spaces , smoking ban for outside spaces, including pub gardens and parks. the government says it won't comment on what the sun newspaper has called secret whitehall papers, but it has confirmed it's considering a range of measures to make britain smoke free. it comes after labour said it would resurrect rishi sunak, the former prime minister's flagship smoking ban, which was shelved before the general election in july. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a wheelchair user was stabbed in east london. police found jade anthony barnett injured after being called to a fight in clapton. the 38 year old, who

lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven, died at the scene. he's been described by friends and family today as cheerful and caring . troubled thames water caring. troubled thames water says it needs to hike customer bills by nearly 60% by 2030, or warns it will become uninvestable. britain's biggest water supplier made the demand in its response to regulator ofwat proposal to cap household water charges. well our reporter charlie peters is at thames water's headquarters in reading, with more for us this morning. >> thames water said that off what's proposed cap is not tenable and renders our plan uninvestable and could prevent the turnaround and recovery of the turnaround and recovery of the company. well, as this row continues between the largest water utilities company and the regulator, some concerns have been raised about the bonuses for the chief financial officer and the ceo of thames water , and the ceo of thames water, stretching over into the millions .

millions. >> and more from charlie peters throughout the rest of this morning. well, in other news, conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat is expected to accuse labour today of having no plans and no vision to improve the country in a speech. it suggested that the shadow security minister will also allege the government is being dishonest about its tax choices. he wants to make it clear that labour are, he says, pretending they have no option because of a so—called financial black hole . so—called financial black hole. a financial watchdog says woeful budgeting at the home office is causing repeated overspends on the asylum system . for the past the asylum system. for the past three years, the department set aside £110 million for asylum operations. however, data out today from the institute for fiscal studies suggest the actual spend averaged £2.6 billion a year during that time. labour though, insists it is cleaning up what it calls the mess to deliver controlled and managed borders. mess to deliver controlled and managed borders . experts are managed borders. experts are warning we could face a surge in

measles cases as children return to school in the coming days. the uk health security agency is urgently asking parents to make sure their children are protected against the illness. figures show outbreaks since the autumn of 2023 have resulted in the highest number of cases of measles in the country since 2012. in the middle east, the world food programme says it has now paused the movement of workers in gaza until further nofice. workers in gaza until further notice . that's after one of its notice. that's after one of its teams came under fire there. it happened close to an idf checkpoint just after they delivered a convoy of humanitarian aid. meanwhile, israel is claiming a fully fledged war is underway in the west bank as it targets so—called islamic iranian terrorist infrastructures. and palestinian authorities have said hospitals are also under siege . back here at home, siege. back here at home, a report is suggesting the outlook for living standards for middle income earners is weak. beyond this financial year. research group the resolution foundation

looked at forecasts from the bank of england and from the obr , bank of england and from the obr, and warns the slowdown in salary increases could soon be overtaken by rising house costs. the prime minister had previously said growth is still his number one priority and a charity is warning that teenagers in the uk are the unhappiest in europe. the children's society's annual report identified deepening levels of stress and unhappiness in young people. it also suggested a quarter of young people have low life satisfaction, nearly nine points higher than the european average . higher than the european average. and finally, although not a single ticket has been sold, oasis are still expecting a sold out tour, adding now three extra dates to the uk next year. noel gallagher says that unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on more shows one in manchester, another in london and a third in edinburgh. tickets go on sale on saturday. those are the latest

headunes saturday. those are the latest headlines for now. i'm sam francis back with you. just after 10:30 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good morning. 1007. this is britain's newsroom. thank you for getting in touch at home, particularly about this potential smoking ban in public places, stuart said . so where places, stuart said. so where are you meant to smoke if you can't smoke outdoors in public spaces, or is it going to be another smoking tax , pauline, another smoking tax, pauline, who is a member , says when we who is a member, says when we disagree with what this prime minister says, he calls us names like right wing racists. she says, well, i was born in 1944. i can assure him my generation knows exactly what that means . knows exactly what that means. if the pm carries on like this, then it will be him who divides then it will be him who divides the people against our great country, divides the people of

our great country. when i get together with my friends, we get into a debate. sometimes we don't come to a conclusion. we agree to disagree. maybe the labour labour party should take a leaf out of our book and think before they call us names. >> the smoking ban is going to be incredibly divisive, and i'm not sure which bright spark in government thinks it's a clever idea. but isn't it based on a report by a doctor? >> it is. it's based on a report by doctor javed khan. he wants by doctorjaved khan. he wants to denormalise smoking . private to denormalise smoking. private homes and streets will not be covered. although doctor khan said that he also wanted a smoking ban in council houses and other social housing. >> outrageous. so you can't have a fag in your own home which you pay, a fag in your own home which you pay, which you pay rent for. and if that comes into force, what's going to happen? then you're going to happen? then you're going to happen? then you're going to have neighbours snitching on each other. what does that do for community relations? >> well, we saw that though in in scotland recently didn't we, about the fact that you could report somebody for saying

something that might be deemed racist at the kitchen table. we're just moving into you can't smoke in the house. >> so then next thing you can't have junk food in your house, you can't have a takeaway if it's junk food because obesity kills more people now than smoking. it is the thin end of the wedge. >> and what worries me about all of this, again, because they this this labour party appear and i'd say politically, the left all across the world, you see it with the democrats in america as well, because they're cloaking all of this extreme ideology in some sort of virtuous. but it's for your own good, because we are the good people . and if you believe that people. and if you believe that as an individual, you should be able to make free choice about what you do with your own body. no, no, no, no, you can't do that. we are the good people and we know what's best for you. >> yeah, i mean, of course they will argue. they're trying to stop people smoking, which is a good thing. but i would argue it's up to people if they want to smoke, if they want to have a fag, they'll ban in the street next. >> yeah. and the thing is public health, the like i said

yesterday we did the vaping interview. the sukh a public health success has been reducing smoking. it was a win. i don't deny that not smoking indoors in pubuc deny that not smoking indoors in public places, not sitting in the office, smoking on the desk next to somebody or in a cinema theatre. absolutely. that has saved lives, there's no doubt about it. but where do we then push this to? where do we draw the line on this? because it will be, as you say, they'll come after your calorie intake. you've eaten too much . i'm so you've eaten too much. i'm so sorry. you've drunk too much pleasure, happiness , joy, the pleasure, happiness, joy, the things we like, the things that make us smile. it just feels like dour starmer. like i said yesterday, the drain, not the radiator. >> it's going to be a knife through the heart of the pub industry too, and the restaurants and hospitality , and restaurants and hospitality, and they're already struggling. >> and andy says where's the intelligent opposition? starmer is drunk on a power circus. that's exactly what we said in the break. he's he's so does

nobody opposing him. where is rishi sunak? >> yeah, he's got they've got the difference with the left. they've got a majority of 168, 167. and they are going to use that to change the government into their to this country, into their vision of how it should look. whereas the tories had a majority of 80 and squandered it, which is why you're seeing all these political appointments in the civil service. they are going to get their way because they've got a majority of 168, and he's in a hurry. yeah, well why net zero. the race to net zero even faster agenda. >> he's absolutely on message. agenda 2030. it's all there in the document. if you want to read it. this is where we're heading. control, control, control. you can't make decisions about your own life. >> now moving on. a report by the institute for public policy says regional wealth gaps are growing and the tax system inherited by the government undermines its levelling up ambitions. this is the new government. >> so northerners are projected to have £210,000 less than those in the south—east by 2030. >> well, let's talk to financial

expert hilary salt, who is in manchester. the capital of the north. some might say, hilary, i'm tempted to say twas ever thus, because there's always been this north—south divide but this report is suggesting it's getting worse . getting worse. >> yeah. if we look at the net tax rates paid by regions. so that's the total tax paid divided by total revenue. the, the amount paid by london i'll say london. well i mean london, the south east really by the amount paid by london, about two thirds of the, of what is paid in the rest of the uk. but that gap has widened quite a lot over the past two decades. and i'd say there's three broad reasons for that. if you if you're looking at the tax side of the equafion looking at the tax side of the equation first, is that income is taxed at higher rates than capital gains, and there are more capital gains made in in london than the rest of the uk. the second is that non—work income has more advantageous tax treatment. so for example, dividends and income from rental properties are not subject to

national insurance. and the third is that people in in london pay far lower levels of council tax as a proportion of the value of their property than the value of their property than the people in the rest of the uk. so this ipp report that you just mentioned says that the amounts paid in london are less than half those paid in the nonh than half those paid in the north east. >> why do people in with properties in london, which are traditionally much more expensive than properties in the north? why are they paying less council tax ? council tax? >> well, remember that you know, council tax is banded. so you know, once you get to a certain level you don't pay any more council tax, no matter how much your house is worth. also remember that the levels of value placed on properties for council tax purposes were set about 30 years ago. now so you know, some properties in some parts of the uk have increased by much more than other parts. so if we rebanded everywhere that would imply more council tax being paid in london.

>> i mean, northerners might be earning less and might have less savings , i think. but also savings, i think. but also things are cheaper up north hilary, aren't they. that's i noficed hilary, aren't they. that's i noticed that when i go home to manchester in a, you know, it's the usual, the example we always use is a coffee. i can pay nearly £5 for a coffee in a cafe down here up north. people would keel over if you charge them nearly £3. so things are cheaper up north, aren't they? >> they are , but i think, you >> they are, but i think, you know, that kind of points to the other half of this equation because i think that the real problem here, that this points to is the fact that there is no productive economy, there's not enough productive economy outside of london. so the total income for per person in london, all people, not just workers, is about £24,000. whereas in the nonh about £24,000. whereas in the north east it's about £11,000. and i think what that points to is the fact that, you know, the other way to solve this problem is to increase incomes and

increase the productive economy increase the productive economy in the north. and that's what i think we really need to do. it's not just tinkering with taxation that will solve this problem. it's making a real difference to the economy. >> hilary, i got to tell you, your dog has just played a starring role here. >> you've got a very extrovert dog there, hilary. who's that? >> this is friday. >> this is friday. >> why does she not know it's thursday? why is she. well, she was made a very welcome addition to the programme. hilary, lovely to the programme. hilary, lovely to talk to you. that's hilary who is a financial. thank you. >> that's a really interesting. >> that's a really interesting. >> what a sweet dog. >> what a sweet dog. >> that was really sweet. yeah. really kind of performed in the back there, didn't it? okay. right. moving on, we are going to be talking in just a moment about thames water. so they might may hike up customer bills by as much as 59%. >> and this is the biggest water company in britain. most companies most . that's my water companies most. that's my water company. probably your water, isn't it? the company is facing severe financial problems , but severe financial problems, but the chief executive, chris weston, though, got £195,000 bonus for his first three months

in charge. outrageous! >> just for his first three months, he got £195,000 bonus. give it back is my view. honestly, we're joined now by national reporter charlie peters. morning, charlie. where are you and what else do we know about this diabolical situation with the water companies ? with the water companies? >> bev and andrew. good morning. well, i'm in redding , and just well, i'm in redding, and just behind me is the headquarters of thames water, as you mentioned, that 59% proposed bills rise by 2030, coming from britain's largest water utilities company. and that would bring the average bill, the average annual for bill, the average annual for bill thames water customers, to some £696. that's a significant rise on the most recent bills and as recently as april, they said that they were only going to ask them to raise. i say only they were going to raise them to 44% by 2030. and it comes at a bit of a back and forth round between thames water and ofwat, the water regulator, which has

been proposing water companies that they could only raise bills by some 23% in the same time frame. so it seems to be the regulator puts forward a figure and then the big water companies, such as thames water come back with a slightly larger one and then keep pushing further and further. and why are they asking for this money? well, that chief executive you just mentioned said that the proposed cap from ofwat is not tenable. they said that it renders their plan uninvestable and could prevent the turnaround and could prevent the turnaround and recovery of the company. andrew, you mentioned the debt that thames water is in. it's £15 billion, a turnaround of the company is vital with so much money owed to investors and more, and its chief executive, chris weston, went on to say that the money we're asking for from customers will be invested in new infrastructure and improving our services for the benefits of households and the environment. he says that they are not being asked to pay twice

the customers, but to make up for years of focus on keeping bills low . and on that point, he bills low. and on that point, he is right, because between 2014 and 2021, bills were pretty consistent. i'm not sure you describe them as low, but they were consistently the same price. that's changed, though. in the last couple of years there has been a rise. the most recent bills averaging over £500. but this new proposal of reaching some £696 is a large rise, which customers will feel the pinch of , especially as the pinch of, especially as yesterday we had energy giants meeting with the government from the gas and electricity companies, warning about further rises from there and ofgem talking about raising the cap in october. we've heard that earlier this year as well. customers are going to be hit and households will be set to face higher energy water, gas and electric bills this year. >> okay. thank you charlie. >> okay. thank you charlie. >> what a staggering figure. a water company has debts of £15 billion. that's the. that's the

gdp of a small country. it's a shocking admission . shocking admission. >> and the shareholders have done very, very well out of those companies. >> chief financial officers got a £200,000 bonus for the first quarter of the year. outrageous, right. >> the prime minister, sir keir starmer, he's just arrived in paris where he's meeting emmanuel macron. there they are . emmanuel macron. there they are. shaking hands. little pat on the back, all very lovely in the sunshine. and we're going to be taking some of that in just a moment. we'll find out what thrilling conversation they must be having. >> he was there last night for the opening of the paralympic course. starmer. >> yeah , right. don't go >> yeah, right. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on gb news plenty more to come

right. 1022. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. as you can heat newsroom on gb news. as you can hear. carole malone has bustled

into the building, as has jonathan row with somebody of course amazon driver to leave the parcel outside the house for two hours. >> that's smart isn't it? >> that's smart isn't it? >> before we get into the papers we just. what's your view of the proposed ban on smoking? well, tell me, i'll talk about that next time. >> you know what? we were going to do that next half. but however, it's so outrageous, i think i think it's outrageous. i don't want to live in a society where the dictating me what i can do and say. and, you know, you know , when you think about you know, when you think about it, obesity is a way bigger killer now than smoking. so i'm going to stop people eating cakes and pub gardens. i will stop, i'm going to stop them eating chips in pub gardens. >> because it's funny because the doctor who wrote the report wants to ban smoking in council, but in california they're starting to do that. >> they start. there's a there's an apartment block that wants to ban inside . everyone smoking. ban inside. everyone smoking. now, i don't see how someone smoking on the third floor is going to kill you. if you're on floor two. i don't i just don't get it. i do think i hate when i'm outside a hospital and i see people with one leg who clearly lost it because of smoking. when

i see them puffing fags, i think this is not right. there's something wrong with this. but i think for the beleaguered hospitality industry, which is only just recovering, but also i would very much defend that person with with one limb missing, i would still defend their right to smoke if they want to. >> i this is extraordinary. but i've actually agreed with carol. oh god, my chairs are so, i actually hate attempts to control what we put in our bodies. it's for that reason that i think that drugs should be legal as well. i think that smoking. i don't like smoking. personally, i don't enjoy it myself. but it's absolutely my right to do it. i think it's ridiculous and stupid. this attempt to ban people from buying cigarettes as well. we have this new escalator law that sunak this harebrained idea and unenforceable. so you're going to have a situation in 30 years time where sort of 45 year olds are going to have to ask their 46 year old mates to buy them, to buy them cigarettes, because over a certain threshold, you won't be able to buy anything

without declaring who you are, where you are, and the fundamental point is that people have the right to smoke, and other people have the right not to not to have that smoke. which is why i agree with a smoking ban indoors in a pub garden. thatis ban indoors in a pub garden. that is where people go to enjoy themselves. >> it's not going to think about it, you know, you say we have the people have the right to smoke and i do hate smoking as a as a former smoker, i hate it. however, the national health has to pick up the bill for your smoking, you know, and yes , smoking, you know, and yes, cancen smoking, you know, and yes, cancer, lung cancer mortality rates have decreased over the past ten years by 16%. and over the past 30 years by 32%. however nhs services are picking up the bill. however i'm still like you, i think it's wrong where we're dictated to about what we can do and just i'm going to hear smokers shouting at the tv camera saying, yeah, i pay a at the tv camera saying, yeah, i pay a lot of flipping tax on my. and yes, and you know what? >> the thing is an awful lot. >> the thing is an awful lot. >> if the government was determined to ban smoking, it could do it in a heartbeat. it could do it in a heartbeat. it could stop fags tomorrow, but it would lose a lot of duty if it stopped. and that's why that would be really bad as well,

because then it would just become like any other illegal drug and it would just become counterfeit. >> it would become unregulated, become even more dangerous than it is already. drug prohibition does not work. it never has worked. and cigarettes going the same way is just going to have the same. >> what is driving him as a labour man? what is driving sir keir starmer to be taking such extraordinarily invasive measures into people's private lives? >> i don't know if this actually is going to be policy right now. it's speculation. you know , it's speculation. you know, starmer has well there's pretty certainly it's pretty pretty hard. >> they've seen the front page of the sun. >> it's what starmer and some people on the labour frontbench not all they do have i suppose some kind of instincts which are which you might liken to the nanny state and dictators and authoritarian something that you, i suppose you could call it authoritarian. >> and it's something that is shared by a lot of people in the conservative party because sunak was exactly the same. sunak was very much in the nanny state tradition, so i don't think it goes on party political lines. it's not my politics. i'm much more. i'm much more. i suppose it's i don't disguise myself as a libertarian in any way, but i

certainly would share that sunak would not have got that smoking ban through with tory support. >> it would only have gone through with labour support. there were so many tory mps who were opposed to it, but it was implacable. >> it was a free vote. it was a free anything that smacks of a dictatorship. >> we should rail against it at every opportunity. >> do you think drugs should be legal then, carol? >> absolutely not. >> absolutely not. >> well then why not? what's the difference? >> what do you mean, what's the difference? >> what's the difference? >> what's the difference? >> what's the difference? >> what's the difference between shooting up heroin and smoking a few fags a day? >> heroin is not the only jo cox about what you put into your own body. >> the difference between taking crack, the difference between taking cocaine on a regular basis, the difference between smoking, you know, strong weed, which can make you, schizophrenic, which can give you lots of other problems, you know, that's why it shouldn't be, you know, about the risks. >> and if you're educated, the risks and if they're regulated and taxed and sold and official and taxed and sold and official and buy in official shops and only adults can buy them, scotland did exactly what you're talking about. >> it didn't legalise drugs. well, do you want to let me finish? so scotland, let people go into centres, pop up centres to shoot up safely for addicts . to shoot up safely for addicts. yeah. and you don't think

everyone who takes heroin as an addict , you know, heroin everyone who takes heroin as an addict, you know, heroin is a specific example. people to take the allowed safe places for people to take drugs. what's happened? drug deaths have rocketed. it's the highest drug death centre of europe . and drug death centre of europe. and drug taking has rocketed in the countries where they've legalised it, like portugal, which has always held up as the great big example of how it works. it does not. there are more people addicted to drugs in portugal now than there ever were less drug deaths, fewer drug deaths because people can go to safe places to do it. but more drug addicted people, young people specifically. >> what about for cigarettes then? what about for people who are addicted to cigarettes? is that i mean, there are always going to be people who are going to be addicted to drugs or who are going to want to take drugs. it's about the criminality issue. it's about whether no, it's not. it's about the health issue as well. yes, of course. and that's why there should be education about all these things. but i just don't agree with putting people who take any kind of drug through the criminal justice system. >> there's no education on the criminality thing, on the smoking. how on earth would this be banned? be enforced? >> well, it couldn't possibly be. >> i mean, well, are the police

going to have to go outside a hospital and say you're arrested? >> well, do you know what? i can see the cops under this government doing exactly that because they went after 11 year old boy yesterday from the southport riots . so why wouldn't southport riots. so why wouldn't they do that, you know, we haven't got enough coppers to police that it would just be a ticket and farage said today, he said this will be the end of pubs and it will be the end of pubs >> we're going to be talking to nigel farage about this actually a little bit later in the show as well. obviously he has really strong and i have to say, you know, you know, a long time and iused know, you know, a long time and i used to smoke, i stopped me time ago. >> he smoked a long time ago. i'm appalled by this. >> can we just ask a straw poll of people who hang out with politicians a bit more than i do? in your experience, do more labour mps smoke than tory mps? >> i think you wouldn't be able to say you don't think so, because when i think about my labour voting mates, they're all the ones lighting up when you when you go on the commons terrace, that'll be interesting. will they ban it from the commons? will they ban it from the commons because they do. they puff away on the commons terrace. >> that's what i mean exactly. >> that's what i mean exactly. >> you need to film them. >> you need to film them. >> i think that vaping is another conversation that we should have, because i really think it's unfair when vaping is

kind of bracketed with smoking, that you're not allowed to smoke or vape unless it's somewhere like public transport. >> if you're talking about health, we don't know what the long term health effects of vaping would be. this is nicotine. the chemical. well, no, the nicotine is not the problem. nicotine is not the dangerous thing in fags . it's dangerous thing in fags. it's the chemicals. >> it's the side effects. >> it's the side effects. >> yeah, well, it's not going to give you lung cancer. >> it's not going to you don't know what it's going to give you don't know that. >> you don't know that too soon. >> you don't know that too soon. >> from the evidence we have, it's much, much safer. no one argues that it's as dangerous, but it's also luring young people into smoking. >> and it's not safer than smoke. >> it's not safer than doing nehhen >> it's not safer than doing neither, which is ideal. >> i think that's i think we can all agree on that. >> have you ever stood beside anyone smoking a peach flavoured vape ? yes. knocks you sick. i vape? yes. knocks you sick. i mean, worse than a very, very strong, but you can see why children like them. >> i was in derby yesterday. i didn't know wh smith sell vapes. i'm amazed they do. you get your stuff ready for kids going back to school and i'll have a have vape. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, right. >> carol. jonathan. that's it.

i'm afraid you'll be back for that section. you'll be back in a little while, though. now the news headlines with sam francis . news headlines with sam francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after 10:30. and the top story from the newsroom . top story from the newsroom. well, as we were hearing from bev and andrew representatives of the night time industry say potential plans to ban smoking in some outdoor areas, including in some outdoor areas, including in pubs and restaurants, is, they say, causing concern across they say, causing concern across the sector. the government says it won't comment on leaks first reported in the sun newspaper, but has confirmed it is looking at a range of measures to make britain smoke free. well, the prime minister has arrived in france today for talks with the president, emmanuel macron, part of a wider push to rebuild post—brexit relations with the eu. sir keir starmer's talks with the french leaders will focus on a new treaty, expected to take six months to finalise, with hopes for a 2025 signing.

illegal migration is also understood to be on the agenda, as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs and it follows news that over 20,000 migrants have now crossed the english channel into the uk this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday . two men have been yesterday. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a wheelchair user was stabbed in east london, police found. jade anthony barnett, pictured here injured after being called to a fight. the 38 year old, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven, died at the scene in clapton. he's been described by family and friends as cheerful and caring . troubled as cheerful and caring. troubled thames water says it needs to hike customer bills by nearly 60% in the next five years. all warns it will become uninvestable. britain's biggest water supplier made the demands in its response to regulator ofwat s proposal to cap household water charges . our household water charges. our reporter charlie peters, will be

in the thames water headquarters area in reading for us later this morning. area in reading for us later this morning . and not a single this morning. and not a single tickets been sold, so far, but oasis are expecting a sold out tour, oasis are expecting a sold out tour , adding three extra dates tour, adding three extra dates tour, adding three extra dates to the uk section of that tour next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on more shows one in manchester, another in london and in edinburgh. tickets go on sale on saturday. those are the latest headunes saturday. those are the latest headlines for now . i'll be back headlines for now. i'll be back with you at 11:00 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. >> well, let's take a quick look at the markets for you this morning. the pound will buy you

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britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. now the london mayor, sadiq khan, said, expanding the capital's low emission zone to all 32 boroughs was the most effective tool available to quickly and meaningfully cut air pollution and make lots of money. >> a year later, he claims it's working better than expected, bringing cleaner air to 5 million more londoners. >> but with ulez charges forcing many off the roads, it's £12.50 on top of the congestion charge and onto the underground. how clean is the air on london's tube? ray addison went to find out . out. >> transport for london calls it tube dust, a rather whimsical way of describing what's floating around in the air in the 161 year old underground system , tfl says the dust is system, tfl says the dust is a mix of metal particles, most of which are iron oxide, caused by track and wheel wear, and breaking organic matter like skin and hair and mineral dust. this air quality monitor

measures the number of fine particles per cubic metre when you breathe them in. they're small enough to go into your lung and even enter your bloodstream and have been associated with diseases including asthma, lung cancer and even alzheimer's. the world health organisation says breathing an annual average of anything above five micrograms isn't safe right now. it's six, so let's go down into the underground and see how polluted it really is. we carried out tests at more than ten london underground stations, finding levels as high as 171 per cubic metre. i think maybe some improvements need to be done. >> i've got asthma , i am >> i've got asthma, i am a smoker as well and i feel that i die there. >> man. >> man. >> yeah, the tubes are horrible . >> yeah, the tubes are horrible. it's just musty and warm and feels dirty. it's just horrible. it sounds bad. >> it does, it should be filtered more. i guess you can't

shut it down, can you? >> because you you need it . shut it down, can you? >> because you you need it. but they should do something about it. yeah. >> the mayor of london's been accused of expanding ulez simply to increase revenues, which he denies. however, if he continues to downplay air quality here on london's underground, londoners can be excused for having their doubts. i think i'll walk home ray addison gb news. >> that's a pretty shocking report. as one who uses the tube all the time, i'll leave here on the tube and it is horrible. >> yeah it is, it's filthy down there. >> it's filthy. i didn't like the idea that i'm breathing in people's hair and skin cells. that was a new one to me. well, lily madison , tfl's chief lily madison, tfl's chief safety, health and environment officer , says action is being officer, says action is being taken to improve air quality both above and underground in london. our monitoring shows that dust levels on the tube remain well below limits, set by the health and safety executive, and on most of our network are below the recommendations from the institute of occupational medicine, which are set significantly lower. >> however, we are not

complacent and developed a number of innovative new cleaning regimes to reduce dust further . this cleaning regimes to reduce dust further. this includes the use of industrial backpack dust cleaners, which are one part of our multi—million pound tube cleaning programme. she hasn't been down there lately because it's filthy down there . it's filthy down there. >> what's a multi—million pound backpack cleaning programme? i honestly some days i just think we've woken up in a parallel universe planet. >> let's talk to donna. hey, mccarthy, who is the director of the climate media coalition. donna. hey, you are a cheerleader for this wretched expansion of ulez , are you not? expansion of ulez, are you not? and tell us why. >> good morning andrew. good morning. bev. i think the word i think you mean by wretched. you mean wonderful, improvements for quality of for air london's hundreds of thousands of people who suffer lung diseases. there are 600,000 people. andrew with, asthma. and there are another quarter of a million people suffering from pollution related lung diseases like lung cancer and heart diseases. the ulez has

removed 50% of the polluting vehicles from from london's roads already, which is a huge success. and they are now to london is now around 20% cleaner of those particulates you're just talking about. so for people with asthma, it's a really good news story . really good news story. >> nato the cars are stopped in london altogether . london altogether. >> sorry to hear that, andrew. are you people you're not really going to be happy until you ban cars from the roads altogether. well, we do need vehicles to get to get disabled people around to for the economy to work. but in a city of like 8 million people, andrew, we do have to prioritise pubuc andrew, we do have to prioritise public transport, cycling and walking . if we're not going to walking. if we're not going to seize up our economy and the real problem economically on london's roads is too many private cars using them. and so any steps to reduce that to enable our economy to thrive, to tackle climate change and to actually make a nicer city, i think is positive. so i would also talk about the impacts on poor people. 80% of poor people bev and andrew have don't have a

car in london. and what we should be talking about is the huge impact on them. of the fare rises over the last ten years and the abolition of the free morning travel for pensioners. i think it would be brilliant if the daily mail could campaign for restoration of the free travel for pensioners in the morning, because that means pensioners , if they want to go pensioners, if they want to go and do childcare for the kids, now have to , you know, pay, pay, now have to, you know, pay, pay, pay, pay now have to, you know, pay, pay, pay, pay extra to go and that that's just mad. >> look, donna , hey, the >> look, donna, hey, the evidence is basically suggesting that preventing people from getting to work or finding work is going to have a much harsher impact on health than a bit of car pollution. and the people who are affected by this, as you say, that, you know, 80% of poor people don't own a car. well, that depends on your definition of poor. you know, if you're a window cleaner or you're a decorator and you're a gardener and you need to get your vehicle around and you haven't got the money to renew it, this is this massively impacts your ability

to carry out your job. >> well, you know, i hear your concern for poor people getting to work. so bev, why do you not support the reversal of the huge inflation in train fares imposed on outer londoners going into central london? >> that's a massively support that. i think the train fares are outrageous, but they're talking about a tiny number of deaths now . deaths now. >> 90. >> 90. >> hang on, we're not talking about a tiny number. painter and decorators can't take their equipment on a train or a tube. ladders don't fit on trains. they need a vehicle, and they're now having to pay even more money to get to work. by definition, they're not very well paid. and this is this is really hurting them and it's hurting their ability to work and that affects their health. >> the, the vast majority of so it's been 17,000 varne men have had their vans replaced by the scrappage scheme. and actually i think it would be useful if anybody listening today, whether they live in london or know people live in london, the scrappage scheme is ending on the 7th of september. bev and

andrew. so if you want to get between two thousand and seven and £9000 to replace your car, van or minibus, the scrappage scheme is ending on the 7th of september. so it's really crucial that poorer people who still have polluting cars know they can get the to money replace that car with with an equivalent second hand car that is clean, and they will not have to pay the charges. >> this isn't really about health though, is it? this is about control of the population, particularly in london. we know that obviously this has been you have ulez in lots of cities across the country now, but this is just about making money out of people wanting to go about their business and live their lives. >> well, if it was a money making measure, bev, then why? why would the mayor be paying people to get rid of their car polluting cars so they don't have to pay the fine? it is actually designed to reduce the number of people paying fines. while we're trying to do is to is a carrot and stick. if you wish to choose to retain a polluting vehicle, you have to pay a polluting vehicle, you have to pay a fine. if you want to get rid of your polluting vehicle,

we'll pay you to get rid of it. and actually, what will happen over the next 4 or 5 years of ulez is as cars get replaced, the amount of money being paid in fines will go down. and that's not a money making venture. what we should be doing, i think as a money making measure, which we do need to fund public transport in london, which has the highest fares in the world, and we need to actually tax rich people using black cabs in central london. why should they not pay congestion charge unlike everybody else, the poor, the poon everybody else, the poor, the poor, people that andrew just talked about, the workers and the tradespeople have to pay congestion charge. why shouldn't rich people using a black cab pay rich people using a black cab pay congestion charge and use that money to fund poor people's pensioners free travel? >> again, we're short on time . >> again, we're short on time. just one quick question. are you in favour of this proposed ban on smoking in public places, including pub car parks? >> no, i don't think that makes much sense . much sense. >> firstly, no no no. i'm just. are you a are you a smoker ? are you a are you a smoker? >> no, i've never smoked. and i said i don't. i think that's one of the lower issues on pollution in london is people smoking in the car park. i think that's a

bit excessive personally, but i think what we do need to tackle, if we're going to tackle, we need to stop burning stuff in london. and that includes, gas boilers, which are the second highest source of pollution in central london. so maybe we agree on that one. bev. thanks, donna. >> hey, donna mccarthy there, director of the climate media coalition. i just wanted to see where he sat on that whole civil liberties issue. up next. >> don't miss it. nigel farage is going to give us his thoughts on the outdoor smoking ban. i suspect they'll be rather trenchant views. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1050 gb news. >> welcome back. it's1050 so >> welcome back. it's 1050 so smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants and outside of sports stadiums. >> so joining us now is the leader of reform uk nigel farage nigel morning to you. you are a smoker. you are a parliamentarian. is this going to be something you'll be raising in the commons next week ? raising in the commons next week? >> absolutely. and also i'm a

pub goer , and it's interesting pub goer, and it's interesting that our politicians are a strange bunch. you know, they're not really very sociable and very few in the house of commons, i suspect, go into pubs. i love pubs because everyone's a parliament, you know, we discuss local issues, national issues, international issues. they're really important places . and back in oh six, when places. and back in oh six, when smoking was banned indoors, pubs and clubs took a 20% financial hit. it's one of the contributors to 7000 of them closing over the last 20 years. if you ban people smoking in gardens and ban people smoking outside the front of pubs , that outside the front of pubs, that is the end of the british pub gone. is the end of the british pub gone . no more boozers. there'll gone. no more boozers. there'll be restaurants that masquerade as pubs, but there will be no more pubs and that's because, you know, quite a high proportion of pub goers enjoy the odd smoke as well, so i think it's massive government overreach . i think it's an overreach. i think it's an intrusion that is just a step way too far, because if you're

outside , there's no reason why outside, there's no reason why your smoke should affect anybody else at all, but i also think there's a danger here. and the dangeris there's a danger here. and the danger is this if you turn through regulation and through tax on the price, a legal activity into effectively an illegal activity, you hand it straight to the criminal gangs. and this has happened in australia. packet of cigarettes in australia is the equivalent of £35. good lord. so what has happened? what has happened is the black market in tobacco is now huge. no self—respecting criminal dealer bothers with cocaine anymore. there's no money in cocaine. no, it's cigarettes, it's tobacco. and gang warfare in melbourne has led to wait for it. 97 firebombings of shops and houses in the last two years. if you overtax a product , you make it overtax a product, you make it

almost impossible to use legally. you drive it into the hands of the wrong guys. we will not be smoke free by 2036 year. we will not be drug free by 2030. we won't be alcoholism free. we won't be obesity free. you know no one's encouraging anyone to smoke. but please , anyone to smoke. but please, please, government steps too far. it will have the wrong effect. >> nigel, we always suspected that keir starmer would come in with a fairly authoritative view of how he was going to run the country, that he knows best, that the collective is always more important than the individual. but have you been surprised by how much he has accelerated all sorts of changes? i'm thinking particularly as well in terms of free speech in such a short penod free speech in such a short period of time . period of time. >> yes and no. i mean, let's not forget, please, that rishi sunak was putting forward the most ludicrous law , where in ludicrous law, where in a decade's time a 25 year old could buy a packet of cigarettes

and a 24 year old couldn't? so. so both parties are on this, on this direction, and by the way, it'll be alcohol next. the world health organisation now saying there is no safe limit for alcohol. but i think the attack, and we heard it in germany yesterday, you know, worried about the snake oil of populism, but the only way to deal with it is delivery. well, 1100 people over the channel in the last two daysis over the channel in the last two days is not delivery . i over the channel in the last two days is not delivery. i think starmer is genuinely scared. genuinely scared that the mass of the population are deeply unhappy with legal and illegal legal immigration at these levels, and so the attempt to smear everybody who feels that way as being far right to take some people out and put them in prison for saying unpleasant things on facebook or elsewhere. these, to me, are symptoms of fear. >> he would say, of course, that what he's doing, nigel, is keeping us all safe, that he wants to save lives and that

this smoking ban is only part of that. what would you say to that suggestion ? suggestion? >> we are not going to be smoke free by 2030. it isn't going to happen. i mean, you know, i'm old enough to remember decades ago being told there'd be a war on drugs. well, how successful has that been? millions of people taking drugs, illegal drugs every week in this country, there is a limit to what government can do. but if you drive a legal activity into the hands of the criminals, you make the situation worse, not better. and i believe that very, very strongly. and yet, you know , very strongly. and yet, you know, his authoritarian nature is coming through, but he won't have any positive effect on pubuc have any positive effect on public health what so ever. >> i've only been in the comments a few weeks now, but what is your sense? do you think he could get this through the commons? because i don't think sunak would have got his ludicrous idea of stopping 14 year olds buying fags in ten years time through the commons with tory support, because there were so many tories were opposed to it. but labour has a huge majority now. this could this

could actually happen . could actually happen. >> yes, i think it probably will happen. andrew and i suspect most conservatives will support it. i mean, there is so little difference between these two parties, you know, the conservative party that that you and i might remember from our youth that believed in small state and individual liberty. i think it's a long time gone. so i suspect this will go through the commons , i mean, i will the commons, i mean, i will probably never go to a pub again. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it it i was, i was thinking this morning, if you are a smoker and you like going to the pub, this is literally the kind of thing that would make you want to leave this country and go and live somewhere else. >> yeah. what with vat and rising taxes and regulation and all those things. and here's the worry. and it's a separate point. but, you know, you raise the point, beth. but the real worry is this it's not the rich that are leaving britain . some that are leaving britain. some are. it's the 30 something entrepreneurs that are leaving britain. yeah, they're seeing it as a place that is lacking in opportunity. and isn't it ironic

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next. morning, 11 am. on thursday, the 29th of august. live across the 29th of august. live across the uk. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> good morning. so should smoking be banned outside ministers are considering stopping smokers lighting up outside of pubs, outside sports stadiums or children's play areas. we're going to have somebody to defend the idea next and thames water, the struggling water company, says bills will have to rise by more than £260 a yeah >>a yeah >> a 59% rise. are they? are they joking ? they joking? >> and they've let down the bbc. this is what bbc boss tim davie has said about presenters huw edwards and jermaine jenas after their recent scandals, and tim davie has told staff they must build trust with the viewers again and get get britain

building permission for 300,000 new homes will be forced through as ministers aim to end the housing crisis and drive growth. >> this is coming from angela rayner. rayneh >> that phrase force through. we're going to force through. there's a theme here, isn't there? we're going to force you to do things whether you like it or not. and we're going to stop you doing things you want to do. so the local council may say, we don't want these houses here. >> the government is going to say you're having them. >> and also that we haven't really got into the meat of that tim davies story from the bbc. but i think if i was jermaine jenas and i was being used as a alongside huw edwards as an example of somebody that had let down the bbc, i'd be furious. >> yeah, edwards is a convicted paedophile who could be sent to prison next month . prison next month. >> jermaine jenas apparently sent some inappropriate things on text, but he says there's two sides to that story. that's really shocking , right? it's a really shocking, right? it's a busy morning here. we're here for another hour. don't go anywhere. here's some of the .

news. >> bev and andrew, thank you very much and good morning to you. just coming up to 11:02. and the top story this morning. while ministers are believed to be looking at a potential smoking ban for outdoor spaces, including pub gardens and in parks, the government, though, says it won't comment on what the sun newspaper has called secret whitehall papers, but has confirmed it is considering a range of measures to make britain smoke free. it comes after labour said it would resurrect rishi sunak's flagship smoking ban, which was of course shelved before the general election . the prime minister has election. the prime minister has arrived for talks with emmanuel macron in paris this morning as part of a wider push to rebuild post—brexit relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders are expected to focus on a new treaty that will take six months to finalise, with hopes for a 2025 signing. illegal migration is also on the

agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. earlier, the prime minister also met british paralympians after attending last night's opening ceremony in paris . well, just some breaking paris. well, just some breaking news coming to us from lewes crown court this morning. a van driver has been convicted for smuggling a group of migrants in a hidden compartment from france to newhaven in sussex. those migrants were found banging and screaming for help. the court were told, as they were slowly starved of oxygen . jurors at starved of oxygen. jurors at lewes crown court this morning unanimously found anas al mustafa, a father of two, is guilty of trafficking those seven migrants in a specially adapted van on board a ferry crew members on that ship used an axe to free the migrants after hearing their pleas for help, the 43 year old will be sentenced next friday. meanwhile, two men have been arrested by police in london following a knife attack on a

wheelchair user in the east of the city. police found jade anthony barnett injured after being called to a fight. the 38 year old, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven, died at the scene in clapton. he has been described today by friends and family as cheerful and caring . family as cheerful and caring. troubled thames water says it needs to hike customer bills by nearly 60% by 2030, or warns it could become uninvestable. britain's biggest water supplier made the demand in its response to regulator ofwat's proposal to cap household water charges. well, our reporter charlie peters , is at thames water's peters, is at thames water's headquarters in reading, with more for us. >> thames water said that ofwat proposed cap is not tenable and renders our plan uninvestable and could prevent the turnaround and could prevent the turnaround and recovery of the company. well, as this row continues between the largest water utilities company and the regulator, some concerns have

been raised about the bonuses for the chief financial officer and the ceo of thames water , and the ceo of thames water, stretching over into the millions , and plenty more from millions, and plenty more from charlie peters throughout the rest of this morning there in reading. >> well, conservative leadership hopeful tom tugendhat is expected to accuse labour of having no plans and no vision to improve the country. in a speech later. it suggested the shadow security minister will also allege the government is being dishonest about its tax choices. he wants to make it clear that labour are, he says, pretending they have no option because of a so—called financial black hole. the financial watchdog says woeful budgeting at the home office is causing repeated overspends on the asylum system. for the past three years, the department set aside £110 million for asylum operations. however, data from the institute for fiscal studies suggest the actual spend averaged £2.6 billion a year during that time. labour insists it is cleaning up

what it calls the mess to deliver controlled and managed borders . experts are warning we borders. experts are warning we could face a surge in measles cases across the country, as children return to school in the coming days. the uk health security agency is urgently asking parents to make sure their children are protected against the illness. their figures show outbreaks since autumn 2023 have resulted in the highest number of cases in the country since 2012. the charity is warning teenagers in the uk are among some of the unhappiest in europe. the children's society's annual report identified deepening levels of stress and unhappiness in young people , suggesting a quarter people, suggesting a quarter have low life satisfaction. nearly nine points higher than the european average . and the european average. and although not a single ticket has been sold so far, oasis are already expecting a sold out touh already expecting a sold out tour. they've added three extra dates in the uk next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented

demand has prompted the decision to put on three more shows, one in manchester, another in london and in edinburgh. tickets go on sale this saturday. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you just after half past 11 for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> britain's newsroom. time is 1107. we found someone to talk to. actually supports the government's idea of banning smoking in pub gardens and small parks. and if the if the if the author of the report gets his way banning smoking in council houses. denis macshane you're in favour of this apparently former labour minister. >> of course i'm against. >> of course i'm against. >> i'm against death. i'm against killing people. it's a

very old fashioned notion. it's taken us a long time to get here. i remember when i was in the last labour government and we started bringing it in gently qatar cataclysmic roles for people like john reid. do you remember him? you're very intelligent guy. he was obsessed with puffing away and defence secretary. my god, the rouse i had with him over smoking. and it just struck me as being bonkers all my life going into working men's clubs, pubs, clubs, posh clubs, even i can remember tube trains having compartments. i mean, you're probably too young to remember that ken robinson banned it. good for him. yeah, i'm all for maximum. getting rid of smoking from our country . from our country. >> would you ban it completely? >> would you ban it completely? >> oh, i don't know. you can ban it. would you? completely. if i could, if i could. oh, god. i mean, we've banned so many other things over the last 200 years. as scientists began to tell us the damage they did. and it always made a great fuss. and smoking is one of the last

hangouts. so, yes, on the whole, i would i'd do the most. i can to protect my grandchildren from this. >> this is this is what i find it so depressing. dennis, when people on the left say i would, i don't like death because that would also suggest, therefore, that people on the right like death. and that is obviously a ridiculous suggestion or sort of comparison to make. there are lots of things that we do which are dangerous for us. you cite, you cycle. yes, yes . you cycle. yes, yes. >> dangerous. >> dangerous. >> i find cycling too dangerous for me to do, but i would never try and stop you from cycling. >> well, what we have done, which i think is correct, and there's a very interesting story by peter hitchens , occasionally by peter hitchens, occasionally a guest here in the daily mail, a guest here in the daily mail, a big one today of our little friendly little cycle path walking path near where he lives in oxfordshire, a young man was run down by an e—bike going far too fast, and i think peter's to on something. e—bikes are out of

control now. they go far too fast. they don't make any noise. you don't know they're coming like a car. so in general terms. but on the whole , i'm very happy but on the whole, i'm very happy when i see a cycle lane and i'm protected from death. >> that's not the point. the point is that i would defend your right to cycle , even though your right to cycle, even though i find it dangerous and yet you wouldn't defend my right to be able to smoke. i don't smoke, and i've never smoked. but you wouldn't defend my right to smoke in a beer garden. >> i certainly wouldn't defend anybody's right to puff into the air. a noxious fume that can kill little children. i'm sorry. i mean, lung cancer. no, but did you have you. yes, yes. >> don't you think they've probably done far more damage? >> are you going to? >> are you going to? >> well, no, because simply because the car in itself isn't the problem. it's. it is the driver. but when you smoke, you're just not just polluting, making smelly, making horrible. god's sake , you and i are all god's sake, you and i are all journalists of a certain generation. did you really enjoy

going into those newsrooms where the news desks were full of ashtrays and stubbed out cigars? >> the right thing to do , >> the right thing to do, because that was the right thing to do. >> because it was passive smoking, it was the effects on other people. but what we're talking about here, taking this as far as this report wants it to go, which is people in their council houses sat in their kitchen, their front room can't have a cigarette. >> well, i think we should be a little bit realistic. i don't think there's going to be a smoking police. gestapo actually. would be quite nice to see a few more police on the streets when tony blair with this nonsense. no, no, no, when tony blair came in, one of our most popular moves was to put 20,000 so—called community support officers. but they all wore police uniform. and certainly in working class rotherham people were so happy to see cops on the street. >> the first thing the tories people's door and say no, no, i doubt if that's going to happen. >> but what about drinking? yeah, but what about drinking next to alcohol? it kills. >> well, i was curious again. i

don't want to do news review for your other dear colleagues on your other dear colleagues on your show, but mike o'leary, i think one of the most innovative, dynamic travel bosses in my lifetime has said the thing that shocks me. i'm at stansted at six 530 in the morning, getting a ryanair somewhere, and the lads are burying up in the wetherspoons bar. they should be restricted to two two pints before getting on the plane, half when he then sells alcohol to them on his planes. he can, but it's quite difficult actually , the tiny difficult actually, the tiny portions they serve. >> but can you believe on the vodkas are a double? well, all right , i vodkas are a double? well, all right, i think he's a vodkas are a double? well, all right , i think he's a hypocrite. right, i think he's a hypocrite. >> if you're going to get that many vodkas to get smashed. getting off the plane, then i think you'd have to stop that as well. but he won't. >> can you believe we're having this conversation? i have to pinch myself every day. at the moment that we're having this conversation about whether a sentient adult human being should be told how many drinks they can have in an airport. >> well, john, because. sorry

you are. my eyesight is very bad. you sound and look just like john reid without the accent telling me that he can't believe that labour is proposing to stop working class people having a cigarette where they want in their own working men's club. but the evidence of passive smoking was was categorical. >> okay, well. >> okay, well. >> oh, i would guess that more people today because we have reduced smoking, more people today because we have reduced smoking , more people reduced smoking, more people today are dying from liver and kidney and bladder problems. senous kidney and bladder problems. serious problems related to excessive consumption of booze. and i'm i'm not. no, no i'm not i'm not, you know, puritanical on it. that's easy enough to say killing more people now and smoking. >> what are you going to do about that now. >> and it would be fabulous, in my humble judgement, if we could adopt the similar policies. as you see, i know you hate the word europe. talk about japan or korea. if you don't like the word europe. but other grown up

countries do have from day one, quite clear guidelines on fitness, on what you can, what you buy, what the muck that goes into modern food. and i eat it like anybody else. i get my greggs, you know, sausage and bacon roll just now and then. not all the time, but it's a treat. i've given up a mcdonald's, and i'm certainly not going to buy heinz's new product, which is putting spaghetti carbonara in a tin, because excuse me, but you see, but this is the irony. >> i don't think for a second keir starmer will clamp down on the huge transnational food corporations. he won't clamp down on them because that's what you're talking about. we need to take all the chemicals, all the rubbish out of our food. you won't have the backbone to do that. what you'll do is you'll say, you can't have another bottle of wine this week. you've had too many. >> you can't buy it. >> you can't buy it. >> and he's going to close down the pub industry. >> well, i've noticed that the gb news green room, as they're called, is the first green room. i've been in them now for nearly

40 or 50 years, either working for the bbc or as a guest, and it's completely dry. so congratulations. >> completely dry. >> completely dry. >> yeah, in a sense, no alcohol. >>— >> yeah, in a sense, no alcohol. >> i don't think you get alcohol when you go to morning tv on any channel, do you? >> i don't actually. really. sadly, no. sadly. >> oh god. listening to some of the morning shows, they all sound as though well away. >> well, we've got to you because you are the former europe minister. starmer has seen schulz, the german chancellor, five times since he became prime minister macron four times. is he going to take us back into some form of eu arrangement? >> i would like him to. >> i would like him to. >> i would like him to. >> i would like us to move, to get back to when we were trading, when we're not going to have to queue for an hour next yeah have to queue for an hour next year. i just want to treat the british citizens, give them the same rights that european citizens have now on starmer . citizens have now on starmer. let's get back to that point. he is i think, repairing some of the damage because the language from so many tory ministers liz, liz truss, do you remember when she was asked emmanuel macron , she was asked emmanuel macron, friend or foe, when she was just

running to become prime minister? oh, the jury's still out. you don't insult partners like that. it's dumb. i mean , i like that. it's dumb. i mean, i don't like trump if he becomes president of america, i respect him for the office talking about a trade deal with germany. >> germany can't do a trade deal with anybody because it's part of the eu. >> quite it's quite bogus. quite bogus. >> well, i was surprised when it was suggested i haven't looked at all the small print that there would be trade deals as part of it. it is mainly mainly on security, where in fact germany i think is letting all of us down because the right wing liberals who are refusing to allow spending of money because schulz is in a coalition, he's on 15%, he's out most, most, a lot of very good commentators say he won't get there next year. forgive me if i speak german. i'll get there myself in the autumn. i'll come back and tell you what i think is going to happen. but yeah, it's going to be very, very tricky. and there are regional elections where the afd, a bit, if you like, the equivalent of

reform. none of these comparisons are directly accurate. stand a good chance of doing well because there are too many germans , especially in east many germans, especially in east germany, who were just ignored by the german elites. just as there are too many brits, especially in the north, who were ignored by the tory elites. and if you don't bring all citizens of a country with you, some of them will turn round and give you the equivalent of two fingers. and that can mean voting far right. but starmer, i think, is right just to try and just have friendly relations. but on trade, i'd love to see the small print because i made these.i the small print because i made these. i tweeted this all day yesterday. you can't germany. well germany can't break its own laws and germany is the fanatic for trade rules agreeing with every other country in europe, because that's why they export so well. unfortunately, we don't have an export industry because of the quality of our bosses and the quality of our no apprenticeships. and we've got

one of the weakest industries in europe. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> we found somebody who supports the government's authoritarian ban on smoking. we've had messages from home. >> glenn has said at home, thank you, bev and for andrew, challenging a minority tribe. view on banning smoking the minority tribe. he says 20% of the voting population voted for sir keir starmer. the voting population voted for sir keir starmer . you're part of sir keir starmer. you're part of the minority. >> you try always have been , >> you try always have been, always have been. >> the only thing i can think is that he's not going to be there that he's not going to be there that long, because only 30% of people who voted voted for him. and he's got two thirds of the seats, two thirds of the seats on 30% of the vote, 34% of the vote, 34%. thank you very much. >> up next, pensioners will have to answer 243 questions correctly to keep their winter fuel allowance. are you outraged by that? this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> welcome back. it's 1121. this is britain's newsroom. thank you for joining us this morning.

forjoining us this morning. it's bev turner and andrew pierce with carole malone and jonathan east park. >> can i just point out here that gb news really need to have another seat here? because not because i am going down by the screen. obviously i have not broken it, obviously broken, and i've even got three cushions on here and i'm still a foot below you . what? you. what? >> i mean, we're gonna have to turn that up to the repair shop if you want to just hoick yourself up a minute. >> carol, i can't hike it up. >> carol, i can't hike it up. >> well, you have to. >> well, you have to. >> well, you can stand if you want. >> all right, i'll stand up then. well, why don't we. >> why don't we talk in the meantime, while there's quality television right here. >> right. okay, carol, can we talk about motorists facing fuel hikes under starmer? squeeze. >> so this is mr starmer, who before the election spent a lot of time saying that the fuel duty freeze was absolutely essential. we needed to have it. and wolf, six weeks in, we're now hearing from credible whitehall intelligence that he is going to end it. and the likelihood is that fuel is going to go up by £0.10 a litre. now, this is the guy who talks about growth road transport affects growth road transport affects

growth hugely . and diesel is the growth hugely. and diesel is the kind of angel of engine oil of the economy. so what he's going to do, he's going to hit all these working people. he said he was never going to touch workers , was never going to touch workers, weren't going to be hit by workers, weren't going to be hit. and this you could not impose a tax that would hurt workers more than this. so this is yet another lie that we've been hit with. i mean , you know, been hit with. i mean, you know, drivers would not will not have been fleeced on a scale like this since the last time they were in power, which was 1997, to 2010 when they put it up. it's just it's just a staggeringly stupid thing to do on a par with you know? >> well, first of all, it's not this hasn't been this is pure speculation because this comes from it's not been denied. it comes from whitehall intelligence question to starmer at the press conference. no. they asked and he said, he said i'm not going to write the budget now or something like that. >> it doesn't come. >> it doesn't come. >> you may have seen documents. i'm not saying it's not. hang on, just say farewell. uk say they've seen documents suggesting a ten per litre increase. yes obviously they've ringfenced three taxes and they didn't promise not to raise

taxes on anything. >> so it's not a lie if they do it. do i think it would be the right tax to raise? probably not for the reasons that you've identified, i think that you could certainly unfreeze it without making without sort of increasing it to, to £0.10, you could maybe make it sort of a few p also feed into inflation as well. i don't know that i, that i'm not sure about that is that's more debateable. the fundamental point is that the government needs to raise revenue and no, no, for the for the black hole that doesn't exist. >> well, it will, carol. >> well, it will, carol. >> the government, even without that black hole. and i don't actually like talks about black holes. there isn't one because the economy isn't like a credit card. it's not like a household budget. the government can always find money. they keep talking. >> why are they talking about it like that? >> because they £60 billion. because this is this is something that we have that both main parties have in common, which is that they talk to people, they try to steer the economy in ways that the economy that are not actually coherent with reality, because we have all kinds of there are all kinds

of means that the government's disposal to raise revenue. we can borrow money. you can we can create it. we can create money. that's printing money always sounds bad, but governments do it all the time. >> we want to rattle through a few more stories. yes carol, what about, should we talk about fire service rescues obese britain? >> this is going to make people very cross. i think firemen were called out more than 2000 times last year to get . we've got to last year to get. we've got to stop just calling them obese to get very fat people out of their homes because they couldn't get out themselves. and this is just how the figure is, five times higher than it was a few years ago. and we know for hours every four hours a fire engine. and there was one incident where a quy's there was one incident where a guy's had a heart attack. i hope he's all right. anyway, 39 firefighters, 15 vehicles, spent more than 15 hours trying to get him out of his house. >> and he should get be sent a bill. >> well, this is i think this is the point. you can't have emergency services taken up with situations that are mainly self—inflicted with people. and if you're so fat, you can't get

out of your house, you really should be in a hospital getting some kind of treatment to sort your fat out, because eating well, or you could stop eating it. >> could that be a help? >> could that be a help? >> there are all kinds of there are all kinds of medical conditions. >> no, do not stop this nonsense. this is most. >> let me finish my point yet. >> let me finish my point yet. >> well, i know what you're going to say. >> four hours. the fire service had to winch someone out of their house. >> do we have ? we either have >> do we have? we either have a bafic >> do we have? we either have a basic principle that people can access public services like the fire, fire service, ambulance. >> you were going on about smoking before , and you were smoking before, and you were sniffing out the idea that people who smoke should get national health treatment. so. but so you're saying i think smokers should get national health. >> oh, do you. >> oh, do you. >> oh, do you. >> oh, of course i do. oh okay. of course i do. >> i think that people should be allowed to smoke. and i think that the national health. right. >> i think people have to be winched out over a 15 hour operation by i think it does have some culpability here. >> i feel very sorry for those people, and i feel for the farage. yes, of course i do. and i feel like, of course i feel sorry for the five because i feel sorry for the firefighters as well. i've got i've got a fire. why? why are you laughing? >> i'm just saying the strap

rotunda rescues. it's very good. >> that's why we did that story. because of this operation i've got, i've got i've got a fireman friend and he has talked about having to do this, and he says it's a very unpleasant experience and it's unpleasant for the people. >> it's also keeping the firemen away from fires . away from fires. >> that's what it's doing. and there was a girl a couple of years ago who was a young girl. she was 18. she needed an operation , couldn't get operation, couldn't get literally couldn't get through the front door of a house. they had to take the roof off. so firemen had to go in and winch up. >> what's they get them out on? what happens then to them? i think that because they have to then be winched back in. >> do you know what they've got to do? they've got to put them into ambulances that have been made bigger for morbidly obese people. and we're paying for all of this. this is this is an outrageous amount of money. and then they get taken to a special bed in a hospital, >> are you talking about this? yes, but but banning smoking abc the government's always talking about abc for a second, that keir starmer is not going to come after the fast food that people are eating like the cigarettes is the tip of the

iceberg . iceberg. >> well, so. well, what's your complaint then that people are too fat or that people have access to too much fast food? or i mean should, shouldn't the government be doing something about obesity? oh absolutely. >> but go go after the food companies go after the massive corporations, i think. >> of course they should go of course they should go after the fast food companies rather than people who are obese. i think go after them rather than the people who are victims of that. >> there couldn't be more education about food than there is now. you know, every every magazine you pick up, every newspaper, every tv. >> we do have an obesity crisis and something is causing it. >> we do have an obesity crisis because people are eating too much. yes. and not doing enough exercise. that's it. >> it's the second biggest. >> it's the second biggest. >> it's the second biggest. >> it's the second biggest, biggest cause of cancer in this country. oh preventable cancers. >> it's causing more deaths than smoking. >> many more. >> many more. >> should we just talk about these people who are on a cruise ship, presumably getting quite fat because the food is excellent on cruise ships? oh my god , bev, it's amazing. god, bev, it's amazing. >> when i went to, i went to a cruise about 15 years ago for my grand 85th birthday. i put on six kilos, exactly six kilos in

one week, never eating these people on this cruise ship. >> they've got on a cruise to go around the world. jonathan. and what's happened to them? >> they've been stranded in belfast for three months. three months now, i would not. i love belfast, i'd be happy to spend a few days there, but not three months. >> three months. >> three months. >> would you prefer to be stranded in acapulco? wouldn't you? well hang on, who was the cruise company? >> do we know why haven't the cruise company sent another boat to belfast? because. >> because basically , it's >> because basically, it's a purpose built ship. that is a residential cruise ship. and there's a problem with there's a technical problem with the ship. and what people have done is they've bought cabins outright. so it's not a cruise. it's like a it's almost like a it's almost like being in a being in a house, a home on the water. well, not a care because not for people who need care homes. but it's like being in a residential house. >> that was a very damning indictment of people who get carried out by firemen sued for giggling. >> i know damaged. >> i know damaged. >> you've got these very rich americans who basically expected to be on a three year round the world cruise, and they just we've been in northern ireland for the last, you know, it's got problems with its gearbox apparently.

>> well, it's amazing you'd get off wouldn't you. >> you'd fly. >> you'd fly. >> but they but they did. but they but most people are kind of in what i read. most people are kind of laughing about it. >> they say how many countries have they been to or did they start? >> they've been to belfast. that's it, that's it. >> it's around the world. >> it's around the world. >> well, it's lovely, but i'm not sure you want to be there. >> how many times can you go to the titanic experience? >> and we didn't get to talk about the fact that angel delight reminds us of childhood. >> more about thames water stories. >> what flavour angel delight was your favourite chocolate, i guess? >> no, there's only one decent one. >> strawberry. strawberry. but it's the one we used to get because it's all our parents could afford. because it was cheap and i got sick of it in the end. sunday too. >> yeah, i also used to love. i used to love ambrosia rice pudding. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's the it's the taste that whisks us all back to childhood. angel delight. right. thank you jonathan. thank you carol. we managed to get it through. that is sam francis beverley turner was about to lose it again. >> i was just going to say it sounds like you're tickling her under the under the table there. >> i'm not doing anything under the table. carol, please don't get me arrested .

get me arrested. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. just after 11:30. and the top story this morning. pubs restaurants and some outdoor venues are warning jobs will be lost if the government goes ahead with reported plans to ban smoking in some outdoor outside spaces. ministers haven't confirmed plans from so—called secret whitehall papers first reported in the sun newspaper, but it is understood a range of measures are being looked at to make britain smoke free. well, as we reported to you in the last half hour or so, a driver has been convicted of trafficking a group of migrants into the uk in a van with a hidden compartment, 43 year old anas al mustafa was arrested in newhaven when seven people were found struggling to breathe inside a specially adapted van. crew members on board a ferry to newhaven, travelling from france, had to use an axe to

free the migrants. after hearing their pleas for health help. the father of two will be sentenced next friday. the prime minister has arrived for talks with emmanuel macron in paris as part of a wider push to rebuild post—brexit relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders are set to focus on a new treaty that could take six months to finalise, with hopes for a 2025 signing illegal migration is also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance their sharing of intelligence to tackle smuggling gangs well. earlier, the prime minister also met british paralympians after attending last night's paralympics opening ceremony. two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a wheelchair user was stabbed in east london. police found jade anthony barnett injured after being called to a fight. the 38 year old, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven, sadly died at the scene in clapton. he's been described today by friends and family as cheerful and

caring , troubled thames water caring, troubled thames water says it needs to hike customer bills by nearly 60% in the next five years, or warns it could become uninvestable. britain's biggest water supplier made the demands in its response to regulator ofwat. proposals to cap household water bills . and cap household water bills. and not a single ticket has been sold so far. but oasis are still expecting a sold out tour. they've added three extra dates to the uk's leg of that tour. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on those shows. one in manchester, another in london and in edinburgh . tickets go on sale edinburgh. tickets go on sale for the tour on saturday. those are the latest headlines for now . are the latest headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com >> forward slash alerts .

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millennium, this one has the joint lowest approval rating for this far in to its time in government? >> that does not surprise me at all. who are they joint with? >> theresa may. >> theresa may. >> good lord. >> good lord. >> after the 2017 election. so theresa may had a much higher approval rating of course, before that election, but it was only after her authority was shot. she sort of appeared to be leading a rudderless government. she had a lot of baggage, absolutely, and was running a minority government, which is never easy. this government has a massive majority in the house of commons and yet has a 23% approval rating. >> so i want to know everyone's theories as to why it's so low, so quickly. >> what is cutting through? what is it that he's done? said behaved? want people's perceptions? what is going wrong? >> well, i reckon people look at him and don't think he's not a prime minister. maybe it's just that they don't think. maybe it's just that miserable speech won't have helped. miserable

speech. >> although you look at how many people actually voted for him in the first place. yes, a big majority in the house of commons, very low by small margins in lots of seats. yeah, i mean, theresa may got what was it, 43% of the vote? yeah. he got 34% of the vote and two thirds of the seats. >> yeah. and i think it's also why don't people like him? i think the very fact that he's simplistically called those rioters far right, simplistically called those rioters far right , that has rioters far right, that has annoyed a lot of people, whilst not acknowledging anything around the issue of immigration, which is the number one issue at the moment. >> and the keynote speech in the rose garden, immigration wasn't ignonng rose garden, immigration wasn't ignoring or ignoring ignoring. >> i'm not sure it's to do with he doesn't want to see things he doesn't want in the winter, and i think the winter winter fuel. >> i think the winter fuel is a big factor. >> i think. i think that it's probably going to be more economic. i think looking at specific polling on how the government dealt with the riots, people tend to think that they dean people tend to think that they dealt with. >> we're not talking about how he dealt with the riots. yes. most people are happy that he clamped down on, you know, wrongdoing. but about his

inability to answer questions when it comes to immigration, his inability to reach out to people and say, you know what? i do understand this is a top issue in this country. i shouldn't just ignore it. we are going to do something about it. i understand you're angry, but i think rather than the actual riots themselves, i think, i think, i don't know, but that's what i think. i want to hear what i think. i want to hear what people at home think. >> he's changing the language on immigration, the people crossing the. i know i'm slipping down, campbell. >> i have broken this chair. sorry. shall i join you ? sorry. shall i join you? >> i know i was hoping nobody would notice. there we go. i'm back. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> i can make you feel better. here you go. >> but he's also talking now. >> but he's also talking now. >> not about illegal immigration. irregular immigration. >> yes, yes, it's outrageous. >> yes, yes, it's outrageous. >> no. >> no. >> i think well, we were talking yesterday to a german journalist who was talking about all of the same problems in germany. of course , 300,000 illegal course, 300,000 illegal migrants. this year is the expected number an astonishing number. yeah, which has really hit olaf schultz's approval ratings. but also the german economy contracting last

quarter. these two things, immigration and the economy means that what this german journalist was telling us yesterday , olaf scholz, a dead yesterday, olaf scholz, a dead man walking. yeah, yeah. not even being he's best buds with our prime minister. and of course, now he's latching himself to keir starmer. could that be those twin issues , that be those twin issues, migration and the economy. what a really free speech censorship, censorship that's cutting through. >> it is massively cutting through. if you're on social media a lot like i am, you are very worried about the authoritarian take on what we can and can't say. authoritarian take on what we can and can't say . right, and can and can't say. right, and who's going to i'm going to get my spanner out and fix his chair now while we take a little break, because we're going to be talking about oasis. can you sing any oasis songs? >> no. >> no. >> and i'm not going to. >> and i'm not going to. >> oh come on. >>— >> oh come on. >> but i do like something back in anger. >> don't look back in anger. >> don't look back in anger. >> back in anger. >> back in anger. >> and on that, never look back. don't go anywhere. >> i like anyone i know, not champagne supernova. >> no. >> no. >> anyone i

what's the time? it is 1141 on britain's newsroom on gb news. andrew pierce here with bev turner. >> so the prime minister has just finished his meeting with emmanuel macron in paris and commented on this leaked proposal for the smoking ban that we've been discussing all morning. here he is , my starting morning. here he is, my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking doing it. >> that's a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs and of course it's a burden on the taxpayer. so yes, we are going to take decisions in this space. more details will be revealed. but this is a preventable series of deaths, and we've got to take the action to reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. >> you said when you became prime minister, you wanted politics to tread more lightly on people's lives. this is the opposite, isn't it? >> well, there it is . there it >> well, there it is. there it is. the horse's mouth. that's it. he's going to do it.

>> does that put it on their front page? they've got they'd seen documents. he's going to do it. and, it'd be interesting to see how the tories respond, but they've only got 121 mps. >> honestly, i despair with a majority of that size. >> there will be a lot of labour mps will not be happy about this and i'm going to say it, he wouldn't. >> he wasn't that bothered about people's heart health when he was talking about the fact that they had to have a vaccine that wasn't trialled and had known harms to heart when he was saying that everyone should have it to leave their house, wasn't that bothered about heart health then anyway, so that's confirmed. >> the government is considering will. well, it's going to happen . will. well, it's going to happen. do you think they've got more important things to do ? didn't important things to do? didn't you say the economy was broken? trains aren't working. we've got strikes. the nhs is in a terrible, parlous place. we're going to do this. terrible, parlous place. we're going to do this . it's going to. going to do this. it's going to. but this is a huge issues with us in the house of lords because of all the, freedom, freedom issues. >> and it's what dennis skinner said. it's when the left used that. but we're just going to save lives. like there's some deep rooted psychological issue

going on with people who want to going on with people who want to go around saving other people's lives in that way. i understand the government have public health responsibilities. i get that. >> i suspect also they've leaked this because they want to get away from the sleaze row, which just hasn't gone away all week. >> sleaze row about, oh, ali, ali, the labour donor who's got his pass to downing street , his pass to downing street, maybe. right. honestly i'm aghast. okay, andrew, i had an oasis soup this morning. do you know why they call it that? no, because you've got to roll with it. >> don't go. oh, it.— >> don't go. oh, i see, is it. >> don't go. oh, i see, is it me who wrote that? >> not me. >> not me. >> right, oasis, you gotta roll with it. >> get it? >> get it? >> yeah. aerospace have announced three more dates in manchester, london and edinburgh for the brit pop band reunion touh >> they've even sold a single ticket. well, let's talk to the music writer james mcmahon. james, i suspect we're going to see even more. that's now 17 concerts. we're going to see

even more, aren't we? because the demand is going to outstrip supply . supply. >> i feel a bit torn on it, really. i hope they're back, back, back for to good paraphrase another band from manchester. but, i also fear that i would recommend that if people are trying to get tickets on saturday, of which there will be thousands and thousands, they maybe try to get the dates that are the earliest in the tour just to be sure. maybe it's worth a trip to cardiff just to that would be my advice. >> is that because you think the brothers might do what they often do and fall out and not get to the 14th concert? >> i mean , money's a hell of a >> i mean, money's a hell of a motivation . i also do sense motivation. i also do sense that's a that's a very cynical side of me that i try to repress at all times. the real music fan and the oasis fan in me thinks that the reasons for this reformation are, really come from the heart. i do think they

are back for reasons that are more than financial. >> come on james, they might as well call this the divorce tour, mightn't they? this is just i really do. oh, come on, this is about the fact that there isn't. no. is it ? which one is it? noel no. is it? which one is it? noel gallagher's got divorced or liam. liam. >> well, i was making the joke. i was making the joke on twitter that, you know, god bless noel's divorce, but i. i don't think it is all about that. liam's been hankering for this for years, and i watched an interview that noel did with the music journalist john robb. i watched it literally this morning, and he was so complimentary about liam. and i do think, and i think this is one of the reasons why they've never really got on is that in noel's heart, there is that in noel's heart, there is something that nags at him where he knows that he's good, but with liam he's great. he writes good songs, but liam sings them better than he ever could, you know? yeah, they are, they very much are a band that are the sum of their parts. >> it's a massive and there's a massive bit of nostalgia. james isn't there for this tour,

starting in heaton park. i used to do a cross—country round. heaton park was next door to the school i went to, but it's nostalgia, isn't it? james >> well, it is for people of my generation, unquestionably. but i also think there's something that's very, almost, cultural about it that's very important for our culture. everyone's miserable. everything. it's hilarious that we're having this conversation on a on the anniversary of daphne, maybe with a song on it called cigarettes and alcohol. yes. 30 years ago, it feels a long time ago, given the context of what you were just talking about. but also also if you go watch liam, there's kids there like it's 14, 15 year olds because that music is immortal . yes. it's music. is immortal. yes. it's music. liam is someone that kids look at and go, i want to be like that. and yeah, very much so. more of that. >> we've run out of time. james, i'm so sorry, but come back and talk to us again when the tour starts. jim mcmahon there. music writer and podcaster talking to teenagers in country. record numbers of don't go anywhere. this is

gb news. >> well, the children's society has done a survey which suggests british teenagers are most depressed in europe and girls are significantly less happy. annette kellow is a parenting and lifestyle journalist. what's the problem? >> well, i think we've got a bit of doom and gloom going on in the uk at the moment. in particular in comparison to europe, and i think a lot of it is parents are very worried about children's safety at the moment, online safety, but also being out and about. moment, online safety, but also being out and about . and then being out and about. and then i feel because of that, teenagers are more indoors going on social media, seeing this perfect life. and then combine that with the cost of living crisis. and i think you've got a recipe for unhappy teenagers. >> what used to keep teenagers happy then? >> annette, like when you were a teenager, what was it that kept you ? kept you happy? it was you? kept you happy? it was a sense of what? optimism. yeah.

life around the corner. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, i think as a teenager, i don't know if i can really say this, but i don't know if people would do this now, but, you know, when you used to say, i'm staying at so—and—so's house and so—and—so would say, i'm staying at so—and—so's house, and then really, you were going out on a jolly and, you know, going to a party in a field. i don't think that happens now. but it was good, good, clean fun. >> you'd be surprised. >> you'd be surprised. >> so i have a 15 year old daughter who and they are the onesin daughter who and they are the ones in this particular survey who do have very low mental wellness and a sense of happiness is gone. i think it is really simple. i think teenagers need fresh air, they need freedom and they need good food. i've just coined the three f's and i think they're getting terrible diets often, so that's affecting their health as well. they're not getting anything like enough freedom for the reasons you said about parents being worried about them and their spending so much time on phones that means they're getting a false friendship that they feel they're connecting to

people here, but they're not connecting in real life with friends. >> i think that's really important to have that real life communication. and i know i did an article last year, actually, about parents that use a lot of tracking apps to look at their children and see where they are. and while i appreciate that it's really good for safety , i also really good for safety, i also think what happens is sometimes they need that freedom to just, you know, they need that independence. they need to learn those life skills. i even think with getting a job, i mean, i got my first job at 13 and yes, i was rubbish, but i think it's quite good and i don't hear so many teenagers having jobs these days either. >> i was doing jobs from about the age of 12. >> oh really? what were you doing? >> i worked in a paper round newspaper. i worked in a newspaper. i worked in a newspaper shop, a greengrocers. >> yeah. it's good. >> yeah. it's good. >> part of the reason i think they don't have as many jobs is they don't have as many jobs is they look at what they will get paid, and they look at the cost of things in shops, and they think it's not worth it. they think, well, i might get, i don't know, £8 an hour or something if you're 15, but they go to the go to the coffee shop for a sandwich and a and a coffee with a friends, and

that's going to be twice that amount. and so there's a sense of despondency that there's no point working. how do we change that? annette how do we give them optimism, give them more money? >> no, i think a lot of parents as well are in a cost of living crisis. you know, even people that have so—called better paid jobs are struggling at the moment. so i think it's having a knock on effect. but i think it's about giving them positive aspirations as well . things like aspirations as well. things like being in a society, learning a hobby, going to cadets, doing dance. all of these things are good confidence building skills. >> you're absolutely right. do as much as you can, right? we have done as much as we can for today, andrew and i will be back on monday, but tom and emily are next. >> it looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. hello! welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. a fine and dry day for many of us

today. feeling fairly warm in the sun, but definitely fresher than it was yesterday and this evening is looking pretty cool as well. high pressure is starting to dominate. it's moving in from the south and west, but we've still got low pressure up to the north and some frontal systems that will bnng some frontal systems that will bring some further showers to parts of scotland, northern ireland and some areas of northern england through today. there could be quite heavy actually across northern areas of scotland. there's a risk of thunderstorms, possibly some hail and quite a brisk breeze here. different story elsewhere. even where we do see showers across northern areas of england, there'll still be plenty of sunny spells. and in the sunshine, as i said, still feeling fairly warm but cooler than yesterday, particularly in the south—east with 30 degrees in southeastern areas. yesterday 24 degrees is the max throughout today. so this evening still some showers across parts of scotland, particularly across the northern isles and northern areas of scotland. that's where we'll see the heaviest showers. they will tend to slowly ease into the evening, particularly compared to this morning. we'll see some clearer skies starting to develop, but temperatures are going to fall away quite quickly

through this evening. clear skies and the sun setting a little earlier than we're used to through the summer, means that temperatures will fall lower than recent nights. we could get down as low as 3 or 4 degrees rurally in some northern and eastern areas. the breeze, though across northern areas of scotland, will hold temperatures up a little higher, with more in the way of cloud and just a few showers lingering across the far north by friday morning. elsewhere, though, a dry night to come, but that will mean, despite the chillier start, a sunny start to the day on friday, some patches of mist and fog around that may take a couple of hours to clear after sunrise, but once they do, there'll be plenty of long lived sunny spells through friday and it will feel pleasant enough in the sunshine once again. the winds will be quite light, perhaps some hazy sunshine approaching the south and east later in the afternoon, but still temperatures climbing towards the low 20s or the high teens quite widely. but by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on thursday the 29th of august. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver pm on the ropes. sir keir starmer's approval rating has plummeted to its lowest level on record. why have things turned so sour, so soon? >> authoritarian nightmare coming. smoking is set to be bannedin coming. smoking is set to be banned in pub gardens as well as outside football grounds and nightclubs. >> why war on motorists? keir starmer has opened the door to a rise in fuel duty in this autumn's budget, rise in fuel duty in this autumn's budget , despite rise in fuel duty in this autumn's budget, despite his pledging not to increase taxes on working people, the prime minister suggested an increase in the levy, paid by millions of motorists is on the table. >> oh, and what a load of rubbish. thames water wants to

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