gb news. >> hello and welcome to gb news saturday. >> i'm martin daubney for and the next three hours i'll be keeping company on your tv onune keeping company on your tv online and of course, on your digital radio. coming up in this hour after this week's by elections, rishi sunak took a kicking in selby and ainsty and also in somerton and frome. but i'll be asking, are the tories toast or does uxbridge say ulez you lose to keir starmer. toast or does uxbridge say ulez you lose to keir starmer . to you lose to keir starmer. to answer that question, we'll be live from today's anti ulez

protest outside the bbc television centre in london. plus the just stop oil protesters stopping sick children getting to hospital. big question of the day. i'm asking what would you do if it was you in that situation? but first, it's the headlines with the wonderful tatiana sanchez . the wonderful tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon . this is the and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. milly tens of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt union continue on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of its members at 14 train companies are walking out over pay and conditions. services are also disrupted because of a ban on overtime by aslef train drivers mean while the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks dunng to pass through border checks during peak hours, as schools have broken up for the holidays

in harnessed post—brexit passport checks by french border officials have also increased processing times , as travel processing times, as travel expert simon calder has been at the port of dover this morning. >> cars expected to turn up at a rate of 31 per minute . and rate of 31 per minute. and certainly the rate i've been seeing them here so far this morning that feels about right. this, of course, is the ferry port that takes people to and across to calais and also to dunkirk . actually, just looking dunkirk. actually, just looking around , it's moving pretty around, it's moving pretty slowly. they are saying that they could possibly be have have delays of 2.5 hours as meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick airports over the coming days , airports over the coming days, adding to the travel difficulties , around 200,000 difficulties, around 200,000 people are expected at manchester airport and around 71,000 from bristol, all with passenger volumes returning to pre—pandemic levels this summer

and some ports exceeding those volumes. >> the border force expects to see more than 34 million air arrivals coming through uk passport control over the coming months . more passport control over the coming months. more families going on european beach holidays are being hit by higher prices compared with last summer due to inflation. new figures from the post office show the cost of meals drinks and beach items have risen year on year. puglia in italy was the only location where prices for uk visitors have dropped the highest annual increases are in bulgaria. turkey and madeira . sir keir turkey and madeira. sir keir starmer says labour cannot rest on its laurels . the party had a on its laurels. the party had a historic win in the selby and ainsty seat in yesterday's by elections with a majority of more than 4000 addressing the national policy forum in nottingham this morning, the labour leader set out his vision for britain ahead of next year's general election . general election. >> so our journey back to decency, security , standing tall

decency, security, standing tall and nhs fit for the future. safer streets in your community, cheap and clean. electricity in your home and higher growth in your home and higher growth in your town . the glass ceiling your town. the glass ceiling shattered . it will be long. it shattered. it will be long. it will be difficult and it will require extra ordinary levels of determination . determination. >> supermarkets have more than doubled their margins on fuel since russia's invasion of ukraine, the rac says. asda tesco, morrisons and sainsbury's were making an average of around 4.7 pence per litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year. the motoring company found this had increased to around £0.10 per litre, leading to those higher pump prices. supermarket fuel margins were 2.3 pence per litre . in 2016, 2.3 pence per litre. in 2016, the number of cancer staff leaving the nhs is on the rise, with more than 4000 having left the workforce last year. new

figures from nhs england show the rate of those leaving cancer hospitals and community health services hit 12.1% in the year to september last year. it was an increase from 10.4% the year before and the highest rate since at least 2010. this comes as new analysis from macmillan shows since 2010, the number of patients seen by specialists for suspect cancer has grown almost four times faster than the number of staff . a range of number of staff. a range of measures to tackle inequalities in health care for women have been launched by the government. £25 million will be spent on health hubs to support women at every stage of their lives. women who suffer pregnancy loss have been promised, improved care as part of the new measures . the nhs website will also be updated to include more content on hormone replacement therapy and enable girls and women to access information more easily . access information more easily. and finally , kensington palace and finally, kensington palace has released a photo of prince

george to mark his 10th birthday. prince george. for those watching us on television is pictured smiling for the camera , wearing a checked shirt camera, wearing a checked shirt and teal trousers while sitting on some steps at windsor. the future king celebrates his birthday today. future king celebrates his birthday today . this is gb news. birthday today. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now it's back to . martin >> thank you very much for that. tatiana okay, let's get stuck now into today's big topics. well, despite a defying tone after cling on to uxbridge and south ruislip, it is undeniable that thursday was a rough night. rishi sunak as his party suffered crushing byelection defeats in selby and ainsty and somerton and frome. the prime minister said the next general election, however , was not a election, however, was not a done deal after his party defied expectations to hold uxbridge and south ruislip in london. but

with the bar so low that only losing two of three by elections is seen as a victory, what does rishi sunak do now to avoid a conservative wipe—out at the next general election? well, to answer that now, i'm joined by gb news political reporter catherine forster. hello to you, catherine. let's look at some of the front pages. so they're saying here, let's rein back on the eco policies . this saying here, let's rein back on the eco policies. this is in direct action. of course , to the direct action. of course, to the ulez disaster in in ruislip . ulez disaster in in ruislip. sunak aims to divide and conquer. basically, they're saying be more conservative for gawd's sake , actually do gawd's sake, actually do conservative policies that might win the express defining, saying all is not lost. win the express defining, saying all is not lost . you'd expect all is not lost. you'd expect them to say that they are dyed in the wool conservatives. after all, and the telegraph even the tories own bible. pm urged to by cabinet to abandon eco policy. so catherine, i'll put it to you.the so catherine, i'll put it to you. the big question is there on course for a record pasting by looks i think of 26, 29%

swing in somerton, 24% swing in selby. these are massive majorities overturned carnage, but is there a route back by, as they're saying here, actually being conservative on things like net zero immigration, on crime tax and trans issues ? crime tax and trans issues? >> well, i think it's a very narrow route, but certainly rishi sunak, as you would expect to say , saying it's not a done to say, saying it's not a done deal the next election. and i don't think it is. we've seen again and again over the last few years , haven't we, how what few years, haven't we, how what happens is not necessarily what everybody predicts. and so this of light that they've been given is winning uxbridge against expectations. i have to say , expectations. i have to say, i've spent a bit of time in uxbndge i've spent a bit of time in uxbridge over the last few weeks. i wasn't that surprised because i could see that this absolute fury about ulez was very strong. sadiq khan is expanding the ultra low emission

zone at the end of august, and there's five london boroughs taking sadiq khan to court at the moment over this . we should the moment over this. we should get a judgement on that by the end of july, but certainly despite the fact that of course we do need ultimately to get to net zero, these are arbitrary dates that the government have put in like banning petrol and diesel from 2030, banning conventional boilers from 2035. it's all very well putting these dates in, but as the reality starts to become clear about the cost to people while we're in the middle of a cost of living crisis. so certainly it would seem that there's an opportunity , isn't there, to perhaps soften some of these, or at least support households more so because people can't afford £12, £0.50 a day or a new car necessarily with ulez expansion isn't part of the problem. >> catherine, is that you can't put a paper between labour and the tories on almost everything

. i mean, on net zero they both have same commitment. it's have the same commitment. it's we've though this , we've finally seen though this, this, schism in uxbridge on this, this schism in uxbridge on ulez . surely the message from ulez. surely the message from that is, as you say, if we say we're going to roll back on these targets, we agree saving these targets, we agree saving the planet is important, but saving you the vote or a few quid is also important. saving you the vote or a few quid is also important . so quid is also important. so there'd be a lot of votes in that, wouldn't that? surely be? >> i think there will. and also, as you've said, a lot of criticism at the moment that both seem to be both the parties seem to be pretty . and so pretty close together. and so how do you pick their looking at not just the advice that certain people within cabinet, people like david frost , people within cabinet, people like david frost, is giving in the telegraph today about softening some of these green targets, but also sort of other ways to differentiate themselves from labour. so immigration being a very obvious one. obviously, the government got its illegal migration bill through parliament at last last week. also, crime . they're week. also, crime. they're talking about being tougher on crime, banning things like

machetes. i surprising in a way. they're not bad knives, to be honest. more police . they've got honest. more police. they've got 20,000 more police. but of course they'd cut hadn't course they'd cut them, hadn't they during austerity and trans issues too. and of course that's to a lot of people will be seen as quite a niche issue. but then there are many women who genuinely think that there is a tension between trans rights and women's rights and will be wary of voting for parties whose leaders can't say what a woman is. and i think the conservatives do spy an opportunity there. >> and so these these these these wedge issues you're talking about . these wedge issues you're talking about. i think i disagree, actually. i think trans issue isn't just a fringe issue.i trans issue isn't just a fringe issue. i think it's a huge issue for example, allowing men into women's spaces such as changing rooms, hospitals and prisons. if the tories just said we're stopping that and we're stopping women , trans women, men women, trans women, men competing in women's sport, that would be very popular. and then

what about this idea of forcing keir starmer to be confused on these issues , forcing him to be these issues, forcing him to be these issues, forcing him to be the defender of these silly trans positions, forcing him to be the net zero guy? he's coming after your boiler, you know, actually have some clarity of position to give voters a clear choice . surely that's what choice. surely that's what they've got to do . they've got to do. >> and it's been difficult, hasn't it, to pin down really what labour leader believes in or doesn't believe in? because keir starmer got elected by basically saying, i'm going to carry on corbyn's policies without being jeremy corbyn and got into office and has promptly done a huge about turn is now being very actively supported by people like gordon brown , tony people like gordon brown, tony blair and being accused of constant flip flopping. and so where do labour stand on these things? they're going to come under a lot more scrutiny as they get closer to an election and possibly being in government . there's going to be, i think,

a lot more criticism and focus on what they're doing . on what they're doing. >> and quickly, we're seeing a big problem in the wall. big problem in the blue wall. these kind of remainer these are the kind of remainer tories that are drawn towards the liberal democrats . that's the liberal democrats. that's what happens certainly in somerton shropshire and somerton in north shropshire and in the tories in tiverton. how do the tories woo those people back? because going issues going harder on the eco issues won't going harder on won't land well, going harder on immigration land immigration perhaps won't land well what something like well, what about something like the , though? the inheritance tax, though? let's are older, let's face it, these are older, more people in places more affluent people in places with property can more affluent people in places with be property can more affluent people in places with be bribed�*perty can more affluent people in places with be bribed ?arty can they be bribed? >> i suspect they probably can. i mean, the conservatives have got to fight on two fronts, haven't they? the red wall and the blue wall. and as you say, there's plenty of people in the south of england, particularly , south of england, particularly, who may not have that much disposable income, but are sitting on a lot of money in their houses and really, really , really don't want their or their children to have to give 40% of their inheritance across. so i suspect that would be quite popular with with quite a lot of

voters who might otherwise flirt with the lib dems. >> catherine force, thanks for joining us and i hope you're listening in. cchq because i think we have some pretty good ideas there. have a ideas right there. so we have a balanced portfolio agree to. balanced portfolio to agree to. the the blue wall the red ball and the blue wall get track. be get back on track. actually be conservative of. okay, moving on now. leader sir keir now. labour leader sir keir starmer has told sadiq khan to reflect on the expansion of ulez to outer london after it was blamed labour's failure to blamed for labour's failure to take uxbridge and south ruislip. well storm admitted that the london mayor's planned expansion of ulez was a major issue for voters on the doorstep in uxbridge, and the conservatives were able to tap into the anger over the scheme to cling on to the seat. so is this the end of the seat. so is this the end of the road for ulez ? well, to the road for ulez? well, to discuss this, i'm now joined by the director of the alliance of british drivers, ian taylor . british drivers, ian taylor. ian, good afternoon to you and thanks for joining us. ian, good afternoon to you and thanks forjoining us. well, no doubt to people like yourself. good a bit of good sir. they're a bit of common sense in uxbridge here. voters, when they're given the chance to vote on issues like ulez, they thoroughly reject

them . them. >> that is correct. good afternoon . thank you for having afternoon. thank you for having me on. um, politically , i think me on. um, politically, i think labour can turn round and blame the london mayor said he can for their loss . um, whether the their loss. um, whether the other parties and mainly the conservatives managed to capitalise on that remains to be seen. capitalise on that remains to be seen . now where does this leave seen. now where does this leave ulez leaving aside the fact we're all waiting with bated breath for the result of the judicial review, um , but i don't judicial review, um, but i don't think mr khan is going to sort of just give up easily. he seems determined to press on regardless at the moment, and if he is stopped, it now becomes pretty obvious that he's going to simply switch tack and try and use those cameras he's had installed to bring in all over london road pricing for

everybody. okay, ian , just just everybody. okay, ian, just just just cutting in here just for the benefit of our radio listeners , we have live scenes listeners, we have live scenes there from bbc television centre. >> there's as we speak, an anti ulez protest going on outside and we'll be joining that protest actually later on in this hour, speaking to howard cox , director of fairfield, uk , cox, director of fairfield, uk, who's there. this is a backlash against khan's policy on the streets of london right now as we speak. ian, sorry to button across there . let's come back to across there. let's come back to you now . what i want to ask you you now. what i want to ask you about. again, the saying today , about. again, the saying today, even lord frost senior tory ministers saying the conservative party needs to row back on net zero, one of the key points being the plan to outright ban petrol cars . by outright ban petrol cars. by 2030. as as a man in your position, just how are people reacting to this eco madness as right . right. >> well the does campaign for

scrapping the 2030 and 35 ban. it is our contention that if the alternatives were as good as they're made out to be, people would be queuing up to buy them . absolutely no need to ban anything. after all, we don't go around in horses and carts anymore, but nobody's banned them , have they? um as regards, them, have they? um as regards, um , the london business, um, um, the london business, um, we're well acquainted with howard cox and his campaign. we do work with him and he has a absolute support on this . um, i absolute support on this. um, i think he is, i think standing for london mayor and he is the only candidate who said he will not just not expand ulez, but will abolish it completely. so good luck to him on that. the shame is that, of course people do tend to vote on more than just that one issue. so we'll have to wait and see how he gets on. >> okay. ian, just just just

quickly, one thing i always try and get across when we have these conversations about ulez. this is not just an issue in london. this is not just privileged londoners bleating about having to pay £12.5 privileged londoners bleating about having to pay £125 per day course, we have clean air day of course, we have clean air zones, various parts of ulez in birmingham , manchester, bristol, birmingham, manchester, bristol, norwich , york, newcastle, oxford norwich, york, newcastle, oxford , portsmouth and many, many more to come. so do you think that this moment in uxbridge, the pushback should give people nationwide wide hope that we can end these punitive clean air zones nationally . zones nationally. >> well, yes, there's no doubt that london is always used as a test bed for these schemes. and if people think they can get away with it , other councils and away with it, other councils and cities all over the place will be jumping on the bandwagon and wanting to bring in similar things . so it wanting to bring in similar things. so it is wanting to bring in similar things . so it is therefore, things. so it is therefore, although it's london at the moment , that it is potentially moment, that it is potentially very much a national thing and people need to be alerted to

that fact. >> superb . ian taylor of the >> superb. ian taylor of the director of the alliance of british drivers, thank you for joining us this afternoon on gb news saturday. our next story now, a video clip of just stop oil protesters refusing to move out of the road after a distraught mother told them that she was trying to get her sick baby to hospital. has gone viral. take a look at the video now and ask yourself this big question . what would you have question. what would you have done were in her shoes . done if you were in her shoes. you mean my baby? >> move out now. leave the baby in the car and move on now . move in the car and move on now. move . has gone the too far. >> now it's gone the wrong way. i posted this video on my twitter feed last night and i said, you know, if i were that mother because my son was born very, very ill and it was touch and go for a while, i think i would have driven through them. now, when i say driven through

them , i think i would have just them, i think i would have just just up and tried to just speed it up and tried to shove of way. i put shove them out of the way. i put it out don't forget, it out there. don't forget, patrick got a twitter patrick christie's got a twitter ban that he do ban for saying that he would do something stop all something to just stop all people confetti if they people through confetti if they did i was did it at his wedding. i was astonished by the response. a huge outpouring of people saying, agree . see, saying, i totally agree. see, this has gone too far. saying, i totally agree. see, this has gone too far . sick this has gone too far. sick children getting to hospital . children getting to hospital. well, that's the most important thing any parent can do. any society take care of their children. we got to the stage now where these eco crackpots think they're god. are the mothers that were there with their babies in buggies were joining in. i want you to tell me now, what would you have done if you were in that mum's mission ? send your comments in mission? send your comments in to gb gbnews.com tweet to gb views gbnews.com or tweet us at gb news. you're watching and listen to gb news saturday with me. martin daubney. lots more coming up yet on today's show. let's take a show. but first, let's take a look weather with rachel look at the weather with rachel . the temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather

on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good afternoon . my name is >> good afternoon. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk and this is due to this area of low pressure . it's area of low pressure. it's bringing a bit of a squeeze in the isobars for southern areas. so stronger winds to come so some stronger winds to come this afternoon here. plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through this evening, there will be some clearer spells maybe shower spells and maybe the odd shower here as well. but elsewhere with plenty of cloud, rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel coast temperatures remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and north easterly winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers elsewhere , though, showers elsewhere, though, cloudy still might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into

sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week. dry out, brighter and fresher conditions to come in behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures still remaining at or average , the or below average, the temperatures rising , a boxt temperatures rising, a boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> and thank you very much for that rachael lots more coming yet on today's show following the nigel farage d banking scandal. ministers are reporting ridley planning new rules that could see banks lose their licences if they close accounts because they disagree with the customers. political opinions . customers. political opinions. all of that and more to come.

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channel >> welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney . now prince george is celebrating his 10th birthday today. happy birthday . he's today. happy birthday. he's understood to be marking the milestone privately with his family . the prince and princess family. the prince and princess of wales have released this new picture of the future king, which was taken in windsor

earlier this month. well, our royal cameron walker royal correspond cameron walker takes a look back on prince george's first ten years as . george's first ten years as. >> ten years ago, this streets was full of royal fans and journalists eagerly awaiting the arrival of the future. king with his parents to pose in front of the cameras. a lot of change since that day. queen elizabeth was still on the throne. the world hadn't heard of meghan markle. britain's future was bright. he was named george alexander. louis born into a modern world but destined to become head of an ancient institute. lucian it's a delicate balance for the prince and princess of wales. take the privacy of their eldest son. incredibly seriously. but they're aware of the inevitable pubuc they're aware of the inevitable public interest in him. royal biographer robert jobson thinks prince william and princess catherine have given their son the right level of media exposure. >> he's fully aware of what's installed for him, but

ultimately, the most important thing is to give him time and space to develop as a child until the inevitable is upon him. because at some stage , you him. because at some stage, you know, this young lad is going to have to be the king. it have to be the king. and it bnngs have to be the king. and it brings with a lot of weight brings with it a lot of weight of responsibility. the young prince's duty already prince's sense of duty already shines through. >> was his grandfather's page >> he was his grandfather's page dunng >> he was his grandfather's page during coronation. pomp during may's coronation. pomp pageantry and rubbing shoulders with foreign heads of state. a glimpse into his future . glimpse into his future. >> hello, david attenborough what animal do you think will become extinct next? >> it looks like prince george is taking after his father and grandfather for caring passionately about the planet. last year, the boss of conservation charity tusk , conservation charity tusk, exclusively revealed to gb news that the future king has already been doing his bit to help africa's wildlife. prince george very sweetly did a little cake sale to raise money for tusk dunng sale to raise money for tusk during lockdown and wrote a very sweet card about it. >> you know, clearly demonstrating his concern for

africa's wildlife . africa's wildlife. >> george also volunteered with his family to renovate a scout hut during the national big help out this year. but the young prince is still a child and has plenty of time for fun. this yean plenty of time for fun. this year, george was spotted enjoying a day out at the ashes with prince william as well as wimbledon and an air show today he turns ten and secondary school is not far away. he was spotted visiting eton college last month , an indication last month, an indication perhaps his parents are considering sending their son to the very prestigious school where prince william was once a pupil. it looks like prince george is set to follow in his father's footsteps in more ways than one camera. wahaca gb news be beautiful. >> very happy birthday to prince george now following the nigel farage d banking scandal, ministers are reportedly planning new rules that could see banks lose their licences if they close accounts because they disagree with the customer's political opinions. new

political opinions. the new regulations expected to regulations are expected to include customers more include giving customers more nofice include giving customers more notice of account notice of planned account closures and the rationale behind them. well let's now joined by the thoughts of the chief executive of the freedom association, an andrew allison. hello you, andrew. look, when hello to you, andrew. look, when we get to a stage where a society is de banking people because of their political opinions , we're moving towards opinions, we're moving towards a chinese regime of social chinese style regime of social and moral credits. one thing for nigel farage to be cancelled, but how worried should regular citizens be about this chilling move ? well perhaps not as move? well perhaps not as worried as they could have been a few days ago, because it does look as if the government is going to do something about it. look as if the government is goiibut) do something about it. look as if the government is goiibut) reallynething about it. look as if the government is goiibut) really do hing about it. look as if the government is goiibut) really do think bout it. look as if the government is goiibut) really do think this it. look as if the government is goiibut) really do think this is. >> but i really do think this is the form the most egregious form of cancel culture. >> i mean, you can't get around anywhere these days without having account and access having a bank account and access to many places don't accept >> so many places don't accept cash, which is why support gb news to protect cash. news campaign to protect cash. >> but nigel said that you effectively become a non—person if you denied access to a bank

account. >> and i think he's absolutely right . right. >> you're all for freedom of speech, but does freedom of speech, but does freedom of speech extend to the chief executive of banks ? talking to executive of banks? talking to bbc reporters about private financial information over dinner ? dinner? >> no, of course it doesn't . >> no, of course it doesn't. that's private, confidential information . and if that is information. and if that is proved to be correct , and it proved to be correct, and it really does look as if that is correct, then she should simply be fired . be fired. >> boris johnson has waded in on this precise point today , saying this precise point today, saying if it can be proven, this information was leaked, then she should go . we're not for cancel should go. we're not for cancel culture. on our side of the spectrum . but if it's proven to spectrum. but if it's proven to be the case and natwest are hauled before to parliament explain themselves, could it go as far as them losing their their licence as well? >> it could if that's if that's the case. >> i mean, if banks are going to discriminate against people because of their political views, because if those people don't have views that are of the

same values as that particular bank, then that is completely unacceptable . unacceptable. >> and that really is cancel culture. yeah. >> and i think that those banks that do that do behave in that way should lose their banking licence after a warning or two. >> i think that's the only way to go forward. and indeed it appears that that's what government ministers think. andrew griffith in particular, one of the treasury ministers who's been leading on this. >> okay , andrew ellison, chief >> okay, andrew ellison, chief executive of the freedom association , thank you for association, thank you for joining show today. joining us on the show today. and makes me ask a and i think it makes me ask a lot questions about this lot of questions about this chumocracy that seems exist chumocracy that seems to exist between the big banks and the bbc, the remainer establishment, which always out to get which seemed always out to get nigel. still to come on today's show, we'll be going live to an anti ulez protest outside the bbc's centre . the bbc's television centre. the pubuc bbc's television centre. the public been public broadcaster has been accused of bowing pressure accused of bowing to pressure from khan to limit from sadiq khan to limit coverage of the expansion of the ulez zone. but first, here's your latest news headlines with the wonderful tatyana sanchez .

the wonderful tatyana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom . as millions from the newsroom. as millions of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt union continue on one of the rmt union continue on one of the busiest travel days of the yeah the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of its members , year. thousands of its members, 14 train companies are walking out over pay and conditions as services are also disrupted because of a ban on overtime by aslef train drivers. meanwhile, the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks dunng to pass through border checks during peak hours as schools have broken up for the holidays, enhanced post—brexit passport checks by french border officials have also increased processing times . travel expert processing times. travel expert simon calder told us, has been at the port of dover this morning . meanwhile, hundreds of morning. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick over the coming days . gatwick over the coming days. around 200,000 people are expected at manchester airport

and also 71,000 from bristol with passenger volumes returning to pre—pandemic levels this summer. border force expects to see more than 34 million air arrivals coming through uk passport control over the coming months . sir passport control over the coming months. sir keir starmer passport control over the coming months . sir keir starmer says months. sir keir starmer says labour cannot rest on its laurels . addressing the national laurels. addressing the national policy forum in nottingham, the labour leader set out his vision for britain ahead of next year's general election . the party had general election. the party had a historic win in the selby and ainsty seat in yesterday's by elections with a majority of more than 4000 and supermarkets have more than doubled their margins on fuel since russias invasion of ukraine. the rac says asda , tesco, morrisons and says asda, tesco, morrisons and sainsbury's were making an average of around 4.7 pence per litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year. the motoring company found this had increased to around £0.10 per litre, leading to those higher

pump prices . you can get more on pump prices. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website , gbnews.com. now our website, gbnews.com. now it's back to . it's back to. martin and thank you for that update. >> tatiana. welcome back to gb news saturday with me. martin daubney on your tv online and of course, on your digital radio. now the centenary of first world war memorial in leicestershire is being marked today in remembrance of the local people who died serving the armed who died serving in the armed forces . the caroline tower in forces. the caroline tower in loughborough is 46m tall and is thought to be unique as a stand alone monument and instrument built 100 years to the day. it was opened. our east midlands. reporter will hollis has this story . a familiar sound for story. a familiar sound for loughborough locals unknown below . below. >> it's caroline alone playing the bells from above. when i'm

up here and i'm playing, i know that i up here and i'm playing, i know thati can up here and i'm playing, i know that i can be heard throughout the town . the town. >> this is one of my favourite. it's a popular classic . 46m high. >> the caroline tower has been a part of the town's identity for generations as there's only 15. caroline's in the entire country, but this one's unique in a standalone tower. more more than just a pretty tune. it's a memorial to the men from loughborough who gave their lives defending britain at the base. lives defending britain at the base . the names of the 478 men base. the names of the 478 men killed from here in the first world war and conflicts since it's the landmark centenary 100 years since opening . councillor years since opening. councillor tillotson is lead for regeneration and towns at the council . council. >> all 100 years is a long time andifs >> all 100 years is a long time and it's our war memorial and it's significant to many, many local people because it's a war

memorial. but it's significant to everyone in loughborough because it's a focal point in the town. >> the 47 bells were made in loughborough and like most war memorials paid for by its people , a deep connection still runs between the townsfolk and their tower. >> it's fantastic. it's lovely to still it's still standing. i like to hear that sound of that bell ringing. >> do you remember what it was like going up to the top? >> yes , i do. >> yes, i do. »- >> yes, i do. >> yes. but it easy. well, you were young then. yeah. yeah. run up . yeah. try it now . up. yeah. try it now. >> over the weekend, special recite halls and events will mark the centenary to be able to play mark the centenary to be able to play it in this centenary year is a real privilege. 100 years at the heart of the town , a at the heart of the town, a tower still standing in memory of the fallen. who never got to hearit of the fallen. who never got to hear it play . will hollis gb hear it play. will hollis gb news in loughborough .

news in loughborough. >> well, i absolutely love a war memorial. they i find them very, very moving. i'm joined now by will hollis who's still at the tower. will very moving package you put together there and tell us as every town across britain as a unique relationship with its war memorial . tell us about its war memorial. tell us about the special relation with this one. >> it's a part of the identity, isn't it? martin you could go anywhere in the country and people will know where their memorial is or something, where they might just meet people or have an idea that it's their special thing and that's, of course, what the carillon tower here is in loughborough , and here is in loughborough, and it's charnwood borough council and chris, who's responsible for it as well as for the event that's happening today here in queen's park. just describe for me a hundred years of this iconic war memorial. what does it mean for the local people of loughborough? >> good afternoon, will, and welcome to loughborough. this is a really important day a really, really important day for marks 100 years for us. it marks 100 years exactly this day. the exactly to this day. the carillon comes fenced and it's

an important war memorial in the sense of a number of people from loughborough and the surrounding area gave their lives during world war i. but it's also something which actually is relevant today . so we want to relevant today. so we want to make that link between the past , the heritage of the town, the carillon tower is very much part of dna loughborough, part carillon tower is very much part of the dna loughborough, part carillon tower is very much part of the heritage .oughborough, part carillon tower is very much part of the heritage of ghborough, part carillon tower is very much part of the heritage of this»rough, part carillon tower is very much part of the heritage of this town |, part carillon tower is very much part of the heritage of this town andrt of the heritage of this town and the area and it connects with the area and it connects with the people today , the names of the people today, the names of the people today, the names of the people today, the names of the people who gave their lives in the first world war. >> as conflicts >> second, as well as conflicts since written on the side of since are written on the side of it. but is than just a it. but it is more than just a war it's the thing war memorial. it's the thing that on the that people know. it's on the signs . when you come into signs. when you come into loughborough, how much of role loughborough, how much of a role does play the identity of does it play in the identity of this leicestershire? this part of leicestershire? it's part of the dna of loughborough this of loughborough and this part of the leicestershire. >> whether you come here a >> so whether you come here as a student, whether you're a local resident, person in resident, if you're a person in business loughborough, business here in loughborough, it's our it's it's part of our dna. it's really, really important. people cherish the carillon tower. they like to hear the bells chiming as they do regularly . so that's

as they do regularly. so that's part of the life of loughborough. if you're here for the market, you hear the bells chiming and it's something which people really like and i think respect it. at the same time, we can hear those bells in the background right now, which means that caroline, who we saw in the video we just played, is up there on own . up there on her own. >> not an army of bell ringers, which get a local which you might get in a local village here in that village church here in that sound hearing, the special recitals that are going to take place as part of these serif ponies. for people that are ponies. for the people that are coming here, what that mean coming here, what does that mean to in loughborough? to people here in loughborough? >> special, isn't to people here in loughborough? >> and special, isn't to people here in loughborough? >> and today special, isn't to people here in loughborough? >> and today for cial, isn't to people here in loughborough? >> and today for this isn't to people here in loughborough? >> and today for this this: it? and today for this this centenary event, we actually have a special piece of music that has composed that has been composed specifically for today so that that be heard for the very that will be heard for the very first time. we're hoping that a number will come along number of people will come along and that we have a civic and hear that we have a civic service at 2:00 this afternoon andifs service at 2:00 this afternoon and it's really quite a significant day in the history of the town, not just the tower itself. >> and if people want to, they can actually get up to the top of the tower. it's 90 steps. i

walked it yesterday day. it's quite a busy one. quite a tricky one. and there's the war museum at the bottom. just having a day like this for people in loughborough. how does it bring people together? >> it's absolutely worth it. and a lot of people come to visit a lot of people do come to visit the they into the the tower. they can go into the tower, see the displays tower, they can see the displays that are there. they can walk up the . there are a lot of the steps. there are a lot of them, but it's it because the steps. there are a lot of therget ut it's it because the steps. there are a lot of therget a it's it because the steps. there are a lot of therget a fantastic it because the steps. there are a lot of therget a fantastic view ecause the steps. there are a lot of therget a fantastic view oncee you get a fantastic view once you get a fantastic view once you up the tower of the rest you go up the tower of the rest of we have the museum of the town. we have the museum here adjacent the tower. here just adjacent to the tower. so it's something which people really doing regardless of really enjoy doing regardless of the actually. so whether the weather actually. so whether it's a bit damp like it is today or sunny, people like or it's sunny, people like coming a lot to coming and it means a lot to local people. it's part of it's part of our history and our heritage . heritage. >> view, even >> it's a beautiful view, even if is overcast. of course, if it is overcast. of course, your umbrellas are needed in loughborough but lots of loughborough today, but lots of people coming down to people are still coming down to see of history stirring. >> so thank you very much to both of you from loughborough there. okay. you're watching and listening saturday listening to gb news saturday with lots with me, martin daubney. lots more on the show today.

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all of london's 32 boroughs, as sparked controversy and is expected to be a significant issue in the upcoming mayoral election . well, we can cross election. well, we can cross live now to howard cox found a fair fuel uk and london mayoral candidate for the reform party who's as an anti ulez protest outside the television centre. good afternoon to you, howard. always a pleasure and never a chore. first of all, why specifically are you outside the bbc? what's been going on with mayor khan's alleged interference of bbc editorial policy on ulez ? policy on ulez? >> hello martin. >> hello martin. >> it's great to be on your show. yeah, the producer whistleblower contacted me again about after four weeks ago, highlighting the fact that khan had interfered and written to the head office. >> q bbc headquarters to say he's not happy with the way ulez has actually reported the negative reporting and what happened then is the bosses at headquarters wrote or emailed every single one of the bbc and

the southern regional offices , the southern regional offices, all the very experienced journos that they could not report on ulez unless they got it approved by headquarters. >> and he told me last night, right up to date that particular order is still in place. local local journalists cannot report on ulez without the permission of headquarters . of headquarters. >> now, howard, if these allegations are true , this is allegations are true, this is astonishing. this is an active mayoral campaign with an edict not to report unfavourably . not to report unfavourably. presumably the bbc are completely denying that we've got a response. we have to read out at the end. but how does that make you feel in light of the just had an ulez the fact we've just had an ulez upset in uxbridge khan ulez you lose and now even the labour party are flip flopping on that, saying it's an electoral liability. but the tories are claiming this is a victory. but the tories, correct me if i'm wrong, they don't want to get rid of ulez at do they? so rid of ulez at all. do they? so they're basically as as they're both basically as bad as each other . each other. >> well, the bbc, as you know,

have not had a good track record recently , what with nigel farage recently, what with nigel farage and all sorts of things. and all those sorts of things. but is disgusting. and all those sorts of things. but is disgusting . this is but this is disgusting. this is not unbiased reporting . this is not unbiased reporting. this is absolutely interfering with something. they are very anti driver. martin as you know now, as far as the uxbridge election, i warned keir starmer only about three weeks, four weeks ago that he should not push or he should not stop talking about ulez. he should be actually trying to get rid of ulez at the extension. he said no exact words with me that sadiq khan is very popular in london. well i'm sorry, keir starmer. you got that one wrong. what we're seeing now is that that's cost you a seat. you les, is the issue and the only issue in town at the moment. and i'm afraid both parties still afraid both parties are still going keep all of ulez. going to keep all of ulez. >> i'm not when i'm elected and i'm going to be elected, we will get rid of all of ulez totally . get rid of all of ulez totally. >> okay. so you want to get rid of ulez in its entirety, including the centre of town?

what else have you got planned on your ticket to help beleaguered motorists feeling the pinch and across the living crisis ? crisis? >> well, there's obviously i'm not a one trick pony. it's not just about transport. obviously low traffic networks and 20 mile an hour zones. we're going to get removed those completely an hour zones. we're going to get r

pubuc core of the bbc's mission and public purposes. so we will continue to cover the ulez debates from a range of perspectives without without fear or favour. perspectives without without fear or favour . onto our next fear or favour. onto our next story now, over 2 million houday story now, over 2 million holiday makers who had overseas this weekend with today expected to be the busiest day, to according the travel association apta . however, the ongoing rail apta. however, the ongoing rail strikes , airport queues and strikes, airport queues and delays at the port of dover threaten to make those journeys anything but pleasant . threaten to make those journeys anything but pleasant. it. well our yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley joins us now from hull railway station where the rmt has set up a picket line. good afternoon to you, anna. so once again, strike today and next saturday from the rmt mc the grinch lynch stole christmas is now trying to steal our summer . our summer. >> our summer. >> well, it certainly will have an impact. while it martin on people's travel plans , we people's travel plans, we already know that there's 2 million people going abroad this weekend , going on holiday. weekend, going on holiday. summer holidays have started and

more than 12 million people already on the roads. more than 12 million people already on the roads . and already on the roads. and obviously now the rail network has come to a halt with a much reduced service or cancelled services. people are certainly going to be impacted on that if they're trying to get to airport or certainly get around britain and have a holiday there . i'm and have a holiday there. i'm joined now by giles jackson. he is the regional organiser for yorkshire and lincolnshire. this has been going on now, hasn't it, this strike action for more than 18 months. why do you think it is still worth it? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> and we'll keep going until our members say they've had enough. understand the enough. they understand the severity what the to the severity of what the cuts to the railway mean the railway will mean for the travelling public. obviously we're people we're inconvenienced people and we're inconvenienced people and we to do we don't want to have to do that, support that that, but the support that we've received the picket lines received at the picket lines across the country today has been what been absolutely fantastic. what have the public been saying? >> you've obviously >> because you've obviously saying support, but saying you've got support, but there's people there's plenty of other people that can't that are angered. they can't get to they can't go on to work, they can't go on houday. holiday. >> em- em— >> i think they get it. i think they these they understand that these people out strike people that are out on strike today obviously next

today and obviously next saturday are doing it saturday as well are doing it for reason. we won't for a reason. we won't be slaughtered nearly 18 months down if don't got down the line if we don't got a really to do you really good reason to do it. you know what we're trying to do is have affordable, accessible have an affordable, accessible railway and railway for everybody to use and unfortunately government unfortunately the government aren't that. unfortunately the government aren't what that. unfortunately the government aren't what are that. unfortunately the government aren't what are yourat. unfortunately the government aren't what are your members saying? >> our members are determined . >> our members are determined. and once we get a decent offer from the from the train operating companies and the government, we'll put that offer to members. and if they say to our members. and if they say that's enough, then then that's good enough, then then we'll this dispute we'll accept it in this dispute will and how much will be over pay and how much will be over pay and how much will needs to be made >> what offer needs to be made for stop? for this to stop? >> i think you look >> well, i think when you look at we got back in at the offer that we got back in january , there too red january, there was too many red lines you know, the lines in it. you know, the announced they want to announced that they want to close offices, announced that they want to close the offices, announced that they want to close the governmentices,going which the government are going ahead we ahead and doing anyway. we can never to what we never agree to that. what we want is a fair offer, an offer that members accept. that our members will accept. all a deal that will all we want is a deal that will see no job losses. we want a decent pay rise for our members have rise for four have not had a pay rise for four years and you talk about conditions as well and stopping the ticket office closures. >> that's been part of the campaign that you've done today

at the picket line, isn't it? why such concern ? why is that such a concern? >> well, when look at it, >> well, when you look at it, what want is an affordable, what we want is an affordable, accessible and accessible railway. and if we shut ticket offices and shut the ticket offices and remove from the stations remove staff from the stations that takes away the accessibility people accessibility for the people that people help them on that need people to help them on board to buy right board trains to buy the right tickets and just to be here to for safety security of for safety and security of people. it's very people. so, you know, it's very difficult for people to understand that we need to make sure that this place behind me is safe for everybody to use. >> and there's >> yeah, and there's a consultation , isn't there? tell consultation, isn't there? tell me little about that. me a little bit about that. >> about ago, >> yeah. so about 14 days ago, the government announced that there going to close all there was going to close all the ticket in ticket offices by a handful in the country . and what we've the country. and what we've had is 21 days to and get as is 21 days to try and get as many responses to the department for what for transport. and that's what we've do, to get we've tried to do, try to get people say, look, people involved and say, look, we don't this. want we we don't want this. we want we want on the stations and want people on the stations and we accessibility for we want the accessibility for people that require the accessibility. >> thank you, guys. thank you for us this for speaking to us this afternoon. so that's the view here hull, where it's just here from hull, where it's just hull are running hull trains that are running services here. and as always,

when there's strike action, like this, the advice is to check before you travel. >> okay, anna rani, thank you for that from hull . it's strike for that from hull. it's strike groundhog day. it feels like back to the 70s. you're watching and listening to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney. lots more coming up yet on today's show. first, on today's show. but first, let's look the weather let's take a look at the weather with . with rachel. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar. proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> good afternoon. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk. and this is due to this area of low pressure . it's area of low pressure. it's bringing a bit of a squeeze in the isobars for southern areas, so stronger winds to come so some stronger winds to come this here. so plenty this afternoon here. so plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through this evening, there will be some clearer spells, odd shower

spells, maybe the odd shower here as well. but elsewhere with plenty of cloud rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel coast temps remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and northeast winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers. elsewhere, though , cloudy still might see though, cloudy still might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well . but into the afternoon as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week . dry out, brighter and new week. dry out, brighter and fresher conditions to come in behind . but southern areas behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures at temperatures still remaining at or average , a brighter or below average, a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud

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in three. good afternoon and welcome to gb news saturday. i'm martin daubney and for the next two hours, i'll be giving you a company on your tv online and on your digital radio. coming up in this next action packed hour after this week's by elections , after this week's by elections, rishi sunak took a kicking in selby and ainsty and somerton and frome . and i'll be asking and frome. and i'll be asking the big question, are the tories toast does uxbridge say ulez toast or does uxbridge say ulez you lose to sir keir starmer. plus as locals say, the bibby stockholm barge is a disaster waiting to happen. we'll take you inside the controversial migrant barge and. and why did the eu appear to side with argentina over the falkland islands? but first, it's the news headlines with a wonderful tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon. this is the

latest from the gb newsroom . latest from the gb newsroom. millions of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt continue on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of rmt members at 14 train companies are walking out over pay and conditions. services are also disrupted because of a ban on overtime by aslef train drivers. meanwhile, the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks during peak hours. if schools have broken up for the holidays in hardest post—brexit passport checks by french border officials have also increased the processing times . travel expert simon times. travel expert simon calder has been at the port of dover this morning . dover this morning. >> cars expected to turn up at a rate of 13 per minute . and rate of 13 per minute. and certainly the rate i've been seeing them here so far this morning , that feels about right. morning, that feels about right. this, of course , is the ferry this, of course, is the ferry port that takes people to across to calais and also to dunkirk. actually just looking around ,

actually just looking around, it's moving pretty slowly. they are saying they could possibly be have have delays of 2.5 hours. >> more children will be allowed to use electronic passport gates when new rules come into effect from monday. the age of those permitted to use the e—gates will be lowered from 12 to 10. the change comes following successful trials at three of london's major airports . london's major airports. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick over the coming days as the peak summer houday coming days as the peak summer holiday season begins. around 200,000 people are expected at manchester airport and 71,000 at bristol . families going manchester airport and 71,000 at bristol. families going on european beach holidays are being hit by higher prices compared with last summer due to inflation. new figures from the post office show the cost of meals, drinks and beach items have risen year on year. puglia in italy was the only location where prices for uk visitors have dropped the highest annual

increases were in bulgaria, turkey and madeira . sir keir turkey and madeira. sir keir starmer says labour cannot rest on its laurels while addressing the national policy forum in nottingham. the labour leader set out his vision for britain ahead of next year's general election . the party had a election. the party had a historic win in the selby and ainsty seat in yesterday's by elections, with a majority of more than 4000 now sir tom jones has criticised a decision to prevent choirs from singing one of his classic songs at rugby matches . five. i'm five, i love matches. five. i'm five, i love delilah was first cut from choir playlist in 2015 before being officially removed this year due to concerns over its references to concerns over its references to the murder of a woman playing to the murder of a woman playing to a crowd at cardiff castle last night. sir tom said that while the choir has stopped singing the song, the crowd couldn't be stopped and he'll

keep singing it to supermarkets. have more than doubled their margins on fuel since russias invasion of ukraine. the rac says asda , tesco, morrisons and says asda, tesco, morrisons and sainsbury's were making an average of around 4.7 pence per litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year. litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year . the ukraine war began last year. the motoring company found this had increased to around £0.10 per litre, leading to those higher pump prices . supermarket fuel pump prices. supermarket fuel margins were 2.3 pence per litre . in 2016, the number of cancer staff leaving the nhs is on the rise, with more than 4000 having left the workforce last year. new figures from nhs england show the rate of those leaving cancer hospitals and community health services hit 12.1% in the year to september last year. it was an increase from 10.4% the year before and the highest rate since at least 2010. it comes as new analysis from macmillan shows since 2010, the number of

patients seen by a specialist for suspected cancer has grown almost four times faster than the number of staff . a range of the number of staff. a range of measures to tackle inequality in health care for women have been launched by the government. £25 million will be spent on health hubs to support women at every stage of their lives. women who suffer pregnancy loss have been promised. improved care . as part promised. improved care. as part of the new measures, the nhs website will also be updated to include more content on hormone replacement therapy and enable girls and women to access information more easily. girls and women to access information more easily . and information more easily. and finally , kensington palace has finally, kensington palace has released a photo of prince george to mark his 10th birthday. prince george is pictured smiling for the camera , wearing a checked shirt and teal trousers while sitting on some steps at windsor. the future king celebrates his birthday today. future king celebrates his birthday today . this is gb news. birthday today. this is gb news. we'll bring you more news as it happens. now it's back to .

martin and thank you very much for that update. >> tatiana. well, let's get stuck now into today's hot topics. as we're discussing in the last hour. thursday was a very rough night for rishi sunak as his party suffered crushing byelection defeats in selby and ainsty and also in somerton and frome . the prime minister said frome. the prime minister said the next general election , the next general election, however, was by no means a done deal after his party defied expectations to hold uxbridge and south ruislip. but with the bar so low that only losing two of three by elections are seen as a victory . what does this as a victory. what does this mean now for rishi sunak? and can he avoid a conservative wipe—out at the next general election? or are the tories toast to answer that question, let's speak now to gb news political reporter catherine forster . so catherine, they had forster. so catherine, they had a hammering on the other night,

but look, the papers are bouncing back. the express , bouncing back. the express, they're clinging onto to uxbndge they're clinging onto to uxbridge results saying all is not lex lost for the next election and he's getting some advice from his friends at the telegraph. abandoned eco telegraph. abandoned the eco policy . he they're saying policy. he they're saying because of course , uxbridge because of course, uxbridge showed voters were showed that when voters were given the chance vote on ulez given the chance to vote on ulez , they rejected it, giving some hope to the tories. and then finally, the times is going a stage further and saying that we must go for wedge issues in the tory party. they're saying to try and force points of difference , because isn't that difference, because isn't that the big problem? catherine at the big problem? catherine at the moment we can't really put a cigarette paper between the tories the labour, tories and the labour, especially on eco issues and net zero now it's all fine and well saying right, let's throw these policies under an electric bus. but isn't the fact of the matter is the conservative party just like labour , just like the like labour, just like the liberal democrats, they're all basically greta thunberg in disguise ? disguise? >> well, certainly there is a lot of soul searching going on

now after these election results . it's not just with labour. labour are thinking, hang on a minute , this is our policy. labour are thinking, hang on a minute , this is our policy . we minute, this is our policy. we a labour policy, a labour mayor, and it stopped us winning a seat. and what other damage could it do? so there's real conversations and a lot of blame going on within labour about their own green policies and we saw they already rowed back weeks ago from that 28 billion a year pledge. but the conservatives think that they now spy an opportunity because of course as many mps in westminster had already decided that the next election was lost. much of the media also and sure , the results in selby and somerton were dire for the conservatives, but this very narrow win in uxbridge based, let's face it, on the expansion of the ultra low emission zone, which is deeply unpopular, is making them now think more .

making them now think more. maybe there's votes to be had because we're in the middle of a cost of living crisis. at the end of the day, it will be about the and how well off the economy and how well off people feel or don't feel. won't it come next election in and it come the next election in and costs still going to be very costs are still going to be very high. if you're giving people a little bit of a reprieve in terms of not forcing people to swap their cars or pay £12.50 a day when they can't afford it, not necessarily saying, okay, come 20, 30, you won't be able to buy a petrol or diesel car come 20, 35. we won't insist that you all buy heat pump boilers as these things are very expense lviv and i think great to have the net zero move. of course we need it. but when these targets were put in, did they really think through what they really think through what the real life impact would be? well, on real people? >> well, the answer to that is no, because these schemes were never costed. we never knew how much it was going to cost. now

we're seeing actually it's going to individual and to cost individual voters and consumers a blooming lot of money. surely the route forward for the tories is yes, saving the planet is important, but saving you a few quid could win votes . votes. >> yes, sure, sure. and also with labour , as you've said, with labour, as you've said, they need to differentiate themselves and another way in which they're thinking about doing this and of course we'll know for sure when rishi sunak comes back after his summer houday comes back after his summer holiday when they lay out their plans at party conference in the king's but to find other king's speech. but to find other points difference with points of difference with laboun points of difference with labour. so, instance , labour. so, for instance, migration obviously is a very obvious one. illegal migration , obvious one. illegal migration, particularly. we know that despite the fact no one's on a plane to rwanda, they've got that illegal migration bill through the house of parliament at last, at and also things like crime. they want to be seen to be super tough on crime and hooliganism, banning things like machetes, zombie knives, things like that , and also trans rights

like that, and also trans rights because as you know, a lot of political leaders, a lot of mps have got themselves into great difficulty . when asked what a difficulty. when asked what a lot of people would think is quite straightforward question what is a woman? and of course, to many women who are worry that trans rights in impinge on women's rights, safe spaces , women's rights, safe spaces, etcetera, women in sport , there etcetera, women in sport, there will be a lot of unhappiness in voting for parties who can't say what a woman is. so the conservatives see a big opportunity there as well. >> catherine forza, thank you for that. almost the for that. it's almost like the conservatives to be conservatives just need to be conservative again. what an old fashioned let's fashioned thought. let's move on. lib dems won the on. the lib dems won the somerton and frome by—election with a 29% swing against conservatives, arguably proving that they are once again an electoral force in the uk. so could they help labour gain power at the next general election? well to answer that question, let's now speak to political commentator and former liberal democrat press secretary joe phillips. joe ed davey was setting off his glitter cannon.

no doubt you were quite happy as well by the result . how well by the result. how concerned should the conservatives be by this this pincer movement of the red wall working classes going back to the labour party and the more affluent blue wall flipping into the lib dems as well? >> i think they should be quite concerned because although the liberal democrats traditionally do really well in by elections and they've they've won four in this parliamentary term, you can throw everything at a by—election. >> you can't do that on seats even if you've only got , you even if you've only got, you know, ten, 20 target seats. you simply don't have the resources. so i think, you know, by elections there an indicator there, a barometer, but they're not really a clear guide to what happensin not really a clear guide to what happens in a general election. as we know . and i think as as we know. and i think as catherine was just saying , we're catherine was just saying, we're going to see an election campaign that is probably going to one of the nastiest, i to be one of the nastiest, i think, in lifetimes . martin think, in our lifetimes. martin and it will be on wedge issues,

not just climate change and environmental concerns , but it's environmental concerns, but it's going to be, i think , an going to be, i think, an election that is in a way polarising older people who tend to go out and vote more than younger people against each other. you know, if you've got older people saying, well, i don't want to swap my car, you know , i've had this diesel car know, i've had this diesel car forever and it's fine, blah, blah, blah . and you've got blah, blah. and you've got younger people saying, well, hang you know, the hang on a minute, you know, the planet's up . we can't planet's warming up. we can't grow anything. graze grow anything. we can't graze anything . we need to do anything. we need to do something about it. i think it's going to become very unpleasant and i think, you know, to go back to your question about the lib dems and the labour party , lib dems and the labour party, labour may well win a general election. if there was one tomorrow, but that's because the tories are so unpopular. that's not winning on their own terms and that's not winning on their policies , which are, to say the policies, which are, to say the very least, vague. and i think the same goes for the liberal

democrats, although you know, they are traditionally a vote of protest and they're the sort of you know, they're the soft step, if you like, the gateway drug for disaffected tories who can't go the whole hog and go labour. but they'll go to liberal democrat. but i think, you know, we've seen this government doesn't really care about rural issues . we've seen, you know, a issues. we've seen, you know, a lot of concern about things like rural transport support, affordable housing that has a huge impact. and although labour and the liberal democrats are not at this stage anyway going to go into any formal pact, it's quite clear that the public, the electorate are much more savvy about tactical voting . i mean, about tactical voting. i mean, what you look at in all three of those elections with an average turnout of around 45% in selby and ainsty and in somerton and fruit, we reckon that there were quite a large number of tories who stayed at home. they abstained rather than go out to

vote. and that's that's a significant thing. so you know, you can't necessarily rely on those same people either staying at home or giving their votes to labour or the lib dems. but there is no doubt, if you look beyond the headlines, underneath the headlines of these quite stunning byelection victories for all three parties, actually , what you really want to be looking at is what's happening in local by elections for council seats and things, because that's where things change. >> okay. joe phillips, we have to leave it there. thank you very much for joining to leave it there. thank you very much forjoining us to leave it there. thank you very much for joining us today. i would one caveat, and i would just add one caveat, and that know, okay that is, you know, it's okay for you going you to say this election's going to it was your lot to get nasty. it was your lot that shouting bollards to that was shouting bollards to brexit three and brexit for three years and tried to the of 17.4 to cancel the votes of 17.4 million. anyway, digress . million. anyway, i digress. let's move on now to our next story because footage has been released inside the bibby released from inside the bibby stockholm barge in portsmouth. let's take a look what it's let's take a look at what it's like that barge . the like inside that barge. the barge is packed with facilities and amenities and it's to house 500 migrants later this month

with a welcoming security checkpoint and a no smoking policy or vaping policy. bibie barge boasts a computer room equipped with laptops and internet access . and while the internet access. and while the taxpayers wait months for gp appointments, the residents of the bibie have an in—house medical facility at their disposal, feeling peckish . well, disposal, feeling peckish. well, residents can dine free hot meals prepared in the in the state of art kitchen. look at that. it's beautiful , state of art kitchen. look at that. it's beautiful, which is stacked with all the cooking essentials and ingredients. now for a bit of grub, residents can then retire to their bedrooms , then retire to their bedrooms, which are equipped with desks and screen tvs. looks and flat screen tvs. looks lovely, doesn't it? well, joining us now is no to the barge campaign owner kate robson . good. good afternoon to you, kate . before we get into what kate. before we get into what locals are thinking about the relative safety of the bibi around the coastal areas, how doesit around the coastal areas, how does it make you feel as a british taxpayer seeing the relative lack of luxury that these illegal immigrants will be

living in? >> hi, martin. just to correct you, it's in portland, not portsmouth . so yeah , relatively portsmouth. so yeah, relatively different in size. so portland's only got 13,500 residents. um certainly as it's described there, it does look like butlins on a barge, doesn't it? particularly when you're looking at the free bus service . at the free bus service. >> and now we, we understand free trips into the dorset countryside to play cricket and free taxis home if they miss the bus. >> um , i think the main issue >> um, i think the main issue here is the complete lack of consultation and lack of consent. >> this barge has been completely imposed on us by the home office, but we have to remember here who is actually enabung remember here who is actually enabling this as well. >> and this is a private company of portland owned by of portland port owned by langham industries. >> they basically sold >> they have basically sold their whole area out without a thought for the community. >> um, i mean , in portland, >> um, i mean, in portland, we've talking about the health service here. >> i mean, we're looking at a 4 or 5 week wait to see a gp. um,

speaking to someone the other day , six weeks for blood test. day, six weeks for a blood test. it really is a kick in the teeth to know that 500, um, asylum seekers will have an onsite gp service and will be able to access that whenever they need to . so it's really has been to. so it's really has been unthought through and it's, it's sickening to be honest. um portland hospital was closed last year . there has been no last year. there has been no money put into the health service or the infrastructure here and all of a sudden the home office is throwing millions at private companies . home office is throwing millions at private companies. his tom moore this barge and yet it just shows the corruptness really , i think. >> um, and it's causing a massive division in the community as well. >> it's really going to bubble over here because we're talking about an area with a high level of deprivation . of deprivation. >> but in dorset we also have one of the highest council tax levels. >> so something is not adding up here and something is very, very wrong. >> and so , kate, when we covered >> and so, kate, when we covered the protests in portland a

couple of weeks ago on this show , i was astonished to see the so—called anti—racists also so—called anti —racists also don't so—called anti—racists also don't want the barge in portland because of its effect. its impact on the national health service. the precise same thing that you've been saying since the start. but i want to put this to you. how does it feel when they to you they accuse when they say to you they accuse you, people like you can't say residents with completely legitimate, perfectly rational concerns when they call you a racist and a fascist . racist and a fascist. >> what do you know? what >> what do you know? what >> it's got absolutely nothing to do . the race or descent of to do. the race or descent of these men, it could be 500. anyone's i mean, if you emptied a school, you know, a boarding school, kill a kid full of kids, boys onto this barge for you know, for several months, we're still going to have the same concern ones they're the ones that are being quite divisive as well. divisive here. they're they're causing issues when there isn't really an issue. >> we are on the same side. we do not want the barge our do not want the barge in our area the impact on area because of the impact on health care. um, i mean, they're

saying no prisons, no fear. refugees are welcome here. well no prisons, no fear, but they're the ones that are causing the fear, to be honest, amongst the locals. um it's not to do with racism at all. yeah. >> kate robson from the nose of the barge campaign in portland. thank very much for joining thank you very much for joining us it's heated issue, us today. it's a heated issue, something know gb news viewers something i know gb news viewers have a amount to say on. have a huge amount to say on. please touch your please get in touch with your opinions get opinions if you want to get involved in that debate. thank you, okay. watching you, kate. okay. you're watching and listeners news saturday and listeners gb news saturday with tonnes with me. martin daubney tonnes more first, more coming up yet. but first, let's take a look the weather let's take a look at the weather with rachel. brighter outlook with rachel. a brighter outlook with rachel. a brighter outlook with boxt solar >> proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good afternoon . my name is >> good afternoon. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk and this is due to this area of low pressure. it's bringing a bit of a squeeze in

the isobars for southern areas. so stronger winds to come so some stronger winds to come this afternoon here. plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through this evening, there will some clearer there will be some clearer spells, maybe the shower spells, maybe the odd shower here as well. but elsewhere with plenty of cloud rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel. coast temperature showers remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and northeast winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers. elsewhere, though , few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well . but that rain will as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week. dry out

brighter and fresher conditions to come in behind . but southern to come in behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures at temperatures still remaining at or , a brighter or below average, a brighter outlook with boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> thank you very much, rachel, for that. lots more yet on today's show, including a terrifying new iphone feature. can clone your voice with many people saying they find the idea creepy. and i'll be asking, has tech gone too far? all that and more to come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listening to gb news, britain's news

online. join the live desk on gb news. >> the people's channel. >> the people's channel. >> britain's news . >> the people's channel. >> britain's news. channel >> britain's news. channel >> welcome back to gb news satellite with me, martin daubney. now two terrifying new iphone feature that can clone a user's voice. the service called personal voice, allows users to create a synthesised voice that supposedly sounds just like them. >> the whole process you have to go through where it gives you like 15 minutes of text prompts that you say out loud into the mic. >> el e it processes mic. >> it processes everything >> then it processes everything on overnight and on your phone overnight and you wake day with a new wake up the next day with a new personalised voice where you can type speak . all right, so type to speak. all right, so this is what it sounds to this is what it sounds like to speak on my voice. really speak on my voice. i really think is think 30 frames per second is the rate for the correct frame rate for anyone who says otherwise is

clearly it sounds clearly faking it. it sounds pretty good. clearly it's a little bit robotic, so it kind of sounds like talking to someone on the phone with . someone on the phone with. >> now by tech >> so i'm joined now by tech journalist will geier. will all why do we need . okay. so apple why do we need. okay. so apple likes to have a new a new a new gizmo, a new bell, a new whistle to tempt customers in. but this is a bit concerning, if you ask me. call me a sort of old fashioned fella. but the ability to learn somebody's voice in 15 minutes is, i think, lasers open to all kinds of worrying things such as fraud. what do you make of it ? of it? >> yeah, it can absolutely. there is going to be that concern. but my dad had a laryngeal ectomy 25 years ago. i haven't heard my dad's voice for 25 years. he speaks now through a prosthesis and something like this would be incredible for somebody who's suffering some kind of degenerative illness lacks the confidence to speak publicly or has something like my dad had with cancer. but you

are completely right. martin if these these models can be trained and in 20 minutes to make a fairly convincing version of your voice, what can they do with people who don't realise they're being put into this situation? apple with their particular version, are making you read specific phrases in order to be able to activate this . so you order to be able to activate this. so you can't let's order to be able to activate this . so you can't let's say, this. so you can't let's say, for example , go and get martin for example, go and get martin you take your a long time to cut up martin daubeny's voice and put it to this through this service. but it does show you just how quickly this technology is moving on. >> yeah, but do know >> yeah, but we do know particularly people particularly vulnerable people such the elderly are often such as the elderly are often kind of subjected to kind of phishing schemes. it wouldn't take much of stretch , would take much of a stretch, would it? will have imagination to here say somebody phoned somebody to keep them on the phone for 15 minutes without the person they've . this has person knowing they've. this has been replicated and been recorded, replicated and made into an ai version of a person. and that voice could then be used for nefarious reasons, couldn't it ? reasons, couldn't it? >> we're going do accept what

you're saying, but we're going slightly into the rabbit hole because if you want to be really clear about that, you would quite clearly tell that somebody was talking over a telephone because the quality the voice because the quality of the voice model the quality the model and the quality of the voice would not be up model and the quality of the vo scratch. would not be up to scratch. >> i've tried recording people off of tv and radio and running them through similar models , and them through similar models, and it got it sounds like you've got somebody tunnel, but somebody in a wind tunnel, but you are completely right. this technology for everybody who wants to use it for good, there will be people who want to use it for bad and that's where you face this challenge. >> know , the next 5 to >> you know, over the next 5 to 10 years, as these kind of ai models get more advanced and processing power on computers gets more powerful, we're to going be finding ourselves walking into all sorts of situations like this where people's voices, people's likeness, are going to be very easily cloned . easily cloned. >> yeah, mean, i'm not being >> yeah, i mean, i'm not being a doom just doom monger here. well, i'm just saying, example, apple saying, for example, the apple airtag, was originally airtag, which was originally brought out so you could leave it inside your luggage. so if you you could

you lost your cases, you could trace that was trace it. but that was then adopted stalking adopted by people stalking people. they kind of glue people. they would kind of glue them their cars or put them in their ex's cars or put them in their ex's cars or put them they didn't know they them where they didn't know they were there. so it was used as a tracking trace without tracking trace device without people's knowledge. all i'm saying is the capability is there technology which there for a technology which seems positive to be used by people for the wrong purposes. >> martin a car is a lethal weapon . this is this this is weapon. this is this is this is the reality that we face with all of these things , the all of these things, the technology that apple has with the airtags and other companies have with these personal tags, there's all kinds of privacy concerns around them . but they concerns around them. but they were created for genuine , decent were created for genuine, decent reasons. that's the challenge you face with all of this technology , and it's what technology, and it's what companies do to try and stop that being misused . that's why that being misused. that's why in this example, apple has got these specific scripted words that you have to do, scripted statements that have do that you have to do, scripted stisetfents that have do that you have to do, scripted stiset upts that have do that you have to do, scripted stiset up this at have do that you have to do, scripted stiset up this system1ave do that you have to do, scripted stiset up this system we do that you have to do, scripted stiset up this system . on do that you have to do, scripted stiset up this system . on theo to set up this system. on the opposite side of that, though, like , we walk into as a like i said, we walk into as a society , we walk into i trust society, we walk into i trust the people who roll it out. now

we might be in a position where, let's say a nice company does something in a good , a good and something in a good, a good and willing way, but for every time you've got something like that, who's developing something for criminal organisations ? who's criminal organisations? who's developing? shouldn't forget developing? you shouldn't forget that a of the hacks and that a lot of the hacks and phishing and all of the kind of cybercrime or much of the cybercrime or much of the cybercrime we get these days can be purchased the dark web be purchased off the dark web in the way or i would the same way as you or i would buy, know, windows for our buy, you know, windows for our pc. can and buy this kind pc. you can go and buy this kind of this these of tools. and of this these kind of tools. and it's that gets it's how that stuff gets developed that stuff developed and how that stuff gets out of the hands of gets kept out of the hands of nefarious individuals. that's the most important thing. i'm not worried what apple are doing because i actually this is because i actually think this is a service for a really good service for a small of people who might small number of people who might want use but does. we want to use it. but it does. we do this bigger do have this bigger conversation, are conversation, which you are complete , right, to out complete, right, to point out that without governance and without people controlling this stuff, you yourself in a stuff, you find yourself in a very very future very, very concerning future where simply don't know where you simply don't know what's real and what's not. >> well, guyot fascinate stuff. thanks for joining >> well, guyot fascinate stuff. thanks forjoining us on gb news

saturday. it's always a pleasure. do think? out pleasure. what do you think? out there? i don't like the of there? i don't like the idea of tech am how to tech learning who i am or how to speak i think that speak like me. i think that way madness still madness lies. okay. still to come on the show, more than 2 million holidaymakers head million holidaymakers will head overseas this weekend amid warnings a rail strikes, traffic jams and delays at ports and airports . but jams and delays at ports and airports. but first, here's your latest news headlines with the wonderful tatiana sanchez . wonderful tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom as you've just been hearing, millions of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt continue to on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of its members at 14 train companies are walking out today over pay, jobs and conditions and services are also disrupted due to a ban on overtime by aslef train drivers. meanwhile the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks during peak hours. if schools have broken up for the

holidays in hardest post brexit, passport checks by french border officials have also increased processing times . meanwhile, processing times. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick airport over the coming days around 200,000 people are expected at manchester airport and also 71,000 from bristol with passenger volumes returning to pre—pandemic levels this summer. border force expects to see more than 34 million air arrivals coming through. uk passport control over the coming months . control over the coming months. sir keir starmer says labour cannot rest on its laurels . cannot rest on its laurels. addressing the national policy forum in nottingham, the labour leader set out his vision for britain ahead of next year's general election . the party had general election. the party had a historic win in selby and ainsty seat in yesterday's by elections with a majority of more than 4000 and supermarkets have more than doubled their

margins on fuel since russia's invasion of ukraine. the rac says asda , tesco, morrison and says asda, tesco, morrison and sainsbury's were making an average of around 4.7 pence per litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year. the motoring company found this had increased to around £0.10 per litre, leading to those higher pump prices . you can get more on pump prices. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website at gbnews.com now, martin is back to you . martin is back to you. and thank you for that. >> tatiana. welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney on your tv, online and on your digital radio. well, as the summer months are well and truly begin more than 2 million holidaymakers head overseas holidaymakers will head overseas this weekend amid warnings of rail strikes. traffic jams and

delays at ports and airports. saturday is expected to be the busiest day of the weekend, according to travel association abta and despite the fact scottish schools are well into their summer holidays , many will their summer holidays, many will still be leaving from scottish airports this weekend with more than 100,000 from glasgow alone. well, let's cut live now to glasgow airport and speak to gb news, scotland reporter tony maguire. tony, what's the latest there? chaos or is it running smooth ? smooth? >> hello. good afternoon, martin. yes, well, i would probably have to go for the latter. they're fairly running smooth, but i would say that's more than likely down to the fact that, as you mentioned, our schools for off a few schools have been for off a few weeks so i had the pleasure weeks now. so i had the pleasure of going in and talking to some of going in and talking to some of the passengers this morning of going in and talking to some of tisaid|ssengers this morning of going in and talking to some of tisaid|sserterminal morning of going in and talking to some of tisaid|sserterminal m glasgow and said the terminal at glasgow airport, know, and they were airport, you know, and they were pretty positive about the experience. i spoke to quite a lot who were arriving from various places in canada and some even from further afield.

and they were full of generally good things to say about glasgow on their departure, but also coming now to glasgow. they were quite keen to point out that everything that we like to moan about our airports and our travel infrastructure, it's the same everywhere really around the world. that said, of course engush the world. that said, of course english schools and welsh schools have now come off for the summer break and as you also mentioned, 2 million people expected to fly out from the uk just this weekend. now obviously, the bulk of them will be around heathrow , gatwick and be around heathrow, gatwick and up towards manchester, birmingham, etcetera . but quite birmingham, etcetera. but quite a lot of people, i think , may be a lot of people, i think, may be looking to the weather and planning one of these last minute trips just to get away the next couple of weeks certainly looks pretty grim here in the uk weather wise . so no in the uk weather wise. so no matter where you're flying to in

the world, it's guaranteed to be somewhat better as this. well, it can't be any worse, can it? now as i mentioned, i did speak to quite a few of the passengers this morning. and, you know, i asked really about that asked them really about that experience glasgow and experience both in glasgow and around the world. let's hear what there. what they had to say there. anything at all that could put you off going in a holiday? >> from an airport point >> i'm not from an airport point of view. i'm really reluctant to go europe at the moment go to europe at the moment because i'm not sure of all the restrictions, but i do travel regularly in the uk . timing is regularly in the uk. timing is everything . you just have to get everything. you just have to get to the airport at the right time. you're too early , too time. you're too early, too late. it's always hassle . late. it's always hassle. >> one thing we get here is assistance , which is very good. assistance, which is very good. >> we both need assistance because we've got arthritis and that helps us a lot on my journey. >> just cuz cuz. >> just cuz cuz. >> yep. yep >> yep. yep >> sometimes it's wash day like they don't put enough staff on and thousands waiting to go through the customs where have you come from today? >> canada. canada and what what

is it like over that side ? is it is it like over that side? is it should we feel bad about the state of our airports or no . state of our airports or no. >> they're all the time a lot everywhere right now . everywhere right now. >> no, i can't really talk about travel in national or otherwise without really talking about these rolling industrial strikes. interestingly enough, glasgow , they managed to secure glasgow, they managed to secure 11% pay rise for the workers here, but down towards luton and gatwick , well over the next gatwick, well over the next couple of weeks, you can expect some disruption at those airports. interesting enough, though, despite this being the busiest day of travel of the summer , the unions for airport summer, the unions for airport workers are not having anything on this weekend and in fact, leaving it till the next couple of weeks, which is an interesting contrast to the say that we've seen rmt work when it comes to trains. so yes, certainly not too bad here, but the summer is yet young. if you can even call this a summer at all. >> thank you for that update there, tony mcguire. it feels

now that summer wouldn't be summer without a strike. it's almost like we're french. anyway, you're watching and listening to gb news saturday with martin dalby loads with me. martin dalby loads more coming on today's show, coming up on today's show, including rishi sunak has slammed eu's regrettable slammed the eu's regrettable choice words endorsing choice of words endorsing argentina's full oakland name. downing street has reacted and the uk is seeking further clarification on the malvinas . clarification on the malvinas. slip up all of that after these messages

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tv, radio and online gb news britain's news. channel >> and welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney on your tv online and your digital radio. well, rishi sunak has criticised the eu for a regrettable choice of words over the falkland islands. earlier this week, the eu made a declaration, along with argentina and other latin american countries in which they called the falkland islands the islas malvinas. called the falkland islands the islas malvinas . this name change islas malvinas. this name change is the big deal because it supports argentina's claims to the island, which the uk and argentina fought over in 1982. the eu has since clarified its position, stating that member states had not changed their views concerning the falkland islands . well, joining me now is islands. well, joining me now is chairman of the falkland islands chamber of commerce, the honourable roger spink, joining us from stanley in the falklands. good afternoon to you, roger. thank you so much for joining us on gb news. what forjoining us on gb news. what business have the european union got in using language like this?

is inflammatory. it's outrageous . and how is it what's the reaction been with the citizens on the falkland islands ? on the falkland islands? >> i think people in the islands were very disappointed. i think were very disappointed. i think we would like to assume that the eu was duped by our neighbours , eu was duped by our neighbours, argentina, into using this terminology and i think since this has become , um, known, the, this has become, um, known, the, um, they have the eu have clarified that nothing has changed on their position towards the islands, but we are faced with a large and aggressive neighbour , um, who aggressive neighbour, um, who wish to subevent circumvent our rights to self determination as determined under article one of the united nations charter. for many countries in europe have a similar large and aggressive neighbour, particularly with the ukraine crisis going on and the balkan states with the their

russian neighbours and we would hope that members of the european union would see the benefit of supporting the democratic rights of the people of the falkland islands . of the falkland islands. >> yeah, roger, i think you've nailed a great point point there because there seems to be a common thread with the eu common thread here with the eu about for about its contempt for democracy. we saw that with brexit. we forget, brexit. and lest we forget, a referendum in 2013 on self—governance in the falklands, only three residents, just three of the falklands, voted against it. with 1317 in in favour. now the eu are saying it doesn't really matter, it's just language. but argentina are hailing this as a triumph for their rights to sovereignty. can we see, do you think, any trouble brewing ahead as a consequence of this poor use of language? roger i think , look, language? roger i think, look, we constantly hear a lot of rhetoric from our neighbours . rhetoric from our neighbours. >> we've become used to , >> we've become used to, unfortunately, having to deal

with it were no threat to them , with it were no threat to them, but they constantly try and put sanctions upon trade and travel from to and from the falklands . from to and from the falklands. so it's something unfortunately , that we've had to come to live with. they have elections coming up and no doubt the rhetoric will be a brought to a head pnor will be a brought to a head prior to their elections to try and curry favour with their electorate , which their electorate, which their politicians have failed time and time again over the recent past with one look at their economy , with one look at their economy, shows the sort of state that they their own country is in and they their own country is in and they try constantly to divert attention from the troubles in their own country by raising the issue of the falkland islands and the falkland islands chairman , chamber of commerce, chairman, chamber of commerce, thank you for joining chairman, chamber of commerce, thank you forjoining us chairman, chamber of commerce, thank you for joining us from stanley today on gb news. >> your input is very much

appreciated. thank you. okay. moving on now to the uk moves towards achieving net zero electric vehicles are at the forefront of decarbonising personal transportation. tata motors, owner of jaguar, land rover , has pledged a whopping £4 rover, has pledged a whopping £4 billion investment in an advanced electric car battery factory in somerset, expected to create 4000 jobs. and while electric cars are praised for their zero exhaust emissions, they overall environmental impact is still very much under scrutiny . well, joining me now scrutiny. well, joining me now is motoring journalist, a legend, quentin wilson , and legend, quentin wilson, and journalist and author of not zero, ros clarke. let's start with you, quentin. so we're constantly nudged towards getting electric vehicles, but the fact of the matter is there's not a great deal of enthusiasm. it would seem. and the inquiries are 66% down into them . just how green are them. just how green are electric cars anyway ? electric cars anyway? >> well, i think just need to understand that the best selling

car in the world, not just an electric car , is a tesla model electric car, is a tesla model y . so there is huge demand out there when we're talking about green. >> look , the amount of critical >> look, the amount of critical minerals you need to produce for a battery every year is about 20 million tonnes extracted compared to fossil fuels . and compared to fossil fuels. and 4 billion tonnes of extraction . billion tonnes of extraction. >> you know, the whole life of an electric car, the emissions are kind of 70% less than a combustion car. so we need to look at this information we're being presented with. >> but let's be clear , i'm >> but let's be clear, i'm biased editorial policy against electric cars and look at the facts really , really carefully facts really, really carefully because you know, you go through these things and read the information. there just isn't accurate. >> okay. ross clark, let's cut to you now, because i'm earlier this year, rowan atkinson said he felt duped into buying electric coal when he looked into the true environmental impact of extraction of the impact of the extraction of the ore for the batteries. the

fabrication of electric cars, the environment impact is not just measuring what comes out of the exhaust or what doesn't. it's the actual full creation of the car . ross tell it's the actual full creation of the car. ross tell us about the environmental impact of electric cars compared to more ordinary calls. please >> yeah, i mean, obviously where electric cars score, is that they don't have exhaust pipes. they don't spew out noxious fumes where they actually use. but the two things you know, sources of carbon emissions from electric cars, firstly, the electricity , they're only as electricity, they're only as green as the electricity that is used to produce them. and 40% of our electricity in britain is still produced with fossil fuels, mostly gas. and while the government wants to try to remove that fossil fuel by 2035, it's a very big uphill struggle because it cannot tell us how long it's going to cope with, you know, situation where the sun's not shining , the wind's sun's not shining, the wind's not and we've got very not blowing, and we've got very little wind and solar energy. you know, it is going to be

very, very expensive to decarbonise the national grid. so, you know, it's likely way beyond 20, 35 that we're still beyond 20, 35 that we're still be having electricity from fossil fuels. and that will obviously impact on the you know, the environmental friendliness of electric vehicles. but the other problem is, as quinta did allude to, there is in the manufacture of electric cars . and due to the electric cars. and due to the nature of the batteries requiring these extra rare metals . um it it takes an extra metals. um it it takes an extra sort of 40, 50% carbon emissions involved in the manufacture of an electric car compared with the equivalent petrol and diesel cars. so you know, you start on the back foot as it were. you know, you're going to have to drive a certain number of miles before you can claim that you've cut carbon emissions and that distance can be anywhere between 10,000 miles and 80,000 miles,

according to various estimates. and where you're recharging and so on. so i can i bring electric when you drive 50,000 miles in it, you know, you're quite likely you're actually going to be, you know, creating more carbon emissions over the lifetime of that. okay. >> thank you, quentin. i'd like to here to bring you back in here because, we saw there because, of course, we saw there was in uxbridge over was an upset in uxbridge over ulez when it's put to people, if they get the chance to vote on things or, of course , they're things or, of course, they're turning on them. turning their back on them. today, prime minister turning their back on them. today,urged rime minister turning their back on them. today,urged tore minister turning their back on them. today,urged to turn nister turning their back on them. today,urged to turn his er turning their back on them. today,urged to turn his back on being urged to turn his back on eco including the eco policies, including the outright ban on petrol cars by 2030. d0 outright ban on petrol cars by 2030. do you think we need a little bit more carrots and a little bit more carrots and a little bit more carrots and a little bit less stick on changing to evs ? changing to evs? >> let's just go back to your point, ross, about the carbon debt. point, ross, about the carbon debt . it's 16,500 miles point, ross, about the carbon debt . it's16,500 miles on debt. it's16,500 miles on a european grid and it pays off very, very quickly . and it's very, very quickly. and it's much, much, much less than a combustion car. and going on to your your political point, the newspaper you held up, i mean, they did a story about potholes and evs causing potholes and

cited research by leeds university and leeds university have said, hang on a minute, we weren't involved in this. you just lifted some research and made like we were. made it look like we were. can we look, we have a retraction? so look, we're seeing the media trying to inflate once government political policy on this. and it's really , really wrong that it's really, really wrong that we're being deluged with misinformation that is trying to get politicians to change the direction of travel and look, europe is burning . and we've europe is burning. and we've just had a story on your program about the price of fuel being ratcheted up by opportune mystic fuel retailers. and you're telling me we're to carry on doing what we've always done and burning what we've always burned? we have to change. and i know politicians are going to make evs and net zero and ulez and electoral issue , but there's and electoral issue, but there's and electoral issue, but there's a huge body of people out there who are worried about air quality, who are worried about climate , and who are worried climate, and who are worried about the rising costs of energy which have been weaponized by russia and arabia .

russia and saudi arabia. >> okay, ross, i'm gonna have to stop there. ross clark. quentin wilson. talk all wilson. we could talk all day about we have about this, but we have to wrap there. for there. thank you, gentlemen, for joining news saturday joining us on gb news saturday this afternoon. thank you very much you're watching much. are you're watching or listening news saturday listening to gb news saturday with daubney loads listening to gb news saturday with coming daubney loads listening to gb news saturday with coming yet daubney loads listening to gb news saturday with coming yet onrbney loads listening to gb news saturday with coming yet on today's ads listening to gb news saturday with coming yet on today's show. more coming yet on today's show. but first, take a look at but first, let's take a look at the rachel . the weather with rachel. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon . my name is >> good afternoon. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk and this is due to this area of low pressure and it's bringing a bit of a squeeze in the isobars for southern areas. so some stronger to come so some stronger winds to come this afternoon here. plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england , wales and much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through evening, scotland through this evening, there will be clearer there will be some clearer spells. maybe the odd shower here well . but elsewhere,

here as well. but elsewhere, with plenty of cloud rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel coast temperatures remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and northeasterly winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers elsewhere , though, showers elsewhere, though, cloudy still might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week. dry out , brighter and fresher conditions to come in behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures still below still remaining at or below average . average. >> that warm feeling inside from

boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> thank you very much for that, rachel. there's loads more coming up yet on today's show. whilst the tories lost two seats in this week's triple by elections, failed to elections, labour failed to launch a knockout blow. so is it time for sunak to put the boot into starmer? all of that and more to come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listening to gb britain's listening to gb news, britain's news .

channel good afternoon and welcome to gb news saturday. i'm martin daubney. and for the next hour , daubney. and for the next hour, i'll be keeping you company on your tv online and of course, on your tv online and of course, on your digital radio show. coming up in this hour. your digital radio show. coming up in this hour . well, the up in this hour. well, the tories lost two seats in this week's by elections. week's triple by elections. labour to launch labour failed to launch a knockout blow. so is it time for sunak to put the boot into starmer ? plus, following nigel starmer? plus, following nigel farage banking scandal is it time for natwest to lose their licence and following better than expected inflation figures, mortgage rates have dropped for the first time in five months, giving hopes to millions. but first is the news headlines with the wonderful tatiana sanchez .

the wonderful tatiana sanchez. >> good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom. sir keir starmer is urging london's mayor, sadiq khan , to reflect on mayor, sadiq khan, to reflect on the expansion of ulez after it was widely blamed for the party's narrow defeat in the uxbndge party's narrow defeat in the uxbridge and south ruislip by—election. protesters are gathered outside the bbc in london this afternoon, with many expressing anger at the mayor's plans to expand the ultra low emissions zone. the £12.50 daily charge for cars, which failed to meet emission standards is set to be extended to beyond the caphaps to be extended to beyond the capital's north and south circular roads . capital's north and south circular roads. millions of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt continue on one of the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of its members at 14 train companies are walking out over pay jobs and conditions. services are also disrupted due to a ban on overtime by aslef

train drivers. meanwhile the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks dunng pass through border checks during peak hours. as schools have broken up for the holidays, enhanced post brexit passport checks by french border officials have also increased processing times. travel expert simon calder has been at the port of dover this morning . port of dover this morning. >> cars expected to turn up at a rate of 13 per minute . it and rate of 13 per minute. it and certainly the rate i've been seeing them here so far this morning, that feels about right . this, of course, is the ferry port that takes people to across to calais and also to dunkirk. actually, just looking around , actually, just looking around, it's moving pretty slowly. they are saying they could possibly be have have delays of 2.5 hours more children would be allowed to use electronic passport gates when new rules come into effect from monday . from monday. >> the age of those permitted to

use the e—gates will be lowered from 12 to 10. the change comes following successful trials at three of london's major airports . hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick airports over the coming days as the peak summer holiday season begins. around 200,000 people are expected at manchester airport and 71,000 at bristol . airport and 71,000 at bristol. families going on europe's beach holidays are being hit by higher pnces holidays are being hit by higher prices compared with last summer due to inflation. new figures from the post office show the cost of meals , drinks and beach cost of meals, drinks and beach items have risen year on year. pugua items have risen year on year. puglia in italy was the only location where prices for uk visitors have dropped . the visitors have dropped. the highest annual increases are in bulgaria, turkey and madeira . bulgaria, turkey and madeira. the tom jones has criticised a decision to prevent choirs from singing one of his classic songs at rugby matches . five by my at rugby matches. five by my delilah . delilah was first cut

delilah. delilah was first cut from choir playlists in 2015 before being officially removed this year due to concerns over its references to the murder of a woman playing to a crowd at cardiff castle last night. sir tom said that while the choir had stopped singing the song, the crowd couldn't be stopped and he'll keep singing it to supermarkets of more than doubled their margins on fuel since russia's invasion of ukraine in. the rac says asda , ukraine in. the rac says asda, tesco, morrisons and sainsbury's were making an average of around 4.7 pence per litre on fuel sales when the ukraine war began last year. the motoring company found this had increased to around £0.10 per litre, leading to those higher pump prices. supermarket fuel margins were 2.3 pence per litre back . in 2.3 pence per litre back. in 2016 and finally england have won their first women's world cup match with a 1—0 victory over haiti in brisbane. it took 29 minutes for georgia stanway to push the lionesses into the

lead with a retaken penalty aiming the ball low into the left corner of the net. the lionesses, who have lost just once in 33 games under their current manager, take on denmark in their second group match next week . this is gb in their second group match next week. this is gb news. we'll bnng week. this is gb news. we'll bring you more as it happens. now it's back to . now it's back to. martin >> well, thank you very much for that update. tatyana okay, let's get stuck into today's topics. well, unless you've been living under a rock, you'd have heard that thursday was a very rough night for rishi sunak as his party suffered crushing byelection defeats in selby and ainsty and somerton and frome frome. beg your pardon? the prime minister said the next general election was by no means a done deal after his party defied a done deal after his party defied expectations to hold uxbndge defied expectations to hold uxbridge and south ruislip by just 495 votes. but with the bar

so low that only losing two of three by elections is seen as a victory , what does rishi sunak victory, what does rishi sunak do now to avoid a conservative wipe out at the next general election or are the tories toast 7 election or are the tories toast ? well, to answer that question, let's speak now again to gb news political reporter catherine forster. so catherine, they had a nightmare night. let's look at the reaction. so the express, as you'd imagine, saying there is some hope all isn't lost. the next election is not a done deal . now, how do they do that? the daily telegraph, they're saying because of what happened in uxbndge because of what happened in uxbridge on ulez, they're saying ditch the eco policies is because they're unpopular. net zero. finally, the times is saying it's time to go for sunak put the boot in divide and wedge those issues in show points of difference between the two parties isn't what this is all about, though, catherine. voters just can't tell the difference

anymore between labour and the tory party. but we've seen this crucial breakthrough in uxbridge given the chance to vote against ulez voters went against it. is this an opening for the tories? >> i think it is. this an opening for the tories? >> i think it is . and i was in >> i think it is. and i was in the cafe where rishi sunak came to yesterday in uxbridge with a real spring in his step because they'd expected to lose all three. two of them were catastrophic . but uxbridge ultra catastrophic. but uxbridge ultra low emission zone expansion by sadiq khan, the london mayor, say saved them. and so now they spy say saved them. and so now they spy an opportunity . obviously, spy an opportunity. obviously, we're all suffering with this ongoing cost of living crisis . ongoing cost of living crisis. and they're thinking now perhaps there's an opportunity to soften some of these environmental pledges, which while completely well—meaning and ultimately necessary to go to net zero, are very expensive in the short term . and that, of course, would be an important point of difference with labour, who've been very clear on going very hard on the

green agenda, although i have to say there's a lot of soul searching now among labour and a lot of blame between sadiq khan and keir starmer publicly about the fact that ulez scuppered their their attempts to win uxbridge. >> it basically feels like like a grenade with the pin out policy. i don't want . but the policy. i don't want. but the point is it's mandated into law now because boris johnson's conservative government that we must hit 2050 net zero targets, electric cars being phased out by 2030. the camfield gas boiler in 2035. surely, catherine, an opportunity to exist here for the tories to say actually maybe we got that wrong. we want to save the planet, but we also want the voter. a want to save you the voter. a few if they did few quid. surely if they did that it'd be very, very popular with the electorate. >> i suspect so. and also i'm not sure that the technology is simply going to be widely available enough or or affordable enough by then. so i suspect those dates may well move. but they're also thinking

now how else can we differentit ourselves? migration being a very obvious one. of course they've got the illegal migration bill through parliament. that crime, they want to be seen as being very tough on crime, banning things like machetes, zombie knives, etcetera. and then the other one is trans issues because of course we've seen a lot of mps get themselves into all sorts of trouble over the question what is a woman, an and the conservatives think lots of women will have a problem with with with trans rights as they see them impinging on to women's safe spaces etcetera . and they safe spaces etcetera. and they think that there will be women's votes available if they take quite a tough line on that. and do you think it's time we saw that keir starmer got a bit dirty ? dirty? >> he was putting messages out about rishi sunak doesn't care about rishi sunak doesn't care about care. all that about about child care. all that is it time the sleeves to is it time for the sleeves to get up for rishi get rolled up for and rishi to put into starmer? put the boot into starmer? i think it will get nasty. >> i think it's inevitable because come back because when they come back after recess, we're going to be probably an election.

probably a year off an election. things start ramp up and things will start to ramp up and as you said, we saw keir starmer in labour really playing very dirty earlier in the year, getting a lot of criticism . um, getting a lot of criticism. um, we've heard before that , you we've heard before that, you know, rishi sunak, who's very measured , very affable, measured, very affable, etcetera, very hard working, that the gloves are coming off now. i suspect the gloves will come ofcom the autumn. well it, it'll be nice i think catherine if the conservatives actually became conservative again just my thoughts. >> joining us today >> thanks for joining us today on satellite. moving on on gb news satellite. moving on now sir starmer told now, sir keir starmer has told sadiq khan to reflect on the expansion of ulez to outer london after it was widely blamed for labour's failure to take uxbridge and south ruislip. the labour leader admitted the london mayor's planned expansion of ulez was a major issue for voters on the doorstep in uxbridge, and the conservatives were able to tap into the anger over the scheme to cling onto the seat . so is this the end of the seat. so is this the end of the seat. so is this the end of the road for ulez? let's go live now to the anti ulez rally outside the broadcasting house,

bbc and speak to the leader of the reform party, richard tice. good afternoon to you, richard. you've got umbrella up you've got your umbrella up there. a bit damp, there. it's looking a bit damp, but atmosphere damp. there. it's looking a bit damp, butlisten,:mosphere damp. there. it's looking a bit damp, butlisten, ulez here damp. there. it's looking a bit damp, butlisten, ulez means damp. there. it's looking a bit damp, butlisten, ulez means you amp. there. it's looking a bit damp, butlisten, ulez means you lose. so listen, ulez means you lose. martin so, so ulez means you lose for labour. is it time, though, for starmer to do yet another u—turn on the policy ? another u—turn on the policy? >> good afternoon. i have to say, forget global warming, martin. it's global freezing. it's global raining. it's unbeuev. it's global raining. it's unbeliev . well, it's biblical unbeliev. well, it's biblical here, but there are hundreds and hundreds of people demonstrating against the ulez scheme. and what is clear, martin, is let's just remember london's air is the cleanest it's ever been . the cleanest it's ever been. it's in the top 25 of global cities for clean air. the only toxic air, martin, is down in the tube. and what we don't hear , sadiq khan, is actually doing anything about the toxic air in the tube. this is a defining week, i believe that the labour party is an absolute turmoil over this issue . dozens of over this issue. dozens of labour mps are worried about

actually they could lose their seats in london over this issue. so massive pressure on sadiq khan to scrap the terrible extension. but martin, let me be clear. the right thing to do is not only to scrap the extension plan, but also scrap the existing ulez. it is an absolute disaster. and be clear , it's disaster. and be clear, it's a tax on the poor . the richard, tax on the poor. the richard, it's fair to say that the victory in uxbridge the tories are claiming as their own. >> they're claiming they're the party that can stop ulez what would to that ? would you say to that? >> look, let's be very clear . >> look, let's be very clear. the tories are pro net zero. all of this ulez is part of the drive towards net zero, which as i say , is a tax on the poor. i say, is a tax on the poor. it's impoverished people. so now the tories are not the answer. they won't scrap the existing ulez, they won't lift the low traffic neighbourhoods that are actually increasing pollution , actually increasing pollution, increasing congest in and they won't lift the 20 mile an hour limit, which also are actually

increasing congestion in london under sadiq khan has become the slowest major city in the world. he's completely failed london. we've got to get london moving. and there's only one person, howard cox , who will do that. howard cox, who will do that. and the tories know that actually on this they are nowhere. oh, by the way, has anyone seen the tory mayoral candidate here today who apparently is against ulez? no there's no sign of susan hall here. martin well, richard tice , thank you very much for joining a very lively debate that who's in that that i think who's in that coffin, the way, is, that coffin, by the way, is, is that the electoral of the the electoral hopes of the conservative party or in the coffin? >> i think what should be in the coffin is ulez the whole of ulez , the expansion the existing , the expansion and the existing ulez should that coffin. ulez should go in that coffin. >> martin richard tice, thank you very much for joining us from the bbc broadcasting house. >> excellent >> thank you. excellent interview. okay, interview. love that. okay, let's now to the former let's speak now to the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards. peter, so there's been a huge fallout about ulez , a a huge fallout about ulez, a seat in uxbridge. the labour

party thought they really should have won, but when it came down to single issue campaign, to a single issue campaign, labour mayor sadiq khan's policy of ulez , they were given a vote of ulez, they were given a vote to a chance to vote on it. they rejected now rejected this policy and now we're seeing a huge fallout , a we're seeing a huge fallout, a starmer saying that they need to reflect on policy. angela reflect on the policy. angela rayner yesterday said londoners can't afford ulez it's become a major headache for the labour party. this policy. >> so let's be realistic . >> so let's be realistic. >> so let's be realistic. >> labour's vote share went up in the two seats it contested heavily , which were uxbridge and heavily, which were uxbridge and selby, but then in spirit of being realistic with you as well, when keir says go well, when keir starmer says go away reflect, that really away and reflect, that really means probably change your mind, i think. >> ulez has been a good policy , >> ulez has been a good policy, but if you're going to expand it as a london wants to and as a london mayor wants to and remember, been elected remember, he's been elected twice, so don't the stuff twice, so don't buy the stuff about has about anti—democratic. he has been . but if ulez is to been elected. but if ulez is to been elected. but if ulez is to be extended , i'd imagine be extended, i'd imagine there'll a scrappage scheme there'll be a scrappage scheme put in really support those put in to really support those poorer motorists, particularly taxi drivers who want to see clean air, but know that these

things aren't cheap . things aren't cheap. >> where will the money come from for that? it's okay to say there'll scrap. current there'll be a scrap. the current scrappage only applies to scrappage scheme only applies to people , but how can people on benefits, but how can people on benefits, but how can people afford tesla? >> well, it's too. it's too narrow. i mean, let's not talk about because of about teslas because most of us don't but i went don't have teslas. but i went campaigning uxbridge and campaigning in uxbridge and i spoke a taxi drivers spoke to a taxi drivers certainly who were fed up about it. so i think we've got two different things. and saw different things. and you saw this years ago when david this 15 odd years ago when david cameron was leader of the opposition was opposition and boris johnson was rising in london, rising to prominence in london, a off between the national a trade off between the national party so i'd party and london party. so i'd imagine there will be a scrappage scheme and they tend to for themselves in the to pay for themselves in the long run. we saw that. i think with under alistair with boilers under alistair darling as darling and gordon brown as well. they can be well. so i think they can be self—funding. but the thing is, and i don't really mind your question this question at all, which is this this become wedge this has become a big wedge issue labour far issue because labour are so far ahead the polls and they ahead in the polls and they had ahead in the polls and they had a realistic of winning a realistic chance of winning uxbridge. to give uxbridge. but you have to give the tories they did the tories credit. they did a tactical all weaponise campaign single issue campaign. they may not hold on to it. the general

election, but they fought that campaign very well and is very tough for labour and ulez. >> now, peter, a lot of the front the tory press front pages of the tory press today ditch net today telegraph saying ditch net zero, the same in zero, they're saying the same in the express. even the ft and the times are saying this could be an electoral wedge issue . do you an electoral wedge issue. do you think it would be very popular with tory voters? i'd say we've changed our mind on scrapping your changed our your cars. we've changed our mind we've mind on scrapping borders. we've changed on air changed our mind on clean air zones, the planet is zones, saving the planet is great, but we want to you great, but we want to save you a few quid. if they took that position, would be position, would that be a concern starmer? the concern for keir starmer? the labour party? >> no, i think rishi he >> no, i think rishi sunak if he wants advice from he's wants some advice from me, he's got perception got to avoid the perception of desperation so think voters desperation. so i think voters of stripes accept that we've desperation. so i think voters of bigtripes accept that we've desperation. so i think voters of big environmental|at we've desperation. so i think voters of big environmental problems, got big environmental problems, we need change. but that might be over decades or a generation . the for rishi sunak and . the issue for rishi sunak and the front page for those the times front page for those hasn't was about hasn't seen. it was about essentially like essentially wedge issues like trans issues , immigration, trans issues, immigration, environmental change, immigration. but to me and to anyone of your age, we go back to 2005 and michael howard, a

core vote strategy lost . john core vote strategy lost. john major 1997. back to basics , major 1997. back to basics, wiped out. so i think if rishi sunak wants some free advice, he's got to be wary of desperate strategies that focus on the core vote . core vote. >> only gay pedro's fantastic contribution. thanks for coming on the show today . let's move on on the show today. let's move on now. you're watching and listening gb saturday listening to gb news saturday with tonnes with me, martin daubney tonnes more on today's more coming up yet on today's show but first, let's take a show. but first, let's take a look at the with rachel look at the weather with rachel . no, that wasn't the weather. let's move on. there's lots on the show today. our next item as the show today. our next item as the fallout from the nigel farage banking scandal continues. ministers are reported planning new measures to strip banks of their licences if they close someone's account because of their political views. all of that to come. i'm martin daubney and you're watching and listening to gb news, britain's news channel. and now we do have the weather , and now we do have the weather, the temperatures rising , boxt the temperatures rising, boxt solar probe sponsors of weather

on . gb news good afternoon. on. gb news good afternoon. >> my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office . so this by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk and this is due to this area of low pressure. it's bringing a bit of a squeeze in isobars for a squeeze in the isobars for southern areas. so some stronger winds to come at this afternoon southern areas. so some stronger windsplentyne at this afternoon southern areas. so some stronger windsplenty of at this afternoon southern areas. so some stronger windsplenty of cloud; afternoon southern areas. so some stronger windsplenty of cloud andzrnoon southern areas. so some stronger windsplenty of cloud and rainyn here. plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through this evening, there will be some clearer spells , maybe the odd clearer spells, maybe the odd shower here as well. but elsewhere with plenty of cloud rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel coast temperatures remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and north easterly winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers elsewhere , though, few showers elsewhere, though, cloudy still might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into

sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week. dry out, brighter and fresher conditions to come in behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures still remaining head towards midweek with those te|belowures still remaining head towards midweek with those te|below average. remaining head towards midweek with those te|below average as maining head towards midweek with those te|below average as the ning or below average as the temperatures rising , boxt solar temperatures rising, boxt solar proud sponsors of weather on gb news . news news. news >> thanks for that, rachel. well, loads of you who've been getting in touch about the big question day and that's question of the day and that's that clip of just stop oil that video clip of just stop oil protesters refusing to out protesters refusing to move out of road after a distraught of the road after a distraught mum told them she was trying to get to a sick baby hospital. get to a sick baby to hospital. now rageous video is now being viewed almost 20 million times

since it went out yesterday. james says these jso aren't afraid of a slap on the wrist from the magistrate to them , from the magistrate to them, it's a badge of pride. what would frighten these idle entitled posh people is being sued through the civil courts for the whole economic and personal damage they do once their trust funds and retirement mansions are in peril, it will concentrate their tiny minds wonderfully . james, next time wonderfully. james, next time you message in, please speak your mind. that was too ambiguous . jill says this anyone ambiguous. jill says this anyone who knowingly stops an ambulance or a mother trying to get her baby to hospital should be charged with taking action to deliberately cause harm. they were told the baby was sick, yet continued with their process. if that had been me , i would have that had been me, i would have nudged them out of the way . that had been me, i would have nudged them out of the way. no ifs, no buts and no excuses. now jill, i said the same thing yesterday day. i said slag me off all you like. if you're in the way of my kid getting to

hospital and they're sick, i'm afraid i'd have nudged through them totally agree. keith them too. i totally agree. keith says this the way to stop these protesters protests thing is to hit them in the pocket or they are mainly middle class and have mortgages, and when mortgages, have cars. and when not protesting, go on flights abroad. when these people are arrested and charged their assets should be immediately frozen. hardly there. from keith and john says the following where are the police ? we now where are the police? we now have a law allowing them to move these people out of the way . if these people out of the way. if i've been that lady with a sick baby , i would driven baby, i would have driven through taken the through them and taken the consequences strong words there. keep your views coming in. email me gbviews@gbnews.com. or of course, tweet at gb news. loads more coming up in the show yet as the fallout from the nigel farage banking scandal continues , ministers are reportedly planning new measures to strip banks of their licences if they close someone's account because of their political views. all of that and more to come. i'm

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news. the people's channel. britain's news . news. the people's channel. britain's news. channel >> and welcome back to gb news. saturday, prince george is celebrating his 10th birthday today. he's understood to be marking the milestone privately with his family. the prince and princess of wales have released this new picture of the future king, which was taken in windsor earlier this month . our royal earlier this month. our royal

correspondent walker correspondent cameron walker takes a look back on prince george's first ten years . and george's first ten years. and ten years ago, this street was full of royal fans and journalists eagerly awaiting the arrival of the future. >> king with his parents to pose in front of the cameras. a lot of change since that day. queen elizabeth was still on the throne. the world hadn't heard of meghan markle, britain's future was bright . he of meghan markle, britain's future was bright. he was named george alexander louis born into a modern world but destined to become head of an ancient institution . it's a delicate institution. it's a delicate balance. the prince and princess of wales take the privacy of their eldest son incredibly seriously , but they're aware of seriously, but they're aware of the inevitable public interest in him . royal biographer robert in him. royal biographer robert jobson thinks prince william and princess catherine have given their son the right level of media exposure . media exposure. >> he's fully aware of what's installed for him, but ultimately, the most important thing is to give him time and space to develop as a child

until all the inevitable is upon him. because at some stage this young lad is going to have to be the king. and it brings with it a weight of a lot of weight of responsibility for the young prince's duty already responsibility for the young prince'through. duty already shines through. >> he was his grandfather's page dunng >> he was his grandfather's page during may's coronation. pomp, pageantry and rubbing shoulders with foreign heads of state. a glimpse into his future. >> hello, david attenborough what animal do you think will become extinct next? >> it looks like prince george is taking after his father and grandfather carrying passionately about the planet's last year. the boss of conservation charity tusk, exclusively revealed to gb news that the future king has already been doing his bit to help africa's wildlife. >> prince george, very sweetly did a little cake sale to raise money for tusk during lockdown and wrote a very sweet card about it. >> you know, clearly demonstrating his concern for africa's wildlife. george also

volunteered with his family to renovate a scout hut during the national big help out this year. >> but the young prince is still a child and has plenty of time for fun . this year, george was for fun. this year, george was spotted enjoying a day out at the ashes with prince william , the ashes with prince william, as well as wimbledon and an air show. today, he turns ten and secondary school is not far away. he was spotted visiting eton college last month , an eton college last month, an indication perhaps his parents are considering sending their son to the very prestigious school where prince william was once a pupil. it looks like prince george is set to follow in his father's footsteps in more ways than one. cameron walker . gb more ways than one. cameron walker. gb news. >> well, we've been bombarded today with gb views. let's go through a few of those now on the conservatives peter says, i'm 82 and have been a conservative voter my whole life, but will not vote for them again. simply because they are not adopting conservative policies on the migrant barge. mark says this as a former

soldier, a 27 year service, i'm offended by the quality and standard of this barge. i would have been very happy to have been housed in this unit compared to some of the places i was sent to. we have homeless british people who have nothing like this available to them here, here to that. and kitty says this i'm 55 and severely disabled and i can't get an in—person doctor's appointment and haven't been able to afford and haven't been able to afford a dentist for years . i've lived a dentist for years. i've lived on rice and sandwiches since september last year and i've been cold most of that time too. shame to hear that, kitty . i shame to hear that, kitty. i think i quite like a place on the bibby stockholm the residents will seemingly have a much better quality of life than me and kitty that really hammers home the inequality of how we treat these people compared to how we treat our own. keep your views in. subscribe to views coming in. subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on twitter. we're, of course , at gb news. still to come, as part of its green agenda , the part of its green agenda, the scottish government has lodged

cut down, illogically cut down close to 16 million trees on publicly owned land in scotland to make way for windfarms. but first, your news headlines with the wonderful tatiana sanchez . the wonderful tatiana sanchez. >> martin, thank you very much and good afternoon . this is the and good afternoon. this is the latest from the newsroom, sir keir starmer is urging london's mayor to reflect on the expansion of ulez after it was blamed the party's narrow blamed for the party's narrow defeat the uxbridge and south defeat in the uxbridge and south ruislip by—election protesters have been gathering outside the bbc in london this afternoon , bbc in london this afternoon, with many expressing anger at the mayor's plans to expand the ultra low emission zone. the £12.50 daily charge for cars which failed to meet emission standards is set to be extended to be on the capital's north and south. circular roads . millions south. circular roads. millions of rail passengers are facing disruption today as strikes by the rmt union continue on one of the rmt union continue on one of

the busiest travel days of the yeah the busiest travel days of the year. thousands of its members at 14 train companies are walking out over pay and conditions. meanwhile the port of dover says it could take passengers up to 2.5 hours to passengers up to 2.5 hours to pass through border checks dunng pass through border checks during peak hours, as schools have broken up for the holidays in harnessed post—brexit passport checks by french border officials have also increased processing times as more children will be allowed to use electronic passport gates when new rules come into effect from monday. the age of those permitted to use the e—gates will be lowered from 12 to 10. the change comes following successful trials at three of london's major airports. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to depart from heathrow and gatwick over the coming days as the peak summer houday coming days as the peak summer holiday season begins. coming days as the peak summer holiday season begins . and holiday season begins. and england have won their first women's world cup match with a 1—0 victory over haiti in brisbane. it took 29 minutes for georgia stanway to push the lionesses into the lead with a retaken penalty , aiming the ball

retaken penalty, aiming the ball low into the left corner of the net. the lionesses, who have lost just once in 33 games under their current manager, take on denmark in their group denmark in their second group match week . you can get match next week. you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews.com now it's back to . now it's back to. martin and thank you for that news update . update. >> tatiana sanchez. okay. welcome back to gb news saturday with me, martin daubney on your tv online. and of course, on your digital radio. well, following the nigel farage banking scandal, many suitors are said to be planning new rules that could see banks lose their licences for closing accounts because they disagree with the holder's political opinions . with the holder's political opinions. the new regulations are to include giving are expected to include giving customers three months notice of planned account closures and the

rationale behind it, and therefore more ability to appeal decisions , as the government is decisions, as the government is said to believe that greater transparency is the best way to force banks to change their behaviour and protect . free behaviour and protect. free speech. now for more on this, let's speak to the ceo of bank challenger, t.d. money. cameron perry. hello to you , cameron. perry. hello to you, cameron. thanks for joining perry. hello to you, cameron. thanks forjoining us on this. thanks for joining us on this. now, this is a topic that's gnpped now, this is a topic that's gripped the nation. we can all agree it was outrageous that people's private financial information was shared, it seems, with journalists and leaked out an apology of sorts, was received by nigel farage. but moving on to the next stage, what could happen could, for example , natwest or coutts be example, natwest or coutts be summonsed to face the music in parliament? and could they even have their licences revoked? yes i don't think they'll have their licences revoked. >> you've got to remember they've got about 19 million customers here in the uk. but

yeah , certainly people should be yeah, certainly people should be held responsible , all held responsible, all accountable for these actions . accountable for these actions. the breach of general data protection rules with with that information being disclosed about a private customer to a journalist , that is outrageous. journalist, that is outrageous. >> i think the underlying, i don't know, supreme arrogance that there's a wealth reputational risk committee that basically have chosen a customer, that they have a different you know, point of view on culturally or politically, even . they think politically, even. they think that in their righteous mind that in their righteous mind that they are so supremely confident in their point of view is infallible, that they're 100% right. and therefore that person effectively shouldn't be able to exist and give any sort of, you know, view in public that they just don't subscribe to. i mean, i think that's a yeah , a i think that's a yeah, a terrible. >> so boris johnson has waded in on this topic today in his latest column in the mail. he's saying that if natwest chief

dame alison rose did leak information to the bbc's simon jack, which nigel has said happened at that dinner party, she must quit. do you agree ? she must quit. do you agree? should she go? >> look , i don't want to pile in >> look, i don't want to pile in on somebody who's under fire, but, i mean, this is a good example of some self harm. again, i think coming from a supremely arrogant mindset. yeah i do personally think that . but i do personally think that. but i do personally think that. but i would like to you know, i'd like to see an investigation into this so that we can get the facts first and take a balanced view on it. >> and cameron, a lot of people are saying that we're moving towards of kind of towards an era of kind of chinese social credit, chinese style social credit, moral credit , political opinions moral credit, political opinions affecting your ability to exist financial if you can't exist financially. we don't exist at all in the modern world. is this something that ordinary folk should be worried about ? is should be worried about? is nigel a tall poppy? they're going to go for or could rank and file people who don't agree with climate change or people

who challenge immigration. could they watched too? they be being watched too? >> addressing this >> yeah, i was addressing this with journalist only 12 with with the journalist only 12 months ago. you know, there were other mainstream banks that have , you know, closed accounts or blocked accounts not based on any sort of criminality or potential for financial crime or or the big three in banking. if you have a suspicion of fraud or money laundering or terrorist financing , that makes sense. but financing, that makes sense. but you know, banks have a very privileged position in society. they literally have a licence to print money. the people who have come in and run banks, you know, because they've been going for a long time, most of them , such as long time, most of them, such as dame rose, you know, this is built over over decades and sometimes centuries to get to a position where you're serving the public in this way. and as i say , the institution itself has say, the institution itself has a privileged position and a protected position within its sort of financial model. i find that also supremely arrogant to think that in that role you should be using your own

personal views and takes on things as to ostracise people or coerce people or, you know , sort coerce people or, you know, sort of close down any dissenting voices . voices. >> and how damaging do you think this is to the reputation of the banks themselves ? banks themselves? >> i think it's another it's another sort of arrow into the banks. there's a bigger underlying problem . i think underlying problem. i think that, you know, the whole banking system is a lending system and it's set up to protect and benefit the bank to the detriment of the public. and thatis the detriment of the public. and that is just fundamentally flawed. right there, in my view, which is why we designed something different to compete with this system called tally money. so yeah, i think this is this is in a way, this is the icing on the cake of what they can do. and to your question about should the public be worried, know, of worried, you know, short of having state control or large corporate control of being able to violently hurt you, to stop you from , you know, showing any

you from, you know, showing any dissension or or speaking out about something that you have a strong view on. the quickest way to shut you down is to block your access to your own money, which you've got to remember is your own earnings from spending your own earnings from spending your time your labour or your own time for your labour or from what you've been doing , or from what you've been doing, or to ability to make to block your ability to make payments. it's the payments. it is. it's the easiest, most effective , easiest, most effective, non—violent way of doing that. karen parry, fascinating stuff. >> thanks for joining karen parry, fascinating stuff. >> thanks forjoining us karen parry, fascinating stuff. >> thanks for joining us today on gb news saturday. you're watching or listening to gb news saturday martin daubney saturday with me, martin daubney tons coming yet on today's tons more coming yet on today's show green agenda show as part of its green agenda , the scottish government has illogic cut down close to 60 million trees on publicly owned land in scotland to make way for wait for it wind farms. land in scotland to make way for wait for it wind farms . all of wait for it wind farms. all of that after these messages

online gb news britain's news channel. online gb news britain's news channel . will channel. will >> welcome back to gb news saturday with me. martin daubney on your tv online and on your digital radio. now close to 16 million trees have been cut down on publicly owned land in scotland as part of a major drive . wait for it to build more drive. wait for it to build more wind farms. the personal the person responsible for rural affairs , mairi gougeon, said affairs, mairi gougeon, said that this has been happening since the year 2000 and equating to a whopping 1700 trees being cut down every single day . cut down every single day. scotland already has wind turbines that can generate 8.4gw

of power, and that's more than half of the total wind power capacity in the entire uk. but now snp ministers plan to install even more turbines as this is a story that makes my brain explode. join me now is scottish conservative msp liam kerr. liam ijust scottish conservative msp liam kerr. liam i just cannot get my head round the logical inconsistency of trying to save the planet by felling millions of trees. please try and help me make sense of this madness . make sense of this madness. >> well , i'll make sense of this madness. >> well, i'll think your astonishment will be shared by the scottish public and indeed the scottish public and indeed the uk public. >> not just astonishment at the numbers that we're talking about, but the fact of it , numbers that we're talking about, but the fact of it, and this is something i've been pursuing for a number months, pursuing for a number of months, the previous cabinet secretary, despite making data available in previous , was somewhat previous years, was somewhat reticent, shall we say . but the reticent, shall we say. but the new cabinet secretary commended me, provided me just this week with the numbers. and as you say , they the scottish government

is estimating that just under 16 million trees have been felled on forestry and land scotland sites. that's publicly owned sites. that's publicly owned sites in scotland to facilitate wind farm developments . and as wind farm developments. and as you say, that's the equivalent to 1700 per day, which is i think astonishing is probably the right word. >> and i think by by any sane metric , liam, if 16 million metric, liam, if 16 million trees bit the bullet , they'd be trees bit the bullet, they'd be calling that a climate emergency and yet they're slashing them down. and the question has to be why is it because they want is it is it subsidies? is it money? is it they're just so blinded to net zero. they're actually committing wanton environmental destruction . please again, destruction. please again, actually try and make it make sense . sense. >> well, i think the key thing here is that we're trying to get to i think everyone is trying to get to a just transition to a fair energy mix. but that has to be underpinned by science and

evidence . so one of the things evidence. so one of the things that i've done as a follow up from this is write back to the cabinet secretary and say, look, can you tell us how much carbon will be sequestered by or is saved by running through wind farms as opposed to the amount that would be sequestered had we not touched the trees? because i think if they're going to take a rigorous approach to this, if they're going to say it is better to build wind farms than it is to have forest free, then they must surely have that data because if they don't it, i think that will be very concerning indeed for fascinating and concerning aspects of the report. >> is the issue of repowering . >> is the issue of repowering. and that means that when a wind turbine is taken out of commission, it can be replaced with a turbine that's massively , massively bigger, including some turbines that are up to 850ft tall. and that's the equivalent of more than 60 double decker buses. is there

any control whatsoever on these turbines, or is this now just the new normal ? well well , the new normal? well well, certainly the repowering is happening apace . happening apace. >> there have been some concerns expressed by some a body called the john muir trust. we have a new planning framework in scotland which the john muir trust have said it might set the bar so low the threshold so low for wind turbines that it's impossible for them not to meet it. and that could have really concerning effects on the countryside . and one of the countryside. and one of the things that prompted me to take this action to find out what's going on was the representations i've had from communities , i've had from communities, cities who are terribly worried about not only visual impact, but also damage to wildlife and trees. as we've seen, damage to businesses, particularly tourism . i think the key point is everyone accepts that we need a just transition . to an energy

just transition. to an energy mix to a transition to net zero. but that has to be fair. it has to be managed and it has to take account of the science . account of the science. >> okay, liam, we're going to have to leave it there, but i would just add my own little tuppence worth end, and tuppence worth at the end, and that why that is, you know, why are we cutting 17 million cutting down 17 million trees? why heading towards net why are we heading towards net zero obsession when i think a more a more balance may more a more rational balance may be to look at north sea oil licences . what about a bit of licences. what about a bit of shale? about cheaper energy licences. what about a bit of shathe about cheaper energy licences. what about a bit of shathe massesyout cheaper energy licences. what about a bit of shathe masses and cheaper energy licences. what about a bit of shathe masses and how3er energy licences. what about a bit of shathe masses and how aboutergy licences. what about a bit of shathe masses and how about we for the masses and how about we stop relying on wind turbines that simply when the that simply conk out when the wind stops? that's just me. sorry that's a curse of logic. let's move on now. thank you, liam, for joining let's move on now. thank you, liam, forjoining us let's move on now. thank you, liam, for joining us today on the as we were the show. so as we were discussing the show, discussing earlier on the show, over million holidaymakers discussing earlier on the show, overheadllion holidaymakers discussing earlier on the show, overhead overseasdaymakers discussing earlier on the show, overhead overseas this1akers discussing earlier on the show, overhead overseas this weekend will head overseas this weekend with today expected to be the busiest day, according to the travel association apta. however for the ongoing rail strikes, airport queues and delays at the port of dover threaten to make those journeys anything but pleasant . well, our yorkshire pleasant. well, our yorkshire and humber reporter anna riley

joins us now from hull railway station where the rmt has set up a picket line. so anna, another summer, another set of strikes. what's the latest ? what's the latest? >> good afternoon , martin. yes, >> good afternoon, martin. yes, more strikes. this strike action has been going on for 18 months, at least right now from the rmt . they've been picketing on thursday. they've been picketing today. and they're going to pick it next saturday as well. 20,000 of their members are going on strike. they say that it's about pay strike. they say that it's about pay day. they say that they're in a cost of living crisis and that they are wanting more pay to match with inflation. and it's also about conditions as well. so out the picket line this morning, well. so out the picket line this morning , there was a sign this morning, there was a sign out about the ticket offices that are closing and members of the rmt were engaging with the public, trying to get them to sign their petition. there's an ongoing consultation until next wednesday. they say that

thousands of jobs could be lost with the ticket office closures as well as people, passengers wanting to actually speak to real human beings as well, rather than just using ticket machines to purchase their tickets. but this strike action, no doubt with this weekend of travel that we've got, will have a significant impact on people. thousands of rail journeys have been cancelled . ed, here in been cancelled. ed, here in hull, it's just one train line that's operating, saying the whole trains at and so it's a lot quieter here at the train station and that means that the roads are going to be a lot busier as well. we know from the rac, they that this weekend rac, they say that this weekend there's 12 million there's more than 12 million journeys be journeys that are going to be made on holiday made, people going on holiday and that's going to only add to congestion on the roads. now, i spoke to gaz jackson earlier . he spoke to gaz jackson earlier. he is the regional organiser for the rmt for yorkshire and lincolnshire and this is what he said about the strike action. >> well, motivations of the members that you see behind us

here today is to make sure that we can have a safe and accessible railway everybody accessible railway for everybody . remember . you also have to remember that these pay these people have not had a pay rise throughout rise for four years throughout the crisis. and the cost of living crisis. and what seen in them for what we've seen in them for years the operating years is the train operating companies sucking money of companies sucking money out of the and giving it to the the railway and giving it to the shareholders. and these people that trains, you that have run the trains, you know, the workers know, got the key workers to work. key workers as work. these are key workers as well, have had the pay rise well, have not had the pay rise that deserve. that they deserve. and, you know, people every day know, these people every day that they're on strike are that they're out on strike are losing of money. we're 22 losing a lot of money. we're 22 days really days in. they're really determined. we've had to deliver three due to the three ballot mandates due to the anti—trade laws, which anti—trade union laws, which we've done. every time they we've done. and every time they grow in membership strong grow in our membership is strong . the public support is absolutely fantastic and we'll be here as long as need to be be here as long as we need to be because they're giving his views on why the rmt are striking. >> we know on the 5th of may, the members ballot for at least another six months of strike action. so this could well go on into winter, not just summer disruption of travel, but on into the winter as well. and

it's not just the rmt that are striking aslef , that's the train striking aslef, that's the train drivers union. they've come short of striking. but they've put a ban on their overtime . so put a ban on their overtime. so that means that trains will be running a lot less as well due to the action of aslef and the passenger advice as always, with this strike action check before you travel because you train could well be cancelled . could well be cancelled. >> okay, anna riley, thank you for that update from hull on the strikes there. no strikes as part of summer this is how part of our summer this is how it feels to be french. moving on, mortgage rates have fallen for the first time since may. both two and five year fixed rate deals are down 0.02% on average, with lenders factoring in better than expected inflation data released earlier this week . inflation data released earlier this week. but inflation data released earlier this week . but those figures are this week. but those figures are still higher than their peaks dunng still higher than their peaks during last year's mini—budget. the lenders, his expert opinion is the property investors broker and managing director of grand union finance, sam norris. hello

to you, sam. thanks for joining us today on gb news saturday. so at long last , us today on gb news saturday. so at long last, okay, small pickings, but some good news for homeowners . homeowners. >> yeah, it is good news. >> yeah, it is good news. >> i like my sporting analogies and as a barnet fc fan, i've been saying this week that it's a little bit like barnet going 1—0 up in the first minute of a game against man city. >> it's great news, let's >> it's great news, but let's not ourselves just not get ahead of ourselves just yet. are anticipating another yet. we are anticipating another bank base rate rise bank of england base rate rise coming on the 3rd of august. how much this is going to affect swap and all that sort of swap rates and all that sort of stuff remains be look, stuff remains to be seen. look, it's positive, but i am it's really positive, but i am still cautiously still being cautiously optimistic, shall we say. >> okay , sam, so what we're >> okay, sam, so what we're really hoping is this marks the beginning of of a longer term beginning of a of a longer term decline. think ? keep your decline. do you think? keep your fingers and everything else cos we looking at a drop we might be looking at a drop below the end of the year i >> -- >> let let's hope so. the thing is that there is a correlation of course between inflation an and the bank of england base rate, but actually how lenders determine the cost of the money

that they're lending out to the general public comes through the inter banking lending rates, the swap rates and that is actually more correlated to inflation than it is probably to the bank of england base rate. so the news that that's come out about the coming down the inflation coming down is really, it's lower really, really good. it's lower than anticipated, is than we anticipated, which is excellent . i'm really, really excellent. i'm really, really hopeful that going hopeful that we're going to see another in another positive decrease in inflation come next month. but i do think that a base rate rise will be needed to sort of to do that. so i think it's really, really positive. it's a good outlook for not just homeowners , for that want to buy , for those that want to buy property, first time buyers, but also well, who also for landlords as well, who obviously pretty obviously have been hit pretty hard couple of hard over the last couple of years various different years with various different regulation it regulation changes, too. so it is good news across the board, but as i said, cautious, optimistic , cautiously optimistic, cautiously optimistic, cautiously optimistic and we'll see how the next couple of months plays out. but good news for now. but it is good news for now. >> . sam, briefly, if we >> okay. sam, briefly, if we could, home they should could, home owners, they should stick it bricks and mortar could, home owners, they should sticka it bricks and mortar could, home owners, they should sticka great bricks and mortar could, home owners, they should sticka great investmenti mortar could, home owners, they should sticka great investment ,mortar could, home owners, they should sticka great investment, right r ? >> ?i >> it 7 >> it always 7_ >> it always is. ? >> it always is. there's a

7 >> it always is. there's a great at saying that we have in the property world, which is the best part of time to buy property was 20 years ago. the next best time is now. that remains , you know, constant. remains, you know, a constant. we're in the uk that remains, you know, a constant. we're always in the uk that remains, you know, a constant. we're always had n the uk that remains, you know, a constant. we're always had athe uk that remains, you know, a constant. we're always had a verle that remains, you know, a constant. we're always had a very strong we've always had a very strong property and i can't see property market and i can't see that changing. this is more of a blip than anything bricks blip than anything else. bricks and is one of the best and mortar is one of the best investments. i believe that you can make. >> w- can make. >> norris we're going >> sam. sam norris we're going to have to it there. thank to have to leave it there. thank you today. you for joining us today. you've been listening you for joining us today. you've bee news listening you for joining us today. you've bee news with listening you for joining us today. you've bee news with me. listening you for joining us today. you've bee news with me. martin ng you for joining us today. you've bee news with me. martin dalby, gb news with me. martin dalby, thank you so much for joining gb news with me. martin dalby, thank you so much forjoining me today. don't go today. but please don't go anywhere up next. today. but please don't go anyifirst, up next. today. but please don't go anyifirst, let's up next. today. but please don't go anyifirst, let's take up next. today. but please don't go anyifirst, let's take a up next. today. but please don't go anyifirst, let's take a look up next. but first, let's take a look at the weather rachel . the weather with rachel. >> that warm feeling inside made from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. of weather on. gb news. >> good afternoon. my name is rachel ayers and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast brought to you by the met office. so this morning's been pretty dull and wet for much of the uk and this is due to this area of low pressure. it's bringing a bit of a squall. lies

in the isobars for southern areas. some stronger to areas. so some stronger winds to come this afternoon here. come at this afternoon here. plenty of cloud and rain around across much of england, wales and northern ireland, though across scotland through this evening, there will some evening, there will be some clearer spells . maybe the odd clearer spells. maybe the odd shower here as well. but elsewhere with plenty of cloud rain and stronger winds too, especially for english channel coast temperatures remaining in the low teens here. cooler across scotland under those clearer skies and north easterly winds . so a bright start to winds. so a bright start to sunday across scotland with a few showers . elsewhere, though, few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still , we few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still, we might few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still , we might see few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still, we might see a few showers. elsewhere, though, cloudy still , we might see a few cloudy still, we might see a few brighter spells across southern areas with the odd shower into sunday afternoon , though, for sunday afternoon, though, for northern parts of england and maybe even to northern parts of wales . heavy and persistent rain wales. heavy and persistent rain to come as we go into sunday. so do take care if you are out and about here through sunday morning and into the afternoon as well . but that rain will as well. but that rain will start to push southwards as we look into the new week . drier, look into the new week. drier, brighter and fresher conditions

to come in behind. but southern areas looking pretty gloomy still as we start the new week. not a huge amount changing as we head towards midweek with those temperatures still remaining at or , that warm or below average, that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on .