olivia utley . pen. thank you. olivia utley.nter—terrorism chief neil basu is likely to be part of the new labour government's plans to take control of the small boats crossing crisis. now, reports suggest he is leading the. he's the leading candidate to head home secretary yvette cooper's new border security command , new border security command, saying aimed at smashing people smuggling gangs at the heart of illegal crossings. well, joining me now is the research director at the centre for migration control, robert bates. robert, welcome to the show. so one of the biggest jobs in parliament is the home secretary's job, a massive in—tray. and now neil basu has been placed in command, most likely . do we know anything most likely. do we know anything about him and what this might mean ? mean? >> you're absolutely right. it's one of the one of the biggest issues facing the country, and it's one of the things that really turned voters against the conservative party. at the tail end of the last parliament was the small boats crisis

olivia. >> well , i can olivia utley. olivia. >> well, i can see olivia utley.an see the olivia utley. olivia. >> well, i can see the logic in, defence strategic defence review, but why does this review have to take a full year? we're in an increasingly unstable global environment. who knows where we'll be in a year's time? can't the timelines be sped up a bit for that review ? bit for that review? >> i don't know, is the answer. you're asking me a question that i don't know the answer to? my assumption would be that my colleagues in government and luke pollard said it will try and get it done in less than a yeah and get it done in less than a year. but i think what what no one would want is a half baked review where people say, well, actually, that hasn't addressed this issue, that issue or the other issues, you know , they other issues, you know, they clearly are an awful lot of concerns, not just about the army , but about the capability army, but about the capability of equipment in all our armed forces. is it fit for purpose? what do we do in terms of buyin

olivia utley . gb news. olivia utley. gb news. >> and next on free speech nation.incredible news from america. joe has pulled out of the presidential race. see you shortly welcome back to free speech nafion welcome back to free speech nation with me. >> andrew doyle. obviously, there is big news tonight with joe biden withdrawing from the us presidential race. and we're going to talk some more about it. so let's check out his statement. so joe biden has said it has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as your president. and while it has been my intention to seek re—election, i believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of the term, i will speak to the nafion the term, i will speak to the nation later this week in more detail about my decision. now, steve, i want to ask you about this , because this particular this, because this particular presidential race has had so many ups and downs. it's been so dramatic, it couldn't possibly be scripted, co

olivia utley, >> very much so.a utley, thank you very much there for bringing us up to date on, tony blair getting involved with the new prime minister. okay. now let's see what my panel make of this. today i'm joined by a brilliant team today, proper girl power going on here, political commentator joe phillips. and broadcaster and columnist claire muldoon. thank you very much , ladies, for you very much, ladies, for joining me, if i may call you that. indeed now, this is not the first time that tony blair has been involved, shall we say, in the modern day labour party. are you worried by him being involved in this one, claire? are you worried about how much advice he's giving to keir starmer in the labour party at the moment? joe. sorry, joe. that's all right. >> we're both looking like. yes, she said. >> claire looked at me. >> claire looked at me. >> yeah , okay. anyone will do. >> yeah, okay. anyone will do. right. okay. no, we're not worried about it. >> i mean, i think he's got a right to be involved and to h

but as i say, joining me now is olivia utley. olivia, how much longer of this have we got to come?s it three days? i've lost count. >> it's three days. although i keep thinking that it's all going to be over of course. then we'll have a new government roll on election leadership. >> we won't. well, we could have a conservative leader. anything could happen. let's be honest. anything could happen. we'll both be very busy on election night, which is a great thing. but in the run up to that, what's been going on today? we just saw that clip of rishi sunak. we're both watching it. i mean, it is a desperate plea now from the prime minister. what's he going to come up with that if you vote labour you're going to die in your sleep. like what left has he got to say as this sort of threat to his own electorate? you know, you've got to stick with us. he's saying it is beginning to feel quite desperate. >> and i really noticed the total difference in tone between the two leaders today. you've got keir starmer campaigning in rural buckinghamshire and oxfordshire, chipping norton, david cameron

olivia utley, thank you very much for explaining, as olivia has just said, this thing is very, very blisteringon her boss, basically by rosie duffield, who has been very outspoken about women's rights in general and has been a bit of a thorn in keir starmer's side all the way through. i said very, very strong words. now let's see, as i said earlier, my panel maker this i've got a great panel to discuss this. they're both young mums, author and broadcaster amy nicholl and author and journalist emma wolf. thank you very much, ladies, for joining me. now. particularly wanted to do this story because i'm a big fan of rosie duffield on the women's rights issues, but i thought it would work particularly well with used to discussing it. particularly well with used to discussing it . now, the sunday discussing it. now, the sunday times piece is very, very strongly worded, but is rosie duffield right? is it time to scrap the two child benefit? emma i'm going to come to you first on this one. >> it's a really tricky one, and i can actually see both sides , i can actually see both sides, i'm no fan of ge

olivia utley has more . jails.r party is already sounding very bold on prison reform, but how will its ideas go down with voters? are and is joe biden too old to be president? >> hollywood star and democrat fundraiser george clooney tells biden to , pull out of the race biden to, pull out of the race for a second time in the white house. >> of course. let us know what you think about all of today's stories, not least the football. last night. gbnews.com/yoursay nanai last night. gbnews.com/yoursay nana i have to ask , you are nana i have to ask, you are wearing orange. i knew you were gonna. >> dutch. >> dutch. >> dutch. >> dutch orange. what's going on there? >> commiserations to the dutch you lost. i'm rubbing your face in it. no, ijust you lost. i'm rubbing your face in it. no, i just you know, in it. no, ijust you know, i just got up this morning. i didn't think about the fact that we were talking football and also, i think it looks a bit red anyway. >> yeah, you look too much red. >> yeah, you look too much re

olivia utley, our you very much.livia utley, our political correspondent. >> my favourite fact of that is that plastic dinosaurs, little plastic dinosaurs that i had, plastic dinosaurs that i had, plastic dinosaurs that i had, plastic dinosaurs as children, you know, made out of real dinosaurs. because because because oil makes plastic. and these are fossil fuels . little these are fossil fuels. little plastic dinosaurs are made of real dinosaurs , real dinosaurs, >> you know, all of our viewers and listeners, tune in for this gold. for this gold, should we speak with the director of net zero watch, andrew mumford? andrew, thank you very much indeed, thank you . the indeed, thank you. the consequences of this decision by ed miliband , ed miliband, >> well, i think you've touched on most of the major points already. this this policy has, as far as i can see, no redeeming features whatsoever, i think i think , it's going to think i think, it's going to increase carbon emissions because we're going to be shipping all th

olivia utley mean, of >> there. olivia utley mean, of course, no, sir. , course, no, sir. cliff richard, what more could you wish for? olivia utley, thank you very much for joining olivia utley, thank you very much forjoining us there live much for joining us there live from wimbledon. now, i've got a couple of your your emails, your surveys before the end of this houn surveys before the end of this hour. the topic that's really got you going is joe biden and donald trump. an undercover video sting on donald trump has caught your attention. david says this when our western leaders not why beau biden or western leaders not standing up forcefully to ask joe biden to retire . take it easy and enjoy retire. take it easy and enjoy the rest of the time he has left with his family. surely he should not be resisting morally correct and justified requests to put the safety of the west in safer hands. and a quick one here on that video , that sting here on that video, that sting video. this is from miriam. she says. video. this is from miriam. she says . another s

olivia, welcome to olivia utley. olivia, welcome to the studio.eim palace, sir keir starmer was adamant a new deal would be done with european partners. smashed the gangs very much. the central message , much. the central message, olivia, the gangs haven't been listening. almost 500 landed today, taking the tally to almost 2000 since the keir starmer was elected prime minister just two weeks ago. like rishi sunak before him, can sir keir starmer ever stop the boat? >> well, this is a really, really tricky issue for any prime minister, but perhaps particularly this labour prime minister, rishi sunak. obviously did not have great success with stopping the boats. he introduced the immigration migration act last year, which would have, paved the way for the rwanda plan to come into effect. but that plan never actually came into effect. there were all sorts of legal obstacles. after all the parliamentary obstacles were overcome and nothing ever came of it. during the campaign trail, keir starmer said that if he were to be made prime minister, the rwand

olivia utley, who is basking? she's basking in the south london sun. is that so, olivia?t , yeah, it's >> i reckon it, yeah, it's absolutely beautiful here. >> not too hot either, which is pretty nice too. and it is a really big, exciting day in british tennis. we've got fernley kicking things off british fernley against djokovic on court one. that's at 130. then of course we've got the big thing, which is andy murray playing doubles with his brother jamie in what might be his last ever match at wimbledon. he had to pull out of the singles because he had an operation on his back not very long ago and his back not very long ago and his fitness just wasn't up to it. but he is playing in the doubles today. everyone is really, really excited about that. i spoke to some punters a little bit earlier. here's what they had to say. >> i think he should keep going until he can't look. he's got he's got the willpower, so he's good for trying and who knows? you never know. you might get lucky and make it further than you think. >> i think he made a good decision to play the doubles a

we've got tv stations off the air, but here to explain more, olivia utley . to explain more, olivia utleys, is that there has been an issue with a global cyber security company. we don't yet know how thatissue company. we don't yet know how that issue came about, but the result is that media has been taken off air. sky news is currently off air, and there is of course, huge chaos at airports all over the world. the main the main airport in beijing has almost ground to a halt. ryanair is telling customers to arrive three hours early to the airport and this is a huge problem because this is of course, the very beginning of the proper holiday season. we were expecting this to be the busiest day for british airspace since 2019. this is the first return really to proper foreign holidays since the covid pandemic. there are thousands and thousands of people travelling today at most airports. for now , flights are airports. for now, flights are still running, but check in is being done manually rather than automatically, which is massively , massively slowing massively, massively slowing down the

news, political correspondent olivia utley to explain.t another wrangling for that top job in the tory party olivia, what's going on this time? >> well, sorry to pour cold water on quite an exciting theory, but i think it is very unlikely that suella braverman defects to reform. there are a few people in both the reform party and the conservative party who say that she will, but i think on the whole those are just sort of mischief makers. the rumour comes from the fact that over the course of the general election campaign, suella braverman repeatedly said that she thought that that nigel farage should join the conservative party, that she thought the two parties should augn thought the two parties should align themselves more closely. but that was very much about reform joining the conservatives rather than conservatives like her joining rather than conservatives like herjoining reform. it is true that she is struggling to garner much support from within the conservative party for her bid for the leadership. when she ran in the leadership

who are we back to olivia utley. who are we don't have olivia either. okay.g to talk about some of the people on the cabinet there as well, and familiar names. oliver cabinet there as well, and familiar names . oliver dowden cabinet there as well, and familiar names. oliver dowden is in there as the shadow deputy leader, jeremy hunt stairs as the is the shadow chancellor of the is the shadow chancellor of the exchequer there, which is amazing for him because he wasn't expected to win his seat. yeah, win his constituency . so yeah, win his constituency. so great fight back from him. andrew mitchell, shadow secretary of state for foreign , secretary of state for foreign, commonwealth and cameron. yeah, yeah. commonwealth and cameron. yeah, yeah . well cameron was always yeah. well cameron was always going to go. he was always going to go. he wasn't going to stay. >> it was very difficult for a lord to hold that post because you can't obviously get into the commons, and richard holden also quit, even though he managed to hold on to his seat as party chair, hold

you can play a grand piano for olivia utley. >> so you've got to get to paris and things. for accommodation. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> through the roof. >> through the roof. >> the other thing is there's certain sports i don't think should be in the olympics, and football is one of them. i just. yeah i just don't think i mean track and field. i'm all for that. no. absolutely no problem. but football goodness, if there isn't enough football . isn't enough football. >> yeah i mean yeah i think, you know, i've got some sort of sympathy for that because i mean, there's lots of professional sports now. basketball for example, basketball was great. and then all of a sudden the nba crew were allowed in. and that can be a bit challenging when you think of the multi million pound players you've got there against an amateur and an amateur, this is another good discussion because even in my day, as an athlete, you went from shamateurism , where you had a shamateurism, where you had a few bob in brown envelopes to professional athletics and even athletes . today, if you're goin

olivia, let's go to olivia utley. olivia.en doing this tour of various countries in europe, poland, sweden . and in europe, poland, sweden. and he's talking about resetting the relationship with the eu. now, labour party have said over and over again during no plans to rejoin the customs union, rejoin the eu in general. but it does sound a little bit as though david lammy is keen on some sort of partnership with the eu. whether that would be making specific deals, possibly in the chemical sector and in the veterinary sector as well. the eu have said that they are not interested in reopening the negotiation with britain. i mean, it could be they weren't interested in reopening that negotiation under the conservatives because they didn't think they would get a better deal under the conservatives. might the relationship be very different for labour? either way, i think it'll have brexiteers getting very, very worried indeed. and let's not forget of course, that a lot of brexiteers are labour voters , so they won't be happy voter

i'm joined in the studio by our political correspondent , olivia utley. correspondent, olivia utley.? a lot of people, of course, said ed miliband, known for his net zero sir davey. he was the guy responsible for green taxes on every single bill in britain. but even this decision seems to have taken a lot of people by surprise. tell us all about it. >> well, it was in the manifesto that the labour party was going to stop new licences for drilling in the north sea, and it was also technically in the manifesto, buried pretty deep in the manifesto on page 52, that the manifesto on page 52, that the labour party would actually withdraw licences which were in the process of being granted by the process of being granted by the conservative government. but of course, no one knew when the election was going to be at this stage. and what's happened is these bids, these bids for new licences for north sea oil drilling have got really , really drilling have got really, really far along. in fact, it was thought that in the next couple of weeks they would be approved by regulators. so i don't thi

olivia, good morning to utley.arly on to prove himself on the international stage. back here in the uk , all stage. back here in the uk, all of the focus is on defence spending . general sir patrick spending. general sir patrick sanders, the outgoing head of the army, has warned keir starmer that unless he increases defence spending , then britain defence spending, then britain is currently only in a position where it could fight a small war for about a month . he says that for about a month. he says that the armed forces need to be massively increased. now. keir starmer has said that he will increase defence spending by 2.5, but he hasn't promised to do it in this parliament and over the election. that was a sticking point between the two leaders. rishi sunak said that he would increase it by 2.5% in this parliament. obviously he is not prime minister, so that's a bit of a moot point . general sir bit of a moot point. general sir patrick sanders also said that 2.5% wouldn't really be enough. it would need to be cl

well, i'm joined in our studio by our political correspondent, olivia utley olivia.ing away in the break there because i'm going to be a cynic now, sir keir starmer thought england were going to win the european championship. let's make the announcement. the next morning. we really care about grassroots football. they were hoping to wide ride a wave of national glory. am i being a cynic? >> i think it's fair to say that this new policy announcement was probably dreamt up in the hope that england was going to win. there isn't very much meat on the bones yet. >> lisa nandy the new dcms secretary, has said that labour will give more support to grassroots football clubs in an aim to get more children into football in various areas up and down the country. >> what exactly support means? we're yet to find out. will there actually be any money behind it? it's possible that labour left the wording a little vague, because perhaps if england had won, it would have been easier to sort of capitalise on that. and perhaps more funding would have gone into these into these, footbal

. >> well, joining me now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley. olivia, we've heard keir starmer's plans with regard to migration. yvette cooper has talked an interesting game. nail bars and also car washes. tell us a bit more about their plans. >> well keir starmer has a sort of multi—pronged approach to tackling the illegal migration problem. one of those ideas is to essentially increase the number of civil servants who are working on the paperwork for sending migrants who've come here back to, if not where they came from, then another third country, yvette cooper, wants to introduce a thousand new civil servants in that enforcement role. those will essentially be pen pushers, unsurprisingly, perhaps, that that hasn't sort of caught the imagination of the british public. and there are other strategies that keir starmer is pursuing too, one which you heard a little about. there is this idea to give more funding to african nations where we are seeing large numbers of migrants come in from in the hope that, you know, if the training and schools and

olivia utley will be catching up with you a little bit later, but thank you very much.from a very stormy downing street. now here is a breakdown of those results from last night. as we were saying, labour has scooped up 412 seats, far more needed than that 326 winning post. that majority line in the house of commons, the liberal democrats have picked up 71, an increase a huge increase on the previous total of a level 11. and of course, the snp has nine. they're still fighting it out with the liberal democrats for the last seat in the country. that's going for another recount. it won't be declared until tomorrow. it's the only seat that has yet to be declared. so it could be the snp are on ten, or it could be that they're on nine. and of course reform uk have just picked up an extra one. they're now on five. well, my goodness me, let's dissect what has been an extraordinary what is it i suppose 2322 out, 21 hours maybe, goodness me, i've been up for a very long time over the last day. joining me is my panel, liberal democrats federal board member callum robertson , forme

yeah so during that excellent interview there by olivia utley , several things by olivia utley, severalbeen happening here. pat mcfadden has been confirmed as the chancellor of the duchy of lancaster. that's a very, very senior role. the most senior role in the cabinet office with eyes on all of government's work. he's been so trusted with a very successful general election campaign . that's no election campaign. that's no surprise. while we've been while that interview was going on there with lee anderson, jo stevens, the shadow welsh secretary, she's gone in liz kendall now. she is actually the work and pensions secretary. forgive me. of course. earlier it was lucy powell and she's a shadow leader of the house. they're all in there. angela smith, baroness smith, she's the shadow leader of the house of lords. she has gone in. who has left so far ? rachel reeves has left so far? rachel reeves has left so far? rachel reeves has left looking happy. and of course we saw angela rayner giving a big thumbs up, which indicating she's quite looking forward to being in government . forward to be

olivia utley, thank you so much. really good to talk to you. that is olivia utley. our political correspondent. she's out there in westminster. well, joining me now, my head to head is former home office minister norman baker and editor at large at the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths. right. so i'm going to start with you, norman baker. okay. conservatives suella braverman even admits that they deserve the defeat. but what what is your view on why it all went wrong? >> well, there's a whole range of reasons . we've been in power of reasons. we've been in power for a long time. and that was obviously people like change every now and then. partygate was on the doorstep. i mean, people haven't forgotten about partygate and boris johnson. they hadn't forgotten about liz truss disastrous mini—budget and her 49 days in office. and they they've just felt there was the corruption. there's all the scandals and it was time for a change. that old fashioned slogan was the one that was the one that resonated on the doorstep. but beyond that , if doorstep. but beyond that, if

and to discuss that, we're joining the studio by our political correspondent, olivia utley olivia.e said the other night 6 or 7 tory mps would have kept their seats if they'd followed lee anderson's lead and defected. is that a love letter to suella braverman, and do you think there's any any chance such a big name could cross the floor? >> i think it's unlikely that suella braverman crosses the floor, she has denied these rumours for weeks and weeks . rumours for weeks and weeks. obviously reform would very much like her to, as you say, she is a big name and it is true that before the election, she was sort of talking about how someone like nigel farage should be welcomed into the conservative party, but she did make it clear that it was that way around. she thinks that, you know, reform is the tail on the dog if you like. and i can't see a situation where, you know, the tail would be wagging the dog. that said, as you say, martin, i mean, the conservatives do have a nigel farage problem. reform picked up millions of votes in the last election, and obviously if the conservatives h

i'm joined now by our political correspondent olivia utley. good evening to you.three days to go.bnng evening to you. three days to go. bring us up to speed with what we've missed. >> three days to go. as you say. i've been on the labour battle bus today following keir starmer. now labour is campaigning in what used to be real tory heartlands. i was in buckinghamshire earlier , buckinghamshire earlier, oxfordshire as well. these are places with majorities of over 20,000 for the conservatives, but labour are so confident at this election and unsurprisingly, when you look at the polls and what the bookies have to say, they are now thinking that they can pick up seats like bletchley in buckinghamshire or chipping norton. david cameron's old seat in oxfordshire. that said, they are a little bit worried about the conservatives talking up this idea of a labour supermajority because they're superm ajority because they're worried supermajority because they're worried that labour voters will get complacent. if you're a lifelong labour voter living in a safe seat and you're

to our political correspondent olivia utley, you are live in downing street's.nng are live in downing street's. bring everybody up to speed with what what what today had to hold . what what what today had to hold. >> well, yeah, i am here in downing street with a new prime minister behind us, and he has now assembled most of his new cabinet. last night was absolutely extraordinary. a night to remember in british politics. the labour party have won with a majority just shy of what tony blair achieved back in 1997. it is a phenomenal victory, particularly as they came from so, so far back, perhaps even more remarkable than the political earthquake of 97. that said, it must be caveated a little bit in that won labour with quite a small proportion of the vote share just 35. in fact, only 3% more than jeremy corbyn lost with back in 2019, which i think explains the speech from keir starmer that we heard at about lunchtime today. some people were expecting radical, bombastic, gleeful, were expecting radical, bombastic, gleeful , triumphant. bombastic, gleeful, triumph

joining us now is our political correspondent olivia utley. party saying . saying. >> well i'm on the labour battle bus today. and as you can probably see from the scene behind me, we are very much in tory heartlands area. >> i'm in buckinghamshire at the moment . constituencies like this moment. constituencies like this historically have had majority majorities of over 20,000. >> but now the labour insiders i've been speaking to suggest that they are marginal seats and that they are marginal seats and that they are marginal seats and that they can be won. we heard just now from the candidate here, this is actually a new constituency, and the candidate here said if someone had told him at the beginning of this election campaign that he would be standing up with keir starmer on the final week of the election campaign, trying to win over a true blue constituency like that, that he wouldn't have believed it. but here we are. >> on the other hand, despite what they're doing in constituencies like this, it seems that keir starmer's biggest worry at

thank you so much, olivia utley. you are there in college green for us in westminster.ll joining us is journalist and broadcaster alastair stewart. matthew goodwin, professor of politics and international relations emma webb, political commentator and the political presentation coach, graham davis, alastair stewart, i'll start with you . interesting to start with you. interesting to think about what might happen on the right of politics after this momentous moment. keir starmer, our prime minister, what happens? there's a lot of anger in the conservative party before people bin all of the paperwork that they'd gathered over the years, newspaper cuttings and speeches on rishi sunak and his government. >> they need to look out his mays lecture , where he set out mays lecture, where he set out a really thoughtful economic programme for the conservatives, and also the sunday telegraph. after the liz truss, debacle with that budget. and the sunday telegraph said this country needs a debate about who we are, which is what keir starmer just said, funnily enough. but more impor

and our political correspondent olivia utley standing by for us. good morning to you, olivia. but also i suppose a word needs to be said on i suppose the post—mortem for the conservatives and what their appetite is for any sort of leadership contest in the immediate future. oscar eddrup was saying a little bit earlier that it has to be decided before conference. is that right? >> i think the conservatives will want to get it sorted before conference, but i don't think there is an appetite to get it done immediately. almost all conservatives i've spoken to said that the conservatives need some time to think, to work out where things have gone wrong, and not just to rush into electing a new leader. it feels as though over the next weeks and months, we'll be sort of heading into a battle for the soul of the conservative party. there are conservatives i've spoken to, suella braverman among them, who essentially say that the problem the conservatives have had is not being right wing enough, not being right wing enough, not being tough enough on immigration, not leaving the echr, no

gb news political correspondent olivia utley is there. morning, olivia.e? she what? what is she trying to say and do? when she was actually part of the government that she's calling treated people like mugs ? treated people like mugs? >> she was part of that government. but definitely she is now the first out of the gate. it feels as though the fight is on for the heart and soul of the conservative party. suella braverman definitely sounds like she is making a bid for the leadership and the platform. it sounds as though she will be standing on is a platform to take back those voters who went over to reform. the conservatives lost 250 seats, and in 166 of those, the reform vote was bigger than the conservative majority. so if the reform vote had all gone over to the conservatives and suella braverman thinks that could be possible next time round if the conservatives take a much tougher line on immigration, then the conservatives would have won 290 seats. but of course, what's interesting about thatis course, what's interesting about that is 280 seats still

we've got our political correspondent, olivia utley, here to give us her take on things.y? >> well, this is always going to be a huge problem for keir starmer. he was on a crash course with the unions. he said that he was going to raise teachers salaries by 3. the unions obviously aren't happy with that. he also said that he was going to end the chaos of the tory government, and a lot of that chaos was down to the endless strikes. so he really, really needs to stop those unions striking. and the only way to do that is to raise salaries by above inflation. so what he's saying is 5.5. now, of course, the problem with that, even though we all think that it would be nice if teachers could be paid more, is that it costs 3.5 billion more than the manifesto that which was published just a few weeks ago, bargained for. and obviously, if you offer teachers a 5.5% pay rise, there will be lots of other public sector workers across the whole country. they haven't settled with the doctors yet. wes streeting is opened conversations with them. the doctors might be more willing to make a

utley olivia, i'm very jealous. have you had any strawberries and cream yet or is it too early? >> too early in the day for strawberries and cream. but i actually went to wimbledon just for my own enjoyment. on tuesday and saw djokovic play, which was very exciting. after just three and a half weeks after coming back from his knee surgery. today is a huge day for british tennis . we're expecting to see tennis. we're expecting to see andy murray play in the doubles with his brother jamie, and it's with his brotherjamie, and it's thought that this might be his last match at wimbledon. he's playing in the paris olympics later, which apparently will be the official end to his illustrious career, but also actually novak djokovic in his speech, which i heard on tuesday , speech, which i heard on tuesday, suggested perhaps andy murray should come back next year for another go at the singles, which he's had to pull out of this yeah he's had to pull out of this year. but it's not just andy murray who's playing today. we also

. >> we're joined now by gb news political correspondent olivia utley, who is nearby.a, good morning. how significant is mr zelenskyy's presence in downing street and also, what doesit downing street and also, what does it mean for sir keir starmer and the start of his premiership? >> well , premiership? >> well, vladimir zelenskyy is the first foreign leader to visit the new prime minister and as we've heard, he is the first foreign leader to address a cabinet in the uk since bill clinton in 1997. this invitation shows that keir starmer is still very serious about helping ukraine, and the two men are expected to agree a export defence treaty worth £3.5 billion. so essentially britain will sort of loan that money to ukraine so that ukraine can buy british weapons. this will come as a huge relief to vladimir zelenskyy. the change of government hasn't signalled any change in the uk's staunch support of ukraine. but in other areas, zelenskyy is coming under some some difficulty. he's been at the epc for the last couple of days where viktor orban, the president of hungary,

. >> okay, well, we're now joined by gb news political correspondent olivia utley olivia.itment from keir starmer. and it will come as a big relief to volodymyr zelenskyy. obviously boris johnson, the prime minister back in 2022, was committed to ukraine to the point where in lviv there were croissants being made with boris johnson's face on it. rishi sunak continued that financial support for ukraine and now it's clear that the change of governance in the uk won't change that at all. keir starmer, both invited vladimir zelenskyy to be his very first foreign leader guest in downing street. in fact, the first foreign leader to give an address to a cabinet in the uk since 1997. and he has also committed to giving ukraine funding every year for the next ten years. that is above the £3.5 ten years. that is above the £35 billion defence package, £3.5 billion defence package, which has now been agreed between britain and ukraine, whereby britain will essentially loan money to ukraine so that ukraine can purchase british weapons. now this is good for vladimir zelenskyy, but even

. >> thank you, olivia utley, for coming back to westminster from the campaign trail with the labour much forjoining us here in the studio. now moving on. french right winger marine le pen has declared her party as practically wiped out emmanuel macron after a decisive victory in the first round of voting in france's snap election. le pen's party, national rally has received around 34% of the vote, while president macron's coalition have crashed into third with a dismal 21. well, let's find out more from paris based journalist peter allen. so peter , this election was called peter, this election was called by macron in response to a terrible set of election results from the european union election. has his gamble spectacularly backfired? >> it certainly backfired. i think, martin, there's no doubt about that at all. >> as you say, three weeks ago he was very unhappy because the national rally of marine le pen and jordan bardella had achieved 32% in european elections. >> they won , clearly seats in >> they won, clearly seats in the european parliament for that . but the french people

he came and he gave an interview to my colleague olivia utley shortly after on tv news and said he'saged by the way, that the labour pm wants to work with the labour pm wants to work with the local mayors and the pm has made clear in his half half nine cabinet meeting, his second in three days, that he wants to have that meeting around the country and ensure that this government is seen to be governing for all regions of the country, and that's to be welcomed. i think, >> and then are they going to be given any new tax raising powers? are they going to be given any more money? are they just going to be able to make bigger decisions? do we know the detail yet ? detail yet? >> we don't know yet. we know what some of them are asking for. for example, sadiq khan, who's the mayor of london, he's asking for more control over commuter rail services. currently, they're of course controlled by private companies. but the policy of this government , as louise but the policy of this government, as louise hague told me, the transport secretary on saturday when i was standing in the same spot aski

. >> well joining us now is gb news political correspondent olivia utley, who is live for us in westminsterglimpse, wasn't it, of sir keir starmer as a statesman on the world stage. how do you think the summit has gone for him ? gone for him? >> well, once again it felt as though keir starmer's ducks fell into a row before the general election. keir starmer got lucky over and over again. the snp imploded the conservatives tore themselves apart and this time round he's on the world stage for the first time, to talking president biden and england manages to get to the finals of the euro. so most of the lobby journalists who were there weren't asking searching questions about defence spending for britain. they were asking for britain. they were asking for the prime minister and the president's reaction to the euro victory. so overall, it went pretty well. biden and starmer seemed to get on well. biden even said jokingly, of course, that the that the football victory was down to the new prime minister biden also sort of sounded as though he was endorsing britain, having closer ties with the eur