>> hello, welcome to gb news saturday. i'm martin daubney. over the next three hours, i'll be keeping you company, of course, on your tv, online, and on your digital radio. >> coming up hour. no >> coming up in this hour. no big tax cuts before the next general election , as the general election, as the chancellor admits. the pledge to halve inflation has proven harder than expected. is the harder than expected. it is the last nail in the coffin for the beleaguered tory party. next up, angerin beleaguered tory party. next up, anger in portland over plans to house asylum seekers on their doorstep. more than 12,000 people have crossed the english channelin people have crossed the english channel in small boats this year after a record 686 crossed in 13 small boats yesterday . but is small boats yesterday. but is the barge really the best way to tackle the migrant housing crisis? and at the end of the houn crisis? and at the end of the hour, the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain . everyone mainly on the plain. everyone should be taught how to speak proper care. but no, this isn't a pygmalion or my fair lady. it's the latest policy from the

labour party . but is it's the latest policy from the labour party. but is this levelling up society or just levelling up society orjust plain old fashioned snobbery ? plain old fashioned snobbery? but first, it's the news headunes but first, it's the news headlines with rory . headlines with rory. >> thank you very much, martin. i'm rory smith in the gb newsroom. us president joe biden has defended his decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. they're banned by more than 100 countries and can pose a danger for decades after a conflict ends due to unexploded ordnance . president unexploded ordnance. president biden says the decision was difficult and was prompted by ukraine running out of ammunition . and human rights ammunition. and human rights groups have criticised the move. defence editor of the evening standard, robert fox , told gb standard, robert fox, told gb news the decision is an indication of how the country is faring in the war against russia. >> they're running out of artillery, ammunition and that's what they've got . the americans what they've got. the americans can't keep up with the supply

requirements of the more advanced conventional artillery and the same is true for the most of europe. what they have got lots and lots of hundreds of thousands of rounds is the cluster munitions. the real shock for the west is that they haven't prepared for this kind of thing at all. they're running out of stuff and that will come up at the nato summit next week in vilnius . up at the nato summit next week in vilnius. meanwhile ukraine's president, vladimir zelenskyy has visited snake island to mark 500 days of war. >> the area in the black sea was retake by the ukrainian armed forces a year ago. mr zelenskyy is now in istanbul holding talks with turkey's president erdogan in his first visit to the country since the start of the conflict to protests against housing, asylum seekers in dorset are taking place . stand dorset are taking place. stand up to racism. dorset and the no to the barge group are opposed

to the barge group are opposed to the barge group are opposed to the plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at portland port. it's understood the bibby stockholm barge could arrive at this week. it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. that's at 686 people crossed the channel yesterday , the highest daily yesterday, the highest daily number this year , bringing the number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000. the bbc is reportedly investing, getting a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures. it's alleged the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun saying the young person was 17 years old. the newspaper says the teen's family complained to the broadcaster in may. well, in a statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information that comes to light.

it will act on any information that comes to light . the it will act on any information that comes to light. the family of an eight year old girl who was killed in south—west london have described her as intelligent and cheeky . selina intelligent and cheeky. selina low died after died after a land rover crashed into a prep school in wimbledon on thursday. another eight year old girl is in a life threatening condition and a woman in her 40s remains in a critical condition. the 46 year old female driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been bailed pending further enquiries . the chancellor admits that halfing inflation is proving harder than expected , and jeremy harder than expected, and jeremy hunt says the tories pledge of inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year . inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year. it's going to be more challenging than first thought. mr hunt also said the government cannot bring in tax cuts if it makes the battle against inflation more difficult . inflation remains at 8.7. the government has released an onune government has released an online video in a bid to stop

flytipping . the tweet from the flytipping. the tweet from the official page for prime minister rishi sunak reads, game over for flytippers. well, from today , if flytippers. well, from today, if you're caught flytipping littering or graffiti ing, you'll receive a bigger fine and will have to clean it up . it's will have to clean it up. it's a gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, it's back to gb news. saturday. >> thank you very much , rory. >> thank you very much, rory. now let's get stuck in today's into today's meaty topics. the government is woes show no sign of easing . the chancellor has of easing. the chancellor has ruled out any big tax cuts before the next general election and admits that halving inflation is proving harder than expected . while jeremy hunt expected. while jeremy hunt conceded the government can't bnngin conceded the government can't bring in tax cuts if it makes the battle against inflation more difficult. his comments

come at a difficult time for the prime minister, who is also under pressure from his cabinet colleagues to increase public sector pay. well, joining me now to this is gb news to discuss this is gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson. nigel so we've got the highest taxes in britain since world war ii. a lot of people will be forgiven for thinking voted for tory and thinking we voted for tory and got corbyn. but any tories were hoping for a last minute tax cut. haven't those, those all those hopes dashed? this is the final nail for the for the tories , isn't it? tories, isn't it? >> well , it doesn't, it doesn't >> well, it doesn't, it doesn't help them at all. and you're absolutely right that what the conservative party is meant to be party of tax cutters . be is the party of tax cutters. i didn't expect any tax cuts before the next election anyway . this, it seems to me , . this, it seems to me, absolutely impossible to do too, given the way that inflation is going. so really it's not a huge surprise that jeremy hunt has ruled them out , although at ruled them out, although at least he's ruling them out publicly now . but certainly it

publicly now. but certainly it doesn't help the tories at all. and i think that the real problem in the immediate term that rishi sunak has got is to actually meet his five pledges by the end of the year. and of course , halving inflation was course, halving inflation was one of them. and as the chancellor has just said, that's looking pretty unlikely too. >> yeah , another cause of >> yeah, another cause of soaring inflation, of course, is booming wage packets. and on to the next story now. sunak cabinet is under fire because at least five ministers back the independent review for a public sector pay pay rise. that's keegan in education . steve keegan in education. steve barclay and health ben wallace defends alex chalk justice and suella braverman, the home secretary , all wants these big secretary, all wants these big pay secretary, all wants these big pay rises. this is more corbyn omics as well . omics as well. >> it's quite understandable. they want, they want the money on the basis that they are all spending departments and each have problems or problems of their own. so gillian keegan at education , when she's facing education, when she's facing teacher strikes, that the, the

pay teacher strikes, that the, the pay review body is recommending a 6.5% increase. yes, rishi sunakis a 6.5% increase. yes, rishi sunak is saying, oh, i'm not going to be i might well ignore the pay bodies because of the problem with inflation. and obviously if they do that. gillian keegan has a problem because you've got striking teachers , so you understand why teachers, so you understand why these ministers are saying what they're saying. the point really here is that these pay rises are below inflation. any money that goes into the extra money that goes into the extra money that goes into the economy does of course, stoke inflation. but these are well below the inflation figure. so on that basis, if you want to solve your industrial relations problems , industrial relations problems, what you need to do is go along with the pay review bodies, especially for those for those sectors that can't not take industrial action like the police, armed forces and prison officers. yeah >> now, the big question, of course, as ever, is where is the money going to come from ? the

money going to come from? the magic money tree has been bled dry with £2.6 trillion in national debt. nigel and now they're all arguing about it. can't be tax rises. well, we haven't been given any tax cuts, but now they're can't but now they're saying we can't rise can't be rise taxes. it can't be increased borrowing. so where is this £5 billion per year is going to come from ? well i mean, going to come from? well i mean, there's the danger, of course, is if they go ahead with it, it comes from existing budgets in the department. >> so that therefore means more cuts along the way . you just cuts along the way. you just can't have it both ways. the economy is quite clearly in a mess. so in the event you don't give the teachers the 6.5, which would probably settle their their strike action, then you're going to end up cutting back on facilities for schools . batus facilities for schools. batus that that . alex chalk the that that. alex chalk the justice secretary, will be under a lot of pressure on the on the police as the home secretary will. there could be cutbacks there and of course the tories are promising and in fairness

are promising and in fairness are delivering the extra , extra are delivering the extra, extra 20,000 police officers they said they would bring in. so as i say, you can't have it both ways . it either turns out to be cuts or we face tax rises. that's going to be that's unlikely be given it's a conservative government, but it means that we are all going to actually suffer some more pain before the election comes around talking about pain . about pain. >> there's a poll out in the express today, nigel, all about the attitude of conservative voters feeling let down by the tories. only one third of 2016 leavers said they will vote for conservatives at the next election . 44% of 2019 tories election. 44% of 2019 tories feel about and the blue collar conservative group is agitating around this, saying sunak a better start showing the public he actually likes and believes in brexit. >> well mean the brexit thing just rumbles on. we would rather hope that after all these years we'd have actually settled this, but we seem not to have done . i but we seem not to have done. i think that the that a lot of the

disappointment about brexit comes from all the promises that were made at the referendum . and were made at the referendum. and that's by both sides, by the way , it's not just by the by the brexiteers , it was by the brexiteers, it was by the remainers too , that what might remainers too, that what might happen after brexit and what we're seeing is that if you voted for brexit because you wanted to take back control in dominic cummings as immortal words , in other words, to to, words, in other words, to to, get british sovereignty back , get british sovereignty back, you should have got what you wanted . but there was always wanted. but there was always going to be a cost, a cost to pay - going to be a cost, a cost to pay . and so that that cost is pay. and so that that cost is lower wages . it it obviously is lower wages. it it obviously is some some of the inflation is caused by brexit. probably six, probably 6 to 8% of food inflation is actually a direct result of brexit hit. so in a sense everyone's got what they wish for. but i do understand why why they were disappointed by it. >> okay , nigel, on to sir keir

>> okay, nigel, on to sir keir starmer or secure fence sitter. as i call him. another dramatic u—turn . he's u—turn on brexit, u—turn. he's u—turn on brexit, he's u—turn on borders, is u—turn on net zero is u—turn on gender identity. this time he's done another spectacular u—turn on ulez . earlier this week, he on ulez. earlier this week, he backed the labour candidate for the uxbridge by—election who wants it to be halted. now he's changed his mind again. >> yes, i think that keir starmer did get himself in a bit of a pickle over this one. i mean , you can understand why the mean, you can understand why the labour candidate in uxbridge, danny beales, is against ulez. it's one of the major concerns he's facing on the doorstep. there and in a sense, you can understand why. keir starmer initially he then backed danny beales. he's his candidate. however over keir starmer has gone back to where he should. >> nigel nigel, let's let's move away from uxbridge and get it back onto starmers u—turn. if we could please . could please. >> okay . well, he's back to. >> okay. well, he's back to.

he's back to where he should be on ulez, which is, is that it has that it has cut emissions in central london since boris johnson introduced it. and the question now is that, of course, it should be extended to greater london. the question now is what do you do about about border encounters like kent, which is my county, that's where the devil lies . and what keir devil lies. and what keir starmer is actually saying ahead with it. there is a legal required moment to improve air quality in london. now the question remains how you actually deal with that . actually deal with that. >> okay, nigel, we've lost you there. i think keir starmer has intercepted your feed. we're going to move on. all i would say on this is another, another week, another u—turn where do you stand on anything? i wish the real keir starmer would stand up. move on now to stand up. let's move on now to our story. gb news his new

our next story. gb news his new campaign don't kill cash . as campaign don't kill cash. as britain starts moving towards a cashless society, gb news is calling on the government to protect the status of cash as a widely accepted means of payment in the uk until at least 2050. gb news continues its fight to protect vulnerable britons who rely on cash and are getting left behind and the don't kill cash campaign is gaining momentum. labour frontbencher lucy powell has shared her support. >> we do need to protect cash. >> we do need to protect cash. >> i think it's an important issue to highlight and you know , of course i'm the digital secretary as well and we are moving into a very quickly in this digital age, things are changing very quickly and rail union boss mick lynch has also backed the campaign warning of the dangers of excess automation i >> absolutely. we don't want cash to go out. it becomes more and more difficult for people on low budgets. for instance , who low budgets. for instance, who use cash as a means of controlling their weekly and monthly spend . monthly spend. >> and pimlico plumbers founder

charlie mullins warned against killing cash , citing the killing cash, citing the benefits that budgeting and saving money. i think it's unnecessary to change over. >> there's a lot of people that are not sort of digital savvy and they're going to suffer by it, old people . many it, not just old people. many people, it be, you know, people, whether it be, you know, charity workers or homeless people on the street and just anybody that you may even tip or evenin anybody that you may even tip or even in a restaurant. so they're going to suffer. well the petition has now topped over 180,000 signatures. >> in fact, it's about 183,000 as we count following its launch on monday to help save the pound in your pocket . and if you want in your pocket. and if you want to get involved, grab your phone right scan that qr sign right now and scan that qr sign right now and scan that qr sign right there on the screen . okay. right there on the screen. okay. joining me now is charity director uk, caroline director of age uk, caroline abrahams . thanks forjoining us abrahams. thanks forjoining us today, caroline and of course, one of the concerns about one of the huge concerns about a sudden jolt towards the cashless society is the effect it will have elderly people being society is the effect it will hav

hearing. >> well, just that we hear quite a lot from older people who are frustrated about their inability to get cash and then find problems actually spending it because more and more ways of buying things are going to digital by default . so, you digital by default. so, you know, it's not unusual now to go into high street shop and see into a high street shop and see a little sign that says we don't take or only and of take cash or card only and of course, also there are bugbears for lots of people like the switch away from the old, you know, pound in the slot to pay for your metre your parking metre. first of all, it became card and a bit of phone and now it seems it's not even going to be that anymore and it's going to over to you're needing be that anymore and it's going to have over to you're needing be that anymore and it's going to have an er to you're needing be that anymore and it's going to have an app» you're needing be that anymore and it's going to have an app» you're niyou 1g be that anymore and it's going to have an app» you're niyou say, to have an app which as you say, means to have means you've got to have a smartphone . quite a lot of smartphone. quite a lot of people phones , they've got people have phones, they've got mobile but haven't mobile phones, but they haven't necessarily really well necessarily got a really well functioning modern functioning fairly modern smartphone, which you do need really to an app. really to use an app. >> yeah. and caroline, i don't know the age uk know if i fit into the age uk bracket, i get really bracket, but i get really frustrated the parks frustrated about the car parks on pathways. we've got on coastal pathways. we've got download an app, you can't get

an internet you feel an internet connection. you feel like cliff like jumping off the cliff sometimes, big thing sometimes, but also a big thing in story. this week is the in the story. this week is the getting rid of train stations, ticket stations , and that's ticket stations, and that's a particular interface source of anxiety, isn't it, for elderly passengers trying to get around the country if they're confront with not being able to use cash and nobody to even to? it's and nobody to even talk to? it's hugely for elderly hugely stressful for elderly people. i think, you know, people. yeah i think, you know, what most older people want if they're not online is they want to talk to someone. >> they want to be able to make a transaction face to and a transaction face to face. and of course, know that's not a transaction face to face. and of cc good know that's not a transaction face to face. and of cc good k|businessesiot a transaction face to face. and of cc good k|businesses because very good for businesses because it got to pay those it means you've got to pay those people's wages. all people's wages. but all those jobs going people who jobs are going of people who used interface the used to interface with the pubuc used to interface with the public those transactions public for those transactions and people to be able and expecting people to be able everyone to be able to do it onune everyone to be able to do it online in advance. and all of online or in advance. and all of thatis online or in advance. and all of that is really difficult for some people. and it isn't only older people, i think, who are worried about ticket offices. it's i'm reading, it's also, as i'm reading, cyclists , because there can be cyclists, because there can be a problem taking your your bike on the also very much so the train and also very much so i disabled people who

i think disabled people who i quite often see posts on social media from disabled people who have struggled to get on and off a train with a wheelchair, for example, and do need extra help. so partly , of course, so it's partly, of course, rightly, as you say, that things are going online. but the other side the coin is that side of the coin is that actually that means are actually that means there are less around to help you less people around to help you if you need support. so if you need some support. so it's helpful if you're an it's not helpful if you're an older person to be trying to live in kind society live in this kind of society unless , of course, you are unless, of course, you are internet savvy and there are there are older who are there are older people who are brilliant the internet, brilliant at the internet, but most course , once you get to most of course, once you get to a certain age, grow up a certain age, didn't grow up with it. and you use with it. and if you didn't use it work and you didn't have it at work and you didn't have to then you can to come across it, then you can easily the 65, 70, easily get to the age of 65, 70, 80 and had no contact with it at all. and it's people like that. i really finding i think, who are really finding it at the moment. it a struggle at the moment. >> of course , a >> and caroline, of course, a lot change happened lot of the change happened dunng lot of the change happened during lockdowns the during lockdowns during the cover lockdown . of course, cover of lockdown. of course, a lot of businesses went went contact less, getting contact less, only getting rid of cash because of the of the danger of maybe passing on the virus. but there's a huge amount

danger of maybe passing on the virchange there's a huge amount danger of maybe passing on the virchange inzre's a huge amount danger of maybe passing on the virchange in ae's a huge amount danger of maybe passing on the virchange in a very huge amount danger of maybe passing on the virchange in a very shortamount danger of maybe passing on the virchange in a very short periodt of change in a very short period of change in a very short period of time. and for elderly people in particular, that's very stressful , isn't it ? stressful, isn't it? >> definitely. and they can't keep up . and we're going to be keep up. and we're going to be publishing some research quite soon, which shows that it's not only people who aren't online at all, it's people who might be a bit online, but they don't particularly want use online particularly want to use online banking. that feels a bridge too far . and you know, you've got to far. and you know, you've got to be it and careful be really on it and very careful to that you're not to make sure that you're not sending money to the wrong person like and person or things like that. and if then you can end up if you do, then you can end up in quite a lot trouble. so in quite a lot of trouble. so actually, people who are actually, even people who are online, we're probably exaggerating the extent of their capability to use online mechanisms, some of which are very clunky. still as i'm sure you'd agree , or alternatively to you'd agree, or alternatively to be able to do it safely. so i think what this tells us that age uk is that we need to not stop people who want to use digital at all. for digital mechanisms at all. for some people it's great, but we always need to have an alternative for people that is user friendly and also isn't

charging them any more just because they're not online. >> caroline abrahams, age uk . >> caroline abrahams, age uk. thank you for joining >> caroline abrahams, age uk. thank you forjoining us >> caroline abrahams, age uk. thank you for joining us today on gb news saturday. much appreciated . okay. well, joining appreciated. okay. well, joining me now the co—founder of me now is the co—founder of investment platform. regionally, justin stewart. justin, justin urquhart stewart. justin, always , never a always a pleasure, never a chore, especially in those resplendent , which resplendent red braces, which i always comment always like to comment upon. thank of balance . thank you for a bit of balance. yeah. what do bannau and governments see as the primary advantage of moving towards a cashless society ? well, it's the cashless society? well, it's the advance of technology. >> technology . you go back, what >> technology. you go back, what happened before cash? you had barter ing. >> go from bartering to cash >> you go from bartering to cash cash. find cash. you then actually find better of managing cash better ways of managing it. cash is relatively inefficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying ively inefficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying toly inefficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying to do nefficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying to do itefficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying to do it .ficient way better ways of managing it. cash is trying to do it. that's way better ways of managing it. cash is trying to do it. that's why of trying to do it. that's why they charge people for shops have and deliver a whole have to go and deliver a whole load of coins and notes and things messy, things like that. it's messy, it's , so therefore it's it's dirty, so therefore it's got extra expense. then you have to have a mint, you have to have a central which issues the a central bank, which issues the stuff. then someone changes the royal have change stuff. then someone changes the roy picture have change stuff. then someone changes the roy picture , have change stuff. then someone changes the roy picture , all have change stuff. then someone changes the roy picture , all various change stuff. then someone changes the roy picture , all various things|ge the picture, all various things like so there's it's got a

like that. so there's it's got a great advantage to it, but it's the technology that really pushesit the technology that really pushes it through , makes it pushes it through, makes it cheaper and easier to use . cheaper and easier to use. >> a lot of people have reservations, of course, cash is easier trace . us so it's easier to trace. us so it's harder to trace and it's harder to tax . and so people are to tax. and so people are feeling that this is statewide interference. and moreover , is interference. and moreover, is this a move towards a kind of social currency , i.e. this a move towards a kind of social currency , le. a sort of social currency, le. a sort of social currency, le. a sort of social credit system , the kind social credit system, the kind of thing we see about in china where the government knows what you spend your money on. they know you are. and there you spend your money on. they knothere you are. and there you spend your money on. they knothere are (ou are. and there you spend your money on. they knothere are very re. and there you spend your money on. they knothere are very realnd there you spend your money on. they knothere are very real concerns are there are very real concerns that could be monitored or even impacted upon . impacted upon. >> well, this is certainly happening now in china. i've seen experience directly of this whereby people's behaviour with their money is being recorded on their money is being recorded on their cards and depending on how well you've behaved or not will entitle you to give you the ability to travel train . if ability to travel on a train. if you done that, they will you haven't done that, they will withdraw your ability to actually this is real actually travel this is real central control by government. so that's the extreme . but it's

so that's the extreme. but it's not just extreme theory, it's actually practise. so yes, people are quite right to be concerned over that. i go to the other side of it. i have my local dry cleaners. they don't take cards at all. i said, take any cards at all. i said, well, why not? surely you've got to cash. it's to handle all this cash. it's dirty. it's to cost you dirty. it's going to cost you more. because we have had more. said because we have had too been too many cards which have been stolen or have got blank or broken brakes on them and things like that, which we haven't been able to track down. and by the time we out it, the time we find out about it, the person's yeah. so, you person's gone. yeah. so, you know, needs quite right know, there needs quite right that should suitably that people should be suitably circumspect and also circumspect and people also deaung circumspect and people also dealing with technology. you circumspect and people also dealaboutth technology. you circumspect and people also dealabout people |ology. you circumspect and people also dealabout people getting’ou circumspect and people also dealabout people getting older talk about people getting older with and not being able to with this and not being able to deal with it. of course you're told that actually now all your phones are intuitive. it took me a while to work out that intuitive no intuitive means there are no instructions and i look at my phone sometimes and i sit there rather i have try phone sometimes and i sit there rath�*remember i have try phone sometimes and i sit there rath�*rememberactuallyve try phone sometimes and i sit there rath�*remember actually how try phone sometimes and i sit there rath�*remember actually how ity phone sometimes and i sit there rath�*remember actually how it all and remember actually how it all works. so hopefully i'm not too stupid, quite stupid, but i can quite understand people understand and people of a generation and as a good example of this go back to the 60s when you saw people from into

you saw people move from into decimalisation from the days when we had £0.12 to the shilling 240 of those to the pound. shilling 240 of those to the pound . and it was actually very, pound. and it was actually very, very complicated indeed. so decimalisation was great. but for the people who actually used to the previous mechanism that was a whole new language for them. and they were really very confused indeed and were terrified of actually losing out is the nudge towards a cashless society, a precursor to a central digital currency. >> so sterling is a thing of the past and instead you're getting kind of crypto pounds from the government. is this just part of a continuity and will we look back on cash in the same way that we now look back on bartering at some point in the future? >> well, the answer is you'll still have both but different elements. still be elements. crypto will still be there , a crypto probably there, but a crypto i probably get from calling that there, but a crypto i probably get actually�*n calling that there, but a crypto i probably get actually usinging that there, but a crypto i probably get actually using blockchain to and actually using blockchain to control currency. quite control currency. i'm quite understand why the bank of england actually due course understand why the bank of englhaveictually due course understand why the bank of englhave a:ually due course understand why the bank of englhave a blockchaine course understand why the bank of englhave a blockchain currency. will have a blockchain currency. why? because it'll be able to issue debt in that currency and know precisely who owns it at

any one time. remember all blockchain is a big cobweb and in that cobweb, you know exactly any transactions that happen. everyone else knows about it. so the government will precise the government will know precise . someone trying to . is someone actually trying to money launder or cheat our government debt. so good government debt. so it's good control them but that's of control for them but that's of no use to if you have just no use to you if you have just trying some some booze trying to buy some some booze around the corner so you want alternate to plus the fact alternate to that. plus the fact there some good there were some really good local years local initiatives a few years back we bristol pound back. we had the bristol pound and they introduced a local currency with a picture, presumably of some luminary in bristol, not involved bristol, presumably not involved in slavery. and the idea was to create a local currency to help with marketing bristol because you actually have to spend it in the . so a the bristol area. so that's a relatively element , but the bristol area. so that's a relatively element, but an relatively minor element, but an awful lot of people still , they awful lot of people still, they trust currency. they've trust their currency. they've got their hand and you got coins in their hand and you mentioned about things like parking and things like that. i to trouble , trouble sitting to find trouble, trouble sitting there i've got to use there saying i've now got to use my phone for parking. but i can't get reception, so i'm stuck . stuck. >> i think you're making a great case justin why

case there. justin for why people is king. people still think cash is king. it's overwhelming. in fact, it makes to and some it's overwhelming. in fact, it makesprice to and some it's overwhelming. in fact, it makesprice booze. and some it's overwhelming. in fact, it makesprice booze. thanks some it's overwhelming. in fact, it makesprice booze. thanks for some cheap price booze. thanks for joining today news joining us today on gb news saturday. you're watching and listening news saturday listening to gb news saturday with tons with me. martin daubney tons more yet today's more to come yet on today's show. let's take a show. but first, let's take a look at the weather with greg. >> temperatures rising, >> the temperatures rising, boxed solar. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of this weekend, though there will be some warm if not hot spells of sunshine in between . looking the between. and looking at the bigger pressure bigger picture, low pressure sits the uk is sits to the west of the uk is drawing in that and humid drawing in that hot and humid air near continent, air from the near continent, allowing clouds to allowing those shower clouds to develop. thunderstorms some localised disruption possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is

possible, but then clearer skies follow behind. most places dry to end the night, with temperatures though quite uncomfortable for sleeping, particularly in the east. 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum . a 18 degrees as a minimum. a little fresher across the west . little fresher across the west. so a bright start for many, though. rain still clearing northern scotland and another area rain, perhaps area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery well, pushes into thundery as well, pushes into south—east england. and then generally most it's a day of generally for most it's a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. most frequent showers. showers most frequent across western the uk, across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, wales, midlands, south west wales, the midlands, south west england. thunderstorms england. some thunderstorms developing here, hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. do take care and is possible. so do take care and temperatures on the warm side, but a little lower than saturday. those thundery showers continue to push north through the evening so we could see some localised disruption before these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies , but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees

as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales. a little cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and rain . so it means a cloud and rain. so it means a sunny start to monday . for cloud and rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of though, we do have rain of us, though, we do have rain clearing northern scotland once again. then further showery again. and then further showery rain push in from rain starting to push in from the as we move through the the west as we move through the day and turns martin settled tuesday and wednesday. heavy and thundery temperatures thundery showers. temperatures starting feel fresher . starting to feel fresher. >> the temperatures rising . a >> the temperatures rising. a boxed solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> and thank you very much , >> and thank you very much, greg. there's loads more coming up still yet on today's show including we'll have the latest on plans to house 500 on the plans to house 500 migrants in a barge in portland. can government find get the can the government find get the immigration crisis under control 7 immigration crisis under control ? all of that and much more to come. i'm martin and come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listen gb you're watching and listen to gb news saturday, britain's news

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>> good afternoon. it's 1231. i'm rory smith in the gb newsroom. us president joe biden has to defended his decision to send controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. they're banned by more than 100 countries and can pose a danger for decades after a conflict ends due to un exploded ordnance. president biden says the decision was difficult and was prompted by ukraine running out of ammunition . human rights groups ammunition. human rights groups have criticised the move to protect suits, opposing plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at portland port in dorset are taking place. it's understood the bibby stockholm barge could arrive at this week. well, it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. that's as 686 people crossed the channel

yesterday , the highest daily yesterday, the highest daily number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000. the bbc is reportedly investigating a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures . it's for explicit pictures. it's alleged the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun saying the young person was 17 years old as well. in a statement , the bbc said it takes statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information that comes to light . the family of eight year old selena lu , who was killed after selena lu, who was killed after a land rover crashed into a school in london on thursday , school in london on thursday, have described her as intense , have described her as intense, vigilant and cheeky. another eight year old girl is in a life threatening condition and a woman in her 40s remains in a critical condition in the 46 year old female driver was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. has been bailed pending further inquiry . his

been bailed pending further inquiry. his that's the up to date but you can't get more in all of those stories by visiting our website. that is gb news .com nato. back to . .com nato. back to. martin >> thank you, rory, for that update . welcome back to gb news update. welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney on tv online and on your on your tv online and on your digital radio . now more than digital radio. now more than 12,000 people have crossed the engush 12,000 people have crossed the english channel in small boats this year alone after a record 686 cross in 13 small boats. just yesterday alone, portland locals continue to voice their anger as a plan to house asylum seekers on their doorstep, too. protests are taking place on the same day right now, with residents fearing the conditions on the migrant barge are inadequate. one community group thinks the barge might have a negative impact on the local services , as the bibby services, as the bibby stockholm, which will house 500

illegal immigrants , could arrive illegal immigrants, could arrive as early as this weekend. well, joining me now is gb news, southwest of england reporter jeff moody. jeff, what's the latest on the ground in portland? sounds very noisy there. hey, man, you shame on you . you. >> it is indeed. there are to demonstrate actions today. there's one from these guys who are calling themselves nato to the barge. they have now marched through the town to portland port who they say has betrayed them by allowing the barge to arrive here, to come into town and to, they say, provoke all of the problems that they say will come as a result of it. the other march was the stand up to racism march that took place about an hour ago. there view is, look, we don't want the barge here either, but their reasons are very different. they say they don't want the barge because they regard it as a prison ship. they regard it as something that is in inhumane . something that is in inhumane. and they say that this lots

morals are slightly askew in places for not agreeing to the barge for their reasons. let's try and find out exactly why some of the people are here. kate, you've been very vocal in this campaign in recent weeks and months. why does it why do you feel so strongly about this? >> i think it's disgusting that a private company we can make millions at the cost of the taxpayer a secretive deal was signed with the home office and the residents and a council only found out at the beginning of april. so portland port are having a mooring fee, i believe £5,000 a day. tom moore the beth mead stockholm. the chartering fees are £15,000 a day and cmt, who is the management company , who is the management company, have a contract for 1.6 billion. now rishi sunak says that this is a more cost effective option . it is not the only people that are set to benefit from having

the bibby stockholm here is portland port and then our infrastructure here. you can see we are a population of 13,500 people. this is an influx of 500 single men, 500 single men who have possibly got, you know, mental health issues because maybe the journeys they've taken, we do not have the health services or the infrastructure to support our own people, let alone 500 men. this is a town reliant on tourism. what are 500 men going to do with five free buses into weymouth, two an hour with no money? it's a massive concern. it's an unknown concern. it's an unknown concern. and we haven't been told we know nothing. we are being treated by contempt, by the home office, portland port and also dorset council , who are and also dorset council, who are way too quiet for my liking. they are enabling this deal by providing services and they set to make an awful lot of money and the whole thing stinks. okay >> thank you very much. very well voiced. thank you. let's

let's turn to you, madam. i'm the thing that the other group, the thing that the other group, the other march, is saying very strongly, the stand up to racism march is saying, look , you don't march is saying, look, you don't know who these people are . know who these people are. you're assuming that they are a certain type. you're assuming that they're criminals. you're assuming that they're going to attack your your your children, but you don't know that that thatis but you don't know that that that is race racist for saying that is race racist for saying that. that is race racist for saying that . how do that is race racist for saying that. how do you that is race racist for saying that . how do you counter that that. how do you counter that argument ? argument? >> well, you know, i've tried to approach these people, speak to them, and basically ask them to work with us because all we're both trying to do say no to both trying to do is say no to the barge. that's that's, you know, in a nutshell, we're all trying to the thing. but trying to do the same thing. but for some reason they seem to want cause more control. rac want to cause more control. rac i have no facts . no, i mean, they have no facts. no, no, nothing at all to prove that what they're saying is true. you know , there might be the odd know, there might be the odd person will go on to a facebook page and put like the odd racist remark, but we can't all be held

responsible for people or trolls that go on to social media and make a comment that they can't stick that to us. that's not we're not doing that or we're trying do is the trying to do is bring the community together to understand that what's happening is wrong. it's going to be detrimental to the community and we don't have the community and we don't have the resources and really , i'm the resources and really, i'm quite upset that they're trying to divide because i feel that's what's happening with everything . i think there's a division and it's been set up by the government to divide everybody. and by doing that, they are they're winning because they're managing to get what they want. and as kate just said earlier, in her speech, as far as i'm concerned , and i just think that concerned, and i just think that the safeguarding that richard mp richard drax asked for , i don't richard drax asked for, i don't believe he's ever received that. you know the safeguarding that's been put in place, the security that they're putting in place has just been mentioned now by dorset council. they're saying that, you know, they're going to

make it secure so that it's safe for everybody that lives here. however, the advertisement that's just gone out for the jobs, for security guards jobs, it's for security guards and the jobs specification is saying that they be able saying that they have to be able to own. so they're to work on their own. so they're they're going to four they're going to have four security covering 24 over security guards covering 24 over seven. i don't really think that's going keep people safe i >> -- >> okay. thank you very much. well, you get to well, i'll let you get back to the march. all gathering the march. they're all gathering over big banners. over here with the big banners. no, to the march. bibby no, to the march. the bibby stockholm is still at the moment in falmouth, but it's now left its dock. it's in the wet its dry dock. it's in the wet dock , which means that its dock, which means that its arrival here in portland is only arrival here in portland is only a few hours or days away. back to you . to you. >> jeff moody from portland, thank you very much for that. now, i don't know about you guys watching those now, i don't know about you guys watch locals those now, i don't know about you guys watch locals have those now, i don't know about you guys watch locals have a those now, i don't know about you guys watch locals have a legitimatee those locals have a legitimate concern having men concern of having 500 men dumped in their community. and isn't it funny how the stand up to racist bngade funny how the stand up to racist brigade also want them brigade also don't want them there. they don't want them there. they just don't want them in they're in their community. they're nimbys . i in their community. they're nimbys. i find the whole thing extraordinary. they actually agree principle of agree with the principle of straining public services of an

unfair burden being dumped onto a small community, they just a small community, but they just want somebody else's want them in somebody else's constituency . if you ask me, constituency. if you ask me, that's rank hypocrisy anyway , that's rank hypocrisy anyway, let's move on. been let's move on. you've been getting today on our getting in touch today on our big that is, of big topic, and that is, of course , don't cash. course, don't kill cash. our campaign now has reached 185,000 signatures. john says you can't scam cash . it's in your pockets scam cash. it's in your pockets and you can barter with lots of sellers with cash . and john, i sellers with cash. and john, i think precisely that's why the government would maybe like to clamp it. so no where clamp down on it. so no where your pounds are. mike has the following to say. another issue with the smartphone payments wallets is that these apps need to need you give personal to need you to give up personal information with access permissions, of which are permissions, many of which are not necessary for the main purpose. great, great point, mike. people taking your data as well as your money. shane says the following cash is power and privacy . it allows us to keep privacy. it allows us to keep the government in check. we do not want to be in a situation where we can our spending where we can have our spending controlled some social controlled through some social credit system . shane a superb credit system. shane a superb point and please keep those

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radio. and welcome back to gb news saturday with me. >> martin daubney on your tv onune >> martin daubney on your tv online and on your digital radio . well, the rain in spain falls mainly on the plain. everyone should have the ability to be able to articulate fluently. now this isn't pygmalion or my fair lady. it's the latest policy from the labour party. yes, sir. keir starmer has said the best way of shattering the glass ceiling , not the glass ceiling, ceiling, not the glass ceiling, is by ending the divide between

academic and vocational education, saying the ability to speak well and express yourself should be something that every child is entitled to and every child is entitled to and every child should master. well, joining me now is the former head teacher and chairman of the campaign for real education , campaign for real education, chris mcgovern. so chris, first of all, we're being told how to think now. keir starmer is telling us how to speak . what do telling us how to speak. what do you make of this latest policy? >> well , with the you make of this latest policy? >> well, with the campaign for real education , that's supposed real education, that's supposed to be traditional, but keir starmer has taken us back over 2000 years to ancient greece, in fact, to a philosopher called aristotle , who was very much aristotle, who was very much into what they called rhetoric into what they called rhetoric in those days. look, i'm not against this. i mean, in many ways good that children ways it's good that children should be allowed to speak. and ways it's good that children shormentionedrved to speak. and ways it's good that children shormentionedrved fairpeak. and ways it's good that children shormentionedrved fair lady, and you mentioned my fair lady, that famous , where, famous play, pygmalion, where, of draw of course, people draw impressions from how children or adults speak. that important. adults speak. that is important. but in a sense, a bit of window dressing because schools should already doing of that. already be doing all of that. and they're doing it, and if they're not doing it,

then to improve how and if they're not doing it, then teach to improve how and if they're not doing it, then teach what to improve how and if they're not doing it, then teach what keirnprove how and if they're not doing it, then teach what keir starmer ow they teach what keir starmer isn't really talking about are the fundamental problems of education in our country, which is really the quality of the teaching, not the amount of teaching. there's plenty of that going on. it's the quality. and these days, if you want to become a teacher , you've got to become a teacher, you've got to first of all, pass the test in your political correctness and your political correctness and your and so forth. your wokeness and so forth. there real problems there are real problems in schools and yes, oracy will certainly we applaud any attempt to help children to speak well. but there's a lot more fundamental problems in our schools about standards. later fundamental problems in our schcyear, bout standards. later fundamental problems in our schcyear, we'retandards. later fundamental problems in our schcyear, we're going ds. later fundamental problems in our schcyear, we're going ds. getar this year, we're going to get international the international results for the pisa tests. they're produced by what are called the oecd number crunchers and we'll see where we stand internationally. we've not done reading in done too badly in reading in primary schools recently. it's taken government about 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to government about 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to take fernment about 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to take on|ment about 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to take on board about 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to take on board what 30 primary schools recently. it's taken to take on board what our years to take on board what our campaign years ago campaign was saying 30 years ago teach phonics . there have been teach phonics. there have been some there. kyrees some improvement there. kyrees starmer window dressing starmer a lot of window dressing there. of good intentions. there. a lot of good intentions. but actually it's about the but actually it's all about the quality and quality of the teachers and therefore on therefore you need to focus on that quality of what that and the quality of what

goes in the classroom. and goes on in the classroom. and yes, oracy. yes, that should include oracy. it include talking face it should include talking face it , chris sir it should include talking face it, chris sir keir starmer is hardly renowned for his shakespearean delivery. >> i mean, he's no laurence olivier. he sounds like a kind of middle management accountant at best. what's wrong with people speaking differently? i mean, i from nottingham and mean, i come from nottingham and i lose my accent. i don't want to lose my accent. why should out why should we churn out identikit kids who speak the same ? surely regional same way? surely regional dialects are one of the beautiful parts of being british? >> yeah. i think you've got a very good point there . and we very good point there. and we want to keep dialect and i've lost mine. actually, i'm actually a brummie, though. i could revert to brummie, i suppose bit snobbish suppose we are a bit snobbish about this and to some extent i suppose. starmer has said so that, know, we shouldn't that, you know, we shouldn't really judge people from how they accent is there they sound their accent is there is truth in but you is some truth in that. but you know, you can write or you can speak dialect or an accent speak in a dialect or an accent and make good sense. and still make good sense. i think children do need confidence. when confidence. certainly when i taughtin confidence. certainly when i taught in very large comprehensive of 2000 up comprehensive schools of 2000 up in one of the

in north yorkshire, one of the great things about those schools i was that they did in i taught in was that they did in those do and children those days do drama and children in these big comprehensive schools were doing drama, putting on productions. there really important. it's about confidence, . so we confidence, really. so we certainly be snobbish certainly shouldn't be snobbish about regional dialects. what's important is that children learn to speak confidently but also speak on basis of knowing speak on the basis of knowing something. mean, could something. i mean, you could argue , of with argue, of course, with with kyrees starmer, it's all talk and no walk. he talks the talk, but actually he needs to produce the results. we've had several decades now of educational failure, not failure in all areas, but failure in comparison with, say, those countries of eastern asia who are about three years ahead of us. by the age of 15, we're falling back. and we need to do a lot about that. and it's of teaching. need to do a lot about that. and itcome of teaching. need to do a lot about that. and itcome back of teaching. need to do a lot about that. and itcome back actually:eaching. need to do a lot about that. and itcome back actually when1g. i come back actually when children learn and they make progress and they acquire knowledge, they become more confident and then they become more confident speakers. the worst thing you hear is worst thing you can hear is a child who knows nothing, trying to pontificate . and we see that to pontificate. and we see that a lot. the way , amongst some a lot. by the way, amongst some of the coat brigade today who

tell lot about how we tell us a lot about how we should actually, should behave. but actually, when you probe them, they actually very much . actually don't know very much. so, supporting so, yes, knowledge supporting speech is very, very important . speech is very, very important. but there are so many fundamental questions in education that starmer has got to do a lot more than just say, yeah, we want to make things better. we've been trying to do that time. you know, that for some time. you know, we're only country the we're the only country in the developed world where grandparents outperform their grandchildren grandparents outperform their gran is 1ildren grandparents outperform their gran is a.dren grandparents outperform their gran is a real problem. but what this is a real problem. but what isuppose this is a real problem. but what i suppose you can say. yeah. rac is important, speaking is important, but there's a lot more to face up to in education and successive education ministers have not really done that particularly well, with the exception of reading, exception perhaps of reading, and to be improving . and that seems to be improving. >> mcgovern, thank >> okay, chris mcgovern, thank you us today on gb you for joining us today on gb news. now, i know about news. now, i don't know about you, starmer was you, but if keir starmer was serious about helping the working could do working classes, he could do something fact that something about the fact that the classes have something about the fact that the bottom classes have something about the fact that the bottom of classes have something about the fact that the bottom of education have something about the fact that the bottom of education for'e been bottom of education for over particularly over 20 years, and particularly boys. yet there's not a single political initiative out there to them. that's the reason to help them. that's the reason i got into politics. nobody seems to care about these

people. waste time about how people. why waste time about how we speak instead sort them we speak and instead sort them out? sport now, out? moving on to sport now, british tennis fans were very angry this week as andy murray's clash with stefanos tsitsipas was called off due to the 11 pm. curfew. they called time p.m. curfew. they called time early. murray went on to lose the match, but many fans are saying it's unfair for as murray was on the front foot before the match postponed. well, join match was postponed. well, join me sports broadcaster , me now is sports broadcaster, the legend aidan magee aiden . i the legend aidan magee aiden. i don't like it when somebody calls time early and certainly andy murray doesn't. the fans are saying if they let him play on till the actual curfew , he'd on till the actual curfew, he'd have win it. >> he mean, look , one >> he was i mean, look, one thing was that when thing i would say was that when the referee out the tournament referee came out at was ten, 28, he at i think it was ten, 28, he did consult with both players and to and they both agreed to leave the there's the court. however, there's no doubt that that decision, whether it was a tripartite agreement between the referee and two players, irrespective of that , it cost andy murray the that, it cost andy murray the match. feel because he in match. i feel because he was in the ascendancy, he was two sets to one yes he'd had few to one up. yes he'd had a few problems joints . to one up. yes he'd had a few problems joints. he's problems with his joints. he's got metal hip. don't forget, got a metal hip. don't forget,

he's the tennis he's ostensibly the tennis version man. he's version of the bionic man. he's been five been rebuilt in the last five years only last seven years or less. only last seven years or less. only last seven years with these injury years with all these injury problems. won his last problems. and he won his last grand slam in but when problems. and he won his last graniresumed but when problems. and he won his last graniresumed play but when problems. and he won his last graniresumed play yesterdayn problems. and he won his last graniresumed play yesterday , it they resumed play yesterday, it wasn't easy match for wasn't an easy match for tsitsipas but certainly tsitsipas, but he certainly had the 12 years the advantage. he's 12 years younger. he's four the younger. he's number four in the world. has a genuine chance world. he has a genuine chance of going deep in this of going in very deep in this tournament shades of tournament and it was shades of 2001 really, when for a different reason it was the rain. on this occasion, tim henman against greg rusedski henman against greg rusedski henman talks about he henman talks about it now. he still about what, 22 henman talks about it now. he still later?)out what, 22 henman talks about it now. he still later? het what, 22 henman talks about it now. he still later? he saidrvhat, 22 henman talks about it now. he still later? he said that 22 henman talks about it now. he still later? he said that was years later? he said that was the time to win wimbledon and the time to win wimbledon and the rain break in that semi—final against goran ivanisevic when he was a ivanisevic when he was in a real, really commanding position, turned the and position, turned the tie and ivanisevic through to ivanisevic went through to a final patrick rafter, and final beat, patrick rafter, and won slam. won his only grand slam. so these things do matter. the whole point of roof over the whole point of the roof over the over the court was that could over the court was that we could play over the court was that we could play an play later, but this wasn't an issue of what went on inside the court. was about exiting court. it was about exiting dispersal on to the dispersal afterwards on to the streets of wimbledon. my own feeling, think ins feeling, i don't think the ins outs not been outs of it. i've not been i wasn't any council wasn't party to any council discussions was wasn't party to any council discusrwhen was wasn't party to any council discusrwhen the was wasn't party to any council discusrwhen the curfew was as wasn't party to any council discusrwhen the curfew was was made, when the curfew was was imposed. the all england

imposed. but at the all england club has there 100 club has been there over 100 years. has been going years. wimbledon has been going over local over 100 years. the local residents it's residents kind of know it's going it's going residents kind of know it's go be it's going residents kind of know it's go be not it's going residents kind of know it's go be not itgoing going residents kind of know it's go be not itgoing to ing residents kind of know it's go be not itgoing to be to be it's not even going to be two year. it's probably two weeks a year. it's probably only nights only two nights, two nights a yeah only two nights, two nights a year. it's a shame. >> and murray's already year. it's a shame. >> an(this murray's already year. it's a shame. >> an(this might ray's already year. it's a shame. >> an(this might be s already year. it's a shame. >> an(this might be s alfinal' saying this might be his final appearance saying this might be his final appwell,ce saying this might be his final appwell, yeah. i mean, >> well, yeah. i mean, we've heard a people heard we've heard a few people say past. and rafa say that in the past. and rafa nadal his last say that in the past. and rafa nadeas his last say that in the past. and rafa nadeas well. his last say that in the past. and rafa nadeas well. but his last say that in the past. and rafa nadeas well. but let'ss last say that in the past. and rafa nadeas well. but let's see ;t say that in the past. and rafa nadeas well. but let's see if year as well. but let's see if the effects, the after effects of defeat, you know, feels of defeat, you know, he feels defeat much defeat very badly, as much as badly as he did 15 badly now, he says as he did 15 years but but years ago. but but but basically, yeah , i think it's basically, yeah, i think it's a good chance we may have seen him for on the on for the last time on the on the on the grass. >> okay. well, that'd be a shame. magee. don't shame. aidan magee. we don't have about have enough time to talk about the ashes. we'll. let's do that in thank very in another time. thank you very much on gb news. much forjoining us on gb news. you're watching and listening to me. martin daubney. lots more coming show. me. martin daubney. lots more comfirst, show. me. martin daubney. lots more comfirst, let's show. me. martin daubney. lots more comfirst, let's take show. me. martin daubney. lots more comfirst, let's take a show. me. martin daubney. lots more comfirst, let's take a lookshow. but first, let's take a look at the with greg. the weather with greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxed suella proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. hello there. on. gb news. hello there. >> i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather

forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of this weekend, though be weekend, though there will be some if not hot spells of some warm if not hot spells of sunshine between . and looking sunshine in between. and looking at bigger picture, low at the bigger picture, low pressure the pressure sits to the west of the uk. it's drawing in that and uk. it's drawing in that hot and humid the humid air from the near continent allowing shower continent, allowing those shower clouds with clouds to develop with thunderstorms, some localised disruption possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is possible, but then clearer skies follow behind. most places dry to end the night. temperatures though, quite uncomfortable for sleeping , particularly in the sleeping, particularly in the east. 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum . a little fresher across minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a minimum. a little fresher across the west. so a bright minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a bright start for the west. so a bright start for many, though. rain still clearing northern scotland. and another area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery as well, pushes another area of heavy rain, perh south—eastry as well, pushes another area of heavy rain, perhsouth—east england. , pushes another area of heavy rain, perh south—east england. andishes into south—east england. and then generally for most it's a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers most frequent across western parts of the uk, particularly northern

ireland, wales, the midlands, south west england. some thunderstorms here, thunderstorms developing here, hail, gusty some hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. so do take care . and so do take care. and temperatures on the warm side but a little lower than saturday and those thundery showers continue to push north through the evening. so we could see some localised disruption before these and ease away as we these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies. but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales. a little cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and rain. so it means a sunny start to monday . rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of us, though, we have rain clearing though, we do have rain clearing northern again. northern scotland once again. and then further showery rain starting push in from the starting to push in from the west as we move through the day and more unsettled . and it turns more unsettled. tuesday wednesday. heavy and tuesday and wednesday. heavy and thundery temperatures thundery showers. temperatures starting fresher . starting to feel fresher. >> a brighter outlook with boxed solar proud sponsors of weather

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channel >> hello and welcome to gb news saturday. i'm martin daubney for and the next two hours i'll be keeping you company on your tv, onune keeping you company on your tv, online and on your digital radio. coming up in this next hour, radio. coming up in this next hour , the chancellor has hour, the chancellor has admitted he has ruled out admitted that he has ruled out any big tax cuts before the next general election. and admits that halving inflation is proving harder than expected . proving harder than expected. and so is this the last nail in the coffin for the tories then? laws which allow banks to close customers accounts over their political views are expected to be ditched by the government. it's been reported by the likes of jeremy hunt and kemi badenoch . they are looking into changing that law. is this a victory for

free speech? and earlier this month we heard that the government hit its manifesto, targets of recruiting 20,000 police officers in england and wales. but now at least 2000 cops in england and wales could be sacked in a new vetting revamp across the country . but revamp across the country. but first, it's your news headlines with rory smith . with rory smith. >> thank you very much , martin. >> thank you very much, martin. the prime minister rishi sunak, has made clear that britain discourages the use of cluster munitions after the us president agreed to send them to ukraine. rishi sunak says the uk is one of 123 signatories of a convention banning their use, and britain is instead supporting kyiv by providing tanks and long—range weapons. joe biden stands by his decision to send the controversial ammunition after human rights groups criticised the move .

groups criticised the move. defence editor of the evening standard , robert fox, told gb standard, robert fox, told gb news the decision is an indication of how the country is faring in the war against russia i >> -- >> they're running out of artillery, ammunition and that's what they've got now. the americans can't keep up with the supply requirements of the more advanced conventional artillery and the same is true for the most of europe . what they have most of europe. what they have got lots and lots of hundreds of thousands of rounds is the cluster munitions , the real cluster munitions, the real shock for the west is that they haven't prepared for this kind of thing at all. they're running out of stuff and that will come up at the nato summit next week in vilnius . in vilnius. >> meanwhile, ukraine's president , >> meanwhile, ukraine's president, vladimir >> meanwhile, ukraine's president , vladimir zelenskyy, president, vladimir zelenskyy, has visited snake island to mark 500 days of war. the area in the black sea was retaken by ukrainian armed forces a year ago. mr zelenskyy is now in istanbul holding talks of turkey's president erdogan in

his first visit to the country since the start of the conflict . two protests against housing asylum seekers in dorset are taking place. stand up to racism , dorset and the no to the barge group are opposed to the plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at portland port . it's barge at portland port. it's understood the bibby stockholm barge could arrive this week . barge could arrive this week. well, it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. it comes as 686 people crossed the channel yesterday, the highest daily number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000. and the bbc is reportedly investigating a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures . as it's alleged. the pictures. as it's alleged. the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun saying the images with the sun saying the young person was 17 years old. the newspaper says the

teen's family complained to the broadcaster in may. well, in a statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information that comes to light . the family of an eight year old girl who was killed in south—west london have described her as intelligent and cheeky . her as intelligent and cheeky. seuna her as intelligent and cheeky. selina lo died after a land rover crashed into a prep school in wimbledon on thursday . in wimbledon on thursday. another eight year old girl is in a life threatening condition and a woman in her 40s remains in a critical condition. the 46 year old female driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been bailed pending further inquiry. his the chancellor admits that huffing inflation is proving harder than expected. jeremy hunt says the tories pledge of inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year . inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year. it's going to be more challenging than first thought. mr hunt also says tax

cuts can't be introduced if it makes the battle against inflation more difficult . inflation more difficult. inflation remains at 8.7, but the prime minister says the government is working to bring that figure down. >> i know, of course that the biggest challenge households face right now is with the cost of living. >> that's why it's so important that do bring inflation that we do bring inflation down. it's people it's what's making people poorer. the money in poorer. it's eating the money in their their their pockets, eroding their savings and that doesn't mean it's always easy. i want to be honest with people. tackling inflation, halving inflation means difficult means making difficult decisions, they're the right decisions, but they're the right long term decisions for the country because ultimately, if long term decisions for the coudon'tiecause ultimately, if long term decisions for the coudon't doruse ultimately, if long term decisions for the coudon't do that,|ltimately, if long term decisions for the coudon't do that, itimately, if long term decisions for the coudon't do that, it willaly, if long term decisions for the coudon't do that, it will justf we don't do that, it will just make the situation worse. and it will longer. that's not will last for longer. that's not going anyone good . going to do anyone any good. >> this afternoon, the government released an online video in a bid to stop fly—tipping . the tweet from the fly—tipping. the tweet from the official page for the prime minister, rishi sunak reads , minister, rishi sunak reads, game over for fly tippers as

beggar on the spot. fines for litter, graffiti and fly—tipping are now enforced as part of a crackdown on anti—social crackdown on anti —social behaviour crackdown on anti—social behaviour . crackdown on anti—social behaviour. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, we'll bring you more as it happens . now, though, back to we'll bring you more as it happens. now, though, back to . martin thank you very much. >> roy, doesn't that fly—tipping video looks silly. anyway, let's get stuck into today's top get stuck now into today's top hot the chancellor has hot topics. the chancellor has admitted that he has ruled out any big tax cuts before the next general election and admits that halving inflation is proving harder than expected. jeremy hunt says the tories pledge of inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year is going more of the year is going to be more challenging than first thought. mr hunt also said the government cannot bring in tax cuts if it makes the battle against inflation more difficult. well, joining me now to discuss this is gb news senior political

commentator nigel nelson. nigel, hello to you again. so we were promised the tories, the party of low tax. that's always been one of their manifesto pledges . one of their manifesto pledges. yet we find ourselves in the highest taxation environment since world war two. soaring inflation. it feels like we've voted for the tories and got corbyn and now no plans at all to cut tax. this is going to be electoral sewer side for the conservatives, isn't it ? conservatives, isn't it? >> well, it's certainly not going help them very much as going to help them very much as far as the election is concerned . you're absolutely . and you're absolutely right, martin, conservative . and you're absolutely right, martin, alwayszonservative . and you're absolutely right, martin, always claimedtive . and you're absolutely right, martin, always claimed toe . and you're absolutely right, martin, always claimed to be party has always claimed to be the low tax party, and indeed, as it's proved, proved to be over the last sort of 40, 50 years. but i mean, the problem is that inflation is our worst economic problem at the moment, and you have to control it. the only way of doing that is to basically take money out of the economy. hence why the bank of england keeps raising interest

rates. if you put money back in by giving people tax cuts, that would only make inflation worse i >> another thing that's come forward , he's asking companies forward, he's asking companies have a moral duty to hold down prices. well, they're companies . they don't have a duty to keep inflation down. and again, it sounds like more corbyn omics. >> well, i mean, the problem there is that we've got a very labour market. >> what has been happening is employers have needed to pay an awful lot more to get the stuff they need. so you're talking about between 6 and 8% more than than they would have done, say, last year to actually do that . last year to actually do that. as a result, that has an inflation pressure because they then put the cost of that onto prices. but again , if you've got prices. but again, if you've got if you've got a tight labour market, the only thing you could do to ease that would be to

increase immigration and bring increase immigration and bring in foreign workers who employers only have to have to pay 20% less than british workers as we're now. >> another thing that's sure to send inflation spiralling is pay rises. nigel and we find out today that five of big hitters in the tory cabinet are backing the 6% public sector pay rises. that's gillian keegan, an education stephen barclay in health. ben wallace defence. alex chalk in justice and suella braverman. the real big hitter basically saying let's get £5 billion out of the kitty to pay pubuc billion out of the kitty to pay public sector workers more for labour party pledges. by the sounds of it. more to the point, nigel, where the hell is £5 million going to come through ? million going to come through? come through? when we were sick, £2.6 trillion in national debt . £2.6 trillion in national debt. >> well, that's a problem . i >> well, that's a problem. i mean the only way you can get that kind of money really is from borrowing . and again, one from borrowing. and again, one of one of rishi sunak five key pledges is to bring debt down.

so they don't want to do that. you can't blame the ministers in question for wanting more money. money, though . i mean, this is money, though. i mean, this is always the constant conflict between the treasury and the spending ministers. if you're someone like steve barclay at health, you're looking at doctor strikes and the only way you can avoid that and keep keep to trying to get nhs waiting list down is by paying the doctors more money. so he needs more money. the danger, of course, is if they do pay, pay this money out and 5 billion is about the cost of it that would mean major cuts in public service to fund it . so in a sense that that it. so in a sense that that you're between a rock and a hard place, whatever you do . place, whatever you do. >> okay. and £5 billion is a lot of money to try and find and it's going to dismay tories. there's a poll today's there's a poll out in today's express. nigel well, it shows that only one third of 2016 leavers will vote conservative at the next election. when it

comes to the 2019 tory vote, 44% feel completely abandoned by the party. more grim reading for rishi sunak yeah, mean at the moment that labour have increased their lead again , so increased their lead again, so they're now sort of 26 points ahead and we're certainly in landslide territory . landslide territory. >> and i think what's going to happen as we get nearer the election is the polls will close. there won't be anything like like when we get like like this when we get around voting probably around to voting and probably the best kind of indication we have of an election result was the local elections in may. and of course, had that been been a general election , we'd have been general election, we'd have been looking at a hung parliament. so probably the best that rishi sunak can hope for is a minority, a minority government of his own . of his own. >> okay. and keir starmer has done another u—turn this this week . nigel done another u—turn this this week. nigel this time on ulez. yes, indeed. yeah >> i mean, where he's got back

to is he's talking about about the fact that the problem that that sadiq khan faces is has a legal obligation to get air quality down in london. now he doesn't have to do ulez to do it. that's not part of the deal . but he's chosen that way. he and of course, when boris johnson introduced it, it does seem to work that you're you're talking about emissions going down by half in central london. and the idea is to extend that to outer london. problem you face, of course, is the count is the border it and the fact that some people live in those counties but work in london and would face the £12.50 ulez charge . charge. >> okay. nigel nelson, thank you for joining us on the show again forjoining us on the show again today and on that issue of ulez, we mentioned that danny beales, the candidate the labour candidate in the uxbndge the labour candidate in the uxbridge by—election, spoken uxbridge by—election, has spoken out against sadiq khan's ulez expansion. the other candidates for the major parties are steve tuckwell . he's the tory tuckwell. he's the tory candidate and he's a&e ulez

blaise bakhmut , who is the blaise bakhmut, who is the liberal democrat candidate . and liberal democrat candidate. and they're calling for more mitigation measures such as the scrappage scheme , to go hand in scrappage scheme, to go hand in hand with ulez expansion . and hand with ulez expansion. and sarah green the green party sarah green is the green party candidate . the party candidate. the green party is pro ulez of the candidates standing in that by—election are laurence fox running for the reclaim party? cameron bell independent count binface of the count binface party. pierce corbyn let london live . steve corbyn let london live. steve gardiner, social democratic party ed gemmell, climate party . kingsley hamilton independent richard hewison rejoin eu howling hope official monster raving loony party 77. joseph independent rebecca jane ukip enem nent christian alliance's people party and leo farage and independent ont okay gb views and listeners have probably already heard that of the farage banking fiasco. my gb news colleague nigel farage says he's now been denied accounts by nine separate banks . but now laws

separate banks. but now laws which allow banks to close customers accounts over their political views are expected to be ditched by the government . be ditched by the government. it's been reported that the likes of jeremy hunt and kemi badenoch are looking into changing the law, which we only adopted as an eu regulation from when we were a member of the union . but joining me now is union. but joining me now is former adviser to the bank of england, roger gill, with the chief economic adviser to the centre for economic and business research , vicky pryce, and research, vicky pryce, and the director for the academy of ideas , baroness claire fox . ideas, baroness claire fox. let's start with you. if we if we could, roger. so a huge amount of scrutiny over people's political affiliations, having their bank accounts closed down. how do we get ourselves into this mess ? this mess? >> well, i think it's a box ticking mentality , obe. i mean, ticking mentality, obe. i mean, i'm getting bombarded with tweets and other messages about conspiracy theories and banks controlling our lives. i don't think that that's it. i think we

have a law here and it's not really so much brexit versus, you know, remain versus leave or eu . we had our we had our own eu. we had our we had our own version of the law beforehand. it allows us banks and other institutions options to deal differently with people who are on this pep this politically exposed persons list and think many the banks have got a real problem with crime , with fraud, problem with crime, with fraud, with customers being hacked , and with customers being hacked, and they have to be very careful and i think many bank employees simply take the easy way out and say, well , if someone's on one say, well, if someone's on one of we're going of these lists, we're not going to deal with them. that's where the lies, i think the problem lies, i think not with and so much with the banks and not so much with the banks and not so much with legislation . it's the with the legislation. it's the application how they're doing application of how they're doing it. not only banks , but i'm i'm it. not only banks, but i'm i'm coming across people involved in business transactions where large law firms , for example, large law firms, for example, find their name on this list and kill the whole transaction and walk away. my feeling is that what should be done is the legislation, the new law should

say that they have to provide an explanation and that will at least make them look into the situation rather than just ticks the tick the box. i think that's the tick the box. i think that's the answer. >> yeah. vicky and we're also seeing it's not just people such as nigel farage public figures who are having their accounts closed, kind of pressure closed, but kind of pressure groups. one called our truth. there of they question there are kind of they question the of the trans ideology. the idea of the trans ideology. they've got 2000 members, their account was closed and there's a talk about stonewall being involved and all this because stonewall, part of their inclusivity and diversity plan, the banks are signing up for this seems to be evidence that stonewall politics is affecting the type of customers who are being kicked out. is there any merit that ? merit in that? >> i wouldn't so. i mean, >> i wouldn't think so. i mean, given that we already have a few examples of people who have absolutely to do with absolutely nothing to do with either or anything either stonewall or anything that sort of preach, if you that they sort of preach, if you like , it suggests to me that like, it suggests to me that it's a wider issue. and it's one really when you look at the law, it's not just here and of course, talked about the eu,

course, we talked about the eu, but the banks but also looked at the us. banks can close anyone's account and they do in the us as well, without necessarily giving an explanation. that's where i agree we agree with roger that perhaps we need of an need a little bit more of an explanation why this is explanation of why this is happening. are happening. but there are all sorts why they sorts of reasons why they could do it's first all, if you do it. it's first of all, if you don't account enough, don't use your account enough, if in case of if you don't, in the case of possibly a lot about possibly so we know a lot about now, if you don't have enough money in there. so if your account is a little bit inactive, if they're worried perhaps some transactions perhaps about some transactions that and that are happening and the concern of illegal concern about sort of illegal transfers of money. so there is that well. and it's always transfers of money. so there is that difficult and it's always transfers of money. so there is that difficult fori it's always transfers of money. so there is that difficult for anyone nays transfers of money. so there is that difficult for anyone who very difficult for anyone who said that experience from everything that i've read to really understand exactly why it is in their case that they have had that account closed. but it isn't question uk isn't just a question of the uk or it is pretty or the eu. it is pretty widespread and think banks widespread and i think banks doing have to doing it because they have to comply of comply with a number of regulations , particularly in regulations, particularly in terms money laundering. and terms of money laundering. and of course we that uk of course we know that the uk still has the reputation of being centre money being the centre for money laundering. tries to laundering. anyone who tries to open though, will open an account, though, will find incredibly find that it's incredibly difficult one at all.

difficult to open one at all. and yet there reputation in the uk is still pretty pretty strong in that way. okay >> baroness claire fox, i'd like to bring you in now. i understand that you one understand that you had one of your bank accounts closed for the reason as nigel the precise same reason as nigel farage. did they give you any explanation or idea as to why that happened ? that happened? >> well, actually, that's the whole point that roger has made , which is that myself and hennk , which is that myself and henrik nielsen , when we were henrik nielsen, when we were meps, we set up because we were goody two shoes, a bank account , so that all of the money that we got was transparent. we wanted to have a separate bank account and because the eu, as you know , give a lot of money you know, give a lot of money out for all sorts of things, there was a reasonable amount of money and we were using money in there and we were using it to fund the local office in stockport and to put on a conference in stockport about when we'd left the eu to be accountable and out of nowhere, metro bank just closed the bank account down and we didn't know why. we asked, we why. and when we asked, we weren't told in fact, they were rather rude . henrik got a letter

rather rude. henrik got a letter with no explanation. we didn't think it was political. i want to stress at the time, and we just didn't understand what had happened. just didn't understand what had happened . and i know that there happened. and i know that there are other meps who face the same. and if i could just clarify something because i actually put in a number of amendments on this very issue to the finance services bill when it passing through the it was passing through the lords. there are two different things. it's like a perfect storm. there's politically storm. there's the politically exposed person on bit the peps, which which effectively means bank accounts are closed down with the inference somehow, which is why it's embarrassing that maybe you're involved in money laundering or you're doing something you're not something dodgy and you're not told . but there's another told why. but there's another new on the block, which is new kid on the block, which is that a lot of banks have changed new kid on the block, which is that itermsf banks have changed new kid on the block, which is that terms and 1ks have changed new kid on the block, which is that terms and conditionsianged new kid on the block, which is that terms and conditions and ed their terms and conditions and they all have these value statements now which say that if you disagree with the values of the bank , they can close your the bank, they can close your account and that's where some of the more contentious issues around identity politics, such as our duty being refused a bank

account or that vicar with yorkshire bank who basically said four days after he complained about them being involved in pride after 70 years, he got his bank closed down. i think it's the combination of those two things not related , which means that not related, which means that i disagree slightly with roger. i do think that the law has to be changed. you've been having a campaign on a cashless society. i mean, you just cannot survive without a bank account as a citizen in the uk, you can't do it. so if your bank accounts are closed down, you're absolutely scuppered. and that's very dangerous. and it's not just, well known. pepys people in the pubuc well known. pepys people in the public eye, it could be anyone . public eye, it could be anyone. and i just think that we need to ensure that it's seen as a vital service. they can't close down your gas because of your views or because you're politically exposed and they shouldn't be able if you're, you know, to close down your bank account in the . the same way. >> okay. roger, can i return to you it just to you now because it just seems to be bitter indeed , that

be a bitter irony indeed, that the got nigel farage the rule that got nigel farage closed eu law . can closed down is an eu law. can you explain to us the difference between the definition of a politically exposed person in a domestic sense and in the european union's take on that? and why that's become a particular problem for people like nigel and people like claire fox yeah, well, the european, the eu definition is stricter than ours , but i think stricter than ours, but i think there's some red herrings here. >> i don't think it's the fact that the eu law, which we're still stuck with because the government has not swept away all these 4000 laws they were meant to do. i don't think that's the answer . and i'm not that's the answer. and i'm not playing leave or remain here. i'm just saying that isn't the factor . and i also don't think factor. and i also don't think it's the money i have been dealt with. people who are writing to me saying things like i have been accused customer for 28 years. i have never ever and i don't now have £1 million in the bank account and nigel being

refused as he related by nine other banks, they clearly don't have every one of them. £1 million. so i think it is the pepp million. so i think it is the pepp thing and i don't think it's the eu version or our version. i think it's the banks being careful and not having enough controls on people in the bank who are saying, enough controls on people in the bank who are saying , oh, well, bank who are saying, oh, well, it's just too much trouble to deal with. tick, let's kick this guy out of this lady out and some other people who are taking advantage of the situation saying , well, i don't like this saying, well, i don't like this person's polish ticks, whatever they are, left, right , centre, they are, left, right, centre, etcetera. so i'm going to tick the box because who's going to tell me what for? because there's rules about it. there's no rules about it. that's what needs to be stopped. >> yeah. vicky, that's a that's a great point. come on to you again now, because justin trudeau, of froze out trudeau, of course, froze out the who protested the truckers who protested against him over vaccine mandates, the ability to switch off somebody money makes you debunked . it makes you debunked. it makes you a non—person. do you think this is the beginning of a concerning trend , particularly as we move trend, particularly as we move towards a more digital currency?

there is an ability just to switch people off and make them financial non people . and people financial non people. and people are to think this are starting to think that this is motivated . is politically motivated. >> well, it is a problem that so many people have caused. now as we know, there's been this latest charity review of people's finances, and it seems that 13 million individuals now find it hard to pay their bills, basically cannot pay their bills. and that's a problem . and bills. and that's a problem. and many of them, of course, would be unbanked or falling be unbanked or are falling into overdraft difficulties . and the overdraft difficulties. and the question banks question is, what will the banks do to and do agree do to them? and i do agree entirely needs to have entirely that one needs to have an you the an account and you raise the issue of a cashless society. the move away from cash is an issue you know, we are saying that banks are doing certain amount banks are doing a certain amount of about of decision making about individuals who they consider perhaps a bit dangerous , but at perhaps a bit dangerous, but at the they're closing the same time, they're closing bank they're taking the same time, they're closing bank atms. they're taking the same time, they're closing bank atms. i they're taking the same time, they're closing bank atms. i knowey're taking the same time, they're closing bank atms. i know that taking the same time, they're closing bank atms. i know that the ng away atms. i know that the financial markets and financial services and markets bill has now reintroduced a law which makes or at least introduced a law which has been signed that at least there have to be atms

on every high street. and if the banks all disappear, has banks all disappear, there has to combined service that is to be a combined service that is given to people. this move to digital particularly , digital currency, particularly, is worrying for those who are unbanked and find very, unbanked and b find it very, very difficult to live without cash. >> okay, claire fox, final word to you briefly, if we how to you briefly, if we could. how concerned are you about the march of power and control the banks have and in particular, their ability to cancel people they just don't agree with ? they just don't agree with? >> well, of course, you know, banks are very important . banks are very important. they're very powerful organisations. they're very powerful organisations . we were all any organisations. we were all any of us care about is, is that they're not politicised and they don't behave in such a risk averse way that actually ordinary people can't access their services . and i think that their services. and i think that we do live in a climate of cancel culture where it's become acceptable with out explanation to just simply say you are no longer somebody we will do business with and we've seen it in relation to a wide range of

corporations. but when the bank, you know, it's one thing the head of wick saying if you don't accept gender pronouns or you won't go along with gender ideology, don't use our stores. but when a bank has the power to close you down, that's very dangerous. i'm glad the government has taken it seriously. by the way , although seriously. by the way, although i'm nervous because i was i'm a bit nervous because i was reassured the minister when reassured by the minister when i put my amendments in that they were they were looking were on this, they were looking at weren't going to at it and they weren't going to let happen. what? let it happen. and guess what? they and they did absolutely nothing. and it's nigel farage it's taken the nigel farage issue to bring it to our attention. again so we can have this sensible conversation this more sensible conversation action. roger's we action. but roger's right. we don't need any big conspiracy theories to explain this. what we need is a sensible we do need is a sensible intervention. but it's no wonder that there's conspiracy theories when no one will tell you why things happening and no one things are happening and no one will solve it. >> excellent debate. roger >> an excellent debate. roger gilroy, and baroness gilroy, vicky pryce and baroness claire thank you for claire fox, thank you for joining on gb news. joining us today on gb news. okay, let's move on now . you're okay, let's move on now. you're watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney. there's lots more to come today's show . at

come yet on today's show. at least 2000 police in england and wales could be sacked. and i'll tell you why. shortly but first, let's take a look at weather let's take a look at the weather with greg. >> a brighter outlook with boxed solar. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of weekend, for the rest of this weekend, though will be some warm though there will be some warm if spells of sunshine in if not hot spells of sunshine in between. and looking at the bigger pressure bigger picture, low pressure sits of uk. it's sits to the west of the uk. it's drawing and humid drawing in that hot and humid air from the continent, air from the near continent, allowing shower clouds to allowing those shower clouds to develop . some develop thunderstorms. some localised disruption possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is possible, but then clearer skies followed behind most places dry to end the night. temperatures,

though quite uncomfortable for sleeping, particularly in the east, 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum , a little fresher across minimum, a little fresher across the west . so a minimum, a little fresher across the west. so a bright minimum, a little fresher across the west . so a bright start for the west. so a bright start for many. the rain still clearing northern scotland and another area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery as well, pushes into south—east england. and then generally most it's a day of generally for most it's a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. most frequent showers. showers most frequent across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, wales, midlands, south—west wales, the midlands, south—west england. some thunderstorms developing here, hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. so do take care and temperatures on the warm side, but a little lower than saturday, those thundery showers continue to push north through the evening so we could see some localised disruption before these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies, but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales, a little cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and

rain . so it means a sunny start rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of us, though, have rain clearing though, we do have rain clearing northern again. northern scotland once again. and then further showery rain starting to push in from the west as move through the day west as we move through the day and turns more unsettled tuesday and turns more unsettled tuesday and a brighter and wednesday, a brighter outlook boxed solar proud outlook with boxed solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news sponsors of weather on. gb news and thank you for that, greg. >> there's loads more coming up yet on today's show, including police forces in england and wales have more to wales will have more power to sack who don't meet sack officers who don't meet their standards. but will this do anything to improve public trust in the police? all of that and more to come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listening britain's listening to gb news, britain's news channel

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listening to gb news radio. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> it's 131. >> good afternoon. >> it's131. i'm rory smith in the gb newsroom . the prime the gb newsroom. the prime minister has made it clear that the uk discouraged the use of cluster munitions after the us president agreed to send them to ukraine. joe biden stands by his decision . thus, despite decision. thus, despite criticism from human rights groups, rishi sunak , who will be groups, rishi sunak, who will be meeting mr biden in london on monday ahead of the nato summit, says britain is supporting kyiv in other ways . in other ways. >> uk is signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use. we will continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion when we've done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long—range weapons, you know, and hopefully all countries can continue to support ukraine to protect its opposing plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at

portland port and dorset are taking place . taking place. >> it's understood the bibby stockholm barge could arrive this week. it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse . that's at 686 the public purse. that's at 686 people crossed the channel yesterday , the highest daily yesterday, the highest daily number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000. the bbc is reportedly investigating a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures. it's alleged the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun saying the young person was 17 years old. in a statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information that comes to light. that's it will act on any information that comes to light . that's the that comes to light. that's the latest. but you can't get more and all of those stories by visiting our website, gb news, acas . com nato. back to .

acas. com nato. back to. martin and thanks for that update , rory. >> welcome back to gb news saturday with me. martin daubney on your tv online and on your digital radio. well, as you've just heard in the bulletins, the bbc says it's taking all allegations very seriously, following reports that one of its presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures . the sun for explicit pictures. the sun newspaper reports the unnamed star has been accused of paying a teenager more than £35,000 in exchange for sexual material. the newspaper say the teen's family complained to the broadcast writer last month will join me now is gb news national reporter for theo chikomba. theo can you give us some detail on this story, please ? this story, please? >> yes, good afternoon to you. well what we understand at the moment is that bbc star presenter who's currently not on

air, is under an investigation for sending around £35,000 to a teenager from 2020. >> and this is something that they're investigating internally. neither the star nor the teenager or the young person hasn't been named at the moment . and according to the sun, this beganin . and according to the sun, this began in 2020. and we also understand that the family sent a complaint to the bbc on the 19th of may. this year. now, we understand that the bbc has responded to this, saying we treat any allegations very seriously and we have processes in place to proactively deal with them. and as part of that, if we receive any information that requires further investigation or examination, we will take steps to do this. and they go on to say that includes actively attempting to speak to those who have contacted us in order to seek further detail and understanding of this situation.

it's also worth mentioning that the mother of this alleged young person claims that her teenager used the cash to fund a drug addiction and blames the mystery presenter for destroying her son's life. the investigator an at the moment continues. but as you say , this this bbc presenter you say, this this bbc presenter or star is currently unnamed theo chikomba . theo chikomba. >> thank you for that update live from the bbc. we'll be getting in touch on a big topic of the day, and that's the portland barge protests happening as we speak. portland barge protests happening as we speak . jan says happening as we speak. jan says the protesters against the parking of migrants in their community should be getting together with other affected communities. hire buses and going to the gates of downing street, where they should demand that rishi sunak comes out to face them . great point, jan, face them. great point, jan, over to john, who says this is going to destroy a lot of tourism in seaside resorts and a lot of the seaside resorts are conservative mps. so watch them get wiped out at the next

election . john. that's a get wiped out at the next election .john. that's a great election. john. that's a great point. this certainly has a political fallout for a lot of people, feel abandoned, let down on the issue of taking back control of our borders . next control of our borders. next point from andy, who says, i live 30 miles away from portland this entire thing is a disaster waiting to happen. we haven't the infrastructure. andy when we spoke to protesters in portland earlier, they said precisely that 12,000 locals, a health service, a hospital already creaking at the seams, 500 military aged men dumped on the community. they simply can't cope. community. they simply can't cope . and what's interesting is cope. and what's interesting is that those people from the area who don't want anybody to come there the so—called there at all, and the so—called anti—racist who want them to come but just not come to britain, but just not to their they agree on this. their area, they agree on this. they that the local they agree that the local infrastructure simply cannot cope. infrastructure simply cannot cope . they've come together on cope. they've come together on that point . so keep your views that point. so keep your views coming in on that and any other topic discussing today, topic we're discussing today, subscribe youtube channel subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on twitter. we're of course, at gb news. you're

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radio. welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney on your tv, online and on your digital radio. >> well, earlier this month, we heard that the government hit its manifesto target of recruiting 20,000 more police officers in england and wales. but now at least 2000 cops in england and wales could be sacked in a new vetting revamp across the country . in light of across the country. in light of the wayne, cousins and david carrick scandals , police forces carrick scandals, police forces will be about to sack officers who fail to meet new policing

checks and regulations as well. join me now is former scotland yard detective peter bleksley. peter it's always a pleasure to have you on the show . can we have you on the show. can we start with the numbers ? so it's start with the numbers? so it's 500 currently suspended or inactive on the mat? they employ a quarter of the officers in england and wales, so therefore they're saying it's 2000 officers. what types of offences are we talking about? well >> well, some people that are suspended or on restricted duties, they're are two separate things. and on full pay, all of them, i hasten to add. so the wage bill for these officers who are ineffective, not doing anything is absolutely enormous . yes. some are very, very serious allegations, such as rape , serious assaults in rape, serious assaults in appropriate sexual relationships , possession of drugs, all manner of alleged wrongdoing. and of course , these and of course, these investigations need to be speedy . they need to be effective. and a lot of what suella braverman has been talking about recently is about streamlining the police discipline process so they can

get rid of these wrongs in a much more swift and effective way. now, a lot of people might say, peter, the obvious question for i apply to work for example, if i apply to work in son's i have to in my son's school, i have to have a full criminal background check and any those offences check and any of those offences would red flagged would have been red flagged and stopped getting inside a stopped me even getting inside a school as a volunteer. >> how the a police >> how the heck can a police officer with that kind of criminality make the grade criminality even make the grade in first place? in the first place? >> vetting and standards. the vetting of police officers coming into the various services throughout the years has fallen well short of what it should have been. and in fact, the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, has admitted this and it has created a signal nificant problem because they lowered the bar so low that people with inappropriate criminal convictions would joining the police, which is unthinkable . police, which is unthinkable. bull to an old school detective like me. anyone with a criminal record wouldn't get anywhere near the gates of hendon. training college years ago. but sadly, that's not been the case in recent times. >> so how do they get through

vetting? it this flagged >> so how do they get through vetti|basic it this flagged >> so how do they get through vetti|basic backgroundflagged >> so how do they get through vetti|basic background checkd >> so how do they get through vetti|basic background check ? on a basic background check? >> perfect question . it's been >> perfect question. it's been absolutely ludicrous that the standards have been lowered and the vetting has been so poor. for example, they've abandoned things like home visits, which were absolutely par for the course in the day when i joined. and that home visit was really important , and that home visit was really important, but it would be done by a local police officer, maybe a constable, a sergeant or an inspector, and they would go , inspector, and they would go, certainly when i had the local cop come and visit me and he was very engaging, conversation very engaging, very conversation able, and then made up some kind of excuse for me to go with him, to look at my bedroom. and of course, what's he looking at? he's looking to see what the posters are on the walls and all that things what that kind of things and what books propped up books i might have propped up next bed and then making next to my bed and then making a judgement call on whether he thinks i should have been appropriate join cops. appropriate to join the cops. >> so on the face of it, this seems like a great idea. it's a positive to help the positive initiative to help the police clean up their act. they're constantly being told

that not predators that they're not only predators and violent and criminals and violent rapists in the force, but also culturally , institutionally culturally, institutionally racist, homophobic . this is a racist, homophobic. this is a good idea. >> oh, undoubtedly . and i'm so >> oh, undoubtedly. and i'm so pleased for the good cops. that's who i'm pleased about because i would not work along side somebody who had a serious criminal conviction. what does it look like when you go to the old bailey and you get into the witness box? give your evidence only to be followed by another police officer whose first question from a smart defence barrister might be officer, do you have any criminal convictions? and the answer would then be yes, it could completely undermine a case apart from the fact that people with criminal convictions overwhelming plea, should not be police officers . police officers. >> it's that and also public trust . that is the >> it's that and also public trust. that is the thing we >> it's that and also public trust . that is the thing we talk trust. that is the thing we talk about all the time . peter, as a about all the time. peter, as a former cop, you must despair. the trust is so low. but the public trust is so low. but this kind of initiative to clean up the cops , it'd be a welcomed up the cops, it'd be a welcomed by the vast majority of people, particularly women who've been particularly women who've been

particularly beleaguered by these predators. yes these kind of predators. yes >> yes. but is a very long >> yes. but there is a very long way to go and a very difficult winding path for the police to negotiate until they win back pubuc negotiate until they win back public trust . and they've got to public trust. and they've got to earn that trust. by and large. what do they need to do? they need to remember the moderate majority. those people who had their houses burgled , who had their houses burgled, who had their houses burgled, who had their cars broken into, or stolen, who have their local neighbourhood blighted by a bit of graffiti . those people of graffiti. those people haven't had investigated in recent years, so they haven't engaged with local police. consequently the trust has imploded on that front as well. >> so peter, if we're clearing out 2000 what would you out 2000 wrongs, what would you like to see put in place ? what like to see put in place? what kind of people would you like to see to replace this see brought in to replace this tranche of wrongs? we talk a lot, don't we, about people with life experience , not just graduates. >> i have to say i think a better candidate would be attracted to the police if they got a reasonable pay offer . and got a reasonable pay offer. and i would like to see some of the pension conditions that were

bucha in recent times. i'd like to see those reinstated because, as i've often said to people only yesterday , in fact, a young only yesterday, in fact, a young person was talking to me about joining the police and i said two things. you won't get rich and you won't be popular, but in return you should get a decent salary and a decent pension so you can look back on your career of public service with some pride and some economic comfort i >> -- >> peter bleksley is always a great pleasure to have you on the show and i think the viewers out there will echo what i believe. we have more people like charge like you in charge than we wouldn't this mess the wouldn't be in this mess in the first coming first place. thanks for coming to moving on to to the show today. moving on to our now, more than £1 our next story now, more than £1 million has been raised after the wales in million has been raised after ticharity wales in million has been raised after ticharity polo alales in million has been raised after ticharity polo match in million has been raised after ticharity polo match this in million has been raised after ticharity polo match this week.1 a charity polo match this week. prince william scored two goals and was presented with a trophy by his wife, the princess of wales. our royal correspondent cameron walker has the details . cameron walker has the details. >> the prince of polo, wealthy donors and invited guests watched the future king

carefully control his horse, scoring two winning goals for his team. despite supporting his father in edinburgh on wednesday, the prince of wales is back here in windsor, raising money for charity . more than £1 money for charity. more than £1 million has been raised for organisations as close to the prince and princess of wales. nine charities will share the fortune between them. louise ellis from baby basics, which supports new mothers and families, explained how the money will help events like this help us to actually not just manage day to day, but to manage the day to day, but to plan and think about the future. >> for us, we want to develop >> so for us, we want to develop and charity. and and grow as a charity. and that's terms of that's not just in terms of growing the number of senators that but we that we have, but how do we future resource and future proof and resource and equip meet the equip ourselves to meet the changing of those families changing needs of those families across uk ? across the uk? >> the princess of wales champions importance of champions the importance of early development and early childhood development and launched shaping us campaign launched her shaping us campaign earlier year. her royal earlier this year. her royal highness watched her husband from sidelines as as from the sidelines as as a former air ambulance pilot, prince william wanted to support wales air ambulance, the charity's boss, sue barnes,

explains the prince's connection, which is paul coyte , is one of our own. >> so he is a hems pilot. he flew many missions for our colleagues in east anglia and so it's fantastic to have a royal patron who truly understands the work that we do . work that we do. >> since the prince first played in the royal charity polo cup in 2006, over £11 million has been raised for charity . thursdays raised for charity. thursdays match has taken the total to 12 million a cheer when william and kate kissed on the field, the princess presented william with a trophy along side other players from the winning team , players from the winning team, but with an extra million pounds raised for charity, it appears that there are many more winners . cameron walker gb news windsor. we've been getting in touch on a big topic of the day and that's elocution lessons. >> keir starmer's manifesto pledge. anthony says the following. well, a great idea. let's start with angela rayner . let's start with angela rayner. anthony, i think you've nailed it. i mean tory scum, she's

hardly one for great elocution or fondness of phrase, is she ? or fondness of phrase, is she? andy, however, says the following i was brought up rough and ready on an estate in barnsley. the best education and confidence building experience i ever had. and do you know what, andy? i echo that. and i was saying earlier, what i don't want is to churn out identikit people voices. people with the same voices. didn't that in the 40s and didn't we do that in the 40s and 50s? i love regional dialects. i think say it as you see it and not be afraid to speak from your local dialect. next point from james, who says speaking well isn't enough. however, many class barriers still exist. that's a great point . if we can that's a great point. if we can change the way that we speak , change the way that we speak, but will we change the way that we're welcomed? we're perceived and welcomed? still, in britain, still, not snobbery in britain, especially against the white working classes. keep your views coming in. subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on twitter. course , at gb twitter. we're, of course, at gb news. moving on to our next story, the white house says president joe biden will travel to london this monday and will meet him with the king and prime

minister rishi sunak, during his visit, but the trip become visit, but has the trip become sour already ? well, the sour already? well, the president is pushing for eu chief ursula von der leyen to be installed as the next nato secretary—general after blocking the uk candidate ben wallace as well. is this a harmless push for stronger europe in defiance of russia or another shame loss snub by sleepy joe? well, joining me now to discuss this is the chair of the republican overseas, greg swenson . greg, overseas, greg swenson. greg, it's always a pleasure to see you.so it's always a pleasure to see you. so sunak sunak is going to be taking biden on board. and it's nice of biden to come over to visit charles. he actually snubbed the coronation can we expect anything of substance out of this or is it just another fleeting photo call? >> i think it's more of a photo op. >> i wouldn't expect much of it. i definitely manage expectations on this thing. and as we have discussed before, president biden is no friend of the uk. that's for sure. so maybe he's doing this to kiss and make up

and maybe, you know, to catch up on on or overcome some of the mistakes he's made , you know, mistakes he's made, you know, like the coronation, like getting involved in liz truss's mini—budget and criticising it like supporting ireland at all all costs over any interests of the uk . so this there's some the uk. so this there's some history here and it goes way back. yeah >> and the particular issue of ursula von der layer and the european commission commissioner, president, she's been very outspoken about her desire for a european army in the chair. i was there , i heard the chair. i was there, i heard her maiden speech. she made a direct pledge for this, an eu army as a kind of cut price nato is this a worrying thing for britain to see nato uk after all, is the second biggest financial contributor to nato, but this feels like sleepy joe is going for more of a glow novelist with eu power base for nato. >> without a doubt . and it goes >> without a doubt. and it goes back to the obama administration with the criticism of brexit and the uk will be in the back of

the uk will be in the back of the queue. well now we really are the of the queue are in the back of the queue here uk that's it's here in the uk and that's it's not good for uk. obviously not good for the uk. obviously having a globalist, having someone who's failed her way up the ladder , you know, a complete the ladder, you know, a complete failure as defence minister, why would want someone who's not would you want someone who's not served military but also served in the military but also failed as the defence minister, as the head of nato? it's because biden is so, so convinced that the eu and multilateral organisations are good. he's clearly a globalist. he has very little regard for the uk and it's also bad for america. >> nigel farage has been saying that he he's always felt that biden has never liked the uk. he's right. he's always been biased against us. it was disrespect full to miss the coronation will this repair those kind of damages or is it a fleeting photo call on his way to a un convention? >> look, if he tries , then good >> look, if he tries, then good for him. i don't think it will repair it. i think he's been somewhat flippant about about prime minister sunak. he didn't get his name right at one of

their meetings. he has very little regard for the uk and he's obsessed and loves globalists and loves the eu. so this is bad for the uk and as i said, bad for america in the long run. >> and he called in rashid sunak, i believe it's a chinook helicopter and he called him mr president. so i guess he gave him a bit of a promotion . him a bit of a promotion. >> he's not it doesn't really know his history. you think someone that's obsessed with identity politics would get someone, a name? correct. if someone, get a name? correct. if it's minority , because it's an ethnic minority, because that's he really cares about that's all he really cares about is identity politics. and that's why in other reason, he's endorsing ursula, because she's a and dr. jill is a woman and dr. jill is supposedly friends with with ursula. you know , this is just ursula. you know, this is just another moment where he's choosing someone based their choosing someone based on their race or their gender race or their or their gender for i'm afraid we have to leave it there. >> we could talk. good to talk to you, martin. thank you. you're watching or listening to gb saturday with me. martin gb news saturday with me. martin daubney has loads more coming up yet first, yet on today's show. but first, let's at weather let's take a look at the weather with greg. >> that warm feeling inside from

boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of this weekend, though there will be some warm if of sunshine in if not hot spells of sunshine in between. and looking at the bigger low pressure bigger picture, low pressure sits to the west of the is sits to the west of the uk is drawing that humid drawing in that hot and humid air continent, air from the near continent, allowing shower clouds to allowing those shower clouds to develop. some develop. thunderstorms some localised disruption possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is possible, but then clearer skies follow behind. most places dry to end the night. follow behind. most places dry to end the night . temperatures, to end the night. temperatures, though, quite uncomfortable for sleeping, particularly in the east. 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum . a little fresher across minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a minimum. a little fresher across the west. so a bright minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a bright start for the west. so a bright start for many, though. rain still clearing northern scotland. and

another of heavy rain, another area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery as well, pushes into south—east england. and then for most it's then generally for most it's a day spells and day of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers most frequent across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, wales, the midlands, south england. some south west england. some thunderstorms developing here, hail, winds, some hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. so take care . and so do take care. and temperatures on the warm side , temperatures on the warm side, but a little than but a little lower than saturday. those thundery showers continue to push north through the evening so we could see some localised disruption before these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again , for many it will be a dry again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies, but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales. a little cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and rain. means a sunny start rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of us, though , we have clearing though, we do have rain clearing northern scotland again. northern scotland once again. and showery rain and then further showery rain starting to push in from the west as we move through the day

and turns more unsettled . and it turns more unsettled. tuesday wednesday. and tuesday and wednesday. heavy and thundery showers. temperatures starting fresher . starting to feel fresher. >> that warm feeling inside from boxed boilers . proud sponsors of boxed boilers. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> and that was greg dewhurst . >> and that was greg dewhurst. thank you very much for that update, greg. loads more coming yet on the show this afternoon with the never ending interest rate rises. i'll be asking what the economic chaos means for your mortgage farage all of that to come. i'm martin daubney and you're listening to you're watching and listening to gb news .

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saturday. i'm martin daubney. for the next three hours, i'll be giving you company on tv, online, and on your digital radio. coming up this final houn radio. coming up this final hour, no big tax cuts before the next election. as the chancellor admits, halving inflation is proving harder than he expected. but is this the last nail in the coffin for the tories ? anger in coffin for the tories? anger in portland over plans to house asylum seekers on their doorstep. it's the barge really the best way to tackle the migrants housing crisis and the bbc licence fee is regressive. well, that's the verdict from former chairman richard sharp, who says that richer people should pay more. or does he have a point? the first is the news headunes a point? the first is the news headlines with rory smith . headlines with rory smith. >> thank you very much, martin. the prime minister has made it clear that britain discouraged the use of cluster munitions after the us president agreed to send them to ukraine. joe biden

stands by his decision and asked, despite criticism from human rights groups, rishi sunak , who will be meeting mr biden in london on monday ahead of the nato summit , says britain is nato summit, says britain is supporting kyiv in other ways. uk is signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourage their use. >> we will continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion . we've done that by invasion. we've done that by providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long—range weapons and hopefully all countries can continue to support ukraine. >> meanwhile, ukraine's president, vladimir zelenskyy, has visited snake island to mark 500 days of war for the area in the black sea was retaken by the ukrainian armed forces a year ago . mr zelenskyy is now in ago. mr zelenskyy is now in istanbul holding talks with turkey's president erdogan in his first visit to the country since the start of the conflict

. two protests against housing asylum seekers in dorset are taking place. stand up to racism. dorset and the no to the barge group are opposed to the plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at portland port. it's understood that the bibby stockholm barge could arrive as early as this week . arrive as early as this week. it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. that's at 686 people crossed the channel yesterday , crossed the channel yesterday, the highest daily number this yean the highest daily number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000. the bbc is reportedly investing dating a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures. it's alleged the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun saying the young person was 17 years old. the newspaper says the teen's family complained to

the teen's family complained to the broadcaster in may. in a statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information that comes to light. the family of an eight year old girl who was killed in south—west london have described her as intelligent and cheeky. seuna her as intelligent and cheeky. selina lough died after a land rover crashed into a prep school in wimbledon on thursday . in wimbledon on thursday. another eight year old girl is in a life threatening condition and a woman in her 40s remains in a critical condition. the 46 year old female driver arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving has been bailed pending further enquiries . the chancellor admits that huffing inflation is proving harder than expected. jeremy hunt says the tories pledge of inflation reaching 5% by the end of the year is going to be more challenging than first thought. mr hunt also says tax cuts can't be introduced if it makes a

battle against inflation more difficult . but inflation remains difficult. but inflation remains . at 8.7% and the government has released an online video in a bid to stop fly—tipping . the bid to stop fly—tipping. the tweet from the official page for prime minister rishi sunak reads game over for flytippers . bigger game over for flytippers. bigger on the spot fines for litter, graffiti and fly—tipping are now in force as part of a crackdown on anti—social behaviour as gb news will bring you more as it happens. now though, back to . martin well , thank you very much, rory, well, thank you very much, rory, for that update. >> let's get stuck now into today's big topic. >> let's get stuck now into today's big topic . the today's big topic. the government's woes show no signs of easing the chancellor has

ruled out any big tax cuts before the next general election and admits that halving inflation is proving harder than expected . jeremy hunt conceded expected. jeremy hunt conceded he can't bring in tax cuts if it makes a battle against inflation more difficult . but the prime more difficult. but the prime minister says the government is being forced to take difficult decisions . decisions. >> as i of course that the >> as i know of course that the biggest challenge households face now is with cost face right now is with the cost of living. that's why it's so important that we do bring inflation down. it's what's making people poorer. it's eating the money in their pockets, their savings, pockets, eroding their savings, and doesn't mean it's and that doesn't mean it's always easy. know i want to be honest with people tackling inflation halving inflation inflation or halving inflation means making difficult decisions, but they're the right long decisions long term decisions for the country ultimately , if country because ultimately, if we don't do that, it will just make worse and it make the situation worse and it will for longer. not will last for longer. that's not going good an going to do anyone any good an inflation isn't rishi sunak only concern . concern. >> he's also under pressure from his cabinet colleagues to increase public sector pay. well, joining me now is gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson . so nigel, the

nigel nelson. so nigel, the conservative party, the so—called party of small tax, we have the highest tax regime since world war two. we have clamours for public sector pay increases. do we think we got a tory party at the last election or did we end up with jeremy corbyn in power? >> well, i mean, i think that we have to rule out tax cuts. >> whoever is in power. i mean, the problem is that we've hit a perfect storm when it comes with inflation. so it's partly to do with the war in ukraine, partly to do with the disruption in supply lines following covid. so those are all the difficulties that any government will face. so i don't think you'll get tax cuts in a labour government or or a tory one, but no , everyone or a tory one, but no, everyone likes lower taxes . the tories likes lower taxes. the tories normally promise it this time. they're not going to be able to that sunak made to the cost of living inflation controlling borders. >> he's disastrously failed on all five. i mean there's no

wonder that the poll in today's express yes nigel is saying that only a third of 2016 leavers will vote tory at the next general election. 44% of the 2019 tories feel completely abandoned by the conservative party. here's the party uttering its death rattle, isn't it ? its death rattle, isn't it? >> i think that's where we are at the moment, yes. i mean with labour sort of 26 points ahead in the polls, it's hard to see how the tories can catch up between now and the next election, but never say never in politics and i'm sure rishi sunakis politics and i'm sure rishi sunak is an optimist about this, but yes, i mean, it's five pledges are a bit of a hostage to fortune that he probably will bnng to fortune that he probably will bring an waiting list down a bit. he probably will be able to reduce government debt all being well. we might have a bit of economic growth. but when it comes down to halving inflation and stopping the boats, it doesn't look like he's going to meet those two. >> so he doesn't answer those pubuc >> so he doesn't answer those public pay rises. don't

public sector pay rises. don't forget , that's what's causing forget, that's what's causing spiralling inflation more money in people's pockets. so it just seems to me i'm no economist, but clearly neither are they, because rises , as because giving 6% pay rises, as gillian keegan backs is in education. steve barclay in health, ben wallace in defence , health, ben wallace in defence, alex chalk in justice and suella braverman the big beast, the home secretary wants it as well. this has just got a £5 billion we've got to find to even fund this per annum where the heck are we going to find £5 billion from nigel when we're 2.6 trillion in national debt ? right. >> well, the only the options are borrowing more or cutting pubuc are borrowing more or cutting public services . and that's the public services. and that's the kind of problems that rishi sunak faces. these are all spending. minister knows that they're facing strike action within their own sectors. so obviously what they want to do is get some more money. now bear in mind that the kind of increase that we're talking about are around 6, 6.5% for

teachers. now that is below the rate of inflation. so it shouldn't be too inflationary . shouldn't be too inflationary. and also, you can point out to pensioners who've had a 10% rise thanks to the triple lock. so on the basis of that, when it comes to fairness, you'd think that pubuc to fairness, you'd think that public sector workers, given their own pay review bodies, are recommending this should actually get the money. >> yeah, it'd be nice as well if any of them believed in brexit. we're having a debate on that right after this. but finally, somebody has had a bit a somebody else has had a bit of a nightmare week. friend nightmare this week. your friend keir starmer done another u—turn, ulez . u—turn, this time on ulez. >> yes. mean where he's got to is actually where he should have beenin is actually where he should have been in the first place, which is that ulez is there because sadiq khan has an obligation, a legal obligation on to improve air quality in london so that is where keir starmer says , says we where keir starmer says, says we ought to be the problem. obviously is, is what happens when you extend it to people in

neighbouring counties who don't vote for the mayor. so they've had no say in ulez. vote for the mayor. so they've had no say in ulez . they're not had no say in ulez. they're not part of the scrappage scheme which is worth £110 million, but needs to be extended. now so to actually help them out . so actually help them out. so understandably, they're angry about it. but if you want to improve air quality , you really improve air quality, you really are going to need to bring in ulez. well another day, another u—turn. >> we've seen similar u—turns on brexit that the guy who championed the people's vote suddenly has missed the let's get brexit done on gender identity, he changed his mind when it went down like a cup of cold sick in scotland, didn't he? mind on that. he? he changed his mind on that. and seen also on net and now we've seen also on net zero done a u—turn on the zero he's done a u—turn on the scottish drilling sites because guess what? they quite like to be scotland . all i be wealthier in scotland. all i would you, nigel, just to would say to you, nigel, just to conclude on this, will the real keir starmer please stand up? i think nobody knows what think nobody really knows what he . he stands for. >> well, there's constant >> well, there's a constant complaint and i think that might have a year ago. >> but labour have come out with a whole load of policies .

>> but labour have come out with a whole load of policies. in the interim, one of problems is interim, one of the problems is the nicking them. so the tories keep nicking them. so one of the things that labour would have done was to would have done was was to double say medical school places to £15,000. oh, guess what? stephen barclay has just gone and done that. so every time labour comes up with a policy , labour comes up with a policy, the government tries grab it the government tries to grab it . so you can understand why they want things want to keep a few things under wraps election manifesto. >> okay. nigel nelson, thank you for joining us. i think a lot of forjoining us. i think a lot of people out there might be thinking choice between people out there might be thinkin and choice between people out there might be thinkin and the vice between people out there might be thinkin and the toriesetween people out there might be thinkin and the toriesetw�*the labour and the tories at the moment want moment feels like, do you want to do you want to be to be hung or do you want to be shot? move quickly to shot? let's move on quickly to our big debate of the day. the prime been warned our big debate of the day. the prime bigging been warned our big debate of the day. the prime bigging up been warned our big debate of the day. the prime bigging up the n warned our big debate of the day. the prime bigging up the benefitsi to start bigging up the benefits of brexit finally, or face a near at the next near wipe—out at the next general election. according to reports, desperate tory mps say sunak has to move off the gloom and doom agendas pushed by the remainers in westminster utter. well, joining me now is former brexit party mep ben habib and former editor of labourlist peter edwards. ben, i'm going to start with you as somebody who

sat suffice your career to go to brussels to try and get brexit done. we're hearing now there's a revolt amongst the blue collar conservative as they don't believe sunak has got any real faith in brexit. would you agree ? >> sunak is 7— >> sunak is not ? >> sunak is not a 7 >> sunak is not a conservative. >> sunak is not a conservative. >> he's not a brexiteer and he's most certainly not a unionist. >> sunak is the antithesis of the prime minister we'd want in office trying to deliver a bold , independent, nimble, nimble trading nation that the united kingdom needs to be. >> he's the man is ideologically devoid . he's committed to gut devoid. he's committed to gut churning through independent bodies which are unaccountable through supranational institutions, which again, take away, you know , take away, take away, you know, take away, take away, you know, take away, take away the voice of the people. no sunakis away the voice of the people. no sunak is not a brexiteer by any stretch whatsoever . so just to stretch whatsoever. so just to give you some examples , he give you some examples, he promised that within 100 days of taking over as prime minister, he would have ejected 40,800 eu

regulations . remember, these are regulations. remember, these are eu regulations , actions made by eu regulations, actions made by brussels and adopted verbatim without any debate in parliament. in our statute books. he's he's u—turned on that completely. he said he'd sought out northern ireland the border down the irish sea. well today thank fully at last people are beginning to realise that his so—called windsor framework which he purported to be this fantasy solution, is actually nothing more than cementing in the partition between great britain and northern ireland. what kind of prime minister partitions the united kingdom and tells the people that actually he's brought the united kingdom together? that is the most monstrous lie than any that any leader could could promote against the interests of the united kingdom . absolutely united kingdom. absolutely abominable. nor an ireland has been left behind in the eu, subject to foreign laws made by a foreign legislature and enforced by a foreign court. a foreign legislature and enforced by a foreign court . and enforced by a foreign court. and then sunak on top of that . you then sunak on top of that. you touched on it with nigel nelson .sunak touched on it with nigel nelson

. sunak presided as chancellor over the biggest explosion in national debt in history. sunak preside over the creation of these high taxes that you said. martin that the highest since world war two. and he wants us to trust him with fixing the economy and, by the way, cutting taxes is a prerequisite to fixing the economy. we're not going to get out of this hole by ever decreasing circles of wealth. we need the economy be growing. and the only way to do it is to cut taxes so sunak doesn't understand basic conservative principles . he's conservative principles. he's done everything he can to frustrate brexit, and he most certainly is not a unionist. the man is in the wrong party. he should either cross the floor, join the labour party, which nigel kind of suggested he's trying by nicking the trying to do by nicking all the policies comes up policies that labour comes up with. isn't that with. i mean, isn't that hilarious? conservatives hilarious? the conservatives being of nicking being accused of nicking labour's policies . you've just labour's policies. you've just got two sides of the two cheeks of the same backside in office, haven't you? that's what you've got in westminster and no sunak fails on all counts. sunak got to go. and i think he will lose

his seat in the next election . his seat in the next election. >> apart from that, you're a huge fan the guy. peter. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring the guy. peter. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring yous guy. peter. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring you in.|y. peter. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring you in. so deter. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring you in. so no, r. >> apart from that, you're a huge bring you in. so no, no let's bring you in. so no, no love lost there from ben. but what about this notion of actually getting brexit then, or at least standing on a platform of it? we're hearing a revolt, particularly in the red wall. a lot of first timers from 2019 very, very fearful of losing their seat when they were looking , they felt down looking, they felt down the barrel terms. but this barrel of 2 or 3 terms. but this isn't necessarily going to go away keir starmer, is it? away for keir starmer, is it? i mean, we hinted there about what is he actually stand for on brexit, do you think that will still be an issue this still be an issue at this election or brexit election or is brexit yesterday's news? labour voters? >> i don't think it's yesterday's news, the brexit yesterday's news, but the brexit dream sour and ben is dream is going sour and ben is always very polite and reasonable me. but reasonable towards me. but i don't think his answer was entirely reasonable . entirely reasonable. >> and it's indicative really of how the brexit dream is how badly the brexit dream is going there are people going wrong. there are people like voted remain, but like me who voted remain, but accept result. accept the result. >> ben is a very intelligent person. >> he has a lot of stats at his fingertips, but ended a

fingertips, but he ended up in a place said sunak place where he said rishi sunak isn't although he isn't a brexiteer, although he voted for brexit, he called him a and then ended up making a liar and then ended up making jokes bottoms and buttocks a liar and then ended up making onbuttocks bottoms and buttocks a liar and then ended up making onbuttocks and oms and buttocks a liar and then ended up making onbuttocks and bottoms. buttocks or buttocks and bottoms. >> me, that's not really >> so to me, that's not really an defence of brexit an articulate defence of brexit on policy. >> and hold on, you didn't. you gave a long stint. so is it gave ben a long stint. so is it going to be an issue for labour? i think it will for everyone i think it will be for everyone because poorer , aren't we? >> we're all poorer. >> we're all poorer. >> except we're not. we're not. >> except we're not. we're not. >> poorer for. i >> we're not poorer for. i didn't interrupt, ben. we're all poorer. we'll poorer. and the obr said we'll be and that's just be 4% poorer. and that's just a fact by an independent forecast . better not an assertion, ben, thatis . better not an assertion, ben, that is utter nonsense . that is utter nonsense. >> the obr forecast in 2021, before we'd actually emerged properly from lockdown , that the properly from lockdown, that the economy would over time be 4% smaller. as a result of brexit. the only mechanism by which we can be poorer is if trade with the eu is damaged. can be poorer is if trade with the eu is damaged . and the eu is damaged. and thankfully we now have one year's worth of statistics . 2022 year's worth of statistics. 2022 outside lockdown ons post brexit

where we can measure our trade with the eu and guess what? exports to the eu were up from 300,000,000,000 in 2019 before we left to 340,000,000,000 in 2022. imports from the eu were up again to 432 billion, compared to about 400,000,000,000 in 2019, when the deficit that we ran with the eu inflation. >> it's the real terms flat, absolute flat . absolute flat. >> absolute. you said it, peter. real terms flat. in other words, brexit has made absolutely no difference to the economic trajectory of the united kingdom. it has not adversely affected it and you just admitted it and said it and this nonsense that brexit has damaged the british economy, that we're going to be 4% smaller as a result of brexit is, as i say, utter nonsense. the reason the british economy is suffering is because we have taxation. that's too high. we have government debt that's too high and we have a government that does not understand how grow the understand how to grow the economy. fundamental

economy. these are fundamental problems with governance. it's got to do with brexit. got nothing to do with brexit. peter well, i think getting furious not the answer, and furious is not the answer, and i'm like i'm not furious remainers like me be clear, i accept the me to be clear, i accept the result and i'm not pushing for another referendum, but remainers and people, remainers for me and people, whether they're friends or family or people the labour family or people in the labour party, feel the party, many of us feel the brexit only just getting brexit pain is only just getting started. . started. the pain. >> didn't interrupt ben. it's >> i didn't interrupt ben. it's going tell me what going to take ten. tell me what the pain is. >> the pain? >> peter, what's the pain? >> peter, what's the pain? >> said weren't >> ben you said you weren't furious, articulate pain. >> @ can't fin- @ saying there >> you can't keep saying there is actually is brexit pain and not actually say what? is brexit pain and not actually say stop:? is brexit pain and not actually say stop talking. you're a >> stop talking. you're doing a disservice to cause. okay, disservice to your cause. okay, so brexit remainers like me feel the brexit pain is only just beginning economic beginning and the economic deterioration. quite bad deterioration. it's quite bad now, but i feel it will get worse because of things like labour shortages . us tariffs labour shortages. us tariffs barrier ears, loss of r&d and innovation and so on and so on. >> one of the things that keir starmer has suggested to address those shortages those labour shortages and indeed a real indeed jeremy hunt is a real taxation of immigration . would taxation of immigration. would you like to see that? well excuse me, i don't think his election winner at all because

there's a clear public mood against freedom of movement . against freedom of movement. >> so i think it's just not tenable for anyone standing to >> so i think it's just not ter prime or anyone standing to >> so i think it's just not terprime minister; standing to >> so i think it's just not ter prime minister to landing to >> so i think it's just not ter prime minister to go ding to >> so i think it's just not terprime minister to go tog to be prime minister to go to campaign for downing street on the basis of restoring freedom of movement. okay >> we've got another debate, which i think ben obe is going to spit his weetabix out again. well i peter to well i think peter needs to explain how damaging explain how brexit is damaging the united kingdom. >> you didn't with >> you didn't come up with anything other repeatedly >> you didn't come up with any'that other repeatedly >> you didn't come up with any'that it's er repeatedly >> you didn't come up with any'that it's damaging)eatedly >> you didn't come up with any'that it's damaging the adly >> you didn't come up with any'that it's damaging the uk. say that it's damaging the uk. you can't actually join any dots. quite evidence statistic by you can't actually join any dots to evidence the damage and that's where the remain side is fundamentally flawed . and fundamentally flawed. and thankfully there's enough clear water now behind us so that those of us who voted for brexit can see that there's been no damage economy as a damage to the economy as a result of brexit. none >> if you richer, email gb >> if you feel richer, email gb news and tell us you're richer as result brexit. as a result of brexit. >> got nothing do with >> it's got nothing to do with brexit. years of lockdown, brexit. it's years of lockdown, years of borrowing, years of overtaxed ation. this has got nothing to do with brexit. >> okay, well, that's got this pair going and you can get in

touch. >> your views on brexit, of course, it's gbviews@gbnews.com a second debate. i'd like to move on to now please, gentlemen. and that's over the bbc licence fee that old chestnut because the former bbc chairman richard sharp thinks we should have a wealth related sliding scale licence fee. so if you're wealthier, you pay more . you're wealthier, you pay more. it's gone down terribly amongst a lot of people. what's your take on that? ben habib well, it's tenured is the only way i can describe it. >> the bbc used to be a first class public sector broadcaster on which we could rely for independence and unbiased reporting. it has become a voice box effectively for left wing socialist , but with the socialist, but with the exception of a few programmes, by the way, and there are few really good programmes that come out of the bbc, but generally it's become apologist for it's become an apologist for left wing politics and what it needs to do actually is have its

licence fee, abolish it and it needs to compete with the other channels like gb news and, and, and, and enter a level playing field for commerce. that's what it needs to do . it needs to do. >> so peter, should he go to the free market or do you like the idea of wealthier people paying more burden on more to relieve the burden on the i'm uncomfortable with the >> i'm uncomfortable with the idea of chipping away at universal benefits, and i disagree lot of what ben disagree with a lot of what ben said. in terms of the actual said. but in terms of the actual question, so is a proposal by richard former banker richard sharp, a former banker who stepped down and i think disgraced might be calling it too strong, but he certainly acted improperly terms his acted improperly in terms of his role in perceptions of conflict of interests around boris of interests around the boris johnson loan. let's get into johnson loan. let's not get into the that , but it's not the weeds of that, but it's not the weeds of that, but it's not the right proposal because coming from left, i'm coming from the left, i'm uncomfortable if you uncomfortable. if you start chipping at universal chipping away at universal benefits, sets a precedent benefits, that sets a precedent . and briefly, bear in mind there lot of people who there are a lot of people who might judged wealthy by their might be judged wealthy by their housing in their 80s housing assets, but in their 80s may have an extremely low income and live on their own . and live on their own. >> and what ben's >> and what about ben's allegation there of political

bias towards the liberal left? the remain side of the spectrum, something we hear a lot about and that's what certainly making and that's what certainly making a lot of conservatives , a lot of a lot of conservatives, a lot of brexiteers really question not only the value of giving more money bbc, but massive money to the bbc, but massive pay pay money to the bbc, but massive pay pay rises to people like gary lineker . gary lineker. >> well, there's a couple of different going different things going on. so personally, think anyone different things going on. so petheially, think anyone different things going on. so pethe bbc think anyone different things going on. so pethe bbc should think anyone different things going on. so pethe bbc should earn: anyone different things going on. so pethe bbc should earn moreyne different things going on. so pethe bbc should earn more than in the bbc should earn more than the which is a the prime minister, which is a little over 100 k. i just don't think it's necessary i don't think it's necessary and i don't think it's necessary and i don't think the bbc should think anyone at the bbc should earn a million pound plus some at think it is at all. i think it is indefensible and applies in indefensible and that applies in good times and bad because it's a broadcaster and it's a public broadcaster and it's our but don't see our service. but i don't see a bias at all. what we've got to be governments be clear is that governments always fall out of the bbc. tony blair, thatcher and the government but there's government of today. but there's a crying foul from the a separate crying foul from the brexit because they feel brexit riot because they feel they're treated but they're treated unfairly. but again, the brexit again, it's because the brexit dream is turning sour. okay there he again. there he goes again. >> tell me, give me one fact about brexit, which evidences your thesis that brexit is

turning sour, that it has damaged the country. give me one. just one fact. well, i'll give you two. >> i'll repeat the one i said earlier, which is the independent obr the economy independent obr said the economy will it's not independent obr said the economy willother it's not independent obr said the economy willother one. it's not independent obr said the economy willother one. but it's not independent obr said the economy willother one. but ben, it's not independent obr said the economy willother one. but ben, idon'tt the other one. but ben, i don't interrupt. detract interrupt. but ben, your detract by shrieking from the sidelines because disagrees with because someone disagrees with you. that from the you. that detracts from the cause you're trying to advance. >> you don't have >> no, you don't. you don't have to. you don't have to explain the debating me. the art of debating to me. peter, 110, the art of debating to me. peter, do, what peter, what you need to do, what you do is come with you need to do is come up with some facts, forecast by the some facts, a forecast by the obr. not going to stop obr. i'm not going to stop talking. by the obr talking. a forecast by the obr is fact. come up with is not a fact. come up with a fact. peter evidence . it's fact. peter evidence. it's something that eludes you. >> evidence . i think something that eludes you. >> evidence. i think i'm doing yourjob slightly you. you your job slightly for you. you should controlling ben. i'm should be controlling ben. i'm enjoying it. the enjoying going for it. the other. one, of course, other. the other one, of course, from recent years, know from very recent years, we know we've in several we've had shortages in several industries, around industries, particularly around hgv drivers, and that's been explicitly related to the flow of labour from mainland europe since 2016. >> okay . finally, ben, on the >> okay. finally, ben, on the bbc licensee, presumably i don't want to make presumptions about your income . you'd fall into your income. you'd fall into this bracket. how do you feel

about giving more money to lineker and co? about giving more money to lin well, if they did make it a progressively based fee , i would progressively based fee, i would simply cancel my, my tv licence. i'm on the verge of doing it anyway. i don't really watch the bbc much. i don't need it. >> okay. well, i think we're going have to call it there. gentlemen, lively debate. going have to call it there. gentleyou , lively debate. going have to call it there. gentleyou , for'ely debate. going have to call it there. gentleyou , for coming ate. going have to call it there. gentleyou , for coming in. i thank you both for coming in. i think nice and fair and balanced. that on balanced. we try and do that on bbc. peter and ben, thank you for joining us today gb forjoining us today on gb news. thank you. well, watching listening saturday thank you. well, watching liste|me, saturday thank you. well, watching liste|me, daubneerday thank you. well, watching liste|me, daubneerd loads with me, martin daubney is loads more on today's more yet to come on today's show. let's take a show. but first, let's take a look at the weather with greg dewhurst out that warm feeling inside from boxed boilers , proud inside from boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello there. >> hello there. >> i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of this weekend, though there be weekend, though there will be some not hot spells of some warm if not hot spells of sunshine between . and looking sunshine in between. and looking at bigger picture, low at the bigger picture, low pressure the pressure sits to the west of the uk. it's drawing in that hot and humid the near

humid air from the near continent, allowing those shower clouds thunderstorms clouds to develop. thunderstorms some localised disruption possible over the coming days . possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is possible but then clearer skies follow behind. most places dry to end the night . temperatures, though, the night. temperatures, though, quite uncomfortable for sleeping, particularly in the east. 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum . a little fresher across minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a minimum. a little fresher across the west. so a bright minimum. a little fresher across the west . so a bright start for the west. so a bright start for many, though. rain still clearing northern scotland and another area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery well pushes perhaps thundery as well, pushes into england. and into south—east england. and then generally for most it's a day sunny spells and day of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers most frequent across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, wales, the midlands, south . some south west england. some thunderstorms developing here, hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. so take care . and so do take care. and temperatures on the warm side , temperatures on the warm side, but a little lower than saturday and those thundery showers

continue to push north through the so we could see the evening. so we could see some disruption before some localised disruption before these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies. but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales. a little cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and rain. so it means a sunny start to monday . rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of us, though, we have clearing though, we do have rain clearing northern once again. northern scotland once again. and further showery rain and then further showery rain starting push in from the starting to push in from the west as we move through the day and turns more unsettled and it turns more unsettled tuesday and wednesday, heavy and thundery showers. temperatures starting to feel fresher . that starting to feel fresher. that warm feeling inside from boxed boilers . boilers. >> proud sponsors of weather on gb news news and thank you greg dewhurst. >> well, there's loads more coming up yet on today's show as anger builds among residents of portland ahead of the expected

arrival of bibby stockholm , arrival of the bibby stockholm, the barge will home hundreds of illegal immigrants. all of that and more to come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listening news britain's listening to gb news britain's news

radio. good afternoon. >> i'm rory smith in the gb newsroom . i'm the prime newsroom. i'm the prime minister. has made it clear that the uk discourage the use of cluster munitions after the us president agreed to send them to ukraine. joe biden stands by his decision . that's despite decision. that's despite criticism from human rights groups. rishi sunak who'll be meeting mr biden in london on monday ahead of the nato summit, says britain is supporting kyiv in other ways. >> uk is signatory to a convention which prohibits the production or use of cluster munitions and discourages their use . we will continue to do our use. we will continue to do our part to support ukraine against russia's illegal and unprovoked invasion. we've done that by

providing heavy battle tanks and most recently long—range weapons , and hopefully all countries can continue to support ukraine to protests , opposing plans to to protests, opposing plans to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at portland port in dorset are taking place. >> it's understood that the bibby stockholm barge could arrive as early as this week . arrive as early as this week. it's part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. that's at 686 people crossed the channel yesterday, the highest daily number this yean the highest daily number this year, bringing the total to more than 12,000 aid. the bbc is reportedly investigating a claim that one of its well known presenters paid a teenager for explicit pictures. it's alleged the man paid more than £35,000 for the images with the sun's saying the young person was 17 years old. in a statement, the bbc said it takes any allegations very seriously and it will act on any information

that comes to light. that's you up to date . that comes to light. that's you up to date. but that comes to light. that's you up to date . but you can get more up to date. but you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website. that is gb news .com nato. back to . news .com nato. back to. martin >> yeah, thanks for that, rory. welcome back to gb news saturday with me. martin daubney on your tv online and on your digital radio. now portland locals continue to voice their anger at a plan to house asylum seekers on their doorstep to protest are taking place on the same day right now as we speak, with residents fearing the conditions on the migrant barge are inadequate. one community group thinks the barge might have a negative impact on the local services. the bibby stockholm , services. the bibby stockholm, which will house 500 illegal immigrants, could arrive as early as this weekend. well, join me now is gb news, south—west of england , reporter

south—west of england, reporter jeff moody. jeff what's the latest on the ground and what's the mood among the locals ? the mood among the locals? >> well, the mood amongst the locals is angry, very angry . locals is angry, very angry. we're hearing that the barge is still in falmouth. it's not moved there and we're not quite sure when it'll be coming here. the home office say that it's imminent and that it will be coming any now. but not coming any day now. but it's not telling when. we telling us exactly when. what we do it's moved out do know is that it's moved out of dry dock that been of the dry dock that it's been in few weeks for in for the last few weeks for refurbishments. now in a refurbishments. it's now in a wet dock ready to make its journey, 100 nautical miles to here to portland port, where the welcome that it gets will not be particularly strong. i think it's fair to say that most people in portland don't want it here, but there are two very distinct reasons why not. and that has sparked these two big protest marches today. on the one hand, you've got the no to the barge campaign now. they've

been a very vociferous campaign, a very vocal campaign over recent weeks and months . their recent weeks and months. their main objections are, look , we main objections are, look, we don't know who these people are. 500 men without away from home. they're single men . and they we they're single men. and they we don't know anything about them. we don't know what they're fleeing from. we don't know who they are. and suddenly enforcing 500 men onto a very small community that isn't a diverse community that isn't a diverse community at all down here is something that is a recipe for disaster , they say they're also disaster, they say they're also very concerned about the stretch to local services . this whole to local services. this whole debate about refugees and asylum seekers is, of course coloured, isn't it , by the fact that the isn't it, by the fact that the cost of living crisis is going on and that people here are saying to me, look, i can't get a gp appointment, i can't get someone to i can't get a dentist . and yet these people that are going to arrive in the town very shortly are entitled to all

sorts of free services , sorts of free services, including health care . and a lot including health care. and a lot of people think that that's wrong. then there's the other side. then there's the stop the racism side. and they say that, you know , this is the problem. you know, this is the problem. the fact that some people are saying, oh, look, after our own first is inherently racist, that it is wrong to be saying, you know, singling out people and saying you're not welcome in our town. that's where racism begins. and that's the concern. you've got some people saying, oh, you lot of racist. they're saying we're not racist. we're just concerned about our communities . and then they're communities. and then they're saying, well, why are you concerned about your communities? you're concerned about your communities because there's going to be black people here. well, that's racist , here. well, that's racist, right? it's very highly right? so it's very highly charged at the moment. emotions are running very high and when the people in portland look at

what's happened in other places, it doesn't look good. you know , it doesn't look good. you know, newquay is an example where a whole town was pitted against each other very , very quickly each other very, very quickly with people on both sides of that argument. and it tore a community apart and the danger is it's going to do that here. but both sides neither side supports the barge coming here, but there's not much they can do about it. now now, the barge is definitely coming. it's now a case of how we handle it when it arrives . arrives. >> jeff moody, thank you for that. excellent summary. and just to have my two pennies worth, isn't it funny how neither wants the barge neither group wants the barge there? one group is calling the other one racist because they're worried about the strain on pubuc worried about the strain on public which is public services, which is perfectly justifiable. and yet they also they want the barge there because . cause it will there because. cause it will place strain on public place a strain on public services. just want it in services. they just want it in somebody else's constituency . to somebody else's constituency. to me, that reeks of hypocrisy . me, that reeks of hypocrisy. it's total nimbyism. you can't pick a side. you're either for

it. in your community or you're against it. that's just my opinion. let us know what you think it's certainly think about this. it's certainly got you going today and you've been on big topic been in touch on that big topic of portland barge. colin been in touch on that big topic of this rtland barge. colin been in touch on that big topic of this isand barge. colin been in touch on that big topic of this is sunakrge. colin been in touch on that big topic of this is sunak claims.in been in touch on that big topic of this is sunak claims these says this is sunak claims these barges are the cheapest way to save the taxpayer money as opposed to the millions it costs daily to house them in hotels. here's an idea, prime minister, get them stopped before they even enter uk waters. colin that's a great point. you know why? why kind of deal with this when it's on our shores ? well, when it's on our shores? well, we should doing many things. we should be doing many things. it's allowing them it's not allowing them to get here the place. they here in the first place. they are our are entering entering our country . next point to country illegally. next point to dave. says, we currently dave. dave says, we currently have five hotels. i repeat 5—5 hotels full of these economic migrants. our town and country is being destroyed . when will is being destroyed. when will someone put a stop to it? well, i'm afraid dave doesn't feel like that's going to happen any time soon. it feels like rishi has completely lost control of our borders something which our borders and something which may him in future may well haunt him in future elections . as patricia says, elections. as patricia says,

this , whoever wants to, whoever this, whoever wants to, whoever wants to go for a holiday where migrants are housed. i have voted conservative for many years and now i never will again. patricia it's a great point. there's a feeling that a lot of this is dumped on seaside communities where working class brits traditionally went on houday brits traditionally went on holiday and now the hotels , holiday and now the hotels, they're not available for you to book because they're full of asylum seekers . well, keep those asylum seekers. well, keep those views coming in. subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on twitter. we're, of course , at gb news. okay, there's loads more yet to come on today's show. not so good news for homeowners as house prices drop and mortgage rates double. we'll speak to a property expert that you're watching and listen to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney

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digital radio. well, if you're a home owner, you might want to look away now because uk house pnces look away now because uk house prices fell 2.6% in a year. the biggest drop since 2011, according to the banking group halifax . and to make matters halifax. and to make matters worse, to according the moneyfacts website, average mortgage rates have also doubled , with the mean two year fix now at 6.47, compared to only 3.25% this time last year. well, joining me now is landlord and property experts try and make some sense of this madness. richard blanco. hello to you, richard blanco. hello to you, richard . thanks for coming in. richard. thanks for coming in. so you've you've heard there that britain has been hardest hit in europe. there's some additional data on the uk's plummetted from from 26 to 40 seventh in the global rankings and is now only four places above ukraine, which, of course, is a war zone . what i want from is a war zone. what i want from you, richard, is some sense around this. what uniquely is happening in britain to cause this ? this? >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, there was a knight frank this that

frank report out this week that said that prices are rising by 3% or the rose by 3% in the first quarter in spain. >> and yet they've fallen by around here. the issue around about 3% here. the issue here is that, first of all, inflation you'll be used to this term is sticky. it's not coming down as quickly as the bank of england and economists had hoped . secondly, the fact that only 15% of people now are on are on variable rate mortgages and that would have been 70% of 20 years ago. so what's happening is the bank of england is kind of ratcheting up base rate, but it's taking longer to feed through . and i think what the through. and i think what the banks tried to do with the last half a% increase is kind of start to scare people into stopping their discretionary spending. for those who are lucky enough have it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciandiough have it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciand so gh have it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciand so is have it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciand so is the 1ave it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciand so is the inye it. yeah. spending. for those who are luciand so is the in simple ah. >> and so is the in simple terms, is this greatly increased price of borrowing , meaning price of borrowing, meaning people can't afford the house they'd have been able to six months ago, so therefore they have to downsize their expectations the cost of expectations because the cost of the loan is so and the loan is so much and therefore people sitting on therefore people are sitting on their are seeing a

their hands. we are seeing a huge in the cost of huge rise in the cost of mortgages. >> someone told me yesterday theirs gone up by 250% know theirs has gone up by 250% know they've just changed their fixed from 1.65 to 4.52. those sorts of huge leaps are quite typical . now. i think what we're seeing is people holding off on buying . instead of doing it now, they're going to wait for one yean they're going to wait for one year, maybe a couple of years , year, maybe a couple of years, when they that interest when they hope that interest rates to fall again. rates will start to fall again. and you know, there was something like 12% of extra cash around because of the lockdowns and covid that people had been saving then that there was they've been spending over the last months , i think, on last few months, i think, on discretionary and it's discretionary spending. and it's really of england really that the bank of england wants stem a homeowner said wants to stem a homeowner said to me yesterday that she's decided not to replace her bay windows, which were going to cost her about £8,000, i think , cost her about £8,000, i think, because she's she's worried about using up savings now and needsit about using up savings now and needs it for her increasing mortgage payments. i think that's the sort of behaviour that's the sort of behaviour that of england is that the bank of england is hoping us adopt and hoping the rest of us adopt and in terms of the people, the

customers you speak to, the tenants, the home owners, how angry are they with the bank of england for the feeling that inflation is like everything is more expensive and we're also getting caught in this dreadful pincer from the boe? pincer movement from the boe? >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> p i think people are more disillusioned and frustrated probably than angry . that's what probably than angry. that's what i pick up there is a sense that we're going to have a bad year for interest rates and mortgages are going to go up this year. we've got over million people we've got over a million people coming fixes coming out of short term fixes and you think two ago, and if you think two years ago, the average two year was the average two year fix was 1.4. so people are coming out of 1.4. so people are coming out of 1.4 into an environment where there are around 6.5. so people are frustrated . but what i would are frustrated. but what i would say is, hang on in there because are frustrated. but what i would saydo hang on in there because are frustrated. but what i would say do expect)n in there because are frustrated. but what i would say do expect ratesthere because are frustrated. but what i would say do expect rates to re because are frustrated. but what i would say do expect rates to start cause are frustrated. but what i would say do expect rates to start torse we do expect rates to start to fall in about a year to 18 months time. and hopefully when you go to fix next time , those you go to fix next time, those rates will come down and does that abundance of shorter term products help explain the kind of dichotomy that the uk is in?

>> because if more people are coming off lower price mortgages that are shorter, then more of them to the market them are coming to the market having that in having to pay more. so that in itself has a unique set of circumstances in the uk . mark it circumstances in the uk. mark it helps why we're being suppressed. >> the americans and >> it's true the americans and also europeans are often perplexed that we have such short term borrowing here because they will often have ten, 15, 20 year mortgage fixes. so that does protect them. and i think that's probably why we're seeing , think that's probably why we're seeing, along think that's probably why we're seeing , along with lower seeing, along with lower inflation in the eu, you know, less of an impact there . but, less of an impact there. but, you know, i would say don't be too alarmed if you're a homeowner, you know, hang on in there. and i think things will improve in the near future. >> richard, i always like to end on because we on a positive note because we know lot of homeowners on a positive note because we kno there, lot of homeowners on a positive note because we kno there, a lot of homeowners on a positive note because we kno there, a lot lot of homeowners on a positive note because we kno there, a lot of of homeowners on a positive note because we kno there, a lot of tenants, owners out there, a lot of tenants, a lot of landlords, bricks and lot of landlords, a bricks and mortar, solid investment. >> it is still a solid investment. absolutely. i mean , investment. absolutely. i mean, the prediction is that prices will between five and 12% will fall between five and 12% this year. the latest ones i saw from knight frank were 5% across

the uk . and that will mean the uk. and that will mean really that we'll just go back to the same prices that we had just before covid. so you know, we're not this isn't a huge slump or crash. it's a bit of a kind of readjustment really. >> but the your message to people out there in gb news land is keep calm and carry on. >> yes. more or less . but, you >> yes. more or less. but, you know, you've got some savings know, if you've got some savings , to them because you , hang on to them because you may for higher may well need them for higher mortgage payments. so. okay >> thank you for >> richard blanco, thank you for joining us today. and i think helping nation's . helping to soothe the nation's. brown okay. moving on, dup get in touch on a big topic of the day. banks . rory says if day. tax and banks. rory says if the government wants to reduce inflation, tell them to stop spending money on a wall and a green agenda destined to fail. remember, they caused the inflation, not not consumer spending. rory very , very well spending. rory very, very well switched on there. it's almost like printing. was it £895 billion during lockdown has had an inflationary effect as has have to spend money on cheap on expensive imported fuel rather

than going and digging and drilling for our own . eddie has drilling for our own. eddie has got the following point . it's got the following point. it's very lucky for these bankers who see themselves as the elite that we, the taxpayers, didn't hold their lack of morals and decency for their shameful 2008 bailouts. they must be broken up. i think it's fair to say , up. i think it's fair to say, eddie, that there's not a great deal of between you and the banks. but you're absolutely right. these crashes right. we've seen these crashes before , irresponsible spending right. we've seen these crashes befothen'responsible spending right. we've seen these crashes befothen we ponsible spending right. we've seen these crashes befothen we get;ible spending right. we've seen these crashes befothen we get to e spending right. we've seen these crashes befothen we get to pay ending right. we've seen these crashes befothen we get to pay the ng right. we've seen these crashes befothen we get to pay the same and then we get to pay the same with the bank of england. they blaming brexit. they're blaming covid, but never look in covid, but they never look in the mirror and say perhaps we shouldn't so the mirror and say perhaps we shoulrmoney so the mirror and say perhaps we shoulrmoney during so the mirror and say perhaps we shoulrmoney during spring so much money during spring lockdowns over to sammy now, who says this, though tax cuts due to hunt the remain still trying to hunt the remain still trying to make brexit look bad when it's going from strength to strength. no thanks to him . strength. no thanks to him. sammy kim brexiteer they're not happy with the chancellor jeremy hunt. we'll keep those views coming in and subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on twitter. we're, of course , at gb

twitter. we're, of course, at gb news. on to our next story now . news. on to our next story now. are we seeing the end of the humble train station ticket office in an effort to make to make railways more efficient and cost effective around 1000 ticket desks will be closed in a push to modernise the network. well, joining me now is the chair of the brentwood bus and rail users association, councillor david kendall. good afternoon to you, david. so we spoke about this earlier on gb news of course, is running out. don't kill cash campaign. this feeds directly into it. a lot of people, particularly the elderly and the vulnerable and the disabled, are feeling very exposed to their lack of knowledge or even their lack of access technology and closing access to technology and closing down railway stations is making them feel very anxious indeed . them feel very anxious indeed. >> yes , i think it's very >> yes, i think it's very concerning this consultation. >> it started on the 5th of july andifs >> it started on the 5th of july and it's due to end on the 26th of july. >> so that's only three weeks

long. and for those cynical members of the community, there's quite a few these days. the consultation is a complete sham . everyone is just expecting sham. everyone is just expecting it ticking a box and there expecting this to be implemented from december this year. >> okay. and what in particular are people saying to you about do they feel this is this is unfair? i mean, it's become a political issue, but actually , political issue, but actually, mr lynch has backed our campaign don't kill cash because it's not just a political thing. this is about helping people who are vulnerable to get around the country . country. >> yeah, it's about helping people get around the country. it's all about people's security. people do feel very concerned even now with ticket offices open about the lack of staff which are available at stations, particularly at night . and there's concern particularly for, you know, women who are on their own, who are travelling on their own and their safety . and many of them their safety. and many of them feel very vulnerable at the

moment. and i think if ticket offices closed as well, um , offices closed as well, um, there's a concern there's going to even less staff around the to be even less staff around the stations during the day and in the evening . um, greater anglia, the evening. um, greater anglia, which is the area which is which, which i'm in, is basically saying there will be additional mobile assistance teams to provide extra support , teams to provide extra support, but no one actually knows any detail as to what these teams consist of and how valuable they're actually be. so i think in our area we've got major concerns about ingatestone and shenfield, which have both been earmarked for closure . um, earmarked for closure. um, shenfield is the start of the elizabeth line in essex and we, you know, we're still waiting for major investment in shenfield station and that hasn't happened with crossrail . hasn't happened with crossrail. and now we're hearing that the ticket office is going to close. so it's sending all the wrong messages to people , to messages to people, to particularly people who are trying get more people trying to get more people back, using railways again after

using the railways again after the covid experience . the covid experience. >> david kendall, thank you very much for joining >> david kendall, thank you very much forjoining us on the show much for joining us on the show this afternoon. thank very this afternoon. thank you very much. from me. much. okay. that's it from me. but don't go anywhere. stay awake is up next. nana awake as nana is up next. nana is here. what's on your menu? >> of stuff. got >> oh, loads of stuff. we've got comedian coming comedian diane spencer coming in. talking in. we're going to be talking about things , looking about loads of things, looking at keir starmer and his rac. >> that's what he's saying. he wants spend money wants to spend money on, for goodness sake. >> think about >> you think you think about actually spending money on improving themselves ? >> 7- >> we're 7 >> we're looking at the itv trans mother. >> we're looking at the itv trans myouer. >> we're looking at the itv trans myou see her? >> did you see her? >> did you see her? >> a man who is i mean, sorry, a woman who. well, no, it's a man dressed as a woman a dressed as a woman who is a trans person. dressed as a woman who is a trans perzwoman claiming how >> trans woman claiming how difficult it is to be a single mother . mother. >> w- mother. >> there's images of >> and then there's images of him as well, which him breastfeeding as well, which we discussing and we will be discussing and talking about why itv talking about as to why itv decided to down that decided to go down that particular route use that particular route and use that individual who individual as somebody who represents . but i've represents all mothers. but i've got up. got loads coming up. >> a hugely divisive >> that's been a hugely divisive issue week, issue all week, that breastfeeding thing is chestfeeding was chestfeeding whatever. it was really really people going. really, really got people going. so response so i'm expecting a huge response on your show today. >> we'll see. hopefully >> well, we'll see. hopefully they hope. hopefully

>> well, we'll see. hopefully they enjoy1ope. hopefully >> well, we'll see. hopefully they enjoy itpe. hopefully >> well, we'll see. hopefully they enjoy it .a. hopefully you'll enjoy it. >> well, great. you've >> well, that's great. you've been listening been watching and listening to gb martin gb news today with me, martin dalby, so much for dalby, thank you so much for joining me. but don't go anywhere i said, anywhere because as i just said, nana first, nana is up next. but first, let's at the weather let's take a look at the weather with dewhurst . with greg dewhurst. >> temperatures rising, >> the temperatures rising, boxed solar , the proud sponsors boxed solar, the proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. i'm greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news news weather forecast. we've got heavy showers and thunderstorms in the forecast for the rest of this weekend, though there will be some not hot spells of some warm if not hot spells of sunshine between. and sunshine in between. and looking at picture, low at the bigger picture, low pressure sits to the west of the uk in that hot uk is drawing in that hot and humid air from the near continent, allowing shower continent, allowing those shower clouds develop. thunderstorms clouds to develop. thunderstorms some localised disruption possible over the coming days . possible over the coming days. looking at the rest of saturday, we can see those thundery showers pushing north across parts of england into scotland, merging to give some longer spells of heavy rain, some localised flooding is possible, but then clearer skies follow behind. most places dry to end

the night . temperatures, though the night. temperatures, though quite uncomfortable for sleeping, particularly in the east. 17 or 18 degrees as a minimum , a little fresher across minimum, a little fresher across the west . so a minimum, a little fresher across the west. so a bright minimum, a little fresher across the west . so a bright start for the west. so a bright start for many, though. rain still clearing northern scotland and another heavy rain, another area of heavy rain, perhaps thundery as well, pushes into south—east england. and then for most it's a then generally for most it's a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. showers most frequent western parts of frequent across western parts of the uk, particularly northern ireland, wales, the midlands, south england. some south west england. some thunderstorms developing here, hail, some hail, gusty winds, some localised flooding is possible. so take care . and so do take care. and temperatures on the warm side , temperatures on the warm side, but a little lower than saturday, those thundery showers continue to push north through the evening so we could see some localised disruption before these clear and ease away as we head into the early hours. so again , for many it will be a dry again, for many it will be a dry night with plenty of clear skies, but it will keep temperatures up despite this 14 or 15 degrees as a minimum temperature across parts of england and wales. a little

cooler across scotland where we have a little more cloud and rain. means a sunny start rain. so it means a sunny start to monday. for many of us, though, do rain clearing though, we do have rain clearing northern scotland once again. though, we do have rain clearing nortithen scotland once again. though, we do have rain clearing nortithen furtherj once again. though, we do have rain clearing nortithen further showeryjain. though, we do have rain clearing nortithen further showery rain and then further showery rain starting to push in from the west as we move through the day and turns more unsettled . and it turns more unsettled. tuesday wednesday. and tuesday and wednesday. heavy and thundery showers, temperatures starting feel fresher . the starting to feel fresher. the temperatures rising , a boxed temperatures rising, a boxed solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> in a world of dull and predictable radio and tv shows, oh , hi. oh, hi. >> on mark dolan tonight we've got big guests. >> we drill in to the big stories of the day . stories of the day. >> the show adds up to a brilliant listening and viewing experience marked dolan. >> tonight is the most entertaining current affairs show ever, and that's a fact. >> that's mark dolan tonight fridays from 8:00 saturday and sunday from 9:00 only on gb news choose the people's channel.

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