good morning. it's 10:00 on wednesday, the 1st of march. i'm bev turner today a huge covid story telegraph are calling it the hancock files they've seen over 100,000 messages from matt to others in government exposing the chaos surrounding decisions which affected every single one of us

in different ways, both then and now . i'm in different ways, both then and now. i'm delighted to say in different ways, both then and now . i'm delighted to say that now. i'm delighted to say that richard tice, ahead of the reform partner party and partner of the journalist behind the leak , he's seen all these leak, he's seen all these messages. he's going to be here exclusively just after news. also, police fear the missing baby of constance marten and mark gordon may have come to harm. the couple were arrested on monday after 53 days on the run. it's a developing story. we will bring you the latest as it happens. could you a local pub be about to close the british beer and public association warns that to thousand venues are teetering the brink and need support in the upcoming spring budget . i for support in the upcoming spring budget. i for one have been warning about this for a while. let me know what you think . and let me know what you think. and very good morning to you. also today , king charles has kicked today, king charles has kicked the sussexes out of frogmore

cottage right to email me gb views at gbnews.uk. let me know of your thoughts on everything we're discussing this morning, but first, let's get you up to date with what's happening and around world. with riots . around the world. with riots. thanks, beth. exactly 10:02. here is the latest . former here is the latest. former health secretary matt hancock reportedly rejected advice from the government's chief medical officer over care, home testing the pandemic. the telegraph newspaper claims that mr. hancock advised to test all residents going into english care homes for covid, not just those arriving hospital. the article which cites leaked whatsapp messages claims mr. hancock was concerned that this would get in the way of his target of 100,000 daily tests. a spokesperson for the mp says the messages have been stolen and dr. ed to create a false story . dr. ed to create a false story. mountain rescue volunteers have

the search for a missing baby in brighton. it after the newborn's parents and mark were further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter too. the couple were captured on monday night after almost two months on the run . our reporter months on the run. our reporter mark white has details throughout the morning. mountain teams, as well as other specialist search teams have been arriving here to help those hundreds of . police officers hundreds of. police officers already at this location in this frantic for the infant to constance marten . and mark constance marten. and mark gordon , they have, we're told, gordon, they have, we're told, uncooperative with police since their arrest on monday evening. it obvious, according to that the pair had been living outside, living for quite some time . and that's why the search time. and that's why the search chopper mission is now

constantly on open spaces to the north end of brighton . a 91 north end of brighton. a 91 square mile search grid that they are currently looking at. and we'll keep you up to date with all the latest on that story. first here on gb news now. the president of says she's cutting short a visit to moldova following , a train collision following, a train collision which killed at least 36 people and injured more than 80. an intercity train carrying over 300 passengers was hit. a freight train travelling in the opposite direction near the city of larissa. the crash caused carriages to catch fire with rescuers working the night to find survivors . labour claims find survivors. labour claims the prime minister oversaw nearly the prime minister oversaw nearl y £27 the prime minister oversaw nearly £27 billion worth of wasteful government spending dunng wasteful government spending during his time as chancellor and chief secretary to the treasury . the party and chief secretary to the treasury. the party has compiled a report of so—called extensive waste, which includes money lost due to fraud and faulty personal protective equipment during the

pandemic . the figures cover two pandemic. the figures cover two financial years whilst he was office. however, conservative chair greg hands has labelled the report a dodgy dossier. uk house prices fell by 1.1% year on year in february , according on year in february, according to the nationwide building society, marking the first annual decline since june 2020. now, last month, the average house price was around now, last month, the average house price was aroun d £257,000. house price was around £257,000. pfices house price was around £257,000. prices now 3.7% lower than their peakin prices now 3.7% lower than their peak in august of 2022. of economics at king's college london, jonathan porter's says he's not surprised by these figures. we were expecting the housing market to weaken both as a result of the general weakness in the economy and the squeeze real incomes as a result of inflation. but of course they quite rise in interest rates over the last year or so . a new over the last year or so. a new report by mps nhs england will

miss recovery targets, including those for cancer treatments. the cross—party public accounts committee says plans to tackle the covid backlogs are already falling and based on overall optimistic assumptions about winter health demands. it says the proportion of people receiving timely cancer treatment has fallen to a record low of 62. the report also says the capacity of adult social care must improve if the recovery plan is to succeed . recovery plan is to succeed. teachers are striking today in the midlands and eastern regions of england in a long dispute over pay. it's the second day of regional walkouts by members of the national education union, and it affects 200,000 staff. many schools either restricting access pupils or fully closed . access pupils or fully closed. at and new details have been discovered during cleaning and conservation work to prepare

king charles's coronation chair . experts say they found previous undiscovered parts of a figure. it reveals more information about the chair's lavish construction 700 years after it was made . henry the after it was made. henry the eighth. charles the first. queen victoria and the late queen elizabeth were all crowned in the historic seat . okay, this is the historic seat. okay, this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, let's get straight back to beth . and . straight back to beth. and. good morning to you. now, regardless which side of the fence she sat on throughout lockdowns and the covid two years, i would say we're still dealing with the hangover of it. today's story messages in the daily , all messages in the daily, all relevant to all of the telegraph is splashing huge on this. they're calling it the hancock files . that will be more

files. that will be more messages revealed over the next few days . the telegraph has messages revealed over the next few days. the telegraph has had access to 100,000 and whatsapp text messages that were being swapped between matt hancock and various people in the government. huge decision makers at the time of the pandemic. now those of us who really want to know what going on behind the scenes a little scenes might be a little frustrated not of the frustrated that not all of the questions being answered in questions are being answered in here. the messages have been revealed by isabel oakeshott. isabelis revealed by isabel oakeshott. isabel is the ghost—writer who worked with matt hancock on his book and she has now chosen to release these messages to the newspaper. i'm now by richard tice, who's the leader of the reform uk party, but he's also today the partner of isabel oakeshott's. richard great to see you. let me start with this question about isabel's motives . she obviously had the trust of my hancock being a ghost—writer for a politician is a very trusting position . was it an trusting position. was it an easy decision for her to make over your kitchen table as to whether to go this one step

further.7 yeah. good look, the reality that it wasn't an easy decision. but you'll understand . and as a journalist , the issue . and as a journalist, the issue is what is in the overriding strategic public interest . and strategic public interest. and what became clear is that this so significant the between what were all being told at the time by matt hancock and other ministers as well . the prime ministers as well. the prime minister and advisers relative to the evidence that was actually that they were looking at or indeed very often the lack of evidence . and that's a real of evidence. and that's a real concern here, is that the public inquiry in the uk is literally just starting as we speak and it looks like it's going to take at least five is probably ten years because hundreds of millions of pounds. because hundreds of millions of pounds . and let's just consider pounds. and let's just consider need to learn the lessons and we

need to learn the lessons and we need to learn them rapidly about what went well and bluntly what went badly. already finished inquiry a year ago. well, on the way through its inquiry. inquiry a year ago. well, on the way through its inquiry . we way through its inquiry. we can't wait for this. and it's really important that the public understand the extent to which our politicians didn't tell us the truth all the way through these lockdown ones and the consequences of that and the fact that so much of it you remember those words we're following we're making the right decisions based on the best science, the right time. it turned out that wasn't the case. very often they were making decisions to suit their own political expediency and, ignonng political expediency and, ignoring some of the right advice and completely refusing to look at advice from other people . what i've seen so far, people. what i've seen so far, which is on mh and there's more of this to come over the next few days from the telegraph. the interesting thing is, as you say, the topics that they want discussing on whatsapp . is that

discussing on whatsapp. is that going to be more to come about? infection rates in the young . a infection rates in the young. a cost benefit analysis of lockdowns . closing schools . the lockdowns. closing schools. the logic of indiscriminate vaccination. of all age groups without a cost benefit analysis . do we know if there's more to come about those particularly big topics we to today's largely about care homes want to come on to that in a minute but what else is still to come. there is lots still to come, bev, across a whole range of subjects, some of which you've touched on the issue of schools. why were they closed for so long? sweden didn't shut its schools . and didn't shut its schools. and with the education, the issue of masks, the issue of vaccines. there's lots to come and you that will flow over the coming days because how how shocked were you when were looking at these with with isabel we shocked to see that it was mainly driven by political motivations perhaps or wanting

to look good compared to other countries. one thing to look good compared to, say , nicola good compared to, say, nicola sturgeon, we know that that featured in the book the isabel rhodes. featured in the book the isabel rhodes . will you use your mind rhodes. will you use your mind slightly blown about the fact that they weren't looking more at scientific data the reality is what these messages proved what we feared and that those of us who were sceptical of the lockdowns and the merits of them, we feared what was going on. these messages provided the proofs and the conclusion had to be it's in the national interest actually not only for the uk but actually not only for the uk but actually internet as well. beverley we have to learn the lessons and we have to learn them really fast and our real concern here is that the inquiry will turn out to be literally a and establishment cover up to show that everybody did the best thing. and that's simply isn't the truth and people deserve of

the truth and people deserve of the people deserve the truth. here's my concern. i share that worry that the covid inquiry be a whitewash. it will conclude we have locked down harder . we have locked down harder. we should have had more restrictions, more mandates. and i don't want us to live in a country that because when the world health and health organisation triggered the next pandemic, then are going to pandemic, then we are going to be all sorts of broken be under all sorts of broken controls . but here's my thought controls. but here's my thought on this today. this story that has broken is this. matt hancock , chris wheat, his advice on care, home testing that nobody should be should go back a care home from the community until that test did. this is being taken almost interpreted today that it was the wrong decision . that it was the wrong decision. it wasn't strict enough . but can it wasn't strict enough. but can we just talk a little bit about why it was even those of us who are lockdown sceptic, why it was important to protect the elderly deaths in care homes in that first wave? in fact , the first wave? in fact, the pandemic went up 76. that's why

this matters today, isn't it ? it this matters today, isn't it? it matters hugely because he lied to us. he lies to everybody . he to us. he lies to everybody. he said consistently that a protective ring was thrown around the care homes. it wasn't. we suspected it wasn't. this is the proof that it wasn't. and those of us, for example, i knew that was of the pre—pandemic planning that had been agreed. that was then completely . and when the great completely. and when the great barrington declaration came out in, the autumn of 2020, those of us that promoted whether whether sort of political leaders , sort of political leaders, campaigners or indeed the scientists and experts who promoted it, we were all smeared we were labelled as killers . we we were labelled as killers. we were we were verbally by the and by political leaders in the most brutal way when it turns out we were right and this is the proof and the evidence over the coming

days will reinforce . and it's so days will reinforce. and it's so important that can i obviously , important that can i obviously, hancock and his team are furious this morning. it's no exaggeration to say that what is your and isabel's relationship like now with matt hancock and his team after this ? their his team after this? their response , beverly actually , how response, beverly actually, how they're always on the attack. they refuse to admit the possibility that they could have done anything wrong at all. and it's quite extraordinary and in a sense , still on the attack a sense, still on the attack rather than rather than say, look, actually, this was really difficult. we were moving at incredible speed. yes, we got some things right. yes, we made some things right. yes, we made some mistakes . we were trying to some mistakes. we were trying to motivate people. there's none of that. motivate people. there's none of that . it's that constant ego to that. it's that constant ego to call. i did everything . right. call. i did everything. right. i'm the great matt hancock with everybody around me. this is the proof that wasn't the case. and in so many ways, we as a nation

are paying the price. but those mistakes were made at the over a long period and the absolute refusal to consider an alternative course of action . alternative course of action. and as a nation, we have to have trust in our leaders. and as a nation, we have to have trust in our leaders . and this trust in our leaders. and this is why you have to look at both sides of an argument as leaders. and then make a judgement and bnng and then make a judgement and bring the people . you saying bring the people. you saying we've looked at both sides and for this reason, for that reason, we've gone this route. okay. right . thank you, okay. all right. thank you, richard. very much for richard. thanks very much for talking to us this morning. richard partner of isabel richard the partner of isabel oakeshott, the journalist responsible these responsible for leaking these messages, spokesperson for messages, a spokesperson for matt hancock, says the stolen messages have been doctored to create a false story that matt rejected clinical advice on care home testing this is flat wrong. on april the 14th, matt received a response to his request for advice from the chief medical officers that testing was needed for people going into care homes . he enthusiastically accepted .

. he enthusiastically accepted. later that day he convened an operational meeting on delivering for care homes, where he was advised it was not currently possible to test entering care homes, which he also accepted . matt concluded also accepted. matt concluded that the testing people leaving hospital for care homes should be priority because of the higher risks of transmit mission as it wasn't no possible mandate. everyone going into care homes was tested . the care homes was tested. the telegraph have doctored the messages by exclude a key line from the text by allen nixon. nixon says i wasn't in testing meeting. nixon says wasn't in testing meeting which changes context of the exchange depicted in the article. it demonstrates there was a meeting at which advice on deliverable bility was given by a meeting. this messages imply that matt simply overruled clinical advice . that overruled clinical advice. that is categorically untrue . he went is categorically untrue. he went as far as possible as fast as possible to expand and save lives. this story shows that the

right place for this analysis of what happened in the pandemic is in the inquiry let me know you think gb views gb news dots uk . think gb views gb news dots uk. moving on rescue volunteers have joined the search for a missing babyin joined the search for a missing baby in brighton . it comes after baby in brighton. it comes after the newborn's parents constance martin and mark gordon were further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter . gross negligence, manslaughter. over 200 police officers have been searching overnight square miles of land . the risks to the miles of land. the risks to the baby believed to be extremely high former met. detective peter blakesley joins now. good morning, peter last time i spoke to you, we were talking about the missing mother nicola bulley, another missing person story . the bit that a little bit story. the bit that a little bit baffled about peter is , how this baffled about peter is, how this couple could have been charged at the moment with gross negligence, manslaughter . just negligence, manslaughter. just explain that to us. well,

they've been further arrested for that offence on monday night when they were detained . they when they were detained. they were arrested on suspicion of an offence of neglect . and then offence of neglect. and then yesterday they were further arrested for gross negligence . arrested for gross negligence. now, of course the police cannot make it public right now the evidence and information that they will have so far. however this is, of course, a very development because i'm sure there are many people myself, there are many people myself, the sincere hope that this young baby would be found alive. but beanng baby would be found alive. but bearing in mind yesterday , this bearing in mind yesterday, this development, the vast there appued development, the vast there applied to search today i the likelihood of this youngster being found of diminishing sadly by the hour it's extremely unusual. by the hour it's extremely unusual . peter isn't it that unusual. peter isn't it that a couple. well the whole thing the whole case is extremely unusual

but what i'm slightly baffled with is it isn't that unusual for mothers to give birth and not want to have that baby , but not want to have that baby, but not want to have that baby, but not to dump that baby effectively that's been going on for, you know, since time immemorial. how unusual is it in the data in day and age for a mother to not tell police what's happened to that child . well, of happened to that child. well, of course, the police have been very careful with their language with regards to constance marten , the mark gordon. they've said this was a search for them that they were missing. they didn't use words like we hunting them. they are fugitive . but clearly they are fugitive. but clearly there is a lot that lies behind story. and i am aware of a lot of that . but because i do not of that. but because i do not want to talk myself into a contempt court case, i have to be extremely guarded, responsible and careful about what i say. what i would say to your viewers and listeners, is this have been together since

about 2618. so for some years and leave it at that. in that regard , the police have been , i regard, the police have been, i say, very careful with their use of language with release of information . there might very information. there might very well there are matches which they simply cannot breach . but i they simply cannot breach. but i thought that last week as the nicola bulley case faded from the front pages , the police did the front pages, the police did a very well timed press conference as soon as they possibly could, as soon as they could get , possibly could, as soon as they could get, simon column possibly could, as soon as they could get , simon column inches. could get, simon column inches. but they brought this case once again to the public attention and a few short days later , and a few short days later, constance and mark were arrested. so i think credit where credit's due in that regard . yeah, absolutely . thank regard. yeah, absolutely. thank you, peter. peter blakesley there, former detective, thanks very much for letting me know about that. right. 2000 pops off facing closure beer and pub association has warned as it

calls on the government to extend a lifeline to the sector in the next budget. michael cole is the ceo of the night time industries association . michael industries association. michael thank you for joining industries association. michael thank you forjoining me industries association. michael thank you for joining me this morning . now you are you been in morning. now you are you been in my thoughts quite a lot in the last months would you believe. because i think we spoke just before christmas and you a lot of hostile pubs restaurants will make it through christmas. they will just about reap the benefits in january. and when we get into and march that is when they are going to fall off this economic cliff. has that basically proven to be right ? basically proven to be right? without a doubt. i mean, we have recently done a big report alongside . people like bpa and alongside. people like bpa and uk, which have clearly the many businesses across the sector, both night time economy , both night time economy, night—time, culture, economy and hospitality in general are going to see a really challenging trading period . the actual cost trading period. the actual cost to trade at the moment is

untenable . the reason why you untenable. the reason why you see the report coming out from bpa and that we are going to lose 2000 plus pubs. we're seeing a lot of pressure on the cultural sector and the main pressures that we're seeing all within independent businesses. so standalone pubs that make up the real sort of important sort of community weight is for many people across the country . and people across the country. and what do you need to do in this upcoming budget? michael well , upcoming budget? michael well, need the financial headroom to survive . what we are at the survive. what we are at the moment is in survival mode. eight out of ten businesses are either barely breaking even or losing money. the margins are very thin. the productivity the investment in what we're doing is has literally dried out . so is has literally dried out. so what we need really is a vat cuts across the board. we need them to look at lowering the multiplier for rates. and we also them to revisit the energy

relief scheme because at present we're still paying 2 to 300% there prico with period costs. so for us what people don't realise is there is a direct and indirect impact. and many of the supply chain will see those increasing costs for energy and policy on to the from line businesses. and as you can with people having less disposable income it is very, very difficult for us to pass our own in our pricing because that will also impact in terms of frequency of visit dwell time and spend. okay alright, thank you, michael, for keeping us updated that. we will watch what they do in the budget for the pubs and the hospitality industry. absolutely vital industry. it's absolutely vital part british landscape, part of the british landscape, isn't it now. thanks michael. still come, king charles has still to come, king charles has decided is telling him selling your rock, prince and meghan markle out of frogmore cottage. find out why later .

good morning. it's 1027. good morning. it's1027. this is beth tennis day on jp news. still to come this morning, a video has gone viral over social media this week showing old verses young in a dispute that you mustn't miss. it is both and heartbreaking all at the same time. but first of all, the lockdown files, rights . hello, lockdown files, rights. hello, guys. lockdown files, rights. hello, guys . hi. hi. lockdown files, rights. hello, guys. hi. hi. and my guests are here with me. i'm sorry i was little bit distracted. i'm reading the paper. so the telegraph have gone really, really really big on this. mike parry samantha smith are parry and samantha smith are both lockdown both with me. the lockdown files. can't you both here files. i can't you both here without reflecting on this. samantha let me start with you.

you're new to this. so have i met you before? marvellous have you? what's your reaction . when you? what's your reaction. when you? what's your reaction. when you paper. well you see this on the paper. well i it's, it's amazing how i think it's, it's amazing how quickly public pr quickly his his public pr campaign has crumbled. i remember, i was walking i don't know whether you minus five was walking in parliament through the before i went the pandemic. before i went off to watched the to university, i watched the through of lockdown through the height of lockdown and at time and i remember at the time within westminster, we many behind the scenes were questioning the of the policies that were being implemented and just how far they were they were going with with the lockdown guidelines, you know, people were being robbed of their of their lives and, their freedoms for months on end . while matt for months on end. while matt hancock was living large . and hancock was living at large. and in idea that he genuinely in the idea that he genuinely believed that he would be able to public scrutiny by to escape public scrutiny by going on. i'm a celeb and attending jingle bell ball. yeah it's you know it was but when you were asking those questions, if you you questioned the logic or the rationale of a science behind those decisions, what were you met with. it was much

up for the for the sake of the pubuc up for the for the sake of the public messaging that was . there public messaging that was. there was a great deal of internalised fear, i would say, for when it came is government ministers it was sort of a no go subject . the was sort of a no go subject. the word of the of the health bosses were were god at that point. and so for it now to be emerging that matt hancock was was simultaneously preaching that they were following the science whilst also disregard doing it behind closed doors , calls into behind closed doors, calls into question the legitimacy his entire of his entire during that penod entire of his entire during that period i guess he would say it he hasn't had to defend and i never like to talk about somebody in their absence. well, i don't often mind if it's matt hancock. this is quite serious stuff. i don't mind talking about. he's in the jungle. mike yeah, you know this talking yeah, you know this is talking about professional about serious professional misconduct effectively. you know, they be charged. know, should they be charged. well, with any sort of you . well, with any sort of you. what's the word i'm looking for in public office? so when you ,

in public office? so when you, you know, when you make decisions in public office, which would frankly forget. yeah in public office. and so , look, in public office. and so, look, it's not just matt hancock story. first of all, it took me about two and half hours to read it all. and at the end, i wasn't surprised what i was reading, you know what i mean? i covered it in the book and everything, but in much shorter version , so but in much shorter version, so it could be brought because some just brilliantly explained them attack position. but as i was reading through it, i was astonished at the level of in competency if the whole boris johnson government when they were literally , instead of were literally, instead of having cabinet meetings to discuss the major of the day on the on, you know, on the biggest pandemic we've had to deal with since the second world war never do no whatsapp. yeah yeah. exchanging messages on whatsapp . i'm basically having cabinet meetings when hancock was in one place, boris johnson was in another. i'm employees simply seem to have the organisational

brain the will to want. seem to have the organisational brain the will to want . you can brain the will to want. you can imagine if mrs. thatcher was in charge sheet of demanded hour long cabinet meetings before . long cabinet meetings before. she went out there with the medical experts and started giving them right to run the country. she was assigned , of country. she was assigned, of course, and johnson . but if the course, and johnson. but if the sheer incompetence of the way the government handled is what came over to me, i agree with you i think the thing is well there's lot of stuff in here that i already knew. i remember saying on tv in spring 2020, you went on that particular show, but know you i locked but i know you and i locked horns about this a few times over the years. yeah. and i said people right now are going from hospitals care homes. they hospitals into care homes. they walk positive was walk over positive. and i was smiling , shouted down by another smiling, shouted down by another contributor, said, that is a disgusting thing to say. you have no evidence of that. and i said, i've spoken to people who were running care. it's my job. i'm a journalist. it's my responsibility to understand this. of this. there's no evidence of them was the point. them tested. that was the point. yes there was the idea

yes yeah, there was the idea that there was this cat, this ring steel around is ring of steel around them is clearly but do you clearly nonsense. but do you now, somebody very now, mike, as somebody was very much you were frightened of covid and you and i had a different interpretation of events. do you now look at this and that were you were and think that were you were lied to? think sheer lied to? i think sheer incompetence rather than lies on your part and not much sheer incompetence. all on on the way the government handled right. i think you're right i think everybody individually had to make up their own mind. and i always said in the day, i said, if you want to shield shield, if you want to yourself down, lock yourself , you want to yourself down, lock yourself, but don't make it a national policy based on variable scientific data. yeah it is variable. and there were two sides to that and they only looked at wanted. yeah, exactly. yeah right. okay. thanks guys. good starts to come. king charles has decided to kick out harry and meghan frogmore cottage. find out in 2 minutes .

cottage. find out in 2 minutes. 10:32 on radisson in the gb newsroom. former health secretary matt hancock reportedly rejected advice from the government's chief medical officer over care, home testing dunng officer over care, home testing during the pandemic. the telegraph newspaper claims that mr. hancock advised to test all residents going into english care homes for covid. not just those arriving from hospital. the article, which cites leaks whatsapp messages , claims mr. whatsapp messages, claims mr. hancock was concerned that this would get in the way of his target of 100,000 daily tests. a spokesperson for the mp says messages have been stolen and doctored to create a false story . mountain volunteers have joined the search for a missing babyin joined the search for a missing baby in brighton . it comes after baby in brighton. it comes after the newborn's parents constance marten and marc gordon, were further tested on suspicion of gross negligence . the couple gross negligence. the couple were captured on monday night after almost two months on the

run , the president of greece run, the president of greece says she's cutting short a visit to moldova following train collision which killed at least 36 people and injured more 85 last night. an intercity carrying over 300 passengers is a freight travelling in the opposite direction near the city of larissa. the crash caused carriages to catch fire with rescuers working through the night to find survivors and uk house prices fell 1.1% year on yearin house prices fell 1.1% year on year in february, according to the nationwide building society , marking the first annual declines since june of 2020. last month, the average house price . around £257,000. prices price. around £257,000. prices are now 3.7% lower than their peak august of . 2020 to we on tv peak august of. 2020 to we on tv online and on dab plus radio. this is gb news packed above .

this is gb news packed above. now it looks like frogmore cottage will no longer be the home of harry and meghan in the uk. prince charles going to kick them out. see you in a few minutes .

very good morning. it is 1037. this is back tennis today on tv news. you've been getting in touch with lots of your views about the covid files. neil says all this in hindsight reporting is just delaying us from moving on.and is just delaying us from moving on. and jim says covid was a nasty time for all of us in my opinion. matt hancock was thrust into by misfortune into a situation by misfortune he experienced anything he never experienced anything like i believe was like it before. i believe he was doing best right. a clip doing his best right. a clip this week has gone viral on social media. let's have a listen and watch . without some listen and watch. without some of the usual oh, i don't want to move from the bench, but what

can you go for that venture ? i'm can you go for that venture? i'm already filming. hey, how are you? where does that . oh oh, if you? where does that. oh oh, if you? where does that. oh oh, if you don't like the answer. no, ask the question . well, i was ask the question. well, i was asking tonight. i know. i'm kind of telling you here in the shot. you telling me . so if that was you telling me. so if that was it a bit confusing for you, let me explain it. that was a lady who was doing what's called a live instagram video to her followers , and she set up the followers, and she set up the tripod with the phone on it and a bloke comes and sits on the bench behind her and then refused to move. and she asked him quite nicely and he said no. so let's just work out what's going on in this, because it's about generations fighting about the generations fighting each and about why the each other and about why the influence is think that they are entitled do such a entitled to do such things. a social influencer , olly social media influencer, olly london now . olly, good london joins me now. olly, good morning to you . great to see morning to you. great to see you. and i had really mixed feelings when i saw this video because i felt quite sorry for the girl who was trying to do her little fitness video live to

her little fitness video live to her followers. and then there's this curmudgeonly old bloke in the background, doesn't really understand what she's doing. what your take it ? you what was your take on it? you know, i actually had the opposite opinion by actually siding with the man because i thought this is a typical example of a generation z millennial. they're influence millennial. they're an influence . and, you know, people that are influencers , kind goes to influencers, it kind of goes to their you know, they have their head. you know, they have people watching lives. people watching their lives. they have likes, they have thousands it kind thousands of followers. it kind of the head. and of goes to the head. and i actually she was in a actually think she was in a pubuc actually think she was in a public could have public place. she could have simply tripod. you simply moved the tripod. you know, doing anything know, she wasn't doing anything extravagant. wasn't extravagant. she wasn't doing backflips. literally backflips. she was literally just to the camera. just talking to the camera. so i think she could have just slightly her tripod slightly repositions her tripod and the older man just sit and let the older man just sit there because the end the there because the end of the day, you know, we to have day, you know, we have to have respect generations . respect for older generations. and i think many millennials and influencers, seem to influencers, but say seem to have a lack of respect for other people these days. do you really? because, you see, i was watching this and i just felt a bit sorry for like this bit sorry for her. like this might she makes her might be how she makes her money. as crazy as that might

sound, i particularly like the line she said all my line when she said all my followers he said, followers watching and he said, followers, jesus christ, followers, are you jesus christ, have got followers ? which is have you got followers? which is just show the complete me misunderstanding those two misunderstanding of those two generations. it was a real culture clash, wasn't it? do you think we're just going to get to a time that we're moving to a time when we just have to understand that you see somebody with a tripod in with a phone on a tripod in a pubuc with a phone on a tripod in a public place might be their public place that might be their job, that might be how they're earning money day. earning their money that day. right. if i walk past right. i mean, if i walk past someone like sometimes go to someone like sometimes you go to the you see people try the gym, you see people ever try it, just avoid it being it, but i just avoid it being near because can see that near them because i can see that obviously doing a live stream. but, so some people in but, you know, so some people in older generations, they don't get they think, get that and they just think, oh, they're just oh, you know, they're just taking silly picture or taking a silly picture or they're doing a they they're just doing a video. they can do it anywhere. i mean, she was in a park. you know, i can sort of understand what she was trying but at same trying to say. but at the same time, it was a public place. now, to do now, if she wants to do a fitness video, maybe do it somewhere more private somewhere slightly more private or, you know, not their events. well, she's i'm

well, i guess she's i'm presuming just didn't get to presuming we just didn't get to do the filming, i imagine do the filming, but i imagine she's going to some she's probably going to do some tncep she's probably going to do some tricep bench or show tricep dips on the bench or show people how could the people how they could use the bench exercise if they're bench for exercise if they're going a walk, something like going for a walk, something like that. also only shows that. i think it also only shows kind divided aren't we, as kind of so divided aren't we, as a at the moment it feels a society at the moment it feels like everybody's on the verge of wanting when you walk down wanting a row when you walk down the street and they're looking wanting a row when you walk down the reasons nd they're looking wanting a row when you walk down the reasons to they're looking wanting a row when you walk down the reasons to do zy're looking wanting a row when you walk down the reasons to do 3y'reyeah,ing for reasons to do so. yeah, absolutely. i we've seen absolutely. i mean, we've seen that the pandemic. that since the pandemic. you know, lot know, there's a lot more tension. people are a lot less understanding. and it is true. you know, many influencers do rely tok lives for rely on doing tik tok lives for making and business and making money and business and stuff, is also important stuff, but it is also important to that there to recognise that there are other that don't other generations that don't understand all of this influencer stuff. they don't get it. that man it. so, you know, if that man saw someone tripod, he saw someone with a tripod, he doesn't understand a tik doesn't understand what a tik tok like this, you know. so i kind sympathy the kind of have sympathy with the guy did. sort of guy she did. she did sort of come over a bit like she's like, you know, excuse me, would you mind? doing and you mind? i'm doing a video and you could instant like let's could see instant like let's touch paper. didn't like it. you think you want what you mean dude a video. why do dude or you need a video. why do i to move if you're just

i have to move if you're just doing a video and thank so doing a video and thank you so much. something that we're much. it's something that we're going to work out the going to have to work out the rules of the modern isn't rules of the modern world isn't it? so for it? thank you so much for joining me. influencer olly london let's talk london that writes let's talk about meghan and about harry and meghan and shall we? king charles believed to we? king charles is believed to be evicting harry and meghan from frogmore cottage, leaving them with a house uk home and offering property guests them with a house uk home and offerprince property guests them with a house uk home and offerprince andrew:y guests them with a house uk home and offerprince andrew the guests them with a house uk home and offerprince andrew the palace who prince andrew the palace have chose to evict have purportedly chose to evict the couple after the release of spare, charles wanting the spare, with charles wanting the duke to move into the duke of york to move into the five property, five bedroom property, royal sources calling a sources are calling this a bizarre move by the king. well, let's speak to michael cole, royal writer and royal commentator and writer and no stranger to gb news. michael, lovely to see you again . well, lovely to see you again. well, this is a bit of a shocker , this is a bit of a shocker, isn't it? prince charles has turned bossy landlord cakes. how is son? i'm blowing his scandal fidden is son? i'm blowing his scandal ridden brother . what do they say ridden brother. what do they say back about revenge being a dish best eaten cold? well, i think that even applies to royal porridge. yeah what we're saying is the swinging fist of majesty,

having waited 70 years to inherit the throne , king charles inherit the throne, king charles is certainly asserting himself here. it's worth just having a little think about what what has happened. little think about what what has happened . frogmore cottage was happened. frogmore cottage was a rather ramshackle collection of houses for accommodating royal servants . and then when there servants. and then when there was needed, a replacement for nottingham cottage at kensington palace, where they had been living back then. harry had been living back then. harry had been living at frogmore cottage, underwent a huge renovation cost . £2.4 million of taxpayers money, and moved in all of that must be said absolutely at the beginning that harry repaid all that money when all the oodles of cash started to flow in from people like netflix and penguin, random house. so he didn't he did pay for the renovations. i mean, the sussexes hardly had time to undo their boxes before.

of course, they moved out . they of course, they moved out. they did a run out, first of to all, canada and then down to california, which may have been meghan's always intended destination at the moment, this actually recognises reality because they haven't lived there for a long time and they're hardly likely to come back. having said such unkind and cruel things that they have said on their videos and in his book spare and at the moment it's being lived in by harry's cousin, princess eugenie, and her husband , jack brooksbank, her husband, jack brooksbank, and their child. now, the intriguing thing, and you've mentioned it is about royal lodge . now, royal lodge is an lodge. now, royal lodge is an absolutely wonderful white wedding cake of a huge lodge set in 98 acres of windsor. great park, where the queen mother lived and indeed where she died. and that's been occupied by prince andrew. and in a bizarre

arrangement, which i don't think you'll find on any every street , his ex—wife, after 26 years after the divorce , fergie also after the divorce, fergie also lives with him there. now, i think what is happening behind the scenes here is that the king is saying, look , to my younger is saying, look, to my younger brother , prince andrew, you're brother, prince andrew, you're not doing any work. do you really need this huge house? i think more modest, accommodate would be in order. why don't you move a mile down the road and take over the frogmore cottage? now that will go down extremely badly with prince andrew . okay. badly with prince andrew. okay. all right. thank you, michael. it's fascinating, isn't it? michael cole, a royal correspondent . and don't forget, correspondent. and don't forget, if you're just joining us, big story this morning, matt hancock. there's a scandal over whether he ignored the government's chief medical officer over care, home testing dunng officer over care, home testing during the pandemic, which led to deaths he robustly denies that. we're going to bring you up to date on all that soon. but i want to talk my panel now i want to talk to my panel now about that story. mike parry. and you think about the

and what do you think about the royal it's sort like royal move? it's sort of like eastenders, but with a lot more pieces. architecture this is not just a reorganisation where the members of the royal family, this is a massive humiliation. michael cole massive, great expert and great colleague of mine over the years and the royal family the windsor great lodge. and he's moving out of royal lodge has 36 rooms frogmore cottage has just five bedrooms. it is a massive humiliation to say to prince andrew, i mean , michael andrew, i mean, michael described it as a big white wedding cake of a home. but it's the grounds with you know, within which it stands from the gate up to the house is a long drive, you know, in a convoy of cars. where's frogmore cottage you can walk there. and you said to me, yeah, it's a demotion. oh, it's a massive demotion. and i can't see prince andrew taking it up. but the way the term charles's sort of engineered it very cleverly is he said , well, very cleverly is he said, well, prince andrew's got to move out

because you calling for the rent anymore because he's had to pay some of the 12.4 million in the court settlement. he was ordered to pay against the lady in america who has accused him, virginia winfrey . absolutely. he virginia winfrey. absolutely. he now hasn't got any cash. he he's supposedly sold a huge villa in verbier in switzerland and got 11.1 million back. but there was about a £7 million mortgage on that property anyway , on this that property anyway, on this most bizarre range from where he still lives with fergie , the two still lives with fergie, the two of them couldn't possibly move into frogmore cottage on their own. she's not going to want to move in that. she's the one about the servants husband or about the servants husband or about servant . if it's only got about servant. if it's only got five bedrooms. right, got the catering once a week in the hope. it's a huge humiliation. i think that i think it's absolutely right here and this is not prince andrew being brought back into into favour. it's a massive humiliation and

killing two birds with one stone really from prince charles. i think the headline really should be when it comes to harry and meghan and privileged couple face the consequences of their actions think it comes actions. i think when it comes down it, this entire disaster down to it, this entire disaster and downfall is entirely and their downfall is entirely of their own making . and i think of their own making. and i think that the public favour and sympathy towards harry and meghan ran out months ago in the uk . it's quickly fading in the uk. it's quickly fading in the us as well because frankly in royals aren't held with the same sort of loyalty in regards as they are in this country. they're nothing more than d—list celebs. and once endorsement celebs. and once the endorsement deals to dry up in deals start to dry up in the netflix documentaries stop rolling in, not buy a british home. no. you think they could? they show their face. this is another factor in this. if charles suddenly says there's nowhere for you to stay anymore, they're not going to come back, because itself is in a because that in itself is in a humiliation, because means humiliation, because it means they've further out they've been pushed further out of royal circles when you of the royal circles when you can't even guarantee safe and can't even guarantee a safe and secure place to put your head down when you come to this country. yeah, they do. it

should away. they should keep them away. they wanted yes, wanted royal security. yes, exactly . even got a royal paid exactly. even got a royal paid to know. now they haven't been moving on green apple clever headune moving on green apple clever headline used as a fuming is a new feature being given to apple phones which will i don't know how this works they don't sign the technology of this, she says. looking to you is the ultimate who might get the tech go. basically, if you've got your apple phone plugged into a plug your apple phone plugged into a plug to charge it and it plug socket to charge it and it isn't green energy, it isn't using green energy, it will charge it more slowly to blackmail you, to cajole you, to coerce you into changing your behaviour, to change the planet. yes. and this technology isn't new. i don't know whether i have an iphone. i don't know whether whether you both iphone is. whether you both iphone use is. but they fax machine fax machine. i've seen telephone this technology is already been implemented . they have this this implemented. they have this this thing called optimise battery charging where if you plug in your overnight the your phone overnight the technology decides when it should charge and how fast it should charge and how fast it should charge and how fast it should charge your iphone for you. it's in the fact that i

think this this is just the latest in a string of dodgy and very very opaque new new policies that apple has brought in. it suggests that that the pubuc in. it suggests that that the public are being misled once again. we saw it a few years ago with the with the slowing down the battery life and the system attack shut down of iphones to reduce the shelf life and force people to buy new phones. that was by apple the was scrapped by apple after the pubuc was scrapped by apple after the public found and that was public found out. and that was rightfully outcry . so, rightfully massive outcry. so, you the lack of you know, the lack of transparency for tech from tech giants it makes people giants just it it makes people wonder why will the line be drawn? how far will tech giants take it in controlling all freedoms and controlling our lives, things as simple as lives, even things as simple as just my phone just when i want my phone charged, who are they decide? charged, who are they to decide? i wonder whether they're showing their hand quickly. although their hand too quickly. although coming of knots at coming at a rate of knots at some there's going to be a some point there's going to be a rebellion. it's coming at rebellion. well, it's coming at a rate in knots, but it goes woosh my like woosh right over my head like that. course, when it that. also of course, when it means it's going to cost means that it's going to cost more to charge your phone if it

takes longer to charge it, and it might additional it might be an additional cost. but for of my but look for some of my generation i read things generation when i read things like deactivate, clean energy like to deactivate, clean energy charging, to settings, charging, go to settings, clicking battery, then battery health and charging and i the i'm lost so you can remember a past what you get. that's right . a couple of days ago, i put out a slight green controversial tweet right. some people wanted to respond and then they saw some actually saying, you've turned off the reply button or something . you know, i wasn't something. you know, i wasn't aware until of a little reply button, so i started to get an abuse. button, so i started to get an abuse . you are running away from abuse. you are running away from what you said. i couldn't i couldn't find the reply button to switch it back home. so for me, i'm sorry, it's in my pocket. i take it i make a call, send a text, send it to you. that's it. time to return to the days of the motorola. nokia, 3/10. isn't this why what 3/10. but isn't this why what mike is expressing that this idea that it's to difficult for us to understand and that's how the tech companies get away with this rather sort of subversive

means of changing it. so basically they put this all this clean energy charging, they put it on secretly with the update. you know, people say you're iphoneis you know, people say you're iphone is to update the software yeah not be doing mine for about six months. he's trying to ask me to do it. i haven't done it. and that's how they do it. and then you've got 3000 words of terms and conditions which everybody just everybody ignores and just clicks. anyway, clicks. yes. okay anyway, yeah. how awake to this how do we get more awake to this stuff? think think, stuff? oh, i think i think, quite frankly, it's too little, too as society are too late. we as a society are entirely dependent on phones, everything, you all everything, you know, all calendars text messages are calendars are text messages are our contact with our friends, maps. everything is now online in this digital database . and in this digital database. and who has control over that ? the who has control over that? the tech companies, those apps. i don't think there's any way for us to claw back control without some government some significant government intervention. a i'm intervention. i'm i'm a i'm a classic free market conservative. i don't like the idea of government stepping in and overregulating, but when it comes to companies like huawei tech company, even apple . yes, tech company, even apple. yes, there's a massive lack of

transparency to the to the reason. explain this to me. it seems apple's ios 16 has come with many issues . the tech giant with many issues. the tech giant rolled out a dire update to patch vulnerabilities. one of the issues is in when kit, a safari browser engine. what's a safari browser engine. what's a safari browser engine. what's a safari browser engine? it's all it's all rigmarole. it . it don't it's all rigmarole. it. it don't you. oh it's all tech rigmarole and i'm i'm, i'm finding it very, very difficult to as a, as a young person, the resident young person, i was always the one who my, my nan would go to when she said, oh my, my, i've got to look at my facebook and i've made phone you accounts. how do i fix this now? how are we supposed to bridge that divide between the older generations trying to generations who are trying to feel the internet, feel feel safe on the internet, feel control that is control of these devices that is seemingly whatever they seemingly doing whatever they want, without saying want, without or without saying no, that concern no, often related that concern is that the elderly who aren't as in control of these to check my dad's got he literally has a nokia break. yes occasionally he calls on it and that's it.

calls me on it and that's it. yeah. you know, but it's not please becoming closed. it's fully out for people who fully blocked out for people who aren't involved in the tech. i don't think much, much isolated because as you quite rightly say, sometimes old people just need big phone and able to need a big phone and able to contact their children or something it's something like that. so it's nice what it is. it's nice knowing what it is. it's introducing all sorts of options on a phone that you're not aware that you're activating . because that you're activating. because as i've just said, i've switched something off of my phone, but i don't know how, you know what i mean. and that's that's the difficulty making phones far too complicated did for the average brain wouldn't be able brain. well, i wouldn't be able to park your car and not be this experience that we have , but experience that we have, but everything seems to be controlled by an app nowadays, andifs controlled by an app nowadays, and it's really i mean, they talked about it at one point dunng talked about it at one point during the pandemic. idea during the pandemic. the idea of, know, digital health of, you know, digital health cards and the these amazon stores , you see what you walk in stores, you see what you walk in and it detects what you're picking store and you picking up in the store and you exit it charges your account exit and it charges your account automatically. seems like automatically. it all seems like like big and i don't want

like these big and i don't want to my tinfoil hat on but it to put my tinfoil hat on but it sounds big businesses are sounds like big businesses are creating a monopoly over our lives and eventually we're going to where can't to reach a point where we can't we do anything without we can't do anything without without taxation. where without big taxation. so where do draw the line? this genius do we draw the line? this genius business model isn't it renders us all a enable incapable of operating in the modern world without it. and yet, as you say, it's about i'm i'm like you. i'm a big fan of capitalism small state let people make decisions themselves business say themselves let business say money increasingly troubled by corporatism . but the technology corporatism. but the technology seems becoming the new seems to be becoming the new government. yes, it does. yeah right. with algorithm algore right. and with algorithm algore , then the decisions are being made for you , which you have no made for you, which you have no control over anymore because it's predicting what you think, how we think. yes. and you can bet your life, if you future your facial recognition and your own phone will be entry or exit too. so many issues and so many things you have to do in the future, you know, to make it so that we're talking about it because not everybody . yeah. all

because not everybody. yeah. all right. thanks, guys. the right. thanks, guys. that's the end of our first hour in the next few moments, we're going to be former health be discussing former health secretary if you secretary matt hancock. if you just he reportedly just tuning in, he reportedly rejected advice from the government's chief medical officer testing officer over care, home testing dunng during the pandemic and lots more. know i missed more. you know what? i missed it. into alex deakin it. see you into alex deakin here with your latest weather updates. cloud around updates. a lot of cloud around today, drab affair . most today, rather drab affair. most of and northern ireland of scotland and northern ireland will england will stay dry. much of england and wales will stay dry. but here there will be a few showers around. pressure is the around. high pressure is the dominant and will dominant feature and will continue be much of this continue to be for much of this week. but around high week. but around the high pressure, winds go like this pressure, the winds go like this clockwise so feeding in from clockwise and so feeding in from the north quite a lot of the north sea quite a lot of clouds and some showers over eastern england, some getting into and a few even into the midlands and a few even getting into of wales . not getting into parts of wales. not too southern england. too many in southern england. the one southern parts of the odd one in southern parts of scotland, of scotland scotland, but most of scotland and dry and and northern ireland dry and it's scotland. well it's western scotland. well continue breaks in continue to see some breaks in the of sunshine the cloud and a bit of sunshine feeling pretty cold under this thick. a cloud with showers over north—east england and the midlands. seven or eighteen

celsius . not a ten midlands. seven or eighteen celsius. not a ten is midlands. seven or eighteen celsius . not a ten is possible celsius. not a ten is possible if we do see any brightness in the south. generally, though, a pretty chilly feeling day leading into a cloudy nights. we'll more showers this we'll see more showers this evening particular evening over wales in particular and south—west england, nothing too heavy and they should tend too heavy and they should tend to clear away and then some breaks in the cloud over the midlands england midlands and southern england will pockets frost will allow some pockets of frost here, on the here, hints of blue on the charts. although most towns and cities above western cities will stay above western scotland, also getting a frost with some clear skies here. thursday's weather pattern is pretty similar. so again, high pressure in control, but a few more showers likely tomorrow pressure in control, but a few morepartsrers likely tomorrow pressure in control, but a few moreparts of; likely tomorrow pressure in control, but a few moreparts of scotland morrow pressure in control, but a few moreparts of scotland ,|orrow pressure in control, but a few moreparts of scotland , maybe over parts of scotland, maybe northern too. most of northern ireland, too. most of england, well, should be dry on thursday brighter day for thursday and a brighter day for wales and southern england. a bit more sunshine again. northwest may well do northwest scotland may well do alright for sunshine too, with a bit of sun , 1011 degrees bit of sun, 1011 degrees will feel bit where it feel a bit warmer. where it stays driving east, even though it's drier, we'll still only looking at highs of seven or eight cells. yes, during thursday evening. a great thursday evening. not a great deal change, although i think deal of change, although i think we'll see showers

we'll see the showers disappearing. looks disappearing. so it looks largely head through largely dry as we head through friday into weekend. friday and into the weekend. again, predominantly cloudy weather and the weather for friday and the weekend , but not too many weekend, but not too many showers around. one thing, though, it is set to turn colder through into through the weekend and into next week .

it's 11:00 on wednesday, the 1st it's11:00 on wednesday, the 1st of march 20, 23 on bev turner today, huge covid story. the daily telegraph are calling it the lockdown files . they've seen the lockdown files. they've seen over 100,000 messages from the former health sector , matt former health sector, matt hancock, to others in government, exposing the chaos around big decisions which affected every single one of us in different ways, both then and now . also this morning, police now. also this morning, police fear the missing baby of constance marten and mark gordon may have come to harm the couple were arrested on monday after 53 days on the run. it's a developing story. we will bring you the latest as it happens .

you the latest as it happens. also this morning, we're be looking ahead to the prime minister's question time. where rishi sunak will it on? we'll expectedly take questions regarding the northern ireland protocol and the newly formed windsor framework. live on gb news at . 12 very good morning to news at. 12 very good morning to you. we've also been talking this morning about kings charles kicking the sussexes out of frogmore cottage i'm putting in prince andrew. do you agree with that? let me know. gb views gb news .uk. lots still to come this morning. but first, let's get you up to speed with what's happening here and around the world with radisson . thanks world with radisson. thanks beth. good morning. it's 11:01. beth. good morning. it's11:01. here's the latest. former health secretary matt hancock reportedly rejected advice from the government's chief medical officer over care home testing

dunng officer over care home testing during the pandemic. the telegraph newspaper claims that mr. hancock was advised to test all residents going into english care homes for covid, not just those arriving from hospital . those arriving from hospital. the article, which cites leaked whatsapp messages, claims mr. hancock was concerned that this would get in the way of his target of 100,000 daily tests. the spokesperson for the mp says the messages have been stolen and doctored to create a false story . well, teams are now story. well, teams are now searching brighton's largest nature reserve as they tried to find the missing baby of constance marten and mark gordon. it comes after the newborn's parents were further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence , manslaughter. the negligence, manslaughter. the couple were captured on monday night after almost two months on the run mountain rescue volunteers have also joined that search. our reporter, mark white has more details throughout the morning . mountain rescue teams morning. mountain rescue teams as well as other specialists ,

as well as other specialists, search teams have been arriving here to help those hundreds of police officers already at this location in this increasingly front search for the infant of constance marten . and mark constance marten. and mark gordon , they have, we're told, gordon, they have, we're told, been uncooperative with police since their arrest on monday evening. it was obvious , evening. it was obvious, according to detectives , that according to detectives, that the pair had been living outside, living rough for quite some time. and that's why the search operation is now concentrated on open spaces to the north end of brighton , a 91 the north end of brighton, a 91 square mile search grid that they're currently looking at. president of greece says she's cutting short a visit to moldova following a train collision which killed at least 36 people and injured more than 80. an intercity train carrying over 300 passengers hit a freight train travelling in the opposite

direction near the city of larissa. the crash caused carriages to catch fire with rescuers working through the night to find survivors . labour night to find survivors. labour claims the prime minister oversaw nearly claims the prime minister oversaw nearl y £27 billion worth oversaw nearly £27 billion worth of wasteful government spending dunng of wasteful government spending during his time as chancellor and chief secretary to the treasury. the party has compiled a report of so—called extensive waste, which includes money lost due to fraud and faulty personal protective equipment during the pandemic. the figures cover two financial years whilst he was in office. however, conservative party chair greg hands has labelled the report a dodgy dossier . uk labelled the report a dodgy dossier. uk house prices fell by 1.1% year on year in february , 1.1% year on year in february, according to the nationwide building society marks the first annual decline since june of 2020. now last month, the average house price was around £257,000. prices are now 3.7%

lower than their peak in august of 2022. professor of economics at king's college, london , at king's college, london, jonathan porters, says he's not surprised by these figures . we surprised by these figures. we were expecting the housing market to weaken both as a result of the general weakness in the economy and the squeeze on real incomes. as a result of inflation. but also, of course, they quite sharp rise in interest rates over the last year or so . a report by mps says year or so. a report by mps says nhs england will miss key recovery targets, including those for cancer treatments. the cross—party public accounts committee says plans to tackle the covid backlogs are already falling short and based on overall optimistic assumptions about winter health demands. it says the proportion of people receiving time early cancer treatment has actually fallen to a record low of 62. the report also says the capacity of adult social care must improve if the

recovery plan is to succeed . recovery plan is to succeed. teachers are striking today in the midlands and eastern regions of england in a long running dispute over pay. it is the second day of regional walkouts by members of the national education union and it affects 200,000 staff. many schools are either restricting access to pupils or fully closed , and new pupils or fully closed, and new details have been discovered dunng details have been discovered during cleaning and conservation work to prepare king charles's coronation chair. experts say they found previously undiscovered parts of a figure. it reveals more information about the chair's lavish construction 700 years after it was made . construction 700 years after it was made. henry the construction 700 years after it was made . henry the eighth. was made. henry the eighth. charles the first queen victoria and the late queen elizabeth were all crowned in the historic seat. were all crowned in the historic seat . this is gb were all crowned in the historic seat. this is gb news. we'll bnng seat. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. let's get straight back to beth

don't forget to stay with gb news this morning. we cover the prime minister's questions live at 12:00. he's set to answer lots of questions regarding the northern ireland proto cult and indeed the newly formed windsor framework. at lunchtime today. now, matt hancock has disputed reports that he rejects id expert covid care home advice dunng expert covid care home advice during his time as health minister . during his time as health minister. the telegraph reports over 100,000 whatsapp messages sent between the former health secretary and other government ministers during height of ministers during the height of the pandemic . the leaked the covid pandemic. the leaked messages that hancock messages suggest that hancock rejects the advice of the chiefs chief medical officer chris whitty to test all residents entering care homes , instead entering care homes, instead telling advisers that it risked muddying the waters. which is a strange phrase to use. hancock has denied all allegations, saying the whatsapp present a distorted account . earlier i distorted account. earlier i spoke to richard tice, the leader of reform uk and the partner of isabel oakeshott. the

journalist who leaked these messages to the daily telegraph. here's what he had to say. the issue is what is in the overriding strategic public interest and what became clear is that this is so significant. the difference between what we were all being told at the time by matt hancock and other ministers, as well as the prime minister and advisers relative to the evidence that was actually that they were looking at or indeed very often the lack of evidence . and that's a real of evidence. and that's a real concern here, is that the public inquiry in the uk is literally just starting as we speak and it looks like it's going to take at least five years probably ten years because hundreds of millions of pounds. years because hundreds of millions of pounds . and let's millions of pounds. and let's just consider we need to learn the lessons and we need to learn them rapidly about what went

well and bluntly, what went badly . so joining me now is tom badly. so joining me now is tom harwood tom who is a be getting in touch. ursula says i think the richer richard tyson co will do anything to discredit the conservative government order conservative government in order to credence his own to create credence for his own party. playing a part in party. is that playing a part in this? well, clearly that's what the people around matt hancock will be saying this morning. it has to be stated . they are has to be stated. they are furious. they've alleged that isabel oakeshott has breached a legally binding non—disclosure agreement after matt hancock handed the contents of his phone to her for of course his pandemic diaries book. now, of course, isabel oakeshott, for her part, says that this is a vital public interest story . vital public interest story. she's written a long public interest defence in the pages of the daily telegraph this morning. and i suppose this one will be one for the courts to battle it out over because matt hancock, for his part, says he's handed these texts over to the inquiry and isabel oakeshott's argument is the inquiry will take too long for this stuff to sort of filter through into into

the public that it was right for her to break that contract with matt hancock and publish them. yeah.i matt hancock and publish them. yeah. i mean, in many ways i, i can i'm with isabel on that. of course, i've sort of given up on the covid inquiry really coming to any sort of conclusions that those of us who were lockdown sceptics want to, find. sceptics might want to, to find. and, but, there are a of and, but, but there are a lot of people are that this people who are saying that this is a this is a very strange thing to do to win over the trust of matt hancock, to win over the trust of government ministers, book ministers, to write this book and release all of this. and then to release all of this. i'm wondering whether i'm also wondering whether there are employees former are other employees or former employees of, employees i'm thinking of, namely circling namely boris johnson circling around on the around at the moment on the phone lawyers working out phone to lawyers and working out how this might blow back on them. well, certainly hancock will all senior will have texted all senior government ministers. there'll be many conversations with many m.p.s we have not seen m.p.s that we have not yet seen published in the telegraph. so far , no doubt there will be more far, no doubt there will be more stories to come in the coming days around all of these messages, over 100,000 messages

over 2 million words. this is an extraordinary , truly treasure extraordinary, truly treasure trove of data . and no doubt we trove of data. and no doubt we have only just scratched the surface. any good publication would be holding back to drip feed some of that best information as the days go on. and yet there is this big question over propriety and data and ethics and. is isabel oakeshott at fault ? releasing oakeshott at fault? releasing all of these messages, although it must be said it's not a wikileaks style data dump, there is proper journalistic ethical work going in in terms of which messages of public and some parts of those messages are retracted by the daily telegraph as well. it must be said they have done a proper job here. yes have done a properjob here. yes but on the other hand, is isabel oakeshott's fault for publishing these messages what she these messages in what she believes is public interest believes is the public interest or is it matt hancock's fault for handing so many sensitive messages to a journalist who frankly , fundamentally disagrees frankly, fundamentally disagrees with him on his main many people are commenting on social media

today. this is as if boris johnson handed all of his texts, texts over to a critical journal . if jeremy corbyn handed his texts over to tony blair, if you can go through all of the rivalries in history, if margaret thatcher handed all of her data over to michael heseltine, i mean, these are the sort of comedic examples of what has gone on here. and really there's a question in terms of who's judgement is at fault here. people are saying here. many people are saying that hancock really that matt hancock was really rather silly to hand over all that information to someone who is so deeply hostile to the policies he enacted for two years and also the gullibility him and we've seen it. we saw it in his choices post politics to go and do so many reality shows too to say that, you know, he fell in love and he wants forgiveness from from the public forgiveness from from the public for kissing his girlfriend when everybody else was saying goodbye to their loved ones on ipads and he's kind of he

doesn't come out of this. well, some people are also saying on social media this morning, he's now paying the full guy that there are other people behind there are other people behind the that as the the scenes who feel that as the first saw some of the decisions that were made around covid, that were made around covid, that matt hancock is being thrown under the bus to take entirely full responsibility. yes it is interesting. there are different arguments from so many different arguments from so many different people. it's interesting . the front page of interesting. the front page of the telegraph today is almost a defence whitty, saying defence of chris whitty, saying chris, his advice on the care home issue was correct and yet what is saying is what matt hancock is saying is actually there's meeting that actually there's a meeting that isn't included this isn't included in this text exchange whereby actually the advice from the people around chris whitty and the medical office in the government had said well yes, it would be nice to test everyone, but we didn't have the capacity. so we're going have pick and who we going to have to pick and who we test. the choice rather test. and the choice was rather than community hospital . it's than community hospital. it's interesting in this interesting though in this particular issue of testing , particular issue of testing, matt hancock was in charge of the nhs in england. there's also an nhs in scotland and in wales

and in northern ireland. and each of those different nhs is run by different political leaderships. of course, all of them , they all had the same care them, they all had the same care home problem at the same time . home problem at the same time. so i think there is a question there in terms of what does this actually hancock of actually matt hancock sort of overruling advisers and if so , overruling advisers and if so, why did the same thing happen in scotland where the snp were in control or in wales where the labour party were in control? so some questions there going some big questions there going forward. really are. thank forward. they really are. thank you, tom. i'm going to try and answer a few more of those questions now with the owner of crabtree care homes, david crabtree, diagnostic crabtree, and diagnostic and pathology co—chair heart pathology co—chair of the heart group , claire craig. good group, claire craig. good morning to you both. david, let me come to you first. your reflections this this morning as the owner of care homes every time mr. hancock appears in the media, a brings to the surface all the trauma , the emotion, the all the trauma, the emotion, the anger that we trying to get through after three years. mr.

hancock's crime is not one of whether he did this or did that. he lied and then he said there was a protect him ring around care homes and professor vallance in january had said do not discharge to care homes . mr. not discharge to care homes. mr. hancock's not a medic . so why he hancock's not a medic. so why he made this decision and if he's in his defence, there was a further in the afternoon, that's fine. but this man is supposed to be a politician and a media savvy . the man's a disaster and savvy. the man's a disaster and i'm convinced he would pass a lie detector test because he's deluded . the other thing just. deluded. the other thing just. just on you, david, before comes to you, claire, is the fact that helen wheatley, who was the social care minister at the time , said that it was inhumane on whatsapp. it is inhumane to not allow those in care homes to see their loved . that was also their loved. that was also ignored. what do you make of that, david? exactly right. we were instructed that nobody

could enter we, our visitors , could enter we, our visitors, desperate to see their loved ones and who consequently died before they got to see them . we before they got to see them. we tried our best to make covid free zones , but we were left. we free zones, but we were left. we were left out to dry social care literally was left out to dry with no ppe , no protection. with no ppe, no protection. idiot advising us we know about infection. we know what to do. we didn't need all of this political basis. what we wanted was medical advice and they said they were following the science is obviously not correct. craig, let me bring you in and some of us knew they weren't there, but we're following one version of the science . we're sort of the science. we're sort of infiltrated by a huge amount of political decisions as well. what do you draw from this, claire? you've been monitoring this situation in the most minor detail since 2020. are there any smoking guns which explain why some of those decisions were

made for you and so i the problem with following the science is that when you're following science, that's wrong , which is, you know, evidence that it's not based on evidence. and you're to make a fool of yourself. and that's what's happened to you. and it's very, very strange be having this very strange to be having this conversation because. conversation now because. everybody talking about everybody is still talking about this if all covid this as if all covid transmission happens through close contact. when we know and have known since 2021, there's a consensusis have known since 2021, there's a consensus is that everybody agreed actually . it spreads agreed actually. it spreads through the air. it can travel through the air. it can travel through long distances . and through long distances. and that's why we end up with a study in 2021 from hamilton , a study in 2021 from hamilton, a tale of a cambridge care home , tale of a cambridge care home, which showed that when they tested eight in the care home, they found the virus . with all they found the virus. with all they found the virus. with all the variation that was present in the cambridge community because they were sharing the air from cambridge community and what that means is that any intervention , while it might intervention, while it might postpone an exposure of because

you're not going to have somebody , you know, because it somebody, you know, because it can't contact , it's not going to can't contact, it's not going to prevent it because if you're susceptible, you're going to catch it. and we know this because we had winter 2020 and 2021 when they were night visitors, there was massive testing and care homes still saw a wave of a bad wave of deaths. so claire, all you in a way defending matt hancock today by saying that would have made a negligible difference to have tested people before they went back to the care homes . tested people before they went back to the care homes. in a strange way, i am. yes and puts me in a funny position because know obviously i think he's made mistakes but on this i don't think this mistake would have changed things and then that's a really, really important point to make. now, whether or not he should on the advice he was given, have made that decision, it's a separate issue about how he makes decisions . but either he makes decisions. but either way, i don't think it would have made any difference day david,

what do you make of that? when you hear that analysis of the situation that is an airborne virus with the average age of death of 82, the elderly were always more susceptible. there was very little that could realistically have been done apart from maybe early treatments . we had no deaths treatments. we had no deaths until we in our own residents , until we in our own residents, not new residents, but from hospital who were not tested , hospital who were not tested, who subsequently, three days later developed signs and symptoms and ten days later died , and as quite rightly say , then , and as quite rightly say, then spread across the whole . and we spread across the whole. and we knew from day one it was airborne. we masks and everything we were buying off the it were preventative last week we had a covid outbreak and week we had a covid outbreak and we were able to contain that very , very quickly. it didn't very, very quickly. it didn't spread and isolation staff testing so it's still around it's not as fatal as as was in the early days but in the early daysif

the early days but in the early days if they had tested prior to admission back into care homes and this was evident across france and italy, you reported it deaths in care homes across france and italy were in january and february the country knew what was coming . we chose not to what was coming. we chose not to put a zone around elderly. we chose he chose and the secrecy and england all knew this. they seek , say the people who are seek, say the people who are supposed to protect patients . supposed to protect patients. they were the ones whose signature the document. mr. hancock formalised to say it was okay to not test asymptomatic people . he then went on to blame people. he then went on to blame staff for being movement that never happened. i accept the point. there is it's an airborne virus and that that's what caused the problems . but we were caused the problems. but we were able to contain it and have been able to contain it and have been able to contain it and have been able to contain it because it's not going away. we still got covid. clare, let me bring last word to you on that. are we any closer to having a better

understand of transmission of treatments? i don't feel we've come very far in three years, to be completely honest. no. i mean, i find this a bit frightening, really, because as i said, the evidence, it was airborne and spreading a long distance was made 20, 21. and people are so the emotion around , how it spreads means that people are so hung up on the old story that they're just not letting it go. and i don't know if they ever will. now, even though the evidence is clear and this wasn't asked point to the text message that everybody's getting excited about was actually sent on the 14th of april 20, 20. by then, cases had peaked and were falling, you know , it's like it's like know, it's like it's like suggesting that king canute should have got the army and started firing at the sea. it would made no difference. it would made no difference. it would make no difference. the tide was coming in. okay fascinating, both of you. thank you much. i, i need to move on. i'm so sorry. david. david crabtree, the owner of care homes and dr. clare craig. we

could talk about it all day. the emotion is strong. fascinating, though, isn't it? because i was a little bit torn on this information as i said, i don't think seen smoking going think i've seen a smoking going as i. i have other as yet, but i. i have other questions , much questions . questions, much more questions. and next few days, we and in the next few days, we might answer them. a spokesperson for matt hancock has stolen messages has said the stolen messages have doctored to create have been doctored to create a false story, that matt rejected clinical advice on care, home testing that is flat wrong. on april the 14th, matt received a response his request for response to his request for advice from the chief medical officers was needed officers that testing was needed for into care for people going into care homes, which he enthusiastically accepted. that day, he accepted. later that day, he convened operational meeting on delivering testing for care homes, where advised it homes, where he was advised it was currently possible to was not currently possible to test everyone entering care homes, he also accepted . homes, which he also accepted. matt concluded the testing of people leaving hospital for care homes prioritised homes should be prioritised because the higher of because of the higher risks of transmission as it was not possible mandate everyone possible to mandate everyone going homes to get going into care homes to get tested let me know what you tested. let me know what you think. gbviews@gbnews.uk still to come, a massive search is

ongoing for the missing two month old baby of constance marten and mark gordon. i'm going to be joined by the buy a home security editor in just a few moments get the latest on few moments to get the latest on that. don't go anywhere. alex deakin here with your latest weather a lot of cloud weather updates. a lot of cloud around today, rather drab affair. most of scotland and northern ireland will stay dry. much england and wales will much of england and wales will stay dry. but here, there will be few showers around. high be a few showers around. high pressure feature pressure is the dominant feature and to be for much and will continue to be for much of week. but around the of this week. but around the high pressure , the winds go like high pressure, the winds go like this clockwise and feeding in this clockwise and so feeding in from north sea quite a lot from the north sea quite a lot of clouds and, some showers over eastern england, getting eastern england, some getting into few even into the midlands, a few even getting of wales, not getting into parts of wales, not too many in southern england. the odd one in southern parts of scotland. most of scotland scotland. but most of scotland and northern ireland and and northern ireland dry and it's continue it's scotland will continue to see in the cloud and see some breaks in the cloud and a of sunshine feeling pretty a bit of sunshine feeling pretty cold under this thick a cloud with the showers over northeast england and the midlands. seven or . not a ten or eighteen celsius. not a ten is possible, particularly to see any brightness in the south.

generally, though, a pretty chilly feeling leading a chilly feeling leading into a cloudy nights . we'll see more cloudy nights. we'll see more showers evening wales showers this evening over wales in and southwest in particular. and southwest england , nothing heavy and england, nothing too heavy and they tend to clear they should tend to clear away and then some break in the cloud over the midlands and southern england allow some pockets england will allow some pockets of blue on of frost here, hints of blue on the although most towns of frost here, hints of blue on the cities although most towns of frost here, hints of blue on the cities williough most towns of frost here, hints of blue on the cities will stay1 most towns of frost here, hints of blue on the cities will stay above towns and cities will stay above western scotland, also getting a frost with some clear skies here. thursday's weather pattern is pretty similar. so again, high pressure in control, but a few more showers likely tomorrow over scotland , maybe over parts of scotland, maybe northern ireland to most of england. well, should be dry on thursday and a brighter day for wales and southern england. a bit more sunshine again. northwest scotland may well do a right for sunshine with right for sunshine too, with a bit sun. 1011 degrees will bit of sun. 1011 degrees will feel where it stays feel a bit warmer where it stays driving east, even though it's dnen driving east, even though it's drier, we're still only looking at highs of seven or eight cells. yes, during thursday evening, not great deal of evening, not a great deal of change, i think we'll change, although i think we'll see the showers disappearing. so it largely dry we head it looks largely dry as we head through the

through friday and into the weekend. predominantly weekend. again predominantly cloudy for friday and cloudy weather for friday and the weekends , but not too many the weekends, but not too many showers around. one thing, though, it set to turn colder though, it is set to turn colder through and into through the weekend and into next .

very good morning. it's 1128. very good morning. it's1128. this is best tennis day on gb news. so a massive search is ongoing for the missing two month old baby of constance marten and mark gordon. the couple have been further on suspicion of gross negligence , suspicion of gross negligence, manslaughter. martin gordon appeared on johnny the fifth, disappeared after abandoning that burning vehicle in manchester. well, joining me now is gb news home security editor mark white, who is in britain . mark white, who is in britain. good morning, mark. what is the latest we saw yesterday with the police searching the area . police searching the area. what's happening there now . what's happening there now. well, that search is being expanded and more teams are

joining that search as we speak. the morning we filmed , does the morning we filmed, does mountain rescue teams arrived here to help. there are police colleagues , volunteers from colleagues, volunteers from kenton, from london and from other parts who've come down here to brighton to help in what is the search of a very signifie client area. 91 square miles from here in north brighton down to new haven , where the couple to new haven, where the couple have been, spot ed, on a number of occasions in recent weeks . of occasions in recent weeks. now, all the police know is that this couple were living out in the open . they could tell by the the open. they could tell by the state that they were in when they were spotted on monday night that they had been living out in the open, sleeping rough , really. and that's why they searches so far are really being

concentrated on open land and on some just to the north of me here it's a big patch of land full of kind of hundreds of greenhouses another sort of makeshift two buildings that were searched yesterday. but there'll be more detailed searches of that area of woodland around here. there's a golf course, a nature reserve, lots of land where this couple could have been . and because the could have been. and because the couple are not being cooperative with the police, then it's really hampering the efforts of the police to look at the child. in the first incidents tense. of course , or to get any handle on course, or to get any handle on the couple may have been living because clearly if there is any hope of finding this child alive, then key to that would be to find where the couple where, assuming that they've not handed the baby onto a third party, police said they are keeping not possibly guilty open, but they don't think it's likely given

the way this couple have behaved since they first disappeared on the 5th of january, avoiding everyone, including authorities, trying not to be seen on cctv and moving rapidly from liverpool to essex , east london, liverpool to essex, east london, down to sussex, latterly before they were finally caught on monday night there in brighton. still to come this morning, can you guess which form of transport has more? three times more drunken crashes than cyclists . find out what i'm cyclists. find out what i'm talking about after your morning stays with ray . thanks, bev. stays with ray. thanks, bev. 1131 here's the latest . former 1131 here's the latest. former health secretary matt hancock reportedly rejected advice from the government's chief medical officer over care home testing dunng officer over care home testing during the pandemic. the

telegraph newspaper claims that mr. hancock was advised to test all residents going into english care homes for covid, not just those arriving from hospital. the article, which cites leaked whatsapp messages , claims mr. whatsapp messages, claims mr. hancock was concerned that this would get in the way of his target of 100,000 daily tests. a spokesperson for the mp says the messages have been stolen and doctored to create a false story . teams are now searching brighton's largest nature reserve as they try to find the missing baby of constance marten mark gordon. it comes after the newborn's parents were further arrested on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. the couple were captured on monday night after almost two months on the run . the president of greece the run. the president of greece says she's cutting short a visit to moldova following , a train to moldova following, a train collision which killed at least 36 people and injured 85 last night . an intercity train night. an intercity train carrying over 300 passengers is

a freight train travelling in the opposite direction near the city of larissa . the crash city of larissa. the crash caused carriages to catch fire with rescuers working through the night to find survivors . and the night to find survivors. and uk house prices fell by point 1% year on year in february , year on year in february, according to the nationwide building society, which marks the first annual decline since june 2020. last month, the average house price was £257,000. are now 3.7% lower than their peak in august 2020 to wear on tv, online and on derby plus radio. this is gb news is up right now . still to news is up right now. still to come this morning, the number of uk children in food poverty has hit 4 million. so why ? who is to hit 4 million. so why? who is to prioritise foreign aid over our own? we're going to talk about

that in just a while .

welcome back to tennis day on gb news. i asked you before the break what form of new transport do you think is more likely? three times more likely to be involved in drunken accidents than cyclists ? mike parry. the than cyclists? mike parry. the answer is it's people on these mad scooters . e—scooters. mad scooters. e—scooters. e—scooters yeah, i don't like to call them e—scooters. i don't know why they're called e—scooters why are they called e—scooter? well, i guess they're as much for electric employment . as they about 35 . you charge as they go about 35 miles yeah a scooter, miles an hour. yeah a scooter, as all for a little as we all know, for a little kid, has one foot on the platform and one foot off the platform. so they're not scooters, are they? they are lethal machines, which are so narrow, they go like a bullet go at least a car on a motorbike cause resistance from wind or something like that . they go

something like that. they go woosh like that. how many times have yourself made me been have you yourself made me been knocked by an e—scooter not knocked down by an e—scooter not coming you ? at least you coming towards you? at least you got notice of that. but one that's passed you. tony miles an hour pavement and literally hour on pavement and literally left you spinning around. absolutely they low helmet absolutely they have low helmet usage , low age, use them and usage, low age, use them and riding when you've had a few dunng riding when you've had a few during yeah e—scooters system pain of course more severe head injuries. yeah. then cycle less and there aren't as many of these as there are bicycles. so i mean there's a reason why why put training wheels on a bicycle when we're teaching kids to when we're teaching kids how to ride because a two because two wheels are less safe than four. so hunting the speed so why are we hunting the speed of rubber? exactly why are we why are we handing the keys to these metal death traps ? two these metal death traps? two drunkards and vagabond ? yes drunkards and vagabond? yes i meant to say i love the law. i think i'm still right in saying you should only be riding an e—scooter if you've owned it. i don't even know the legislation

i do. it's complete. it's dated when they were introduced and allowed this country. it's so you take it off a rack a bit like the boris bike in london all those years ago. right. you get on it and you pay with your credit card for the amount of electricity you use and then you put it back in. but no people carry them around now like that. their own. and you're quite right about the level of insecurity on them. i for years is argued that the police stop cyclists at night who don't have lights. these are ten times more dangerous because they come out you out of the darkness on the pavement. i'll tell you you can't see them if you've ever seen an e—scooter barrelling at you at 40 miles an hour on a pavement, you're going to be terrified for your whole life cycling and driving them in open areas, aren't they? because you can't legally ride them on the road. people do , people do. road. people do, people do. i saw two kids, in fact , coming saw two kids, in fact, coming home from gb news few weeks ago, a teenage on the front, a really young right. and i did young kid on. right. and i did my mum thing, which is to

my usual mum thing, which is to go off the road. yeah. kill go get off the road. yeah. kill yourself guess what, you did yourself and guess what, you did it. they showed one thing. it. they showed me one thing. yeah zoomed off. i thought well you what i mean. you know what i mean. supposedly. well it's basically in supposed to in cities you're supposed to have to submit your driver's licence in order to be able to use scooters. and yet, licence in order to be able to uskids scooters. and yet, licence in order to be able to uskids and scooters. and yet, licence in order to be able to uskids and teenagers and yet, licence in order to be able to uskids and teenagers are yet, licence in order to be able to uskids and teenagers are able if kids and teenagers are able to hop on them , literally, you to hop on them, literally, you can get any scooter strop a car battery on the back of it and off you go. there's a complete lack regulation is lack of regulation that is putting people risk. you putting people at risk. you think about the fact that the speed limit london is speed limit in london is generally an hour. generally 20 miles an hour. i don't ever get above 20 miles an hour no, that the hour everywhere. no, that is the legal scooter legal speed limit. the scooter is a flying pass. the pavement more they safe . the more than 20. they are safe. the planet, mike is all planet, though, mike is all about the planet. it's about saving the planet. it's not. it's about allowing a certain group of people in society as to society the recklessness as to do what they want with total disregard to 99% of the population who are pedestrians, who don't stand a chance, as some have already said , in some have already said, in a collision it was going to come off with i'm with you. right. let's talk about food, poverty,

the number of british new food poverty doubled in a year to poverty has doubled in a year to 4 million. samantha, we saw the biggest transfer of wealth dunng biggest transfer of wealth during pandemic the during the pandemic from the rich, from the from the poor to the rich . food poverty is the rich. food poverty is clearly a massive problem . 22% clearly a massive problem. 22% of households reported skipping meals, going hungry or not eating for a whole day in january, up from 12. you know a bit about this, don't you? you grew up with free school meals in, a in an environment that would be as having food poverty. yeah, i went to school in telford. i was homeless from the age of 16, and i benefited from school meals for throughout, throughout half of my throughout about half of my schooling. i was on free school meals. homeless. so i was meals. i was homeless. so i was moving sofa to sleeping bag moving from sofa to sleeping bag . would sit in mcdonald's . i would sit in mcdonald's sometimes of coffee, sometimes with a cup of coffee, and for me , school was not and for me, school was was not just a place for learning. it was a place where guaranteed hot meal where i could shower, where i could safe from the hours i could be safe from the hours of 8 am. to 5 pm. and i understand the bleeding hearts that that are saying that school

meals should be free for everyone . but quite frankly, we everyone. but quite frankly, we are already in an economic crisis and priorities saying those who have means tested needs for support the government when it comes to free school meals, those that receive universal credit or other equivalent benefit should be prioritised, is the fact that that affluent kids in south—east surrey should be receiving free school meals and accessing the same support when it comes to two meals that the parents and the families can afford to feed them, is thus is kids in that were in my situation is beyond the pale it is and this is the reason that sadiq khan, he will argue why he needs to give free school meals to all the children in london is because of the food poverty. i know that the parents who can afford to pay their who can afford to pay for their can't earn anything. if can't earn user anything. if it's benefit him in it's going to benefit him in raising money. okay, so raising more money. okay, so this is for popularity. the mad ulez okay from ulez zone. okay he's from to raise money all the gaps raise money to plug all the gaps in his in his budget is policies is about common sense and is never about common sense and there's nothing common sense about this. i've always said

poverty is relative. okay? and it's every parent's duty to provide meals for their children . that's why you have children. there's a deal in life you have children. you automatically sign a deal to look after your children. now what i don't quite understand , and it's the same understand, and it's the same with food banks , where is the with food banks, where is the level where you qualify? do you see what i mean? food banks? i just don't get anybody can go along to a food bank as far as i know and say i can't afford to feed my kids. going to have six tonnes of beans, please. yes walk out. this is the same. and sam's made a very good point. i live on the border of surrey and greater london. okay there's been an influx of quite a lot of people from hong kong. it's a lovely part of the world, right, pnce? lovely part of the world, right, price? not the absolutely bemused and amazed that children can get free school meals because they have easily the ability to pay for this and. my opinion, what i really , really opinion, what i really, really don't like about these sorts of

stories and about sidique khan's posturing , his stories and about sidique khan's posturing, his big stories and about sidique khan's posturing , his big grand speech posturing, his big grand speech about where we're plugging the gap because the tory government couldn't it feels like they using disadvantaged children for political point scoring. that's all it is . i don't frankly think all it is. i don't frankly think that sadiq khan gives gives a hoot about about whether kids are going hungry , because if he are going hungry, because if he did, then would be did, then he would be prioritising for those prioritising support for those families that most families that need it most rather than these sweeping generalisations. the support generalisations. put the support into those that need it most. we have a welfare state to support those cannot cope who cannot afford to support themselves very generously. first, from the youngsters those of a more youngsters to those of a more sophisticated vintage, let's say angela rippon, 78 years old. mike, she's got a piece in the mail today saying that bbc basically said that she she should quit after she turned 50 because she was too old. yeah, she's fabulous. she does good . she's fabulous. she does good. more gb news breakfast morning. we can breakfast from time to time . i love her. i do. she's time. i love her. i do. she's a breath of fresh air because

she's got so much energy you know we all remember her for flashing her legs on the mall for my show on the christmas show. but the energy she exudes when i see in this very studio, you working here. i've you know working here. but i've got story about angela got a great story about angela rippon. this was john who wanted to revolutionise the bbc. he told right after that she told a 50 right after that she went to boston and worked for a tv station in boston and i was the bureau chief of the daily express in new york. so i to go up to boston and, you know, review her first couple of shows and you go into a bar in boston, some guy shot, oh, god, not that limey woman from again. and it didn't bother her at all. i mean , just got on with it. the quality of broadcasting but the story i've got for you is after the first show, the people running the tv section wouldn't allow me any access to angela rippon, fellow countrymen . i'm rippon, fellow countrymen. i'm from same countries. no, sorry not doing it. i waited around for hours. nothing doing so. this consulate , ali went back to this consulate, ali went back to my hotel , the copley plaza , in

my hotel, the copley plaza, in the centre of boston , and got the centre of boston, and got into the lift and angela rippon was in the lift and it was like a from god because i hadn't got enough to write about stalking me now because i hadn't seen her on the set. you say, you know, she was in here and we were out there and a lot. but i said, oh, angela, i you really could help me out here. you know? and she said, what is it? i said, they wouldn't let me. i said, come on, come have a cup of coffee. right. brilliant, course right. brilliant, of course i didn't want keep her like didn't want to keep her like because giovanni next because she had giovanni next day. all know in day. but as you all know in fleet street, 10 minutes with angela rippon, come provide a three spread. and it three page spread. and so it did. she was absolutely terrific. kind, terrific. honestly very kind, very amazing to very helpful. amazing i like to think that is it's not think that ageism is it's not affecting at moment. affecting you at the moment. samantha no, am very samantha no, but i am very concerned. the idea that women in the media seem to have an expiration put on us how expiration date put on us how long we on the shelf before we're shoved off for a new a product. well you've got a few years to worry about, but i think if you press me but you're right come to the of

right so we have come to the of our show mike samantha thank you so much come back again when you coming up next is gb news with mark longhurst . i'm bev turner mark longhurst. i'm bev turner i'll see you tomorrow at ten. alex deakin here your latest weather updates a lot of cloud around today rather drab affair most of scotland and northern ireland will stay dry. much of england . wales will stay dry. england. wales will stay dry. but here, there will few but here, there will be a few showers around . high pressure is showers around. high pressure is the feature and will the dominant feature and will continue be for much of this continue to be for much of this week. but around the high pressure, the winds go this pressure, the winds go like this clockwise feeding in from clockwise and so feeding in from the sea quite a lot of clouds , the sea quite a lot of clouds, some showers eastern some showers over eastern england , some getting into the england, some getting into the midlands. few into parts midlands. a few even into parts of wales, not too many in southern england. the odd one in southern england. the odd one in southern scotland. but southern parts of scotland. but most northern most of scotland, northern ireland it's western ireland dry and it's western scotland we'll continue to scotland where we'll continue to see some in the cloud and see some breaks in the cloud and a feeling pretty cold a bit of feeling pretty cold under this thick a cloud with the showers over north—east england midlands , seven england and the midlands, seven or celsius . england and the midlands, seven or celsius. not a ten or eighteen celsius. not a ten is possible, particularly see any brightness in the south.

generally though a pretty chilly feeling day leading into a cloudy nights. we'll see more showers evening wales showers this evening over wales in particular. and southwest england , nothing and england, nothing too heavy and they tend to clear away they should tend to clear away and breaks in the and then some breaks in the cloud over the midlands and southern england allow some southern england will allow some pockets frost here blue pockets of frost here into blue on chance, although most on the chance, although most towns and cities will stay above western also getting western scotland also getting a frost with some clear skies here. thursday's weather pattern is pretty similar. so again, high pressure control, but a high pressure in control, but a few showers likely tomorrow few more showers likely tomorrow over scotland, maybe over parts of scotland, maybe northern ireland to most of england. well, should be dry on thursday. brighter day for thursday. and a brighter day for wales england . a wales and southern england. a bit sunshine again. bit more sunshine again. northwest scotland may well do right for sunshine with a bit of sun. ten, 11 degrees feel sun. ten, 11 degrees will feel a bit warmer where it stays driving east even though it's dner driving east even though it's drier we're only looking drier, we're still only looking at highs of seven or eight celsius during thursday evening . not a great deal of change, although i think we'll the showers disappearing so it looks largely head through showers disappearing so it looks largelyinto head through showers disappearing so it looks largelyinto the lead through showers disappearing so it looks largelyinto the weekend|gh showers disappearing so it looks largelyinto the weekend again

friday into the weekend again predominantly cloudy weather for friday and the weekends not too many showers around. one thing, though, is set to turn colder though, it is set to turn colder through the weekend and into next week .