very good morning to you . good very good morning to you. good morning. welcome to a brand new week. you're watching and listening to bev turner today on gb news. now any minute. keir starmer is going to be taking to the stage in leeds where he's going to set out his vision for great britain, including a swift and decisive abolition of the house of lords. would you support that? win poll support that? it's win a poll today news. also the today at gb news. and also the long damage from long lasting damage from lockdowns includes child lockdowns now includes child deaths from strep a. let's find out everything that parents need to know about that. plus, the online safety bill is going through parliament today after

four an outfit for four years as an outfit for purpose. plus liam halligan , purpose. plus liam halligan, amy, and peace with lots, amy, nicole and peace with lots, lots more. all coming up after a look the latest news . a very look at the latest news. a very good morning, woman. it passed ten on rosie wright. let's get you up to date . if the labour you up to date. if the labour party win the next general election, they'll look at abolishing the house of lords, calling system calling the current system indefensible. sir keir starmer will very shortly today set out his blueprint for a new britain, promising the biggest ever transfer of power from westminster to nations and regions . if his party are regions. if his party are elected . pledging to provide elected. pledging to provide political and economic devolution at a joint conference in leeds today. sir keir starmer and the former prime minister gordon brown will promise to overhaul the way britain's governed. we're expecting that speech to start shortly. speech to start very shortly. we'll that announcement to we'll bring that announcement to you it starts . now the you live when it starts. now the uk's biggest business groups say there'll be a decade of lost economic growth in britain if

action isn't taken by the government. the cbi forecast the country's already in recession, with rocketing inflation, negative growth and falling productivity. the groups say stagflation, a combination of stagnation and rising prices is preventing firms from investing . the transport secretary, mark harper, says the armed us decision to reject an improved pay decision to reject an improved pay offer is incredibly disappointing and unfair to the pubuc. disappointing and unfair to the public . a pay rise of 8% and public. a pay rise of 8% and guarantee of no compulsory redundancy fees before april 20, 24 had been tabled . but the uk's 24 had been tabled. but the uk's biggest rail unions said the deal wouldn't protect its members and would lead to unsafe practises the strike action is due to go ahead for four days this month . meanwhile, 33,000 this month. meanwhile, 33,000 members of the fire brigades union will vote today if they should walk out following a 5% pay should walk out following a 5% pay offer that few say striking is the last resort. pay offer that few say striking is the last resort . but many are is the last resort. but many are desperate , with some struggling desperate, with some struggling to afford to live . firefighter to afford to live. firefighter and trade unionist paul embery

says they've been left with no option. we're being asked to take another significant real terms pay cut. and at a time when fire fighters like everybody else across the country are really struggling to make ends . country are really struggling to make ends. may i've been a firefighter for 25 years, and this is the first time really that i've had colleagues say to me, they can't afford to buy their christmas presents. their kids christmas presents. they're to their they're struggling to pay their mortgage bills, their energy bills etc. it's a decision bills, etc. so it's a decision that none of us want to take. but when you consider the paltry pay but when you consider the paltry pay we've that's pay offer we've been that's that's saved, we've really that's been saved, we've really been with no other option, been left with no other option, frankly . the government set out frankly. the government set out plans to overhaul nhs pension rules in an attempt to retain more senior doctors. the proposals would allow staff to claim their pension benefits but continue working and contributing to that pension and remove barriers to retired coalition spending. returning to work , though, secretary steve work, though, secretary steve barclay says the move will help open up extra appointments . open up extra appointments. england will play defending

champions france in the world cup quarter finals on saturday. last night the three lions beat senegal three nil in qatar. jordan henderson scored the first goal. captain harry kane made it to nil with his first goal of the tournament and bukayo saka got the third. now the england forward raheem sterling, though, wasn't present at the game. the 27 year old is flown back to the uk after armed intruders broke into his home in surrey while his family were inside. the manager, gareth southgate, said family is the most important thing and didn't say whether the chelsea winger would the for would return to the squad for saturday's game . you're up to saturday's game. you're up to date on gb news up where you most happen. now back to beth . most happen. now back to beth. very good morning. this is bev turner. today we are obviously the channel to bring to you all

the channel to bring to you all the breaking news and keir starmer is talking this morning in leeds. i do believe that gordon brown is on the stage now. let's hear what he has to . what and i want to thank the members of the commission sitting in the front row here for all the work they have done, representing every region and every nation of our country. thank you very much for what you've . said for today. what you've. said for today. what labouris you've. said for today. what labour is doing. we have ditching a century of centralisation . we are calling centralisation. we are calling a halt to the over centralisation of power at the centre that has brought us conservatives sleaze

and conservative scandal . and we and conservative scandal. and we we're ending the long era of the man in whitehall, somehow knowing best no stop from our faith , that instead of faith, that instead of developing some of the potential of only some of the people in some areas of the country, we can create a united kingdom that develops all of the potential of all people in all areas of the country . and identified in our country. and identified in our report a 288 new economic clusters , 200 of them outside clusters, 200 of them outside london and digital environmental life , science, advanced life, science, advanced manufacturing and creative industries. these are the future engines of growth . they cover engines of growth. they cover every city and every region where employment hotspots capable of creating tens of thousands of new high paying jobs around our country. thousands of new high paying jobs around our country . and we jobs around our country. and we show today how mayors and local economic partnerships and local authorities can create a supportive local environment and environment and so, first of

all, to link the jobs people need to the companies who need them, we proposed. 638 jobcentres. transferred from inflexible central control down to local control to match local skills to local employment needs . the devolution of 200 colleges of education to local control . of education to local control. to finance, research and investment urgently needed across this country . and to across this country. and to bndge across this country. and to bridge the regional equity facing growing firms. bridge the regional equity facing growing firms . the facing growing firms. the british business bank will be transform into the british national and regional bank and to build regional transport and infrastructure we propose joint ventures with the european investment bank , but to secure investment bank, but to secure the irreversible transfer of wealth, income and opportunity that we want to see. we also need an irreversible transfer of power past devolution, settlements, as tracey has just described, have left the centre unreformed. so to ensure the right powers are in the right places. we must first stop the

wrong powers being wielded by the wrong people in the wrong places and so the new britain needs a new westminster step and we need a new whitehall . in we need a new whitehall. in recent years , as you all know , recent years, as you all know, an unreformed centre has been exposed as out of date, out of touch with local needs, out of its debts when it tries to micro—manage local events and all too often out of control conflicts of interests, the misuse of power, the abuse of patronage , ethics so patronage, ethics so unacceptable that this government has lost all its recent ethics advisers . so we've recent ethics advisers. so we've not just changed who makes the decisions . we've got to change decisions. we've got to change the way decisions are made. now, the way decisions are made. now, the starting point of cleaning up our politics is setting forward a mission statement of what the united kingdom is for. these are our obligations to each other to deliver free universal health care, end poverty , build a sustainable poverty, build a sustainable environment, have strong poverty, build a sustainable environment , have strong defence environment, have strong defence and guaranteed security . and

and guaranteed security. and with that are new rules so that pubuc with that are new rules so that public servants will always serve the public. enforced by an anti—corruption agency that we proposed to investigate wrongdoing guided by an integrity and ethics commission as proposed by angela rayner for day to day monitoring of standards in public life . and so standards in public life. and so that it standards in public life. and so thatitis standards in public life. and so that it is clear that the era of self—regulation at the centre is oven self—regulation at the centre is over. a citizens jury representing the public undertaking a regular review of standards in public life backed up standards in public life backed ”p by standards in public life backed up by a ban on all foreign funding of british politics and an end to mps. second jobs. so we need a clean up, but we also need to clear out 50,000 civil servants transferred out of london to sav e £200 million on london to save £200 million on the first 12 of many agencies that are also candidates of the special . to save millions of special. to save millions of pounds more to the benefit of all the proposals that rachel reevesis all the proposals that rachel reeves is making the replacement of the indefensible . eight 830

of the indefensible. eight 830 member house of lords with a smaller democratic second chamber, which would be an assembly of the nations and regions that would lose its right to delay ordinary legislation for a year. but assume a new function to protect the constitution. our message is opportunities for all unfair privileges for no one. and to ensure we work together in future. we've got to end the standoff between local and national politics with a new council of the united kingdom, chaired by the prime minister, to examine issues of common concern to all parts of the country . now, in 2016, the country. now, in 2016, the british people were promised they would take back control . they would take back control. but it's not the people . but the but it's not the people. but the old conservative establishment that took back control and millions of people both leave and remain. voters still feel neglected, ignored, forgotten , neglected, ignored, forgotten, invisible to the powers that be. i'm often left with the feeling that they're being treated as second class citizens . so as we second class citizens. so as we make clear, labour is not the

old establishment in waiting. it is a new government in waiting, ready to transform britain. now, after years of moving apart , after years of moving apart, devolution in scotland , northern devolution in scotland, northern ireland and wales and then centralisation in england , we centralisation in england, we are now all talking about empowering local communities and with a detailed plan to make the uk work for scotland and wales as well as for the regions. uk work for scotland and wales as well as for the regions . we as well as for the regions. we tell both yes and no voters that we can reunite the country. the issue now is no longer in dependence versus the status quo in scotland, but change within the uk to benefit scotland versus change by leaving the uk, which would do damage to scotland. and so i believe today we can give people hope. removing the dead hand of centralisation we are proposing that there will be a government not just off the people. and for the people , but a government by the people, but a government by the people, but a government by the people. so there is a basic truth upon which we build all

the recommendations of our report that you will see in detail today . and again, i want detail today. and again, i want to thank all members of the commission for the work they have done. wherever you go in britain, there is talent yet to be developed abilities still to be developed abilities still to be realised, endless potential waiting to be fulfilled and conscious of this huge gap today between the britain we have and the britain we have in our power to become . i look forward to a to become. i look forward to a new britain where there is equality and opportunity and fairness and outcome. a new britain led by the labour party . a new britain led by keir starmer, who might introduce it to you now. thank you very much . to you now. thank you very much. thank you , gordon. and thanks to thank you, gordon. and thanks to all of you for coming this morning. i can see so many faces

here. it's fantastic to be back at leeds university, where i spent three happy years and thank you to the commission members who've joined us this morning as well . thank you, morning as well. thank you, tracey . you're doing an tracey. you're doing an incredible job here in west yorkshire , protecting the safety yorkshire, protecting the safety of women and girls . cheaper and of women and girls. cheaper and better buses . making this region better buses. making this region a hub of green industry . but better buses. making this region a hub of green industry. but i know that you could do so much more. i know that businesses here, people here, communities here, people here, communities here could do so much more . but here could do so much more. but your big help to held back by a system that holds power in westminster , a system which smug westminster, a system which smug belief thinks it's knows what skills transport planning a job support west yorkshire needs better that the people who live here. i've long been convinced that this broken model has held back our politics and held back

our economy . and i'm determined our economy. and i'm determined we are combined ourselves and free our potential . britain is free our potential. britain is one of the most centralised systems in europe. and the centre has not delivered . i centre has not delivered. i don't want it to fall apart. i want us to build something new. anyone can see what's happening in the uk today. anyone can see what's happening in the uk today . we have an in the uk today. we have an unbalanced economy, one which makes too little use of the talents of too few people in too few places . and which the tories few places. and which the tories have dragged into a vicious cycle of low growth and high taxes . me a pen faced with this taxes. me a pen faced with this narrow path of stagnation . is it narrow path of stagnation. is it any surprise that people up and down the country are crying out for a new approach now during the brexit referendum, i argued for remain. but i couldn't disagree with the basic case that lots of leave voters made

to me . they wanted more control to me. they wanted more control over their lives, more control over their lives, more control over their lives, more control over their country. they want it to create opportunities for the next generation, build communities they felt proud of pubuc communities they felt proud of public services they could rely on, and i know that in the scottish referendum in 2014, many of those who voted yes did so for similar reasons. the same frustration. so the westminster system that seems remote . the system that seems remote. the same yearning for the chance to build a fairer future for themselves and their families. people know britain needs change , but they're never going to get it from the tories who talk about levelling up but refuse to move power away from westminster , who once promised a stronger union but can't work with or for scotland , and who think that the scotland, and who think that the only route to prosperity is to

make the rich richer. i hope that somehow it trickles down to everyone else to build the future of country deserves means change . it means higher change. it means higher standards in public life. a wider spread of power, an opportunity and better economic growth that benefits everyone wherever they are . no more navel wherever they are. no more navel gazing or facing inwards higher, wider , better . that gazing or facing inwards higher, wider , better. that is how wider, better. that is how britain must set its sights around determined fit with laboun around determined fit with labour. that's exactly what we will do. that's why i ask gordon and the commission to carry out and the commission to carry out a report on the future of the uk . i ask them to put together a proposal for the big ever transfer of power from westminster to the british people , so that if labour wins people, so that if labour wins the next election, britain will see a change not just in who governs but how we are governed

. the tools to a fairer society and a stronger economy place directly in the hands of working people. so together we can build an economy not just for the many , but by the many. and of the many . now, redistribution is a many. now, redistribution is a good thing , but it's not a one good thing, but it's not a one word plan for a fair society or a strong economy . by empowering a strong economy. by empowering our towns, cities, region and nafions our towns, cities, region and nations to work together on local growth plans , labour will local growth plans, labour will reignite our economy. new powers over skills, transport, planning and culture. all helping to drive growth by developing hundreds of clusters of economic activity , labour will rebuild activity, labour will rebuild trust by reforming the centre of government, cleaning up sleaze, nourishing the relationship between central government and the devolved authorities , and

the devolved authorities, and replacing the unelect house of lords with a new, smaller, democratically elected second chamber. not only less expensive, but also representing the regions and nations of the united kingdom . and labour will united kingdom. and labour will reunite our country with new missions based on our shared values and priorities . values and priorities. cooperating to tackle climate change and addressing inequality. giving scotland. wales northern ireland and the regions of england. new status . regions of england. new status. and louder. prouder voices in a reformed and modern united kingdom . i want to thank gordon kingdom. i want to thank gordon and the commission for their work . they put forward work. they put forward a compelling vision of how we can break britain's economic and political malaise . how we can political malaise. how we can restore trust to british politics. how we can offer a fairer, greener future to the whole of our united kingdom .

whole of our united kingdom. that vision is underpinned by serious and bold recommendations . and these will now be a matter of public consultation so they can be tested , refined and made can be tested, refined and made ready for implementation . we ready for implementation. we will set out our final plans in our manifesto and i invite everyone who wants to build that fairer , greener future to get fairer, greener future to get involved . whether you voted involved. whether you voted leave or remain . yes or no . live leave or remain. yes or no. live in a city or town. we will make common cause with you . together common cause with you. together we will forge something bold , we will forge something bold, something modern, something hopeful. together we will build a better future . thank you . a better future. thank you. thank you . we're now going to

thank you. we're now going to take some questions from the media on this bit of race with the trains to see who arrived and what order they arrived. but i'm going to do my best on who i know and think is here best from sky. can we take you first? i could see you arrive safely. got here . okay keir starmer. at a here. okay keir starmer. at a time when people are struggling to pay their bills, feed their families and are striking over pay families and are striking over pay settlements, you've produced 155 five page report. talking about devolution, constitutional reform and abolishing the house of lords. this might look to many people as completely out of touch. and you could look like another politician talking to westminster about stuff that might never come to pass. can you give me one thing in this

report that would improve people's lives from day one of a labour government ? and if i may, labour government? and if i may, to gordon brown. nicholas sturgeon has declared the next election a de facto independence referendum. you talk about farther devolution , but hasn't farther devolution, but hasn't the horse already bolted ? and do the horse already bolted? and do you accept that scotland could become an independent nation in your lifetime or mine? thank you . but the complete opposite to the proposition you put to me. this is vitally important . if we this is vitally important. if we ask ourselves in this room across the country what is the single biggest thing that's holding us back? it's failure of economic growth over the last 12 years. i profoundly believe that amongst the causes for that is because we have allowed and empowered every part of our country to play its part in building our economy . we've building our economy. we've allowed we've relied far too much on london and the south—east we have not let the

whole country play its part. this addresses that question, and i can tell you, wherever i am across the country, whether it's burnley, hull, blackpool , it's burnley, hull, blackpool, sterling, sunderland, southampton , everybody i meet, southampton, everybody i meet, and so did my shadow cabinet. they meet community of businesses. some people that say we've got ideas, we've got innovation, we want our community and our place to be even better than it is . we just even better than it is. we just need a government that shares our ambition, shares our vision for the future. so this could not be more relevant and, you know, i'm fed up to the back teeth with sticking plaster for the problems that we've got. the underlying problem is our economy isn't working. this is a strong , compelling set of strong, compelling set of recommendations that do what politicians of all agreed needs to be done. but nobody's actually done it. which is to be bold enough to say, but we've got to stop those in western metro whitehall pretending that they know best about the communities that desperately want to play their part in the future. going to transfer future. we're going to transfer that power to them, rebuild our

economy . and i don't think this economy. and i don't think this is the complete opposite of a discussion in westminster is accepting the westminster is not the place for those decisions to be made. they've got to be made elsewhere. gordon, can i bring you in on the second element of that? just as in 2016, a lot of people voted for brexit because they thought that was their only chance of change . in 2014, a lot chance of change. in 2014, a lot of people voted for independence because they thought that was the only change on offer . we are the only change on offer. we are changing that entire. today we are breaking new ground, the ground on which the battle is fought and scotland is changing forever because what we are saying is we are offering change within the uk that will benefit scotland as against change by leaving the united kingdom, which we think will do damage to scotland and that's going to be the debate from now on in not change and not independence versus the status quo, but change within britain versus change within britain versus change by leaving britain and the measures, of course, we are

putting forward to give more power to scotland and to wales and to the regions and localities and communities of england all go hand in hand and not in the same direction together. so when you come to the next election, it may be that the scottish national party will have a one line manifesto and 1 to 1 issue general election . but i tell you this we election. but i tell you this we have done a huge amount of research on scottish public opinion and people want a better health service immediately . health service immediately. people want living standards, improved immediately. people want jobs for young people immediately. people want better housing immediately. immediately. people want better housing immediately . and people, housing immediately. and people, of course want change in the way that we are suggesting immediately. and that's going to be the issue on which we fought. we thought we are offering a plan for economic, social, political constant useful political and constant useful reform, not a one issue election. thank you . mr. election. thank you. mr. starmer. so just if i may be a

bit cheeky and ask a quick follow up. i asked you one which policy in this report from day one will change people's lives because it's so amorphous. what's the one thing that you're going to do? the most important thing in that report that will change all of our lives, both in relation to skills, education, transport, resources, finances into our local communities so that they can help us grow the economy. there are some examples of this. you've got video games in dundee, you've got ceramics in dundee, you've got ceramics in the midlands, you've got creative media in bristol and bath. hydrogen could be what the north—east revitalise is around. there are so many examples. i think we've got 288 economic clusters . if we were able to clusters. if we were able to transfer power in this way and get those clusters to operate, it will bring about a huge change everywhere , including change everywhere, including here in leeds. that would if we were to money. you are watching and listening to gb news. that was crystal . you could hear

was crystal. you could hear talking in the background. this is bev turner today we've been we've been listening to labour leader labour heavyweights gordon brown there, of course former pm and also sir keir starmer talking in leeds, announcing the findings of the commission on the uk's future report . it is the sexiest title report. it is the sexiest title ever , but what did you think of ever, but what did you think of what was contained therein ? what was contained therein? well, with me listening to this too, to have our response this morning is amy nicole, who also went to lead university where keir starmer went as he announced that i'm the director of the new culture forum, peter whittle right, guys, we sat here with our coffees. taking that in there quite lot to digest there was quite a lot to digest for peter it was a speech for me. peter it was a speech from both of them actually combined , which was about the combined, which was about the themes of this transfer of wealth. gordon brown was saying wealth. gordon brown was saying we will, you cannot have any reversible transfer of wealth without and irreversible transfer power. talking transfer of power. he's talking about a devolving of this decision making process into regions. was saying how can regions. he was saying how can somebody westminster know

somebody in westminster know what is right for the people of west yorkshire? got point, west yorkshire? he's got point, doesn't he ? i don't really think doesn't he? i don't really think so. i think it's sort of in a way you can't disagree with anything that was said because it was essentially a very cliched and very, very general . cliched and very, very general. and of course, this is like a kind of proposal programme , kind of proposal programme, isn't it? it's not there aren't any sort of direct apart from the house of lords, there aren't any details , proposals who any details, proposals who cannot disagree with regions having more power, who could not disagree with any of that. very few people would . i do feel few people would. i do feel can't help feeling. i think one of the questions there that we saw brought that up is that it felt that there are many more immediate problems facing the country at the moment when rather than , if you like, rather than, if you like, concentrating on what might be called constitutional matters. having said that, i mean , i'm having said that, i mean, i'm with him on the house of lords , with him on the house of lords, so i think that's not even a

particularly radical view anymore , simply because a lot of anymore, simply because a lot of parties believe the hospital should go . the conservatives should go. the conservatives aren't advocating for that, are they? no, they're not. they're not. but i mean, other parties, i think like the sd, sdp , i i think like the sd, sdp, i think the reform party of the smaller parties. yeah. and also it's been in the air hasn't it, for quite a long time really with the house of lords. it was, it was a very much a sort of drain the swamp. it was slightly trump in terms of talking about getting rid of the corruption in westminster. that's westminster. yeah, that's entirely opportunistic. yeah, of course corruption and course there's corruption and we've some sleaze and we've seen some sleaze and everything, so we'll see how they're actually making , you they're actually making, you know, some political hay that far . an offer that's worse. what far. an offer that's worse. what well, at the moment it will get more. what i would say is this my main point is this is that to me is see wrong emphasis what people want is not so much huge amount more power they just want strong politicians . yes, we have

strong politicians. yes, we have terrible weak politicians in all parties now. they want some politicians who have different views and are not viewed as simply being interchangeable . simply being interchangeable. thatis simply being interchangeable. that is actually that's the main thing that frustrates people now. well, strong politicians, i mean, they have gordon blair like i'm sorry , gordon brown. like i'm sorry, gordon brown. gordon blair. they they have gordon blair. they they have gordon brown , which really does gordon brown, which really does suggest that there still is nobody new coming through from labour.i nobody new coming through from labour. i know that he was in charge of this report. i get that. but surely the labour party have more impressive people to turn out on a day like today just rolling out today than just rolling out gordon yeah, think gordon brown. yeah, and i think what did, that was it made what that did, that was it made us all very nostalgic for gordon brown, because is brown, didn't it, because he is now. are kidding. now. that was you are kidding. although have as much although i have to say as much as i disagree, but there as i don't disagree, but there was a sense if there's a grown up the room compared to what up in the room compared to what we've seen quite i say gordon brown, and i'm safe brown, i feel that and i'm safe pair and then when pair of hands. and then when keir came on it was a bit like the main event wasn't quite as good as the support act. it was

a like he did feel as long a bit like he did feel as long as down there, it's, as having him down there, it's, it's almost he's saying it's almost like he's saying what say what he what kids means to say what he really was this them really meant was this have them both up like a parent, he says, i wouldn't say that i'd say like a an adviser. we a mentor, an adviser. but we don't work experience don't want the work experience guy potentially it's just guy to potentially be. it's just not it's the case that not the case. it's the case that now have two very powerful, now we have two very powerful, very men at the helm very capable men at the helm there that we've just seen. and i think the out of i think that's the out of very bold plan with a lot of conviction. and i think if you don't do the reforms , if you don't do the reforms, if you don't do the reforms, if you don't look at the house of lords and you don't look at the and if you don't look at the foreign, for example, the way they've talked about scotland, we do need a strong, equal mutual union and at the moment it looks like we're not going to get that. these are really important points and if you going to streamline and reform and clean westminster, then and clean up westminster, then that all the that will feed into all the things you're about the things you're saying about the bread butter politics bread and butter politics without reforming it from the centre, you're never going to get the and butter get to the bread and butter politics because going to politics because it's going to be all caught up in we've be all caught up in what we've

seen which has been seen since 2019, which has been lost all faith in any ethics, in any chance of a clean westminster and polish . boris westminster and polish. boris johnson has come in and he's had more lies . is johnson has come in and he's had more lies. is more emphasis , is more lies. is more emphasis, is always there. so like what's going on with him then what's going on with him then what's going on with the country? is there meat on bones there enough meat on the bones for you, though, amy, is that peter was saying that it was quite sort cliche as it was quite sort of cliche as it was quite sort of cliche as it was quite brushstroke. want a new quite brushstroke. we want a new britain, whitehall. britain, a new whitehall. it's out date, touch, out out of date, out of touch, out of control with these quite nice little in but little soundbites in there. but we're just all i don't matter with nothing to really grasp . i with nothing to really grasp. i don't think without that fund mental changes that they've discussed it, mental changes that they've discussed it , that they've discussed it, that they've discussed it, that they've discussed it, that they've discussed it, discuss their addressing the bloated civil service slimming down modernising westminster. you can't you need to have the clean slate to make the bigger changes and i think this set out a clean slate for actually i think is a what you could say is that therefore he's actually talking directly to westminster when he was talking, they're not

actually not the substance of his speech. if he's delivering messages to westminster, you know , about the civil service, know, about the civil service, about corruption , this thing about corruption, this thing about corruption, this thing about mps, you know , having about mps, you know, having second jobs, i think to me i actually don't mind if they have endorsed long as they could. mp but they're not being good employees and the impact of this situation in westminster is what's making it very hard for the electorate and it's making things a mess outside where i don't think it's because they have second jobs. i think that has a bit of a i don't think so because if you if you go back, you know, 20, 30, 40 years, we've had great employees who did jobs. i i think what did second jobs. i i think what this is tinkering, you like, this is tinkering, if you like, with the mechanics and fine, with all the mechanics and fine, you tinker with you should tinker with mechanics. but the ultimate thing is, people feel i think thing is, is people feel i think the huge whether on labour or conservative, i think we have got really low calibre politicians. i think it points out the hypocrisy with a lot of these people making our legislation and putting it

through the house of lords because if you take for example, they're saying, oh, a nurse will be fine . she's on 25 grand be fine. she's on 25 grand a year or whatever. nurses don't have time for second jobs, so mp are not practising what they preach in any way. and i think i think it shows that doesn't follow at all because they're completely out of touch. it doesn't follow at all. no, no. the point is, is that mps always could, you know, if they were lawyers or if run a business or indeed obviously they could still do that. i just think it doesn't mean to say that they are be worse politician are going to be worse politician if you can say that if anything, you can say that the calibre politicians has the calibre of politicians has gone down in the era of real professional , you know, professional, you know, politicians that we have now never done anything else in their life. that's you know, and we've got that in a big way. i disagree with. okay, peter whittle, amy nicholl, you're going to be here this morning. let me what you think. let me know what you think. won't the speech there won't you, of the speech there this morning by sir keir starmer and brown as well, and and gordon brown as well, and also twitter poll. also vote in our twitter poll. we've that one element

we've taken that one element that something that is perhaps something that we hang our hat on we can actually hang our hat on is fact that sir keir is the fact that sir keir starmer said time to starmer said it's time to aboush starmer said it's time to abolish house of lords in abolish the house of lords in his plan a new britain. do his plan for a new britain. do you agree? far 69% of you are you agree? so far 69% of you are saying yes. we're going to be discussing that in a little bit more also, samuel, your more detail. also, samuel, your views, gbnews.uk views, tv views, gbnews.uk or tweet at gb news after the tweet me at gb news after the news, the online safety bill is going through parliament today. there've been concerns about the bill restricting freedom of speech. but for campaigners who want to keep children safe online, a crucial part of online, it's a crucial part of legislation. that's all off the morning with rosie . a very morning news with rosie. a very good morning. it's 1034 morning news with rosie. a very good morning. it's1034 and rosie wright. let's get you up to date. labour says it will look at abolishing the house of lords if it wins the next general election, describing the current system as indefensible . current system as indefensible. so keir starmer set out his blueprint for a new britain, promising the biggest ever transfer of power from westminster to the nation's and

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gb news. good morning . it is 1039. this good morning. it is 1039. this is tennis today on gb news. now the business secretary grant shapps has announced a review into tackling late payments for small businesses. he's urged larger companies to pay their smaller suppliers promptly as they are an essential cog in our economy. now it's been a really tough time and it still is for small businesses and the high street recently. and i'm delighted to be joined now in the studio to find out what it is like for those people running a business as steph douglas , a business as steph douglas, she's founder and ceo of she's the founder and ceo of don't buy her flowers and alongside a gb news economics and business liam halligan steph lovely to see you. now tell us about don't buy her flowers. why did you start it and when was that journey been like as a business owner? so i had my first baby in 2010 and i received eight bunches of flowers and they were all really well meant and they were for me to well done and everything to say, well done and everything else. had else. but anyone that's had a baby know that it's quite baby will know that it's quite hard and quite overwhelming and flowers looking after. so

flowers to looking after. so you've got something else to look . it's another look after. yeah, it's another thing when you're thing to look after when you're probably feeling really, really spent a bit overwhelmed. so spent and a bit overwhelmed. so don't her flowers is an don't buy her flowers is an onune don't buy her flowers is an online gift and we online gift business and we started gifts for new mums started as gifts for new mums and developed to include and it's developed to include loads bereavement loads of occasions bereavement get to stand up to get well we want to stand up to cancer whole point is cancer but the whole point is about thoughtfulness. so you can put something together bespoke and products which and you handpick products which we've got over 250 products from we've (businesses) products from we've got over 250 products from we've (businesses , products from we've got over 250 products from we've (businesses , small ts from we've got over 250 products from we've (businesses , small medium british businesses, small medium sized and you put sized businesses and you put together something really bespoke and thoughtful. it sounds steph i bet. i sounds so easy. steph i bet. i bet it's good treat for bet it's good to treat for a luxurious day. yeah that with your face help me outwith. well the first two years i was packing boxes my bedroom packing boxes on my bedroom floor then took floor and then i took on a warehouse in gloucestershire where my brother where i'm from. and my brother heads the warehouse and heads the warehouse there. and we team there. so yeah , we built a team there. so yeah, i actually the first, the first year up until so it's been eight years, the first is up until the pandemic were really steady growth, incremental growth. we didn't take any investment and then actually it went bonkers with the pandemic. so we were

all shops were closed, all the shops were closed and people were be thoughtful were looking to be thoughtful and human connection. all and for human connection. all the things that we really the things that we do really well. so was really strange well. so that was really strange time be having such success. time to be having such success. yeah but and then that kind of went on for quite a lot of that two years and then things have got tougher since probably april time when lots of around energy crisis. i would say that's when we saw so costs really going up as well in the last couple of years but that's when things start to impact our customers more. yeah, this liam halligan is a very typical story, isn't it, for business owners? some people an actual bump during the pandemic for various market reasons , and now it's tough. why reasons, and now it's tough. why is it so hard at the moment for businesses? well, steph's an example absolutely example of that. absolutely brilliant sme sex we have in the uk, small and medium size enterprise as a lot of them started literally on kitchen tables. people seeing a gap in the market, not satisfied with what they receiving from business. so they they start

their own and brits are their own. and the brits are really at this stuff. and really good at this stuff. and medium enterprises account medium sized enterprises account for gdp growth, two for half our gdp growth, two thirds of our employment. there are real powerhouse . and at the are real powerhouse. and at the moment it's really tough for smes, particularly on this late payment issue, because if there's if owe you a hundred quid, right. i'm a big company. you're a small company. i owe you 100 quid. the longer i wait to pay you 100 quid, the to pay you that 100 quid, the less that 100 quid is worth. yeah terms , so late yeah in inflation terms, so late payment always escalates during . times of inflation . and a lot . times of inflation. and a lot of big companies, frankly , bully of big companies, frankly, bully smaller companies squeezed subcontractors. it happens particularly in the construction industry notoriously, but it happens across the board as well. and that's why the government is at least putting out a review saying we feel your pain, big business must, you know, look after their small businesses. but look, i remember back in the late eighties, early nineties, a guy called michael heseltine, who was then president of the board of trade,

said this is recognise business practise this happens in practise this is what happens in business. there's legislation small firms, it's too expensive to go to the small claims court haven't got time they're trying to get the business together. and afraid whatever the and i'm afraid whatever the business secretary now says, he will. i've often pointed will. no as i've often pointed out , the worst late hire in the out, the worst late hire in the country to small businesses is the government. is that right, steph ? you recognise that steph? you recognise that picture that that relationship between the big suppliers and a smaller company like you can be problematic because you're so grateful and excited about, you know , all orders mean so much, know, all orders mean so much, but i think when you're when you've potentially got a bigger contract play , then you want contract in play, then you want to everything you can to make to do everything you can to make that work because of the potential of that. and so they do the power then, right ? do hold the power then, right? what do you need the government to now as a small business? to do now as a small business? i think . well, and if there were think. well, and if there were any more stabilityt economically, politically , that economically, politically, that makes a huge impact. we see it you see it straight away when there's lots of stuff going on in the media, you see that

follow through with how much traffic you get to the website and whether they that and customers, whether they that and customers, whether they that and lots of people won't have as much money the moment, but much money at the moment, but there'll be people have there'll also be people who have got everybody kind of got money, but everybody kind of goes freeze goes into this freeze mode because nervous, because because we're nervous, because we know whatever around the corner, what's my electricity going is going to be going to fail is going to be next month, not going to splash out someone buy a do out and someone buy a gift, do you yourself very much as you see yourself very much as the luxury the looks like the luxury market? you you can market? yes, you can. you can put package together for kind put a package together for kind of put a package together for kind 0 and people are of £30. and then people are always to be looking for always going to be looking for the that send gifts the occasions that we send gifts for. always going for. so there's always going to be have been going be people who have been going through time or through a rubbish time or bereaved birthday. there bereaved or birthday. there will still still people still be. there are still people looking, they're probably looking, but they're probably just find the just harder to find at the moment. about moment. yeah what about staffing? what we staffing? because that's what we talked a lot isn't talked about quite a lot isn't it, that the staff it, liam, that the staff shortage in this country that we can't enough to the can't find enough to do the jobs, is something that jobs, is that something that you're think the you're struggling? i think the hospitality seeing it hospitality sector is seeing it more we we are more than we are. we are warehouse in warehouse based in gloucestershire and we've been really lucky. and actually dunng really lucky. and actually during the pandemic, had

during the pandemic, we had loads of who were loads of people who were furloughed had jobs. furloughed or who had lost jobs. we of employ we were able to kind of employ people, which is great. and i think what you're saying about the of people that are the number of people that are employed is employed by small businesses is really so i think really overlooked. so i think sometimes of patted sometimes we're kind of patted on head. yeah, not the on the head. yeah, and not the amount contribute full amount we contribute isn't full on admiration you. on full of admiration for you. i must i come from small must say i come from a small business background. know, business background. you know, my a small business my family ran a small business literally from the table, late payment, almost tore payment, you know, almost tore our . it was our family apart. it was absolutely thing. and absolutely terrible thing. and look, small business leaders like steph and the people who work for them, they're often swing voters. they're very pragmatic , talented people. they pragmatic, talented people. they won't be pushed around. they are key in any general election , as key in any general election, as well as being key to keeping our economy going. and at the moment , i'd say both the main parties are not giving a great offer to our small and medium sized businesses. look, the tories are putting corporations hands up from 19 to 25% a lot. there are some allowances, but a lot of small businesses will be hammered by that 6% taken off, their margin off. they've just

been by lockdown . on been hammered by lockdown. on top that, a lot of small top of that, a lot of small firms that are real attacks , firms that are real attacks, they really don't like paying as business rates. that's the you pay a business rates. that's the you pay a tax on the value of your premises your business premises is any equipment that you buy and you pay that even if you don't take in any revenue, even if you don't make any profit at all, you have to pay that and it's a lot of money and a lot of small businesses want more business rates, relief , labour business rates, relief, labour and fairness are putting that forward, but they're not saying how they're going to pay for it. steph you don't have shops, do you? tell you that you you? you're tell you that you very that. now very relieved about that. now have there been times when you considered having a shop frontage don't buy? yeah, frontage for don't buy? yeah, we've it because i we've talked about it because i think experience of think the experience of handpicking that handpicking everything that people website people do with with our website would experience. but would be lovely experience. but i'm very glad that we have an annual so what we are looking at the moment is kind of and i think saying that small businesses are really good at diversifying. got this diversifying. so we've got this amazing amazing amazing warehouse and amazing team really tested

team who have been really tested in last couple of years. and in the last couple of years. and so doing fulfilment so we started doing fulfilment for small businesses and for other small businesses and i think something that the small businesses really well is go businesses do really well is go right, okay, what can i do? yeah, and that's why we. yeah. so your packaged goods for other small firms because they haven't got infrastructure. well got your infrastructure. well they doing their they might be doing it on their kitchen and actually they kitchen table and actually they want to that next step. want to get to that next step. but hard and it's but it's really hard and it's really expensive take on really expensive to to, take on a take. and yet here you a person take. and yet here you are successful person , are a very successful person, brilliant. doing, brilliant. what you're doing, you're or maybe you're thinking about or maybe you're thinking about or maybe you get a shop, maybe we you should get a shop, maybe we shouldn't. that would revitalise a high street people a high street and people aren't taking because taking the shop fronts because of business right. yeah. of the business right. yeah. because other taxation . because of the other taxation. that's your business. that's good for your business. now shepherds. yeah, but what about coffee bars, about the coffee bars, the cafes, restaurants that rely cafes, the restaurants that rely on high street thing on those high street thing revitalised and the people who go high street the go to the high street like the little old that goes down. little old lady that goes down. you coffee, guys ? you has a coffee, right, guys? thank much. steph douglas thank you so much. steph douglas from buy her flowers. liam from don't buy her flowers. liam halligan. him, right? halligan. you know him, right? let me know you let me let me know what you think well. if you are think as well. if you are a small business owner, do let me

know hard is at the moment know how hard is at the moment and relate to what steph and can you relate to what steph and can you relate to what steph and liam saying that and liam were just saying that you've getting in touch you've been getting in touch about sharma and what he about quest sharma and what he was morning? he was was saying this morning? he was talking about talking in leeds about his vision, the labour party's vision, the labour party's vision the uk and he was vision for the uk and he was saying that one of the things he would do quite swiftly would be to house of lords. to abolish the house of lords. melissa and has said in theory that's good idea and it will that's a good idea and it will save money in practise it will be replaced something be replaced by something else which doubt cost more. which will no doubt cost more. it a bit gloomy today on it feeling a bit gloomy today on email. you feel and email. i know how you feel and mike says i get very scared when ihear mike says i get very scared when i hear of any labour proposals. more i see people more scared when i see people like brown proposing more scared when i see people like and brown proposing more scared when i see people like and nicolai proposing more scared when i see people like and nicola said)osing more scared when i see people like and nicola said theig more scared when i see people like and nicola said the house them. and nicola said the house of is not fit for purpose of lords is not fit for purpose anymore, it does not serve the country. now something that you've heard me about quite you've heard me talk about quite a because i do it's a lot because i do think it's incredibly important and it's incredibly important and it's incredibly get it right. incredibly that we get it right. is online safety bill is is the online safety bill is back parliament today back in parliament today last month that the month ministers said that the encouragement harm encouragement of self harm would be criminalised the bill be criminalised if the bill reaches statute book culture reaches the statute book culture secretary michelle donelan has confirmed controversial confirmed that a controversial

clause deeming contents legal but all would be but harmful all would be scrapped. so what are the pros and cons ? i am delighted to say and cons? i am delighted to say that. joining me to discuss this now are john carr obey, the secretary of the uk children's charities coalition on internet safety . professor andrew tatton safety. professor andrew tatton , born a writer at the spectator and joining me in the studio, the director of break for the watch silky carla, lovely to see you all this morning. right. there's a lot to get through here. john, would you welcome the current form? the bail in its current form? now pretty much alone, we haven't actually seen the final text yet, but from everything we're hearing from what the government are saying, it's sounding like it's in better shape than it was. okay, andrew , how do you think the conservatives feel about this bill on the whole, it's been bubbung bill on the whole, it's been bubbling away , i think, for bubbling away, i think, for about four years now. obviously the pandemic did put things temporary on hold a little bit, but was the general sense around whether it's got the tone right 7 whether it's got the tone right ? my own feeling is that there

are really two bits of this bill. the one bit protecting children , which if we can children, which if we can possibly do, we must the other bit protecting adults , which i'm bit protecting adults, which i'm still very worried about . what still very worried about. what do you mean? which bit concerns you ? the one protecting adults you? the one protecting adults provide you did that. we can find a way of protecting children from access to this kind of material. children from access to this kind of material . and that may kind of material. and that may be easier said than done , but be easier said than done, but provided we can , i'm all for it provided we can, i'm all for it when it comes to protect adults. okay, there's got rid of the idea that you have to remove stuff that's legal but harmful . stuff that's legal but harmful. and that's absolutely right . but and that's absolutely right. but i still think that as bill is now , there will be a very now, there will be a very consider a bill chilling effect because if you look at it, what it says , not not that you must it says, not not that you must take down material legal but

harmful, but that you must give adults the right to opt out of it . not the problem there is it. not the problem there is that anybody with a remotely controlled a virtual website is likely to find that social media will play safe . they will say , will play safe. they will say, to opt in to receive material from it . that's actually going from it. that's actually going to make very difficult for anyone who wants to get across a controversial message to adults . that's one of the reasons i'm worried . okay. silk calo , you worried. okay. silk calo, you know, this this bill inside and out, big brother watch has played an important part in in lobbying for changes and keeping an eye on it. how happy are you with where it's at now ? well, we with where it's at now? well, we welcome the removal of this whole invention of a speech category that's legal, but harm for that can be suppressed as

though it were illegal. but really, the bill's taken a step forward and two steps back. i think everyone agrees, of course, that children have to be protected online and that this is a bill that needs to be gotten right if it's going to go aheadin gotten right if it's going to go ahead in the form that it is. but there's so much wrong with it that it's hard to imagine how this can progress in a way that doesn't really damage free speech. essentially the speech. essentially what the bill converging the bill is doing is converging the power state censors power of state censors and silicon censors and silicon valley censors and what's promised in the new what's being promised in the new is that states regulate as well will be making sure that the companies enforce their terms and conditions vigilantly all the time . that might sound the time. that might sound benign, of course. they should uphold their promises, but when we see that the content policies mean to anyone who questioned anything around lockdowns and the pandemic was being booted off gender critical feminists and trans people on both sides of the debate are being kicked off. controversial off. all these controversial topics . people were being topics. people were being censored and having their

accounts deleted. sometimes with career impact. journalists for example, you know, this is the kind of stuff that's really sticky water. do we want to see state regulators saying, yes, these must enforce these companies must enforce these companies must enforce these actions ? i think we want these actions? i think we want to see a bit more separation of powers. this is quite chilling to see two massive sites of power converge in this way. john i'd like to bring you in. you're shaking head. what did you nofice shaking head. what did you notice and agree with that? i am shaking my head. listen terms and conditions of service that's to say, the basis on which you agree to join or use a service has been with us since the beginning of the internet. the problem has been that far too many internet companies have done absolutely nothing to enforce them. so, in effect, what they're doing is engaging in false advertising, mislead , in false advertising, mislead, pubush in false advertising, mislead, publish the misleading prospectus. if a company says racism is not allowed on our site or service misogyny is not allowed. and also social service bullying is not allowed in our sites . also this then, i think

sites. also this then, i think is perfectly reasonable for anybody to expect them to ensure that that's before is reflected in reality of that service up to now it hasn't been and anything like an adequate scale look at who molly hawkins and what happened to her. well, so molly. molly russell. what happened to her? so she was never she was the young girl who lost her life in the carnage . it would include in the carnage. it would include that self—harm of which she had learnt about on the internet, played a part in that. andrew parents have to also make sure that we have a responsibility for our children, don't we? we can't just outsource parenting to the internet and expect the government and big business to do that for us . i government and big business to do that for us. i think government and big business to do that for us . i think that's do that for us. i think that's right . parents do have a part to right. parents do have a part to play, but i think they have a right to expect at least something from the government as regards what their children see . i'm a little bit worried about

what , john says, about always what, john says, about always enforcing the terms of business. if i'm an adult and i sign up to ask to a social media site which says no racism or sexism, and i find it's full of racism or sex ism, i can turn to what my uncle used to call the best invention of modern times, which is the off switch . i don't have to look off switch. i don't have to look at it now when it comes to children, i'm all for provide that protection. i really don't see that it's necessary when the surface are adult silk, is it possible, though? how do we master that? if age verification action? but if it's age verification , aren't we giving verification, aren't we giving away an awful lot of our identity? somebody online and that has a security risk with it? well i want to come back to john john's point. first of all, what he's talking about is the relationship between somebody who service and the who uses the service and the service lesbo terms and service lesbo on these terms and conditions are not good for human rights . many cases they're

human rights. many cases they're not actually good for child safety. so, you are asking safety. and so, you are asking for the state regulators to enforce these are terms enforce those these are terms and conditions that are designed to protect the companies , not to protect the companies, not the users. then not written in the users. then not written in the same way with the precision that the rule of law has. the only role that the state should be playing in the online world is ensuring that the law criminal law is upheld and actually there are tens of thousands of pieces of seriously harmful content and illegal content of child sex abuse , that content of child sex abuse, that the companies are surfacing every single year , that the every single year, that the police do not have the resources to deal with. and that's what should be focussed on. and i'm really surprised that children's campaigners on apps that you're raising the roof , that this is raising the roof, that this is something that is not in the bill. bill is all about lawful content and making silicon valley into speech. police rather than growing the role of the resourcing for policing to deal with the serious illegal

content that actually is online. john, last word to you . i simply john, last word to you. i simply don't accept the proposition that companies are allowed to advertise themselves as doing one thing and then do something completely different. mhm. okay. all right. all three of you. thank you very much. i'm not sure we, we managed to conclude whether this is going to be good. it will be good for it's a huge issue. it will be back in parliament today. john kelkar, obe , secretary the uk obe, secretary of the uk children's charities coalition on internet safety and professor andrew tatton board . right, it andrew tatton board. right, it gets and also big gets better. and also big brother watch. silky carla . brother watch. silky carla. right. let me know what you think . i right. let me know what you think. i think it says think. i do think it says something. have to have something. we have to we have a huge responsibility to get it right. that is the first right. okay. that is the first end of the hour. we're going to be back after short break . be back after this short break. what .

very good morning . welcome to very good morning. welcome to bev turner. today on tv news , bev turner. today on tv news, labour leader keir starmer has revealed new plans for an overhaul of the constitution and to replace the house of lords are going to be talking about that in just a moment. scarlet fever in children is on the rise following a surge in cases dnven following a surge in cases driven by strep a infections. health officials have urged parents symptoms in parents to look up symptoms in their children . we're going to their children. we're going to be discussing need to be discussing what you need to know strep a, and know all about strep a, and should really as worried should you really be as worried as papers are making out? as the papers are making out? and thousands drivers in and thousands of drivers in birmingham scot free birmingham got away scot free over controversial clean as over the controversial clean as fines all coming up after a look at your latest news . good

at your latest news. good morning. it's 11:10 at your latest news. good morning. it's11:10 on rosie wright. let's get you up to date .labour wright. let's get you up to date . labour says it's going to look at abolishing the house of lords if it wins the next general election. describing the current system as indefensible. sir keir set out his blueprint for a new britain, promising the biggest ever transfer of power from westminster to nations and regions. if his party is elected , launching a report which was led by the former prime minister gordon brown , he promised to gordon brown, he promised to overhaul the way the country's governed if labour wins the next election. britain will see a change not just in who governs but how we are governed . the but how we are governed. the tools to a fairer society and a stronger economy is directly in the hands of working people. so to get that, we can build an economy not just for the many , economy not just for the many, but by the many and of the many . the uk's basic biggest business group says there will

be a decade of lost economic growth in britain if action isn't taken by the government. the cbi forecast the country is already in recession with rocketing inflation negative growth and failing productivity . the group say stock flirtation. it's a combination of stagnation . rising prices is of stagnation. rising prices is preventing firms from investing . the transport secretary harper, says the rmt decision to reject an improved pay offer is incredibly disappointing and unfair to the public. a pay rise of 8% and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies before april 20, 24 have been tabled . april 20, 24 have been tabled. but the uk's biggest rail said the deal wouldn't protect its members and would lead to unsafe practises the strike action is due to go ahead for four days this month . meanwhile, 33,000 this month. meanwhile, 33,000 members of the fire brigades union will vote today if they should walk out following a 5% pay should walk out following a 5% pay offer . the fbi says striking pay offer. the fbi says striking is the last resort, but that many were desperate and some were struggling to afford to live . firefighter trade live. firefighter and trade unionist paul embery says

they've been no they've been left with no option. being asked to option. we're being asked to take another significant real terms pay cut and at a time when firefighters like everybody else across the country are really struggling to make ends meet. i've been a firefighter for 25 years and this is the first time really that i've had colleagues say to me they afford to say to me they can't afford to buy kids christmas. buy their kids christmas. they're struggling to their they're struggling to pay their mortgage their energy mortgage bills, their energy bills, so it's a decision bills, etc. so it's a decision that none of us want to take. but you consider the paltry but when you consider the paltry pay but when you consider the paltry pay within that that's pay offer within that that's been tabled, we've really been left with no other option , left with no other option, frankly. the government out plans to overhaul nhs pension rules in an attempt to retain senior doctors. the proposals would allow staff to claim their pension benefits but continue working and contributing to that pension and also remove barriers to retired clinicians returning to retired clinicians returning to work. the health secretary, steve barclay says the move will help open up extra gp appointments . help open up extra gp appointments. england help open up extra gp appointments . england raheem appointments. england raheem sterling has flown back to the uk after armed intruders broke

into his home. surrey police say watches and jewellery was stolen but confirmed the chelsea being his family weren't in the house at the time of the robbery. the manager, gareth southgate, says family is most important family is the most important thing and didn't say whether the chelsea winger will to chelsea winger will return to the squad for saturday's game against france and england will play against france and england will play defending champions in the world cup quarter finals on saturday after they comfortably beat senegal three nil last night in qatar. jordan henderson. captain. captain. harry kane and osaka all scored scored today on gb news. i'll bnng scored today on gb news. i'll bring you more as it develops. now back to beth . now back to beth. all right. good morning. welcome to bev turner today on gb news. thank you for joining to bev turner today on gb news. thank you forjoining me. we're thank you for joining me. we're going to be getting stuck into keir starmer's new plan. he's promised in about the last

promised this in about the last houn promised this in about the last hour. a transfer of power , he hour. a transfer of power, he said to the british people under a really to these a labour really stick to these promises . me know you promises. me know what you think? a of you are very think? a lot of you are very much support him scrapping much in support of him scrapping the of lords. we're going the house of lords. we're going to be discussing a finds in birmingham the city council birmingham as the city council have off over 40,000 have written off over 40,000 fines in relation to that controversy . clean air zone . controversy. clean air zone. what does this suggest about the council's priorities? i'm going to be joined by my fantastic commentators in about 20 minutes for analysis of the day's biggest stories, including extracts from matt hancock sat diaries over the weekend . did diaries over the weekend. did you see those ? there was a lot you see those? there was a lot in there that we need discuss. and of course the show is nothing without you and your views today on twitter. got a poll asking you sir keir starmer thinks it's time to abolish the house of lords and his plan for britain. do you agree? please do. email me also on do. cast vote. email me also on gb news. gbnews.uk to me your thoughts on anything else that we're discussing . now onto the

we're discussing. now onto the speech that sir keir starmer made this morning at the top of this show. he unveiled his vision for the uk under his watch. he said he wants to reunite country by devolving power . local authorities and power. local authorities and decision makers . power. local authorities and decision makers. he's outlined plans to create hundred and 88 clusters of economic growth . a clusters of economic growth. a new britain. he and a new whitehall. so you happy with what he had to say this morning with that vision ? joining me now with that vision? joining me now is political commentator and former politician suzanne evans . suzanne, lovely to see you. good morning. what did you make of keir starmer's vision for the great britain under labour? was it just cliche or were there some genuinely significant infrastructural change that he was described ? well, i think was described? well, i think it's very it read like a kind of almost a wish list for people that aren't very fond of politicians. abolish the house of lords give more power to local government. but then you read the lines and it's not quite all it is made out to be.

he's not going to abolish the house of lords. he simply going to it. anyone getting to reform it. so anyone getting too afraid , waving too excited, i'm afraid, waving goodbye to the piers who they might not like in the house. the house of lords are going to on a hiding to nothing here. remember blair house of blair reformed the house of lords and there were lords once before and there were high reform. it high hopes of major reform. it didn't happen . got rid of the didn't happen. he got rid of the hereditary peers. i suspect keir starmer will probably want go further and get rid of the bishops as well and we'll have an elected house of lords. but how will that work in practise who's going to be put up for ? who's going to be put up for? it's going to be the party faithful. it's going to be the favoured people. i really don't see much difference . be honest see much difference. be honest with with it , it not. the fact with with it, it not. the fact is the house of lords is far too big . it certainly needs to be big. it certainly needs to be slimmed . but i think having that slimmed. but i think having that second chamber that in some respects has a little bit less political weight to it and many people are there because they have been involved in politics.

but they're also that for very good reasons and. they're not necessarily the cross—benchers who aren't necessarily linked to a political party. think a political party. and i think that element of independence is good. so i don't think keir starmer's reforms are probably going to be for the better. and as as his moves towards more as far as his moves towards more power to local people, i think that's a disaster. frankly, it's just going to mean single just going to mean every single area country is a area in the country is a postcode lottery . remember how postcode lottery. remember how difficult was when in covid difficult it was when in covid times , when you were in times, when you were in different parts of the country and you had different rules and you know you were you didn't know what you were supposed be doing wherever, supposed to be doing wherever, you'll england. scotland you'll be that england. scotland the tiers that we had. the different tiers that we had. i think this is a similar thing that we're going see here. you're going to have different parts country subject parts of the country subject to different and i different and regulations. and i think recipe for disaster think it's a recipe for disaster . it's an abdication of . it's also an abdication of responsibility by westminster. we pay any view, even though people i mean, if we're saying that this speech was about the fact that a lot of people don't like politics and which is true,

and then you're saying actually already lied to us by saying that he wants to abolish the house of lords. this is the headlines. it's all over the media. he's not actually media. but he's not actually saying . then surely he's saying that. then surely he's undermining position undermining his own position because much a drain the because it very much a drain the swamp kind speech . we've got swamp kind of speech. we've got to get rid of corruption. we've got down the house of got to slim down the house of lords, got you know, lords, we've got to, you know, put the power in hands put all the power in the hands of the people, he said. of the local people, he said. why somebody why would somebody in westminster what somebody westminster know what somebody in west needs? got it's in west needs? he's got it's kind got a point as well. kind of got a point as well. well, he has. but if it's corruption, you want to get rid of politics, i'm afraid of in politics, i'm afraid you'll going to get rid of that by, making even more layers of political . so at the political office. so at the moment, you know , we have 650 moment, you know, we have 650 mps in westminster. i lose track of how many peers we have in the house of lords. we have umpteen local councillors, far too many. you regional governments, you have regional governments, you devolved governments . you have devolved governments. oh, let's just a several oh, okay, let's just a several hundred million more of taxpayers money bringing in yet another layer of government

that's going to be exposed safe, that's going to be exposed safe, that's going to require staffing , that's going to require offices at the of the day. what this is going to mean, beverley, is less money for local people and i think there's also, you know, some, some the things that are going to happen are going to be quite worrying. we've seen, for instance, oxfordshire is bringing meat bringing in clean meat lockdowns. the idea you lockdowns. now the idea you can't travel beyond your set district in your car for more than a few times a year we're going to have councils i'm afraid jumped up drunk on power making , all afraid jumped up drunk on power making, all kinds of crazy rules. freedom is going be less and we're going to be fleeced for more to have less freedom. that's worry. honestly, if there's a phrase that makes my blood run cold suzanne it's the idea local bureaucrats drunk idea of local bureaucrats drunk on power . i idea of local bureaucrats drunk on power. i think you've put the nail in the coffin of this. well, unconvincingly, i used to be a councillor, so i have come across them. right. beverley and think you you were on bbc. what about. what about idea that he said a baton was. no, you would

never have been about on the foreign funding of politics in this country a ban on mp second jobs. these are big change you say well may well yes and no you know he's talking about ending the undue influence of wealth and foreign money in politics. well, let's just at that first one, influence of wealth what about the influence of trade who have massive power in many cases massive wealth as well. i don't see any labour leading labour leader to get rid of the influence of the trade unions in politics. let's face pretty much vote en bloc for whoever the next labour leader is going to be. and as far as banning second jobs. again, it's a great soundee jobs. again, it's a great soundbite , right? but you could soundbite, right? but you could argue that nmps benefit from having a second job and being outside those ivory towers of westminster for a short time. getting outside of that westminster bubble . and of westminster bubble. and of course, there are some careers , course, there are some careers, for instance, just plucking one out of thin air. if you're a

doctor, you need to carry on in medical in order to be taught to maintain your accreditation , to maintain your accreditation, to be able to potentially practise once you may be booted of office. so again i don't think it's a lovely sound . it sounds it's a lovely sound. it sounds fantastic , but good sound bites fantastic, but good sound bites , terrible policy . well, thank , terrible policy. well, thank you . susan evans there, taking you. susan evans there, taking everything that keir starmer and gordon brown said this morning screwing it up in a has thrown on the floor stamping on it and giving them her clear opinion of what she thinks countries should be you so be doing. suzanne, thank you so much for joining be doing. suzanne, thank you so much forjoining us this much for joining us this morning. you all actually in agreement with idea? agreement with this idea? well, suzanne he's not suzanne said maybe he's not actually the house actually going scrap the house of started out saying of lords. he started out saying his vision future with his vision for the future with potentially little bit of potentially a little bit of exaggeration. declan said, i agree lords should agree the house of lords should be not because it be disbanded. it not because it was outdated system. have was an outdated system. we have to second chamber of to have a second chamber of government it's government and lawmaking. it's a cynical creating peers by cynical way of creating peers by governments last 50 governments over the last 50 years, bloated years, we've made it a bloated abomination and all in said, the reason the house of lords is no longer for purpose is

longer fit for purpose is because have turned longer fit for purpose is becéase have turned longer fit for purpose is becéa retirement have turned longer fit for purpose is becéa retirement home ave turned longer fit for purpose is becéa retirement home for turned into a retirement home for failed politician. another elected house will be with career politicians only career politicians who are only in gains that will in short term gains that will get them re—elected. the whole point of house of lords is point of the house of lords is that members the long that its members look the long term proposed term impact of proposed legislation. please get in legislation. now please get in touch and let me know your thoughts . also, our twitter thoughts. also, our twitter poll, course, saying, do poll, of course, is saying, do you see the house of you want to see the house of lords disbanded at least lords disbanded or at least reformed ? if keir starmer was to reformed? if keir starmer was to get into number ten? now moving on to this story that has been big news over the weekend. this is health officials urging parents to look out for symptoms of scarlet fever in their children . a surge in cases children. a surge in cases dnven children. a surge in cases driven by stress , a infections driven by stress, a infections these bacteria cause other respiratory and skin infections can be highly, highly infectious . we're going to talk now to dr. .we're going to talk now to dr. andrew preston, microbiologist at university of bath. thank at the university of bath. thank you so much forjoining us this morning. now strep isn't new, is it a common infection that children often pick up ? so children often pick up? so should we be more cautious as

parents or is it a bit of fear mongering? the part of the media difficult to say fear mongering when you've had these cases of really and unfortunately fatal infection . and so, of course, infection. and so, of course, what we're seeing it coinciding with a whole series of other respiratory infections. so unfortunate they all start with fairly common symptoms. for so someone to go through the year without a sore throat is of course, very, very difficult. but not knowing whether it just the common cold or whether it might turn into either scarlet or something far worse. of course parents are going to be concerned they're seeing it concerned when they're seeing it happen at the happen around the country at the moment. should parents moment. so what should parents look ? again, it's look out for? again, it's parents. parents will know their . kids will know what they're like particularly once they reach school age with these more seasonal infections , although seasonal infections, although perhaps younger kids may not have had quite so many over the last couple of years. but it's really a sore throat that doesn't go away. and then so 12th, maybe 48 hours after that

, scarlet fever is characterised by by rash starts on the by by the rash starts on the sort of chest and stomach and spreads of flushed skin, spreads sort of flushed skin, but it feels quite rough. so often described as sandpaper. so at that point, that's probably indication that this could be the strep and we know levels are quite high at the moment. that's really when you should be looking to seek advice from the gp at the moment i think we would prescribe antibiotics to not only to stop infection from turning into something more nasty, but of course to stop that case from being spread to others to try and quell the amount of disease we're seeing at the moment. now, course , at the moment. now, of course, one i think is fairly one theory and i think is fairly easy to stack up is that we took young children who would normally toddlers and babies who would normally be crawling around the floor and in nurseries and seeding their immune system , their microbiome, immune system, their microbiome, with of these different and with all of these different and bacteria. took them in bacteria. we took them in houses, we put masks on them. we put hand sanitiser on them. and all got immune systems now that are struggling with this are struggling cope with this

situation . well, what can we do situation. well, what can we do about that as parents . very about that as parents. very little now to be honest, we were saying the kids are being really exposed to germs and viruses and bacteria as as, you know, contacts returned to normal. so we're going to see a rebound in infections as very little we can do about that. but we've had a peak year for first group strep for four decades now, 2017, 2018 was perhaps the last high one. and unfortunately for four youngsters died during that year . this is not something we've , . this is not something we've, you know, we've never seen before . the seasonality has been before. the seasonality has been disturbed somewhat. so we are now seeing a peak in the autumn where normally would see it's maybe more late winter, early spnng maybe more late winter, early spring and. of course, that's coinciding with the other respiratory infections. the not only mishaps makes it more difficult to spot, whether it's a cold potentially a strep a cold or potentially a strep infection. but perhaps it also means you've got high levels of

strep at a time when our airways are under attack and perhaps being being disturbed by vomiting infection more than they would otherwise . so this is they would otherwise. so this is something we're just going to have way through, have to work way through, unfortunately. okay all right. thank much, doctor andrew thank you so much, doctor andrew preston at preston there, microbiologist at the of bath, right . the university of bath, right. let me know what you think of anything you've seen today gbviews@gbnews.uk. tell me what you think. you also tweet you think. you can also tweet actually, is a poll up on actually, news is a poll up on twitter right now. we're asking sir starmer it's sir keir starmer thinks it's time house lords time abolish the house of lords in plan for britain at in his new plan for britain at least that's said it don least that's what he said it don evans doesn't think it's as clear as that. do you agree? well of you think he's well 9% of you think that he's right. he's watching, you right. so if he's watching, you can you might have been doing it, but you can't. now, all have given you permission. keep your votes in that word . votes coming in on that word. after the break, going to be joined my panel again to go joined with my panel again to go through of the headlines through some of the headlines this morning, including news that health are that midlife health checks are going digital. all after going digital. that's all after this show break.

welcome back to bev turner. today is it monday? yes, it's monday. amy, nicole, how you feeling today? a bright new start look good. i've got my coffee ready to go pizza with mary. oh, lovely to have you here. very well. right. i don't know whether you saw the papers over the weekend in the mail is serialising the abominable version. that is the matt hancock diaries? yes. are you a fan of his piece? i don't think you could say that with any justification. i don't think anybody is i think he's to me , a anybody is i think he's to me, a bit of a weasel. of a weasel, yes . and, you know , very yes. and, you know, very mediocre . well, first, we can't mediocre. well, first, we can't write , that's for sure. i mean, write, that's for sure. i mean, you know, these diaries. so i've got them, you know , just these

got them, you know, just these one deathless lines, you know what? first on what price, love. i've always from novels that people would risk everything i mean i'm sorry it just it's just a share of it. i think he's a creep . it's horrific. i know he creep. it's horrific. i know he isn't here to defend himself. now, the book was ghostwritten with isabel oakeshott from diaries that hancock was keeping at the time. i don't even know which shocking part to pick first. amy, what did you think of it? i thought i genuinely thought be banal, thought it's going to be banal, but just going to be fairly but it's just going to be fairly harmless. it'sjust but it's just going to be fairly harmless. it's just going to be what not anticipate is the what i did not anticipate is the dripping that comes dripping stupidity that comes out single paragraph. out of every single paragraph. it's trying to create it's like he's trying to create the matt hancock mills and boom table and it actually makes me quite sick . and for me, the quite sick. and for me, the hilarious is when he went to bofis hilarious is when he went to boris and before taking professional , he took personal professional, he took personal advice . he took personal advice advice. he took personal advice of serial philanderer boris johnson about matters of the heart. and when he says , gina heart. and when he says, gina and i, we've fallen in love and we'd fallen in love deeply , oh,

we'd fallen in love deeply, oh, that's fine . you know, you think that's fine. you know, you think this man taking any responsibility for is falling love. can you take some responsibility for something else, please? one of the bits of these this shocked and i have to say there are insights that i would never buy this book, but there which are there are insights which are drawer for instance drawer dropping. for instance apparently they decided to act in cabinet, not put masks , in cabinet, not to put masks, children schools, then they children in schools, then they heard that nicholas sturgeon was putting masks on children in schools with all the damage schools with all of the damage we know and it was obvious we now know and it was obvious to anybody half a brain to anybody with half a brain that going happen and so that was going to happen and so they naked and they they were naked and they u—turned quite clearly u—turned and it quite clearly admits do this because admits we had to do this because it nicholas sturgeon it wasn't nicholas sturgeon was it? this every it? don't you think this every single this he's single part of this he's deflecting blame, deflecting deflecting the blame, deflecting blame. because of blame. that's because of nicholas sturgeon dare nicholas sturgeon and. how dare he care workers for the he blame care workers for the decision put the care home decision to put the care home residents into into the residents back into into the care home? that is appalling . care home? that is appalling. that should have killed any chance of celebrity status. surely they said mission for me. he says this interview and the

conversation he had to have about his , you know, kiss and about his, you know, kiss and tell, it was the worst compensation in my life. well, what about the covid relatives who had to have the conversations, the worst conversations of their lives, probably ipad to say, probably through an ipad to say, their relatives of their dying relatives of mistakes? about my conversation , kate being and why kate being upset. we don't need to vaccinate everybody indiscriminately, regardless of age conditions. he age or health conditions. and he said, wants to said, yes do and she wants to spend million. he said, now spend 30 million. he said, now we're spend 200 we're going to spend 200 million. there so many million. i mean, there so many mistakes peter, mistakes in this. peter, i'm going little monologue going to do a little monologue about this tomorrow. i think, i need to sit down and get it out. but those are the conversations that should focussed on, not that should be focussed on, not a about snuck a conversation about oh, i snuck my secretary. the no don't my secretary. oh the no i don't cry and other thing cry enough. and the other thing this i think is that obviously trying to get kind of trying to get some kind of career after politics and career going after politics and politics of looks politics and it kind of looks like might be working. like it might be working. i mean, let work . well, no, mean, not let it work. well, no, but that's one of the that's one of the indictments of the way we are now, with our culture. are now, is with our culture. but why need to keep but that's why we need to keep talking happened in talking about what happened in the need keep talking the care we need to keep talking about those ppe contracts, 10

million whatever, million or whatever, and the damage right. talking damage children. right. talking of health peter. yeah, health checks mid life though checks for, the mid life though , those of us in mid—life midlife. , those of us in mid—life midlife . yes. just very, very midlife. yes. just very, very tactful of you. yeah the fact that our normal middle life health check up now going to be onune health check up now going to be online instead of seeing your gp. so it's a good move. i think it's a terrible move actually . it's a terrible move actually. bev i really do. i think that the growing digitalisation , the the growing digitalisation, the remoteness generally of the medical profession is a shocking development . i medical profession is a shocking development. i mean, you medical profession is a shocking development . i mean, you know, development. i mean, you know, any gp worth their salt would tell you, you that in fact quite often there are things that you can tell about someone sitting in front you that's part of your training actually . and in fact training actually. and in fact you know, i've been in situations like that where a doctor will be very reassuring yourself. tell that yourself. know, i can tell that it's nothing. know yourself. know, i can tell that it's have nothing. know yourself. know, i can tell that it's have they hing. know yourself. know, i can tell that it's have they look know yourself. know, i can tell that it's have they look at know yourself. know, i can tell that it's have they look at certainty what have they look at certainty this is being tried out in cornwall, i believe. and if it's a success, it will be rolled out. what actually would out. now what actually would a success look like that success look like in that

situation ? and the other problem situation? and the other problem as well is that, you know, what about people i mean, you know, there are still people around who online. you know who who aren't online. you know who who aren't online. you know who who aren't online. you know who who aren't comfortable using those those course. i think it's terrible. i mean, i guess you would say. okay, those in their midlife , what, 50 years or so, midlife, what, 50 years or so, most people in their fifties are onune. most people in their fifties are online . but it might be that you online. but it might be that you are a bit shy and you're not going to mention something over zoom. well don't like that kind of you might be there and say, gosh, got funny mole gosh, i've got this funny mole on arm while i'm here. would on my arm while i'm here. would you have look like it's you have a look like it's those incidents those of incidents with those type of things because my, my things though? because my, my son bit a rash son recently had a bit of a rash and send us photos i think they all be in agreement. this is terrible. we really would prefer it as it is. but the it to stay as it is. but the reality is at moment the nhs reality is at the moment the nhs has 133,000 vacancies, 4000 of those doctors vacancies is brexit has been put down to the biggest contributing factor of why these vacancies have come about. and while meanwhile while there's 500,000 people out of work long term sick, so at the i

think the situation of why the nhs is broken it's not as straightforward . we want to straightforward. we want to digitise it. i think it's to do with cost and i think it's to do with cost and i think it's to do with the capabilities of what's available within the nhs at the moment i think that there are other ways could actually other ways you could actually look the nhs. so mean look at the nhs. so i mean supporting the nhs always have been, mean the fact is it been, but i mean the fact is it is now one of those institutions probably only institution which if actually seriously talk about trying to change or reform it in some way you know, you will be cast out, you know, as somehow beyond the pale. that's why no will do it. this is not the right way to go. but you could adequate, adequately funded. oh, come on now. i think the most people they throw at it, they throw more more money at it. you know, whether you're labour supporter or tory supporter, that call be questioned anymore. i mean you know even people who are very pro nhs will say there

are very pro nhs will say there are real structural problems the way this thing is run. but then i think the people at the forefront, the nurses which is going to make a perfect segue way into what we're talking about now, that's totally changing the goalposts, is changing the goalposts, which is not because need to talk not because we need to talk about how the people, nhs about how the people, the nhs are paid and how valued those jobs are and also the training goes into those. i would agree with that at the if there's gaping holes in nhs as there's almost 150,000 vacancies, is it almost 150,000 vacancies, is it a surprise that we're having to cut corners in digital consultations yet? no the wrong way to do it . also, it's part of way to do it. also, it's part of a general trend . i mean, it's a general trend. i mean, it's part of a general trend . gp seem part of a general trend. gp seem to extracting themselves from to be extracting themselves from the whole kind of procedure. i think the whole process is not just about doing that. they keep saying is so much demands on gp's. i'd say that possibly one gp's. i'd say that possibly one gp is doing what used to be the job of three. so they just times saving, they're cutting corners because they're under so much pressure. yeah. okay peter whittle, nicol, got whittle, amy nicol, we have got more we got to go to

more to talk. we got to go to the now, but the break the news now, but the break birmingham have birmingham city council have given controversial given up on their controversial clear, clear zone fines as drivers go to waste scot free. but how as coming up after your headune. but how as coming up after your headline . good morning it's headline. good morning it's 1130. i'm ruthie wright . let's 1130. i'm ruthie wright. let's get you up to date . labour says get you up to date. labour says it will look at abolishing the house of lords if it wins the next general, describing the current system as indefensible. sir keir starmer set out his blueprint for a new britain, promising the biggest ever transfer of power from west minster to nations and regions. if party comes into power. launching a report which was led by former prime minister gordon brown , he promised to overhaul brown, he promised to overhaul the way the country's governed. the biggest business group says there'll be a decade of lost growth in britain if action isn't taken by the government . isn't taken by the government. the cbi says it's likely the is already in recession with inflation, negative growth and

falling productivity . the falling productivity. the transport secretary, mark says the rmt decision to reject an improved pay offer is . improved pay offer is. incredibly disappointing and unfair to the public. a pay rise of 8% and a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies before april 20, 24 had been tabled . april 20, 24 had been tabled. but the uk's biggest rail union, the deal wouldn't protect its members and would lead to unsafe practises meanwhile, 33,000 members of the fire brigades union are voting on industrial action following a 5% pay offer that , few says. a strike is the that, few says. a strike is the last resort, but many firefighters, they say are desperate, with some struggling to afford to live . england to afford to live. england forward. raheem has flown back to the uk after a burglary at his home, surrey police says. watches and jewellery stolen but confirmed the chelsea wing . his confirmed the chelsea wing. his family weren't in the house at the time of the robbery. the manager, gareth southgate, says family is the most important thing and was unable to say thing and he was unable to say whether footballer would whether the footballer would return rest of return to qatar for the rest of the cup . but on your tv,

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gb news. welcome backs bev turner. today on tv radio and online. now more than 5000 fines issued to drivers since the launch of birmingham's controversial air zone have been written off by the city council. it was revealed earlier this year that council bosses couldn't deal the sheer number of fines which needed processed . so helping me needed processed. so helping me to understand in a little bit more detail is coloured . mahmood more detail is coloured. mahmood labour for perry bar. good labour mp for perry bar. good morning colleagues. so this sounds like a good news story for. motorists who were lumped with a fine , they don't now have with a fine, they don't now have to pay. what's happened ? well to pay. what's happened? well issue has been ongoing for some time . when the scheme started , i

time. when the scheme started, i had a huge sort of discussion with the member for transport then who is no longer member of transport and. basically i pointed to all of these issues that to them at the time and it was listened to, was heard in to doing this. i don't think all the support that's there should be in terms of trying to implement this charging system, is there . it was originally is there. it was originally delayed when he was first put in because hadn't got it right. but also, i think the real thing is i pointed out at the time to the cabinet member that this not a scheme that could should be appued scheme that could should be applied to birmingham because the level of the air quality in birmingham below , you know, the birmingham below, you know, the required 40. microns per cubic metre of . on the nitrate dioxide metre of. on the nitrate dioxide wasn't enough wasn't wasn't in the system and therefore there

was no need to put it on. so i think because of the fact that they need to look at this properly and resolve this, and i hope now with the change in leadership that they will start to that and hopefully move to do that and hopefully move the whole away . the whole scheme away. birmingham. so basically what i'm guessing is that birmingham city council saw this as a way to make a huge amount of money. these are massive cash generating . put a fine generating schemes. put a fine on a driver just because they're on a driverjust because they're driving it their old car. they were told to buy diesel cars, bought a diesel car and now they're told they can't they're being told they can't drive it. i think this story is actually to greeted actually going to be greeted with with lot of with a lot with a lot of positivity by people here , positivity by by people here, because doesn't show that the because doesn't it show that the council are greedy and council are being greedy and they cope with the they couldn't cope with the number of people who into number of people who fell into this? right in saying that this? am i right in saying that they were expected to have about 69,000 fines imposed and then there were nearly half a million in the first eight months? they just couldn't cope with it. how did they get that so wrong? well, i say at the time well, i didn't say at the time the say i mean, i've been on

this for quite a lot of time. when first implemented and when you first implemented and i said, you got it wrong, they were saying something like 5 to 10, maximum of a would 10, maximum of a people would caught into this. there are a lot more than that that would caught. and i said that at the time and they weren't prepared for the volumes were coming through. it was a rush to try and to catch up perhaps with the cabinet member that was there with the with london and the fact that there was no real need. we do need to have better air quality in birmingham. we want to do that. we can do that by looking at public transport that and how we can make that better. and so that that's why when you switch to put in i said it was the wrong thing to do and they hadn't taken all the factors into control. there are a poor people who don't a lot of poor people who don't have new cars and as you said, quite rightly, when the diesel incentives to people incentives were given to people and of private hire and and a lot of private hire and taxi also caught in this taxi drivers also caught in this who had a difficult time throughout this as well . we've

throughout this as well. we've had heard from keir had we've heard from keir starmer this morning saying he wants dissent , try of wants to dissent, try some of this decision process this decision making process into the communities. are into the local communities. are you me this a perfect you telling me this is a perfect example of where the people on the ground, birmingham, could see to work? see this wasn't going to work? westminster push it westminster wants to push it through . well, part of through. well, that's part of the government, along with the cabinet member at the time who really wanted to push it. and they pushing. i did write they kept pushing. i did write twice to the minister's twice to see the minister's concerned and they basically ignored me said, well, no , ignored me and said, well, no, this is what the policies and we're ahead with we're going to go ahead with this. proved to them that the this. i proved to them that the level air quality wasn't to level of air quality wasn't to the european where you need a caz zone, which is a which is a charging zone and they carried on with it without listening to some of the information . and i some of the information. and i think the minister should have looked at the time had he been local. i think we have put more pressure on, but particularly i think the people in charge locally and certainly cabinet member charged locally was rushing because rushing ahead this because he wanted political for doing wanted some political for doing it. and i think now he realised

he wrong. well it's an he was wrong. well it's an embarrassment for them. thank you . khalid the labour you. khalid mahmood. the labour for perry barr. so you. khalid mahmood. the labour for perry barr . so 400,000 more for perry barr. so 400,000 more fines than expected were generated in the first eight months and it still made £20 million for them, despite fact that lots of drivers them and didn't have to pay them . wow. didn't have to pay them. wow. right. okay. moving on. football england progressed the world cup quarter finals last night, didn't they? comfortable three nil victory over senegal . nil victory over senegal. england out in droves england fans were out in droves in , in zones. our in pubs, in fan zones. our reporter will hollis decided to join party. it might be four join the party. it might be four degrees, but a winter world isn't all that bad. some colder air, but i'm sure it's warm there. i'm excited to see phil foden and jack grealish come across so warm. welcome bed tomorrow. what the weather is . tomorrow. what the weather is. come on. it's england, innit? we could do the gazebo. we could do . it's not the cold that's got england fans shivering. the trent navigation in nottingham. there's a different kind of tension in the knockout stages . tension in the knockout stages. the lions may have finished top

of that group, but senegal are champions in africa. i'd like to think we can win. no one knew what we'd do if we had chocolate bit of freedom tonight. it would be fun together with the first half. lose the second awful with the match . what that mean . the match. what does that mean. they get away . they get away. a sluggish start. but then . a sluggish start. but then. england find their feet feet once and then again in. the first half . we got to the bag. first half. we got to the bag. i'm feeling positive. a calmness . i i'm feeling positive. a calmness .i hope i'm feeling positive. a calmness . i hope we win five nil. i went to the toilet twice and missed both . i'm really not happy by both. i'm really not happy by the is coming and feed them up as the beer flows so do goals .

as the beer flows so do goals. the is inevitable now . england the is inevitable now. england three senegal nil three one. we're three two next round. i was confident and the boys they performed. england march on with old rivals insights the last time they played france in a world cup. england won . that was world cup. england won. that was 1982. this time are reigning champions. we're got to play france put a bit of mud. if we go toe to toe with them the norway them if we go defensive, then we'll lose. but for now, that doesn't stop the singing. so will for gb news in nottingham for. brings out the funny in people doesn't you're a football fan . i'm a football fan football fan. i'm a football fan . oh yeah. but not really. any particular footballer, jack grealish for sure. and i quite like jordan henderson at the moment. oh, okay. not at a tactical scale. and he's got great ball skills show knock of any net piece. always hope you follow that . yeah exactly. you follow that. yeah exactly. you have ball skills . i, i watching

have ball skills. i, i watching when england do well i like i just the everything i just always highly aware of there comes point where suddenly we seem to fall apart. dare i say. and you know, i hope that doesn't happen. yeah. surprise luck to them if you're not a massive football fan with something like the world cup comes around their last night on the sofa they score. the sofa and then they score. you yes. and you think, you go. yes. and you think, oh, i okay. yeah right. amy i do. okay. yeah right. amy strikes. this is something we all care about. and seems the all care about. and it seems the hallway set that they are hallway has set that they are unfair christmas. dare unfair at christmas. how dare they christmas? yes. they strike at christmas? yes. the used public to the man who used public money to heat man of people heat his stables man of people nadhim zahawi has come out and said it is the unions that are ruining christmas by daring to go on strike . i think support go on strike. i think support those who have courage to ask. no action means conditions will stay the same. i support the strikes and i think nadhim zahawi would be use his better to sit round a negotiation table rather than just talk about them

behind the back. put them as the ganh behind the back. put them as the grinch that stole christmas. when i would argue the government are stealing all some occupations that you are more sympathetic about striking others. what about the transport the mail, the nurses? well i think the fact that is there a remarkable number of industries now going on strike really does show the state of this. and i if we as the people faith in the government and we couldn't personally see that a lot of these industries are crumbling and broken breaking for very eyes. for instance, we just the nhs there we can the problems there then i think yes government would have a case to be able say look look how they ruining christmas but when you can see the state of these industries and the impact on the people who are working to keep our going and did so our country going and did so throughout covid then public opinion this round is certainly with the strikers . peter zahawi with the strikers. peter zahawi has said that this is president fault because of the war in ukraine it sent energy costs .

ukraine it sent energy costs. it's the main driver of rising pnces it's the main driver of rising prices and pressure on pay. i mean, that's just simply ridiculous, isn't it? thank you. you ridiculous and desperate talk, actually , i'm sort of with talk, actually, i'm sort of with amy bit on i don't like this condemnation as for christmas, you know it's almost like well what you want them to do do you want them to strike at a kind of real for a time that's going to have no effect. yeah i mean you know also, there is this talk you've always had in the tory party that somehow there are certain strike certain people shouldn't strike emergency and things like that. i like the idea of working i don't like the idea of working people having anyway. it's taken away actually . really important people having anyway. it's taken an note :tually . really important people having anyway. it's taken av1note that.y . really important people having anyway. it's taken an note that with eally important people having anyway. it's taken an note that with these mportant people having anyway. it's taken an note that with these strikes nt to note that with these strikes within the nhs , they have said within the nhs, they have said throughout that will be throughout that there will be a christmas service that won't christmas day service that won't be the to these emergency be the case to these emergency department. it'sjust be the case to these emergency department. it's just left barren . it will be completely barren. it will be completely functioning for those who need it, but it's just the extra staff . amy as well though, staff. amy as well though, because of lockdowns, furloughs, people have got quite lazy now wants to go to work any more

than they could just sit at home. no, i wouldn't agree with that because 40% of people claiming benefits are in work also , we have, as we mentioned also, we have, as we mentioned earlier , a big backlog of those earlier, a big backlog of those long term sick as a result of , long term sick as a result of, potentially covid. and so there are a lot of people who are legitimate at work. we have the most unaffordable all child care in the uk that puts a big chunk of parents who would be working out the workforce because can't pay out the workforce because can't pay if you've got nursery fees and minimum wage job that does not equal it's very i think no doubt but they are different. there are different topics. i mean is something that's the reason people are out of work now. helen, we're talking about right and i what i think about that the 5 million people who are economically inactive. no, i think a lot of people decided they didn't quite want to go back. they didn't quite want to go back . yeah, right. i'm very back. yeah, right. i'm very sceptical of this kind of long covid sceptical of this kind of long covm thing. sceptical of this kind of long covid thing. there is something seriously wrong if people who

pay seriously wrong if people who pay taxes and go to work are essentially supporting 5.3 million people who are economically . i think i also economically. i think i also know that purely from anecdotally actually that many people would actually are better off on benefits and working of course. well financially a massive problem and the that working people have to claim benefits a real benefits that shows a real problem in the system can we problem in the system but can we just to strikes for one just go back to strikes for one second because they've very second because they've been very effective history and effective throughout history and also very recently. so we all remember the criminal barrister strike that is over since october because they negotiated they got together negotiated a 50/% pay rise. london bus drivers 11% pay rise to 13. this all solved , closed, done. no all solved, closed, done. no one's spoiling christmas so it can be dealt with . this is at can be dealt with. this is at the door of the government. i think what is always particularly with the fact that this is christmas , he's saying, this is christmas, he's saying, you know, is the fact that will be family travel be disrupting family travel plans , particularly trains . plans, particularly the trains. you know, one of the twitter poll questions, we're nearly death. so it's what do you feel when you leave your house,

you're going get to your you're going to get to your place your destination? place of your destination? because feel like moment because i feel like the moment you of the house, you you walk out of the house, you can't your car is can't sure that your car is going get there because. the going to get there because. the traffic the trains traffic is so bad, the trains aren't the buses are terrible. yeah but i totally agree with that. about basically that. those are about basically the falling apart. yes, the place falling apart. yes, i'm to sound clipped , but i'm sorry to sound clipped, but that different . i that is slightly different. i yes. example, coming here yes. for example, coming here today, i've got the train from where i live and you you factor in about another 45 minutes simply because you can't rely on such a thing as a timetable anymore. it'sjust such a thing as a timetable anymore. it's just generally there are things are not working . it does feel remarkably the 19705, . it does feel remarkably the 1970s, however , i don't think 1970s, however, i don't think that one can put that at the foot of the unions necessarily we have different you say things are falling apart. we have different you say things are falling apart . well, they're are falling apart. well, they're not falling apart for the shareholders who have made record profits until we've put an end to profiteering and we treat staff with the dignity and the respect that they deserve. these strikes going to these strikes are going to continue people can't continue because people can't afford. nurses the

afford. there are nurses at the moment how that moment using. how is that correct any way? one of the richest nations in the world. but i think i was making a different point there, amy. i mean, who can possibly disagree with kind of you say there i think the fact is that there are so structural. the rot is so deepin so structural. the rot is so deep in our sort of structural decay , that is a whole different decay, that is a whole different thing , which basically thing, which basically governments have to take on. they won't they never do . but at they won't they never do. but at least for this particular conservative. but i think it's quite separate to get back to the original point to union. and what's happening though. okay right . harry what's happening though. okay right. harry and what's happening though. okay right . harry and meghan vote to right. harry and meghan vote to leave camp with it. we all to talk about yes they are what has emerged the president's in power this morning they used a an image in this trailer which is almost become more you this this legendary train of these photographer global events

saying this is just terrible. you know this is the pressure on to in it was taken at a premiere of a harry potter movie back in 2005. so if yeah, that's quite a bit that's a good what is it now what . seven years before they what. seven years before they got before they even got married. so it basically using a wrong image i think that you know okay it said that's a small point you don't actually have to even pick this kind of stuff up to discredit them. actually, i think they're doing a very good job of that on their own i think that they are the most self—indulgent , mystic, whiny , self—indulgent, mystic, whiny, privileged couple and. i think, frankly, i don't know why the king has not stripped him of the titles yet . he absolutely should titles yet. he absolutely should , because that's the only thing. that's the only thing. keeping them commercial. that's the only thing. keeping them commercial . they need those them commercial. they need those titles . but he'll be torn titles. but he'll be torn between being a father and being the king, and he won't want to estrange himself from his son yet , estrange himself from his son yet, although this netflix

documentary, which is what this trailer is, is full is going to stretch the bounds of that relationship beyond recognition, isn't it? i mean, i yes, but but can we ever want to talk about that trailer? i think this has been broken completely out of proportion because you know what thatis proportion because you know what that is that's an editing. they've typed in lots of paparazzi and it's come up with that they're just it that image. so they're just it to illustrate what lots of paparazzi see is i don't think this misleading think this is misleading and i think this is misleading and i think this this story up this too to pick this story up and push it was such hope fervently is a little bit part of the meghan and harry smear campaign dare say really clear campaign dare i say really clear what means so media what that means so media campaign netflix. campaign cry out for netflix. the trailer for the series says look how how did all by a by look how how did we all by a by paparazzi this is so we are paparazzi this is it so we are this is the paparazzi the wall of paparazzi that we face. and then it transpires that the image used in that trailer, which presumably they had sign off from, was event they were off from, was an event they were at a red carpet event at willingly a red carpet event . this is just some . but i think this is just some editor into getty editor there typing into getty images. papa not say anything. which one the most

which one look the most effective for that moment? yeah, i think this is the big i don't think this is the big deal that it's being made out to be personal. i don't think a fish to fry. well they certainly have. fish to fry. well they certainly have . and i think, you know, have. and i think, you know, thatis have. and i think, you know, that is you're quite right. as i said at the very beginning, you know, it just an image but it's sort of emblematic of their general kind of hypocrisy. what it smells like hypocrisy, smells of shock high minded, you know , of shock high minded, you know, moralistic , all the things, you moralistic, all the things, you know , that basically turn people know, that basically turn people away from william, from harry and meghan. i remember when there the royal wedding, right? the level of goodwill towards was extraordinary, right . they was extraordinary, right. they managed to turn it round saying, well, this country is appalling , britain is appalling, racist, all the rest of it. there was extraordinary to towards both of them. and i think that from what i can gather with this new documentary even going to have a go britain , you know and the go britain, you know and the british people you know i think this is just outrageous. i think

the tide turned very quickly after the royal wedding in a way that it perhaps wouldn't have if meghan looked like and had curated for kate middleton. no, absolutely . i curated for kate middleton. no, absolutely. i think only curated for kate middleton. no, absolutely . i think only people absolutely. i think only people today , only people who want to today, only people who want to see that about royal family will say that . yeah. because say that. yeah. because basically it wasn't the case they were welcomed with open arms . i they were welcomed with open arms. i mean you know and that the fact is, is that it was basically preaching to people about the climate and what else. have you all said that kind of that that sort of virtue signalling that we should, they say, perfected to an art form, you know , is what turned people you know, is what turned people off? i think you're right. how do you say that? in fact, say anything? because i don't think there's anything virtue signal about because they about what they do because they follow everything follow through on everything they done they do. and they've done amazing humanitarian amazing work for humanitarian aid. done wonderful aid. they've done wonderful things mental their things for mental their archewell raises more archewell foundation raises more money for causes around the world than any celebrity would put their name to do you know

how much money is raised by members of the royal family for charities day in day , year in, charities day in day, year in, year out? that's our job. yes. but they're never given credit for it. but somehow that they make sure these people make sure we hear everything about every good deed. also, you know, they there's an old rule, amy, you know , never trust somebody who know, never trust somebody who makes claim about themselves. and if they , say, i am a and if they, say, i am a compassionate person, you, me, or i'm a kind person , you should or i'm a kind person, you should immediately think ought to be wary that one know, i don't wary of that one know, i don't think i think they think they do i think they actually keep quiet actually keep quite quiet about actually keep quite quiet about a the humanitarian stuff a lot of the humanitarian stuff that which is why we that they do, which is why we get caught up with stories about like a random photograph in their trailer than their trailer rather than talking they in talking about what they did in rwanda, they did for the rwanda, what they did for the women afghanistan you women of afghanistan you don't even that because even know about that because i won't talk about that. we do. do i think they make absolutely quite i what do quite clear i think what they do for they also at the for charity and they also at the same time what is appalling about they somehow or other paint as victims. paint themselves as victims. that's that's the whole that's whole that's the whole woke ideology. right that you do

with this. and somehow with this. and yet somehow you're still you're you're still victims. you're crying in the but you're doing this. doing that to this. you're doing that to experience they have a life image of great privilege and front let's it. front opportunity. let's do it. we've all got materi al privilege. and i wouldn't like it to be mistaken with material privilege doesn't come the possibility for trauma. he lost his mother when he was 13 and to walk behind her coffin, no doubt , right? yes. all right. all right. but i mean, so sorry. we've seen you could talk about meghan the day who's saying the twitter poll. i know what you're saying from troll amy nicole piece work. had all piece of work. now we had all sorts today asking you sorts of people today asking you based on what keir starmer said this morning, whether you want him the of him to abolish the house of lords 69% you have said lords and 69% of you have said yes. right. so come to yes. yeah, right. so we come to the our show. it has by the end of our show. it has by again. up next is gb again. coming up next is gb news. stay with mark longhurst. i'm turner see tomorrow i'm bev turner see tomorrow morning hello aidan morning at ten. hello i'm aidan mcgivern office mcgivern from the met office it's out there and it's it's cold out there and it's going turn even colder this going to turn even colder this week . for today it's cloudy for week. for today it's cloudy for many , some showers around

many, some showers around similar locations to the last couple of days . those showers couple of days. those showers coming an easterly breeze coming in on an easterly breeze affecting mainly south—east scotland into eastern england. some making their into the some making their way into the midlands parts of as midlands and parts of wales as well parts of northern one or well as parts of northern one or two running along the south coast. otherwise further west you dner coast. otherwise further west you drier and brighter you are the drier and brighter it the rest of the it will be the rest of the sunshine scotland. but sunshine western scotland. but wherever it's going to sunshine western scotland. but wh feeling it's going to sunshine western scotland. but whfeeling cold. it's going to sunshine western scotland. but whfeeling cold. 48's going to sunshine western scotland. but whfeeling cold. 48 degrees to sunshine western scotland. but whfeeling cold. 48 degrees out be feeling cold. 48 degrees out on easterly breeze. it's on that easterly breeze. it's going to feel like two or going to feel more like two or three celsius. it's the evening. the showers continue for a time they're going to push through parts of central england into wales. tend to wales. they're going to tend to disappear northern ireland disappear from northern ireland as south coast. the as well as the south coast. the winds a northerly winds turn more to a northerly across scotland. they'll bring showers increasingly into the north of scotland. and the showers by the showers will turn sleet by the end the night. but it's a end of the night. but it's a cold night everywhere. temperatures are in low temperatures are in the low single below single figures or just below freezing in some spots. then later a change on the later tuesday, a change on the way we lose the easterly gain a northerly which is even colder at the moment that northerly straight from the arctic and that's weather we've got for the

rest the week so it's going rest of the week so it's going to turn progressively colder after on tuesday after a chilly start on tuesday for many places. we'll start lose the cloud, actually, the clouds brought in the clouds being brought in by the east three brighter skies for east three so brighter skies for many, towards many, especially towards the west later on the but across west and later on the but across northern scotland and eastern england we'll see showers develop and the showers will be turning increasingly to sleet and snow for the far north of scotland . that's where it's scotland. that's where it's going to feel coldest, especially as the wind picks up later day. but in the later in the day. but in the south, lighter winds, it's south, with lighter winds, it's not feel some not going to feel too with some sunshine. think temperatures sunshine. i think temperatures still below average, still a little below average, mid single figures mid to high single figures into tuesday since the snow increase basically affecting the north of scotland. and for wednesday , scotland. and for wednesday, that snow is really going to build up to 2 to 5 centimetres. that lower levels, 10 to 20 over the hills. it's to feel cold everywhere .