gb news. >> good morning. it's 930 on friday the 30th of august. live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with me. dawn neesom and the lovely nana akua. looking gorgeous this morning. right, you two, my dean morning. right, you two, my dear, we're not. at least we're not marching in redcoats for goodness sake. well, look, coming up. more flexible working all staff will be granted the right to demand a four day week in a move championed by the labour deputy prime minister, angela rayner. and meanwhile , angela rayner. and meanwhile, reunited in grief, prince harry makes a secret trip to the uk to attend his uncle's funeral alongside his brother prince william. it was a reunion described as frosty and a picture of pettiness. >> i mean, honestly, sir keir starmer has removed a portrait of margaret thatcher from downing street as he found it unsettling .

unsettling. >> nuts, mad and ridiculous. and no, that's not keir starmer. just some of the words used to describe sir keir starmer's outdoor smoking ban. as backlash continues this morning. >> looks to me like subterfuge . >> looks to me like subterfuge. workplace health checks now the nhs will go into offices, pubs and building sites to measure and building sites to measure and weigh you. i mean, would you welcome that .7 welcome that? >> nana. we've got the scales ready in the studio. are you braced for your medicare check? you see, this is the thing. >> i don't care, i don't mind, i don't mind, but it doesn't tell me anything. if i'm heavy or i'm. what will happen as a follow up? i mean, they might say you're really fat . you've say you're really fat. you've got high blood pressure. this, that and the other. got high blood pressure. this, that and the other . bye bye. that and the other. bye bye. >> type 2 diabetes. go and see your gp and possibly three years time when they have appointments for you. is this going to work? that's what we want to know. and you can get involved really simply send your comments by

visiting gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, let's get those news headunes first, let's get those news headlines with sam francis . headlines with sam francis. >> very good morning to you . the >> very good morning to you. the headunes >> very good morning to you. the headlines at 932. well, parents in england are being warned today the expansion of government funded support for child care won't be plain sailing. from monday, eligible working parents of those aged nine months and over will get support for 15 hours a week, but the education secretary, bridget phillipson, claims around 85,000 more places will still be needed next september to extend free support up to 30 hours a week. as we heard a row is brewing after reports have emerged that sir keir starmer has removed a portrait of one of his predecessors from downing street. the prime minister is said to have taken down the image of margaret thatcher after he found it unsettling. ministers have suggested today it's been moved somewhere else

within number 10. just to recap on that breaking line, we heard from ellie earlier this morning. a murder investigation is now underway after a 13 year old boy was stabbed in the west midlands. the teenager was found at a property in oldbury yesterday afternoon. he was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene. detectives say it's tragic that a young life has been lost and there have been no arrests, so far. any more details on that? we will of course bring to you. well, tens of thousands of people in england will be able to get a free health check at work as part of a new nhs pilot scheme. workers will provide information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can cause heart attacks and stroke. health experts think the checks will free up appointment times and cut waiting lists in the us. kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some key policies since becoming democratic presidential nominee.

speaking in her first major interview since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn last night her values haven't changed. well, it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over donald trump . point lead over donald trump. and it's been reported that the prince of wales and the duke of sussex both attended the funeral of their uncle earlier this week. according to the sun newspaper, harry flew from the us for the service of lord robert fellowes. one witness told the paper he and william kept their distance and didn't speak to each other . those are speak to each other. those are the latest headlines for now. a full round up from the newsroom at 10:00. >> 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. >> hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom live across the united kingdom on gb news with me dawn neesom and nana akua today. right. >> so let's kick it off the prime minister is coming under fire after reports he's removed a portrait of one of his predecessors, margaret thatcher, from downing street. >> he's said to have found the painting commissioned by gordon brown no less unsettling. >> well, earlier, gb news spoke to minister of state at the department of education , department of education, baroness jacqui smith, who served in gordon brown's cabinet, about the portrait's removal. >> i don't think it's. look, look. keir starmer can't can't win, can he ? because a few win, can he? because a few months ago he was being criticised for talking about margaret thatcher's legacy and the elements of her leadership that he respected. and now he's being criticised for asking for a few pictures to to be, be moved around. i think what keir starmer is probably concentrating on and, you know, just to be clear, there are portraits of margaret thatcher as there are of all previous prime ministers in number 10.

and that, of course, is absolutely right . but what keir absolutely right. but what keir starmer needs to do, i think, is to focus on, on, you know, getting the country back on, on track in the way in which he, he is doing in some of the things that we've been talking about this morning and a lot of other ones , maggie smith talking earlier. >> let's get the views of former conservative government minister edwina currie. edwina, welcome . edwina currie. edwina, welcome. really good to talk to you. good morning edwina. this particular picture , commissioned by gordon picture, commissioned by gordon brown, £100,000 in the thatcher room, surely he could handle that.is room, surely he could handle that. is this not a bit petty from sir keir starmer ? from sir keir starmer? >> it's a it's a lovely, precious row, isn't it? what an idiot he is. i mean , what it idiot he is. i mean, what it tells you about keir starmer is that he's very thin skinned and that he's very thin skinned and that he's very thin skinned and that he's he's quite tetchy. if you watched his, his press conference that he gave in the garden in downing street earlier this week, he took hardly any questions from the press and he sort of dismissed them with a sort of dismissed them with a sort of, you know, rather cross and peevish attitude. this is a

man. it's going to be very easy indeed to irritate . and i think indeed to irritate. and i think that's wonderful. i've got a couple of suggestions. if i may, for who he should replace on that wall. one is the last successful labour prime minister, or at least the last one that got a huge majority. that's tony blair. now that would really irritate a lot of people in this government. would it? the other would be perhaps some of these people, his trade union friends , there's mick union friends, there's mick lynch, there's dave ward from the post office. i mean, if he wants heroes up there or people that influence the way his thinking is going or they're going to decide what happens to his government, the trade union leaders would be perfect. >> edwina, when is he going to realise that he's won the election? he is now not leading the opposition. he is actually prime minister of the whole country. no matter how we voted , country. no matter how we voted, he is our leader. number 10 downing street is not a labour head office. it is actually 10

downing street. it represents all of us. what gives him the actual right to do that? >> well, i suspect the problem is that jacqui smith is wrong and that jacqui is saying, oh, he's concentrating on, you know, doing all the necessary things for government. i don't think he is. i think you're quite right that he's actually still whingeing on about what the previous lot did, whether they did it or whether they didn't do it is now irrelevant because he's in charge . it is now irrelevant because he's in charge. he's got a huge majority and he is responsible. that's exactly what's going to be held up to him. but also i suspect he hasn't a clue what to do. he's not he's he actually hasn't a clue. he is. oh i hate to say this about our leaders because i want our country to do well, but i'm beginning to think he's just plain useless, you know? >> well, you know, looking at it, i mean, look, he would argue that he won a massive majority, so people did vote for him. although it was only 20% of the voting public. but he would

argue that he's in downing street now. he's in charge. and actually him removing the picture is one of the examples of him being in charge. picture is one of the examples of him being in charge . that's of him being in charge. that's probably what he would say, even though i don't particularly think that's much of a thing. but he would argue against that . but he would argue against that. >> well, i was actually a very junior member of margaret thatcher's government, and what margaret would say was your majority is a means to an end. it is not an end in itself. your objectives really should be the welfare of all the people in the country, starting with the pensioners who you have just taken a great deal of money from and ending with the trade unions, or at least putting the trade unions in their place, and they are not there to decide who is going to get what. they are there to just look after their workforce in whichever unions they may happen to be, whichever industries what's happening is the other way round . at the the other way round. at the moment, the unions are dictating policy and they have demanded and got a lot more money. some of them , the rmt are still on

of them, the rmt are still on strike and that pattern is going to continue. and that means that the rest of us are going to have to be paying a lot for the foolishness of getting a labour government. >> can i just briefly ask you, do you think this is a distraction tactic? i mean, he's come out with the smoking thing , come out with the smoking thing, which no one was talking about. it was a problem that nobody was talking, mentioning. and now he's coming out. he's taken the picture down, which he must have known would get some headlines, but to detract from his winter fuel allowance, which most of us think is disgraceful, that that on schools and all the other stuff that's coming our way, he can't distract from what he's done to millions of pensioners in this country. >> as we head towards the winter, as it was actually announced both the same week that these pay rises were given to his blackmailing friends in the unions, blackmailing us with all these strikes . and at the all these strikes. and at the same time, of course, as the cost of heating our homes during this winter has just gone up, likely to go up again in october, he can't distract us from the awful way that he's already governing this nation.

after what, two months? and we've got years of it yet , edwina. >> i mean, obviously they are. they're still in the honeymoon period. they've only just gone in there. we await to see how it all settles down. the dust is yet to settle. i just wanted to ask you, as a strong female political voice, i mean, margaret thatcher was the first female leader of a political party, the first female prime minister in the uk. how are labour doing on that front? we haven't even heard from angela rayner for nearly a month now . rayner for nearly a month now. >> oh, isn't it lovely? well yes. i mean, let'sjust remind yes. i mean, let's just remind ourselves that labour have proved totally incapable over and over again of electing a woman into the highest office of the country , or indeed electing the country, or indeed electing a person of colour. they talk about all this. you know, one of the key things about the labour party is that they're very good indeed at virtue signalling. you know, they wear their little fibbons know, they wear their little ribbons on their lapels and that kind of thing. actually getting anything done is a different matter. we in the tory party and i'm president of high peak, you see, i'm on holiday at the

moment in glorious anglesey. see, i'm on holiday at the moment in glorious anglesey . but moment in glorious anglesey. but we don't do that kind of virtue signalling. we don't have all women shortlists. we don't do that. we think that actually we should appoint people as far as possible on merit. didn't work with liz truss . but heck, you with liz truss. but heck, you know, you've got to learn as you go along . and as a result, we've go along. and as a result, we've had three women prime ministers we might indeed have a fourth, depending on the leadership contest that's underway at the moment. >> angela rayner to be fair , is >> angela rayner to be fair, is a strong woman and a strong voice. do you think she's just waiting in the wings, biding her time? >> i suspect she's been told by the press office to shut up because she's bad news. have you seen what's been happening to their popularity ratings? oh, yeah. keir starmer is already well below where he should be. let me let me say this. you know, ihave let me let me say this. you know, i have goodwill towards any government elected in this country after an election that's how our system works. i want them to succeed for the welfare of all of us, and particularly

for the most vulnerable in society , including pensioners, society, including pensioners, which i've now been one for a very long time, and people who are in need. you can't do that if you're forever looking after your pals in the trade unions. i think that's why angela's been told shut up and go away for the holiday. >> well, it does feel like they do appear to be trapped in a sort of back wind of trade unionism and everything else that's happened in the 70s, and they haven't come up to modern day, but we shall see. edwina currie, thank you very much. really good to talk to you. that is edwina currie. just coming up to 44 minutes after 9:00. good morning. >> good morning. yes right. okay. coming up next, prince harry and william have reunited, but reportedly it wasn't the loving embrace many of us had hoped for. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. we'll see you very

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to 47 minutes after 9:00. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> right. okay. a royal story for you. the prince of wales and duke of sussex have both attended the funeral of their uncle. but it wasn't the harmonious reunion many had had hoped for. >> but did we hope for a harmonious reunion? i don't know whether i did as well. i mean, it's been reported to have been a frosty between the two of them. it can't help that, can you? after the after you wrote that terrible memoir? apparently they didn't talk. well, joining us now is royal correspondent michael cole . michael, nice to michael cole. michael, nice to see you. good morning. >> now good morning. nana >> now good morning. nana >> good morning. >> good morning. >> dawn, this is a great story. you know, is he superman, is he, super prince with one bound. he's from teeming los angeles to the sleepy north norfolk village of snettisham for the funeral of his uncle, robert fellowes, the late husband of princess diana's older sister , jane, how did he older sister, jane, how did he do it? how did he get here? how

did he arrive? completely unseen. was it on a scheduled flight? i don't think so . was it flight? i don't think so. was it a private jet into nearby raf marham? well, we must be told, because, you know , they're because, you know, they're great, great defenders of climate change and great opponents of climate change and protecting the planet. but what is interesting is for the first time in nearly a year, the two princes were in the same room together in the church, apparently sitting discreetly apart at the back of the church. there was no interaction to say. it was minimal. well, it wasn't minimal. it was invisible, frosty , absolutely no warmth at frosty, absolutely no warmth at all. and, you couldn't call it by any stretch of the imagination, a reunion , because imagination, a reunion, because i could imagine that william just feels absolutely betrayed by his brother. >> it'sjust by his brother. >> it's just terrible. but, yeah, as you say, gas guzzling. probably a gas guzzling bombardier jet. probably a gas guzzling bombardierjet. private probably a gas guzzling bombardier jet. private jet leaking 60 times more, more,

more fuel than any other type of transport. >> and michael, the paperback version of spare is due out very soon, as we're aware, and i understand it hasn't been updated . normally paperbacks updated. normally paperbacks have that extra chapter. what's happenedin have that extra chapter. what's happened in between now? harry hasn't done that, which has led some people to speculate that maybe he does want to thaw those relationships a bit with his dad and his brother. >> absolutely. i think this is another thorn in the side of the royal family. the fact that the paperback is coming out, but as you say, it's without new chapters. it hasn't been updated. so maybe that's some sort of peace offering or perhaps he's feeling a little bit, i don't know, embarrassed by it. >> and it seems to suggest , >> and it seems to suggest, because we must we mustn't forget it was the biggest selling autobiography ever , selling autobiography ever, notwithstanding the fact that it wasn't written by him. >> it was written by piers pottinger ghost—writer, called j.r. moehringer. but it's hugely successful . and of course,

successful. and of course, that's one of the bones of contention that lies between them. it caused an awful lot of trouble. it was very unkind to . trouble. it was very unkind to. well, the present king, and of course, the princess of wales and his brother. all those tales from inside the household which should normally have been kept well within there. and that is, of course , the, the, the nub of of course, the, the, the nub of the angst that prince william quite clearly has with his brother. it will be a very long time, the moment there were the same building, but they were a country mile apart. and for that to be, to be bridged in any way whatsoever, there's going to have to be a lot of fence mending, enough fencing, in fact, to go around the whole 20 000 acres of the sandringham estate . it's going to take estate. it's going to take a long time. and quite frankly, i can't see it happening. maybe never. >> neven >> well , i was neven >> well, i was reading that prince william is unlikely to be

inviting harry to his coronation when he is coronated king, and also that meghan markle, you know, she's, she's upset that, things aren't sort of going her way and her the way her american riviera orchard has been received. she's been quite upset by that . by that. >> yeah. and netflix are not going to renew their £100 million, $100 million contract. it's all very, very sad. and you know what i. i feel, what i feel nana, is the fact that this couple could have made such a fantastic contribution to the commonwealth. they were doing extremely well, they were well received by this whole whole people of this country. they could have had the backup of buckingham palace. they could have been doing things their own way. because when you're a member of the royal family, you just simply are . when you're a just simply are. when you're a semi—detached member of the royal family, you have to be you have to be doing things all the time, and of course, i think the

fact that the prince came back yesterday, he must have felt some pangs. it was on wednesday, of course, the funeral. he must have had some pangs of the old life he lived, because he knows the sandringham estate very well, had lots of friends up there, loved the shooting, loved everything about this country. and the fact is that he lives 5000 miles away. and i'm sure that sometimes gives him a twinge of nostalgia. >> michael , just finally, harry >> michael, just finally, harry is due to go on a trip to new york next month at the same time as william is hosting a summit in the same city, do you think there might be a twinge of hope that they at least talk to one another? there >> absolutely. and this is extraordinary, isn't it, he's going there to promote various . going there to promote various. charities, including the diana trust and the halo trust and african parks. but the fact that the two brothers can be in the same city, of course, at that time, it's the it's the general assembly week for the united

nations. assembly week for the united nafions.the assembly week for the united nations. the biggest talking shopin nations. the biggest talking shop in the world. so perhaps the new yorkers who have other things on their mind won't nofice things on their mind won't notice that much . but, you know notice that much. but, you know what a force they were when they were together. and i can't ever look at that. look at that picture. look at diana there. those boys , they were so those boys, they were so precious to her. she could not believe how this situation has resolved. >> i mean, can i just. michael, >> i mean, can ijust. michael, you just mentioned the africa parks charity is prince harry still attached to that? after all, the sort of scandal that surrounded it? >> well, i think he's staying loyal to it. it was said that by his own office that when he was there, those were one of the good causes that they promote. listen, they do good things. we have to applaud that . nothing have to applaud that. nothing wrong with that at all. i would just wish that they could have doneit just wish that they could have done it within the royal family. they would have benefited. he would have been, i think, a happier man. and as it is now, you know , the king never sees you know, the king never sees his grandchildren. >> yeah . it's awful. in fact,

>> yeah. it's awful. in fact, meghan markle hasn't taken her grandchildren to meet the children, to meet her dad ehhen children, to meet her dad either. in fact, she hasn't visited her dad, who is still very, very sick. i don't get it, but michael cole, lovely to talk to you. thank you so much. that is the brilliant michael cole. >> i do hope that, i mean, considering the uncle was our, diana's side of the family, it would have been nice for the family to witness the boys at least talking to one another. >> well, yeah. true, but still to come . how do you like the to come. how do you like the sound of a three day weekend ? sound of a three day weekend? well, if angela rayner gets her way, that's how it's going to be. but are they thinking straight? will that work? this is britain's newsroom. next up, alex burkill has your weather forecast . forecast. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news >> this morning here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office . lots of fine and at office. lots of fine and at times sunny weather around today and it is going to feel relatively warm but worth beanng relatively warm but worth bearing in mind. there are a few

showers, particularly across the far north of scotland. some blustery winds here as well, and some of these could continue through the day. otherwise once any early mist and fog patches clear away, it's looking pretty fine with some bright or sunny spells for most of us, in which it should feel pretty warm. temperatures ranging from highs in the mid to high teens towards the north, low to mid 20s towards the south. as we go through into this evening there may still be 1 or 2 showers affecting parts of orkney and shetland perhaps, but otherwise across much of scotland it is going to be a fine end to the day. lots of late sunshine, particularly towards the west. perhaps a bit more cloud for eastern parts, a mixture of some late sunny spells and a bit of cloud for parts of northern ireland and northern england, and a similar story across much of the rest of england and wales as well. but do note that across parts of the southeast, we are going to see the winds picking up a little bit later on through the night. then it is going to be a dry picture for many of us. some clear skies, but in the far south, perhaps a few showery

bursts starting to push their way in as we head towards dawn tomorrow morning. otherwise, and away from the far south with those brisk winds and a bit of cloud, it is going to be a bit of a fresh night, some places dipping into single figures. the showers across the far south will become a little bit more widespread across the southern counties as we go through tomorrow, and there's the risk of some thunder mixed in with these. but elsewhere across central, northern parts staying fine, plenty of sunshine and again feeling warm in the sunshine with temperatures ranging from the high teens to low to mid 20s. looking ahead to sunday and there will again be some thundery showers around, most likely across eastern parts, but they could spread into more central areas for a time further west. it is looking like it will stay mostly dry, but there is some rain in the far west which could arrive later. temperatures likely to be a bit higher than tomorrow, but by that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb. >> news

>> well . >> well. >> well. >> good morning. it's10:00. it's friday the 30th of august. we're live across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with dawn neesom and me. nana akua. >> now more flexible working. all staff will be granted the right to demand a four day working week. in a move championed by labour deputy prime minister angela rayner. >> reunited in grief knot prince harry makes a secret trip to the uk. not so secret. we all know about it to attend his uncle's funeral alongside his brother prince william. it was a reunion described as frosty indeed, and a picture of pettiness. >> sir keir starmer removed a portrait of margaret thatcher from downing street as he found it unsettling. >> nuts, mad , ridiculous. just >> nuts, mad, ridiculous. just some of the words used to describe sir keir starmer's outdoor smoking ban as backlash continues this morning and then record jobless migrants, there are 1.6 million migrants living

in britain that are unemployed or not actively looking for work. in the meantime, the german chancellor olaf scholz, has announced refugees who arrive in germany will be denied benefits if they do so for from another country in the european union. i like that, well, as ever, we love to hear your thoughts, get your comments, send us them gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, let's get the latest news with sam francis . sam francis. >> nana, thank you very much and good morning to you. it's just after 10:00. well, the top story this hour. ministers have admitted that government funded childcare support for babies aged nine months or over does come with significant challenges. they say eligible

parents in england will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare a week from next monday, a plan inherited from the conservatives. but the department for education claims around 85,000 more places will still be needed to be able to extend that free support to 30 hours a week from next september. well baroness jacqui smith told us this morning. it will be an enormously difficult job to make it work. >> we've been really knuckling down since we got into government, boosting up the recruitment campaign for, for example, do something big, which encourages people to come into the childcare workforce, making sure that we've got apprenticeships in place for people developing the new t level in early years education thatis level in early years education that is actually very popular and successful and enabling more people to be trained and it's why we'll be working between now and next year with early years providers, with local authorities to make sure that those places, as far as we can do are there for parents.

>> sir keir starmer is coming under fire this morning after reports he's removed a portrait of one of his predecessors from downing street. senior conservatives are accusing the prime minister of being petty for taking down this image of margaret thatcher. he's said to have found the painting, commissioned by gordon brown, unsettling . a 13 year old boy unsettling. a 13 year old boy has died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham . a outskirts of birmingham. a murder investigation has now been launched after the teenager was found at a property in oldbury yesterday afternoon. he was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene from his injuries. the west midlands force say that at this stage there haven't been any arrests . there haven't been any arrests. tens of thousands of people in england are set to be able to get a free heart health check at work. it's part of a new nhs pilot scheme. workers will provide information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can of course cause heart attacks or stroke.

health experts say that the checks will free up appointment times and hope it could cut waiting lists. the digital programme is also being developed through the nhs app . developed through the nhs app. just half of people receiving the new state pension got the full amount last year. new analysis shows. around 150,000 people were on less than £100 a week. the full state pension should be £221 a week, experts say. one of the main reasons people are missing out is because they have gaps in their national insurance record . national insurance record. turning to a piece of international news for you from israel , the military there has israel, the military there has agreed to a series of humanitarian pauses in gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio . that's children against polio. that's according to the world health organisation . it's understood organisation. it's understood the campaign will aim to vaccinate around 640,000 children across the region and will begin on sunday. meanwhile, in the us, kamala harris has

defended changing her mind on some policies since becoming the democratic presidential nominee . democratic presidential nominee. speaking in her first major interview with the media since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn her values haven't changed. it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over donald trump . point lead over donald trump. >> we have set goals for the united states of america and by extension, the globe around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. as an example, that value has not changed my value around what we need to do to secure our border. that value has not changed. i spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational criminal organisations. violations of american laws regarding the passage, illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across our border. my values have not changed. >> well, meanwhile, abba are demanding that donald trump's presidential campaign remove

videos featuring some of the band's songs. the group has claimed hits including the winner takes it all and dancing queen were used at an event without their permission. but the republican's campaign team have insisted that they do have a license to use those songs , a license to use those songs, andifs a license to use those songs, and it's been reported that the prince of wales and the duke of sussex, both attended the funeral of their uncle earlier this week in norfolk, according to the sun newspaper. prince harry flew from the united states for that service for lord robert fellowes. one witness also told the newspaper that prince harry and prince william kept their distance, but didn't speak to each other at that service . one last story for you. service. one last story for you. the majority of workers on zero hour contracts reportedly want regular hours. that's according to a new poll . the tuc found 84% to a new poll. the tuc found 84% want consistency , compared to want consistency, compared to just 14% who don't, with many saying they're financially struggling because of too few

shifts. the survey also suggests two thirds of those employed on zero hours contracts are looking for extra work either way. i mean, we're and just a recap of that breaking news that we brought you earlier this morning that a 13 year old boy has died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham, west midlands force, saying at this stage no arrests have been made. any more details we will keep across that for you. well, those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm sam francis back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> thank you sam. hello and welcome this is britain's newsroom live across the united

kingdom on gb news with dawn neesom and nana akua. now loads of you have been getting in touch. so many keep them coming in though it's very simple . in though it's very simple. gbnews.com/yoursay lots of you are quite annoyed about keir starmer removing margaret thatcher's portrait from number 10 downing street. stephen, good morning . stephen says what morning. stephen says what starmer finds unsettling. those were the words that keir starmer evidently used about the thatcher portrait is that she had ambition, fortitude, courage and belief. ooh, harsh. well, listen, andy says dodi nana. >> we all know starmer has a woman problem. a strong woman problem. thatcher was both. well, i mean, we do recall that he couldn't define a woman. and he couldn't define a woman. and he kept talking about a woman having a penis or pretty much having a penis or pretty much having a penis or pretty much having a big woman. so he's obviously frederick said edwina hit the nail on the head. two turkey is thin skinned in there and the loony left will tear him apart. so nice on edwina. now go boil an egg. yeah, well, i mean that one. edwina. she'll find that one. edwina. she'll find

that funny , though. edwina has that funny, though. edwina has got a good sense of humour. >> a great sense of humour about that one. and meanwhile, grumpy grandad. good morning, grumpy grandad. good morning, grumpy grandad. i'm talking to you again. but be careful. says starmer is thin skinned. you can tell he would be easy to wind up. he would bite, hook, line and sinker. i would have a field day with him, given half the chance. well eileen is talking about health checks. >> she says giving people health checks at work is not so much a nanny state as a communist china. next, they'll be getting to us do tai chi in car parks. but then what do you expect from a bunch of marxists ? she calls a bunch of marxists? she calls them? but yeah, i mean, i think we can say that that's what she thinks. you're welcome to your opinion, eileen. they would argue they're not. i think they're more socialist or communist. >> but that's what this show is about. this show is about everybody having their opinion and please do keep them coming gbnews.com forward slash. and we'll read as many out as we possibly can right. even some of the slightly rude ones we will as long as don't don't swear because obviously we can't, you know, we censor them for you. >> but listen, workers could be given the right to work a four day week under new government plans to increase flexible

working. >> deputy prime minister angela raynen >> deputy prime minister angela rayner, who she at the moment is challenging this as part of a new law in consultation with trade union and businesses. >> now this new law will mean that employees still have to work full hours to receive full pay, work full hours to receive full pay, but could compress their contracted hours in a shorter working week. >> how is this going to work? then we're joined by director at the four day week campaign, joe ryle. joe thank you very much for joining us this morning. forjoining us this morning. okay. four day week campaign says pretty much what it says on the tin, but what do you make of labour's plans? >> so we you know, we broadly welcome this as a move which we think, you know, does recognise that the future of work is going to be a four day working week for all. however, you know, as you were saying in the introduction, you know, these proposals would only allow workers to compress their working hours. and now when we've been working with hundreds of companies all over the uk who have successfully moved to a four day week, they've been reducing their working hours. and they've found by reducing working hours , work life balance working hours, work life balance and the wellbeing of workers has improved. and they've been able

to maintain productivity, productivity. so we think this is an important move, an important first step. you know, sometimes moving to compressed hours can be the first step on the road to a kind of true four day week where we reduce our working hours. but broadly, you know, we welcome this. i think this is a positive move. >> joe, currently, as far as i understand, employees have the legal right to request flexible working, but there's no obugafion working, but there's no obligation for companies to agree. now with the with what labour are planning. that balance of power will be shifted with companies instead being legally obliged to offer flexible working . and does that flexible working. and does that actually sound like it's going to work, though , across the vast to work, though, across the vast array of businesses that it's going to be aimed at? >> i mean, you know, this isn't something that's going to come in overnight. you know, not everyone's going to get a four day week immediately overnight. but you know, broadly that as it currently works, that flexible working legislation, the power is still too much in the hands of employers. and i think i think labour are absolutely right to give more power to employees. you know, we need to recognise that we've been working this kind of 9 to 5, five day working week for a

hundred years now. and, you know, it's a model of work which is very outdated and we would argue, not fit for purpose in the modern era. and so we're really pleased that labour have recognised that by saying , yes, recognised that by saying, yes, you know, in the short first step, people will be able to compress their hours into four days. but let's be honest, you know, where this is headed is to a true four day working week for all. and that's working 32 hours all. and that's working 32 hours a week. and you know, and the benefits speak for themselves. there's hundreds and hundreds of companies that have done this successfully. their workers are better rested. they get a better work life balance. and then they also pass that back onto their employer . you know, they're able employer. you know, they're able to work better, work more productively. >> can i just stop you there? >> can i just stop you there? >> sorry, sorry. you said that it's not fit for purpose in this sort of modern day era. i think. i think a lot of people may disagree with that in particular employees. it sounds to me like angela rayner , who i don't know angela rayner, who i don't know whether she's run a business or not, but it doesn't sound like it from that. it sounds to me that this is great because she came up with this in conjunction with the unions. so this is great if you work, if you had been working 9 to 5 and you've got a desk job and all, but what about doctors? the doctor suddenly going ten hours into the operation? oh it's flexible

working time for me to stop and private companies as well. that won't fly for them either. so i don't understand why this has been almost pushed on the employers who have a lot to deal with already. we need growth. how is that going to help ? how is that going to help? >> well, we're not going to get growth if workers are burnt out, stressed, overworked, you know, working ridiculous hours. you know, we worked on the longest full time hours in the uk compared to the rest of europe. now, this isn't producing good results for the economy. it's not producing good results for workers. we know that because if you look at the facts, you know, you look at the facts, you know, you can't just say that the longest hours and you still have the lowest level of activity. >> no, no, i've just got to stop you there because you're saying stuff that i don't know where you're where you're getting your information. you're saying that basically it's not good for the economy. the economy is not doing well because of the working hours, because i don't know where you've got that from. because we have we have the least. well, where have you got that from? they're not productive. look at the civil service. >> i can tell you, if you let me tell you. >> well, no, no, i was, but you were just saying stuff, and i'm just asking you, where have you got that from? >> so. so the so the you can

read it in the financial times, any kind of newspaper. the uk has one of the least productive economies in europe. and we also work some of the longest full time hours. so that suggests that all these long working hours we're putting in aren't really doing anything good for anyone. it's not good for the economy, it's not good for workers. and i think, you know, if we think about automation, artificial intelligence, all these new technologies coming in, making the workplace more productive and for workers to benefit from that, they need to benefit from that, they need to be getting a shorter working week or a four day working week. and we're really pleased that this government recognises that thatis this government recognises that that is the that is the future direction of travel. that is where we're heading. >> do you i mean, what about the self—employed in all of this? i mean, you know, there's an awful lot of people now in this country who are self—employed, running their own small businesses. i mean, they're not going to get this option. it does sound like many of those people are self—employed, by the way, are sort of like, you know what? we would trade, you know , what? we would trade, you know, call the old working class trades. so this is also i think there's a class issue going on here as well. if you've got a lovely desk job where you can sort of clock off at 5:00 and take your friday off, but many, many people will not be able to do this. it doesn't sound that fair . fair. >> when we ran the biggest four

day week pilot to take place in the world so far in 2022, there were 61 companies. there were companies from all sorts of different sectors of the economy. we had manufacturing, retail, hospitality, finding those efficiencies, finding new and different ways of working. you know, you've got to remember there's a lot of presenteeism in there's a lot of presenteeism in the british economy. and you know what labour have said this morning is that they recognise that flexible working can really be a boost to productivity, you know, and we've found that time and time again, it's not just in the uk, it's hundreds and hundreds of companies all over the world that have done this. governments in australia, new zealand, spain, you know, launching their own trials . this launching their own trials. this is something which has shown through research to, to to, boost productivity. so you know what's not to like about that. it's a win win for both workers and employers . and employers. >> but in research it doesn't show that for the private sector, for the public sector, it probably shows that for the private sector it doesn't show that. and also this has been trialled many, many times before in the private. no, no hold on. no no no let me finish. now. this has been trialled many times before and it's failed. and in a lot of these things,

the first few months of this so—called four day working week, the people worked really hard and then towards the end of it, it starts to show that people aren't. it's not actually as effective , it isn't as effective, it isn't as effective, it isn't as effective, is it? and it's not realistic for most, most trades. >> no, that's not true. we did a report two years after that pilot and found that actually productivity had been maintained, had been improved in many cases. so this this can be a long term option. of course there's a conversation around how is it going to work in different industries. we're not saying a four day week is going to come in overnight for everyone, but there's lots and lots of problems with the british. british workplace and labour are coming in trying to fix some of those problems. you know, for example, we have millions of workers on zero hours contracts now. how do they get a four day week or any benefit? they don't at the moment. and so we need to we need to, you know, scrap that. >> you can't speak for everybody on zero hours contracts. some people rely on zero hours contracts. you know in our industry this is a lot of how it works. why should the employer, if you want growth, forcing an employer to get rid of things like zero hour contracts is not going to encourage growth. and actually it suits quite a few

people. >> you can have contracts that are flexible and allows workers to work, you know, in different, in different patterns, in different areas. but but they absolutely, you know, absolutely every worker should have worker's rights. you know, if you ask any zero hours contract worker, could they stay working on the same pattern but have the worker's rights that everyone else has and they're going to say yes. but my point is that there's a long journey to a four day working week. you know, it's been 100 years since we moved from a six day week to a five day week. now we recognise we're not going to have a four day week overnight for everyone. there's going to be a transition to get there, which we, you know, we think will probably take something like a decade as the kind of economy starts to shift. but i believe we're at the beginning of that shift already, and numerous hundreds and hundreds of companies have done successfully the done it successfully in the private we have private sector. we have the first council, south first local council, south cambridgeshire district council. yeah, again. >> and look how good they are . >> and look how good they are. >> and look how good they are. >> services have been maintained by local councils, so you're citing local councils who are lots of them are bankrupt and some of them are the most inefficient, have some of the most inefficient working practices you could ever come across. >> that's literally the worst example. >> the council has moved to a four day week, are hitting all

the their targets and had a much improved way of working since moving to a four day week. so i would urge you to have a look at that and think about this as a serious proposal. now, you know, the four day week is no longer a pipe the four day week is no longer a pipe dream. this is something which is realistic and on the cards in the near future. brilliant. >> that's jaw—jaw. thank you very much. there, it's a realistic, especially if you work for a union where you actually get a pay rise. >> well, she, she wrote that with the union, so that's. i mean, it's just it's an old school thing. >> but if you've got a view on that and i'm sure you have, some of you are getting in touch already. gbnews.com/yoursay now we have some breaking news this morning. west midlands police have launched a murder investigation after a 13 year old boy has died after being stabbed in oldbury yesterday. >> yesterday another 13 year old was treated by paramedics. however, despite their best efforts, the boy sadly passed away. gb news west midlands reporter jack carson joins us now. jack carson what? what more can you tell us about this ? can you tell us about this? >> well, this murder investigation is very active here at the property in oldbury .

here at the property in oldbury. in sandwell. we've seen forensic teams from west midlands police enter and leave the property multiple times. other officers we believe to be involved in some kind of search also entering the property. you can probably see behind me the officers that are guarding it so far now, westminster police confirmed that they were called here to this property on lovett avenue at 4 pm. yesterday. as you mentioned, the 13 year old in question was treated by paramedics. however, he did sadly pass away . detective sadly pass away. detective superintendent shaun edwards from the west midlands police homicide team, confirmed that it was absolutely tragic in a statement to say that a young life had been lost. they say they've got special officers supporting the family and detectives working, he says, flat out to find out whoever is responsible to bring them into custody as soon as possible . custody as soon as possible. >> jack carson there was some breaking news about yet another tragedy involving knife crime in this country , and teenagers as this country, and teenagers as well 11 year old children. it's

just awful, isn't it? okay. thank you very much, jack. now, the nhs will go into offices, pubs and building sites to measure you and weigh you. how do you feel about that? workplace health checks. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go too far. nana and i are off to get weighed

>> good morning. 23 minutes after 10:00. i'm nana akua. this is britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and dawn neesom joining us. political commentator ammon bogle. and also former labour mp bill rammell. right. shall we start with that first story? i want to talk to you. i'm going to start with you on record numbers of migrants who are jobless. so which migrants are they? are they the people likely to be on they the people likely to be on the bibby stockholm, or are these legal migrants? >> well, i think look, the country has two pronged migration problem, legal and

illegal. and of course, a lot of this is to do with, look, we were supposed to be attracting the brightest and the best from around the world. that's partly why we got brexit done. but what's needed right now, i would argue, is an emergency brake on all migration. let's sort out the issues that we have presently with present number of immigrants, with certainly this new news of 1.6 million legal migrants who are out of work and having to be supported by the taxpayer . and of course, one of taxpayer. and of course, one of the things which i am quite surprised about is the previous high in 2012, 12 years ago, of well, 1.628 million. so it's only gone . up by around 50,000. only gone. up by around 50,000. i refuse to believe that there is no way that there's only 50,000 more out of work legal migrants than there were 12 years ago. >> well, i don't know . usually >> well, i don't know. usually migrants tend to work quite hard bill rammell, but it seems that some of them are coming here and just were just chilling out on

the benefits. but it was done dunng the benefits. but it was done during the tories era, so i'm not you know, i'm not blaming party. >> my starting point is net migration at 685,000 is far too high and is unsustainable. and it's the job of this government to reduce the numbers. part of this issue with people not working is their unprocessed asylum claims. because when your claim hasn't been processed, you're not able to work. that's why we need to dramatically. >> but these are people who are legally here. so these are processed. these are people on indefinite leave to remain. >> that's a factor. but i'll tell you what an irony of this as well is. before brexit, the vast majority of migrants who came here were hard working people who kept our businesses going. there's been a change since brexit. >> were they more like the ones from the european union? is that what you're saying? but well, i don't know. we've facilitated this though. so wherever they're coming from, we've facilitated this. we've enabled people to come here and then languish on benefits. >> yeah. and i think that's a huge challenge. >> what will the labour party do about that? >> well, we're going to cut the numbers, you know, 685,000. so you know we need to be tackling

the gangs. we need to be speeding up processing so that if you've got a right to stay here, you can. if not, you go back. here, you can. if not, you go back . but we also need to, as back. but we also need to, as yvette cooper has commissioned , yvette cooper has commissioned, reviewing the list of eligible occupations that can recruit foreign workers . foreign workers. >> what about giving them three months here? if they come here legally to find work? and if they haven't, they should go back. >> because if they're refugees, no, no, no, these are legal people who've come here legally as migrants and they're just sitting. >> you can't let i'm saying give them three months worth of benefits, but you're not entitled to any more. you haven't put anything in. >> but then i don't understand their migrant status, because if you come here, you must come on a work visa. if you're not an asylum seeker or a lot of these people are actually people on an indefinite leave to remain so they have been here. >> i mean , look, let's be >> i mean, look, let's be honest, this all started back in the day under new labour, which was something called the holidaymaking working permit. so you could come to the uk on a two year visa pretending to be on holiday. but it was really to work. a lot of people continued to stay on from that over the

years. a lot of people have come in through visa free access into the country. a lot of people from brazil for example, are allowed to come into the uk with pretty much visa on arrival and a lot of these are overstayers, so it's very easy nowadays to regularise, regularise your visa status into the uk. i mean, i've seen so many people anecdotally who've been here illegally, but as long as they've been here for 20 years, they've got a human rights, claim to stay in the uk and become an indefinite leave to remain holder and look, look at, look at. just two days ago, we had this situation with this gang being busted by the home office. kudos to the home office one first in a long time, of nigerians being settled into the uk on eu settlement schemes with false documents , thousands of false documents, thousands of people. so there's a lot of avenues of people coming in and then, well , not working. then, well, not working. >> bill, let's just get one quick story in still on the same

subject , this is a telegraph subject, this is a telegraph with olaf scholz in germany. is promising to speed up deportations and make life harder for migrants. this comes after the horrific stabbing we saw the other week at the festival. what i mean, if we did what he's planning to do, which sounds very harsh, literally, we're going to give them bread and water, we'd be called all the racist hell holes under the sun. how come the germans can get away with that? >> well, i mean, i wouldn't be in favour of bread and water. people need to survive, but they get soap as well. yeah, but we want to dramatically increase deportations. and i was on this channel earlier in the week debating with nigel farage and he acknowledged that under the last labour government, we were deporting tens of thousands of people each year , which we don't people each year, which we don't today. and we need to get back today. and we need to get back to that, which is pretty much what you're saying. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> look , immigration in this >> look, immigration in this country has become a ponzi scheme. it's a never ending open door system where we need to keep on importing more and more and more and more people to support the people already here.

and that's what needs to end. that's why the only solution, i think, is having an emergency brake. stop it right now. let's sort out the issues that we have. let's get our own people. let's not forget 9 million economically inactive people in the country already. >> but what are we going to do with the people? i mean, like, because this is olaf scholz is doing this. they're giving them it's not an attractive proposition to now go to germany if that's all you're going to get as a migrant, do we need to be doing some measures that will make this country less attractive for people to come here? >> do you know what the biggest pull factor for the uk is? the fact that it can take years to process your asylum claim. so people come here, they know their claim is not going to be processed and they disappear into the black. >> you think it might be the percentage of which have acceptance, which is the highest in europe, where our percentage, i think is 80 something percent, we pretty much accept, whereas everywhere else it's somewhere like 30%, 40%. >> well, that's only part of it's not 80%. >> but anyway, it's somewhere like that. >> what i'm saying, my point is what is it then exactly? but my point is it's the highest and very high. >> it's high. it's about 60%.

>> it's high. it's about 60%. >> it's high. it's about 60%. >> i will take that figure. >> i will take that figure. >> but those people are people who've got a right legally to remain here. what we've got to do is speed up the processing so that if you haven't got that right, you are removed. >> look, i think look, anyone who's a genuine refugee, first of all, i think they ought to be helped in the source of their troubles . but that's not the big troubles. but that's not the big issue here. the big issue here issue here. the big issue here is people coming in legally on visas , whether it be work visas, whether it be work permits, whether it be student visas and their dependents. i mean, for goodness sake, i mean, we've had , a increase in student we've had, a increase in student visa dependent visas from the 14,000 pre—pandemic to 150,000 student dependent visas that have been issued. and a lot of them are then going on to convert those student visas once their courses are over into work permits , whether it be social permits, whether it be social care. and that's a whole nother, but but do you know what, amon, if you look at the polling evidence, people don't see international students like other migrants. >> they know they bring something like 14 billion to the uk economy with the fees they

pay uk economy with the fees they pay and the money that they put into the local system. you know , into the local system. you know, tackling student visas, which are in our national interest, isn't the solution to this. >> so the acceptance rates are 33% were refused initial decision. so it's about 67%. that's exactly okay. yeah >> well let's be honest i think student visas. yes. they bring in a lot of money. and that's a whole another issue of how we fund our universities. let's be honest, a lot of them are going bust. and a lot of these students are not here to study genuine, courses in, you know, really sort of high profile universities. they're here simply to work and bring in their the evidence doesn't back that up. >> 95, 95% of international students go back to their country of origin at the end. where are you seeing that ? where are you seeing that? >> where did you see that? because that's not the stats that i have. >> those are the figures from universities uk. i'm a former university vice chancellor who recruited a significant. >> i will go and check those figures again, because i think it will be worth finding out how many student visas are going on to be converted into work permits as soon as those two

years are doing jobs that we need done in this country. >> you need highly qualified , >> you need highly qualified, qualified, mobile people who can help with our industries and our economy. >> well, listen, bill rammell, thank you very much . they'll be thank you very much. they'll be back in an hour, but time to get your latest news headlines with sam francis . sam francis. >> very good morning to you. 1032 and the top story from the newsroom this hour. west midlands police have now started a murder investigation after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death near birmingham. no one at this stage has been arrested over the attack and detectives have said that it is absolutely tragic that a young life has been lost. more on that as we get it throughout this morning . get it throughout this morning. the government says it won't impose a four day working week, but does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, though not reducing total hours. the conservatives have

criticised the proposals, claiming businesses are concerned about potential costs . concerned about potential costs. a row is brewing after reports emerged that sir keir starmer has removed a portrait of one of his predecessors from downing street , the prime minister is street, the prime minister is said to have taken down the image of margaret thatcher after he found it unsettling . tens of he found it unsettling. tens of thousands of people in england will be able to get a free health check at work as part of a new nhs pilot scheme . workers a new nhs pilot scheme. workers will provide information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can cause heart attacks and stroke. health experts think the checks will free up appointment times and cut waiting lists. parents in england are being warned the expansion of government funded support for childcare won't be plain sailing from monday. eligible working parents of those aged nine months and over will get support for 15 hours free childcare a week . but the free childcare a week. but the education secretary, bridget phillipson, has claimed around 85,000 more places will be

needed next september to extend free support to 30 hours a week in the us . free support to 30 hours a week in the us. kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some policies since becoming the presidential nominee for the democrats. speaking in her first major interview since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn her values haven't changed. it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over donald trump, and it's been reported the prince of wales and the duke of sussex both attended the duke of sussex both attended the funeral of their uncle in norfolk this week , according to norfolk this week, according to the sun newspaper. harry flew from the united states for the service for lord robert fellowes . service for lord robert fellowes. one witness told the paper he and william kept their distance, though, and didn't speak to each other . those are the latest other. those are the latest headunes other. those are the latest headlines for now, a full round up at 11:00. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning

the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . forward slash alerts. >> thank you very much. sam. now up next, a poll by the tuc union shows that the majority of people on zero hour contracts do not want to be on a zero hour contract, as they don't feel financially secure. find out more about that soon. this is britain's newsroom on gb news we'll you very

soon. >> good morning. it's 1038. soon. >> good morning. it's1038. this is britain's newsroom with nana akua and dawn neesom. indeed. >> now let's see what you've been saying on gb news .com forward slash your say lots of you have been getting in touch. not very complimentary about

keir starmer. it has to be said. or about the chap who was promoting the four day working week. >> i love it. i would like to read this one. this one i slightly moderated for you , jd, slightly moderated for you, jd, because i think i have to. he basically says this bloke wants people to get paid for doing pretty much nothing. there's enough of that going on already in the public sector and the civil service. it's true, isn't it? ouch. >> yeah, a bit harsh, i agree. while drew good morning. drew says wow on the four day working week, i think your tongue might be firmly in your cheek here. drew says. wow. imagine how much more productive we'd be working just one day a week. then if four days makes you productive from five. nothing like being lifted and patronised by a just out of education. i don't read the last part. yeah. what about. >> what about this one from michael? michael says michael k says four day week is a skivers charter. i worked 52 years in the printing industry and often did 24 hour shifts in a few 36 hours, and i was never burnt out. well, that's it, isn't it? it's not realistic and then to

put the power in the hands of the employee. it does not incentivise an employer to give an employee a job. >> yeah. and meanwhile david says, i cannot believe that angela rayner is in a position of deputy prime minister and is suggesting a four day working week. she spent years as a social worker, then worked for a trade union. she hasn't a clue about the economy or growth and that's the point. nana they promised us growth. we're all about growth. we're all about change. >> have you got shorter? i'm thinking on your chair. i've got this chair. i suddenly thought we have a thing in the studio where there's one stinking chair. >> it's called the thinking chair, and it's my turn. >> it's all of them. >> it's all of them. >> it's all of them. >> it's my turn today. >> it's my turn today. >> well, i like this one from lynn. lynn says it's absolute rubbish to say that reducing working hours means better productivity. many companies have trialled this and it does not work. i'm with lynn. it doesn't work actually, seeing as i've got the sinking chair, i'm actually going to work a four day week and i'm off now. >> i've finished my shift. can you imagine? can you imagine? as you imagine? can you imagine? as you say, if you were in look.

and the other thing that how are they going to legislate this. right. it's going to it's going to have to be fluid for various businesses. >> if they're saying that they won't force people to do it. but then i ask myself, what is the point of issuing a statement that you're going to allow employees to ask that? i could ask that anyway . anyone could ask that anyway. anyone could ask that anyway. anyone could ask that. so i don't really get the point. >> is it going to be in the detail? and as always, the detail? and as always, the detail hasn't actually been explained . and this is meant to explained. and this is meant to be coming in potentially in the autumn . autumn. >> well, this is from benny. benny, this is something that bill said bill rammell earlier. benny says bill says we are going to stop the gangs. america has been trying to stop drug smugglers for decades and failed. when you take one gang down, you open the door for another to take their place. it's like the head of a snake, isn't it? medusa's snake cut the head off and more of them appean >> to be fair, labour have managed to arrest 75 people working in car washes . and it working in car washes. and it took them a week. and how many millions? >> well, also , it's a bit silly, >> well, also, it's a bit silly, really, because you might arrest them, but that's not really smashing the gangs in it. that's the people working in the black market smashing your local car.

but let's move on. if you've just joined us, welcome. this is britain's newsroom onto sir keir starmer. he's been warning against watering down a ban on exploitative zero hour contracts, after fresh evidence shows that the extreme financial burden on millions in insecure work. >> right, a survey of almost 2500 zero hour contract workers found that more than 4 in 5 are in favour of switching to regular jobs. we're joined now by head of policy and public affairs at the institute institution of occupational safety and health, ruth wilkinson. ruth, thank you very much for joining wilkinson. ruth, thank you very much forjoining us this much for joining us this morning, tell us a little bit more about this survey. what are you reading into it? >> well, yeah. nice to see you both, dawn and nana. thanks for having us on today. obviously we've seen the stats from the tuc where it said 84% want regular hours. now we have been looking into this type of precarious work through gig work, zero hour contracts and we

do see that that, you know, there is an impact on people's job security through not having these regular hours, through unpredictable income, which can impact the health and the safety and wellbeing of workers, which of course, can in turn impact their productivity and their morale in the workplace. now we're really interested in ensuring the health, the safety and the wellbeing of workers so that they can contribute and help rebuild the economy. so we're really focused on how can we're really focused on how can we support workers a to work, stay in work and to be productive when they're at work. and we can see that there are impacts through having zero hour contracts. on one hand, they do give you that flexibility , give you that flexibility, apologies, but on the other then you do have. but when are you going to be working? how many of these zero hour contracts are you working? what's the total number of hours you're doing? are you getting sufficient rest breaks and we've we did a survey a couple of years ago which showed occupational safety and health protections were impacted as a result of these contracts.

so they weren't getting the training. the induction. so we can just see that that there does need to be a remedy to this. >> can i just ask okay, so a couple of questions. where was the survey done . because the tuc the survey done. because the tuc trade union congress , who are trade union congress, who are the ones who have been helping angela rayner with all her her sort of work initiatives? first of all, where did they poll these people? because if you ask that question in, say, london, you'll probably get a very different answer. if you ask the question in hull. and then what about the employees? employers? sorry. have you done any surveys with the employers to see whether this is actually a realistic thing ? because many, realistic thing? because many, i'm sure, would tell you that if they did it another way, that would be the end of their business. >> yeah, i mean, obviously the tuc survey nana. so i don't have all the answers to how they did undertake that survey. we did undertake that survey. we did undertake one ourselves with gig workers within the uk across a thousand platform workers who work in the gig economy, and 58%

of those said that it does result in unpredictable income and 54% said that they do have lower level of job insecurity. and when we went to our members in our members, 85% of those believed that legislation should have should be improved to make sure that unstable working hours and insecurity in the gig economy and zero hour workers is remedied. so what? what stats we're getting through our surveys is that of all stacking up, say there is something that needs to be done here. how can we prevent . can i just stop you we prevent. can i just stop you there? >> the question that you asked in your survey, though, you've asked them about unpredictable income. well that's obvious. like if somebody says to you, if you work zero hours, is your income predictable? no, i mean , income predictable? no, i mean, even if you ask dawn or me or anyone. so that probably would have been 100%. and then a lower level of job security. well, of course, that's the whole idea of it. but is it a benefit to them? did you ask whether it was a benefit to them? did they would

they rather be working in that way ? way? >> i suppose you're right. looking at those questions, i can see why you're saying that. i think i sort of flip it a little bit. if we look at other statistics across the uk, when you look at workplace injury, new cases of work related ill health that's costing the economy over £20 billion in the uk. so there is there's something going on here where there's impact to people, they're not working or if they're not working or if they're leaving work, how can we support those individuals to work? and i acknowledge that there's a whole mix of risk factors in there causing, 20 billion to the economy. so we're really interested in actually how can we support what's the root causes here, how can we support people to have that more? you know , minimum more? you know, minimum contract. so they've got they know the hours they're going to work. is there upfront agreements with the employer so that they can work and come in? we really want to champion good work, good work. that's safe , work, good work. that's safe, healthy, sustainable. and it supports people to work in in this current changing world that

we're in. >> ruth williamson we're running out of time. thank you very much. >> thank you ruth. now up next today marks. can you believe this nana positive twitter day or x day? actually, i guess it should be. we could all do with a little bit more positivity, couldn't we? i'll out after this. very short break. britain's newsroom on gb news.

soon. good morning. it is 1050. this is britain's newsroom with dawn neesom and nana akua. >> right. so today is the ninth annual positive twitter day or day. >> and the annual celebration falls on the last friday of august and encourages all users to be especially kind to one another on social media. it started in 2012. >> well, joining us now is founder of guido fawkes , paul founder of guido fawkes, paul staines. paul, talk to me about this positivity day. >> well, look, we all know social media is not normally the most civil places. things can

get a bit heated. i mean, i think back, if you remember, back a few years during the is a bit of responsibility. and someames on twitter and is a bit of responsibility. and somea few on twitter and is a bit of responsibility. and brexit era, everyone rallying somea few years itter and is a bit of responsibility. and somea few years during|d is a bit of responsibility. and somea few years during the back a few years during the brexit era, everyone rallying and screaming at each other, and screaming at each other, getting very angry. getting very angry. >> the corbyn era, very angry. >> the corbyn era, very angry. then the pre—election just this then the pre—election just this election going, i think people election going, i think people got a bit worked up and i got a bit worked up and i believe in free speech. i'm a believe in free speech. i'm a big proponent of free speech. big proponent of free speech. >> twitter or unfortunately >> twitter or unfortunately we're having trouble with your we're having trouble with your mic, which we are going to we're mic, which we are going to we're going to fix it up. going to fix it up. >> don't you worry about that. >> don't you worry about that. >> don't you worry about that. >> very. we will sort that out. >> don't you worry about that. >> very. we will sort that out. positivity. this is positivity. positivity. this is positivity. >> this is what's happening. >> this is what's happening. we've been silenced because of we've been silenced because of it. >> i would just like to say that it. >> i would just like to say that i did start very positively this i did start very positively this morning. i posted a picture of morning. i posted a picture of the sun rising and lovely with the sun rising and lovely with sparkles , sparkles, sparkles. i sparkles , sparkles, sparkles. i sparkles, sparkles, sparkles. i like sparkles, sparkles leading sparkles, sparkles, sparkles. i like sparkles, sparkles leading you into the weekend. so i do you into the weekend. so i do try and post at least one thing try and post at least one thing positive on social media every positive on social media every day. day. >> i don't i don't do that at >> i don't i don't do that at all. in fact, sometimes i all. in fact, sometimes i actively , sometimes i scowl on actively , sometimes i scowl on actively, sometimes i scowl on social media when they insult actively, sometimes i scowl on social media when they insult me. i like to send them back a me. i like to send them back a comedy vibe. but yes, so we're comedy vibe. but yes, so we're talking positivity online. paul. talking positivity online. paul. >> yes. >> yes. >> so as i was saying, freedom >> yes. >> yes. >> so as i of speech is important, but so is a bit of responsibility. and

sometimes on twitter and

>> yes. >> so asyears, completely unprompted. >> a lot of mental health charities got involved. a lot of the anti—bullying charities got involved, you know, and it's important to have a bit of mental respect. and some people do take it very seriously. i mean , there's the whole issue of mean, there's the whole issue of particularly, i think girls on, you know, the self—image and all that. it's not helped if people say unkind things about your appearance. >> you know, i like that, actually. i might post a picture of me looking really rank and expect some nice comments. >> i do, i do do that on a daily basis, by the way. it doesn't have to be. >> how could you be so cruel? >> how could you be so cruel? >> i mean, there is an important message here, isn't there as well? i mean, because we are behind a keyboard , we feel like behind a keyboard, we feel like we can say whatever we want to, whoever we want. i mean, if we get the message across that that is not acceptable. >> i mean , i have actually been >> i mean, i have actually been in a room where people have introduced themselves to me very politely, and then five seconds later, they've turned around and said, i've met that. yeah. like oh, come on, come on. you wouldn't say it to my face, but you know, in all in all honesty, actually it's a good idea . actually it's a good idea. >> i think it's nice people being nice to each other on

social media. i'm going to start with a very nice post. >> why not? >> why not? >> it's summer. be positive. think. >> well, how positive are you feeling today ? feeling today? gbnews.com/yoursay, thank you very much paul for positive twitter today. >> paul staines from guido fawkes. >> now up next, find out why thousands of brits are only receiving a fraction of their state pension payments . this is state pension payments. this is britain's newsroom on gb news, the people's channel. but first we have alex, with your weather forecast for you . forecast for you. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> morning. here's your latest gb news weather update coming to you from the met office. lots of fine and at times sunny weather around today and it is going to feel relatively warm but worth beanng feel relatively warm but worth bearing in mind. there are a few showers , particularly across the showers, particularly across the far north of scotland. some blustery winds here as well, and some of these could continue through the day . otherwise, once through the day. otherwise, once any early mist and fog patches clear away, it's looking pretty

fine with some bright or sunny spells for most of us, in which it should feel pretty warm . it should feel pretty warm. temperatures ranging from highs in the mid to high teens towards the north, low to mid 20s towards the south. as we go through into this evening there may still be 1 or 2 showers affecting parts of orkney and shetland perhaps, but otherwise across much of scotland it is going to be a fine end to the day. lots of late sunshine, particularly towards the west, perhaps a bit more cloud for eastern parts, a mixture of some late sunny spells and a bit of cloud for parts of northern ireland and northern england, and a similar story across much of the rest of england and wales. as well. but do note that across parts of the southeast, we are going to see the winds picking up a little bit later on through the night. then it is going to be a dry picture for many of us. some clear skies, but in the far south, perhaps a few showery bursts starting to push their way in as we head towards dawn tomorrow morning. otherwise, and away from the far south, with those brisk winds and a bit of cloud, it is going to be a bit of a fresh night.

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across the united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with dawn neesom and nana akua. >> well, the conservative party. remember them? yes dame priti patel will be launching a major eventin patel will be launching a major event in her campaign to become leader of the party this morning. katherine forster has more . more. >> yes. six people running for the conservative leadership. we'll hear from priti patel. yesterday i was at an event with tom tugendhat. yesterday. i'll bnng tom tugendhat. yesterday. i'll bring you to what expect shortly . bring you to what expect shortly. >> and west midlands police have launched a murder investigation after a 13 year old has been found stabbed to death at a house. jack carson has the latest . latest. >> well, as forensic officers here investigate the property behind me in the last few moments, flowers and tributes laid to that 13 year old boy fatally stabbed , more flexible fatally stabbed, more flexible working . working. >> all staff will be granted the

right to demand a four day week. in a move championed by labour deputy prime minister angela rayner and a picture of pettiness, sir keir starmer has removed a portrait of margaret thatcher from downing street as he found it unsettling. workplace health checks. now the nhs will go into offices, pubs and building sites to measure awayyou. would you welcome that? >> are . >> are. >> are. >> so i'm not i don't i don't want a set of scowls in the newsroom to start weighing myself at the moment. thank you very much. >> i don't care how much i weight, you wouldn't care because you look like that. >> that's why it's more about whether you fit into your clothes or not. >> do you know what i mean? you want to know? do i fit into last year's clothing? i found my bottoms bigger. will the scales tell me where the fat is? no. bottom is bigger. it is bigger. >> it's bigger. but would you remove unsettling portraits of other people? >> not if. well, you know, like ,

>> not if. well, you know, like, exactly. would you? so just imagine if you were there in downing street and you had to deal with the opposition. a picture of the opposition. someone like margaret thatcher. >> but he's not the opposition now. he's the prime minister. well, to him , she's the well, to him, she's the opposition. she's a former prime minister. >> yeah, yeah , i got quite angry >> yeah, yeah, i got quite angry about that. >> but what do you think? it's very easy to get involved. gbnews.com/yoursay but first, let's get the news with saint francis . francis. >> very good morning to you from the newsroom. 1102 and the top story this morning. ministers have admitted that government funded childcare support for babies aged nine months or over does come , they say, with does come, they say, with significant challenges. eligible parents in england will be entitled to 15 hours of free childcare a week from next monday. a plan they inherited from the conservatives. but the department for education claims around 85,000 more places will be needed to be able to extend

free support to 30 hours a week from september next year. baroness jacqui smith told us this morning. it will be an enormously difficult job to make that work . that work. >> we've been really knuckling down since we got into government, boosting up the recruitment campaign for, for example, do something big, which encourages people to come into the childcare workforce, making sure that we've got apprenticeships in place for people developing the new t level in early years education. thatis level in early years education. that is actually very popular and successful, and enabling more people to be trained. and it's why we'll be working between now and next year with early years providers, with local authorities, to make sure that those places as far as we can do are there for parents. >> jacqui smith speaking earlier while tributes have been paid and flowers have been laid after and flowers have been laid after a 13 year old boy has died in what detectives are calling a tragic stabbing on the outskirts of birmingham. a murder investigation is now underway after the teenager was found at

after the teenager was found at a property in oldbury yesterday afternoon. he was treated by paramedics at that house but sadly died at the scene from his injuries. the west midlands force say that there haven't been any arrests so far and just a breaking line coming to us from swansea this morning. we understand that a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder. that's after the death of a child in the town. police were called to an address last night and a 41 year old woman who lived with that child reportedly is currently being questioned in bridgend. detectives at this stage say they're not looking for anyone else. so that news just into us from swansea, that a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a child there in wales. more details on that. i'm sure throughout the morning we will bnng throughout the morning we will bring them to you. well, in other news, the government has said that it won't impose a four day working week. but does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours,

allowing employees to work longer over fewer days but not reducing total hours. the conservatives have criticised those proposals, though, claiming businesses are concerned about potential costs . concerned about potential costs. meanwhile, tens of thousands of people in england in the workplace will be able to get a free heart health check at work. it's part of a new nhs pilot scheme. workers will provide their information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can cause heart attacks and stroke . health attacks and stroke. health experts hope the checks will free up appointments and cut nhs waiting lists. a digital programme is also being developed through the nhs app , developed through the nhs app, and the majority of workers on zero hours contracts say they want regular hours , according to want regular hours, according to a new poll. the tuc found 84% want consistency compared to just 14% who don't, with many saying their financially struggling because of too few shifts . the survey also suggests

shifts. the survey also suggests two thirds of those employed on zero hours agreements are looking for extra work . just looking for extra work. just half of people receiving the new state pension got the full amount last year. new analysis has shown. around 150,000 people were on less than just £100 a week. the full state pension should be £221 a week, experts say. one of the main reasons people miss out is because they have gaps in their national insurance record . sir keir insurance record. sir keir starmer has come under fire this morning after reports he removed a portrait of one of his predecessors from downing street . predecessors from downing street. senior conservatives are accusing the prime minister of being petty for taking down the image of margaret thatcher. he is , though, said to have found is, though, said to have found the painting commissioned by gordon brown , unsettling and gordon brown, unsettling and placed it elsewhere in number 10. israel has agreed to a series of humanitarian pauses in gaza to allow for the vaccination of children against polio. that's according to the w.h.o. it's polio. that's according to the who. it's understood the

w.h.o. it's understood the campaign will aim to vaccinate at least 600,000 children across the strip, and will begin on sunday. and turning to the us, where kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some key policies since becoming the presidential nominee for the democrats. speaking in her first major interview since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn her values haven't changed, and it comes as a new poll suggests she has a four point lead over donald trump. >> we have set goals for the united states of america and by extension, the globe , around extension, the globe, around when we should meet certain standards for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. as an example, that value has not changed my value around what we need to do to secure our border. that value has not changed. i spent two terms as the attorney general of california prosecuting transnational criminal organisations. violations of american laws regarding the passage illegal passage of guns, drugs and human beings across our border. my

values have not changed. >> staying in the us, abba have demanded that donald trump's presidential campaign remove videos featuring some of their songs. the group's claimed hits, including the winner takes it all and dancing queen, were used at an event without their permission. but the republican team have insisted they do have a license. and finally, it's been reported the prince of wales and the duke of sussex, both attended the funeral of their uncle earlier this week , their uncle earlier this week, according to the sun newspaper. harry flew from the us for the service for lord robert fellowes. one witness told the papen he fellowes. one witness told the paper. he and william, though, kept their distance and didn't speak to each other . those are speak to each other. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. plenty more on that. breaking news from swansea. when we get it now, though, it's back to dawn and for nana the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts .

>> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome back. this is britain's newsroom alive across the united kingdom on gb news. with me dawn neesom and the lovely nana akua. >> well, around 1130 at about that time, former home secretary and conservative leadership candidate dame priti patel will be hosting a major event in central london. we'll try and bnng central london. we'll try and bring that to you live. >> we're joined now by gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, what are we expecting priti patel to say this morning ? patel to say this morning? >> yes. good morning. both. well she's saying that she's going to lay out her vision for the party and for the country and her sort of tagline, if you like, is pretty unite to win. we're going to hear a lot about unity from her, as we will from, i suspect, all the candidates , given that all the candidates, given that one of the reasons they did so very badly in the election was

this very public infighting between different conservative factions. so she's got another three words that's emblazoned everywhere experience, strength , everywhere experience, strength, unity. of course, she is highly experienced. she's been an mp since 2010. she was home secretary under boris johnson and the rwanda plan, you know, was in many ways her baby. but also the points based system that she and boris johnson put into place and is what led to the huge increase , largely in the huge increase, largely in legal migration. now she's obviously to the right of the party. she's a great favourite with party members and she's going to say, that they haven't done anything wrong, that it was basically mps who messed it up. and she'll go back to conservative values, and she wants to give them members much more power. so if she gets to

the final two, of course the members make the call. >> catherine, thank you very much. >> very interesting right now. moving on. some breaking news this morning. we we've heard that a west midlands police have launched a murder investigation after a 13 year old boy has died after a 13 year old boy has died after being stabbed in oldbury yesterday. >> a 13 year old was treated by paramedics. however, despite their best efforts, the boy sadly passed away. gb news west midlands reporterjack sadly passed away. gb news west midlands reporter jack carson joins us now. jack, can you give us an update on the situation there ? there? >> well, in the last few moments, we've seen members of the public come and lay floral tributes to that 13 year old boy who was fatally stabbed here at an address yesterday, police confirmed that they were called to the property here on lockwood avenue in oldbury at around 4 pm, where paramedics, despite pm, where paramedics, despite their best efforts, were unable to save the boy this morning. we've seen a team of forensic

officers from from west midlands police enter and leave the property multiple times with with lots of different equipment as they go about starting and beginning their investigation here. west lindsey police confirmed they're trying to find out exactly what happened in what they're calling a tragic incident, and use their lines of enquiry to find out who is involved. detective superintendent shaun edwards from the homicide team at west midlands police, said it is absolutely tragic that a young life has been lost here. they say they've got special officers who will be supporting the family of the boy and detectives. they say, working flat out to find out whoever is responsible and bring them into custody . custody. >> jack, thank you very much. yet another horrific stabbing of a child , what is the world? a child, what is the world? >> i you know, i really cannot understand what is happening with our youth. if you just joined us. welcome. it's 12 minutes after 11:00. now, only around half of the people receive their full state pension

last year. that's according to new figures by royal london. >> calculations from spring 2023 show that around 150,000 people were receiving less than £100 per week. well the full state pension should be £221 a week. >> so joining us now, the chair of women against state pension inequality, angela madden. now angela, it's literally half of the people who are eligible are claiming it. and yet the other half are not. i mean it's 1.7 half are not. i mean it's1.7 million as opposed to 3.4 million as opposed to 3.4 million or so. what's going wrong? why are pensioners not claiming the full amount? >> hey, good morning dawn and nana. good morning, well, it's not that they're not claiming, it's that they haven't earned enough , to achieve the full enough, to achieve the full amount in the new state pension. you have to have 30 years contribution , and you have to contribution, and you have to pay contribution, and you have to pay full contributions. so if you have a workplace pension, let's say your employer could

have decided to contract you out , have decided to contract you out, of the, part of . the state of the, part of. the state pension scheme. so that gives you a lower contribution. but if you a lower contribution. but if you take waspi women for example, born in the 1950s and we started work maybe late 60s, early 70s, depending on how long we stayed in education and up until 1978, if you had children before then you were given family allowance and family allowance. didn't attract pension credits. it was only when it was changed to child benefit in 1978 that then women could claim pension credits, so people could have had their babies fairly young , in their babies fairly young, in their early 20s, have five years off until the children went to school and they weren't given any pension credits for that. and of course , women tend to be and of course, women tend to be the child bearers and they are the child bearers and they are the child bearers and they are the child carers quite often. so they have an interrupted history of paying national insurance

contributions. >> so it's penalising women really , isn't it, that if you really, isn't it, that if you are a woman because you've had the child , it's obviously the child, it's obviously contributing positively to society to keep the population going? you are now punished via the state pension because you haven't done a solid 30 years. that's that's terrible. >> that's right. yes yes. and, and quite often, you know , early and quite often, you know, early in the careers it's childcare quite often later in your career, it's caring for your parents or you know , older parents or you know, older relatives who, who don't have children to care for them, you know, because the, the social care system in our country is broken as well. so people tend to have to look after their own family, and then they have to have a choice between working and caring . and caring. >> angela, the way you've done a sterling job fighting for women who have been caught in this particular bracket. but why is claiming something that we pay into all our lives? most of us made so complicated to understand? i mean, an estimated 850,000 eligible pensioners are

not currently claiming their pension credit, which means they're going to face an even harsher winter than they should do. >> yes there are. there are two things for that some people don't know about it, but some people have never claimed benefits in their lives. what they see, as you know, claiming things that they're not automatically entitled to. and so they don't want to, you know, take money away from other people in the country who they feel might be more needy, you know, we're not a generation who did claim benefits. and i think that habit still sticks. >> what about the forms, though, as well? >> because, i mean, i've got a pension credit application form in front of me, which i mean, i'll read you one of the questions. are you separated from your partner? if you are separated only because someone is temporarily in a hospital or care home sick. no. yeah. i mean, this is or. yes these are some of the questions are a little bit sort of a bit dicey and actually would take you some

time and i'm concerned if my mum was to be doing this, i mean she would look at this and say she'd ask me to do it. she wouldn't be able to do this. this is a bit unfair on the pensioners isn't it. >> it is it.- >> it is a it. >> it is a bit unfair. and of course a lot of them are online now as well . and of my now as well. and of my generation, some of them don't do online at all. i've actually helped some women fill in these forms. you know, that that have come to me and asked for it. i mean, i'm no expert, but, you know, sometimes two heads are better than one. so we do try and all help each other. and but the other thing is, i mean , the other thing is, i mean, sometimes we're equal and we have to have this thing called equality. but claiming pension credit for example, i'm sure they take household income into account. >> so if you can get it, someone who has more money than you and that, then then all of that's taken into account and i'm not sure that should be, you know, the government. >> sorry, angela, just one very quick final question. we're running out of time , running out of time, unfortunately. do you feel your campaign has been going for

quite a while now? do you feel that the government, either government , no matter what government, no matter what political colour they are, are actually listening to your concerns, >> i think they've listened more since the ombudsman, put his report before parliament in march 2021, but we're now, you know, nearly at the end of august. almost six months on. and, we still haven't got anything concrete , but we're anything concrete, but we're hoping to. >> i have to ask you very quickly about the winter fuel allowance. your thoughts you've got about 20s. what are your thoughts on keir starmer winter fuel allowance, removal from pensioners? >> we are so disappointed. it's unbelievable. they go on about rich pensioners. i mean , there rich pensioners. i mean, there are some obviously they know theresa may and she's very rich, but that's very unusual. most of us are just getting by, and it's no good for the economy either because we spend we tend to spend the money. we've got what we have to do now is save £200. so we will actually reduce our spending by that amount, because

we have to pay a bill that we wouldn't have , you know, we wouldn't have, you know, we wouldn't have, you know, we wouldn't have, you know, we wouldn't have had to think about before. we would have had that £200 to contribute. >> thank you so much for your thoughts. i'm going to have to leave it there. that's angela arade dam. she's the chair of women against state pensions. >> i'm so angry. women against state pensions. >> i'm so angry . honestly, what >> i'm so angry. honestly, what do you think , do you think, gbnews.com/yoursay? you must be angry. i'm angry. right. up next, we're going to get the scales out. oh, god. as the nhs will soon be coming into your workplace to health checks. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. don't go

soon. >> good morning. 22 minutes after 11:00. if you've just tuned in, this is britain's newsroom with dawn neesom and me. nana akua and joining us, political commentator ammon bogle and also former labour mp bill rammell. they're here to discuss the papers. we're going to kick it off with a piece in the telegraph. workers get the right to demand a four day week. >> bill rammell the detail isn't

coming out of this. it's not four days. instead of five days. it's a compressed working week to do all your hours within over four days. >> yeah. no, people get that. >> yeah. no, people get that. >> we get that as long as there are protections and exemptions. and, you know, if you look at what's being proposed, unless it's reasonably not feasible, then i think it's good news. and it can actually help to boost productivity. there are people with childcare responsibilities, with childcare responsibilities, with caring responsibilities that this could work for. >> i don't see how ten working ten hours for four days will be more helpful. i'm sure it will be, actually. anyway, listen, people can do this anyway. you could ask your employer for a four day working week. yeah but. so what's the big deal? >> this is a statutory right that you have the employer has to consider it. it's the same as when the last labour government brought in the right to request flexible working. before then you could request and you were mostly told to get lost. there was then a statutory right that the employer had to consider it. and i think most people would think that's reasonably good. >> a man coming to you for the

balance of power is basically shifted away from the employer to the employees by the unions. what a surprise there. but it's okayif what a surprise there. but it's okay if you're running a big company, fine. but if you're running a very small company with a handful of employers. >> exactly. so this type of thing is, again, nanny state creep. it will entangle small businesses. single sole proprietor businesses with more red tape , and situations where red tape, and situations where there simply wouldn't be able to exist. so i would argue that let the free market sort itself out. it usually is the best way to do it. >> is this not a distraction from keir starmer's winter fuel allowance, which is very, very unpopular? i mean, they're chucking everything out now aren't they? everything seems to be coming out yet. really. what about we should be talking about the winter fuel allowance. not for hours . working week, for hours. working week, potentially, or whatever. four day working week. >> well, you have to you have to talk about a lot of things. >> well you do but but but at the moment this is a very you know, the winter fuel allowance has become a very unpopular policy. and even the smoking

stuff as well, chucking that out there as well. we're talking about it. >> if you want me to talk about the winter fuel allowance, there has been a case for means testing it since it first came in in the late 1990s. since then , in in the late 1990s. since then, we've had the triple lock, which means that if you're a pensioner today, you're less likely to be in poverty than someone in work. >> so i think that doesn't really help anyone. that's an interesting stat. but how does that help me as a pensioner? >> because it means that you don't give blanket benefits to people just because of their age. now, i think there is a case for means testing. i actually think the means test was too hard linking it to pensions credit, and i expect that in the budget that will be amended. >> well, i mean, look at it this way. a pensioner will now have to answer 243 questions. >> exactly. we've been through this is what, 12,500 pounds of savings, >> that's not a very high threshold. >> i've got these questions here. >> i think you'll get some tapering so that it goes higher up the income scale. >> i think it's very unrealistic. bill rammell. this is the form. these are the questions. it's about 20 pages long. it'll be online. you're going to ask some pensioner to fill all that in. it's absurd.

>> that needs drastically amending. >> i mean it's disgraceful. >> i mean it's disgraceful. >> well i think i think it ought to be doing is ending this so—called climate aid budget. yet £12 billion. we shouldn't be taking money, stealing money from our own pensioners to give it away to all these, you know, make believe projects overseas. >> okay. and let's go on to the story. we have been trailing all the way through the show, which is also costing £7 million of your money. by the way . and your money. by the way. and iman, this is your story. workers to be weighed in the office for a health m.o.t. >> indeed. >> indeed. >> indeed. >> i mean, look, this is labour's commissars creeping into the workspace little bit by little. >> they do it in china, don't they? or japan? they do this in japan. or is it china? in japan, it's actually compulsory to be weighed. >> this is in capitalising people from taking responsibility for their own health, for making decisions to look after themselves. why should a workplace be weighing people ? people? >> we're not very good at taking care of it. >> won't even work. it won't even work, bill, though, because

people will say, oh, this is against my human rights and this, that and the other. even if an employer said, look, you're overweight, you need to do this, this and that, people will be telling them that you're being racist or fascist or this or that. >> well, i declare an interest. i'm slightly overweight. and this chair, just like dawn's mine, is falling down, does it to everyone. >> it does it to everyone. >> it does it to everyone. >> you know, let's let's get some perspective on this. this is it's not compulsory. it's sensible . it's saying at the sensible. it's saying at the moment you can have a gp mo health check, but most people don't take it particularly men don't take it particularly men don't take it particularly men don't take it. and this is about working with employers to make it available within the workplace. and you know, employers have a vested interest because when their staff get ill and they get sick and they're off work, that hits their productivity. so i actually think this is a win win. yeah but there's not commissars. >> yeah. but where's the where's the feedback loop. so if somebody says you're overweight you've got high blood pressure. you've got high cholesterol and high blood sugar. then what. you go and wait two years to get to see a doctor? >> no. you'd probably say if you've got blood pressure, you'd be given blood pressure tablets. >> not necessarily cholesterol.

>> not necessarily cholesterol. >> everything takes statins. >> everything takes statins. >> but yes, we need to tackle the crisis in the health service that we have. >> i'd rather see them do that. >> i'd rather see them do that. >> let's talk about another health related story. this is smoking and the smoking ban, which has really kicked off as a big story to start off with. now, even bigger today. >> smoke and mirrors. >> smoke and mirrors. >> exactly. i think as i was saying earlier, this is again more distraction. look, again, more distraction. look, again, more nanny state creep . what's more nanny state creep. what's he going to do next? ban people from drinking alcohol. ban people from eating high fat foods. where does it end? >> well, that's. i mean, look, this is just red meat, isn't it? chuck some red meat at them and they won't talk about my winter fuel allowance and all the other stuff and the vat on private schools and all that . schools and all that. >> it's sensible, i tell you what. >> but it's a problem that no one was talking about. so nobody here was talking about smokers smoking outside. listen, i'd be more worried about the carbon monoxide when i'm just because it's an odourless gas. you're sitting in there, cars are going whizzing past you in the outdoor area smoking a fag. now look, carbon monoxide is odourless. it's far worse for you. >> but do you know what? i think

the public are ahead of the politicians. i was an mp who voted for the first smoking ban in two thousand and seven, and i will acknowledge i had misgivings. is this going too far? is this a nanny state? i took a poll amongst my constituents before the vote. 70% backed the ban. and you look at this measure already. yougov have done a poll, 58% of people. >> i'm not saying that people wouldn't support. if it was me, i'd ban smoking all together if it were introduced now, it would never exist. but the point i'm making is that there are far greater, more important things to be dealing with in terms of policy than this. >> but governments have to deal with a million things all at the same time. this is one, and they're probably dealing with it earlier than they otherwise would have done, because there was a leak because of the winter fuel allowance . fuel allowance. >> probably it was wrong when rishi was wanting to bring in the escalator smoking ban for people born after 2011, i think that's far more challenging. and. yeah, exactly. and it's wrong this way as well. you have to trust the people to make the decisions about their own lives, about their own health. that's the way to do it. i was banned smoking. >> well , that's what they should

>> well, that's what they should do if they're that serious about it . it. >> do you know what? there was a vox pop on radio yesterday, and i heard one guy outside a pub smoking. he said, it's probably right. we smokers need to be protected from ourselves. yeah, ban it. >> i would ban it. i'd get rid of it. >> not very good at managing our own health, are we? we know we've got an obesity problem and we've got an obesity problem and we know smoking cost the nhs an awful lot of money and particularly to educate people. >> yes, of course we should encourage them. but i think banning stuff is vehemently un—british. i would say, well, i don't care about being un—british, it's just unhealthy. >> smoking is pointless. and if it were me , people should be it were me, people should be encouraged to realise that themselves. yes, well that's fine, but if it were me, this would never have been allowed anyway. >> go back to when i first started working and i commuted into london and i got on a train carriage with six seats, and you opened the door and the smoke hit you? >> oh, yes, i remember you got to work. >> yeah, i remember thinking with a cough that was obscene. it would never be allowed. >> people would smoke. >> people would smoke. >> we smoked on trains. we smoked on tubes. we smoked on planes . i smoked on tubes. we smoked on planes. i mean, utter madness.

bill rammell. >> i'm old enough to remember a typewriter and an ashtray in the newsroom. >> well, you're not that old. >> well, you're not that old. >> i am really that old. >> i am really that old. >> no, we all remember that as well. >> oh, don't. yeah, with an old fashioned spike. in any case. but we're not spiking you. so we're saying. thank you very much for joining we're saying. thank you very much forjoining us, emma vogel. much for joining us, emma vogel. >> bill rammell. >> bill rammell. >> lovely. and now it's time for your news headlines with sam francis . francis. >> very good morning to you. it's just after half past 11. and the top story this morning, a murder investigation has been launched after a 13 year old boy was stabbed to death at a house near birmingham. the teenager was treated by paramedics but sadly died at the scene in oldbury yesterday afternoon. detectives have said it is absolutely tragic that a young life has been lost and at this stage they say no one has been arrested over that attack . well, arrested over that attack. well, just a reminder of that breaking news we brought you from swansea

in the last half hour or so that a woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder there after the death of a child. police were called to a home in the town last night. a 41 year old woman who lived with that child is now being questioned in bridgend. detectives say that it's an absolutely tragic incident and that no one has been arrested at this stage apart from that woman . well, the apart from that woman. well, the government says it won't impose a four day working week, but does support flexible working options. labour says it's focused on compressed hours, allowing employees to work longer over fewer days, not reducing total hours. the conservatives, though, have criticised the proposals and claimed businesses are concerned about potential costs . tens of about potential costs. tens of thousands of people in england will be able to get a free health check at work as part of a new nhs pilot scheme. workers will provide information used to determine their risk of developing cardiovascular disease, which can of course cause heart attacks and stroke.

health experts think the checks could free up appointment times and cut nhs waiting lists. parents in england have been warned the expansion of government funded support for childcare won't be plain sailing. from monday , eligible sailing. from monday, eligible working parents of those aged nine months and over will get support of 15 hours free childcare a week. but the education secretary, bridget phillipson, claims around 85,000 more places will still be needed next september to extend that free support to 30 hours a week. in the us, kamala harris has defended changing her mind on some policies since becoming the democratic national presidential nominee. speaking in her first major interview since announcing she was running for the white house, the vice president told cnn last night her values haven't changed. and it comes as a new poll suggests she has now a new poll suggests she has now a four point lead over republican donald trump . and republican donald trump. and it's reported the prince of

wales and the duke of sussex both attended the funeral of their uncle this week. according to the sun newspaper , harry flew to the sun newspaper, harry flew from the united states for that service for lord robert fellowes, and one witness also told the paper he and prince william did keep their distance and didn't speak to each other. those are the latest gb news headunes those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts . slash alerts. >> thank you very much, sam. now. good afternoon britain with just emily carver emily carver down by the men. emily come on. what have you done with him today? >> tom harwood won't be here, but we have a big show lined up, so i'll be taking the reins. quite the story from stephanie

takyi. we all know stephanie takyi. we all know stephanie takyi. she comes on a lot, particularly to talk about showbiz, but this time it's a big political story that i think will run. jess phillips claimed she received preferential treatment at an nhs hospital in birmingham because of her position on the gaza ceasefire. now what does this say? why did the nhs, why did she admit that though? that's interesting. reportedly an evening with jess phillips. it must have got on to the topic of the nhs. her recent emergency trip to the a&e. and she said this. why did she say this? and what does this mean about some of the people working in the nhs? that could possibly be the case? >> why would she even say that though? but i'm glad she has. now we are aware of it very seriously. >> so we're going to be digging into that, finding out a little bit more about that story. also, record numbers of non—uk nationals in this country not working economically inactive. can we afford this? one report saying it's costing us £8 billion. and is keir starmer really so petty and so ideological to remove a portrait of thatcher from the thatcher?

>> yes. >> yes. >> spoiler alert. >> spoiler alert. >> yes. well, he seems to have a problem with strong women or women in general, because he has struggled to define one. >> so yes, very difficult indeed. and troubles with angela raynerin indeed. and troubles with angela rayner in the past, i'm sure. but but yes, i mean, only a year ago or so he was saying he was praising thatcher for meaningful change in this country. obviously to win over tory voters lies. >> it's all lies. >> it's all lies. >> there you go. we've got a huge amount coming up also priti patel. she's serving up mango lassi, the indian smoothie drink at her launch. so we'll be catching up with chopper on that as well. >> all right. emily carver. sounds like a sensational show. we're looking forward to that. that's emily carver. she's up in about 25 minutes time. all that and more till midday. we're keeping also an eye out for dame priti patel to make a speech in central london about why she should be the next leader of the conservative party. remember them? ouch. >> this is newsroom gb news. don't go too far

soon. >> good morning. 39 minutes after 11:00. this is britain's newsroom with dawn , mason and newsroom with dawn, mason and me. nana akua. now, lots of you have been in touch with your comments. >> gbnews.com/yoursay chuckling away . away. >> eileen, i had to laugh. eileen. eileen dowd as well. she's put this comment on. she went when labour was first elected, the socialists started crowing. the adults were backing the room. now, after eight weeks of railroading through stupid ideological policies before parliament reconvenes. starmer has removed margaret thatcher's portrait from the thatcher room. how real is that? these people are not adults. they're petulant students union rejects. >> but they did claim the adults were back in the room. >> i mean, is that an adult thing to do? no, they're not back in the room. >> lots of you are commenting on the on the cigarette thing as well. banning cigarettes. stop selling cigarettes. if they want it banned. well, they won't do that because it rakes in loads of money in taxes. exactly. and of money in taxes. exactly. and of course, this is a point. that was jenny, by the way. and

maggie says, if they ban the was jenny, by the way. and maggie says, if they ban the sale of cigarettes , it will just sale of cigarettes , it will just sale of cigarettes, it will just force it underground and we'll sale of cigarettes, it will just force it underground and we'll have smoke eases. remember that have smoke eases. remember that speakeasy? speakeasy? >> well, listen, at least it's >> well, listen, at least it's not above ground. i think people not above ground. i think people will probably stop at the end. will probably stop at the end. look, that's what i think. look, look, that's what i think. look, if it was brought out now, if if it was brought out now, if somebody invented a cigarette somebody invented a cigarette now and said, oh, we're going to now and said, oh, we're going to sell that, people would say, no, sell that, people would say, no, that you can't do that, lisa that you can't do that, lisa says this about weighing people says this about weighing people in the office. she says , so in the office. she says , so in the office. she says, so they'll find you're overweight, in the office. she says, so they'll find you're overweight, then sack you. i don't think then sack you. i don't think they'll get away with that. not they'll get away with that. not in this country. in this country. >> not compulsory. and i don't it jenny, by the way. and >> not compulsory. and i don't think they can sack people. think they can sack people. >> well, in japan, they send you >> well, in japan, they send you off on a diet and all sorts, off on a diet and all sorts, don't they? >> yeah, well, some people could don't they? >> yeah, well, some people could do with it to be fair. nana, do do with it to be fair. nana, do you think , is it. i'm not you think , is it. i'm not you think, is it. i'm not mentioning any names of course, you think, is it. i'm not mentioning any names of course, but if you're watching, darling. but if you're watching, darling. good morning, but i mean, good morning, but i especially for men. well, men notoriously never get their health checked. >> i don't think it would be a very. i don't think it would be a very tough check. it will be blood pressure and all that. it won't be getting your bloods donein won't be getting your bloods done in a proper thing. and i think some people might just get

a false sense of security with

you aren't happy. there's lots about. we hear that all the time. well that's it , isn't about. we hear that all the time. well that's it, isn't it? moving the goalposts, making it difficult for employers . very difficult for employers. very unrealistic, especially when you're talking about growth. and then saying that they'll now be this sort of assumption that you're allowed to just say, look, by the way, i want to work for four days a week. >> this this one's good. i do keep them coming in. this is from becks, i'm surprised there are any stories about keir starmer today. i thought he didn't work on fridays. >> oh . that's true. he wants a thought. >> that's why he wants a four day working. >> exactly. isn't it ? >> exactly. isn't it? >> exactly. isn't it? >> do fridays? >> do fridays? >> well, i'm sure he's realised that. that's totally impractical. if you are running the country, you can't say. i'm going to take every friday off. just excuse me now. i just that's not going to happen. keir. i don't know why you even thought that. that would be possibility. >> how are they? it's just not feasible, is it? i mean , you feasible, is it? i mean, you know, in principle, yes. flexible working. da da da da da. but forcing companies to do it especially small. imagine if you're running, i don't know, a local bakers in the high street and you've got four members of staff and they all go, right, okay, i'm not working friday.

>> what do you do? well, listen, we're waiting for priti patel to make a major speech in london about her leadership bid for the tory party. but joining us now, gb news political correspondent katherine forster. catherine, what can we expect from pretty from pretty? >> well, i think we're going to have a lot of talk about unity, as we will hear from all six candidates, because of course, all the very public infighting was a real turn off for the public, wasn't it? one of the reasons why they did so badly in the last general election, and her tagline , if you like, is her tagline, if you like, is pretty unite to win . and as pretty unite to win. and as people at the launch event with t—shirts emblazoned with the words experience, strength , words experience, strength, unity and of course, priti patel does have huge experience, doesn't she? she's been a conservative mp since 2010 and she's former home secretary. she was in that role when the rwanda plan that labour have just ditched was conceived. she's

very experienced. she's popular with the members and she's going to lay out her vision for the country and for the party. and thatis country and for the party. and that is critical, isn't it? because of course, they've been decimated, haven't they? to down 121 seats. how are they going to rebuild? what sort of party do they want to be now? i expect she's going to talk about sticking to real conservative values, low taxes, etc. i also expect she'll have a lot to say about the members, quite a lot of conservative party members are pretty fed up , feel that are pretty fed up, feel that they've been neglected, etc. lots of them were very cross indeed. of course, when rishi sunak replaced liz truss, who had been their choice. of course, the counter—argument to thatis course, the counter—argument to that is that, it's not terribly fair, perhaps, that a very tiny percentage of the population got to pick a prime minister. so

she's a favourite with the members, the members like her. and also, i think worth saying that although she's been quite quiet over the last year or so, she's been very busy behind the scenes, quietly getting on with it , building scenes, quietly getting on with it, building relationships. she's well liked by mps as well now. at the moment she doesn't really seem to have the momentum . really seem to have the momentum. robert jenrick seems to be the favourite, but i think the field really is pretty wide open. there isn't a very, very clear front runner. we don't know who's going to get this come november the 2nd, so it'll be interesting to see. we're expecting her to start speaking any minute. our political ednon any minute. our political editor, chris hope, is there, and he's been tweeting pictures of some very nice drinks and a mango lassi. so, we will we will hear more very shortly. >> catherine, can you just explain briefly how this process works? now we'll have a winner

on november the 2nd, but what's the process leading up to that process leading up? >> yeah, it's a very elongated process. going right through till november. so we've currently got six candidates now mps are going to vote on those in the coming days. they will whittle them down to four. those four will then go forward to the conservative conference. they'll sell their wares, set out their stall, they'll have pretty much a very public beauty parade. no person left. mps will then vote again, and the number of times i knocked on doors are pretty. >> they knew her. they knew her that she'd either helped them or they're aware of what she had done. and that is why when we had that great misfortune in the general election, she won with a good majority. >> sorry, catherine. we can't hear you. carry on. sorry, catherine. do keep talking. >> so they will. then they will galvanises people to vote again to leave. final two candidates chosen by mps. now, at that

point, there's then a few weeks and then the members will get the final say. so the members will pick the future leader, and again , you know, that has been again, you know, that has been problematic in that the members tend to be to the right of the parliamentary party. they will tend to pick the person most far to the right. now there's plenty of conservatives feel that that's where the conservatives need to go, but there's plenty of others. mel stride, for example, who's much more sort of centrist, who feel that going to the right pandering perhaps, to reform is not the way to rebuild and get elected potentially down the line . the line. >> that's interesting that because a lot of people would have said that. that's why they lost it. so they're not really pandenng lost it. so they're not really pandering to reform, but perhaps some would like them to return to their conservative roots . to their conservative roots. otherwise i can't see them doing well . well. >> catherine, do you think this

long, drawn out process that you have just so accurately described is actually going to go in their favour? a lot of people are going conservatives. who are they already ? who are they already? >> it's hard to say. and admittedly so far it's all been quite lacklustre. it's not getting much attention because, you know, they've only got 121 seats. the lib dems have got 70, so they do seem less relevant. but you know, it is very important for a healthy democracy that we have a strong functioning opposition and we need the conservatives to provide that. now, you could say and plenty of people, do you know where are the conservatives? they're engaged in this long, drawn out, navel gazing exercise of working out who they are, while we need a strong opposition, but on the other hand, they're in this for the long haul, aren't they? they've had this absolute catastrophic result for them. and if they rush , put a leader and if they rush, put a leader in, choose a direction, you know , in, choose a direction, you know, they may rule themselves out for

years and years to come. so the thinking is, let's take some time. let's take stock the next election four years plus away. let's do this, properly. i think it's worth saying. i mean, there's lots of these events popping up there's lots of these events popping up now . this is pretty popping up now. this is pretty patels, launch event, but i was at a tom tugendhat event yesterday. now he, of course, is a one nation tory. much more sort of centrist and. but what fascinated me in his speech was that he said, if i'm elected, i am going to pledge a legally binding cap of 100,000 on net migration. now, pretty's coming up, let's hear what she has to say. thank you . say. thank you. >> thank you everyone . >> thank you everyone. >> thank you everyone. it's >> thank you everyone. it's so good to see so many friends and colleagues here today, and supporters and kevin, thank you for your super introduction. if

anyone's going to motivate our members, it's absolutely kevin. there's no doubt about that. the conservative and unionist party is the greatest political party in the world. and i'm proud to stand here today for its leadership under my leadership, i will bring our party experience and strength, and i will get us back to winning ways. but before i say more about my offer to members of parliament, my plans to empower our loyal and dedicated party members, and my commitment for our party to serve the nation and the british people with professionalism and integrity. i want to thank my fellow candidates, my colleagues, for standing in this leadership contest. some of you know, we've been travelling across the country in recent weeks debating in good spirits, but importantly showing the country the very best of our party. and i pay credit to them because when this contest is over , we'll work

contest is over, we'll work together to do what is right for our party and the country. now, i don't need to remind anyone in this room as to why this leadership contest is taking place , and many column inches place, and many column inches have been devoted to how we fell to such a historic defeat. i have heard loud and clear what the british people have had to say . and while we will reflect say. and while we will reflect and learn on the lessons under my leadership, our party will be firmly focused on the future . so firmly focused on the future. so today, eight weeks on our attitude will change and we will draw a line in the sand because it's draw a line in the sand because wsfime draw a line in the sand because it's time to move on and move forward. i'm an optimist with clear goals, and i will revive our party so that we can provide the leadership that our great country needs . because country needs. because conservatism has not failed , our conservatism has not failed, our values and our principles remain as true as ever, and they are

still shared by the majority of the public. our love for our community and our country, our commitment to the rule of law, and our passion for furthering the conservative traditions of extending opportunity more widely by promoting freedom and enterprise to deliver security and success for our country. those are timeless values. they bind the communities of britain together and are the values that we conservatives have championed more than any other political party. when i travel around our great country, i see how much our values mean to the british people. it makes me proud to be british. when i see them in action every single day , i see action every single day, i see the excitement of a young family getting their keys to their first home and valuing the security that comes with it , security that comes with it, just as i did with my first home. i see the great research, inventions and innovations in our universities and businesses. i see the incredible care given to our hospitals treating and

cunng to our hospitals treating and curing conditions which have inflicted pain and suffering on our loved ones . i see our loved ones. i see inspirational teachers in our classrooms helping to educate and develop our children, and i see brave police officers bringing order to our streets and confronting the perpetrators of crime. and i see the entrepreneur boldly taking a risk on new businesses, just like my parents did while working seven days a week to provide for their family and to give their children the chance to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential . what achieve their potential. what i don't see is what labour sees. earlier this week. we had the spectacle of a labour prime minister standing in the rose garden of downing street, delivering one of the most feeble, pitiful and dishonest speeches you will ever hear. he was feeble in his claim to say that he was tough with the trade unions in pay negotiations. that was after he admitted , was after he admitted, immediately rolled over to appease his paymasters at the expense of the british taxpayer.

he was pitiful to claim that he is locking up criminals after spending years in parliament voting against tougher prison sentences for violent criminals and sex offenders, and campaigning to block the deportation of dangerous foreign national offenders , he was national offenders, he was completely dishonest with his complaints and his claims about the british economy that he has inherited, which were clearly made to justify his nasty financial assault on the very people who deserve dignity. in their retirement and who have spent their working lives contributing to the very fabric of our nation . that's our of our nation. that's our parents and our grandparents. from the painful and damaging tax rises upon britain's hard working families and businesses that we now know are coming to the rot and the corruption of starmer's cronies being appointed to the civil service. all we have seen over the last 56 days is a labour government of self—service politics.

without principle, while labour are trash talk in britain for their own desperate means. i see a proud and resilient country, a country that knows that we face challenges but is determined to overcome them and is hungry for success.i overcome them and is hungry for success. i see a country that pulled together to deliver the most successful rollout of the covid vaccine. i see a country of world leaders in fintechs in science , ai, agriculture, science, ai, agriculture, renewable technologies to just name a few. and as we've seen in the olympics and the paralympics, a country of inspiring and world beating sportsmen and women, we are not called great britain for nothing. and with our country now at the mercy of a self—serving labour government, a reality that gets more frightening as each and every day passes, i will ensure that our party has all the tools needed to take them on and to send starmer packing for the conservative party . for it is

conservative party. for it is our party, the conservative party. unlike labour, politics has always been about something much more than gaining power. it has been about serving the nation. we are a patriotic party, a national party who believes in the union and the matters which concern hard working people. every single day. and i will lead us from opposition to government so that we can serve the british people again. and give them back the freedoms and the dignity that labour would take away from them. and to do that, we will work with one team, with one voice and with a meritocratic team built on our collective skills and experience. my clear offer to our conservative parliamentary colleagues is this support me to be our next party leader, and i will lead you and support you to be the success we all want to see for our country and for our party. the professionalism i will bring to the party will restore our

ability to campaign so that you can be leaders in your communities and take on and defeat the other parties, challenging us from wherever they come. on the political spectrum, the reds, the yellows, the greens and that non—conservative shade of blue which occasionally pops up at election time . election time. and if you back me to be your leader, i will unite our parliamentary party. we are 121 mps in westminster. we are blessed with talent and experience from a wide range of backgrounds. and i promise you that under my leadership, every one of you will have a role to play one of you will have a role to play in supporting our efforts to be the strongest and most effective team possible. because ihave effective team possible. because i have seen before what we can achieve together when we work together to promote our values and serve our nation as a treasury minister, i worked

alongside our then chancellor cutting taxes and delivering economic stability for britain at the dwp , alongside the at the dwp, alongside the formidable iain duncan smith. we worked to transform the welfare system and support people into employment and better paid work, putting into practice that conservative belief of the dignity and security that work provides. in dfid. i led the way for the transparency and effectiveness of overseas aid and tackled its exploitation and abuse. and tackled its exploitation and abuse . and when i was home abuse. and when i was home secretary, we increased police officers to record numbers and gave them the powers to fight crime. we gave victims of crime more rights and improved services and support for the survivors of domestic abuse . we survivors of domestic abuse. we ended free movement and brought in reforms to our immigration and asylum system. we kept our country safe with new measures to protect our national security and our country from terrorist threats and hostile state actors. we did all of that and more. you have in me a leader

who will fight for the british people and show how our values offer solutions and challenges to britain as we face them today. now i want to address our amazing party members, our incredible grassroots activists, some of whom have joined us today from around the country. you are the heart and soul of our party, and for over 30 years since the late, great cecil parkinson recruited me to join that cause, i have been proud to be a grass roots conservative and to campaign across the country with you come rain or shine, in good times and in bad, you pound the pavements and knock on doors and deliver leaflets . you raise the funds to leaflets. you raise the funds to fight local campaigns and you come face to face with the electorate doing your best to persuade them to put their cross in the box of conservative candidates standing for election from the bottom of my heart, i thank you for everything that you do under my leadership. you will no longer be taken for granted. i will give you back

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