gb news. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's 3 pm. a welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, across the uk. on today's show, a video of a spanish coastguard boat ramming a small boat filled with illegal immigrants has gone viral as gb news today announces that more than 7000 illegal immigrants have crossed the channel since the labour party took power. >> today's question is this is it time for uk border force vessels to get tougher with the dinghies.7 >> just like this .7 >> just like this? >> just like this? >> and the labour party promised us a champagne supernova. but it seems the fizz has gone flat on sir keir starmer's champagne socialism. his personal ratings have tanked an astonishing 27 points to —16 since the general

election. is the early turn blues, or a grim taste of things to come for the prime minister and it's all enough to make you reach for a packet of ciggies . reach for a packet of ciggies. except now the prime minister has confirmed that his government is considering a ban on outdoor smoking that's in pub gardens and outside football grounds, clubs and restaurants. sensible stubbing out or nanny state gone mad all coming up on today's . today's. >> well, the show we've got a corker in store for you today. >> check out that video of the spanish coastguard ramming a boat full of illegal immigrants from the shore of morocco. they have a terrible problem with illegals crossing the mediterranean into their territory, and it looks like finally they said enough. as you can see on your screen now, the vessel, the coastguard vessel is circling a boat full of illegals destined for spain. >> they're trying to get them to

change course. they're trying to get them to stop. and as you can see, the illegal immigrants there are having none of it. they are going into a two boat chase. the larger vessel there, that's the authorities. they're about to go cheek by jowl , as about to go cheek by jowl, as you can see, the authorities cut in. and at this point, at this point it gets a bit spicy. you can see now the smaller boat there, that's with the illegal immigrants. it goes cuts inside and look , wolf, it goes and look, wolf, it goes underneath. it goes underneath at this point here goes underneath the border force vessel the equivalent of and tossing one of them out of the vessel into the water. nobody was seriously injured. in fact, only one minor injury. the other three walked away. is it time for a similar robust approach in the english channel, or is that simply a step too far? let me know your views gbnews.com/yoursay. a juicy show ahead. and now here's sophia wenzler .

wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it'sjust >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it's just gone. >> 3:00. i'm sophia wenzler in the newsroom. the prime minister has vowed to do more to reduce smoking, as reports suggest his government could ban it in some outside spaces , according to outside spaces, according to what the sun newspaper says, our secret whitehall papers. ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants , playgrounds outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs and stadiums. >> hospitality bosses say new restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists action is needed. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. that's a preventable death. it's a huge burden on the nhs , and of 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 nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. >> meanwhile, the prime minister is meeting with emmanuel macron in paris as part of a wider push to rebuild relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders will focus on a new treaty, expected to take six months to finalise. illegal migration is also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. >> it follows news that over 20,000 migrants have crossed the engush 20,000 migrants have crossed the english channel into uk waters so far this year , with hundreds so far this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday . arriving just yesterday. >> in other news, a van driver has been convicted for smuggling a group of migrants in a hidden compartment who were found banging and screaming for help as they were slowly starved of oxygen. jurors at lewes crown court unanimously found anas al mustafa, a father of two, guilty of trafficking seven people in a specially adapted van on board a ferry to newhaven. crew members

on the ship used an axe to free the migrants after hearing their pleas for help. >> the 43 year old will be sentenced next friday. >> now detectives are appealing for information after a top chef's been left fighting for his life after he was attacked near notting hill carnival. >> police found musaeum nato unconscious on the street in queensway before paramedics arrived. >> a 31 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. however, police are still looking for witnesses who may have seen mercy between 1:00 on monday afternoon and the time of the attack. just before 11:30 pm. two people have been arrested after a man on a mobility scooter was stabbed to death in clapton in east london yesterday. the victim has been named as 38 year old jade anthony barnett, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven. he's been described as by friends and family as cheerful and caring . a

family as cheerful and caring. a former teacher has pleaded guilty to what a judge described as serious sexual offences involving a teenage girl while she was a pupil at a school in nottinghamshire. 46 year old craig hill admitted to two counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of inciting sexual activity, while in a position of trust. the incidents, reported years later by the victim, who felt she was groomed, took place while hall park academy in eastwood. a man has been jailed for physically threatening to kill former labour leader ed miliband on a street in doncaster. michael donaldson shouted threats at miliband and his staff, leaving them shaken before being arrested in march. the 56 year old, who appeared intoxicated, dismissed the incident and said it was a joke but later pleaded guilty. today he was sentenced to three years in prison at sheffield crown court and 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 proposals to cap household water charges. our reporter, charlie peters, is at thames water's headquarters in reading, with more for us. >> 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. >> those are the latest gb news headunes >> those are the latest gb news headlines for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com

forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you sophia. now gb news can exclusively reveal that 7000 migrants have now crossed the channelin migrants have now crossed the channel in the last eight weeks since the labour party came to power. the startling figure makes up a third of the total who have crossed so far this yeah who have crossed so far this year. and this comes as a human rights group have criticised spanish authorities for ramming a suspected migrant boat. as you can see on your screens here off the coast of morocco, where four people were rescued from the water. one of them was hospitalised, but nobody on that craft was seriously injured. and joining us now for the latest is gb news, homeland security editor mark white. mark, welcome to the show. so the grim tally of 7000 has been surpassed. let's first talk about that before we go on to perhaps more robust methods of using boats in the channel. first tell us about

the channel. first tell us about the total today. >> yes. just really within the last half hour, another border force vessel, the third of the day, arrived in dover harbour with migrants on board 150 or so that have come across the engush that have come across the english channel today. and that took us to that milestone figure of 7000 migrants who have crossed the english channel just in the eight weeks since labour came to power. and that, to put it in context, is a third of the total number of crossed the engush total number of crossed the english channel since the beginning of the year 20,500. we are now at in terms of those who have made that illegal crossing to the uk and of course, it follows the arrivals yesterday that you and i spoke about martin with 615 people who crossed the channel, and the day before that, 525 crossed the

channel. what's the government saying in response to this? well they're saying that they are embarked on a process of trying to ensure that they can smash the gangs they're recruiting. 100 new investigators for the national crime agency to go after the people smugglers. and of course, in the process as well , of creating of course, in the process as well, of creating this new border security command , which border security command, which will be given new counter—terrorism powers to help them more robustly go after those people smugglers involved in this trade in human cargo, which is worth many millions of pounds and mark white. >> we again spoke yesterday of the charm offensive that sir keir starmer was on across continental europe. speaking first to the german premier and then and then again to the french president macron, about a more joined up approach of stopping the gangs right back

down the chain. but if we keep saying mark white, it's slow and the gangs don't set to get the memo and mark white that brings on to the next talking point. and that's this extraordinary video that surfaced in the mediterranean off the moroccan and spanish coast. let's get that on the screen now, mark, and talk us through what happened here. it's been called by the spanish socialist party an intolerable human disaster. but it's important to point out that nobody was at all seriously injured in this. but, mark, tell us what's going on here. >> yes. well, i mean, clearly evidently, it's not a human disaster in any way, shape or form . one person was slightly form. one person was slightly injured . you can see from the injured. you can see from the video there this is just off a spanish exclave, which is next to morocco in north africa . that to morocco in north africa. that guardia civil boat trying to stop the migrant boat, which has got a significant powerful engine on it as well. at that point, it goes right over the top of the migrant boat with one

person cast into the water. at that point , so as far as the that point, so as far as the incident was concerned, you had the migrants on board that boat. absolutely determined that they were not going to pull about that they were not going to allow the french, the spanish police patrol boat , to board police patrol boat, to board them and to take them into custody. and that's why you saw this chase and the manoeuvring tactics of the spanish, which, as you say, were robust. >> martin and mark, why this video has now been viewed millions of times, and it has to be said, a lot of people viewing it as saying nobody is condoning ramming boats. and in fact, this looked like an accident. it looked like an accident. it looked like an accident. it looked like the migrant boat kind of turned into the larger craft and was kind of swamped in the in the heat of the moment, as it were. nevertheless, mark white, we hear all the time about turning boats back, about

towing boats back to france in the english channel. and time and again mark white were told this isn't permissible. instead, we've seen more or less escorts ashore from both french and english. british vessels. mark white is there any evidence of previous attempts to be more robust in the english channel? and do you think, if so, that that might have any leeway , any, that might have any leeway, any, any, any resonance with the current labour government? >> i don't think with the current labour government, no, but you're absolutely right. under the previous government, there were manoeuvres to be more robust with the small boat migrants coming across the engush migrants coming across the english channel. we can show you hopefully some more video that we filmed when we were down in dover a couple of years back, and this was under priti patel, who was the home secretary, and we saw jet skis in action there as these border force , vessels

as these border force, vessels were on standby as well. and they had a mock up of a small boat there and the jet skis in operation, three of them there, all trying to manoeuvre the small boats. and this was the tactic that priti patel wanted to see border force adopt to be much more robust, to send out this message that if you come across, they will herd you straight back towards france. however the home office, the lawyers, the legal team in the home office , looked at the home office, looked at the tactics involved and the advice that came back from them was that came back from them was that this would potentially land the home office and the home secretary in trouble, that it might not be legal. so priti patel backed off from that approach. she wanted to go down that road, but she listened to the advice of those legal teams

at the home office, and we are where we are with now border force effectively, and they hate you saying this, but effectively, acting as a taxi service when these migrant boats reach uk waters, they are picked up. it's as simple as that every day. and we've seen it again today with 150 people who have crossed the english channel three occasions. they got into uk waters from three boats and they were picked up by border force and taken to dover. but there is some robust tactics still taking place out in the channel. martin, we can show you another bit of video recently that shows the spanish involved in robustly dealing with a small boat out in the middle of the channel as well. or no, we can't bnng channel as well. or no, we can't bring you that. >> we'll do it in the next hour. mark white we'll have plenty more nibbles at this story throughout the show. thank you very much. mark white. now, less than two months after sir keir

starmer romped to a landslide election win, is the country waking up to the reality of life under a labour government? well, sir keir starmer's regime is being plagued by allegations of cronyism, fears of a brutal october tax raid, axing the winter fuel allowance to fund a bumper union pay rise, a mounting illegal immigration crisis and calls of two tiered policing. and today it has emerged that starmer's personal popularity has plummeted to minus 16 points, his lowest score on record, and a drop of 27 points from his post—election high of plus 11. i think we saw pictures there of sir keir starmer with president macron enjoying his last tango in paris before he returns home. so the question is, is this just early term blues, or is it a sign of a deeper dissatisfaction with the former regime? and we're joined now by our gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, welcome to the show. now, before we talk about keir starmer, i understand you've just done an interview, just spoken with and been at a speech

by the conservative leader hopeful, tom tugendhat. tell us more . more. >> yes that's right. good afternoon martin. i've just been at an event from tom tugendhat, one of the six hoping to become conservative leader and leader of the opposition. quite an interesting speech, basically based around, public services. very wide ranging. of course, he's got a monumental job, a to become leader and b to bring a very fractured conservative party back together. if he does win it. but he did say something that particularly struck me, and it was about the numbers of legal migrants coming to this country. let's just have a look at what he had to say. >> conservative party under my leadership, will commit to a legally binding annual cap on non—british annual net migration of 100,000. we cannot sustain

the hundreds of thousands. it is today. >> so he called a legal migration the elephant in the room and the strain that it puts on public services. so here we go again , because, of course, go again, because, of course, the tories spent years saying they'd get net migration down to they'd get net migration down to the tens of thousands. and then it went up. what to three quarters of a million at one point very recently. so i think it's fascinating that he is making that pledge that will obviously up appeal to plenty of people who were very fed up with the conservative party, who may have gone to reform, etc. of course, a are going people going to believe them given their record. and even if they can do that, then how are they going to get the workers for the care sector, for the nhs, etc? and so i asked him that. he did say it would be within four years of them coming to power. but he

said, you know, this low wage economy and relying on foreign workers has got to stop. but of course , the conservatives had 14 course, the conservatives had 14 years to fix that . and they years to fix that. and they didn't do so, did they ? didn't do so, did they? >> yeah. superb stuff. katherine forster 100,000 net, as you say. that's significantly lower than three quarters of a million that it was last time round. thank you very much. let's move on now to speak to our next guest, catherine. speak to you next time and move on to the former labour party adviser, james matthewson, who joins us now on the show. james always a pleasure. so the latest figure there, 100,000 from tom tugendhat. let's get back to sir keir starmer, the prime minister. the grim tally of 7000 illegal migrants over the channel since the labour party came into power and the popularity of sir keir starmer has gone off a cliff, it's fair to be said since that general election, down 27 points to —16. cronyism allegations. the perhaps a bumper tax raid in october, austerity that might make george osborne blush in the

nhs and in education. winter fuel allowance has been plundered for pensioners, while asylum seekers are being pampered. two tier policing allegations. it's been a torrid time , james. for sir keir time, james. for sir keir starmer thus far, all these popularity ratings, early term blues or indication of something more to come . more to come. >> well before we come to keir starmer, martin, i don't think any asylum seeker has been pampered that i can see. i don't think that's the experience at all. so i have to challenge that off the bat. however, keir starmer's popularity rating you're absolutely right, it's taking a plummet and i think it's to be expected. i mean , it's to be expected. i mean, there's always going to be this situation right when you're on the outside and you're in opposition and you're shouting in, you know, there's always going to be that chance to build your credibility, to build your portfolio of , you know, of portfolio of, you know, of everything you can offer the country and everything you can stand for. and then when you're in power, you are suddenly responsible for everything that goes wrong and things that aren't of your making, things that you've never dreamt would be a problem . events that seem

be a problem. events that seem to happen randomly so you know all of this can be attributed to that. i think it is early days yet. i think we will see, hopefully, the, the work that the labour party wants to do and that it committed to doing dunng that it committed to doing during the election being delivered. but it was never going to be delivered within a few weeks. but the last thing the labour party wants to be talking about is things that, frankly, it does not prioritise, as serious, issues that need to be dealt with. right now. and a lot of the time that's the thing, you know, talking about things like two tier policing that wasn't even a terminology dunng that wasn't even a terminology during the election. so, you know , to predict that you would know, to predict that you would be talking about something like that at this stage. that would be frustrating. many people in the labour party camp . the labour party camp. >> james, it's also worth pointing out that there's been a shift in voter intentions. again, it's very, very early terms in this term, but there's been a six point shift to the reform party and a 5% deficit from the labour party. this appears to be red wall seats . appears to be red wall seats. buyer's regret. do you think

that's something that sir keir starmer needs to be mindful of, particularly when we saw those riots happen in the seven most socially deprived towns of england, with the most asylum seekers . is england, with the most asylum seekers. is this working england, with the most asylum seekers . is this working class seekers. is this working class problem something that sir keir starmer needs to look, look in the eyes of? >> yeah, i think it's a question for all of us, to be honest, as a society because communities and this, this goes back to the brexit question even more, which i hate talking about. but you know, it's all tied together. communities like the one that i come from in the north—east of england, have been left, left behind, you know, for for, many, many years. i mean, we're talking i mean, let's be honest, the last 50 years, which government has really taken those communities seriously, the deindustrialisation in those communities, things like pits close and factories closing that had a massive impact on the local communities in their their economies. so there are problems there that are so deep that you cannot possibly solve by addressing them overnight. and

but hopefully, i would hope the labour party takes that seriously because no other government seems to so far. so they do have a chance to look at this. but when it comes to addressing symptoms like concerns about immigration, concerns about immigration, concerns about immigration, concerns about two tier policing, all of these things, they're a symptom of a much bigger problem for me. and that bigger problem for me. and that bigger problem for me. and that bigger problem has to be addressed over time . addressed over time. >> okay. thanks forjoining us. always a pleasure, james matthewson. thanks for coming on the show. now smoking is set to be banned in pub gardens as well as outside football grounds. can you believe it? i'm martin daubney on gb news, britain's news channel .

welcome back. time is 326. i'm martin daubney on gb news prime minister sir keir starmer has confirmed the government is looking at tougher rules to combat outdoor smoking.

under new plans, smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants and outside hospitals and sports grounds. well gb news west midlands reporter jack carson joins us now. jack the government is trying to stub out outdoor ciggies. tell us more . ciggies. tell us more. >> well, martin, you might be able to come to a pub like i have this afternoon. >> it's the elms pub in shareshill in just north of birmingham. you might be able to have a pint outside, martin, but you won't be able to have a cigarette under these new rules on banning outdoor smoking, which labour look like they're going to introduce, it's a continuation and expansion, of course, on the on the bill that rishi sunak brought in just before of course, the election when he lost his place as prime, as prime minister. and so this is all about for the prime minister reducing the deaths on smoking. he says that 80,000 people that die from smoking a year are preventable deaths. and by banning smoking in outdoor

spaces, this is going to be able to help prevent that. but when you speak to the hospitality industry, this is really worrying for them, particularly about longevity into the future because of the way that people use these outdoor spaces for social events . social events. >> mark white while we can, and we're joined now by the publican and broadcaster adam brooks, and also by the etiquette expert diana mather. welcome to the show , fellas. let's start with show, fellas. let's start with you, adam brooks nigel farage. last night was very, very clear, saying, this is the death of pubs. you're a publican. will this hammer your trade ? this hammer your trade? >> yeah. look, i think 1 in 8 people in the uk still smokes. martin, it's something i don't like. >> i've never been a smoker myself, but it's people's freedom to choose this government seems intent on taking away people's freedoms. it's like keir starmer wants to be the most unpopular man in the country right now , look, in two country right now, look, in two thousand and seven, they banned smoking indoors. i think that was a good thing looking back,

you know, it's hard to imagine people smoking inside now that did affect others health. >> but outside, in a beer garden, you know, who am i to say that someone can't smoke in my beer garden, >> i think it's a disgraceful move. it's going to put a lot of pubs under pressure that are already struggling from covid and the energy crisis. i mean, i'm still paying , you know, some i'm still paying, you know, some payment plans going back to covid and the energy crisis. it's a tough industry to be there. if we lose one in 1 in 8 of our customers. they're just we're just going to drive them to their homes. they're probably going to drink more from the supermarket in their front rooms. they're going to smoke like chimneys. that's not helping anyone. jobs are going to be lost . businesses are helping anyone. jobs are going to be lost. businesses are going to be lost. businesses are going to be lost. businesses are going to be lost, labour say they're for the working man and for the working women . it doesn't look working women. it doesn't look like it to me. martin >> thank you. adam. now, diana, what's your take on this? should personal liberty trump any

national zealotry? >> well, i believe in personal liberty. i don't believe in smoking. as your other guests have said, i've never smoked, and, i have had. we have had deaths in our families because of smoking . of smoking. >> but, you know, i do agree the hospitality industry has gone through a huge, huge amount over the last few years. >> but i think perhaps the rules could be stricter. >> funnily enough, hospitals i really agree with people not being able to smoke outside a hospital. i've seen people in wheelchairs with oxygen attached to them who have gone outside to smoke, and that doesn't seem to be really doing much for their health. >> and also, i think that children should be really protected. >> and the beer gardens, you know, sometimes you go, i walk past them and there's ashtrays full of cigarettes, you know , full of cigarettes, you know, the end of cigarettes, whatever they call these days , fag ends. they call these days, fag ends. and that is untidy. >> it smells. >> it smells. >> so i think i think they should be allowed to smoke where

you want to, but i really believe that, that it should be left tidy and hygienic. >> and adam, you know, i think a lot of people may think a bit like 20 mile an hour limits have them outside schools. that's sensible, but don't have them everywhere. is that where this legislation is a bit wrongheaded? you know, okay. in kids playgrounds, okay. outside hospitals, nhs buildings, i think maybe people get the point, but a boozer that used to be a place for over 18 seconds anyway, it's only relatively recent that kids were allowed in pubs. surely pubs should be sacrosanct? adam. surely that's where the working man, the working woman , they go to get working woman, they go to get away from all this political nonsense . nonsense. >> martin. the metropolitan elite are showing their true colours again, trying to tell us common folk, us aukus how to live our lives again. i've never smoked myself, don't like it. but for someone to smoke outside is not affecting anybody else's health. let's get that straight now the pub industry record closures 80 a month. martin 80. pubs. we are losing a month.

i've lost one myself. just couldn't cope from covid and the energy crisis. i'm struggling on. on my other one, you know, it's a great pub but everything is stacked against us. but we fight on. the great british pub is our heritage. it's the nation's front room. you know, we're not. we're not saying people can smoke in our bars. no, that would be wrong. and we know that now. but in our beer gardens, this is authoritarian creep , martin. and you know, creep, martin. and you know, this, this labour government in 50 odd days , it just astounds 50 odd days, it just astounds me. i mean, they are a nightmare. we are. it's like a communist party. that's just got in. >> okay, well, no doubt they will say it's for the better health of the nation. we have to leave it there. i'm afraid we've simply run out of time. adam brooks and diana mather. thank you very much. superb to have you. and a great debate. thank you. and a great debate. thank you very much . and there's lots you very much. and there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including london's ulez expansion, is one year old today happy birthday! just how was that affected you? we'll be

discussing that next. but first, it's your headlines with sophia wenzler . wenzler. >> martin. thank you . good >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it's 333. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the prime minister's refusing to dismiss reports he's considering a ban on smoking in some outdoor spaces. sir keir starmer insists more needs to be done as part of efforts to ease pressure on the nhs. but pub bosses are warning the proposed plans, which could include beer gardens , would be include beer gardens, would be another nail in the coffin for pubs and bars. in other news, a 43 year old van driver has been found guilty of attempting to smuggle seven people into the uk . smuggle seven people into the uk. anas al mustafa has been convicted of assisting unlawful immigration after a group were found hidden in a compartment of the vehicle. the father of two will be sentenced next friday. detectives are appealing for

information after a top chef's been left fighting for his life after he was attacked near notting hill. after he was attacked near notting hill . carnival police notting hill. carnival police found mussie netto unconscious on the street in queensway before paramedics arrived. a 31 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. 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, died at the scene in clapton . he's been scene in clapton. he's been described by friends and family as cheerful and caring and not a single tickets being sold. but oasis are expecting a sold out toun oasis are expecting a sold out tour, adding three extra dates in the uk next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on more shows in manchester, london and edinburgh. tickets go on sale on saturday, but the most expensive

seat will set you back just over £500, although it does include a special pre—show party. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound will buy you $1.3158 and ,1.1885. the price of gold is £1,912.96 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8371 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report .

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zone to all 32 boroughs was the most effective tool available to quickly and meaningfully cut air pollution. well, a year later, he claimed, it's working better than expected, bringing cleaner air to 5 million more londoners. but with ulez charges forcing many off the roads and onto the underground, how clean is the air down there on london's tube? well, ray addison went underground to find out . underground to find 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 a mix of metal particles, most of which are iron oxide, caused by track and wheel wear , and 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, 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. >> 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 need. you need it. but they should do something about it. >> yeah. >> 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 can be excused for having their doubts. i think i'll can be excused for having their doubts . i think i'll walk home. doubts. i think i'll walk home. ray addison gb news superb stuff there from ray addison now. >> lily matson, tfl's chief safety, health and environment officer, said this statement 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. tfl's independent monitoring shows that in station, dust levels have reduced by 19% on the tube network since 2020, whilst tube that's over. i'm now joined by the meteorologist jim dale. great friend of the show jim. welcome to the show. so we can we can debate about the effectiveness of ulez above ground. a lot of people think it

cleans the air. a lot of other people think it just cleans people's wallets out. meanwhile, let's go underground, jim dale. and the evidence is irrefutable. politicians like sadiq khan don't use the tube. they have their own chauffeurs going around. i take the tube every day. it utterly stinks . dust is day. it utterly stinks. dust is everywhere. you can taste the pollution . why is it that they pollution. why is it that they seem very, very bothered about pollution above ground where they can tax us for it? and then we get stuffed on the ground and the working classes are breathing in the worst quality air in all of london. >> okay, so first of all, victory for ulez in terms of what it's done, it's improved the air quality, no doubt about that whatsoever. >> nitrogen dioxide levels are down 55% since the since the introduction from previous times, it's going in one direction. and the reason for ulez in the first place, i'll come to the underground in a second was to prevent premature deaths of which, of which, give or take, we're talking about 4000 a year. and most of those

in, in the younger generation, children and slightly upwards. so it was the right reason i stood in the streets of london with patrick and with bev for an entire day in bromley a year ago, and argued the case against all comers and now we've had two elections. >> the mayor has been re—elected. the labour government's been elected. >> so this is the direction of travel. much as smoking, the smoking thing that's now coming in that you just had on the programme a few. >> i'm just going to quickly to quickly interject, just to sort of fact check you a couple of things there. an actual fact there have been no deaths directly attributed to vehicle pollution , let alone pollution pollution, let alone pollution in london and imperial college, london's own report for the london's own report for the london mayor showed a negligible downtick in nitrogen dioxide, a 3% reduction in particulates. so you can read different reports to give different results. but can we get this conversation now back onto the meat and drink of this debate. and that's underground . underground. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> we can we can argue we can argue facts and figures all day

long. but but the facts is about the london underground. yeah. i go down there occasionally and it's not the nicest of places. i would suggest to you just as the environmental, the guy representing london underground has said it's work in progress, just as ulez was work in progress . this is work in progress. this is work in progress. this is work in progress. i don't think anybody should negate that . this is, you should negate that. this is, you know, nobody wants to breathe bad air at the moment. if you go down there and you're really concerned, if you're you're an avid user or you have to use that tube every day, then i would suggest heavily that you maybe take take a mask. i don't want to get into the argument mass yes or no, but they will prevent a lot of the problems. and i'm talking now, not covid type masks, but the masks you can wear that actually prevent the pollution getting into your lungs. so that wouldn't be a good idea. it's well practised in asian countries, etc. so no reason for while the work is in progress that we move in that direction. a clean direction good for the environment, good for the climate, we're going in the right direction. long, long may it live.

>> okay, jim, we have to leave it there is always a pleasure. what we could do is find the person who runs tfl. oh, that wouldn't go down very well, wouldn't go down very well, would it? with sadiq khan. thanks, jim. dale. always a pleasure. now the inbetweeners is set for a shock return as oasis announced their further three dates to their comeback toun three dates to their comeback tour. have we entered a magnificent comeback phase of retro entertainment? martin daubney on gb news.

welcome back 10 to 40 time i'm martin daubney. this is gb news now. the inbetweeners is gb news now. the inbetweeners is set to make a dramatic comeback after one of the stars from the show revealed that talks are already underway for a revival of the hit coming of age tv series. now, to according joe thomas, who played the unlucky in love simon, he said that the main cast are all keen to reunite after ten years away from the big screen. now this comes, of course, as oasis have announced a further three dates

to their uk tour following an unprecedented demand for tickets. now with the revival of old favourites like oasis and inbetweeners, have we entered a sort of comeback era for people of a certain age like me? well, join me now to discuss this is the showbiz journalist julie ann traynor. julie anne, welcome to the show. so, two comebacks in one week. you were here earlier in the week to talk about oasis. they definitely maybe are back now. and in between us and i think a lot of people look at this and think, this is great. they want to get back into their youth, get back into their coming of age. and are you do you think, do you think we're going through a phase of this comfort blanket of the past becoming very , very appealing? becoming very, very appealing? >> yes. >> yes. >> well, the inbetweeners, they're so nostalgic, aren't they. >> and they've already made two films. >> so there's talk of a third one could be on the way and joe thomas announced on a podcast today that there has been discussions. so watch this space. and they're also talking about possible storylines. so

they may even have like a vegas trip. their last trip was to australia and the trip before that. malia. >> so who knows. this could be the hangover part four. >> you know, the inbetweeners version. >> i think that would be very, very popular. i mean, it's one of those things that you it was a moment in your life just like oasis. a moment in your life just like oafis.and a moment in your life just like oasis. and you want to relive that moment of your life. and, you know, we were saying in the braverman, you know, when you go on to netflix now, there's just too much to watch. you get inundated. i spend an hour watching blooming trailers and end up watching nothing. and i think things like inbetweeners would be a smash hit. >> exactly . >> exactly. >> exactly. >> you almost spend more time picking what you want to watch than actually watching it. >> and with the inbetweeners as well, we've grown up watching it. it's very much a coming of age story. and not only that, but i actually happened to see the film on tv a few weeks ago, andifs the film on tv a few weeks ago, and it's very like laugh out loud, isn't it? it still has that that fun factor that i think we miss so much on netflix now. it's all like, like drama and crime thrillers and stuff. i

think we want a bit of commodity these days, something to make us smile. >> and we also want, i think, a return to a time where taste was forgotten, political incorrectness, i think, is what people want. oasis with politically incorrect. it was made for it. two fingers. the establishment inbetweeners was the same. now then tomorrow is when we find out if we made the for ballot oasis tickets. i got a couple of emails in. i sort of cheated. did you get yours in? >> well, i'm actually going to be on a flight to australia whenever the tickets go on sale , whenever the tickets go on sale, so fingers crossed, maybe i'll get someone to do it for me, but hopefully i will be there. >> well, that would be naughty, julianne. but the fact of the matter is, you get an email back to say yes, you might be in the ballot and i might find out at 9 am. tomorrow that i can get a.m. tomorrow that i can get into the ballot. i still might not get tickets, but they'll whipping the crowd into a phrase, into a frenzy before we even get anywhere near a gig. a year off. julianne trainor, the man for these tickets, is going to be off the scale. >> yeah, well, i hope the true fans get tickets, and i don't want these people just jumping on the bandwagon. you know, the

original fans, the ogs like you and me, we need to get our tickets. we need priority. >> and of course, the way of finding out if you're a true fan was you had to get the name of the original drummer. if you didn't know that you couldn't get in. how many people out there admit it. googled who was there admit it. googled who was the name of the original oasis drummer? anyway, we'll all find out tomorrow, 9 am. if we're fortunate enough to get in that debate into that ballot. beau biden or not. judy ann trainor, thank you very much. always a pleasure to have you in the studio. now, just how dissatisfied are the british pubuc dissatisfied are the british public with sir keir starmer's regime? well, the popularity polls have gone through the floor. i'm martin daubney on gb news britain's news channel. but next it's time for your. weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news . 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, they'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 this 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 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, they'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 on gb

>> away . >> away. >> away. >> away. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's a pleasure to have your company. it's 4 pm. and welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. on today's show, a sensational video of a spanish coastguard boat ramming a small boat filled with illegal immigrants has gone viral. and as gb news today announces that more than 7000 illegal immigrants have now crossed the channel since the labour party took power just two months channel since the labour party took powerjust two months ago, took power just two months ago, is it time for uk border force to get tougher with dinghies in our channel? next up, the labour party promises a champagne supernova, but it seems the fizz has gone flat on sir keir starmer's champagne socialism. his personal ratings have tanked an astonishing 27 points to minus 16 since the general election. is this just 30 turn

blues or a grim taste of things to come for the prime minister? and it's all enough to make you reach for the ciggies. except now the prime minister has confirmed that his government is considering a ban on outdoor smoking in pub gardens and outside football grounds, clubs and restaurants. sensible stripping out all nanny state gone mad . was the show always gone mad. was the show always a pleasure to have your company? 27 points sir keir starmer's ratings have gone through the floor. what do you think might be driving that? is it the crackdown on the riots? is it the taking away of the winter fuel allowance while pandering to asylum seekers? is it the fear of an october tax raid that could see millionaires flee the country and the hard workers penalised? tell me what you think is driving this. is it the

fact that our borders seem terminally porous? in fact, we're about to announce 7000 illegal immigrants come over the channel since the labour party came into power with no sign of that ending. let me know your thoughts. why do you think keir starmer is falling from favour after a landslide victory? just eight weeks ago? gbnews.com/yoursay that's the way to get in touch. but now it's your headlines and here's sophia wenzler. >> martin thank you. good afternoon from the gb newsroom . afternoon from the gb newsroom. it's just gone 4:00. your headunes. it's just gone 4:00. your headlines . the prime minister headlines. the prime minister has vowed to do more to reduce smoking after confirming reports his government could ban it in some outside spaces , according some outside spaces, according to what the sun newspaper says are secret whitehall source papers, ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs, and stadiums. hospitality bosses say new

restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists action is needed. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. 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 nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer. >> meanwhile, the prime minister is meeting with emmanuel macron in paris as part of a wider push to rebuild relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders will focus on a new treaty expected to take six months to finalise illegal migration is also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. it follows news

that over 20,000 migrants have crossed the english channel into the uk this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday . arriving just yesterday. meanwhile, a van driver has been convicted for smuggling a group of migrants in a hidden compartment who were found banging and screaming for help as they were slowly starved of oxygen. jurors at lewes crown court unanimously found anas al mustafa, a father of two, guilty of trafficking seven people in a specially adapted van on board a ferry to newhaven. crew members on the ship used an axe to free the migrants after hearing their pleas for help. the 43 year old will be sentenced next friday. in other news, detectives are appealing for information after appealing for information after a top chef has been left fighting for his life after he was attacked at notting hill carnival. police found muslim nato unconscious on the street in queensway before paramedics arrived. a 31 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. however,

police are still looking for witnesses who may have seen mercy between 1:00 on monday afternoon and the time of the attack just before 11:30 pm. two people have been arrested after a man on a mobility scooter was stabbed to death in clapton in east london yesterday. the victim's been named as 38 year old jade anthony barnett, who lost his leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven. he's been described by friends and family as cheerful and caring . a family as cheerful and caring. a man has been jailed for physically threatening to kill former labour leader ed miliband on a street in doncaster. michael donaldson shouted threats at miliband and his staff, leaving them shaken before being arrested in march. the 56 year old, who appeared intoxicated, dismissed the incident was a joke but later pleaded guilty. today he was sentenced to three years in prison at sheffield crown court. troubled thames water says it

needs to hike customer's 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's proposals to regulator ofwat's proposals to cap household water charges. our reporter, charlie peters, is at thames water's headquarters in reading, with more for us. >> 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, stretching over into the millions and oasis fans can finally rejoice. >> ticket prices for the band's highly anticipated reunion tour have been announced, along with additional dates in manchester, london and edinburgh. the cheapest tickets start at around

£73, while london's wembley stadium offers the most expensive package at just over £500, including a pre—show party and exhibition. despite concerns over high prices, noel gallagher's posted online saying demand is unprecedented . those demand is unprecedented. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you sophia. now gb news can exclusively reveal that 7000 migrants have now crossed the channelin migrants have now crossed the channel in the last eight weeks alone, since the labour party came to power , and the startling came to power, and the startling figure makes up a third of the total who have crossed so far this year . total who have crossed so far this year. this comes as the human rights groups have

criticised spanish authorities for ramming a suspected migrant boat off the coast of morocco. as you can see on your screen, where four people were rescued from the water as that coastguard craft, there as you can see, cuts across the illegal migrants and topples one of them into the sea. well, joining us now for the latest is gb news. homeland security editor mark white. mark, always a pleasure to have you on the show. let's start. if we can, with that grim tally now being reached 7000 since the labour party came into power. >> yes. and when you consider it's just eight short weeks since labour came to power, the fact that 7000 migrants have crossed the english channel is certainly notable. we reached that figure this morning, and indeed this afternoon, with the third of three small boats reaching uk waters. and our producer down in kent counted

the number of migrants off that third boat. 61 after two other boats with more than 100 came in to dover earlier in the day. and that takes us over 7000. and our producer tells us that another small boat is out there in the engush small boat is out there in the english channel as we speak, trying to make it to uk waters. so every time the weather improves without fail , they improves without fail, they continue to come across. it was 614 yesterday, 525 the day before. martin >> and that now brings us to the next topic of this video, which has gone viral over well over a million hits now. mark white. talk us through what happened in this video. over to you. >> well, this is just near morocco , off the north african morocco, off the north african coast. the spanish enclave there where migrants were attempting to reach that effectively , to reach that effectively, european soil and a guardia

civil launch motor boat is trying to stop the migrant boat. but you can see the migrant boat has got quite significant power on board. it's not complying with the orders of the guardia civil. it's trying to outmanoeuvre that police launch. and at one point, the police boat manoeuvring across goes on top. partially on top of that boat. you see it there launching one of the migrants into the water. it was slightly injured, but no one was seriously injured on that boat. they've all been taken into custody. martin and the spanish socialist party called this an intolerable human disaster. >> but as you pointed out, there were minor injuries to one of those four passengers. mark white. that brings us onto the topic of is there a manoeuvring, you think, to have more robust methods in the english channel? >> well, if we remember back just over two years ago, the then home secretary priti patel

did just that. she wanted to introduce more robust push back policies. and i was down in dover when we filmed and we can show you video footage of jet skis that were bought by border force. you can see three jet skis out there . they mocked up skis out there. they mocked up a migrant boat filled it with people, and they had these jet skis manoeuvring around it to rehearse a kind of push back tactics that they were going to use to push the migrants back to france. however, they then got advice from the lawyers at the home office who told priti patel that this policy would probably be illegal and that the uk government might get into trouble. so it was swiftly dropped . dropped. >> fascinating stuff. mark white what we could do and the possibilities that are there and yet, as the tally goes higher and higher , it doesn't seem to and higher, it doesn't seem to be any appetite for anything

more robust in the english channel. mark white, thanks for joining us. always a pleasure. now moving on, because less than two months after sir keir starmer romped to a landslide election win, is the country waking up to the reality of a life under a labour government? well, starmer's regime is being plagued by allegations of cronyism, fears of a brutal october tax raid, axing the winter fuel allowance to find a bumper union pay rise and a mounting illegal immigration crisis. as we just heard and also calls allegations of two tier policing. well, today it has emerged that starmer's personal popularity has plummeted to —16 points, his lowest on record, and an astonishing tank of 27 points from his post—election high of plus 11. so is this just early term blues or a sign of a deeper dissatisfaction with the starmer regime? well, i'm joined now in the studio by gb news political editor chris hope. chris, welcome to the show. you join us, of course, after being on

the road with sir keir starmer on his pan—european romp first the walks in berlin, then the last tango in paris. will anything come out of this? a lot of people from here in britain have been looking on saying, this looks suspiciously like sir keir starmer trying to cosy up to member state by member state, with the direction of travel being brussels. >> certainly he is cosying up martin. great to see you again in person. of course we have news now. >> just now, number 10 have said that the pm met emmanuel macron , that the pm met emmanuel macron, the french president, this morning, >> in that meeting the pair agreed. number 10 say on the importance of further strengthening and broadening the close relationship between the uk and france in the coming months. the context of that is yesterday, as we saw in germany, we saw this very, very tight deal done there between the german agreed, an outline between the germans and the uk agreed by christmas . sir keir agreed by christmas. sir keir starmer wants deals across the board on illegal migration, defence cooperation , north sea

defence cooperation, north sea trade. and so it goes on and many might think, and certainly brexiteers might think how are we going to be tied together like the giant by the lilliputians, tied down by little bits of string tied to get to various countries in the european union? it comes just as i think peru have approved the uk's membership of this trans—pacific trade alliance, and the idea of brexit was to be able to trade across the world, not be tied into the european union . and that's what could union. and that's what could happen with these, with these tiny deals that is the fear. but there's also a counter—argument. i'm detecting that there could be it could be that what starmer is doing is almost performative attempts to get close to germany and france, but actually he can't touch the core part of it, which is the customs union and single market. those will not be touched. we're not going back into them, he said again in germany, it may be that when a negotiate the whole deal with the european union and that starts next year, that could be up for grabs then and surely. >> on the way out, we were told no cherry picking, no a la carte menus. now this very much looks

like cherry picking cherry picking deals with germany and with france will brussels allow that? or actually, might they bend the rules because the outcome of bending those rules is that we become more and more ensnared into member states, and thus the european union. >> well, an example being, he said, no plans yesterday to us in berlin for any kind of deal on under 30 migration, freedom of movement for those groups. they negotiate very hard. i wonder how much the risk of being played here. we've got a new prime minister who wanted a second referendum on the european union. he was jeremy corbyn's brexit spokesman. the concern might be that that we feel they're being open to us, but in fact they'll come back as you know, be having worked over there for the brexit party. they are tough negotiators. just put on those points, though, about the approval ratings down 27 points since the election in seven weeks. the numbers there for mark white 7000 illegal migrants arriving here in those seven weeks is now minus 16 from being plus 11 before the election. things are starting to mount up for this. government passes the glasses, the access

for lord lord waheed alli into number 10 downing street. now, he said to us in terms in ten number garden two days ago when i was there to the budget is going to be painful, he said, and the broadest shoulders should carry the burden. looks to me like this honeymoon is well and truly over. >> and have you managed to get a question to sir keir starmer? i know you were. you were. you were sort of saying you were trying to get a question out, and they seem to be ignoring you.the and they seem to be ignoring you. the starmer camp, i had my handin you. the starmer camp, i had my hand in the air for a long time in that garden. >> there's been five press conferences. the pm has done since he became prime minister. i've been to three of them. i haven't been called. once i tried to get called, i think katherine forster and my colleague was called at an event for gb news with gb energy . for gb news with gb energy. mark. mark, our security correspondent. he was not called at a separate one. yes, i got a question behind the scenes on the record about the notting hill riots, but i'm trying repeatedly to ask questions for gb news and i won't stop sterling work. >> thank you very much, chris. hope welcome back to blighty. now joined by david campbell

bannerman, the former member of the european parliament. now to discuss all of this. welcome to the show, david. always an absolute delight. so it's only early days, two months in and yet , fair to say, sir keir yet, fair to say, sir keir starmer's popularity has gone off a cliff, 27 points down. that strikes me as unprecedented . that strikes me as unprecedented. what do you believe is driving that? >> well, thanks mark. >> well, thanks mark. >> i agree, it's an extraordinary situation because they have a massive majority. >> as we know, they won the election, but i think there was no , support for their policy programme. >> and if you look at rwanda , >> and if you look at rwanda, the rwanda policy, 70% of british people supported that , british people supported that, including many labour people, which they've now ditched. >> so you have an extraordinary situation. it's quite worrying in many ways that you have a government with a massive majority, but actually thin, deep support in terms of its policy programme, like getting rid of smoking in pubs and

closing many pubs in the process. >> there wasn't any great mandate for that . david, of mandate for that. david, of course you're a former conservative member of the european parliament, so of course you're bound to have a p0p course you're bound to have a pop at sir keir. do you think, though, that looking back , the though, that looking back, the conservative party had a massive majority handed, some might say, by the brexit party when they stood aside. and yet that was kind of squandered away. keir starmer now finds himself in power , many people say, because power, many people say, because the conservative party didn't get the job done. looking to regroup. what direction should the tory party go in to form an effective and credible choice against sir keir starmer's labour party? >> well , i labour party? >> well, i think they must go right or we must go right, >> you know, we weren't losing many votes to labour and lib dems. >> there wasn't a big swing that way. >> so the argument that some of the left say that, you know,

we've got to be centrist or whatever they call it, is not correct. >> i mean, you know, reform got 4.1 million voters and millions of those , probably two, maybe of those, probably two, maybe even three were conservatives swinging to reform because they recognise that as being more conservative than the conservative party, or we actually lost some of our voters just didn't vote at all. >> and you saw the turnout collapse. >> it's normally about two thirds of people vote, and it went to down half, and so the real story of this election was of the last election was conservative vote collapsed, you know, 20% went missing. we went on strike. our voters were on strike. >> david, it's chris hope in the studio with with martin. i last saw you at the robert jenrick launch of his campaign up in newark. are you backing him for leader ? but you're well known to leader? but you're well known to our viewers as someone campaigning for the return of bons campaigning for the return of boris johnson. is it time that he rode in on his white steed to sort out the tory party's mess ?

sort out the tory party's mess? >> third yet? chris. but you know, i was there. yes as were others that haven't declared . others that haven't declared. but, what i would say is i don't think, you know, boris hasn't featured much, though i do hope a new leader, conservative leader, will usher him back in. he was blocked. he wasn't even the candidates list. and he has a place, but i'm not. you know, i think what's more important now is to get the right leader who will go right , now is to get the right leader who will go right, in now is to get the right leader who will go right , in terms of who will go right, in terms of policy and actually sort out central office. we must clear out central office that have performed appallingly, not only in campaign terms, but in candidate selection . people are candidate selection. people are absolutely appalled by what went on, including richard holden, you know, who was the chairman, getting selected, you know, just david campbell. >> bannerman, i'm afraid we have to leave it there. we've simply run out of time. the former conservative member of the european parliament. thank you very much for joining european parliament. thank you very much forjoining us on the very much for joining us on the show. thank you. now, then, brace yourselves. there's still

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welcome back. it's 4:25. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, has confirmed that the government is thoroughly looking at tougher rules to combat outdoor smoking. under these new plans, smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants and outside hospitals, and even outside

football grounds. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. thatis every year because of smoking. that is 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 nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> well, is it a sensible stubbing out or nanny state madness? i'm joined now by gb news west midlands reporter jack carson. jack, you're at a boozer in the midlands. what are people telling you ? telling you? >> well , it's really been >> well, it's really been a mixed reaction. i've been all around the west midlands today. i've been in birmingham earlier getting some reaction to people on the street. there it really is an unhappy reaction to this idea of an outdoor smoking ban.

certainly what i've found today, both from people on the street as a majority, but also as well of hospitality owners, people that run hospitality businesses, not seeing this as really a way forward, that actually they really expected so soon. i mean, this, this new legislation, it's a continuation of the legislation. and in addition to the legislation that rishi sunak proposed before the election, this has been reinvigorated in the king's speech as as the new labour government took office. and now this announcement, with keir starmer saying today , with, keir starmer saying today, with, with of course, keir starmer saying saying that he would consider looking around this, pointing on people saying that 80,000 people lose their lives every year to something like smoking. it's a preventable cause of death, but it is going to hit the hospitality industry hard. katie mcphilemy from davenport's brewery, who run this pub where i'm in the beer

garden now, the elms pub in shareshill. she spoke to us. she spoke to us earlier. she talked about, you know, just how much of a of a of an actual effect this is going to have on this industry, talking about the viability of the hospitality industry over a broader period of time because of the way people use this space, this beer garden, where i am today is a social space. and her argument is, is that it just drives people away. that's also the opinion of the chief executive of the british beer and pub association, the idea that pubs are community spaces. that's the concern with this bill. >> this conversation, i'm joined by the ceo of the night time industries and that's michael kill. michael, welcome to the show. always a pleasure. now michael, you and i first got to know each other during the very, very beginnings of the pandemic. you were saying then that everything has been stacked against the night time industry with lockdowns, with all the

legislation put in place. and now here we go again , something now here we go again, something else that surely can only damage the night time industries trade. mike, tell us more . mike, tell us more. >> well, as you can appreciate, many of our businesses woke up this morning to this news and they're hugely concerned, as you can understand, during the pandemic, the gardens, the pavement licensing, the millions of pounds that were spent on looking out . for spaces so that looking out. for spaces so that people could socialise important revenue stream and to prop them up even during the challenges around the cost of operating or costs of daily living crisis. >> so for us to get this news, something that is a continual, another barrier to trading, is a concern for us. >> and as you can understand with everyone out there, it's extremely challenging at the moment. this is an announcement leading up to the 30th of october where we know that the

government are considering narrative or . narrative or. >> or, you know , messaging that >> or, you know, messaging that we want to hear at this time . we want to hear at this time. >> okay. thank you. michael, we had a few problems with the internet connection there. so we're going to have to move on. but thank you very much for your input. and you know, michael kill has got an absolute point there, outside smoking this is outside of nightclubs. so you can't even go outside of a nightclub and have a fag on a pavement anymore. that will be outlawed under this legislation. how are they going to police that? what with cctv, with smoking monitors to give you a ticket. if you go outside a pub, outside a football ground, they're already smoking monitors, by the way, in parts of london. i know this because i got nicked. i got charged £200 for dropping a fag end during the pandemic. there was no ashtray to put it in. guilty as charged. i occasionally like a little smoke outdoors, fined for dropping it. mark my words, they'll be smoking monitors on pavements outside football grounds , outside pubs, outside grounds, outside pubs, outside nightclubs, outside hospitals, outside public buildings.

they'll be getting you on cctv, you'll be getting an on the spot fine of goodness knows how much. i would say it's going to be £100 on the spot. how do you feel about that ? let me know feel about that? let me know your thoughts . your thoughts. gbnews.com/yoursay. now there's lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including london's ulez expansion. is one year old today? happy birthday. now, just as how has that affected you? we'll be discussing that later. but first, it's your headlines. >> good afternoon. it's just gone for 30. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the prime minister is refusing to dismiss reports he's considering a ban on smoking in some outdoor spaces. sir keir starmer insists more needs to be done as part of efforts to ease pressure on the nhs. but pub bosses are warning the proposed plans, which could include beer gardens, would be another nail in the coffin for pubs and bars. in other news,

detectives are appealing for information after a top chef's been left fighting for his life after he was attacked near notting hill. after he was attacked near notting hill . carnival police notting hill. carnival police found mussie nieto unconscious on the street in queensway before paramedics arrived. a 31 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder . two men have attempted murder. 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, died at the scene in clapton. he's been described by friends and family as cheerful and caring . a man as cheerful and caring. a man has been jailed for physically threatening to kill former labour leader ed miliband on a street in doncaster. michael donaldson shouted threats at miliband and his staff, leaving them shaken before being arrested in march. the 56 year old, who appeared intoxicated,

dismissed the incident as a joke but later pleaded guilty. today he was sentenced to three years in prison at sheffield crown court and not a single tickets been sold, but oasis are expecting a sold out tour , expecting a sold out tour, adding three extra dates in the uk next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put more shows in manchester, london and edinburgh. tickets go on sale saturday, but the most expensive seat will set you back just over £500, although it does include a special pre—show party. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward

>> welcome back. it's 436. i'm martin daubney on gb news. the metropolitan police have named the chef in critical condition who was attacked near notting hill carnival on monday night. swedish national musci nato was left unconscious in queensway, with the police appealing for more information. a 31 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident, and gb news national reporter charlie peters has the latest. charlie, welcome to the show. so the crime figures in notting hill have been astonishing this year. this is a serious development. tell us more . tell us more. >> a serious development martin and the met making an unusual decision to name and release a photo of a 41 year old victim of this attack on monday night, happening after 11 pm. here on the queensway in west london. now they're releasing that information , usually reserved

information, usually reserved only for murder victims , because only for murder victims, because they're looking to appeal for information for anyone who might have seen the dubai based chef nato on monday, they want to know how they want to piece together his whereabouts during the day. they said that after1 p.m, he left the arts club in mayfair on dover street , which mayfair on dover street, which is the sister restaurant to where he works in dubai, and he was next seen again here on the queensway at this restaurant behind me called doctor power at around 11 pm. now on monday evening, as with many of the restaurants at the notting hill carnival, it was not letting customers in, but it was serving food outside. now the manager of this restaurant told me that the victim of this attack , museum victim of this attack, museum nato, was outside, just on the left , actually just at the side left, actually just at the side here by those tables. and the attack was caught on cctv. it was one a on one fight in the middle of this street where he was hit repeatedly in the head. now the men are saying that the

victim, the 41 year old, remains in a critical condition. they are appealing for information on anyone who might have seen him. but there was also some criticism of the police from the manager of this restaurant. he said that many people who were outside the restaurant or just walking by tried to intervene in the attack and were shouting to the attack and were shouting to the police just down the road. hyde park is at the end of this street, no more than about 100m away. they were patrolling this area. the metropolitan police, as many of the officers were deployed to support the carnival events, but they didn't attend. the attack swiftly enough. that's the view of the manager of this restaurant. the attacker, they said, got away. there was an arrest yesterday morning. a 31 year old was arrested at a property at newham in east london on suspicion of attempted murder. but the police are still appealing for information. detective detective chief inspector brian howie saying that that is an important development, the arrest. but they still need to know more about mr batus movements on

monday ahead of this attack, which happened here on monday after 11 pm. so they're making that appeal for information. anyone who could have seen him between the arts club in mayfair, on dover street and here on the queensway outside the doctor power restaurant on monday night after 11 pm, charlie peters, a very good comprehensive report there, live from notting hill. >> thank you very much for joining us on the show. now, london mayor sadiq khan says expanding the capital's ultra low emission zone to all 32 boroughs was the most effective tool available to quickly and meaningfully cut air pollution. a year later, he claims it's working better than expected, bringing cleaner to air 5 million more londoners. but with ulez charges forcing many off the roads and down into the underground, how clean is the air down there on london's tube? well, ray anderson went underground to find out more . underground to find out more. >> transport for london calls it

tube dust , a rather whimsical 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 a mix of metal particles, most of which are iron oxide, caused by track and wheel wear , and 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, 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. >> 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. >> i can't shut it down, can you? because you need. you need it. but they should do something about it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> the mayor of london has 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 can be excused for having their doubts. i think i'll can be excused for having their doubts . i think i'll walk home. doubts. i think i'll walk home. ray addison . gb news. ray addison. gb news. >> great stuff ray. now we've got a statement here from lily matson, who's tfl transport for london's chief safety, health and environment officer and

statement says this 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. tfl's independent monitoring shows that in station, dust levels have reduced by 19% on the tube network since 2020, and we are surely going to be joined by butcher stan hemmes, who has a great story to tell us about how low traffic neighbourhoods and clean air zones have affected him in birmingham. but before we get to that, let's just talk a bit about some of the claims around ulez. it was expanded, of course , one year on, that's course, one year on, that's where i live in zone two of london. it goes there. my car is a diesel car. i was told by a previous labour government it was a good idea to scrap my petrol car and buy a diesel car , petrol car and buy a diesel car, so i did. now i've got to pay £12.5 to use my car each day. so as a consequence i don't really do it. it rots on the kerbside.

l, do it. it rots on the kerbside. i, i do take the tube. unlike sadiq khan, who only goes to the tube for a photo call, it absolutely stinks down there. you can taste the pollution on the underground. it's dusty everywhere. it's full of particulates and there's no way of controlling this. there's no way of fining tfl because guess what? they've got no money left. and that's the whole point. you can fine motorists for polluting, but you can't find tfl for forcing you down there. the working classes have to take the underground now. people like sadiq khan, the politicians across london, the policy makers, the people who work in parliament, they all get their limousines, they all get ferried about. this becomes a working class problem. and as for the effectiveness of ulez , it's effectiveness of ulez, it's claimed all the time. this is about clean air. everybody wants clean air, but the facts suggest that in actual fact, the imperial college london report that was commissioned by sadiq

khan only gave a negligible 3% reduction in nitrous oxides. and to date, despite claims that 4000 lives are saved each year with cleaner air, there has not been a single death in london ever directly attributable to air pollution, let alone vehicle pollution, so the science on this is very much mixed. the controversy rolls on and meanwhile these policies roll out across the nation and hard pressed motorists find themselves paying more and more money for the right. the to drive often when they have no choice. the working poor typically are those who use their cars far more than the metropolitan elites. the liberals who live in towns with their brompton bikes and their zone one travel cards. they aren't impacted. the working poor are. that's just my two pennies worth. we hope to get stan the butcher later in the show . now the inbetweeners is show. now the inbetweeners is set for a shock return, as oasis

also announced a further three dates to their comeback tour. have we entered a glorious comeback phase of retro magnificence? i'm martin daubney on gb news business

channel. welcome back your time is 449. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the inbetweeners is set to make a dramatic comeback after one of the stars from the show revealed that talks are already underway for a revival of the hit tv series. now, to according joe thomas, who played unlucky in love simon, he said that the main cast are all keen to reunite after ten years away from the big screen. this comes, of course, as oasis have announced a further three dates of their uk tour following an unprecedented demand for tickets . unprecedented demand for tickets. now, with the revival of old favourites , have we entered a

favourites, have we entered a sort of comeback era now? earlier, i spoke to showbiz journalist julie anne treanor, the inbetweeners they're so nostalgic, aren't they ? nostalgic, aren't they? >> and they've already made two films, so there's talk now. a third one could be on the way and joe thomas announced on a podcast today that there has been discussions so watch this space. and they're also talking about possible storylines. so they may even have like a vegas trip . their last trip was to trip. their last trip was to australia and the trip before that. malia so who knows, this could be the hangover part four. you know, the inbetweeners version . version. >> i think that would be very, very popular. i mean, it's one of those things that you it was a moment in your life just like oasis. a moment in your life just like oafis.and a moment in your life just like oasis. and you want to relive that moment of your life . and, that moment of your life. and, you know, we were saying in the braverman, you know, when you go on to netflix now, there's just too much to watch. you get inundated. i spend an hour watching blooming trailers. i end up watching nothing. and i think things like inbetweeners would be a smash hit. >> exactly. you almost spend

more time picking what you want to watch than actually watching it. and with the inbetweeners as well, we've grown up watching it. it's very much a coming of age story. and not only that, but i actually happened to see the film on tv a few weeks ago, andifs the film on tv a few weeks ago, and it's very like laugh out loud, isn't it? it still has that that fun factor that i think we miss so much on netflix now. it's all like, like drama and crime thrillers and stuff. i think we want a bit of commodity these days, something to make us smile . smile. >> and we also want, i think, a return to a time where taste was forgotten, political incorrectness. i think , is what incorrectness. i think, is what people want. oasis with politically incorrect. it was mad for it. two fingers. the establishment inbetweeners was the same. now then tomorrow is when we find out if we made the ballot for oasis tickets. i got a couple of emails in. i sort of cheated. did you get yours in? >> well, i'm actually going to be on a flight to australia whenever the tickets go on sale, so fingers crossed, maybe i'll get someone to do it for me, but hopefully i will be there.

>> well, that would be naughty, julianne. but the fact of the matter is, you get an email back to say yes, you might be in the ballot and i might find out at 9 am. tomorrow that i can get a.m. tomorrow that i can get into the ballot. i still might not get tickets, but they'll whipping the crowd into a frenzy, into a frenzy before we even get anywhere near a gig a year off. julianne trainor, the man for these tickets, is going to be off the scale. >> yeah, well, i hope the true fans get tickets, and i don't want these people just jumping on the bandwagon . you know, the on the bandwagon. you know, the original vans, the ogs like you and me, we need to get our tickets. we need priority . tickets. we need priority. >> so there we go. inbetweeners and oasis. the return. what next, ali g that would probably be a hate crime in this day and age. now then, thousands of you have been getting in touch about a video clip we've been playing throughout the show. let's put it back on your screens now. it shows the spanish civil guard that's their version of border force having a set to with a illegal immigrant craft off the coast of spain. let's get that on our screens now, please. we on our screens now, please. we can on our screens now, please. we can see on our screens now, please. we can see that they are chasing

them. they are telling them to stop . and you can see in stop. and you can see in a moment that the larger of those two craft, that's the civil craft with the spanish authorities on board, they cut across the smaller boat, which contains illegal immigrants. and as you can see, they're trying to divert them away from spain and instead, you'll see in a moment that the larger craft , moment that the larger craft, the civil guard craft, it cuts over the top of this craft , over the top of this craft, which catapults one of them, one of the illegal immigrants off of the boat and into the water. he was having. he had minor hospital treatment, but wasn't hurt. nobody else on that craft was her set a debate. is this a way of getting tough with the boat? should we do it here? here are some of your comments. leilani says that's how you stop the boats. steph says all these boys available to work in the engush boys available to work in the english channel. charlie adds this that would stop our boats immediately. but julie adds , if immediately. but julie adds, if anybody thinks this is a good idea, then hang your heads in

shame. this is endangering the lives of people at sea. amanda adds this the english coastguard needs to take a leaf out of the spanish coast guards book and stop namby pamby ing around their migrants. well done to the spanish. but of course, it was called a humanitarian disaster in spain. maybe it's a bit too hardline. certainly it's got you talking now after the break. more on sir keir starmer's first intrepid, torrid two months in power. in just a moment, i'm martin daubney on gb news now. is your . is your. weather. >> for a brighter outlook with boxt solar 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 . 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 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 on gb

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> a very good afternoon to you. it's exactly 5:00 pm. welcome to the martin daubney show on gb news. we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk. on today's show, a video of a spanish coastguard boat ramming a small boat filled with illegal immigrants has gone viral today, as gb news today can also announce that more than 7000 illegals have crossed the channel since the labour party took to power. is it time for uk border force to get tougher with our dinghies in the channel and the labour party promises a champagne supernova. but it seems the fizz has gone flat on sir keir starmer's champagne socialism. his personal ratings have tanked an astonishing 27 points to minus 16 since the general election. is this early turn blues, or a grim taste of things to come for the prime

minister? and it's all enough to make you reach for a packet of ciggies. except now the prime minister has confirmed that his government is considering a ban on outdoor smoking, including in pub gardens and outside football grounds. clubs and restaurants. is this a sensible stepping out of a bad habit or nanny state madness ? what was the show? madness? what was the show? always a pleasure to have your company. an astonishing video has gone viral today of the spanish coastguard ramming a boat with four illegal immigrants on board, catapulting one of them into the water. thousands and thousands of you have been in touch with us here today. it's a robust method, certainly, of policing the mediterranean, but many of you think we should get tougher in the channel instead, our own boats and french vessels seem to act as little more than a taxi service ashore. you can see this

clip here. many of you are saying yes, it's a dramatic showdown between the larger of those two craft there, which is chasing a smaller, smaller speedboat. the speedboat was destined for spain from morocco. a terrible problem across that stretch of water. as we have in the channel. the civil guard there, the coast guard, the larger of those two craft attempting to get that small boat to divert. instead, it turns into a dramatic chase, something straight out of a movie, and you can see here the two craft come together. the smaller craft here goes underneath the civil guard craft in a moment, causing, as you can see, one of the illegal immigrants to fly out of that craft . he was taken to hospital. craft. he was taken to hospital. minor injuries. nobody else was hurt. no serious damage done there, but it sparked a whole conversation about is it time to get tougher? on how we monitor our waters in the channel? let us know your thoughts gbnews.com/yoursay. and now it's your headlines. and here's

sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon from the newsroom. it's just gone 5:00. some breaking to news start with. a teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15 year old girl to death in the street after following her. holly newton suffered 36 knife injuries after an attack in hexham in northumberland in january of last year. the court previously heard holly had told friends just hours before being stabbed that the youth was basically stalking her. a 17 year old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of manslaughter but denied murder, claiming his mind went blank that day and he had only intended to take his own life and some more breaking news. in the last half hour, nine children and two adults have been taken to hospital after a reported chemical leak in a swimming pool in north london. london ambulance service said they were called to the

incident at everyone active sports centre in vale farm in wembley, after reports of a chlorine leak. the centre has now been evacuated as a precaution and is closed until further notice . in other news, further notice. in other news, the prime minister has vowed to do more to reduce smoking after confirming his government could ban it in some outside spaces, according to what the sun newspaper says are secret whitehall papers, ministers are considering making it illegal to light up in outdoor restaurants , light up in outdoor restaurants, playgrounds and outside nightclubs, and stadiums. hospitality bosses say new restrictions would cost jobs, but sir keir starmer insists actions are needed . actions are needed. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. thatis every year because of smoking. that is 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 nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . taxpayer. >> meanwhile, the prime minister is meeting with emmanuel macron in paris as part of a wider push to rebuild relations with the eu . to rebuild relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders will focus on a new treaty, expected to take six months to finalise illegal migration is also on the agenda as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. it follows news that over 200,000 migrants have crossed the english channel into the uk this year, with hundreds arriving just yesterday . a van arriving just yesterday. a van driver has been convicted of smuggling a group of migrants in a hidden compartment who were found banging and screaming for help as they were slowly starved of oxygen. jurors at leeds crown court unanimously found anas al moustafa, a father of two,

guilty of trafficking seven people in a specially adapted van on board a ferry to newhaven. crew members on the ship used an axe to free the migrants after hearing their pleas for help, the 43 year old will be sentenced next friday. detectives are appealing for information after a top chef's been left fighting for his life after he was attacked near notting hill carnival. police found muzzy nato unconscious on a street in queensway before paramedics arrived. a 31 year old man has now been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. however, police are still looking for witnesses who may have seen muzzy between 1:00 on monday afternoon and the time of the attack just before 11:30 pm. two people have been arrested after a man on a mobility scooter was stabbed to death in clapton in east london yesterday. the victim has been named as 38 year old jade anthony barnett, who lost his

leg in a motorbike accident in two thousand and seven. he's been described by friends and family as cheerful and caring and 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 s proposals to regulator ofwat s proposals to cap household water charges. our reporter, charlie peters, is at thames water's headquarters in reading, with more for us. >> 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 regulator, some concerns have been raised about the bonuses for the chief financial officer and the ceo of thames water, stretching over into the millions. >> those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia

wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you sophia. now gb news can exclusively reveal that 7000 migrants have now crossed the channelin migrants have now crossed the channel in the last eight weeks since the labour party came into power. and this startling figure makes up a third of the total who have crossed so far this yeah who have crossed so far this year. now this comes as a human rights groups have criticised spanish authorities for ramming a suspected migrant boat off the coast of morocco. as you can see on your screens now, where four people were rescued from the water. now, joining us now to discuss this is gb news home and security editor, mark white. mark, before we look at that video and talk about the brusque

methods they're in, let's talk about this grim tally. 7000 in just eight weeks and no sign of there being any stop anytime soon. >> there is no slowdown. that is very evident that in the two months since labour took office, there are just as many as we would normally expect. in fact, probably a bit more than we would normally expect at this time of the year. the fact that we've got to now more than 7000, in the space of eight weeks is certainly notable. and we reached that milestone figure at 230 this afternoon , when the 230 this afternoon, when the third of three boats came into dover harbour with 61 people on board, 164 people in total have come so far today, but we've just got the news from our producer down in kent that a fourth boat, which was in french

waters, has now reached uk waters, has now reached uk waters at halfway point . it is waters at halfway point. it is in the process of being picked up as is routine and much to the annoyance of many in our audience by border force and those 50 odd people on board that vessel are being taken to dover harbour . and as we speak, dover harbour. and as we speak, some breaking news with, again, reports from our producer that a fifth boat today is in the water and attempting to make it to the uk line. >> and mark that's of course, because we have favourable tides today, which means they can go the entire day. and of course favourable weather conditions, all of which makes us believe that the gangs aren't getting the memo about sir keir starmer smashing the gangs. and mark, that brings us on to this dramatic video from off the coast of morocco and spain. talk us through it. >> well, this was not far from

morocco, near a spanish enclave, semi—autonomous city there, which is a popular destination for many migrants who don't have to go too far. setting off from the likes of morocco and then making the short journey to try to get to what is effectively european soil, where they will then claim asylum. but the spanish guardia civil determined not to let that happen. and as you're seeing from the video out on the mediterranean there, that guardia civil patrol boat, manoeuvring around trying to prevent that small migrant boat, but with powerful motors, who's trying to evade the guardia civil boat. at one point, the guardia civil, rams over the top of that small boat, tossing one of that small boat, tossing one of the migrants into the water. but that migrant just suffered minor injuries. no one was hurt

by what was a robust policing by the spanish government, but they make no apologies for stopping illegal, incursions into their waters. >> thank you. mark white five boats today 7000. now the total since sir keir starmer came into power. it's worth pointing out the spanish socialist party called the incident there an intolerable human disaster. they condemned it. but as you said, one person with minor injuries, nobody else was hurt. mark white, thank you very much for that update . now, less than two that update. now, less than two months after sir keir starmer romped to a landslide election win, is the country waking up to the reality of life under a labour government? well, starmer's regime is being plagued by allegations of cronyism, fears of a brutal october tax raid, axing the winter fuel allowance to find a bumper union pay rise and also a mounting illegal immigration crisis. as we just saw and of course, constant allegations of two tier policing, which of

course they refute. now, today, it emerged that starmer's personal popularity has plummeted to —16 points, his lowest on record and a drop of 27 points from his post—election high of plus 11. so is this just early term blues or a sign of a deeper dissatisfaction with the starmer regime? well i'm joined now in our studio by gb news political editor chris hope to discuss it. chris. so the figures make for grim reading. meanwhile, of course, you've been on the road, the pan european. yes romance, the bromance between germany and france and sir keir starmer. a lot of people back in britain saying, is this a nibble in the direction of undoing brexit? you were there. tell us more. that's right. >> sir keir starmer has been today with emmanuel macron in paris, yesterday with olaf scholz the german chancellor. both those politicians on the continent not doing so well in the polls, welcoming sir keir starmer with open arms. he's a left of centre, a left wing

prime minister in the uk who won a landslide if they would dream of those numbers that sikhism won in the election just last month. update from number 10. just now, they've said that the pm and mr macron agreed on the importance of further strong and further strengthening and broadening of the close relationship between the uk and france in the coming months. that comes after this new idea of a treaty to be discussed and agreed by christmas between germany and france. looking at areas like cracking down on illegal migration, something to do with trade across the north sea. other, other other sharing of intelligence and defence, ideas, etc. so they're trying to the idea here is the uk and germany get closer on a bilateral level. the same with france. other countries are patched in in different deals. this is sir keir starmer delivering on the promise. he said of having a deeper relationship with the european union. but he won't touch the customs union, he won't touch single market. the big question is about freedom of movement , he is about freedom of movement, he says. no plans for those under

30 to be able to go around the europe without a passport. wait and see, because the trade and co—operation agreement is up for grabs next year. >> yo, chris, stick with us. i'm also now joined in the studio, i'm delighted to say, by the political commentator theo usherwood. theo, thank you very, very much for coming to see us. do you think this will be a concern for the labour party? you know, down 27 points to —16. it's a pretty spectacular plummet of personal popularity. but of course the next election is five years away. will this be a concern or is this just early turn blues? >> i was having a chat with a friend of mine who works at one of the polling companies, data deltapoll, and they were just talking about how does keir starmer compare to other prime ministers in similar situations. >> so he compares very badly to david cameron in the aftermath of the 2010 election, when he formed that coalition with the liberal democrats. he compares badly to boris johnson after the 2019 election. of course, covid then kicked in and that was a game changer. >> the only person actually who was in similar negative territory was theresa may. >> after the 2017 election, when

she squandered that conservative majority. >> i think what's interesting is actually if you look behind the numbers as to what's causing the particular problem, it's allegations of cronyism and also this, you know, the public sector pay rises, that's seen framed for many voters through the prisms of the prism of doing a deal with allies in the trade unions. >> 63% say labour are more interested in helping themselves than their allies. >> now, to go back to your question, martin, because this is the legitimate question. you know, does it really matter at this stage? >> i think two things. >> i think two things. >> the first is that keir starmer, as his team indicated this week before he gave that speech in the rose garden , is speech in the rose garden, is setting out a ten year project to turn the country around, given the mire it's in, according to the prime minister, he needs ten years to do it, to fix the nhs, to get the standard of living back up and wages back up. it's going to take a decade. now, in the middle of that, there has to be a general election, so there has to be some sort of improvement, he can't simply just ride it out and say, these polls don't

matter. the other question, of course, is that favorability ratings don't really matter until you actually have somebody to compare it against. so keir starmer could be on —50. but if the new tory leader is on —51, he's still quids in, right. because he's still ahead of the conservatives. >> i think all in all of this, we mustn't ignore nigel farage does. >> what does he do now? is there a ceiling to his favorability ratings. does he start now to tack to the centre? and i noficed tack to the centre? and i noticed a few front pages where he's talking about the winter fuel allowance to try and win. you know, he's he's sewn up the right. i saw a poll out the other day about how tory members view the conservative party right . so 1 in 10 tory members right. so 1 in 10 tory members think the conservative party is left wing , and it's not helped left wing, and it's not helped by the fact. it's not helped by the fact that actually, when you look into the numbers again, only 2 in 10 think the conservative party's right wing. but when you ask conservative voters, conservative members, i should say , about how they view should say, about how they view reform, there's 8 in 10, more than 8 in 10. think reform is right wing. nigel farage has done the right wing. he's done it. it's finished now. can he move to the centre or to in order to beat that ceiling that

he has the tories. exactly. to go on the smoking ban, of course, which is being criticised. >> it was a tory idea. it's only been expanded a bit by by the laboun been expanded a bit by by the labour, labour government. i was looking back at what sir keir starmer said before the election. he talked, didn't he , election. he talked, didn't he, about being a socialist. he always puts the country first and party second. he said that yes , but look at the yes, but look at the appointments, look at ian corfield. get these, these, these , these labour figures. these, these labour figures. people give donations to the labour party, getting jobs in government. and i wonder whether is that what people are seeing. they're seeing that it's jobs for the boys and sorting out pay rises for public sector workers. but, you know, some of them are backed by unions against money taken away from pensioners. >> i think the really crucial thing when you look at prime ministers is look at the first speech they give on the steps of downing street and i think keir starmer is in danger of slipping into the problem that rishi sunak slipped into. right. so rishi sunak stands there on the steps of downing street and says i'm going to bring integrity and accountability to government. and then he brings in suella braverman as home secretary and so all of those people who wanted integrity and accountability in government, after liz truss and boris

johnson say, hang on a moment, this isn't what you promised. and i think keir starmer is falling into that same trap, saying country first, country first, party second, and then yet he's doing and then he's delivering, you know, and you nofice delivering, you know, and you notice it with, you know, just to talk back about boris johnson for a moment, you know, there was scandal after scandal after scandal before the general election in 2019. but it didn't matter because the public knew what they were getting with bons what they were getting with boris johnson. so they were able when he got into trouble was when he got into trouble was when it came down to covid and he said, i don't want you to see your friends and family. we've got to adhere to these rules. and then they had parties in number 10 downing street. it's the hypocrisy that gets these politicians in trouble every single time. >> theo, do you think something else is emerging here in terms of sir keir starmer's personality? he seems to be quite binary. for example, the aftermath to the riots. no, no, you're guilty. you're going to go to jail. and there was no nuance on the smoking ban. now, i don't like smoking. therefore you must stop. it's part of this downturn. the realisation that there doesn't seem to be an

awful lot of nuance, or perhaps humanity, particularly those who disagree with him . and they can disagree with him. and they can they can. they can view his personality as hostile. >> i think on the riots, the reason they went so they went so hard on the riots was because that was what they had, was to introduce a deterrent. so you have prison sentences, harsh prison sentences being introduced as a tool in to order stop the riots. that's why they did what they did. the riots had to stop because there was no, you know, short of bringing in the military , there's no plan b. the military, there's no plan b. and so they, with the resources they had available in front of them, that's why they implemented the that's why they brought people forward. and they were ran such a harsh line with the cps and the conversation about the underlying sentiment as to why they feel like they had to. >> right. >> right. >> well, nobody has nobody. nobody has any excuse. look, unequivocally, nobody has an excuse for rioting. i think when things start to die down and cooler heads prevail, things start to die down and cooler heads prevail , then there cooler heads prevail, then there may be room for conversation. but you've got to be you've got to be unequivocal with this , to be unequivocal with this, martin. there's never an excuse for criminal behaviour. and then when you when you park the criminal behaviour and said, we're going to clamp down on

criminal behaviour, it's done, then you can start to have a conversation about why are they not looking at the reasons why there's concerns about migration. >> they say it's a far right issue and our viewers and listeners say, well, actually it's not. it's more complicated. >> and i think, i think you can have that conversation. i completely agree with you. and i think it's really important that people have that conversation and people feel listened to, because i think when people don't feel listened to, then they then other voices, more extreme voices start to come into the conversation. >> i think you've absolutely nailed it, theo. i think people say contact us by their thousands every day. they just want to be heard. they feel frustrated. they feel downtrodden , and they sometimes downtrodden, and they sometimes show that in ways that there's never there's never an excuse. >> and i just i just want to be clear, you know, if you're if you're if you're watching this, you're if you're watching this, you know, if you're if you're watching this programme and then suddenly and i've said this before, i said this with patrick's programme and somebody says, you know, sends you a message and says, oh, go and go and join in this riot, or go and do this. stay at home. because the way to do it is through conversation, you know, contact gb news make this place an outlet for conversation. it can never be the home. you can never be. we can never equivocate on this stuff because it's got to

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channel. welcome back. it's 526. i'm martin daubney on gb news now. the prime minister, sir keir starmer, has confirmed that this government is looking at tougher rules to combat outdoor smoking

under new plans, smoking could be banned in pub gardens, outdoor restaurants and even outside hospitals and sports grounds. >> my starting point on this is to remind everyone that over 80,000 people lose their lives every year because of smoking. 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 nhs and reduce the burden on the nhs and reduce the burden on the taxpayer . on the taxpayer. >> well, sir keir starmer wants to stamp out outdoor ciggies now and i'm joined by gb news west midlands reporterjack and i'm joined by gb news west midlands reporter jack carson , midlands reporter jack carson, who joins us. jack, welcome back to the show. you've been out and about across birmingham and the west midlands today. you've been talking to people on the ground. what are they telling you ? what are they telling you? >> well, they they do think

really on a majority of people that i've spoken to today, martin, believe that this is a step too far. i had one couple talk to me who had young children who were quite enthused by this idea of a ban on outdoor smoking , particularly in places smoking, particularly in places like where i am right now, which is an outdoor beer garden. but the majority of people that i did speak to were concerned that this was another take away of their freedoms. that was the main word that kept coming up on the street from people that i was speaking to today. the prime minister, as you were hearing there, pointing at us thousand people, he says that die from smoking each year. he said today he sees that as a preventable death that costs the nhs cost. the taxpayer a lot of money. that's something he's trying to cut down on. that really seems to be the mission that he's on. but people on the street that i've spoken to today feel like actually there is a sense of personal responsibility that people maybe take to ensure that if they're around children that they're not smoking near them and they feel like having that personal responsibility taken away from them is a problem that

they're not necessarily happy with. who else also isn't happy? as much of the hospitality industry i spoke to katie mcphilemy earlier from davenports brewery, who run this pub where i am here today. it's the elms pub in shareshill, just north of birmingham. here's what she told me a little bit earlier on. >> on. >> pennies people will choose. they'll vote with their feet and they'll socialise at home, where they'll socialise at home, where they can have a cigarette when they can have a cigarette when they want it. and so places like this, you know, pub gardens like this, you know, pub gardens like this and, and other hospitality industries, you know, the pavements and, and places that rely on that. what will happen is that investment is built into a business plan. we don't just decorate this garden for the sake of it. it's part of a business plan. it has to have a return. and if the customers aren't there to use it, return. and if the customers aren't there to use it , the aren't there to use it, the business plan is at fault, isn't it? and businesses will suffer . it? and businesses will suffer. >> yeah, so that's what katie from davenport's brewery, who run this pub , believes, and it's run this pub, believes, and it's something as well, which is also

reflected much across the hospitality industry, particularly emma mcclarkin, who's the chief executive of the british beer and pub association. talking on really the point of hospitality industry has been hit really hard, particularly with soaring energy prices recently. this feels like another way that drives customers out the door. she's concerned about the viability of this long term . viability of this long term. >> thank you very much. jack carson . superb stuff and let's carson. superb stuff and let's carry this debate on now i'm joined by the science and technology director at the academy of ideas, rob lyons, to discuss this further. rob welcome to the show. so this is hugely divided. the nation today. the smokers, the non—smokers saying this is either a sensible plan to stub out a bad habit or nanny state over control. where do you stand? >> well, i'm definitely much more before the nanny state over control. >> i think this is, one i think it's not going to it doesn't make any difference. >> smoke outdoors can't affect other people. so i thought the indoor smoking ban was bad

enough because passive smoking isn't a big risk. but outdoor, it's no risk at all. >> and it's really feels like, a kind of kind of people who want to ban the things that they don't like, >> are now in charge very much . >> are now in charge very much. and i think this, this is. a very retrograde step. and, and as we've we've heard this will pile more pressure on pubs and nightclubs when they're already under the cosh . under the cosh. >> and rob lie—ins, there's also a revenue issue. the government claim the treasury cost of smoking is £21.8 billion. in terms of health treatment, but they also rake in the thick end of £10 billion a year in tobacco duty. so in that sense, they're addicted to the tax revenue. if they stamp this out, addicted to the tax revenue. if they stamp this out , where are they stamp this out, where are they stamp this out, where are they going to get the money from? they're already £22 billion in the black hole. they say don't they need people to smoke to keep the money coming in? >> well, this idea that smokers

cost the government is just nonsense. if you just think about it for a moment. if a non—smoker lives ten years longer than a smoker, then that's ten years more of pensions, of social care, of prescriptions and all the rest, and on top of that, smokers pay and on top of that, smokers pay an enormous amount of tax somewhere between 300 and 400% tax on a packet of cigarettes. so overall smokers actually subsidise non—smokers in terms of government expenditure. so that's a nonsense. and then the £21 billion like all these figures is inflated by personal costs because your career doesn't go as far as it should have done. because you were ill, because of smoking, things like that. it's not nhs costs directly at all. so i think as ever we're seeing misleading statistics to justify a draconian measure . draconian measure. >> rob lie—ins excellent stuff. please join us again on the show at a future time. superb. lots more still to come between now and 6:00, including london's

ulez expansion. is one year old today? happy birthday. how has it affected you? well, i'll be discussing that next. but first, it's your headlines and here's sophia wenzler. >> martin. thank you. good afternoon. it's 533. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. the prime minister is refusing to dismiss reports. he's considering a ban on smoking in some outdoor spaces . sir keir some outdoor spaces. sir keir starmer insists more needs to be done as part of efforts to ease pressure on the nhs. but pub bosses are warning the proposed plans, which could include beer gardens, would be another nail in the coffin for pubs and bars. meanwhile, the prime minister is meeting with emmanuel macron in paris as part of a wider push to rebuild relations with the eu . rebuild relations with the eu. sir keir starmers talks with french leaders will focus on a new treaty, expected to take six months to finalise illegal

migration is also on the agenda, as leaders aim to enhance intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs. intelligence sharing to tackle smuggling gangs . a teenager has smuggling gangs. a teenager has been found guilty of stabbing a 15 year old girl to death in the street. hollie newton suffered 36 knife injuries after an attack in hexham in northumberland in january of last year, the court previously heard. hollie had told a friend just hours before being stabbed that the youth was basically stalking her. a 17 year old boy, who cannot be named, admitted a charge of manslaughter but denied murder, claiming his mind went blank that day and he had only intended to take his own life . nine children and two life. nine children and two adults have been taken to hospital after a chlorine leak was reported in a northwest london swimming pool. everyone active sports centre in wembley has been evacuated this afternoon as a precaution, and is remaining closed until further notice. in other news, not a single tickets been sold,

but oasis are expecting a sold out tour, adding three extra dates in the uk next year. noel gallagher says unprecedented demand has prompted the decision to put on more shows in manchester, london and edinburgh. tickets go on sale on saturday, but the most expensive seat will set you back just over £500, although it does include a special pre—show party. those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm sophia wenzler more in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. >> the pound buys $1.3179 and

,1.1894. the price of gold is £1,913.17 per ounce, and the ftse 100 closed the day at 8379 points. >> cheers britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you sophia. now, hundreds and hundreds of you have been getting in touch today and this smoking ban is really getting you hot under the collar. john says this. hang on, isn't obesity more of an issue rather than smoking yet they haven't got the guts to take that on. they're terrified of offending the fat lobbyists. well, that's me told was my favourite part of the show. brace yourselves. i'm about to be joined by michelle dewberry. of course. dewbs& co six till seven tonight, the queen of primetime political debate. michelle, what's on your menu? >> hello, martin. well, yeah, i will carry on that conversation that you've just been having there about whether or not people should be able to smoke

outside, but also keir starmer, he's been talking about his concerns about the far right. >> it's the very real threat. and he is going to tackle it apparently. so i want to look at that. apparently. so i want to look at that . also. apparently 4 in 10 that. also. apparently 4 in 10 tory voters says that there should be some kind of merge between the tories and reform. useful then, that i've got zia yousef on my panel tonight, who is the chairman of reform uk, so interested to talk to him about that. so all of that and lots more . more. >> well michelle, jeremy, a lot of people are getting in touch with me about that merger between the tories and reform. and they say reform members, if they merge with the tories, they will leave. so they should be well advised about any possible merger. michelle dewberry next 6 to 7 look superb. thank you very much. i want to get in touch with me here @gbnews. you know what to do. go to gbnews.com forward slash. you're saying i read out the best of messages a little later in the show. i'm martin daubney

channel. welcome back. it's 540. it's the final furlong with me. martin daubney on gb news now london mayor sadiq khan says that expanding the capital's ultra low emission zone to all 32 boroughs was the most effective tool available to quickly and meaningfully cut air pollution. what he would do wouldn't he? well, a year later, he claims it's working better than expected, bringing cleaner to air 5 million more londoners. but that's enough about the air overground. what about the air underground? well, to discuss that, i'm now joined by the founder of fairfueluk, howard cox, who joins me in the studio. so. well, to the studio, howard. we did a report earlier. ray addison went underground to measure the contaminated air down there, a topic, you know a lot about. you've been working on this for a long time. tell us more. >> well, it's very yesterday i was actually doing some media work in london bridge, and i took an air quality reading with an air quality metre, which is

actually, backed by the who. in terms of actually the, the piece of equipment. it's a handheld piece. >> and i did it at roadside and i did it down by the platform . i did it down by the platform. >> okay. now i've done this on a lot of places around in the last yean lot of places around in the last year, and i'm going to be coming out with some reports because i've done it for 119 tube stations on platform. and the point is, this down in the platform, it's something like 2,000% more pollutant than it is at roadside level. >> and yet a roadside level drivers are being asked to pay cash for the privilege of driving in clean air. >> now that's the point. it's at £12.5. if you've got a vehicle that's out of date like mine, a vehicle that i scrapped because a previous labour government gave me a scrappage scheme. i got rid of a perfectly good petrol car as it turns out, sadiq khan, of course, was maintained. this is about clean air and that this has been a success in terms of the pollution above ground . what's pollution above ground. what's your take on ulez now? it's one year old. >> well, i've actually done a study and i'll give you a bit of a taste of what's coming out in the next week when i put a press

release out is we looked at about 62 underground stations outside of the central ulez zones. in other words, where the expansion has taken place in the last year and today is a year anniversary, as you know, as you said, and we compared that last year to this year, the same stations and in fact, the air quality in terms of 2.5 micron particulates and ten micron particulates and ten micron particulates has gone up about 3%. in other words, it's not changed at all. and that's with him getting £300 million worth of actually charges and fees and fines have come in for the privilege of no change. >> now, sadiq khan of course, has his own stats saying that there has been a marked and measurable increase in decrease in air pollution . therefore ulez in air pollution. therefore ulez is a good thing. can we pause for a minute and talk about fuel duty? now, i know as as the founder of fair fuel uk, it's something you've been working on for years, if not decades , and

for years, if not decades, and there's rumours you've been talking about this this week of a tax raid in october, at the autumn statement from rachel reeves. autumn statement from rachel reeves . rumours of £0.10 per reeves. rumours of £0.10 per litre being whacked onto petrol. is this true? and if so , what is this true? and if so, what will it impact? will that have on the working poor? well, two things. >> yes it is true. i've seen evidence, credible evidence from whitehall sources that they're looking and modelling a rempe increase in fuel duty. they're talking about two aspects of that. remember when rishi sunak in 2022 took it down by £0.05 dunng in 2022 took it down by £0.05 during the early days of to covid, help people in the cost of living crisis? thank you very much. not many people saw that £0.05 cut, by the way. it wasn't passed on to well by retailers. >> the retailers troughed all the profits. >> i wouldn't say all of it, but a lot of them did actually take advantage. >> and they're talking about bringing that back. the £0.05 to where it was in 2022 and then adding another £0.05 on top to make up what was the fuel price escalator, which is fundamentally inflation plus a notional one p or £0.02. that's what they were doing. and i've

seen credible evidence it's going to go up by £0.10 per litre. and what that means to people. your second point is actually this. the average family car is about 55l, £5.50 extra for every fill up . worse extra for every fill up. worse still is for the commercial trade. everyone from the commercial van, the sole trader all the way up to the big trucks who are doing 4 or 5 miles to the gallon. you're talking about thousands and thousands of pounds of costs for these people. extra costs, which guess who's going to pay for that joe public? >> well, that was my next point, because if there are costs on the carriage, the haulage of every every product that gets passed on to the punter. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and you know, his mantra, leading keir starmer's mantra leading keir starmer's mantra leading up to the general election was all about growth, growth and growth. >> what it's doing is actually taking the money out of the economy and taking it out of people's pockets . it's not going people's pockets. it's not going to spend anything. it's going to stop growth. >> now very quickly. we've got a picture on screen of that metre reading that you took. talk us through quickly if you can. >> what that shows us well on the left hand side is actually outside london bridge tube station. the particulates, there's two levels. the top one is 2.5 micrograms. and i won't go to the details. and the next

one down is ten. on the right hand side is me. one down is ten. on the right hand side is me . ten minutes hand side is me. ten minutes later down at platform level. and you can see what the actual category is. it's unhealthy. and yet we're being forced. that's being forced upon us. >> our superb stuff. and i've got a statement here from lily matson. she's tfl's chief safety, health and environment officer. and says this 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, tfl's independent monitoring shows that in station, dust levels have reduced by 19% on the tube network since 2020. thank you very much and thank you to you, howard cox, for joining very much and thank you to you, howard cox, forjoining me. now, moving on after the break. haines has released a £2 tin can of carbonara and that italian boss has called it a total disgrace. would you try it? i bloomin world would. i'm martin daubney

welcome back. it's 10 to 6. it's the final final furlong with me . the final final furlong with me. martin daubney on gb news. huge story because haines has caved in to the lazy gen z—ers with the launch of a £2 tinned carbonara , the latest in its carbonara, the latest in its line of canned pasta products . line of canned pasta products. and there it is on screen. look at that. delicious. available from september, the heinz spaghetti carbonara is supposed to be a fail proof dish for those who can't cook, but an italian restaurant boss has labelled it an utter disgrace. and they said they'd ban anybody who even attempted to eat it. so would you have a go at that? well, i would, here's a man who probably won't. and i'm joined now by the magnificent celebrity chef aldo zilli. aldo, i know you live and breathe the passion of pasta . you hand prepare it of pasta. you hand prepare it immaculately . beautifully. are immaculately. beautifully. are you in favour of this ? can or is

you in favour of this? can or is it sacrosanct? oh, look at that. you're getting me hungry. >> oh, martin, how are you? i cannot believe that this is on the news, by the way. you know, if they were trying. if they were trying to do a pr machine exercise, they've won everything. because i've had about 20 people calling me from different , kind of stations different, kind of stations today to talk about spaghetti carbonara . this has nothing to carbonara. this has nothing to do with spaghetti carbonara. this one you. >> how come you've got a can of it? there aldo? you've got a can of it. that's not out until september. >> i've got a can of it because someone delivered it. >> can i have it? >> can i have it? >> yes. so i am. i am one of the lucky few that got to taste this today. so what's it like ? it. i today. so what's it like? it. i tasted it and, i can't believe that it's actually even worse than spaghetti hoops. do you

remember those ? remember those? >> yeah. i love them, too. >> it's worse than alphabet spaghetti or pasta . if you. if spaghetti or pasta. if you. if you all remember that i'm a i'm an old man. so i remember all of those things , but, you know, those things, but, you know, it's given it's given themselves a chance to, go on the italian route, which i think that. fair enough. they did some italian sauces a while back, and that was acceptable. but they've gone with this. they've gone too far because it doesn't taste very nice at all. and it's not i mean, it's it. carbonara is five ingredients. this has about 15. so, i know it's £2, but if you cook from scratch to make a fresh from scratch a spaghetti carbonara, it's not actually that much more so . i don't know that much more so. i don't know why they're targeting young people that leave home. maybe, you know, they go to university

and they they look for a quick fix. but this is not a quick fix. but this is not a quick fix. i'm afraid this is actually not even acceptable in my house. i know it's in my house at the moment, but they won't be here for long. >> and i've got to say, you're not putting me off. i still fancy i like carbonara cooked from fresh. i cook it myself. i love to get the egg yolks out. i cook with my kids. i've been to your restaurant. it's superb. but i also like the kind of accessible junk pasta. i like mac in a can. i like ravioli in a can. i know i'm a total heathen. >> oh, you must be you. you i think. have you been paid by heinz by any chance ? heinz by any chance? >> no. i'll pay you for that. can though, mate . can though, mate. >> i can't believe you just said that. i mean, yeah, i mean, carl, there's nothing wrong with canned vegetables , canned beans. canned vegetables, canned beans. ihave canned vegetables, canned beans. i have borlotti beans. i have canned vegetables in my in my cupboard , but this doesn't have cupboard, but this doesn't have a place just yet. they've got to

tweak it. quite a lot before it, before it even turns into a carbonara. because carbonara is not. >> hello. before we part company, could you please hold up the can and your dish side by side so we can see both and make our own minds up. a freshly prepared carbonara by the legendary abdul ezedi. >> all right, then, there you go. >> and the tin? do you know what? do you know which one i prefer? both. they look magnificent. abdul ezedi. absolute legend. and a great sport. thank you so much for joining us. god! i'm hungry. i want that for my tea tonight. now stick around. it's dewbs& co after this. and of course, then it's nigel farage 7 to 8. it's been great having your company. here's your weather. have a great evening . great evening. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar 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 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 on

right populism. he says it's his mission to , i quote, inject some mission to, i quote, inject some hope into the country. your thoughts on that? and get this. apparently four out of ten tory members would be in favour of a merge with the reform party. your thoughts? and over the last three years, these figures are mind boggling. the home office budgeted to spend. get this £320 million on things like borders and asylum . but are you ready? and asylum. but are you ready? it actually ended up spending £7.9 billion over that period. instead, what on earth is going

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