gb news. >> good morning. good morning to you. it's 930 on monday, the 17th of july. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so rishi sunak plans to cap the number of students taking degrees lead to degrees which don't lead to professional or have a high professional jobs or have a high dropout rate. pm says that young people the taxpayer are people and the taxpayer are being ripped off these being ripped off by these courses. more courses. do we need more tradespeople and perhaps to scrap some these mickey mouse scrap some of these mickey mouse degrees , as some of you might degrees, as some of you might have strong views as to whether they mouse degrees? they are mickey mouse degrees? >> now labour leader sir keir starmer, backlash within >> now labour leader sir keir sta own. backlash within >> now labour leader sir keir sta own party backlash within >> now labour leader sir keir sta own party over> now labour leader sir keir sta own party over hish within >> now labour leader sir keir sta own party over his refusal| his own party over his refusal to scrap the child benefit cap on if he becomes on two children if he becomes prime minister. it comes after his work and pensions secretary called policy genius and called the policy genius and vicious . and it was a mammoth vicious. and it was a mammoth wimbledon final world number one. >> carlos alcaraz defeated novak djokovic to claim the men's title , ushering in a new tennis title, ushering in a new tennis era. do you enjoy the match? let us know . well i did. us know. well i did. >> and queen camilla, she's 76

today, her first birthday since the coronation there's going to be a gun salute taking place in london to mark the occasion later . later. get involved this morning on email gb views at gb news. >> com as always. but first of all, here's the very latest news with tatiana sanchez . with tatiana sanchez. >> beth, thank you very much. and good morning. this is the latest from the gb news room. the prime minister will today launch a new plan to crack down on what he calls rip off degrees . rishi sunak has announced proposals to cap the number of students allowed to enrol in underperforming courses. writing in the telegraph , he says that in the telegraph, he says that young people are being saddled, saddled of thousands saddled with tens of thousands of pounds of debts and that some universities are selling them a

false dream .just universities are selling them a false dream . just 32 of false dream. just 32 of a promised 40 new hospitals will be completed by 2030. that's according to the spending watchdog. the government has pledge was first made by former prime minister boris johnson. now delays to the project means the targets, unlike to be met. critics say it's utterly and have accused the government of woeful progress . an woeful progress. an accommodation barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has left its berth in falmouth, cornwall and is expected to head to its destination in dorset. the bibby stockholm had been due in portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council . to people have died resistance from the local council. to people have died and a girl injured after an attack on the bridge linking russia to crimea . blasts were reported in crimea. blasts were reported in the early hours of this morning, with drivers stopping on the bndge with drivers stopping on the bridge and traffic halted . bridge and traffic halted. russian officials blame ukraine for what they're calling a

terrorist attack , but kyiv is terrorist attack, but kyiv is yet to officially comment. the kerch bridge links the crimean peninsula to russia's mainland. it's the second major incident on the bridge in the past year. and the queen will celebrate her first birthday since the coronation in london today to mark her 76th birthday. a 41 gun salute by the king's troop . salute by the king's troop. royal horse artillery battery will take place in green park at midday . you can get more on all midday. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com. now it's back to andrew and bev of . back to andrew and bev of. very good morning. >> thank you forjoining us. the prime minister is launching a new plan to crack down on what he calls rip off degrees with

proposals to cap the number of students to enrol students allowed to enrol in what would consider to be what he would consider to be underperforming courses . underperforming courses. >> so he's written about this in the daily telegraph today. and he says people are being he says young people are being saddled tens thousands saddled with tens of thousands of and some of pounds of debt and some universities the universities are selling the full stream. so is the taxpayer getting lot of debt too? full stream. so is the taxpayer get yeah, lot of debt too? full stream. so is the taxpayer get yeah, well,: debt too? full stream. so is the taxpayer get yeah, well, gb bt too? full stream. so is the taxpayer getyeah, well, gb news? full stream. so is the taxpayer getyeah, well, gb news is deputy >> yeah, well, gb news is deputy political harwood political editor. tom harwood joins now . so, tom, what how joins us now. so, tom, what how has this been received this morning by the press? as usual, very clever, rishi sunak when he announces these things, he gets announces these things, he gets a lot of front pages . a lot of front pages. >> he certainly does. but there are , of course, are differing are, of course, are differing views on differing sides. as with every issue, the proposals, for example , to cap the number for example, to cap the number of places on certain less economically productive courses has been described by the liberal democrats and the labour party as a cap on ambition . party as a cap on ambition. however, there are other individuals indeed papers and commentators who would point to

the long standing criticism that too many people in this country are going to university, that university isn't the right course for everyone and indeed, as the ifs has noted in recent years , 70,000 students a year years, 70,000 students a year who go to university would actually be better off net financially better off if they had chosen to not go to university. so there is a profound problem here. as the prime minister noted in his telegraph piece, this morning, there are 38 providers of higher education, 38 providers of university degrees , where more university degrees, where more than a quarter of students on some degrees drop out before they complete their studies. thatis they complete their studies. that is a fairly stark statistic , and that is one of the big reasons that along with the 70,000 students who would be better off not going to university as to why three big changes are being announced

today by the government, that cap that i already mentioned on the places on those courses that are less economically productive or that are seen to go on to get jobs that really don't have an income that would match up to the it being worthwhile spending tens of thousands of pounds on a university degree. but also more transparency in when people apply for these degrees so that students and or prospective students and or prospective students and or prospective students and indeed their parents could see the earnings potential of various degrees before they sign up to it. and finally , the final strength of finally, the final strength of the plank of this three strong proposal is that these foundation years that are only sort of classroom based would be slashed in terms of their cost to the consumer, to the students down from . £9,250 to around half down from. £9,250 to around half that, a little over £5,500. now

that, a little over £5,500. now that would , the government that would, the government believes, inaya encourage universities to not offer so many of these sort of cash cow foundation , seven year degrees . foundation, seven year degrees. >> all right. that's tom harwood , our political correspondent. we're delighted to have in the studio with us piers pottinger, who, like me, didn't go to university and very famous university and your very famous illustrious business partner, tom bell. lord bell, you ran bell pottinger, one of the most successful public affairs companies in the world. you didn't university either? didn't go to university either? >> neither of us did. >> no, neither of us did. i actually had a place to read classics at bristol university, but i decided to go to rome and try and work in the film business instead , which was business instead, which was perhaps rather silly . and in perhaps rather silly. and in retrospect, it was great fun. teenage dream, all it was really. yes. but i think one of the problems today is the quality of education offered by universities , and particularly universities, and particularly since the pandemic, a lot of

them have got lazy and are doing a lot of it online. someone described one course as the most expensive streaming service in the world. and i think also the pastoral care of students in terms of their mental health is extremely important and seems to be increasing ignored as well. and also a lot of the universities are falling behind in the league tables batus. i mean, american universities are very much the top now, whereas in the old days britain would be dominating . and i think it's the dominating. and i think it's the quality generally of the universities that rishi sunak is quite rightly in a roundabout way addressing because some of these courses are nothing more than money making machines . than money making machines. >> i was looking in 2019 on the university clearing service, ucas . there were 98 football ucas. there were 98 football related courses, 45 related to makeup and 19 golf related. what do you need to know about go to

university or to run a golf course? >> well, i mean, yes, it's extraordinary , isn't it? i mean, extraordinary, isn't it? i mean, there are i think there are quite a lot of courses in sports statistics . yeah, difficult to statistics. yeah, difficult to say. we're going to be talking paul coyte in a minute. >> he might have a different opinion on this, but i mean, it does seem slightly strange given that the debt the pupils get into huge debts and also, you know , the old apprentice scheme know, the old apprentice scheme for people who don't want to go to university is more or less dead. to university is more or less dead . but that was the david dead. but that was the david cameron initiative, wasn't it, piers? yes, because david cameron really wanted to bring back apprenticeships and it didn't work. it didn't. >> why it didn't work. >> why it didn't work. >> employers ? well, i think also >> employers? well, i think also a lot of major employers won't take people who don't have degrees in certain areas , areas. degrees in certain areas, areas. so people end up taking any degree in order to be treated as a graduate. and sometimes that

is counterproductive . is counterproductive. >> but is university just about coming out with a qualification which is going to put you into the professions, which is what rishi sunak is talking about? isn't university also about absolutely working hard but also playing hard? yes living independently, budgeting , not independently, budgeting, not being lonely. i worry about a generation of teens who will never have that camaraderie of the university experience. what are they going to do? live in their mum dad's spare room? their mum and dad's spare room? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> years. >> ten years. >> ten years. >> more with >> i couldn't agree more with you.the >> i couldn't agree more with you. the general university life and care . it's not and pastoral care. it's not anything like it used to be. for example, i was thinking on the way here, the footlights review at cambridge university used to provide great artists. steve most of monty python , yeah. most of monty python, yeah. stephen fry dame emma thompson they all were in the footlights, but that was a long time ago and i'm struggling to think of who came out of the footlights in recent years. >> this is a sort of quite a decisive break from the blair

years, of course, because it was tony blair who went to oxford, of course. yes who argued that there be a minimum 50% or there should be a minimum 50% or more leaving school, going there should be a minimum 50% or m for people to think tony blair is whispering sweet nothings in his ear because tony blair, in my view, is still incredibly toxic , very incredibly toxic, very unpopular. nobody's ever going to what he did in iraq. to forget what he did in iraq. a war a lot of people think was

illegal. >> well, i think trevor kavner's got a very good piece in the sun today where he he compares starmer to kinnock, which i think is absolutely right. and kinnock, don't forget, was triumphant before his election defeat . and everyone thought defeat. and everyone thought everyone thought he was going to win. and in fact, major came back. john major came back with a huge, huge victory , one of the a huge, huge victory, one of the most staggering in modern times now is rishi capable of that? well you see, i think people trust rishi more than they trust starmer because starmer at the moment doesn't seem to stand for anything. he switches from one thing to the other. almost every five minutes. >> well, we saw yesterday >> well, we saw that yesterday when he will not remove when he said he will not remove the cap on child benefit on to kids. now that is a really important policy to labour backbenchers . his shadow work backbenchers. his shadow work and pensions secretary jonathan ashworth said last week . it's ashworth said last week. it's a heinous, vicious policy and there he is saying, well, it might be, but we're keeping it. >> the question is another >> but the question is another u—turn. the is will he

u—turn. the question is will he keep it again? he u—turns so much what's actually going to come to the fore if he has a huge majority, which he may well do, he go back to the do, will he go back to the extreme left policies which are in the manifesto ? well, it's not in the manifesto? well, it's not the manifesto. it's the policy handbook. if you read the policy handbook, it is completely at loggerheads with what starmer is saying. now so which is the real labour ? we don't know. labour? we don't know. >> and yet he's probably going to win three by elections in the same day. on thursday. it looks like there hasn't been a result of that for a governing party. i checked that was checked since 1968 and that was heath inflicting three defeats on two years later, went on wilson. two years later, went on wilson. two years later, went on to prime minister. on to be prime minister. >> well, selby, of course, is the because the most interesting one because it's biggest majority . and it's the biggest majority. and if was to lose that , i think if he was to lose that, i think that would be very worrying. there are 47 tory mps who are already saying they're standing down at the next election . ben down at the next election. ben wallace after this week, there may be many more because i'm

afraid they seem rather lily livered. they're not standing their ground, they're not fighting their corner . they're fighting their corner. they're basically giving up. and i think rishi has got to stop the rot and quickly, if he is going to pull a surprise win, he'll be very disappointed to have lost his defence secretary, who's standing down at the next election, albeit his constituency anyway. election, albeit his con ben ency anyway. election, albeit his con ben wallace anyway. election, albeit his con ben wallace but anyway. election, albeit his conben wallace but arwasy. >> ben wallace but he was a respected figure. he was a respected figure. he was a respected figure. he was a respected figure the longest serving minister, secretary of state defence. state for defence. >> i mean, what he achieved is questionable, not a great deal. if you look at the cuts in the army to smithereens and traditionally, of course it's a thankless as the secretary thankless task. as the secretary of defence, all he of state for defence, all he does the treasury who does is fight the treasury who are trying to cut the are always trying to cut the budgets of the defence and in the current world environment you'd think we'd want to strengthen our forces . and also strengthen our forces. and also it's a good tory vote. winner is to strengthen the defence and to be fair to wallace, he was respected, clearly a man of integrity . dodi who's

respected, clearly a man of integrity. dodi who's going to take over it? probably james cleverly. i think is the most likely in fact, in my experience, i used to advise by the biggest defence company in britain and in fact britain's biggest industrial company and the best defence secretary in my time was undoubtedly a labour defence secretary and that was john reid, who stood his ground for the forces was admired by them and actually stood up to them and actually stood up to the treasury in a way that very few defence secretaries of state are capable of. and sadly ben wallace is going out on a note where later on this week they produce a defence report which will show substantial cuts in our armed forces. >> very disappointing. >> very disappointing. >> thank you, pearce. we've got some breaking news, but it'd be nice response to it nice to get your response to it . gb news can confirm that the bbc stockholm barge, which will be used to house more than 500 asylum seekers, has left falmouth harbour in cornwall en

route to portland harbour in dorset . dorset. >> big story that the local tory mp very unhappy about this. we had him on this very station, but they've got to go somewhere and we've got to get them out of hotels they're costing hotels and they're costing millions. it's just millions. well, it's just indicative problem we've indicative of the problem we've got immigration and i'm got with immigration and i'm sorry to say , you know, i'm sure sorry to say, you know, i'm sure i can't imagine it's to going be much fun living on a barge. >> but, i mean, we have a very big problem. and as you said, andrew, they've got to be somewhere. >> yeah, his argument, the mp was it's a pretty tourist town. where are these migrants? they come off the barge wandering around . are they going to around. are they going to i mean, you can't assume they're bad. they're going to be antisocial . no, but he thought antisocial. no, but he thought it wasn't going to do much for the tourism industry. >> well, it might do . i >> well, it might not do. i think only wait and see. think we can only wait and see. you know, i think it's we are in a terrible mess with immigration policy because nothing the government wants to do is

actually getting done properly because the legislation is all being held up either by the opposition or in the lords. it's in the commons today. >> of course, they stopped the boats legislation being torn apart by those unelected lords. um, i think we've got to move on, piers, but did you watch the tennis? >> i did you enjoy it? >> i did. did you enjoy it? >> i did. did you enjoy it? >> i did. did you enjoy it? >> i loved it, yes. i was marvellous to see a new superstar. was nervous. superstar. i was so nervous. >> i in the kitchen in the >> i hid in the kitchen in the last game because i was so worried that he was going to blow it in the last minute. and i just as it was match i came up just as it was match point. and was. and i just point. and i was. and i just clapped cheered. but the clapped and cheered. but the wonderful was britain wonderful thing was for britain was boys champion. yes. well said. >> can we the fastest serve >> can we hit the fastest serve in wimbledon? >> yeah, that's fantastic. >> yeah, that's fantastic. >> first championship. >> first boys championship. >> first boys championship. >> was good. i mean, >> i think it was good. i mean, i didn't the coverage of i didn't think the coverage of it good, i thought it was very good, but i thought that wimbledon itself was very good. >> turn good. >> paul coyte, >> let's turn to paul coyte, because if you'd been doing the coverage of it, paul, it would have would have been have been it would have been impeccable. impeccable. >> have been more >> it would have been more laughs. would been more laughs. it would have been more fun, have fun, but it would have been

impeccable. have been. impeccable. it would have been. >> i agree with you. >> i think i agree with you. actually, i didn't think the commentary particularly commentary was particularly good. >> i good. »i good. >> i it was i did mention >> i think it was i did mention this think everybody >> i think it was i did mention this as think everybody >> i think it was i did mention this as far think everybody >> i think it was i did mention this as far as think everybody >> i think it was i did mention this as far as novakzverybody >> i think it was i did mention this as far as novak djokovic, was as far as novak djokovic, i was as far as novak djokovic, i was expected, for example, when he his racket the he threw his racket into the post appalling post of the net appalling behaviour, you know, and it was, oh, well, you can understand that. no. that. well not really, no. i can't really understand that. i he's won 23 slams . he's won 23 grand slams. >> control temper. yeah. >> control your temper. yeah. the biggest grand slam was when he whacked it on the side. >> amazing was >> the amazing thing was how well played the start of well he played at the start of the he just like the match. he just looked like he tied up and all. he had it tied up and all. credit alcaraz. would come credit to alcaraz. he would come out come from behind like out to come from behind like that and draw it back. he was that and to draw it back. he was 20 years old. well, this is what you would expect. >> i thought that it >> first, i thought that it might as well the tv off might as well turn the tv off because to in because he's going to win in straight sets. >> so you were out of the kitchen that point or did kitchen for that point or did you run in again? >> no, but he was nervous. clearly in the first set. >> but yeah, i'm sure i mean, it's huge see, the thing is, it's a huge see, the thing is, when you look at a 20 old when you look at a 20 year old and also he's not the youngest. he's not by not the

he's not by far not the youngest. becker was 17. borg he's not by far not the yourin st. becker was 17. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 becker was 17. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 at cker was 17. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 at 20 r was 17. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 at 20 as'as17. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 at 20 as well. borg he's not by far not the yourin 76 at 20 as well. yeah. won in 76 at 20 as well. yeah. so people think, oh, this guy's just and he is. and obviously there's huge difference there's a huge age difference and that and you would have thought that he have been the one that he would have been the one that had come out all guns blazing. brownite and then djokovic would have know, i was actually at >> you know, i was actually at wimbledon because it wimbledon on friday because it was sport i stomach was the only sport i can stomach and andrew gwynne yeah, no, that's we watched the that's it. but we watched the spanish absolutely wiped spanish guy. he absolutely wiped the who was the the russian guy who was the number 3 seed. it was it number 3 or 4 seed. it was it was a masterclass. and i actually thought then, you know what probably could what this bloke probably could beat and he did from what this bloke probably could bea age and he did from what this bloke probably could bea age when1e did from what this bloke probably could bea age when he'sd from what this bloke probably could bea age when he's turned the age of 17 when he's turned professional. >> this is the guy that everybody's been talking about. so and from so won the us open, and from then on he could become the new roger federer because miss roger federer because i miss federer, don't you? >> 5 federer, don't you? » a >> pierce he was such a well, he was elegant player. was an elegant player. >> he would never have >> yeah. and he would never have smashed racket that, smashed his racket like that, would well i don't think so. would he? well i don't think so. but mean, don't think he but i mean, i don't think he ever did, did he? no >> well, actually, it's those ones that it's borg. it's federer, that you federer, the ones that you think are calm, friendly carisma are the calm, friendly carisma attic as kids. they were

nightmares. yeah. borg was the same as that. >> paul you know, when djokovic had that moment with the umpire where he was getting a bit cross about the towel situation. >> timing, yeah. what was that about? have 25 about? well, they have 25 seconds the serve, so if seconds to make the serve, so if you go, you would see it if you were on the court, very were on the court, you very rarely see tv . but there's rarely see it on tv. but there's a timer. so you have to serve within that time. now, djokovic , of course, is a master of the dark arts, whether he wants to admit it or not, he is he will bounce the ball. he'll wait long, long, long, long. keep it. wait till, for example, when they had that break before the fifth he was six minutes. fifth set, he was six minutes. he wasn't he's only he wasn't five. he's only allowed minutes. so that's allowed five minutes. so that's why had him at why the umpire had warned him at that you can only that point, because you can only have 25 seconds about can't go have 25 seconds about i can't go to towel or like the ball to the towel or like the ball boy can't bring me the towel. well, was it. he was saying well, that was it. he was saying that needs more time to be that he needs more time to be able to i mean, how able to walk. i mean, how long does he. >> are rules, the ball >> rules are rules, but the ball boy bring them the towels. >> yeah. and now why don't they? >> yeah. and now why don't they? >> i don't. you know what?

>> i don't. you know what? >> that's going to be a covid thing. that's. >> that's how i don't think. i don't think that's going to be the for the towels. they the reason for the towels. they can over. they have can still walk over. they have these there with these little pots there now with these little pots there now with the yeah. you know, the towels. ah, yeah. you know, you're standing back of you're standing at the back of the court. it's literally put your out, get the towel. your arm out, get the towel. it's take 25 it's not going to take 25 seconds. he's complaining seconds. so he's complaining about but if he's just about that. but if he's just trying, i've got to trying, he said i've got to factor the time it now takes factor in the time it now takes me to go and pick up the towels. >> but, you know, i mean, look, i adore him. i think the stance that he took imagined in the last me, he last three years for me, he represents bodily autonomy, fighting not take an fighting to not take an injection he's injection you don't want. he's my hero. >> won enough. he's >> he's won enough. he's won enough. time for a new enough. it's time for a new it's time a change. enough. it's time for a new it's tim it a change. enough. it's time for a new it's tim it is a change. enough. it's time for a new it's tim it is a change i can accept. >> it is a change i can accept. it is a change of the guard. and this is it. i think it's beginning to happen now. >> versus 30. >> 20 versus 30. >> have a very funny >> didn't you have a very funny story about wimbledon and i felt the interesting. the most interesting. >> one of the most interesting things side it was things on the side of it was that of left wing that a group of left wing luvvies wrote a letter to the all england club complaining about as their sponsor,

about berkeley as their sponsor, saying, because barclays funded energy companies and it was all wrong. signatures of wrong. one of the signatures of that curtis. that letter was richard curtis. oh yeah, two days later you were sitting at sitting in the royal box at wimbledon laughing up the hospitality. >> kwasi barclays >> kwasi was barclays have nothing do with royal box nothing to do with the royal box , they? , do they? >> that makes okay. >> that makes it okay. >> that makes it okay. >> hypocrite. what a >> what a hypocrite. what a hypocrite. pointed out, hypocrite. well, pointed out, it just up, doesn't it? yeah >>i yeah >> i mean, extraordinarily. >> i mean, extraordinarily. >> have you been to the royal box? >> yeah, i have to. it's a great nice. >> yeah, it's a great treat. it's a lovely day. and it was a fabulous to see. we it was the tail end of djokovic. but and of course, that was just a procession in the semi—final. but that spanish guy on friday. brilliant just so brilliant and i was just so thrilled. and i was peeking around. was like being kid around. it was like being a kid again darling and again with the darling and doctor hiding behind the doctor who hiding behind the sofa in case. sofa just in case. >> that's love sport. and >> that's the love of sport. and this what you are now this is what you are now getting. andrew that's what it's all about. all the excitement when the football season starts, i will be losing the to i will be losing the will to live. see. live. oh, we'll see. >> right. moving on. let know >> right. moving on. let us know your thoughts. vaiews@gbnews.com news vaiews@gbnews.com now gb news can confirm we just broke this news bibby stockholm

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weather on. gb news. >> well it's on. it's on the move. the bibby stockholm barge which will house up to 500 asylum seeker refugees , illegal asylum seeker refugees, illegal migrants, has left falmouth harbour. it's en route to its new home in portland harbour in dorset. the locals will not be happy. that's right. gb news the people's

channel 10 am. on monday, the 17th of july. >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and andrew pierce >> so gb news can confirm that the bibby stockholm barge, which were used to house more than 500 asylum seekers, is on the move. it's on its way to portland harbour in dorset, which is where it's going to set up shop to the horror of the locals. >> yeah, we'll find out all the details of that when they emerge. is it time to put emerge. now, is it time to put an end to a mickey mouse degree 7 an end to a mickey mouse degree ? so—called sunak is ? so—called rishi sunak is launching what he launching a crackdown on what he calls rip off qualifications that lead to good outcomes that don't lead to good outcomes for people . is there too for young people. is there too much importance still placed on getting a degree ? don't we all getting a degree? don't we all need more tradespeople ? well, need more tradespeople? well, and there's a big party going on in the labour party after the party leader keir starmer starmer said he would not scrap the child benefit cap. >> that's the cap is on two children if he becomes prime minister. yet his own shadow work pensions secretary, work and pensions secretary, john ashworth only last month said was genius and said the policy was genius and vicious. so is he staying in the

shadow cabinet? an and ben wallace has said that he will step down as defence secretary at the next cabinet reshuffle. >> we're going joined by >> we're going to be joined by former head of the british army general richard dannatt, to general lord richard dannatt, to discuss him . discuss who could replace him. >> and happy birthday queen camilla. she's 76 today, the first birthday since the coronation there's going to be a gun salute taking place to mark the occasion later . the occasion later. there's a big story. i know it'll be. well, it's cannons, isn't it? it's what they do. it's what they do. but this i think this migrant story is quite significant because it's been resisted locally by the local tory mp, richard drax, who came on with us, of course. but the government they've got the government say they've got to seekers of to get asylum seekers out of hotels these hotels at vast expense. these will the first ones in will be the first ones in a barge on the water moored off the so that's quite a

the mainland. so that's quite a big development. >> it really now let >> it is. it really is. now let us know your thoughts this morning. vaiews@gbnews.com. first is first of all, though, here is your very news with your very latest news with tatiana . tatiana sanchez. >> bev, thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom . some breaking from the newsroom. some breaking news, an accommodation barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has left falmouth in cornwall and is on its way to its destination in dorset at the bibby stockholm had been due in portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council . the barge is part local council. the barge is part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms, with the aim of reducing the cost on the public purse. migrant crossings a new migrant crossings have set a new record last month, with over record for last month, with over 3800 people arriving to the uk , 3800 people arriving to the uk, compared with just over 3100. the same time last year. compared with just over 3100. the same time last year . the the same time last year. the prime minister will today launch a new plan to crack down on what he calls rip off degrees. rishi

sunak has announced proposals to cap the number of students allowed to enrol in under performing courses, writing in the telegraph, he says that young people are being saddled with tens of thousands of pounds of debts and that some universities are selling them a false dream. local government editor at conservative home, harry phibbs told gb news he's pleased with the prime minister's plans. >> i think that i think the false dream is that people have had had great pride when it's the first in a in the family to go to university and thinking this will mean it's transformational and that they will have a route to a successful life and that can be the case. but of course, it in all too many cases, it's of no advantage at all. and these things do knock into other other issues. then if people are doing these these worthless mickey mouse degrees rather than learning proper skills , just 32

learning proper skills, just 32 of a promised 40 new hospitals will be completed by 2030, according to the spending watchdog. >> the government's pledge was first made by former prime minister boris johnson. now delays to the projects means the target is unlikely to be met. leaders in the health sector say they're deeply disappointed in they're deeply disappointed in the delays, adding that the cost to taxpayers will now be higher for the number of people waiting more than a year for nhs care has risen by 15% in the past year. has risen by 15% in the past year . the has risen by 15% in the past year. the prime minister has made cutting nhs waiting lists one of his top priorities ahead of the next election. but the liberal democrats argue the figures show that year long waits rose in the 12 months to may, nhs england data shows there were over 300,000 patients waiting 52 weeks for treatment. in may last year. by may this yean in may last year. by may this year, that increased to over 380,000 and two people have died and a girl injured after an attack on the bridge linking russia to crimea blasts were

reported in the early hours of this morning, with drivers stopping on the bridge and traffic halted. russian officials blame ukraine for what they're calling a terrorist attack, but kyiv is yet to officially comment . the kerch officially comment. the kerch bridge links the crimean peninsula to russia's mainland. it's the second major incident on the bridge in the past year. now a new law to prevent extremist groups from training ai chat bots to spread terrorism would be introduced if labour wins the next election . shadow wins the next election. shadow home secretary yvette cooper will be outlining the party's approach to national security in approach to national security in a speech today , including a speech today, including measures to prevent online radicalisation, encourage terrorism is a criminal offence under existing legislation, but it's harder to establish culpability when new technology is used . labour will pledge to is used. labour will pledge to close the loophole by criminalising the deliberate training of chat bots to radicalise people . south east radicalise people. south east water says last year's record

breaking heatwave and other extreme weather has cost it around £17 million. last year, it said the immediate response to the weather such as sourcing new water, cost it around £66 million. it also said it incurred costs of another 4.9 million, repairing leaks and bursts in its pipe network and paid customers £5.5 million in compensation . south east water compensation. south east water supplies. over 2 million homes in england and the foreign office has issued an extreme heat warning as southern europe braces for record breaking temperatures . british temperatures. british holidaymakers have been cancelling or altering their trips abroad ahead of the school holidays. next week . it comes as holidays. next week. it comes as wildfires led to mass evacuations in turkey and the spanish canary islands. the world meteorological meteorological organisation says the warming climate is making extreme weather conditions the new normal . and finally, the new normal. and finally, the

queen is celebrating her birthday today. it's camilla's first birthday since the coronation in london on may 6th. and to mark her 76th birthday, a 41 gun salute by the king's troop. royal horse artillery battery will be taking place in green park at midday. this battery will be taking place in green park at midday . this is gb green park at midday. this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. so now it's back to andrew and . to andrew and. bev >> well, we're going to update you with that breaking news. gb news can confirm that the bibby stockholm barge, that's the one that's going to be used to house over asylum over 500 male adam asylum seekers . it's on the move. it's seekers. it's on the move. it's left falmouth harbour in cornwall. it's en route to portland neighbouring dorset. >> so as you probably will remember, the plans have sparked protests with residents claiming this move will have negative

this move will have a negative impact. impact on local services . campaigners have expressed concerns over conditions on the barge , although they have got barge, although they have got a gym, a tv and games room and it's all been recently refurbished. >> so what they whingeing about we've we've got in the studio with us a great friend of this program, charlie rowley, who was, of course, special adviser to michael gove . this is to michael gove. this is a breakthrough government breakthrough for the government because try to because every time they try to put asylum seekers, put these asylum seekers, refugees, illegal call refugees, illegal migrants, call them somewhere , them what you will somewhere, them what you will somewhere, the says the local mp always says marvellous idea, but not in my back yard. and that's in fact what's happened here. richard drax local mp for drax is the local mp for portland studio said to portland in the studio said to bev and i why he was against it, he thought it was not the right area he couldn't tell us area for he couldn't tell us where a better area. what do where was a better area. what do you ? you think? >> think that's right. >> well, i think that's right. i think, look, you know, the government has to do something. you this one the you know, this is one of the prime minister's top five priorities. been something priorities. it's been something that's for far too that's been going on for far too long. country long. the where the country just, hasn't got a grip just, frankly hasn't got a grip of immigration system or of it's immigration system or its and so its migration system. and so when into this

when people come into this country, illegally , they country, albeit illegally, they have looked they have to be looked after, they have to be looked after, they have somewhere . have to be detained somewhere. but doesn't mean that they but that doesn't mean that they need up in hotels at need to be put up in hotels at the cost of £6 million a day for the cost of £6 million a day for the it doesn't mean the taxpayer. it doesn't mean that local communities have to find the methods to integrate unnecessarily. you know, we need to look after these people. that's absolutely right. they've come into this country. they might have a claim and that has to processed the proper to be processed in the proper way. but think find any way. but i think find any alternatives house people way. but i think find any alterare ves house people way. but i think find any alterare comingiouse people way. but i think find any alterare coming into people way. but i think find any alterare coming into this ple that are coming into this country approach. country is the right approach. >> they put a couple >> why can't they put a couple of immigration people board of immigration people on board so go through their so they can go through their asylum their refugee immigration? >> immigration? » m immigration? >> do that. >> surely they would do that. why they? why wouldn't they? >> they wouldn't they do that? there would be perfect place there would be a perfect place to and if they don't cut to do it. and if they don't cut the mustard on the on a the mustard back on the on a plane out, it's plane out, well, it's a legitimate question. >> the plan to >> i know part of the plan to sort of alongside rwanda to sort of alongside rwanda is to recruit from border recruit more people from border force to beat that backlog in the processing. you the processing. and it's you know, a chicken and egg know, it's a chicken and egg situation. it's never ending know, it's a chicken and egg situati you t's never ending know, it's a chicken and egg situati you have ever ending know, it's a chicken and egg situati you have s0' ending know, it's a chicken and egg situati you have so many|g know, it's a chicken and egg situati you have so many people where you have so many people that into this that are coming into this country making that crossing that are coming into this

countrthere;ing that crossing that are coming into this countrthere isg that crossing that are coming into this countrthere is stillt crossing that are coming into this countrthere is still acrossing that are coming into this countrthere is still a backlog where there is still a backlog of be done, of the processing to be done, you've to crack down on that you've got to crack down on that processing to make sure that people into this people that do come into this country legally are detained and deported at the as i cynically suggest, timing of this may suggest, the timing of this may be the fact have be linked to the fact we have three elections thursday. be linked to the fact we have threwe'velections thursday. be linked to the fact we have threwe'velectiigot thursday. be linked to the fact we have threwe've lecti(got the hursday. be linked to the fact we have threwe've lecti(got the prime|y. >> we've also got the prime minister two pages minister on two front pages today about cracking today talking about cracking down university down on mickey mouse university degrees secretary degrees and the home secretary tom moore suella braverman is going to bring out an anti—terror strategy. are they worried about some worried about losing some by elections? worried about losing some by elethe ns? worried about losing some by elethe front foot? on the front foot? >> well, i think it just shows that after that this is a government after six eight six months, seven months, eight months at the months of rishi sunak at the helm, firing on all helm, that it's firing on all cylinders. and that's what it is. couple weeks ago, is. a couple of weeks ago, it announced brilliant nhs announced a brilliant nhs work. that's what it is. >> what it is. >> that's what it is. a brilliant cylinders. >> that's me thinking they were just out a headline >> that's me thinking they were just to out a headline >> that's me thinking they were just to win)ut a headline >> that's me thinking they were just to win at a headline >> that's me thinking they were just to win a by—election. line a day to win a by—election. >> i think it's all a part of a day to win a by—election. >> operation it's all a part of a day to win a by—election. >> operation of s all a part of a day to win a by—election. >> operation of governmentof the operation of government delivering on all delivering firing on all cylinders this country with cylinders for this country with the workforce plan. the nhs workforce plan. >> which your tongue >> which cheek is your tongue ending? >> which cheek is your tongue ending'the strikes week. ending the strikes of last week. you know, committing to public ending the strikes of last week. you knpay committing to public ending the strikes of last week. you knpay cormake ng to public ending the strikes of last week. you knpay cormake sure public ending the strikes of last week. you knpay cormake sure that lic sector pay to make sure that teachers the teachers are back in the classroom. our public classroom. that our public servants are getting the best

deal to continue at work. so we're not having the disruption that this country that we see in this country through strikes. it's only through strikes. it's only through eco crackpots that through those eco crackpots that are down. are bringing this country down. and a plan to and now we're seeing a plan to deal with migration. deal with with with migration. i think i think it's though, charlie, think the charlie, here's i think the country welcome country will welcome it. >> here's thing. this >> here's the thing. this strategy comes with risks strategy also comes with risks because such a big thing because this is such a big thing we've breaking we've done breaking news this morning. got 222 rooms morning. we've got 222 rooms going 500 and going to house 500 men. and we know controversial. know it's already controversial. if doesn't work, if what we if this doesn't work, if what we see in portland in the next few weeks , we're not sure of the weeks, we're not sure of the timings of this. we don't know quite when the will arrive quite when the boat will arrive or the where will the or when the where will the asylum taken from asylum seekers be taken from local hotels in if local hotels put in there if this goes wrong and this does cause , an anti—social cause disruption, an anti—social behaviour, maybe , or just fear behaviour, maybe, or just fear or protest or placard with the locals, this could backfire very badly in the run up to these by elections. >> it could. i mean, we've already seen disruption in places like knowsley and i think in plymouth, where migrants are being housed in accommodation that been there for far too that have been there for far too long that's caused civil long and that's caused civil unrest. so need ensure unrest. so we need to ensure that these temporary that these are temporary

measures absolutely measures that we can absolutely identify before just beating that make sure that that backlog to make sure that people processed the people are processed in the proper for proper way due to be there for 18 months. >> apparently . now, whether >> apparently. now, whether that will same people on will have all the same people on it for 18 months, i'd rather hope rather hope they >> you'd rather hope they they sort the one 500 out, genuine or not, then get another 500 is exactly feel that's not exactly why feel that's not going happen. exactly why feel that's not going and pen. exactly why feel that's not going and the frustration that >> well and the frustration that people feel if it doesn't people will feel if it doesn't happenis people will feel if it doesn't happen is because if it's blocked know , other blocked by, you know, other campaigners leaning campaigners maybe left leaning campaigners maybe left leaning campaigners and that campaigners and lawyers that want the whole process. want to block the whole process. and, is going to be and, you know, it is going to be something that the public, i think, will be arms about think, will be up in arms about because to get this sorted. >> looking the pictures >> well, looking at the pictures of the here at moment, of the boat here at the moment, if you're listening the if you're listening on the radio, attractive radio, it isn't an attractive vessel. it's grey and it vessel. it's grey and red. it looks a basically looks like a basically an apartment it looks like a apartment block. it looks like a block very flat sided block of flats, very flat sided boat. block of flats, very flat sided boat . it's got tv and games , boat. it's got tv and games, room and gym. as we said, it was house housing. homeless people in germany and the netherlands , in germany and the netherlands, and it was described as being oppressed . and it's been oppressed. and it's been upgraded since it's been renovated at public expense. >> i think they've got to do

>> so i think they've got to do it. so we're tracking the barge now. it is en route. whether it's going to be i don't think it's going to be i don't think it's going to be i don't think it's going to be greeted with union flag waving well—wishers on the on the massing on the side somehow. do you think? >> i think the last time we tracked something like this, i think it was pretty. >> patel coming back from wherever she was going back from, recalled theresa. from, recalled by theresa. >> that's right. that's right. yes. we're to carry it. yes. so we're going to carry it. we're carry on tracking it. >> there's another big story, charlie, pages charlie, on the front pages today and the today. it's universities and the prime minister wants to crack down i'm not going to use down on i'm not going to use expression, but it gets used as mickey mouse degrees. i was just looking back in 2019, these are the things he's looking at on the things he's looking at on the university clearing system. there were 98 football related courses , 45 to do with makeup, courses, 45 to do with makeup, 19 golf related . you don't need 19 golf related. you don't need to go people need makeup. of course. look we've got a great makeup star here, khan . i don't makeup star here, khan. i don't think she went to university to learn makeup. she probably

learnt it on the job. >> well, i i'd seen it before. >> i'd. come on. yeah, you clearly did. >> you could have with him. >> you could have done with him. you. been kind. you. sorry. it's been kind. >> but you did ask. you did put your head up. >> have people doing >> we have more people doing makeup at university. charlie. you better you would look better this morning. know. morning. that's what we know. >> went university. >> but you went to university. >> but you went to university. >> and look, there are many benefits to university. benefits to going to university. don't. don't get wrong. benefits to going to university. don i. don't get wrong. benefits to going to university. doni thinkt get wrong. benefits to going to university. doni think in get wrong. benefits to going to university. doni think in this get wrong. benefits to going to university. doni think in this particularing. but i think in this particular case and rishi is again, sort of gone through the real problems that are that there are, where there are too many that either drop too many people that either drop out because they're too many people that either drop out sufficient because they're too many people that either drop out sufficient enough,3 they're too many people that either drop out sufficient enough, where re not sufficient enough, where there alternative there are alternative courses that do vocational that you can do vocational training, can to training, that you can go to college, those college, you can find those courses achieve and gain courses to achieve and gain those at a better rate. those skills at a better rate. basically people are being charged up to £9,000 a year to do some of the courses that you just mentioned, which is. >> which is which is a rip off an average debt when they leave university, £46,000. an average debt when they leave university, £4€of 30. an average debt when they leave university, £4€of that gets >> how much of that ever gets repaid taxpayer? the repaid to the taxpayer? the current debt is current university loan debt is £206 billion. that's more than the annual budget for the nhs. exactly and i know a scandalous amount of money. >> it and universities,

>> it is. and universities, i think you need to look at them in of in two of in sort of in two sort of buckets because is buckets because there is obviously skills and the obviously the skills and the training to go and get a job afterwards. >> 5 afterwards. >> but there's also a lot of research universities do. research that universities do. and to the and i think, you know, to the people that are paying those £9,000 the courses that people that are paying those £9,0 end the courses that people that are paying those £9,0 end up the courses that people that are paying those £9,0 end up droppingourses that people that are paying those £9,0 end up dropping outes that people that are paying those £9,0 end up dropping outes orit they end up dropping out of or they end up dropping out of or they the job a lot of they can't get the job a lot of that actually going that money isn't actually going back it's back into their cause. it's going research going into the research facilities. is a good facilities. and that is a good thing. need research this thing. we need research in this country, but it's not value for money particular money for that particular individual. money for that particular individliil. money for that particular individli think, institutions taking, i think, institutions like the nhs that we talked taking, i think, institutions like tra nhs that we talked taking, i think, institutions like tra couple at we talked taking, i think, institutions like tra couple of we talked taking, i think, institutions like tra couple of weeks> isn't it also just about rishi sunaks vision the rishi sunaks vision for the future charlie future as well though? charlie he's ultimate technocrat. he he's the ultimate technocrat. he just create lot of just wants to create a lot of data crunching robots. he doesn't like these courses, does he, that, you know, we've got somebody messaged here saying he, that, you know, we've got somimyiy messaged here saying he, that, you know, we've got somimy stepdaughter1ere saying he, that, you know, we've got somimy stepdaughter went aying he, that, you know, we've got somimy stepdaughter went to ng that my stepdaughter went to university singing, having university to do singing, having already three years at already done three years at college after first week, college. after the first week, she bother or she she didn't bother going or she had for the had to do was turn up for the first the next two terms

first day and the next two terms to get the full maintenance payment. i complained to the university. didn't care university. they didn't care because they're turning up once meant could claim meant that they could claim the full tuition fees. do they get the money? there are the money? i mean, there are cases like that where it clearly nobody is winning, the nobody is winning, neither the student who's not doing it or but do still need arts . we but it we do still need arts. we do need english. you know, do still need english. you know, i think english is one of the degrees that well, english literature , oddly, is seen as literature, oddly, is seen as one of those. >> not not not >> that's not not not advantageous for a career. >> rigorous. >> rigorous. >> think people should >> well, i think people should know books, because, know about books, jose, because, again, there's the research element reading. element of reading. >> greater depth of >> well, greater depth of reading, doing research, analysing sort of comparing sort of creative writing. if you're going on to sort of take a career at the bar, for example. i remember tony blair, i mean, i remember tony blair, who weekend talking who at the weekend was talking about technology you know, about technology and, you know, always technology always talking about technology . but i think in an . but but he i think in an interview once said that if he could go back, he was a lawyer, studied law at university, but if could go back, would if he could go back, he would do history research history because of the research element of it and then do a sort of conversion because you element of it and then do a sort of the conversion because you element of it and then do a sort of the bestversion because you element of it and then do a sort of the bestverboth.»ecause you get the best of both. and i think english is a brilliant

starting for people that starting point for people that obviously and some of the people involved in drama in the arts will have studied english literature at university. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> and i think there is a question because think, question here because i think, look, you want to look, you know, if you want to study business, for example, do you university or you need to go to university or could a course through could you do a course through an international national bank international or a national bank where hands where you actually get the hands on understanding on experience of understanding funding? if you're funding? you know, if you're going into the arts, which i think are absolutely brilliant going into the arts, which i thin importantlutely brilliant going into the arts, which i thin important andy brilliant going into the arts, which i thin important andy brillithe and important and i love the arts, but, know, if you fund arts, but, you know, if you fund the national theatre more, arts, but, you know, if you fund thyourtional theatre more, arts, but, you know, if you fund thyourtionathe eatre more, arts, but, you know, if you fund thyourtionathe institutionsnore, if you fund the institutions where a world class where we know a world class institutions provide more institutions to provide more training courses for people to go that where they go through that route where they get bang their buck and top get bang for their buck and top outcomes, then that be outcomes, then that might be a better way running our higher better way of running our higher education yeah ben education sector. yeah ben wallace down. wallace standing down. >> feels like loss, >> that feels like a loss, actually. a good politician. >> he is . he's and he's been the >> he is. he's and he's been the defence for secretary four years. so i think that's the longest we've had. but for some time . time. >> and military background, of course military background. >> and military background, of couand military background. >> and military background, of couand asilitary background. >> and military background, of couand as always, ackground. >> and military background, of couand as always, acremember >> and military background, of couand as always, ac remember any >> and as always, i remember any autumn statement or budget . he's autumn statement or budget. he's always for the armed always stood up for the armed forces, asked for more forces, always asked for more cash protect their their

cash and to protect their their their budget. and that might now be be at risk. but he's obviously been in for politics a number of years, about 25 years. and he's taking the decision to stand down. >> and get the nato >> and he didn't get the nato job, wanted to be. job, which he wanted to be. general thank you, job, which he wanted to be. ger biden, thank you, job, which he wanted to be. gerbiden, dup thank you, job, which he wanted to be. ger biden, dup joe “hank you, job, which he wanted to be. gerbiden, dup joe and< you, job, which he wanted to be. gerbiden, dup joe and also , job, which he wanted to be. gerbiden, dup joe and also his joe biden, dup joe and also his constituency disappears in boundary changes next so boundary changes next time. so he'd somewhere he'd have to go somewhere else to his marriage he'd have to go somewhere else to ended. his marriage he'd have to go somewhere else to ended. i his marriage he'd have to go somewhere else to ended. i suspect marriage he'd have to go somewhere else to ended. i suspect heirriage he'd have to go somewhere else to ended. i suspect he alsoe has ended. i suspect he also probably thinks it's time to go and make some money. >> i think i think i'm sure >> i think so. i think i'm sure there'll a he's not to there'll be a he's not going to be opportunities and be leader of opportunities and offers his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't think his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't think so. his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't think so. no. his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't think so. no. i his way. be leader of opportunities and odon't think so. no. i thinknay. be leader of opportunities and odon't think so. no. i think ify. i don't think so. no. i think if you're standing down from parliament, then it sort of rules mean, i it rules you out. i mean, i it would have been really interesting. >> commercial would >> commercial companies would be falling >> commercial companies would be falben wallace because of the to ben wallace because of the knowledge he's from the knowledge he's got from the defence industry. knowledge he's got from the deferthinkdustry. knowledge he's got from the deferthink he'll'. right, >> i think he'll be all right, don't you? >> charlie good see >> yeah. charlie good to see you. >> rowley, what >> charlie rowley, what was your degree way? >> charlie rowley, what was your deg it e way? >> charlie rowley, what was your deg it was way? >> charlie rowley, what was your deglt was social way? >> charlie rowley, what was your deglt was social policy >> it was social policy and politics and which is politics at york and which is just throw away from just a stone's throw away from cell obe where shall be cell obe where i shall be heading shortly. goodbye. >> well done. well done. you are

a good tory, right? >> just a couple of your couple of your messages. chaz from nottingham. if a taxpayer is being ripped off these being ripped off by these pathetic courses when they should why cap them? should be capped, why cap them? he says they should be scrapped. >> yeah. and sue says bring back apprenticeship schemes . train >> yeah. and sue says bring back apprenticeship schemes. train up for the future. that's what i've always thought. >> maybe should sue >> tony. maybe you should sue and says maybe students and tony says maybe students would getting would be better off getting a degree in common sense and logic because . because most of them need it. >> think you're probably >> yeah, i think you're probably right. now new analysis right. okay. now new analysis reveals the supermarkets right. okay. now new analysis revewould the supermarkets right. okay. now new analysis revewould think, ;upermarkets right. okay. now new analysis revewould think, would arkets right. okay. now new analysis revewould think, would have; right. okay. now new analysis revewould think, would have the you would think, would have the lowest be some of the lowest prices can be some of the worst offenders on value for money. that's next. don't go anywhere . anywhere. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hello there. very good morning to you. i'm jonathan vautrey here with your latest gb news weather forecast provided by the met office. sunshine and showers is the name of the game. for many us this week. low for many of us this week. low pressure is never too away, pressure is never too far away, keeping unsettled, pressure is never too far away, kee|it1g unsettled, pressure is never too far away, kee|it1g worth unsettled,

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tv, radio and online gb news. britain's news. channel >> it's 1026 with britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. and i've got to tell you, food prices, they're not looking good. they're being squeezed by they're still being squeezed by food inflation. >> an that's right. some household favourites are almost tripling . they've tripled in tripling. they've tripled in price over the last two years, according to a new report. >> so it's the which report it revealed that, get this aldi, asda and little not as you might have thought perhaps waitrose and sainsbury's m&s were the worst offenders for price hikes . so we're going to speak to our economics and business editor liam halligan i'm amazed liam halligan. i'm amazed by this whole this because isn't the whole point lidl aldi that point of lidl and aldi that they're their , they're cheap? that's their, that's their shtick, that's true. >> but the price rises are coming from a lower level in many cases. so they're often still a lot cheaper. they're certainly gaining a lot of market share off the likes of waitrose and tesco , though tesco waitrose and tesco, though tesco still have the most market share . look, this is a really big week for inflation, so we're

kicking off today, monday with some unofficial figures , the some unofficial figures, the official inflation figures that are going to be watched very closely, not just but closely, not just here but around world they'll around the world because they'll determine of determine what the bank of england interest rates england does on interest rates when meets in the first week when it meets in the first week of august. come out on of august. they come out on wednesday. and wednesday is going they'll going to be a big day. they'll come seven, 7 am. come out at seven, eight, 7 am. i'll be here in the studio talking about it all day because it down time. it it didn't go down last time. it stayed american stayed at 8.7. and american inflation now is 3. so we're an outlier now internationally , but outlier now internationally, but we're kicking off the week with these numbers also from a very reputable source , the which reputable source, the which magazine. but they're not official . it's which's official numbers. it's which's survey of 21,000 goods across the country . and these aren't the country. and these aren't over a year. they're over two years. right. so these price rises i'm going to talk about are june 20, 23 compared to june 2021. bakery products up 30% over two years. right cheese products up 35% over two years. this is across all the supermarkets, across all the supermarkets, across all the supermarkets and meat products, up 24% over two years. now,

let's have a talk about some specifics. you mentioned aldi and lidl. i've highlighted another two and specific goods that we all know and love sainsbury's, bakewell cake slices, that's the box of six, you know, the ones you can do with a single cup of tea and you've missed your dinner. we've all been there. they've gone up over the last two from over the last two years from a pound to £2. 75 morrisons own brand mozza , ella up from £0.49 brand mozza, ella up from £0.49 two years ago to £1.19. saint kyrees pork loin steaks up from £1.49. get this to £4.28 more than double now later this month. cma what's that ? that's month. cma what's that? that's the old oft ofsted trading. the cma is the new version of that. the competition and markets authority , right? they are doing authority, right? they are doing a report into whether or not super markets are it's day time tv taking the michael ripping us off yeah ripping us off. so the cma report is coming out later this month. i would i mean , i've

this month. i would i mean, i've said for many months, i do think there's evidence of price gouging. the big supermarkets would deny that producer price indices, which i've often spoken about , they're the costs of about, they're the costs of firms inputs, right? the producer price index , it's producer price index, it's collapsed in the last three months. it's in 1 or 2% inflation on producer price indices. and yet food price inflation was still up at 18% back in may when the last figures came out. >> there's always a lag, but it shouldn't be that. >> there's always and the >> there's always a lag. and the supermarkets say to me, i supermarkets will say to me, i say this. they say things like this. they they get people to email me get their pr people to email me like crazy. say, but like crazy. they say, oh, but liam, a clever guy. liam, but you're a clever guy. you understand prices and you understand fuel prices and labour the prices of labour prices and the prices of heating greenhouses to make our tomatoes in the winter and all that's completely true . but that's completely true. but guess what? the price of energy has markedly over the has come down markedly over the last year. and this lag on food pnces. last year. and this lag on food prices . i've stopped buying that prices. i've stopped buying that argument. okay. and the question is, has the cma stopped buying

that argument, too? >> and if they have stopped buying it, what can they do about it? >> well, they can fine supermarkets again, supermarkets deny they've done anything deny that they've done anything wrong and that's completely within their gift . wrong and that's completely within their gift. i'm expressing an opinion based on my eyeballing of this cma report i >> -- >> will they have gone to the supermarkets and said, we want to see evidence of your increase in we'll have to do in costs. we'll have to see. do they to hand? they have to hand? >> we'll to see because >> we'll have to see because there cma and there there are cma reports and there are you are cma reports. there's you know, like sometimes you go know, like sometimes when you go for sometimes it's for an mot, sometimes it's a bloke waves a clipboard around. you're right, son. off you go. other times it's bonnet up. you know, you end up having a full inside section. so we'll have to see what the cma comes up with. but i would say, bev not that ministers control the cma. they don't. independent don't. it's an independent regulatory , but the, regulatory body, but the, the pubuc regulatory body, but the, the public interest in this. now the political pressure , the fact political pressure, the fact that the three of us are talking about it with all everything else that's going on in the world. are here again world. right. we are here again talking about food prices and know we're all pretty well to do

i >>i -- >> i know lam w >> i know when i go in my waitrose supermarket i think blimey, yeah. >> didn't to cost that . >> oh didn't used to cost that. >> oh didn't used to cost that. >> you're going for a few bits and pieces and suddenly you spent not even spent £120 and it's not even your weekly shop. >> we know these regulated >> and we know these regulated hours, liam are often useless because we've seen that in the water industry they've done not enough about these companies chucking all the sewage into the water. woman who the water. the woman who ran the regulator now in charge of regulator is now in charge of thames water and saying, oh, if you've got a big garden, you have a bigger bill. outrageous. >> regulatory body is perfect >> no regulatory body is perfect . obviously, regulatory bodies in general are not talking about any in particular are subject to what we call regulatory capture. that's something that people learn they do a—level learn about when they do a—level economics. you sort of know what it means. means when the it means. it means when the regulator gets captured by interests within the industry that they're regulated , they've that they're regulated, they've got to close again, no casting of personal aspersions here, but regulator was haven't been unknown that they end working unknown that they end up working in industry a few years in the industry a few years later they were regulating

later that they were regulating that capture is has happened across western economies throughout time. so we'll have to see what the cma comes up with. the cma is a relatively new body. it replaced the old oft. as i said, it's got now two really important investigations going on, one into housebuilding , right, which i campaigned for and which michael gove recommended , and the cma have recommended, and the cma have gone for that. they're having a look into whether or not our big housebuilders are deliberately building slowly in order to keep pnces building slowly in order to keep prices high. they are. and now also they would deny that. and now, your honour. now also they would deny that. and now, your honour . now also now, your honour. now also they're doing food prices. the what important in what is more important in politics than food and housing after love, they are the two most. well, another thing, there are two of the most important bafic are two of the most important basic instincts, right? food and housing. that's what we need. we've now our regulators we've now got our regulators investigating how both are delivered in this country. this is big news. >> and the important >> and the other important thing, your graphics. oh, yeah , thing, your graphics. oh, yeah,

we investigation into we need an investigation into them . them. >> there aren't nearly enough right. >> f- f— f liam. okay. still >> thank you, liam. okay. still to come, it is queen camilla's 76th birthday today, is 76th birthday today, which is expected to be marked with a gun salute. going to be joined salute. we're going to be joined by royal broadcaster ralph rafe heydel—mankoo. after your heydel—mankoo. all after your morning's . heydel—mankoo. all after your morning's. news >> but thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom and accommodation barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has left falmouth in cornwall and is now on its way to its destination in dorset . the bibby stockholm had dorset. the bibby stockholm had been due in portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council . the barge is part local council. the barge is part of the government's plans to move migrants out of hotel rooms, with the aim of reducing the cost on the public migrant crossings have set a new record for last month, with over 3800 people arriving to the uk , people arriving to the uk, compared with just over 3100 the same time last year. compared with just over 3100 the same time last year . the prime

same time last year. the prime minister says his crackdown on low quality university courses will benefit taxpayers. mr sunak has announced proposals to cap the number of students allowed to enrol in under—perform ing courses. writing in the telegraph , he says that young telegraph, he says that young people are being saddled with tens of thousands of pounds of debts and that some universities are selling them a false dream . are selling them a false dream. just 32 of a promised 40 new hospitals will be completed by 2030. that's according to the spending watchdog. the government's pledge was first made by former prime minister bofis made by former prime minister boris johnson. now delays to the projects means the targets are unlikely to be met. leaders in the health sector say they're deeply disappointed in the delays, adding that the cost to taxpayers will now be higher . taxpayers will now be higher. and the queen is celebrating her birthday today. it's camilla's first birthday since the coronation in may. and to mark her 76th birthday, a 41 gun salute by the king's troop . salute by the king's troop.

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alongside husband, king alongside her husband, king charles we're going to charles iii. we're going to speak royal speak to our favourite royal commentator, heydel—mankoo commentator, rafe heydel—mankoo ralph. of a gun ralph. this idea of a gun salute, it's a tradition. it's a 21 gun salute, if i recall. it's been around, i think, since george the third, and that's right. >> although when a gun salute takes place in a royal park, they get an extra 20. so it's a 41 gun salute also at the tower of london. normally get a get a 61 gun salute because it's a royal palace. you get another 20 on top of that. now, of course, the queen camilla is known for her love of animals. of the queen camilla is known for her love of animals . of course, her love of animals. of course, she's famously patron of battersea cats and dogs home. so i think for the first time ever, the royal parks, when they've announced that there's going to be salute, have advised be this gun salute, have advised dog walkers clear of dog walkers to steer clear of the park during that period . the park during that period. >> why is it not a little bit out of date now? ralph a 21 gun salute or a 61 gun salute ? salute or a 61 gun salute? >> i don't i mean, look, all societies around the world, all cultures have a means by which

you celebrate occasions , the you celebrate occasions, the fitual you celebrate occasions, the ritual occasions be, you know , ritual occasions be, you know, be it flying flags or beating drums or, you know, having a birthday cake and blowing out the candles. i mean, these are all ceremonies and rituals that we enjoy as civilised societies. and i don't see why gun salutes are any more old fashioned than blowing out your candles. would we? if you're a royalist, we don't all get the guns. >> are we going to see any official photos from today? the royals love an official photo on a don't ralph ? a birthday, don't they, ralph? that's right, of course. >> well, we've had now the royal family have put out a very nice twitter and instagram posts on their official accounts with lovely photographs of the queen looking gay and smiling from from cheek to cheek . and also from cheek to cheek. and also the prince and princess of wales have also passed on their best wishes via their instagram account . and there have been account. and there have been a whole slew. i mean, everyone from to gyles brandreth from the rich to gyles brandreth have toasting her majesty have been toasting her majesty on this great day. and on this on this great day. and many causes which many of the causes with which she's interested and she's been interested and concerned so many years.

concerned over so many years. there are also celebrating having wonderful lady as having this wonderful lady as their patron who's actually drawing on to many drawing attention on to so many causes which are not very royal. everything from sexual abuse and domestic abuse . we saw last week domestic abuse. we saw last week in cornwall . she was actively in cornwall. she was actively involved of it. involved with that part of it. female mutilation. female genital mutilation. i mean, things which you mean, so many things which you wouldn't the royals mean, so many things which you would anywhere the royals mean, so many things which you wouldanywhere th> yes. i mean, if you think about it, they've had quite a few big ceremonies to attend. and watch over the past couple of years. and i think they're well trained now. and of course, it's you know, it's a sign of things to come, hopefully to see that very, very royal pose . a

that very, very royal pose. a bit of cheekiness there as well. of course, what we keep of course, which is what we keep looking and that's looking out for. and that's endeared. endeared them, endeared. that's endeared them, especially prince louis, to the nafion especially prince louis, to the nation . but i think you can nation. but i think you can clearly see these good clearly see that these are good royals the making . royals in the making. >> finally, ralph, why is >> just finally, ralph, why is it 21 gun salute ? why isn't it it 21 gun salute? why isn't it 18 or 50 or 30? where did they get the figure from ? get the figure from? >> that's a very good question. i don't know. i think there's maybe lost in the mist of time , maybe lost in the mist of time, but it's been 21 for forever. i don't think there's ever been anything shorter than 21. but i'd have check my i'd have to check my encyclopaedia to encyclopaedia and get back to you time. you next time. >> we come with a royal >> we just come up with a royal question rafe heydel—mankoo question that rafe heydel—mankoo did incredible that is my day. >> incredible that is my day. thank you so much , nick. >> incredible that is my day. thaweyou so much , nick. >> incredible that is my day. thawe know» much , nick. >> incredible that is my day. thawe know you'll , nick. >> incredible that is my day. thawe know you'll know> incredible that is my day. thawe know you'll know it next >> we know you'll know it next time thanks coming on as time. so thanks for coming on as always. >> everything he does. >> he knows everything he does. >> he knows everything he does. >> does. as does >> he really does. as does sarah vine , my colleague on the daily vine, my colleague on the daily mail. and professor sheikh over there. >> can i ask before we get diving into the papers, i still think it's fascinating that 25 years ago camilla parker bowles was probably after the death of

diana . diana. >> probably arguably, yes . >> probably arguably, yes. >> probably arguably, yes. >> i mean, her rehabilitation has been extraordinary in fryston. >> and she is now not just queen consort. we now call her her majesty and the queen do you think the public is completely won over by her? >> i think that she has worked incredibly hard to prove to sort of earn her place. i think she really has . i of earn her place. i think she really has. i mean, over the years, she's like, you know, she's done so much for charity and stuff. and she has she and stuff. and she has kept she did keep her head down very successfully for the first, which i mean, her all which i mean, her strategy all along very along has been has been very good. along has been has been very good . i think she's been quite, good. i think she's been quite, quite and quite humble and just basically kept her head down and stick and stuck to her stick to her and stuck to her knitting and which always one step behind, always step. step behind, always one step. i think that a lot of people would struggled with the idea of her being crowned or coronated, as the americans like to say. but it so i think i felt at the time that was perhaps a bridge too far and that she didn't really need to it and that the need to do it and that the pubuc need to do it and that the public weren't necessarily really that . but it's really behind that. but it's been done now. we move on. so

been done now. so we move on. so yes, i think think and i think yes, i think i think and i think a lot of that was charles wanting her wanting validation for her because he always felt because i think he always felt that down on her that people looked down on her because she was the mistress and we that because she was we can say that because she was the mistress. not the mistress. that's not disrespectful. that's just the truth . think that, you truth. and i think that, you know, for him, it's been a sort of 20 year journey of making the world understand that this is the woman he loves and that she is deserving of the respect and, you authority that she now you know, authority that she now has. that's been their sort of journey in a way for from their marriage, hasn't it? yeah >> what do you what do you think make of a bush or do you warm to her the queen? make of a bush or do you warm to hertoe queen? make of a bush or do you warm to her to be ueen? make of a bush or do you warm to herto be honest, i don't i don't >> to be honest, i don't i don't i mean, is, you know, i mean, the thing is, you know, she king charles's wife. so she is king charles's wife. so we to respect that. but we have to respect that. but i do feel like there is an do still feel like there is an air of, you know, people do still understand know that still understand and know that she that's she was the mistress. and that's something unfortunately is something that, unfortunately is a that sticks on a taboo. and that sticks on people a very long time, people for a very long time, especially you're part especially when you're part of the family whilst, you the royal family so whilst, you know, do agree that know, sarah, i do agree that there bunch of who there are a bunch of people who are the same are accepting in the same breath, are lots of people

breath, there are lots of people that will always label her as that will always label her as that people will never that and some people will never ever terms with the fact ever come to terms with the fact that diana , of that diana died and diana, of course, not before she course, not long before she died, famous died, she did the famous you know, was know, camilla's marriage was crowded camilla's defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshei camilla's defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshe is camilla's defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshe is a camilla's defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshe is a very|illa's defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshe is a very nice, defence. know, camilla's marriage was crorshe is a very nice, kind nce. >> she is a very nice, kind woman. yes. know, she really woman. yes. you know, she really is. and the thing would is. and the other thing i would say she's been really say is that she's been really good king charles. know, good for king charles. you know, he should never have been he he should never have been made marry princess diana . it made to marry princess diana. it was match for was never the right match for him he was in him. no, he always he was in love with her with camilla before , you know. so if only he before, you know. so if only he had been allowed to marry the person he wanted to be. he wanted to marry, which was camilla, would have camilla, his life would have been so it's not been a lot easier. so it's not as though she's sort you as though she's sort of, you know, she does have a know, she she she does have a place i think she really does have i think have a place. and i think they're kind of love stories is a tragic in a a bit tragic in a way. >> you curtsy to her? >> would you curtsy to her? >> would you curtsy to her? >> i am a terrible curtsy because i have really bad knees . and i was once coached. i was ihave . and i was once coached. i was i have curtsied to camilla in the days when king charles was still prince charles. and i'm afraid i messed it up because i

bobbed. afraid i messed it up because i bobbed . right. which you must bobbed. right. which you must never do. no >> and there you sit with your head. >> $- t- f sort of just did >> well, i sort of just did a little sort of silly little curtsy and it was because i bottled it at the last. it's quite an thing. you sort of quite an odd thing. you sort of you sort overwhelmed you become sort of overwhelmed with anyway, with embarrassment. and anyway, and wearing the wrong sort and i was wearing the wrong sort of. >> and $1 hr- %— $1— >> and you also sort of forget, would you curtsy to her? i don't think curtsy. would you curtsy to her? i don't thirlike curtsy. would you curtsy to her? i don't thirlike inurtsy. would you curtsy to her? i don't thirlike in general. i don't i'm >> like in general. i don't i'm not i'm not a curtsy. i mean, obviously, to, i would. obviously, if i had to, i would. but i'm not. yeah, i'm just i'm just not a curtsy. but going back point, sarah, back to your point, sarah, what's interesting with what's interesting for me with princess camilla princess diana and camilla is camilla always, forever camilla will always, forever be in shadows of princess in the shadows of princess diana. she also died a martyr. what i believe people treat princess diana like and that's something very to something very, very hard to live to for camilla, live up to for camilla, unfortunately . unfortunately. >> it's you know, and also there's an unmistakeable thing we have say as well. princess we have to say as well. princess diana like goddess. she diana was like a goddess. she was a rock star beauty, was like a rock star beauty, wasn't and most wasn't she? and most photographed woman in the world. you that. photographed woman in the world. youi that. photographed woman in the world. youi don't, that. photographed woman in the world. youi don't, camilla.it. photographed woman in the world. youi don't, camilla. i. photographed woman in the world. youi don't, camilla. i mean , i >> i don't, camilla. i mean, i don't diana was don't think princess diana was without . without her faults. >> i'm saying she looked >> no, but i'm saying she looked

amazing. looked like the amazing. she looked like the archetypal princess. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> from a fairy tale. >> from a fairy tale. >> sort of rock star >> she was a sort of rock star princess you wouldn't say that about. >> but i mean, that was part of the marriage, the problem with her marriage, was that she was a rock star. >> princess. yeah. didn't >> princess. yeah. and he didn't likeand he was never a rock star. >> and he was never a rock star. >> and he was never a rock star. >> no. >> prince no, no. >> prince no, no. >> he always wants to do >> he just always wants to do his which is, you know, his thing, which is, you know, his thing, which is, you know, his work. he's quite his charity work. he's quite a low person. yeah. and low profile person. yeah. and i think this diana, this think this diana, who was this sort a very sort of incredibly a very attention you know, she attention seeking, you know, she wanted to be famous. she wanted attention seeking, you know, she wantecentrez famous. she wanted attention seeking, you know, she wantecentre stage.js. she wanted attention seeking, you know, she wantecentre stage.js. sno, wanted attention seeking, you know, she wantecentre stage.js. sno, she:ed didn't. >> she incredible standards. >> she had incredible standards. and into and people were just drawn into her. ask for the her. she didn't ask for the attention. it because attention. she got it because she this amazing person. she was this amazing person. >> some good >> i think she had some good relationships newspaper editors. >> she did. she did, yeah. >> she did. she did, yeah. >> now, let's about >> now, let's talk about somebody who wishes they were king tony blair. he has king tony blair. god, he has been saying, bushra, that we need to let in more european migrants to boost the uk economy. surprise . economy. yeah, surprise. >> yeah. never learn this is interesting. >> i almost feel like tony blair is very much out of touch with the british public. he is right now. you know, the fact now. he is. you know, the fact that numbers like

that we've got numbers like 600,000 migrants at the moment. that's the number that that's sort of the number that we're then he's we're looking at. and then he's the the that the thing is, the angle that he's is almost like, he's coming from is almost like, let's the eu to let us let's convince the eu to let us back in. >> well, he wants to come back in, but he says he says we're not strong go in not strong enough to go back in at moment. at the moment. >> yeah. so, you know, so ultimately he's saying brexit was we need back was wrong, so we need to go back into we can't do into the eu, but we can't do that the uk is strong that until the uk is strong enough to but it kind enough to do that. but it kind of the whole idea of of defeats the whole idea of, of kirby migration controlling kirby migration and controlling it, is what the majority it, which is what the majority of the public are talking about right of the public are talking about rigiso tony blair believes >> so but tony blair believes in a globalist solution to everything, doesn't he? sarah isn't problem? isn't that the problem? >> blair in a tony >> tony blair believes in a tony blair everything, blair solution to everything, i think, much think, but that is very much about putting tony blair the about putting tony blair on the global giving him global stage and giving him power beyond wildest dreams. power beyond his wildest dreams. yeah, absolutely. but i think what's interesting, today's daily which is an daily mail, which is an excellent newspaper, there's a brilliant column by dominic lawson , who is very clever and lawson, who is very clever and he points out that, you know , he points out that, you know, europe is lurching to the right . i mean, we you know, we've got maloney in italy. i mean, sort of really very right wing

policies and the whole sort of narrative from the blair narrative coming from the blair side of things that, oh, side of things is that, oh, well, know, brexit was a well, you know, brexit was a xenophobic kind of, you well, you know, brexit was a xenophobic kind of , you know, xenophobic kind of, you know, foreigner left, right foreigner hating left, right wing thing. not true. europe you know, we're out of europe. europe is becoming a very right wing on its own . and a lot of it wing on its own. and a lot of it is to do with illegal migration, particularly countries like particularly in countries like italy and greece. so you know, there's a really important debate to be had here. and tony blair's just not having it. he's just saying the same thing over and over again, which is what he always just very and over again, which is what he alwenote. just very one note. >> yeah. and doesn't get, >> yeah. and he doesn't get, does still not does he, or he's still not accepting responsibility. part of driving force for brexit of the driving force for brexit was to death of was people were sick to death of being certain being overwhelmed in certain communities coming being overwhelmed in certain comr eastern coming being overwhelmed in certain comr eastern there oming being overwhelmed in certain comr eastern there was1g from eastern europe, there was no for housing, no support for housing, schools, infra structure, jobs, and it also drove down wages. yes. >> but also a lot of people who voted for brexit did so because they to be excluded. they they wanted to be excluded. they wanted of european laws. >> me too. >> me too. >> that's why i voted of people who voted for brexit, wanted that. know, that is that. and you know, that is about freedom. that's about

autonomy. it's you know, autonomy. and it's you know, what's happening in europe is this awful lurch to the right and all these really weird parties suddenly coming through because on the ground people are really unhappy with their lot . really unhappy with their lot. and that's, you know, you have to listen to people the longest serving prime minister standing down in holland. >> . >> exactly. >> exactly. >> for w- >> exactly. >> for very similar >> for yeah, for very similar reasons . i mean because of reasons. i mean because of migration. yeah. so so migration. yeah. yeah. so so look . i look at what's happening. i think tony should look at what's happening in europe and then maybe something maybe come up with something more than what he's more constructive than what he's just saying. >> we've got the bbc. >> now we've got the bbc. sorry, but to just talk about again, what we've seen today, this bibby boat is bibby stockholm the boat is making its way to dorset where it will house 500 migrants. it's not going to be widgets. it's not going to be widgets. it's not going to be widgets. it's not going to be greeted with a welcome committee, is it? >> no, it's not. >>— >> no, it's not. >> so, tony blair wading into these debates and saying, actually, we need we need more migration . i don't think he's in migration. i don't think he's in touch with the british public in any way. like sarah says. >> yeah, he's not. and, you

know, there is an argument to say that there are a bunch of people who were pro brexit who say that there are a bunch of peo now vho were pro brexit who say that there are a bunch of peo now reallyere pro brexit who say that there are a bunch of peo now really questioning: who are now really questioning whether was the right thing whether that was the right thing for do. that is fact. whether that was the right thing f so we need those spaces to be fillecountry people coming in to >> so we need those spaces to be fillecountry because :oming in to >> so we need those spaces to be fillecountry because nobody's to the country because nobody's filling so does filling those slots. so he does have because obviously have a point because obviously we people to work in order have a point because obviously we boost people to work in order have a point because obviously we boost the ple to work in order have a point because obviously we boost the economy. 'k in order to boost the economy. >> got hundreds of >> if we've got hundreds of thousands benefit thousands of people on benefit who they should who aren't working, they should be doing those jobs. >> we need to >> absolutely. so we need to have we need have have incentives. we need to have incentives people have incentives. we need to have incentithe people have incentives. we need to have incentithe benefits people have incentives. we need to have incentithe benefits system eople

have incentives. we need to have incentithe benefits system into; out of the benefits system into into having into the workforce. having people from europe is people come from europe now is not is not the answer. >> and they'll drive down again. >> yeah. true. yeah i agree. yeah. >> well we just keep it just always feels like the spectre of rejoining the eu never really goes very far. >> couldn't bear another referendum because leaving the eu . eu. >> the eu is a process that will take time and there are things that will happen. and it happens instead. exactly i mean, there's another you know, this this deal that what she called a kemi badenoch kemi badenoch was just done trade deal in asia. it's trade in asia. it's not huge, but it's a small step and it's all incremental. and you just have to stick with it . and this have to stick with it. and this constant, oh, let's get back in. let's get back in. no, you've made decision. with made your decision. stick with it. work towards this goal it. let's work towards this goal together. of us. and we'll together. all of us. and we'll get there eventually. >> that's because the >> but that's also because the general public to be general public needed to be educated brexit would educated on how brexit would would think people would work. and i think people are expecting instant results and was going to happen. but and it was going to happen. but yeah, it's yeah, you're right, it's incremental. happens slowly. incremental. it happens slowly. >> also been down

>> but we've also been let down by of politicians. yes, by some of the politicians. yes, we just haven't we have, who just haven't delivered on no. and rishi delivered on it. no. and rishi always says he was a brexiteer, doesn't he? he said he campaigned for in his campaigned for it in his constituency. don't constituency. but you don't hear him very much. him talking about it very much. >> because politicians >> well, because politicians are always to balance the always trying to balance the long short term long term with the short term and all know that they've long term with the short term and know all know that they've long term with the short term and know the (now that they've long term with the short term and know the clockthat they've long term with the short term and know the clock is|t they've long term with the short term and know the clock is tickingye long term with the short term and know the clock is ticking on got know the clock is ticking on them. what can they them. so it's what can they achieve that's going achieve short term that's going to their to keep their, you know, their ratings up. and the difficult thing in politics is doing the right know, right thing that you know, you're not going get the you're not going to get the credit that's the really credit for. that's the really hard you put in hard thing is that you put in place rules that place legislation, rules that will probably not mature for another ten years. and by that stage it'll probably be a different government . different government. >> with his nhs employment plan , that's not going yield any , that's not going to yield any benefits 12 years. benefits for 12 years. >> not. but it's important >> it's not. but it's important to good to do because it's good governance and it's and it's, you know, it's not just about always getting the credit. and that's because because that's where because because politicians short politicians have become so short termist desperate to get termist and so desperate to get the ratings, they they sort of forget that that's what needs to be done. it's a thankless task. it sarah bushra, thank you

it is. sarah bushra, thank you for starting our first round of the morning on that . the morning on that. >> gb can confirm that >> now, gb news can confirm that the stockholm barge, the bibby stockholm barge, which will to more than will be used to house more than 500 asylum seekers, has left falmouth harbour en route to portland dorset. portland in dorset. >> more on shortly. this >> so more on this shortly. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. it is of course, the people's your channel people's channel. your channel for temperatures rising. for the temperatures rising. >> boxt solar the proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> hello there. very good morning to you. i'm jonathan vautrey here with your latest gb news weather forecast provided by the met office. sunshine and showers is the name of the game for many of us this week. low pressure is never too far away, keeping relatively unsettled. pressure is never too far away, kee|it|g relatively unsettled. pressure is never too far away, kee|it is relatively unsettled. pressure is never too far away, kee|it is worth tively unsettled. pressure is never too far away, kee|it is worth tively ustartled. pressure is never too far away, kee|it is worth tively ustart of. but it is worth noting start of tuesday, going to start to tuesday, we're going to start to see of rain see some longer spells of rain arrive well. for today, arrive as well. but for today, we start to see showers we will start to see showers bubbung we will start to see showers bubbling across bubbling up quite widely across many of the uk. some of many areas of the uk. some of those turn quite heavy those could turn quite heavy with hail and thunderstorms, perhaps for central eastern areas primary areas of england. primary eerily. us should eerily. but some of us should stay dry and actually stay largely dry and actually dodge of showers. and dodge some of those showers. and in the sunnier spells,

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pierce and bev turner. >> so gb news has been confirming to you that the bibby stockholm which be stockholm barge which will be housed to house more housed use to use to house more than 500 asylum seekers has left falmouth harbour en route to portland harbour in dorset . portland harbour in dorset. >> i don't think they'll be waving flags , welcoming it waving flags, welcoming it somehow, do you now? is it time to put an end to mickey mouse? degrees rishi sunak. the prime minister certainly thinks he minister certainly thinks so. he says rip off. they says they have rip off. they don't to good outcomes for don't lead to good outcomes for young too much young people. is there too much importance on degrees? importance placed on degrees? what about more apprentices? we're going to hear from the prime shortly . prime minister very shortly. >> and labour leader sir keir starmer is facing anger from within his party over his refusal to scrap the child benefit cap on two children. if he becomes prime minister. it comes after his shadow work and pensions secretary called the policy heinous and vicious . and policy heinous and vicious. and ben wallace, he's standing down as defence secretary. >> he's the longest serving for many a year. at the next cabinet reshuffle, we're going to be joined by former of the joined by the former head of the

british lord british army, general lord richard to discuss who richard dannatt, to discuss who could replace him and also to talk wallace's record . talk about wallace's record. >> always worth waiting around to hear what richard dannatt has to hear what richard dannatt has to say. he's always interesting. first of all, though, here is your very latest news with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> bev, thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the gb news room. rishi sunak has announced plans to cap the of students that can the number of students that can be to what he calls be accepted. on to what he calls rip degrees in england. the rip off degrees in england. the government says limits will be imposed on courses that have high dropout rates or a low proportion of graduates getting a professional job. the prime minister says the key message of his policy to limit student numbers for certain degrees is that you don't have to go to university to succeed in life. we'll speaking at a school in london earlier, he says the measures will benefit taxpayer says now for many people, university is the right answer and it does brilliantly. >> but actually there are a

range of people who are being let down by the current system. they're taken advantage they're being taken advantage of with quality courses that with low quality courses that don't lead a job that makes don't lead to a job that makes it worth leaves them it worth it leaves them financially worse off. that's what clamping down on what we're clamping down on today, but at the same time, making that people making sure that young people have of fantastic have a range of fantastic alternative opportunities, whether be apprentices or whether that be apprentices or high higher technical qualifications for example. so the key message is , look, you the key message is, look, you don't have to go to university to succeed in life. there are a range of fantastic options and that's what we're delivering an accommodation barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has left falmouth in cornwall and is now on its way to its destination in dorset. >> the bibby stockholm had been due in portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council. the barge is part of the government's plans to move out of hotel rooms move migrant out of hotel rooms with the aim of reducing the cost the public migrant cost on the public migrant crossings has set a new record for last month with over 3800 people arriving to the uk , people arriving to the uk, compared to just over 3100 the

same time last year. compared to just over 3100 the same time last year . the prime same time last year. the prime minister says the government will deliver on its commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, despite a critical report from the spending watchdog . the from the spending watchdog. the report says that just 32 of a promised 40 new hospitals would be completed by the deadline. the government's pledge was first made by the former prime minister boris johnson. leaders in the health sector say they're deeply disappointed , painted in deeply disappointed, painted in the delays, adding that the cost to taxpayers will now be higher. but rishi sunak says the government is on track to deliver on its promise . now the deliver on its promise. now the number of people waiting more than a year for nhs care has risen by 15% in the past year. the prime minister has made cutting nhs waiting lists one of his top five priorities ahead of the next election. but the liberal democrats argue the figures show that year long waits rose in the 12 months to may, nhs england data shows there were over 300,000 patients waiting 52 weeks for treatment.

in may last year. but may this year that increased to over 380,000. now a new law to prevent extremist groups from training ai chatbot to spread terrorism would be introduced if labour wins the next election . labour wins the next election. shadow home secretary yvette cooper has outlined the party's approach to national security in approach to national security in a speech , including measures to a speech, including measures to prevent online radicalisation . prevent online radicalisation. encouraging terrorism is a criminal offence under existing legislation, but it's harder to establish culpability when new technology is used well. labour's pledging to close the loophole by criminalising the deliberate training of chat bots to radicalise people . all to to radicalise people. all to people have died and a girl injured after an attack on the bndge injured after an attack on the bridge linking russia to crimea. bucha were reported in the early hours of this morning with drivers stopping on the bridge and traffic halted. russian officials blame ukraine for what they're calling a terrorist

attack , but kyiv has yet to attack, but kyiv has yet to officially comment . at the kerch officially comment. at the kerch bridge links the crimean peninsula to russia's mainland . peninsula to russia's mainland. it's the second major incident on the bridge in the past year. south east water says last year's record breaking heatwave and other extreme weather cost it around £17 million last year. it said the immediate response to the weather , such as sourcing to the weather, such as sourcing new water cost it around £66 million. it also said it incurred costs of another 4.9 million, repairing leaks and bursts in its pipe network and paid customers £5.5 million in compensation . south east water compensation. south east water supplies, over 2 million homes in england . and finally, the in england. and finally, the queen is celebrating her birthday today. it's camilla's first birthday since the coronation in london in may. and to mark her 76th birthday, a 41 gun salute by the king's troop . gun salute by the king's troop. royal horse artillery battery will take place in green park

around noon . you're with gb around noon. you're with gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to andrew and . andrew and. bev still , it's 1106. still, it's 1106. >> thank you forjoining us here >> thank you for joining us here on gb news. so this morning, we've been talking about a crackdown on what rishi sunak is kind rip off degrees is. >> yeah, prime minister has been visiting a school careers fair in london and he's been talking about this and this is what he had to say . well, that was the had to say. well, that was the prime minister is speaking. so he's so it's on the front page of the daily mail. the daily telegraph today. students are being ripped off. he says too many students, in his view, are doing degrees are doing degrees that are worthless. don't to worthless. they don't need to lasting career jobs lasting significant career jobs . he's also worried about the debt. leaving them with

debt. it's leaving them with £46,000 on average. what about us taxpayers who are paying billion of pounds owed to the taxpayer for student loans and never going to be repaid because some of them have disappeared abroad . some of them never earn abroad. some of them never earn enough money because don't enough money because you don't start it until start paying it back until you earn about 26,000. >> think back setting out >> i just think back setting out young people on life with that amount of debt not too much. >> is a terrible mindset to start into life, isn't it? to think about ever buying a house, having kids, getting married. >> your age, 21, you become a social worker, or you've done a degree in creative writing. what are going and are you going to earn? and you've got £46,000 in you've already got £46,000 in debt. that's an average. anyway, this is prime minister. this is the prime minister. let's try. this is let's have another try. this is what got to say . what he's got to say. >> you know, it's been to >> you know, it's been great to be this in tower be here at this school in tower hamlets many hamlets to talking so many bright young people their bright young people about their futures. to build a futures. now, i want to build a country a society where no country in a society where no matter where from and matter where you're from and your can fulfil your background, you can fulfil all dreams aspirations. all your dreams and aspirations. now, job in government is to now, ourjob in government is to give the young people that give all the young people that i've been talking the

i've been talking to today the opportunities they need to succeed. for many people, succeed. now, for many people, university answer succeed. now, for many people, univit sity answer succeed. now, for many people, univitsity brilliantly.answer succeed. now, for many people, univitsity brilliantly. but/er and it does brilliantly. but actually there are a range of people who are being let down by the current system. they're being of with the current system. they're beirquality of with the current system. they're beirquality courses of with the current system. they're beirquality courses thatf with the current system. they're beirquality courses that don't low quality courses that don't lead a job that makes it lead to a job that makes it worth it leaves them financially worse that's what we're worse off. that's what we're clamping down today, but at clamping down on today, but at the making sure that the same time, making sure that young have a of young people have a range of fantastic alternative opportunities, be opportunities, whether that be apprentices or high higher technical qualifications , for technical qualifications, for example. so the key message is , example. so the key message is, look, you don't have to go to university to succeed in life. there are a range of fantastic opfions there are a range of fantastic options and that's what we're delivering. >> and can you actually order the to do this? the regulator to do this? >> now? the regulator is independent so. independent and rightly so. but what will do is what the regulator will do is look at a range of different outcomes courses. so what look at a range of different outc(ofes courses. so what look at a range of different outc(of jobs courses. so what look at a range of different outc( of jobs the jrses. so what look at a range of different outc( of jobs the students what look at a range of different outc(of jobs the students going kind of jobs the students going on they complete the on to do, they complete the course . how much earn in course. how much do they earn in later life? and on the basis of all of that, they'll be able to figure out, well, hang on, that course actually isn't delivering value it's letting value for money. it's letting people down and we should not put we're

people down and we should not put them we're people down and we should not put them down we're people down and we should not put them down and we're people down and we should not put them down and withve're people down and we should not put them down and with that letting them down and with that information, then students can make informed choices. and make more informed choices. and at same time, we're making at the same time, we're making it easier for them find it easier for them to find things apprenticeships . so things like apprenticeships. so for the ever time, for the first ever time, apprenticeships be apprenticeships are going to be on system. this autumn on the ucas system. this autumn because is because my view is apprenticeships are equally apprenticeships are an equally high alternate to high quality alternate to universities and actually putting them on the bucha system means don't this means we don't have this division classroom where division in the classroom where some people are going to university, people are university, some people are doing an apprenticeship. actually, it's all the same. they're opportunities they're all great opportunities and kind system and that's the kind of system we're delivering. >> already a funding >> there is already a funding crisis universities. how will crisis in universities. how will universities themselves if universities fund themselves if they reduce places like they have to reduce places like this? well i think it's important system is important that the system is also taxpayers because also fair for taxpayers because ultimately it's taxpayers that fund this system. >> and we've got a situation at the around half of the moment where around half of people go go to people to go to who go to university don't end up paying back cost of that degree. back the cost of that degree. now, that cost the taxpayer money. need sure money. so we need to make sure the is not just fair for the system is not just fair for students and they're the students and they're getting the right but also right outcome, but it's also fair and part fair for taxpayers. and part of these clamping on these reforms clamping down on low quality courses will improve

the overall financial sustainability of the system. and that's right, it's right for students, for students, right for the taxpayer, ultimately , we'll taxpayer, and ultimately, we'll build education system build a better education system where there are lots of different fantastic, high quality people to go quality routes for people to go and fulfil all their dreams and ambitions. is ambitions. that's what this is about. reforms that about. and the reforms that we're making today will make that likely. we're making today will make tha and likely. we're making today will make tha and like students we're making today will make tha and likestudents and >> and what students and families to see is a families would like to see is a reduction in tuition why reduction in tuition fees. why aren't all of aren't you implementing all of aukus and reducing aukus reforms and reducing tuition fees? >> well, we have actually delivered many of aukus reforms. we've frozen tuition fees. we've improved the payment terms. so that actually no one will now pay that actually no one will now pay back more than they've borrowed. so those are the reforms that the government has made that will be helpful for students. also we have students. but also we have delivered what aukus said and reduced the cost of what are called foundation years courses. you those those early you know, those those early years the degree which are years of the degree which are different and can provided at different and can be provided at lower costs. so those are being reduced in line with aukus recommendation. again that's another reform we're making that will for students and

will be good for students and enable them to look at a range of different alternatives to get on life, not just university, on in life, not just university, but apprenticeships and other things recognise things, and recognise that there's of different routes there's lots of different routes to success. we're going to back them of them . them on all of them. >> so was the prime >> so that was the prime minister talking at a school in east london today. we're going to join our gb news deputy political editor harwood, political editor tom harwood, who's street . tom, who's in downing street. tom, this probably an easy win for this is probably an easy win for the government. it will be quite popular . the the government. it will be quite popular. the amount of the government. it will be quite popular . the amount of people popular. the amount of people leaving university saddled with huge debts is growing and the amount of money owed to the student loan fund now over £200 billion. tom yes, it's funny. >> we often talk about it as if it's a debt that is incurred upon the individual girls who go to university , when in reality to university, when in reality this could be seen more as if it's a graduate tax 9% on top of the tax paid by graduates after . 2012 who earn above a threshold of, i believe, 27,000

or £28,000 a year. now and as the prime minister was saying in that interview, there , that that interview, there, that means that around half of the people who go to university who incur this quote unquote debt never actually pay it off because is the amount that they pay because is the amount that they pay back never reaches the total. they borrowed, quote unquote, borrowed. not really borrowed by the end of the time. it's wiped off after 30 years. so in the end, this is a burden that falls upon the taxpayer by to a considerable ill degree. and then you get into the quite concerning details of how many people are actually better off for having gone to university data from the institute for fiscal studies suggests that every year seven 20,000 graduates are actually worse off on net for having gone to university compared to if they had not gone to university and just started working, not

incurred the quote unquote debt. i think i think it's wrong to talk about it. it's as if it's a debt, actually, perhaps not incurred that higher income tax threshold and not threshold, but band that graduates now incur. sir, it is interesting . there sir, it is interesting. there are certainly some some degrees that in the view of the government, in the view of the prime minister and in the view of many impartial observers, these are not worth the money. >> all right, tom, that's tom harwood , our deputy political harwood, our deputy political edhon harwood, our deputy political editor, who's looking into this. bev, there are 10 or 11 years durham university got into a lot of flak. they did a second year module, wasn't whole module, wasn't the whole degree on harry potter and the age of illusion. i mean, come on. i mean i mean, i love harry potter. i've read all the books. >> i've watched all the films. >> i've watched all the films. >> and she's someone who did engush >> and she's someone who did english literature and language. i've of time for i've got a lot of time for people studying didn't i've got a lot of time for pe0|harry|dying didn't i've got a lot of time for pe0|harry potter. didn't like harry potter. >> yeah, but harry in >> yeah, but harry potter in the age of illusion. >> , let me tell you what >> well, let me tell you what you've been saying about this this james said this morning. james has said once again, our prime minister this morning. james has said ortryingnin, our prime minister this morning. james has said ortryingnin, our pus e minister

this morning. james has said ortryingnin, our pus look1ister this morning. james has said ortryingnin, our p us look their is trying to make us look the other let dodge other way. don't let him dodge the issues ruining the real issues that are ruining our country. and alex has said the people involved with education have not got a clue about the real world. i worked in apprenticeship training for years. number in apprenticeship training for ye mickey number in apprenticeship training for ye mickey mouse number in apprenticeship training for ye mickey mouse apprenticeships in apprenticeship training for ye welley mouse apprenticeships in apprenticeship training for ye well as’viouse apprenticeships in apprenticeship training for ye well as degrees. prenticeships in apprenticeship training for ye well as degrees. they've ships in apprenticeship training for ye well as degrees. they've made as well as degrees. they've made tradespeople lower tradespeople into the lower class in this an class in this country. an apprentice used to study for five years to become a tradesman. it's now three years and a person going to university just attends just three years, only attends a few week. we need full few days a week. we need full time used time attendance to get them used to patterns of to the work patterns of employers. we need to cut down the of courses in favour the number of courses in favour of a big reaction to of quality and a big reaction to liam halligan. of quality and a big reaction to liartalklligan.food inflation. >> talk about food inflation. janice. i've been saying this forever. supermarkets are profiting can forever. supermarkets are prof oasis, can forever. supermarkets are prof oasis, i've can and oasis, i've been a sainsbury's customer over 50 sainsbury's customer for over 50 years. to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . i to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . i spend to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . i spend £100 to lidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . i spend £100 perlidl sainsbury's customer for over 50 yearaldi . i spend £100 per week and aldi. i spend £100 per week and aldi. i spend £100 per week and enough enough . and enough is enough. >> well, well, bring in >> well, well, let's bring in political and writer political pundit and writer james melville to get his view this morning james. this morning. morning james. good morning . good morning. >> how are you? >> how are you? >> hi. good. good to see you. do we think it's coincidental that rishi sunak has come out with this bold statement about this big, bold statement about education that we education on the week that we

got elections? could be got three by elections? could be seen cynically, perhaps seen rather cynically, perhaps as timing . as excellent timing. >> oh, of course . i mean, the >> oh, of course. i mean, the timing is impeccable by this government on a number of different things to sort of sort of move the agendas and sort of put themselves in a positive light . think with this debate, light. i think with this debate, it's think it's about balance. i think there obviously issues in there is obviously issues in terms burdening the with terms of burdening the debt with a lot of students, and we've got to sure that the courses to make sure that the courses are purpose in this day are fit for purpose in this day and but i'm also concerned and age. but i'm also concerned about the government playing arbiter with kids education and what they deem as a fit for purpose , value based course . purpose, value based course. what's the criteria on this ? as what's the criteria on this? as you know, there's certain sectors that should be given more priority and more weight. and i agree with one of the comments earlier as well about apprenticeships and the value that should be placed on that. i think about getting think it's about getting a balance in terms of what is relevant for the workplace and making universities are making sure the universities are functioning in terms of their finance and that students are focusing on the right degrees. but i very , very concerned

but i am very, very concerned about deciding about governments deciding effective what students can and cannot do . cannot do. >> so it'll be down to the universities in the end, surely, james, because i'm not sure unless they're going to legislate that the government really say university, really can say to university, you will not do this course in golf management. >> mean , sunak test the >> yeah, i mean, sunak test the water around education. a number of different things. like for instance, his, his ideas about maths till 18, which i'm concerned about as well. every child is different. every child is different skills . and that is different skills. and that also applies at university and also applies at university and also so rather than sort of undermining the credibility of universities, it's not just about the academic side of things. there's a lot of values that are attached to university in terms of core skills. i studied politics, for instance, edinburgh university, which taught me the art of blethering and debating. but it gave me a lot of skills in terms of the workplace and the ability to present and also from a social point of view, mixing with people from different backgrounds and all of backgrounds and all walks of life, universal key yes, it

needs to be harnessed and focussed on what is right for the workplace, it we the workplace, but it also we cannot forget that it gives a lot of other skills as well. >> let's just ask you before you 90, >> let's just ask you before you go, james, about this news about the stockholm making its go, james, about this news about the down stockholm making its go, james, about this news about the down to yckholm making its go, james, about this news about the down to dorset] making its go, james, about this news about the down to dorset toraking its go, james, about this news about the down to dorset to house its go, james, about this news about the down to dorset to house 500 way down to dorset to house 500 migrants. that solution? migrants. is that the solution? no it's not. >> i think what's happening here is the communities are being forgotten about, not just on this issue, but many, many issues . you know, i say this as issues. you know, i say this as a remain voter, but i understand one of the major issues around the was about the brexit debate was about immigration, economic immigration, economic immigration is a good thing. but what's not a good thing is immigration. with solution is imposing , immigration. with solution is imposing, say, barges or hotel stays onto communities. and a lot of communities around the country feel forgotten about in a number of different issues. this is one of them. and i think the government, when it comes up to election, may well pay a to the election, may well pay a heavy because heavy price for this because there is a lot of anger and not just what's happening in cornwall dorset , but around cornwall and dorset, but around the country on this . a lot of the country on this. a lot of communities feel that they're

not listened to. not being listened to. >> feel that starmer >> do you feel that keir starmer is those communities, is talking to those communities, though offering an though, and offering an alternative? because i don't hear starmer isn't. hear that starmer isn't. >> that's the problem. you've got a government lagging got a government that's lagging in polls . i got a government that's lagging in polls. i don't think that in the polls. i don't think that sunak relate to the population at all, but i don't think starmer does either. so you've basically got two cheeks of the same backside and you've got a government and an opposition, not on immigration , but on not just on immigration, but on many, many issues that are giving off the impression that they're not listening people they're not listening to people around . so there's around the country. so there's a sense of loss and disenfranchisement with community. rs because they're looking at the government , so looking at the government, so they've given up on the government, they're looking they've given up on the gothe|ment, they're looking they've given up on the gothe opposition,:hey're looking they've given up on the gothe opposition, hoping.ooking they've given up on the gothe opposition, hoping for;ing at the opposition, hoping for answers, and they're hoping for answers, and they're hoping for a government in waiting from laboun a government in waiting from labour. and they're not seeing that either. >> right. thank you, >> okay. all right. thank you, james. james melville i think these byelections going to these byelections are going to be fascinating this week. >> could be if >> there will be it could be if they lose all three. the worst result for governing party result for a governing party since back in 1968 it since 1968. and back in 1968 it was labour in power. the tories

won those three by elections. two years later, they won the general election. is the history going to itself? well, going to repeat itself? well, let's we'll be covering all going to repeat itself? well, letthat we'll be covering all going to repeat itself? well, letthat here, 'll be covering all going to repeat itself? well, letthat here, of be covering all going to repeat itself? well, letthat here, of course, ring all going to repeat itself? well, letthat here, of course, all] all week. >> right? still to come this morning, defence secretary ben wallace says will step wallace says that he will step down his government role at down from his government role at the cabinet reshuffle. the next cabinet reshuffle. but who go who might succeed him? don't go anywhere

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newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so defence secretary ben wallace has announced that he will step down from government at the next cabinet reshuffle and the general election. >> previously , wallace has >> previously, wallace has warned britain could enter warned that britain could enter a with russia a confrontation with russia and cold with china before 2030 cold war with china before 2030 and also get into a dispute with terrorist organisations in africa. >> so who should take over from ben wallace and shape the country's military agenda? well we're joined now by sorry, by the former head of the british army, general lord richard dannatt. >> morning . are you disappointed >> morning. are you disappointed he's standing down because he is a defence secretary who actually knew he was lord knew what he was doing? lord dannatt well, andrew, you're right, and he's been a very successful defence secretary for several years and continuity in that post is important. >> but i think a number of us have known for some time that he was likely to stand down. his constituency disappeared at the next general election as a result of boundary changes and we know that he wanted to be

secretary general of nato. so he was clearly thinking about life beyond and beyond westminster and beyond being a member of parliament. >> so i think his decision to stand down and announce it ahead of a reshuffle, in other words, he's leaving at his own discretion as opposed to being shuffled out, put all those things together. that's not surprising . surprising. >> do you think he should have been position been given the position of general nato ? no. general secretary of nato? no. well it's not really for us to say. >> he. i think , would have made >> he. i think, would have made a very satisfactory a very good secretary—general of nato as we said, several years as british defence secretary. i think he would have done a good job, rather like george robertson would have done a good job, racouple e george robertson would have done a good job, racouple e (decadesybertson would have done a good job, racouple e (decades ago.;on would have done a good job, racouple e (decades ago. but it a couple of decades ago. but it it was signalled by emmanuel macron that he wanted someone from a european union country to be sec—gen. and i think president biden thought he would try and defuse a row between britain and france by suggesting that jens stoltenberg stayed on for another year, which is which is what happened. so yeah, i think watch this space. as far

as secretary—general of nato is concerned, we he gets great good write ups. >> lord dannatt for being a very good defence secretary. but was he robust enough with the treasury there's going he robust enough with the treasleven there's going he robust enough with the treasleven more there's going he robust enough with the treasleven more cutbacks. )ing to be even more cutbacks. we read army, which is read in the army, which is probably going be its lowest probably going to be its lowest level since something like the crimean war . level since something like the crimean war. i guess we perhaps don't need as many conventional foot soldiers as we used to, but it does seem the military have taken quite whacking from the taken quite a whacking from the treasury . treasury. >> you're right. and i know that ben has had very vigorous discussions with the treasury and with jeremy hunt and has been arguing the case as strongly as he can for an increase in defence spending . increase in defence spending. just think back to last year when we had 3 or 4 prime ministers we had boris johnson talking about raising raising the defence budget to 2.5% of gdp from just over 2% where it is now. then we had elizabeth truss suggesting that it should go to 3. so we've played quite a lot of helter skelter with the

defence budget . but, but again, defence budget. but, but again, this is one of those things that he was hinting at when he talked about a war in europe and a cold war in in the indo—china area and then issues in africa. our world is not very secure and i think as far as the army is concerned, the reality of a brutal land war in europe, which has been going on for the last 500 odd days, does show that conventional defence on land is really, really important. and we are undoubtedly underfunding our army. in theory , there's more army. in theory, there's more investment towards the end of the decade, but frankly, that's not soon enough. it's not good enough and there's a very strong case that there should be an increase in defence budget and an increase in the proportion of the defence budget spent on our land forces. >> and he's talked about in in just as he's standing down lord dannatt about being drawn into three potential conflicts. russia he said, isn't finished with us yet . china and

with us yet. china and potentially terrorist organisations in africa. are we in a position to fight any any one of those three conflicts, let alone all three of them ? let alone all three of them? well i certainly wouldn't want to fight all three of them. >> ideally, i wouldn't fight any of them personally. i've always thought that the continent on which british soldiers were most likely to be deployed next probably was africa, east or west africa . given there's quite west africa. given there's quite a jihadist islamist agenda in a number of those countries and could see us having to honour some of our obligations to former colonial possessions in east and west africa . as far as east and west africa. as far as europe is concerned , again, this europe is concerned, again, this is ukraine's war, but we are supporting ukraine. but what's really, really important is when the ukraine war becomes less hot, that nato has strong forward deterrent presence to make sure that russia is deterred from any further adventures or excursions , trying adventures or excursions, trying to press the boundaries of europe. and that , again will

europe. and that, again will mean an increase, i would argue, in our land defence forces . as in our land defence forces. as far as china is concerned . and far as china is concerned. and we need to be an aggressive competitor to china. we certainly don't want to get into conflict with china, but that does mean to say that a long we should be supporting america , should be supporting america, which is the primary alternative power to china in the indo—pacific area, and it's our responsibility as a good friend of the united states to support them in the best way we can. but we absolutely must make sure that rhetoric and policy does not descend from competition into conflict with china. that would be a disaster for the world. >> can i just ask you, is it helpful? all over the weekend, bofis helpful? all over the weekend, boris johnson was talking about the fact that we must get ukraine into nato as soon as possible, knowing that that was the exactly the concern that was partly responsible for triggering putin's invasion of ukraine. is it helpful at the moment, as you said, it's still

a very hot situation . torfaen a very hot situation. torfaen i'm not sure that was the most sensible thing to be saying right now . right now. >> well , go back right now. >> well, go back a couple of points there. i think it's fair to say had ukraine been a member of nato, then , i don't think in of nato, then, i don't think in february 2022, putin would have invaded because he knew that he would be taking on the whole of nato. but that's that's then we are where we are now. um clearly under the terms of the north atlantic treaty, a country that's in dispute with a neighbour is not able to join nato, but when this war that's currently hot becomes a cold war in whatever shape or form it does, then i think there is a very strong case for ukraine to have an accelerated membership of nato, to give it the security that it needs in the future . that it needs in the future. whether it was right for boris johnson to say that over the weekend, i'm not sure boris has always been a great cheerleader for ukraine, going back to his days as prime minister. but i

think i think most people would agree that ukraine has earned the right to nato member. the right to be a nato member. the how is that done the issue is how is that done and when is that done ? and when is that done? >> interesting. thank you . >> interesting. thank you. always interesting. lord dannatt . yeah, former head of the british army there, general richard, great to talk to you. >> well, we're going to talk about tennis. for to get about tennis. rare for me to get exercise for any sporting event, but the extraordinary match where carlos alcaraz defeated novak djokovic claimed the men's title. we're going to be talking about that with sarah vine and our political commentator, bushra sheikh in the newspaper review . review. >> that's all after your morning's news tatiana morning's news with tatiana sanchez. >> beth, thank you very much and good morning. this is the latest from the newsroom rishi sunak has announced plans to cap the number of students that can be accepted to on what he calls rip off degrees in england. the government says limits will be imposed on courses that have high dropout rates or a low

proportion of graduates getting a job. the prime a professional job. the prime minister says the key message of the policy is that you don't have to go to university to succeed in life . an succeed in life. an accommodation barge set to house 500 asylum seekers has left falmouth in cornwall and is now on its way to dorset. the bibby stockholm had been due in portland a month ago, despite resistance from the local council . while the barge is part council. while the barge is part of government's plans of the government's plans to move out of hotel rooms move migrants out of hotel rooms with the aim reducing the with the aim of reducing the cost on the public migrant crossings, have set a new record for last month, with over 3800 people arriving to the uk , people arriving to the uk, compared to just over 3100 the same time last year. compared to just over 3100 the same time last year . the prime same time last year. the prime minister says the government will deliver on its commitment to build 40 new hospitals by 2030, despite a critical report from the spending watchdog. the report says that just 32 of a promised 40 new hospitals would be completed by the deadline. the government's pledge was first made by former prime

minister boris johnson. leaders in the health sector say they're deeply disappointed in the delays , adding that the cost to delays, adding that the cost to taxpayers will now be higher. but rishi sunak says the government is on track to deliver on promise train deliver on its promise train drivers will be banned from working , will be banned from working, will be banned from working, will be banned from working overtime as part of an ongoing dispute over pay. the aslef union says its members at 15 train operating companies will refuse to work overtime from the 31st of july until the 5th of august. the action threatens to disrupt services at the height of the summer holidays . and the queen is holidays. and the queen is celebrating her birthday today . celebrating her birthday today. it's her majesty's first birthday since the coronation in london on may the 6th. and as she turns 76, green park will be celebrating with a 41 gun salute by the king's troop. royal horse artillery at noon . you can get artillery at noon. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com

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>> join the live desk on gb news. the people's channel. britain's news . news. the people's channel. britain's news. channel >> it's 1139 was britain's news. channel >> it's1139 was britain's britain's news. channel >> it's 1139 was britain's news. and when gb news with andrew pearson bev turner we've got some breaking . news some breaking. news >> andrew, don't do that . >> andrew, don't do that. >> andrew, don't do that. >> did you not just face. >> did you not just face. >> okay. i quite like that sting. breaking news, sir elton john has been called on as a defence witness, giving evidence via video link from monaco in the trial of kevin spacey at southwark crown court . southwark crown court. >> it's interesting his husband, david furnish, has also been giving hollywood giving evidence on the hollywood stars behalf. that's an ongoing court case. >> is that more interesting than he thought it was going to be? >> is, yeah. yeah yeah. yes >> it is, yeah. yeah yeah. yes let's talk about something that's more interesting that's even more interesting thing, because for thing, though, because i for once got exercised by a sporting event, which is unheard of, unheard of, but unheard of. >> not known for your sporting.

>> not known for your sporting. >> i can't bear it. it's boring. football season. it seems to go on i thought the on forever, but i thought the tennis magnificent. we tennis was magnificent. we have a yes, it's great a new champ. yes, and it's great because it's the new because it's the first new champ woman called murray woman who's not called murray nadal . federer, yes or no? nadal. federer, yes or no? >> he is. i mean, did you see it was an extraordinary brilliant. >> i cowered in the kitchen dunng >> i cowered in the kitchen during the last game. >> it was brilliant. and i did think that djokovic , he should think that djokovic, he should not have slammed his racquet into the post because he obviously hurt his wrist. yeah, he did. and which which, you know , silly. silly because you know, silly. silly because you know, silly. silly because you know, because then you've got you're facing this guy who's lobbing things at you at about 700 miles an hour and you just can't return them. yeah. and i think you know, that was think that's you know, that was that's a don't lose your temper. >> i love the that he wears >> i love the fact that he wears his on his sleeve. that's his heart on his sleeve. that's what passion. i love what i love. the passion. i love the fact that the is the fact that the emotion is there. fredonia, it there. fredonia, even if it means smashing his racket on the telly, what he's telly, you know what he's thinking. hiding it. thinking. he's not hiding it. yeah, thinking. he's not hiding it. yeaand this is about tennis. >> and this is about tennis. this is about people just having their they their passion in their. they have audience,

have an audience, a live audience. are watching audience. people are watching them. obviously, when it's audience. people are watching the|final, obviously, when it's audience. people are watching the|final, obvicemotionsn it's audience. people are watching the|final, obvicemotions are s the final, your emotions are going heightened. going to be totally heightened. yeah. this for is yeah. i mean, this for me is a win for alcaraz. why? yeah, because the family that he comes from , you know, and his father from, you know, and his father was also a brilliant tennis player. when we about player. and when we think about it, it's such a wonderful story. he from that poor he comes from that poor background, the opportunity background, had the opportunity to you don't see to be amazing and you don't see that in tennis. that often in tennis. >> yeah. and it is fabulous. >> yeah. and it is fabulous. >> well, you do. i mean, you had the sisters , the venus williams the sisters, the venus williams sisters . i mean, you i mean, sisters. i mean, you i mean, tennis is it's one of the i mean, my father was a really talented tennis player. but you have backup. have to have the backup. you need the you absolutely need to have the you absolutely have support because have to have the support because it an extraordinarily it is an extraordinarily difficult game because it's about it's mental and physical. he's you know, he's also very engaging character, isn't he? >> and alcaraz yeah. his post match, he's got great teeth. >> you kept seeing a lot of those because every time he every time he a point in, every time he got a point in, he'd roar. and then you'd see this sort this incredibly sort of beautiful white teeth. >> thought way he >> but i thought the way he

engaged with the king of spain was charming. you'd been was rather charming. you'd been to me twice, and both to see me twice, and both times i won. you come and i won. can you please come and see so, yeah. a see me again? so, yeah. he's a sweet boy. and yeah, he is. >> he's only 20. >> he's only 20. >> yeah. and it's time for a change. bev, i you're big. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i i'm still mourning >> i mean, i'm still mourning the retirement of, the passing, the retirement of, you know, roger federer. roger. my you know, roger federer. roger. my boyfriend. very my boyfriend. yeah. so very sad. we over him. we were going to fight over him. >> i kate middleton >> i think kate middleton would fight well. fight you for him as well. >> fight. yeah >> everybody would fight. yeah yeah, he was, because he was such elegant player. such an elegant player. >> i love alcaraz. he's a >> and i love alcaraz. he's a great so is jovovich. great player and so is jovovich. but have that but they don't have that elegance federer have. for elegance that federer have. for me, he's a different era, wasn't it? >> yeah, i was talking a great story queen went story when the queen rarely went to she didn't to wimbledon because she didn't like was there like tennis, but she was there in and her jubilee when in 1977 and her jubilee when virginia wade the prize. but virginia won wade the prize. but she to roger federer at she sat next to roger federer at this the going this lunch and in the car going back buckingham palace . one back to buckingham palace. one of officials told me this. of her officials told me this. she i'd like canary she trilled i'd like a canary all the way back that federer all the way back that mr federer , so charming, so charming, charming and this is the queen who's absolutely everybody. and this official said she couldn't

remember the queen ever going on quite so long. and what did you think of mr federer and that's just what he that's just roger federer. he charmed even our great queen. >> but but his game, was he even his game was charming, wasn't it, he played? it was so it, the way he played? it was so elegant so gentle . only elegant and so gentle. only these much more reluctant. >> sat to next roger federer. >> sat to next roger federer. >> i would have loved to sat next to roger federer, but let's not forget, never. >> right. let's talk about another the another story that's in the papers this about the papers today. this is about the trocadero london's trocadero in london's piccadilly. it is a big icon , a piccadilly. it is a big icon, a landmark of a location in basra. and the plan is to turn it into a mosque . yeah. which has a mosque. yeah. which has obviously been greeted with a division . it's a controversial division. it's a controversial thing. why why is that controversial? well i think it was back in 2020 when mr aziz , was back in 2020 when mr aziz, who is the owner of trocadero, actually put in a 1000 capacity for a mosque . for a mosque. >> and then you had the far right, which was britain first.

and they were the ones to push back. let's say that because it's obviously religious it's obviously a religious institution, building. institution, it's a building. it's a mosque. people will go there and pray. and they felt like because trocadero the like because trocadero was the heart of an entertainment bustling city, you bustling city, why should you put a religious mosque in the middle so for people who so people who don't know. >> so the trocadero is in piccadilly? yeah, it's been an entertainment space for years, hasn't it? very significant. very significant . it was. it very significant. it was. it was. it's an icon location. >> there's an image flashing up. if you're listening on the radio, big letters, radio, it's big green letters, but there for ever. but it's been there for ever. >> used to go there a teenagen >> what did you do? >> what did you do? >> skating. oh, terrible things. i can't remember. steel eyeliners. no, didn't steel eyeliners. no, i didn't steel eyeliners. no, i didn't steel eyeliners sort eyeliners but you know, the sort of it's a of thing that it's a real teenagers. a real teenage teenagers. it was a real teenage sort rat thing. you sort of mall rat thing. you know, you there as young know, you go there as a young kid london there was kid in london because there was hmv as well, so you'd hmv was nearby as well, so you'd 9°, hmv was nearby as well, so you'd go, we're going to hit so go, so we're going to hit so we're going hear the face. go, so we're going to hit so we'we're1g hear the face. go, so we're going to hit so we'we're going1ear the face. go, so we're going to hit so we'we're going to r the face. go, so we're going to hit so we'we're going to be |e face. go, so we're going to hit so we'we're going to be called to >> we're going to be called to prayer from central london prayer from the central london five a day. five times a day. >> it's extremely >> i think it's extremely provocative think it's provocative and i think it's probably because provocative and i think it's pr

provocative and i think it's pr> and not to forget that, you know , we are a very know, we are a very multicultural, diverse community there. not all of them, there. and it's not all of them, but there's no shortage of its it's only a portion of the building. and there is huge building. and there is a huge muslim community that muslim community there that work there there. then there that go there. then perhaps they need somewhere to pray, know, having pray, perhaps, you know, having that is that balance in the centre is a bad idea, but there's no shortage of mosques in london. >> there? >> is there? >> is there? >> there's a lot quite lot >> no, there's a lot quite a lot of shortage of space. >> i there lot of >> i mean, there are a lot of old churches nobody uses old churches that nobody uses anymore. know, if it's anymore. but, you know, if it's anymore. but, you know, if it's a bit like setting up a sort of missionary stall in the middle of and saying to everybody, of soho and saying to everybody, you endis of soho and saying to everybody, you end is nigh, stop, you know, the end is nigh, stop, stop your sinful . stop your sinful. >> part a move

>> definitely part of a move towards a sort of there's definitely a middle eastern vibe to a lot of the west end. yeah. you know, if you drive from harrods on a friday, saturday night and you go down knightsbridge, you've got lamborghinis , porsches, lamborghinis, porsches, ferraris, double parts because they can afford the tickets a lot of very, very rich young arabic, asian men smoking shisha pipes. the change, bushra, is profound , but it doesn't feel profound, but it doesn't feel religious, though, does it, that that part of it is not religious. that's that's purely financial, isn't it? >> but that's also touristy. so we don't want stop people >> but that's also touristy. so we dycoming.t stop people >> but that's also touristy. so we dycoming. they:op people >> but that's also touristy. so we dycoming. they spendyple >> but that's also touristy. so we dycoming. they spendyplhell from coming. they spend a hell of of money in of a lot of money in knightsbridge in central london. you come here to you know, they come here to escape the heat of saudi or dubaior escape the heat of saudi or dubai or the uae and they come here to enjoy london and they spend of money and they do spend lots of money and they do boost economy. so don't boost our economy. so we don't want to not, you know, let them be here. but i do obviously, i do. accept that. it's quite do. i do accept that. it's quite controversial have mosque . controversial to have a mosque. but i guess the middle ground for mr aziz, who purchased the trocadero 2005, he's

trocadero back in 2005, he's a billionaire . he's a billionaire. billionaire. he's a billionaire. and they've said to him, look, you you can't do it you can't have you can't do it to all the building because we can't have too many people. it's just possible. perhaps just not possible. but perhaps you portion of you can have a portion of trocadero as a space for prayer. >> so that's what they've kind of i'm just thinking of i mean, i'm just thinking the regent's huge regent's park mosque, a huge mosque that far mosque is really not that far from part of so from that part of london. so if i mean, think the thing is, as i mean, i think the thing is, as long as the people as long as it as long as sort freedom as long as the sort of freedom of expression that exists in that area of london is allowed to then there's not problem. >> but if you've got a mosque, there and people are saying, you can't, you know, making people feel bad about going and having a is that a drink or whatever it is that they're then that's not they're doing, then that's not going is going going to work. that is going to be provocative. you be provocative. i mean, you can't strict to clashes can't be too strict to clashes of culture in a way . of culture in a way. >> bannau isn't that so? you've got soho predominant gay bars where pride is celebrated every yeah where pride is celebrated every year. and, you know, i mean, some sites walk down there on a saturday night going to be interacting with the attendants of the mosque . like is that

of the mosque. like is that potentially problematic? i don't know . know. >> i don't think so. i think we've we've pushed past that in central london. i think we're so multi diverse with so many different cultures. i don't believe having a mosque there where those people who are actually affected are just going to go and pray are going to cause problems because to go and pray are going to cause stillyblems because to go and pray are going to cause still exists because muslims still exist in that community. are already muslims still exist in that comm so ty. are already muslims still exist in that comm so i. are already muslims still exist in that comm so i don't are already muslims still exist in that comm so i don't think lready muslims still exist in that comm so i don't think they're there. so i don't think they're going to cause any trouble. i think people quite think people are quite harmonious. when we harmonious. i think when we widen conversation out, widen this conversation out, things bad people things are not as bad as people claim they you know, claim that they are. you know, i can remember i remember in tower hamlets, bricklayers, music can remember i remember in tower hamlwhichicklayers, music can remember i remember in tower hamlwhich had yers, music can remember i remember in tower hamlwhich had been music can remember i remember in tower hamlwhich had been there for hall, which had been there for decades and decades decades decades and decades and decades and part east end culture. >> and it was licenced i used to go there a few times. danny la rue performed there famously, but there was a lot of pressure from the muslim community, which grew and bigger around grew bigger and bigger around that close it down that area to close it down because it was selling alcohol and they didn't like the idea of men dressing up women. men dressing up as women. i mean, wasn't drag act show. mean, it wasn't a drag act show. it was it was music hall, very

traditional going on since victorian times. and there was and caused a lot of conflict. and it caused a lot of conflict. and of course , the brick lane and of course, the brick lane music hall was there first. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so i think point is, is >> so i think the point is, is that as long as the mosque is respectful of the community, that is basically that it's in, which is basically a western community a hedonistic western community where people go to party and have fun and, you know, that's fine, but the problem will arise if there's any attempt to sort of eradicate that, that. absolutely. >> and i look at the end of the day, i don't think central london or trocadero is a place where people are going to go and live. they're it's too live. they're just it's too expensive. don't expensive. people don't live there, directly. so there, do they? directly. so i don't think you're going to face the challenges, andrew, the same challenges, andrew, like you're saying like the ones that you're saying about, you tower hamlets. like the ones that you're saying ab0|as you tower hamlets. like the ones that you're saying ab0|as you imagine,hamlets. like the ones that you're saying ab0|as you imagine, imagine but as you can imagine, imagine if decided if somebody suddenly decided to build in the trocadero. >> i mean, i think should >> i mean, i think they should similar, know, like go and similar, you know, like go and light a candle. >> would you do. >> would you do. >> would would catholic boy >> i would i would catholic boy we've talking morning we've been talking this morning about vision for education. >> of the things that >> it's one of the things that he's grabbing headlines >> it's one of the things that he's actuallybbing headlines >> it's one of the things that he's actually since headlines >> it's one of the things that he's actually since he became from actually since he became prime various prime minister in various different and this one, different ways. and this one, sarah, is about the idea that

some degrees are just not worth the money to either the student or is right? or the taxpayer. is he right? >> suppose that depends >> well, i suppose that depends whether the purpose of whether you think the purpose of a is to just get highly a degree is to just get a highly paid job or whether you think the purpose of degree is to the purpose of a degree is to expand explore your expand your mind, explore your academia, stuff that expand your mind, explore your aca(wouldn't stuff that expand your mind, explore your aca(wouldn't otherwise uff that expand your mind, explore your aca(wouldn't otherwise have at you wouldn't otherwise have learnt. be that learnt. i tend to be on that latter thing . i think that latter thing. i think that you go university all sorts go to university for all sorts of reasons, not all of them economic. i think one of the big problems that we used to problems was was that we used to have polytechnics which were primarily vocational, and then we universities primarily vocational, and then we primarily ersities primarily vocational, and then we primarily ersit of which were primarily sort of intellectual , and then the 2—2 intellectual, and then the 2—2 got merged into one, and then everything a university. everything became a university. so, you know , the question is so, you know, the question is i think that that people should be able to do degrees like history of which don't have any of art, which don't have any obvious application in, in the sort of commercial hard commercial world. >> what about management? >> what about golf management? >> what about golf management? >> is that a >> golf management? is that a degree , i think degree apparently, i think that's good if you that's a very good idea if you want to go into managing golfers, presumably you golfers, then presumably you need a degree in golf need to do a degree in golf management. i did management. i mean, i did i did a degree the golf a degree managing the golf course. golf. right. sorry,

course. the golf. right. sorry, not mean, did not golfers. i mean, i did french and italian at university. did modern university. i did modern languages have i ever worked as a translator ? once for about ten a translator? once for about ten minutes. i do . i use my minutes. i do. i use my languages. yes. sometimes i do. but i don't. i i my degree was i read a lot of literature. i fell in love with dante, which i wouldn't have done if i hadn't done italian. i mean, there are all sorts of intellectual exercises that come from going to university and it is not just, i don't think a hard cold financial and also financial thing. and also rishi is i is obsessed with maths and i love i'm very fond of rishi, but not everybody likes maths and everybody wants to do. >> i hated it, you know, i couldn't bear the idea that i have till was 18. have done it till i was 18. >> you i did. >> you know, i did. >> you know, i did. >> did go to university and >> i did go to university and i'm sort of half halfway with this. i feel like there are some degrees are and degrees that are useless and they're you could they're pointless. you could actually probably achieve more by not going to university and being by not going to university and beiidon't learn to budget, by not going to university and beiiilearn learn to budget, by not going to university and beiiilearn to learn to budget, by not going to university and beiiilearn to live rn to budget, by not going to university and beiiilearn to live away budget, by not going to university and beiiilearn to live away from at, you learn to live away from your parents. feeling all parents. i'm feeling for all those i'm one them parents. i'm feeling for all those going i'm one them parents. i'm feeling for all those going to i'm one them parents. i'm feeling for all those going to have ne them parents. i'm feeling for all those going to have ne kidszm parents. i'm feeling for all those going to have ne kids at who's going to have my kids at home they're 24 when home until they're 24 when frankly, they should be in

student in manchester or student digs up in manchester or leeds student digs up in manchester or leeand you know there is >> and you know what? there is an argument that going to an argument to say that going to university just university is more than just what learning. the what you're learning. it's the experience the experience is about having the social lifestyle learning. social lifestyle and learning. but students don't but the truth is students don't learn finance when go but the truth is students don't le'uni finance when go but the truth is students don't le'uni . finance when go but the truth is students don't le'uni . that's1ance when go but the truth is students don't le'uni . that's something go but the truth is students don't le'uni . that's something that go to uni. that's something that the parents are the family and the parents are usually instilling. >> forget well >> we shouldn't forget as well here talk about here that when we talk about student we should student loan debt, we should also that's also talk about the debt that's left taxpayer from left to the taxpayer from students who never pay back the students who never pay back the student loan. it's currently student loan. and it's currently over which is more over £200 billion, which is more than one nhs budget. than one year's nhs budget. >> to let people go >> we used to let people go to university so that was university for free, so that was that was a cost. then that we don't have any more. >> think that's a loss. >> i think that's a loss. >> i think that's a loss. >> sarah yes, i do. i do. i think i think, you know, it was harder to get into university and when you did get in, you and but when you did get in, you know, fees were paid. yes know, your fees were paid. yes and therefore, sort and therefore, the degree sort of had more of a value because there was a sort there were there was a sort of there were more hurdles. yeah more hoops to jump more hurdles. yeah more hoops to jump through. >> seem wicked to saddle >> it does seem wicked to saddle a old 22 year old a 21 year old or 22 year old with that 46,000, there with that 46,000, i think there should vocational. should be more vocational. >> know, degrees where >> you know, degrees where companies , as you know, in

companies, as you know, in mechanics, mean, this mechanics, i mean, this this sort idea where, know , sort of idea where, you know, you and you could actually work and learn and get a degree at the same time and earn doesn't seem like insurmountable , but like it's insurmountable, but nobody to be able get education. >> it's a good was a good >> but it's a good was a good headune >> but it's a good was a good headline for him before the by—election we've come to the end. >> e- @ elsheikh >> sarah vine shafee elsheikh great today. great to have you here today. that britain's that is it from britain's newsroom desk is up newsroom the live desk is up next and pip. pip, next with mark and pip. pip, what's the show what's coming up on the show today? afternoon or almost today? good afternoon or almost good afternoon you. today? good afternoon or almost goowefternoon you. today? good afternoon or almost goowe haveyon you. today? good afternoon or almost goowe have got you. today? good afternoon or almost goowe have got plenty happening >> we have got plenty happening in the last few minutes. we have learned that elton john and david furnish are giving evidence in kevin spacey's defence, his ongoing trial. that's happening at southwark crown court . and also we are crown court. and also we are tracking the bibby stockholm that barge that is heading to dorset. it is now on its way and the shadow home secretary, yvette cooper, she's made some very interesting comments about this, declining to say whether she would end using barges to house migrants. we're going to be exploring that. so much more, too, on the live desk here,

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