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but the end of the week. can't you? but bev turner. but i've bev turner. >> this tom harwood. it's >> this is tom harwood. it's going to be more professional to hear right? hear on air right? >> well, interest could >> well, interest rates could rise again the of rise again as the bank of england's policy england's monetary policy committee today in committee meets today in more potentially bad news for mortgage holders . so when will mortgage holders. so when will they ever come back down? we'll be asking the details as would you mention this shop they might be putting on a little bit too much weight. >> an article in the paper this morning, it said that you must tell your partner if they're getting fat. >> have you ever had this difficult potentially difficult but potentially necessary and necessary conversation and following in the footsteps of swimming, cycling and athlete sticks, british rowing has now said that it will ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events . competing in women's events. quite right. so you could be six foot seven in female lycra,

you're still to going be a man in female lycra. some women are six foot seven, very few, but some are. some rowers are actually. but anyway, we're going to be talking about that. we're going to have an international rower to international rower on to discuss let your discuss it. let us know your thoughts this morning. vaiews@gbnews.com is the email address. all, here address. but first of all, here is very latest news with is your very latest news with rhiannon jones. is your very latest news with rhiannon jones . bev thank you. rhiannon jones. bev thank you. >> good morning. it's 9.32. your top stories from the newsroom on the bank of england's expected to increase its interest rate for the 14th time in a row today . economists predict a 0.25 percentage point rise, increasing the base rate to 5.25. it would be the highest hike in interest rates for 15 years. as the bank continues its battle to control the rising cost of living, the increase today, we'd add yet more pressure on borrowers .

this. the prime minister says the government's pay offer to doctors is fair and final . doctors is fair and final. writing in the daily express, rishi sunak says there'll be no more talks on this year's pay, calling the latest offer very generous . he called the calling the latest offer very generous. he called the nhs an institution the uk is rightly proud of and praised the health care staff across the country. mr sunak's urging doctors to call off their strikes . gp's in

call off their strikes. gp's in england will be able to order a host of checks directly to help speed up the diagnosis of a range of heart and respiratory conditions . doctors will be able conditions. doctors will be able to order diagnostic checks for some conditions without needing to go via a specialist. patients will instead receive a direct referral to hospital or community diagnostic centres . up community diagnostic centres. up to 1 million people are expected to 1 million people are expected to benefit from the new plans as and the science secretary has accused a labour mp of misleading the public after he shared a fake image of the prime minister. mp for hull east karl turner posted a doctored picture showing rishi sunak with a badly pulled pint at a beer festival with a woman seemingly looking on disapprovingly . michelle on disapprovingly. michelle donelan has described sharing the deepfake image pretty desperate stuff by labour . mr

desperate stuff by labour. mr turner later said he hadn't realised the image was a fake . realised the image was a fake. and you can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website. gbnews.com now though, it's back over to tom and . bev it's back over to tom and. bev >> good morning. thank you for joining us. it's 935 now on thursday morning to our top story. the bank of england is poised to raise interest rates for the 14th consecutive time today as it fights to take back control of inflation in yes. >> signs do suggest that inflation is slowly coming back down, with policy makers set to opt perhaps for a quarter rather than a half point rise . than a half point rise. >> so joining us now is our economics and business editor liam halligan. what's your prediction then for today? how have to this point? have we got to this point? i can't believe we're looking at the 14th raise in interest rates i >>i -- >> i think they'll raise by a quarter i think if you'd quarter point. i think if you'd have asked this time last

have asked me this time last week, i'd have said they'll probably raise half point probably raise by a half point to 5.5. i think they'll actually go to 5.25 from 5. that's because we have seen inflation come down a bit. as you say, it was eight point. it's 8.7. in may, it was 7.9. in june . so may, it was 7.9. in june. so it's going in the right direction. but consider , bev, direction. but consider, bev, 7.9% in june. for that's times. the bank of england's 2% target it that compares to 5.5% across the eurozone and 3% repeat 3% in the eurozone and 3% repeat 3% in the us . that's because energy is the us. that's because energy is so cheap in the us because they're fracking. >> but liam doesn't. the effect of interest rates rises. take a long time to filter in to inflation numbers as we see them on the ground? isn't one of the arguments that the bank of england went too late initially in raising rates? are they now potentially overcompensated because what they do today will not actually take effect in the real economy for many, many

months? >> that's right . interest rates >> that's right. interest rates or monetary policy, as we say, the moving of interest rates work with as milton friedman said, the famous nobel laureate economist, 60 and 70s with long and variable lags. there aren't many laws in economics , but many laws in economics, but that's one of them. let's have a look at what's happened to interest rates over recent years. as if gb news readers and listeners and viewers need reminding. so back in 2017, rates were still very, very low after the global financial crisis , they then went even crisis, they then went even lower to a quarter of a % during lower to a quarter of a% during lockdown, and they you see on the right of the screen that staircase, that's 14 successive rate, 13 successive rate rises. sorry to 5% from december 2021. i think it will go to 5.25% today. now, i agree with you, tom. i've been writing this for many months. i think the danger is that the bank of england, they were too late to start raising interest rates. all central banks were they had central banks were they all had this ridiculous that this ridiculous idea that inflation was going to be

transitory. who really transitory. anybody who really understands market ice understands financial market ice can at signals from can look at the signals from financial markets know financial markets would know that true. that was that that wasn't true. that was some of wheeze, some head some kind of wheeze, some head in the sand . so having been late in the sand. so having been late to increase interest rates and then they started very cautiously lots of small cautiously with lots of small rises rather than rises , rises rather than big rises, we're going to get rid of inflation as the federal reserve did in the states. the bank of england, i would say, is now overcompensate, waiting, trying to tough they are to show how tough they are by raising even more . look, raising rates even more. look, gdp was flat in may, nought % gdp was flat in may, nought% growth. yeah, the economy has stalled. we're on the brink of recession. inflation is coming down. so mpc members, monetary policy committee members, cool your boots , hold fire. let's see your boots, hold fire. let's see what happens with the 13 interest rate rises that are already in the system. because when you raise interest rates, real people suffer . real people suffer. >> oh, nine months ago, when the bank of england raised rates by just nought .25% in the federal reserve in the states, was

raising by nought point five. when think that filtered when do you think that filtered through? is that one of the reasons why british inflation is now higher than american inflation? >> there are lots of reasons. british inflation is now higher than inflation. the than american inflation. the main money is main reason for my money is energy prices. we have a system in the uk that i've been at pains to explain here on gb news in tiny little timeslots so people actually get it where the price of electricity is determined by the marginal price of wholesale gas because we have so many gas fired power stations backing up the renewables that just sit there idle. but they have to be ready to be literally fired up to replace renewables on the many, many days when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. so that's a big reason why our electricity pnces reason why our electricity prices , energy prices generally prices, energy prices generally are high, and that feeds into inflation as america, in contrast, has turned itself into an energy exporting superpower, not just an energy importing superpower . for it's been

superpower. for it's been fracking. it's been giving tax incentives to create domestic energy. on the contrary, we've got a 75% windfall tax. if you try and create energy in this country from from the north sea. so i think the main reason is energy. i think our labour market is tighter. i think there is more sort of structural problems in the uk , like a lack problems in the uk, like a lack of competition when it comes to retailing. more price fixing, if i'm honest. that's why we've got the competition and markets authority, our main sort of competition regulator now holding inquiries simultaneously into the food retailing and housebuilding, two of the biggest things that people spend their money on, i think i would suspect, liam, tell me if i'm wrong, i'm tapping into my economics a—level history here. >> don't laugh, tom. that makes you an expert in media language. >> i think that where we're going to feel it as family members when this mortgage interest, if people are on flexible , obviously if they're flexible, obviously if they're not, if you're on a fixed rate

and you've got a fixed rate of mortgage, you're probably all right weather this storm for right to weather this storm for a few more months until it expires. >> it expires. f" >> until it expires. but those who will either have it expire or who are on variable rate or who are on a variable rate tied the interest rate, i tied to the interest rate, i think autumn, november, think this autumn, november, december, going december, some people are going to miserable christmas, to have a miserable christmas, don't think? think don't you think? i don't think it's to before next it's going to happen before next yeah it's going to happen before next year. think it will the end year. i think it will be the end of this year. well i'd say this. >> i'd say the uk economy has proved to be remarkably resilient. reason bank resilient. one reason the bank of credibility is so of england's credibility is so shot because been shot isn't because they've been very and timid with their very slow and timid with their interest rate rises and now they're trying to overcompensate. they were also predicting for a long time that the going to have the uk was going to have a recession lasting not two successive quarters, five successive quarters, but five quarters. we haven't even had a recession lasting quarters, recession lasting two quarters, just the office for budget just like the office for budget responsibility. again the bank of england are an official forecaster massively forecaster who have massively overegged the doom and gloom , by overegged the doom and gloom, by the way, and we should call that out because they have ranks of people staring at screens and looking at data and their

forecasts have been woeful. and i say that with regret. a lot of my friends work in the bank of england and the treasury. we done lot of stuff in done a lot of stuff in economics, academia. i know a lot of these people well. i've known them for 20, 30 years and they're forecasting has been really and think so i really bad. and i think so i don't want to overdo the doom and gloom. and the uk has avoided recession . and the avoided recession. and the trouble bev, if you think trouble is, bev, if you think back to that graph , for years back to that graph, for years interest rates were low, people locked in, then locked in locked in, then they locked in for two, 3 or 5 years. and the reality is over, over the as we approach the next general election, in total, there are going to be several million households fields where those fixed rates expire higher and then they haven't been on a sort of an interest rate mortgage unked of an interest rate mortgage linked to a base rate of a quarter or a half of 1. they're now going to be on a mortgage unked now going to be on a mortgage linked to a base rate of 5 or 6, which will mean a massive increase. >> there was some there was some interesting statistics yesterday, weren't there, about

how many more people are renting properties in the uk now than there decades before? there have been decades before? how seems like we're flipping how it seems like we're flipping over model and over to that european model and do think at this we will do you think at this we will look back this and go, that look back on this and go, that was that it happened. was the time that it happened. fewer could the fewer people could get on the housing ladder? >> i think this has been happening long time. this >> i think this has been heten,1ing long time. this >> i think this has been heten, 15,1 long time. this >> i think this has been heten, 15, 20 long time. this >> i think this has been heten, 15, 20 years|g time. this >> i think this has been heten, 15, 20 years intime. this >> i think this has been heten, 15, 20 years in thee. this is ten, 15, 20 years in the making. with respect, if you look back at the numbers, say even five years the number even five years ago, the number of renting had gone from of people renting had gone from 10% households. 19 the 10% of uk households. in 19 the 1990s to 20% now, particularly younger people, you know, ask the guy on the right what it's like. you this guy has like. you know, this guy has a great job media. right great job in the media. right and he is subject to the and yet he is subject to the london market and london rental market and interest really nasty. interest rates are really nasty. >> and interest rates affect renters, too, because the landlords it a lot of landlords pass it on a lot of landlords pass it on a lot of landlords rent shooting landlords rent has been shooting up landlords are levied. >> what does that mean? it means they've bought the properties with mortgages. they have mortgage a lot. so that's getting taxed a lot. so that's why lot of landlords are why a lot of landlords are leaving or trying to leaving the market or trying to push rent up. the amount of push the rent up. the amount of kids talked to in the gb news kids i talked to in the gb news newsroom renting in

newsroom who are renting in london, increases london, massive increases in in in their and that goes in in their rents. and that goes across the board. so the bank of england needs to understand and it's hard for government and it's hard for the government and even because they even the opposition because they can't really gainsay or criticise of criticise what the bank of england they're england is doing because they're meant but meant to be independent. but bank economists need bank of england economists need to that. they need to to realise that. they need to realise that they are now on the bnnk realise that they are now on the brink of tipping. the uk into a recession. that is deeper than it otherwise needs to be. and they do that just to try they mustn't do that just to try and regain some of their battered credibility. they will be their earlier be compounding their earlier errors in my view, if they continue to raise interest rates. >> that's a really, really stark assessment there. liam, thank you for bringing it to you so much for bringing it to us.thank you so much for bringing it to us. thank you. liam. in a cheery way start the show , liam way to start the show, liam halligan league , isn't it? and halligan league, isn't it? and business editor there , right? business editor there, right? >> let us know what you think. are be affected by are you going to be affected by these interest rate rises? and if so, to what extent? vaiews@gbnews.com the email vaiews@gbnews.com is the email address. donald trump has hit vaiews@gbnews.com is the email addreat. donald trump has hit vaiews@gbnews.com is the email addreat prosecutorsump has hit vaiews@gbnews.com is the email addreat prosecutors just has hit vaiews@gbnews.com is the email addreat prosecutors just hourst back at prosecutors just hours before his court appearance on charges trying to overturn charges of trying to overturn the of the 2020 us

the results of the 2020 us election. >> yes, trump said that the indictment was quote , indictment was quote, unprecedented and showed corruption in the biden presidency . see, it's the third presidency. see, it's the third time in four months that he's been charged as he campaigns to regain the presidency. so let's speak to our colleague, gb news presenter barron s arlene foster, who joins us now. eileen, thank you for making the time this morning. it does seem like this is a familiar story. perhaps we've heard trump be called to court before in new york. now today he's being called to court in washington, dc . last time called to court in washington, dc. last time this happened, it didn't seem to affect him too badly politically. is there anything different about this time ? time? >> yeah. good morning to you both . uh, this is >> yeah. good morning to you both. uh, this is the >> yeah. good morning to you both . uh, this is the big both. uh, this is the big international story. of course. we've heard from liam about the big domestic story, but the big international story is that this is indictment. you is the third indictment. as you rightly , that he's faced. rightly say, that he's faced. the difference is that this is the first indictment which

relates his time in office. relates to his time in office. this one is in connection with him trying to overturn the will of voters and disrupt the peaceful transition to the new president from 2020. and there's a number of issues, i think, tom, that we could look at this morning. we could look at the whole issue of the presumption of innocence. we had a case recently here in the uk , the recently here in the uk, the kevin spacey case, where everybody had their view on what was going to happen. and of course, the jury decided that he was innocent. and i think it's very important that people get into context the fact that despite the fact that this is the third indictment, there is a very strong presumption of innocence, both in the usa and here in the uk. so we have to factor that in. we also have to factor that in. we also have to factor in the fact that given that this is his third indictment, how are these cases going to be scheduled? because this is a man, by all accounts, who's going to be the republican nominee yet again for the

presidential race. in fact, these indictments only seem to harden support right around donald trump for the election. so how are these cases going to be scheduled? because this is his third and there's possibly a fourth coming in georgia . and fourth coming in georgia. and then, of course, the third issue is the fact that he's going to have to face a jury and tom and bev, there's nobody in the united states that doesn't know who donald trump is. there's nobody that doesn't have a view on trump. so how is a on donald trump. so how is a jury going on donald trump. so how is a jury going to be selected to deal with this issue? it's a constitutional right in the united states to be tried by a jury. and this is going to be an incredibly difficult problem to select a jury that will give him a fair trial would you predict, arlene , that he will show up in arlene, that he will show up in court himself knowing what we do about his character ? oh, i about his character? oh, i definitely think he'll be there in court because he has the opfion in court because he has the option to join remotely, as i

understand it. but you and i know that's not going to happen. he's going to turn up, as i understand it, people have been queuing overnight out to get into the courthouse to watch the spectacle. and that's what it is. it's a huge spectacle , bill, is. it's a huge spectacle, bill, and he will use it to his advantage. and let's be very honest about that. >> i suppose there is an argument that the former president could turn to his president could turn this to his advantage . he's only reportedly advantage. he's only reportedly been washington , dc once been to washington, dc once since he stopped being president dc is seen in american political lingo as sort of somewhere to be looked down upon. the swamp sort of all the worst things about politics happening in this little city. perhaps his return to it could be could be spun in some way that he's being dragged back into this political maelstrom . do you think using maelstrom. do you think using your with your political hat on that he will turn this to his advantage ? advantage? >> i think we've already seen that. >> i think we've already seen that . i think >> i think we've already seen that. i think we know >> i think we've already seen that . i think we know that >> i think we've already seen that. i think we know that he's using this as being a victim.

he's saying that he's been pursued by his political enemies . and there are many people in the united states, many of his supporters believe that that is the case. they see this as a conspiracy. so it's going to be very difficult to present this as a fair trial. he will ramp up the fact that this is a political conspiracy against him. and there are many people that will support him in that. and he will use this to his advantage. as i've said, his poll ratings are actually hardening now. and you will see people saying, well, this man has been pursued, not and therefore we're going to support him. and meanwhile, the president of the united states, the current incoming count, who says that he's going to run again, is facing his own difficulties by being drawn into scandals surrounding his son. so it's not a pretty picture in terms of democracy in the united states, but it's a fascinating one to watch. and is like something out of a us drama, i

have to say. >> yeah, it really is. it really is.thank >> yeah, it really is. it really is. thank you, arlene . lovely to is. thank you, arlene. lovely to see you as always. baroness arlene foster there . now, tom, arlene foster there. now, tom, when you wake up in the morning, what are you frightened of? oh, gosh. what am i frightened? that's a bit of a mean question, but that is a mean. >> i try not to be frightened of things in the morning. what about you, bev? >> well, i'm frightened generally you generally of things like, you know, happening to the know, something happening to the kids that. kids or car stuff like that. well, frightened of is well, i'm not frightened of is the stuff that the cabinet office telling to us be office is telling to us be frightened off because. because they've updated the national risk help the public risk register to help the public prepare scenarios prepare for worst case scenarios that could strike the country at any moment. yes >> well, another pandemic, russia's potential to disrupt global energy supplies and extreme weather are among the top threats that the cabinet office has identified. >> mark white is here to stop me rolling my eyes now, mark, very cynical. i'm so cynical. but i guess we've always had a national risk register. have we? or is this a new thing to keep us all on our toes?

>> it was only published in in recent years, and in fact , it's recent years, and in fact, it's not been updated for a few years. so this is an updated risk. national risk register. it's not meant to alarm people like yourself and we tommy boy, when he wakes up in the morning . it is, though meant to be a sobering assessment of some of the risks that this country faces. chief among them, of course, at the moment are energy suppues course, at the moment are energy supplies with what is happening in the ukraine that has highlighted the instability of these traditional energy routes that people might have thought were stable. clearly, they're not anymore. the impact that's had on fuel bills that we're told partly behind. what prompted rishi sunak to . award prompted rishi sunak to. award another 100 oil and gas licences in the north sea. and meanwhile, the deputy prime minister is at a wind farm fabrication yard today. >> and to be less cynical,

therefore, is this risk register meant to be read by people in government more than people sitting at home so that the government then decides to make contingency plans, whether it's for antimicrobial resistance or the potential for the russians to cut off our energy supplies or all the rest of it. >> yeah, it's meant be read >> yeah, it's meant to be read by absolutely those in government, but also for those in local government, government, but also for those in local government , those in in local government, those in the voluntary sector . and it's the voluntary sector. and it's to really help in terms of the resilience and the preparation that this country can make for a range of potential risks. it is true to say without obviously being cynical about it, but the world is a much more dangerous place now. and as a consequence , the threats facing the uk are more than they have been for a long, long time. is it? yes i think so. there's a range . think so. there's a range. there's a range of different threats that we never had in the past , such as the threat to

past, such as the threat to undersea cables . we depend so undersea cables. we depend so much on these transatlantic cables for much of the sort of the cyber world work that we do, you know, in the exchange of data and knowledge across the atlantic that is under threat, we're told like never before. it's actually prompted the royal navy to purchase new vessels to be able to try to guard our undersea infrastructure if there's a cyber threat. just more generally . more generally. >> but you see, isn't it fascinating because this is the paradox, isn't it, as we move into age where we into this digital age where we have rely on a digital age have to rely on a digital age and yet it renders us more vulnerable, more vulnerable to international threats, what it doesis international threats, what it does is the government, international threats, what it does is the government , for does is the government, for example, bought the oneweb space satellite internet communication system back in 2019 or 2020. >> if i remember correctly, which is, i suppose , a which is, i suppose, a contingency for these cables. so

isupposeit contingency for these cables. so i suppose it makes sense, mark, that the government identifies where the risks are and takes steps to mitigate those risks. >> yes, i mean absolute and you mentioned the cyber world. it is, you know, without a doubt making us more vulnerable all to issues around the hacking of these services that we rely on day in and day out. >> i love having you in here, mark. you always make me think. but you see, i would say therefore on the risk register might be the risk of moving towards an increasingly digitised world, which. well, yes. your list, yes. stick that on your list, prime as opposed prime minister, as opposed to saying anyway, us saying we might anyway, let us know think. know what you think. >> like you like this >> have you like you like this on the list? there was ai systems as a risk. >> you'd like that quite right to know what you think to let us know what you think should on the risk. what do should be on the risk. what do you up in the morning and you wake up in the morning and think threat to you? i'm think is a threat to you? i'm guessing it's probably not extreme still to extreme weather now. still to come, rates are come, interest rates are expected rise for the 14th expected to rise for the 14th time a row. in time in a row. in a row. in a row. later today.

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>> good morning. it's 10 am. on thursday, the 3rd of august. this is britain's newsroom here on gb news. with me, tom harwood and bev turner. >> very good morning to you. so interest rates , interest rates interest rates, interest rates could rise again as the bank of england policy committee meets today more news for today in more bad news for mortgage holders . will they ever mortgage holders. will they ever come back down again? and when might that be? liam be here. >> and would you pull up your other half for putting on too much weight? an article in the papers this morning says that you must tell your partner if they're getting fat. have you ever had this talk and following in the footsteps of swimming, cycling and athletics , british

cycling and athletics, british rowing will now ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events. >> good . >> good. news >> good. news >> but of course, this show is nothing without you. we want you to email in with your views on all of the stories that we're discussing today . discussing today. vaiews@gbnews.com is the address to email . vaiews@gbnews.com is the address to email. but vaiews@gbnews.com is the address to email . but before all address to email. but before all of that, let's get an update on this morning's. of that, let's get an update on this morning's . news thank you, tom. >> good morning. it's 10:01. >> good morning. it's10:01. your top stories from the newsroom. the bank of england is expected to increase its interest rate for the 14th time interest rate for the 14th time in a row today. economists predict a 0.25 percentage point rise increase in the base rate to 5.25. it would be the highest

hike in 15 years. as the bank continues its battle to control the rising cost of living. the increase today would add yet more pressure on borrowers. shadow energy ministerjonathan shadow energy minister jonathan reynolds says the government needs to do more to help the trade deals that we've got as a country look at for instance, our deal with the eu not covering agriculture and food prospects. >> therefore you've got higher levels of checks, more bureaucracy , more delay in that. bureaucracy, more delay in that. that has an impact on food prices. the agenda of the prices. that's the agenda of the government should be pursuing a resilient, economy. resilient, prosperous economy. so , the bank england have so yes, the bank of england have got decisions make got difficult decisions to make today, there's for today, but there's a role for government in minimising those pressures well. pressures as well. >> jeremy leaf is an >> well, jeremy leaf is an independent estate agency owner. he told gb news there are some positive elements to draw on on the one hand, we've got the anticipation of bad news rates going up, but actually there's a glimmer of good news as well, because if they don't go up quite as much as some people are suggesting, like five and a quarter, not five and a half,

and the pace is seen to be slowing, actually starts to bnng slowing, actually starts to bring mortgage rates , which bring mortgage rates, which affects most of us down, down and those on the market are starting to come down just a little bit. >> so it's that glimmer having your cake and eat it. sorry about the cake. >> prime minister says he >> the prime minister says he won't apologise supporting won't apologise for supporting new oil and gas exploration . new oil and gas exploration. it's after greenpeace activists scaled his yorkshire home in black oily fabric in protest of the policy. rishi sunak's announced plans to max out oil and gas reserves by granting more than 100 new licences for extraction in the north sea. the campaign owners say they draped his to house drive home the dangerous consequences of the policy . the prime minister, policy. the prime minister, meanwhile, says the government's pay meanwhile, says the government's pay offer to doctors is fair and final. writing in the daily express, rishi sunak says there'll be no more talks on this year's pay, calling the latest offer very generous . he latest offer very generous. he called the nhs an institute in

the uk is rightly proud of and praised health care staff across the country. mr sunak is urging doctors to call off their strikes . meanwhile, gps in strikes. meanwhile, gps in england will be able to order a host of checks directly to help speed up the diagnosis of a range of heart and respiratory conditions. doctors will be able to order checks for some conditions without needing to go via a specialist. patients will instead receive a direct referral to hospital or community diagnose centres after 1 million people are expected to benefit from the new plans . as benefit from the new plans. as the science secretary has accused a labour mp of misleading the public after he shared a fake image of the prime minister. mp for hull east karl turner posted a doctored picture showing rishi sunak at a beer festival with a badly pulled pint and a woman seemingly looking on disapprovingly. michelle donelan has described sharing the deep fake image

pretty desperate stuff by laboun pretty desperate stuff by labour. mr turner later said he hadnt labour. mr turner later said he hadn't realised the image was a fake . the average price of fake. the average price of a litre of petrol rose for a second consecutive month in july . research from the rac found a litre of unleaded now costs 140 £0.05. that's up by a penny since the start of the month and since the start of the month and since the start of the month and since the start of june. however the wholesale price of petrol rose by £0.06 a litre in the middle of july, following hikes in oil costs , meaning further in oil costs, meaning further rises are likely on the way. diesel, however, remain the same . former us president donald trump is appearing in court in washington dc today to face four new criminal charges . he's new criminal charges. he's accused of conspiring to defraud the us by preventing congress from certifying joe biden's victory after the 2020 election. it's the third time in four months he's been charged as he campaigns to regain the

presidency and viewers are switching off traditional television at record rates , as television at record rates, as according to a new ofcom report , the watchdog found the number of people watching a programme on broadcast television each week dropped from 83% in 2021 to 79% last year. that's the biggest fall since records began.the biggest fall since records began. the declines as a result of increasing competition from streaming sites as well as losing younger viewers to social media platforms . well, this is media platforms. well, this is gb news across the uk on your television, in your car as well, on digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play gb news. now, though , it's back to news. now, though, it's back to bev and . bev and. tom >> good morning . well, let's >> good morning. well, let's let's have a look at what some

of you have been saying today. we've spoken about quite a bit in the programme already and we're only half an hour in. but on interest rates , steve from on interest rates, steve from stoke has written in to say i followed the markets over the years and observed various economists opinions. i reckon gb news is liam halligan should become chancellor. it appears , become chancellor. it appears, he observes outside the noise of general consensus and sees the detail well. he's here. we'll be seeing he is just sitting there. >> he's here. we should bring you to in vision for this because a lot of these messages are you. he sat there are about you. he sat there reading paper are we reading the paper like, are we bonng reading the paper like, are we boring you? halligan i think the idea of me a politician, idea of me being a politician, that ship has sailed that that ship has sailed long ago. will carry on. ago. well, we will carry on. >> always the of >> there's always the house of lords. >> $— @ you we'll get your >> we'll get you we'll get your reaction. some of these are questions for you, actually, liam, steve from leeds says, liam, for steve from leeds says, i up i don't entirely by the up explanation behaviour of explanation for the behaviour of the england forecasts the bank of england forecasts were, in my view, so horrifically gloomy wildly horrifically gloomy yet wildly inaccurate as an extension of project poor handling project fear. the poor handling of is, in my view , of the economy is, in my view,

the establishment giving the peasants so that they peasants a kicking so that they can brexit truth in that? >> i don't buy that. what i do buy i've seen this with my buy and i've seen this with my own eyes is often official forecasters overegged the doom and gloom, so when it turns out not so bad, the public feels a bit better and you get a bit of an economic boost. but i still think it's sort of, you know, you'd call it gaslighting, wouldn't you? economic gaslighting. >> and david says, isn't it now time for government to take time for the government to take back of interest rates back control of interest rates from england? from the bank of england? >> talked about this an >> well, we talked about this an hour i don't think the hour ago. i don't think the problem that the bank of england's but england's independent, but i think independent bank think an independent bank of england know, it england will, you know, if it went politicians hands, went back in politicians hands, you'd massive rate cuts went back in politicians hands, you'd of massive rate cuts went back in politicians hands, you'd of an assive rate cuts went back in politicians hands, you'd of an electionte cuts went back in politicians hands, you'd of an election that ts went back in politicians hands, you'd of an election that would ahead of an election that would store up inflation in the future. for the problem is, the bank england isn't bank of england isn't independent more independent enough. we need more free the bank of free thinkers on the bank of england. to rid of england. we need to get rid of this of cognitive of this sort of cognitive of intellectual sclerosis and we need more people who aren't the treasury's favourites. the bank of england's favourites . we need treasury's favourites. the bank of en outside favourites . we need treasury's favourites. the bank of en outside out urites . we need treasury's favourites. the bank of en outside out oftes . we need treasury's favourites. the bank of en outside out of the we need treasury's favourites. the bank of en outside out of the box need good outside out of the box

thinkers . thinkers. >> liam michael has written in to say no one is talking about savers. as he says his isa is returning less than half a % less returning less than half a% less than half a , despite interest than half a, despite interest rates being. why is that? >> well, believe it or not, the banks are profit making institutions and unless they are shamed into doing it, some of them won't raise interest rates for savers. you know, the moment the interest rate goes up from the interest rate goes up from the bank of england, if you're a mortgage holder, you get an email or a letter within hours or days saying, oh , we're or days saying, oh, we're putting mortgage rate . putting up your mortgage rate. sorry, son, you know, stroll on. but if you have a if you have a savings account, those rate rises slower to rises are much, much slower to come we've now got all come through. we've now got all the conduct authority, the financial conduct authority, various select committees of the house of commons and lords trying to shame the banks into why they aren't raising interest rates higher. now, here's a little footnote from history. the law lords economic affairs select committee and the commons economic affairs select committee wanted bank bosses to come and explain why interest rates weren't going up for

savers , and they actually had to savers, and they actually had to shame alison rose to turning up the ceo of natwest. she said she was too busy . was too busy. >> well, bev, just just before we get more onto the economics, some people have been getting in touch about what they are fearing . fearing. >> in the morning i had a complete mind. i i know. >> i really did. >> i really did. >> i'm sorry about that. >> i'm sorry about that. >> i'm sorry about that. >> i don't know what i feel. >> i don't know what i feel. >> because you're a fearless young man. and i think. i think i know lovely. >> think know what i fear >> i think i'll know what i fear when see in the face. but when i see it in the face. but just sort of imagine. but colin has written in say getting has written in to say getting rid is a fear of his. rid of cash is a fear of his. that's referencing, of course, the don't keep cash campaign of gb andy has written in gb news. andy has written in saying just about how saying i just worry about how expensive will be. cost of expensive today will be. cost of living the forefront of so living at the forefront of so many minds and ann many people's minds and an ann has say i think has written in to say i think the biggest threat to our country our national country is our national security. hundreds security. with hundreds of illegal undocumented persons entering the country daily and the russian and the cyber the russian threat and the cyber threats lots to the russian threat and the cyber threatabout. lots to the russian threat and the cyber threatabout. yeah lots to think about. yeah >> can i can i just say i don't >> can i can ijust say i don't kill campaign is now over

kill cash campaign is now over 240,000 signatures. you can sign it's really easy. gbnews.com forward slash cash cash. i'm going to talk to the chancellor of the exchequer. i'm going to sit down with him and quiz him about various issues this afternoon on. it would be great if i could tell him that a quarter a million gb news quarter of a million gb news viewers listeners want us viewers and listeners want us backing our petition to not kill cash. backing our petition to not kill cash . so let's get this thing cash. so let's get this thing signed. gbnews.com forward slash cash. >> let's see if we can get it. just let's see if we can get it to 250,000 while tom and i are on air today. 9000. if you're on social media, tweet out the link. it only takes literally just takes a second to sign it. so please, please do. let's see if we can get that to 250 by the end of the show. and also, if you've got anything that you want liam to ask the chancellor email views at gb news. email in gb views at gb news. >> com is address to email. >> com is the address to email. we'll forward those across to liam. but but liam, what what are we what are we expecting first from the bank of england ? first from the bank of england? but secondly, how does the

chancellor respond to that? respecting that independence? but clearly there's political but clearly there's a political tightrope to walk here. >> course. >> of course. >> of course. >> raise interest >> look, when you raise interest rates 13 times in a row, probably 14 midday today , probably 14 times midday today, they then it affects real people , lives, livelihoods, businesses as marriages. this is big stuff. and so, of course, it's inherently political. but back inherently political. but back in 1997, the then labour government, gordon brown, decided and i supported him at the time to take independence to give the bank of england independence to take those interest rate decisions away from politicians. so the bank of england could take a england economists could take a more term view , not just more long term view, not just cutting rates because there's about a about be a general about a about to be a general election and being reckless with your because that election and being reckless with your overheat ecause that election and being reckless with your overheat there that election and being reckless with your overheat the economy and would overheat the economy and that would stoke inflation. so that's the idea. and that's a model that's been used pretty successfully 25, 30 years successfully for 25, 30 years now around the world. us now around the world. the us federal reserve is largely independent. the european central even lot of kind central bank, even a lot of kind of market economies , of emerging market economies,

like an economy i know really well. to be a well. i used to be a correspondent in moscow. the russian bank, even a russian central bank, even a elvira nabiullina. often elvira nabiullina. she's often been voted the best central banker in the world she banker in the world because she is fiercely in dependent. is so fiercely in dependent. believe it or not, despite the threats the kremlin, threats from the kremlin, despite because despite absolutely. because absolutely. let's not go down a rabbit hole. you can read about it. yeah well, all saying is it. yeah well, all i'm saying is that central banking that independent central banking is standard around the is the standard model around the world now. and it has been for , world now. and it has been for, for the most part, successful. what's happened with the bank of england is that it's not independent enough . it's been independent enough. it's been taken over by the mandarins , by taken over by the mandarins, by the treasury people , by bank of the treasury people, by bank of england insiders. when gordon brown first made the bank of england independent, the nine strong monetary policy committee , it had 4 or 5 people on it who were completely, you know, highly regarded economist, but they weren't establishment types . they out—of—the—box . they were out—of—the—box thinkers. reputation was thinkers. they reputation was solid. they weren't kind of suck up to anybody. they weren't trying house of trying to get into the house of lords. really depended lords. they really depended their depended on on

their reputation depended on on them being proved right. it so they made forecasts and they influenced those decisions. now we've got basically not entirely, but there's lots of sort of drone economists on the bank of england's monetary policy committee, treasury types, are there because types, who are there because they are the nice usual suspects . but there's no grit in the oyster . you need grit . but there's no grit in the oyster. you need grit in . but there's no grit in the oyster . you need grit in the oyster. you need grit in the oyster. you need grit in the oyster. what do you have hard decisions to make about monetary policy? >> what did you make of rishi sunaks response yesterday day when somebody asked what when somebody asked him what he should that should do about the fact that his mortgage rate has gone, you know, doubled the amount he's paying know, doubled the amount he's paying month? he paying every month? well, he said on lbc. said it on lbc. >> he said lbc. said it on lbc. >> i wasn't lbc. said it on lbc. >> i wasn't goingi. mention >> i wasn't going to mention that inferior media outlet, but there we've got to be there we go. we've got to be fair. but it it was talking fair. but it was it was talking on lbc. but he he also so, you know, he said got to talk know, he said you've got to talk to bank. that kind of. to your bank. that was kind of. >> also said, trust me, >> and he also said, trust me, i know to how run the economy. i didn't think he got the tone right. >> he didn't get it right. i agree. so i interviewed him exclusively for gb news earlier this week. >> i did spend some time >> and i did spend some time with i obviously talked to

with him. i obviously talked to him camera well. and i do him off camera as well. and i do think getting little bit think he's getting a little bit better a bit less of better at being a bit less of a kind of creature from some wealthy out of space galaxy. right but he's still got a long way go. he's kind of way to go. he's kind of similarly robotic some ways similarly robotic in some ways to starmer, and i do think to keir starmer, and i do think he more people around him he needs more people around him who get the economy and who really get the economy and what people and what ordinary people think and feel. that's big feel. i think that's a big problem the party now. problem with the tory party now. so me that there will so it strikes me that there will be of england interest be a bank of england interest rate today. it will rate rise today. it will probably quarter point, a probably be a quarter point, a 5 to 5.25, rather than 5 to 5.5. i'm hoping it will be the last rate rise and it is political. that's why i'm going to be. you know, the chancellor is keen to talk to economics editors this afternoon and i'll be talking to him about 330. >> brilliant. >> brilliant. >> well, send us your questions, what to ask what you would like. liam to ask him, you ? right. thanks, him, won't you? right. thanks, liam. >> f- e- e that's an answer for >> perhaps that's an answer for steve said liam steve from stoke, who said liam should perhaps he should be chancellor. perhaps he should be chancellor. perhaps he should on the should instead sit on the monetary policy committee, get some of those different views. >> we would love that. >> we would love that. >> we'd love that. right. speaking of interest rates,

that's the big picture that's all the big picture stuff. affecting stuff. but how is it affecting real people the uk east real people in the uk east midlands? reporter will hollis is east midlands for us is in the east midlands for us with people's panel to with our people's panel to find out affecting people out how it is affecting people on ground. will, what are on the ground. will, what are you down there ? you hearing down there? >> yes, well, that's what it's about , isn't it? it's about the about, isn't it? it's about the real people and chesterfield, where i am today in the east midlands, is a town of about 100,000 so real people. we 100,000 or so real people. we tried to fit them all to in this cafe number 10 here in the high street. but we couldn't get quite that many. so we've just got of them. we've josh, got two of them. we've got josh, who's designer here, and who's a web designer here, and we've also got teresa, who runs a cafe. let's start off a cafe. josh, let's start off with you . you run small with you. you run a small business, also work with business, but you also work with small here in small businesses here in chesterfield. what's the market like in chesterfield when like here in chesterfield when we've pretty much we've got high costs pretty much everywhere ? everywhere? >> interesting when >> quite interesting when chesterfield we get more views as well. please market town, but as well. please market town, but as loads of manufacturing industry and as you can see when you walk around the town, a lot of the shops are boarded up,

they're struggling in the manufacturing businesses . they manufacturing businesses. they tend to work in a deficit. and so they rely on borrowing. obviously their costs going obviously their costs are going to they're not to increase and they're not going spend as much future going to spend as much on future projects, especially in the next 18 months when the economic growth starts reducing. it's a bit of a digital world right how. >> now. >> do people want websites or are those the kind of things that people aren't putting their money in towards right now? definitely a digital marketer out there at the moment. >> businesses don't seem to invest as much as what they really what they should be because they can make a lot more money by investing a small amount into their website and they can actually increase more profits and more sales . profits and more sales. >> it's one thing having a website, but you also need a shopfront, especially if you work in hospitality like you do to razor. you've got a little family cafe teresa's lanne—mirrlees just around the corner. how is it for you at the moment? because you need to buy stock and the prices stock wholesale and the prices are incredibly high right now . are incredibly high right now. >> everything is. some things

have really doubled price and have really doubled in price and obviously you don't want to pass it on to your customers, but i have to it's really difficult. it's a difficult balance at the moment and wages going up. i'm trying to struggle. i'm struggling with employing staff . so obviously you need good staff. they want good wages. if you don't give them a good wage, they're going to go somewhere else. so at the moment it is it's difficult at the minute, but but obviously we're paying more . you have to put some of it more. you have to put some of it onto your customers, but you can't put too much on otherwise they won't come back . they won't come back. >> the reason that the bank of england say they're raising interest rates is because inflation is high. they need to stamp that by bringing up interest rates so that people have less to money spend. you want people to come in and spend money, you also need money money, but you also need money to survive in this economic climate. it's a tightrope that you're walking and chesterfield's a small town

chesterfield's only a small town on and you rely on regular customers and we have a really good following . good following. >> and obviously if you put your pnces >> and obviously if you put your prices up too much, they're not going to come back. so it's a very difficult balance at the moment . but yeah, well, we're moment. but yeah, well, we're coming back in about an hour or so because we've got two hours till that bank of england release of the new interest rate figures. >> we're not going anywhere. we've got the cafe to ourselves . so i think another coffee is in order. >> bev oh, thank you, will. thank you very much . will there thank you very much. will there in the east midlands? will hollis now have a quick look at this ? the prime minister's house this? the prime minister's house has invaded by activists . i has been invaded by activists. i think we've got the image for you to see. we? maybe we haven't. well there we go. >> there it is. >> there it is. there >> there it is. there is >> there it is. there is the house. so this is in yorkshire. this is rishi sunaks home in his constituency, downing street constituency, not downing street , personal family home. , his personal family home. >> that makes me a little bit uncomfortable, which is richmond in yorkshire. >> you guessed it's the

>> oh, you guessed it. it's the just oil lot. we think it's just stop oil lot. we think it's them. no new oil. if you're listening on the radio, they've basically huge cover like basically put a huge cover like a basically sheets which they've dangled from the gutter of the scale of the house climbed on top of it. >> the home of the prime minister extraordinary . we will minister extraordinary. we will be discussing this in our news review a little bit later on. so do not go anywhere near . do not go anywhere near. >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers are proud sponsors of weather on . gb news. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. >> not quite as wild as yesterday, but a cool, cloudy day for most . a bit of sunshine day for most. a bit of sunshine here and there, but there are also a few showers around this low the wet and windy low brought the wet and windy weather it's clearing weather yesterday. it's clearing away, allowing the away, but it is allowing the winds down from the winds to come down from the north, bringing feel and north, bringing a cool feel and quite a bit of cloud. plenty of showers across the highlands and the western isles and a scattering of showers across

england wales could or england and wales could see 1 or 2 heavy but many places 2 heavy ones. but many places will be dry for most of the day and we'll see a little bit of sunshine here and there, some brightness poking through, a little of blue sky. could little bit of blue sky. could see temperatures in the south—east 20s, maybe south—east into the 20s, maybe 23 24, but mostly , again, 23 or 24, but mostly, again, we're high teens , low 20s at we're high teens, low 20s at best. and feeling cooler with that breeze continuing to bring outbreaks of rain across northern scotland and sprinkling of showers elsewhere could be 1 or 2 heavy ones over eastern parts through the evening and indeed overnight. indeed continuing overnight. elsewhere, places will elsewhere, most places will become dry. we'll keep a fair bit cloud around and bit of cloud around and temperatures will mostly hold up to 11 to 14 celsius. but friday, again, dry and bright for the most part. but there will be some showers again, particularly over north east england initially and then moving south into parts of lincolnshire , east into parts of lincolnshire, east anglia and the south—east, sprinkling of heavy afternoon showers, but further west many places and a better chance places dry and a better chance of seeing some sunny spells, particularly in the afternoon for and southwest england. for wales and southwest england. again, teens

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for you. greenpeace activists have invaded the prime minister's private home, draping a massive, oily black piece of fabnc a massive, oily black piece of fabric from the roof. we're looking at incredible images here. if you're listening on the radio. so rishi sunak has this beautiful design attached georgian house in richmond in yorkshire. the activists wearing orange suits, work suits have climbed onto the roof. it's clearly quite a professional outfit this and they've hung these massive big pieces of black fabric to basically cover the whole of the front of this large house. and there are two protesters in front of it saying rishi sunak oil profits or our future. and they've filmed all of it. >> and there are ladders on the roof. there are ropes . it looks roof. there are ropes. it looks like these people are wearing abseiling equipment. this is quite an operation in and really quite an operation in and really quite concerning , given that quite concerning, given that this isn't downing street, this isn't government property. this isn't government property. this is the prime target home of a man. his wife and his two little

girls . well, let's get more on girls. well, let's get more on this with the former government adviser, james price , who joins adviser, james price, who joins us in the studio now . james, us in the studio now. james, have we seen anything like this before? >> no, i think it's incredibly concerning, to be honest. you know, prime minister it know, the prime minister it was widely reported this is his first holiday in something like four his four years. he's taking his family away. knows he family away. god knows he deserves matter you deserves it. no matter what you think performance, the think about his performance, the man deserves man works very hard, deserves a holiday. occasionally holiday. we all do occasionally to of breach to see this kind of breach happen incredibe concerning happen is incredibe concerning when realise the lengths when you realise the lengths that go keep a prime that normally go to keep a prime minister, keep downing street minister, to keep downing street and all these other secret and all these other top secret areas so secure, areas of government so secure, what was something much what if it was something a much more nefarious it's more nefarious group? it's really more nefarious group? it's reaii mean, it very much draws >> i mean, it very much draws attention the fact that there attention to the fact that there is security his private is no security at his private constituency home, presumably , constituency home, presumably, you know, you can look through the windows there into his children's bedroom, the little girls bedrooms. it's do children's bedroom, the little girls bedrooms . it's do they girls bedrooms. it's do they have what you don't want is we don't want to live in a world where every politician has a home surrounded by electronic

gates. that's not a country i want to live in. and i don't think the mps would either. but do you think they have to do something now, james, with with the way that these activists are becoming more confident? >> think this wider >> i think it is this wider point that we're really, really lucky in this country to live in a where people have a a world where people have a shared set values. we all shared set of values. we all understand live in this understand that we live in this society by certain society and we play by certain rules, that we let kids rules, right? that we let kids walk around free and safe in the streets, that you can walk home late at and hope that late at night and hope that you don't robbed anything don't get robbed or anything terrible you, and that terrible happen to you, and that these fascists, frankly, we these eco fascists, frankly, we are tearing away at are not just tearing away at the fabnc are not just tearing away at the fabric they on the fabric that they put on the prime minister's they're prime minister's house. they're tearing fabric of tearing at the fabric of society. we don't feel that society. if we don't feel that we to the tennis or go to we can go to the tennis or go to any normal private thing without these eco terrorists, these entitled eco terrorists, frankly, ruining it, frankly, coming and ruining it, as we're to going see as you say, we're to going see more security. we're going to see even more see politicians be even more distanced to distanced and we're going to see trust eroded amongst trust be further eroded amongst our britons. our fellow britons. >> say to those who >> what do you say to those who and it might a very small and it might be a very small minority of people who say this isn't the time honoured tradition british

tradition of good british protest. an invasion, protest. this isn't an invasion, this free speech, which i this is free speech, which i think that that would be from the same sort of people who, if you were to go and do it to them, they would say that you were trespassing. >> the it, you know, >> all the rest of it, you know, we that wonderful we saw that wonderful counter—protest just counter—protest against just stop had gone stop oil where people had gone in and they found they were having a banquet and they'd in and they found they were havag a banquet and they'd in and they found they were hava load banquet and they'd in and they found they were hava load of banquet and they'd in and they found they were hava load of alarmst and they'd in and they found they were hava load of alarms going hey'd in and they found they were hava load of alarms going up"d set a load of alarms going up into filled balloons in into helium filled balloons in the and their own the roof and ruined their own party. they seem very party. they didn't seem very happy was happening happy when it was happening to these i think these guys back again. i think it's really concerning. it's really, really concerning. and just imagine if this was any of own homes, any of of our own homes, any of your viewers homes. englishman's viewers homes. an englishman's home would home is his castle. what would you you saw these climbing you do if you saw these climbing on your roof, looking in your windows? >> it's not a coincidence, is it, this has come after it, that this has come after rishi sunak that he would rishi sunak said that he would give licences as to give 100 new licences as to drill for oil and gas, and he effectively support effectively signalled support for controversial for this controversial rosebank development shetland . so development out in shetland. so every what i don't want is every time what i don't want is to live in a country where every time a politician thinks they're going to make a decision about what fuel energy and security ,

what fuel energy and security, they are going to be literally hit back at in this way. personally and their personal property. that's a shift in politics in this country. >> yeah, absolutely. you think 30 years ago you could still walk down downing street? that's changed completely. see, the security there is incredibly tight. politician doesn't tight. the politician doesn't feel that own constituency feel that his own constituency home somewhere can home is somewhere where he can feel peace. think that, as feel at peace. i think that, as you say, it's a really dangerous shift in the way that people start at politics start looking at politics and what when start what happens when people start taking into their own taking the law into their own handsin taking the law into their own hands in the opposite direction. we've fortunately, we've seen, fortunately, very few people driving few examples of people driving their the just stop their cars into the just stop oil . you see other oil protesters. you see in other countries, much more countries, it's much, much more brutal and it's brutal and violent. and it's only common only the good common self—restraint of brits. that means that haven't had much means that we haven't had much worse of this already. means that we haven't had much wornow, of this already. means that we haven't had much wornow, james, of this already. means that we haven't had much wornow, james, we'res already. means that we haven't had much wornow, james, we're luckyady. means that we haven't had much wornow, james, we're lucky we >> now, james, we're lucky we have the studio this have you in the studio this morning got years morning because we've got years of the top of of experience at the top of government advising the most senior in land. senior politicians in the land. but originally coming but you were originally coming in to talk about something that's the department that's gone on in the department of an of health. you've written an article the telegraph about article in the telegraph about it all this news about it before all this news about

the broke the prime minister's house broke just morning. what just this morning. what has steve in the health steve barclay done in the health department? >> can talk about >> yeah, we can talk about something important now. brilliant really exciting brilliant it's a really exciting development. so steve barclay is the secretary said all the health secretary he said all these roles and it came these other roles and it came out from a bit of reporting in the telegraph, i think by dominic he's dominic penna that since he's been health secretary, the number servants has number of civil servants has actually down. and, you actually gone down. and, you know, we think an know, we think it's an inevitability that the state always now that always keeps growing. now that the service stands half the civil service stands at half a in central london and a million in central london and god many more people god knows how many more people elsewhere and steve barclay has managed the number managed to shrink the number of people with no people working there with no seeming loss of quality. in fact, the opposite, because he's also exciting also getting exciting new technologies and all technologies going in and all the other new exciting ai advancements health advancements and new health sciences , his drugs that will sciences, his drugs that will help people lose weight, all these exciting things. and he's doing that with a smaller civil service hopefully it inspires every department do every other department to do exactly as well. every other department to do exa so' as well. every other department to do exa so 1—1, as well. every other department to do eano 1—1, one as well. every other department to do eano 1—1, one bit s well. every other department to do eano 1—1, one bit ofvell. every other department to do eano 1—1, one bit of the civil >> so 1—1, one bit of the civil service that's actually shrinking, even though the rest of to be absorbing of it seems to be absorbing itself. thank you, james. >> james price, there . right. >> james price, there. right. still come this morning,

>> james price, there. right. still going e this morning, >> james price, there. right. still going to his morning, >> james price, there. right. still going to his asking g, >> james price, there. right. still going to his asking if you we're going to be asking if you would your partner if they would tell your partner if they were putting on too much weight. it's a bit awkward, it, it's a bit awkward, isn't it, all your morning's all that after your morning's news jones . news with rhiannon jones. >> good morning. it's 1031. news with rhiannon jones. >> good morning. it's1031. your top stories from the newsroom . top stories from the newsroom. the bank of england is expected to increase its interest rate for the 14th time in a row today . economists predict a 0.25 percentage point rise, increasing the base rate to 5.25. it would be the highest hike in 15 years as the bank continues its battle to control the rise of cost of living . the the rise of cost of living. the increase today we're down to yet more pressure on borrowers as the prime minister says he won't apologise for supporting new oil and gas exploration after greenpeace activists scaled his yorkshire home and covered it in black fabric in protest of the policy. rishi sunak has

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>> good morning. it's 1038. >> good morning. it's1038. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news with bev turner and tom harwood this morning. and we're delighted to be joined by sam lister, the political editor

of the daily express and the former editor of the daily star dawn neesom morning to go dawn neesom this morning to go through the big, stories. through the big, big stories. >> and suppose , dawn, let's >> and i suppose, dawn, let's start you this story about start with you this story about the prime minister's house being isuppose the prime minister's house being i suppose there's no other word for it attacked by greenpeace. i feel like feel like i'm feel like i feel like i'm actually big brother. actually on big brother. >> this is davina. please do not swear because it makes me want to i'm absolutely to swear. i'm absolutely astonished that was astonished by this. if that was your house out there, how would your house out there, how would you feel now? what you think about the minister and the about the prime minister and the politics? is someone's politics? this is someone's private home, someone has private home, someone who has two children now we know two small children now we know because told world because he told the world yesterday on yesterday that he's off on holiday. so know the family holiday. so we know the family weren't find weren't there. but i just find this utterly shocking. where is the security? >> i know . i the security? >> i know. i mean, if it was if it was my house, i'd really be willing to fall the willing them to fall off the roof. actually, that roof. actually, i know that might a very charitable might not be a very charitable thing say, sam. or maybe thing to say, sam. or maybe they're just doing, you know, maybe what need. we maybe this is what we need. we need activism. need people to need activism. we need people to change the narrative. as i'm saying don't saying it. you can tell i don't believe it. >> well, i think, you know, the

right to protest in britain. it is fundamental right. i'm very is a fundamental right. i'm very pro i think that's a pro that right. i think that's a very thing. but very important thing. but but this different thing. this this is a different thing. this is actually intruding on is this is actually intruding on somebody's personal property. it's trespass. it's, know, it's trespass. it's, you know, well, criminal well, there may be criminal damage, but actually, damage, who knows? but actually, we minister's we do know the prime minister's gone gone to gone away. he's gone to california. us this california. he told us this yesterday the radio. but that yesterday on the radio. but that doesn't mean his house should be lacking in security. the police should all time. should be there all the time. and elaborate nature of this and the elaborate nature of this , you know, well, attack on his house, i suppose it is, is quite something. if you look at the images there, i mean, this is not a kind of spontaneous , not a kind of spontaneous, joyous thing, an awful lot with a full rigging equipment. >> haven't they? >> abseiling? >> abseiling? >> got ladders , they've >> they've got ladders, they've got helmets and all the of got helmets and all the rest of it. oh i'm glad that they're taking precautions of their own heads. the fact heads. but i suppose the fact that the prime minister is going away was going this away or was going because this was yesterday, it's only come about now, but the that the about now, but the fact that the prime minister is going away to some extent makes this more concerning . thinking about your

concerning. thinking about your home as you go away on holiday , home as you go away on holiday, being being nervous about is everything safe . did i make sure everything safe. did i make sure the timers the lights are going on? did i leave a neighbour a key? are always thinking key? people are always thinking about the safety their own about the safety of their own home. there's something special about a home. >> very, very much so. i mean, as you say, tom, quite rightly, you're paranoid you you're always paranoid about you know, the heating know, did you turn the heating off, have you left a light on, etcetera, etcetera. did you lock the which is the one the door? which is the big one for the husband always for us? is the husband always goes several times because goes back several times because you lock the door, drives me mad. this like, know, mad. but this is like, you know, can imagine that sort of can you imagine that sort of like they're finding like when they're finding out what's you know, what's going on here, you know, and sam said, the criminal and as sam said, the criminal damage, but the double security risk everybody risk is now everybody knows exactly what we knew. his constituents. obviously constituents. he obviously he knows address, knows what knows his address, knows what his house like, knows the his house looks like, knows the point etcetera, point of entry, etcetera, etcetera. security breach. >> lots of people have been getting in touch from home. keith has said. where are the police ? there are people police? there are people crawling over sunak's house and not a policeman in sight. apparently he can't get a police service. same the of

service. the same as the rest of us, margaret said. i hope that every one of them that covered sunaks in oily fabric was sunaks house in oily fabric was arrested these just arrested and these idiots just went too far. but i mean, the fact that they've got the confidence to broadcast this has come out of their social media. this footage, they've this footage, and they've obviously fear of being obviously got no fear of being arrested for this. >> remarkable. >> it's remarkable. >> it's remarkable. >> this is the problem, >> and this this is the problem, isn't actually we see isn't it, that actually we see too times now that the too many times now that the police be focusing on police seem to be focusing on things policing and things like policing and comments social media rather comments on social media rather than actually doing proper old school is school policing. and this is something government something that the government keeps to keeps insisting is going to crack i this is crack down on. i mean, this is just basic security, though. this is the prime minister's house. these people have obviously staked this house out for some time because for quite some time because those oily cloths exactly fit for quite some time because thorsizely cloths exactly fit for quite some time because thorsizely (the|s exactly fit for quite some time because thorsizely (the house. ly fit for quite some time because thorsizely (the house. so it for quite some time because thorsizely (the house. so you the size of the house. so you know, it's almost like they've gone measured up, isn't gone up and measured up, isn't it? this clearly it? yeah. so this has clearly been time in the planning. it? yeah. so this has clearly beenhave time in the planning. it? yeah. so this has clearly been have these in the planning. it? yeah. so this has clearly been have these people planning. it? yeah. so this has clearly beenhave these people beening. it? yeah. so this has clearly beenhave these people been able how have these people been able to access the house in this way? it just beggars belief. i'd also like point out that the hive like to point out that the hive is wearing the is vests are wearing the climbing and the ropes climbing helmets and the ropes are all by—products of are probably all by—products of the petrochemical industry. >> environmentally

>> you can get environmentally friendly ones, but i mean, they're rare . yeah, very they're quite rare. yeah, very true . true. >> one of the most irritating things about this to me is that greenpeace as an organisation, campaigns against lots of other forms of energy as well. >> they campaign against nuclear power. for example, one of the green most powerful forms of energy generation. we could have.it energy generation. we could have. it makes me think , what have. it makes me think, what are they trying to aim for here? just for us to stop using electricity, living in caves , electricity, living in caves, eating insects and walking everywhere, shutting down the nhs, turning off the mri machines . machines. >> by the way, tom, how >> exactly. by the way, tom, how did there with all that did they get there with all that equipment? they there on equipment? did they get there on their bikes? >> yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> they'll have cycled, no doubt, the local you know. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> but this operation, i mean, these groups of these people. yeah. to them, this yeah. as you say to them, this is, is organised. yeah. is, this is organised. yeah. this look we can see, can this is look we can see, we can see on screen now abseiling equipment. i mean they've got to that they can sail that point where they can sail off minister's roof. that point where they can sail off it's, minister's roof. that point where they can sail off it's, mean.inister's roof. that point where they can sail off it's, mean.inist(should. >> it's, i mean they should never have been able to even get to the front door let alone get on the roof, set up abseiling

ropes these oily ropes and unveil these oily cloths slightly different tack. >> i have thought that >> i would have thought that our, unquote, billionaire our, quote unquote, billionaire prime minister might have a slightly house this slightly nicer house than this sort dash . it's a sort of pebble dash. it's a lot nicer than anything have . nicer than anything i have. >> his house is either >> it's a his house is either too big too small. well, it too big or too small. well, it it's a very nice house. >> it's a very nice house pebble dash.it >> it's a very nice house pebble dash. it does look better with the with the black, might the with the black, you might say. it's a lovely say. but i mean it's a lovely georgian property. it's a big detached house. this the one, detached house. this is the one, of course, that he got into trouble. i think dawn for having his swimming pool. >> he had to increase >> pool that he had to increase the energy in the local grid. yes, exactly. >> swimming pool. so >> up his swimming pool. so maybe no coincidence maybe it's no coincidence that they this in the they chose this house in the constituency they're constituency where they're actually shutting swimming actually shutting local swimming pools they pools for kids because they can't to run and heat can't afford to run and heat them. can't afford to run and heat the yeah, you know, we could >> yeah, but, you know, we could invite round bev. invite the local kids round bev. i i'm sure he wouldn't i mean, i'm sure he wouldn't mind. >> oh yeah, right. i'm sure. lots of you. i've been getting victor from rishi's home. victor from devon rishi's home. totally the totally outrageous. throw the book at them. christina said i'm outraged at what greenpeace has done. they do this to done. how dare they do this to rishi's do they think

rishi's home? who do they think they are? >> em— >> sue from london saying find out the people are. blow up out who the people are. blow up those photos their faces that those photos of their faces that they have put out they themselves have put out there oh, and sue there and make sure. oh, and sue suggesting we make nuisance suggesting we make a nuisance outside suggesting we make a nuisance outwell, i was to suggesting we make a nuisance out well, i was to say go >> well, i was going to say go to their house. how would they like it? >> right. can we talk about a story that we've been trailing all morning? this you're all morning? this is if you're getting a bit fat or if your partners fat, partners getting a bit fat, would them? would you tell them? >> lister well, i think it's >> sam lister well, i think it's just, you know, in life, in just, you know, in in life, in relationships, it would be great if everyone was honest all the time. >> but they're not, are they? so, you know, people muddle along the best they can. along through the best they can. and know, i'm not and i think, you know, i'm not sure always being brutally sure always being being brutally honest way to go. sure always being being brutally horthis way to go. sure always being being brutally horthis is way to go. sure always being being brutally horthis is julie way to go. sure always being being brutally horthis is julie cookiy to go. sure always being being brutally horthis is julie cook in:o go. sure always being being brutally horthis is julie cook in the). >> this is julie cook in the mail. dawn, isn't it? who's saying that should saying that we should always tell partners being cruel to tell our partners being cruel to be a very fit, be kind? you're a very fit, healthy. you're a gym bunny, aren't you? you like to keep yourself nick. aren't you? you like to keep youi;elf nick. aren't you? you like to keep youi like nick. aren't you? you like to keep youi like my nick. aren't you? you like to keep youi like my cycling, and i like >> i like my cycling, and i like climbing. ironically, not on people's though. people's houses, though. >> i've actually done this. >> i've actually done this. >> i've actually done this. >> i've done this. >> i must have. i've done this. i told the husband i actually told the husband and. and with you, it's

and to be honest with you, it's probably saved his life because he was putting up. look, it's all the language, isn't it? all in the language, isn't it? you literally them you don't literally call them a fat so—and—so and sort of like make of you do it in a make fun of them. you do it in a kind, caring, loving way bed. but was but the husband was getting a bit portly as men do when they get to a certain age. tom it might not happen to you, but just and obviously just be warned. and obviously there danger when there is a danger again when you get to a certain age of developing 2 diabetes. yes developing type 2 diabetes. yes so we had the conversation. the husband had do husband agreed he had to do something he something about it and he actually ended up losing three and stone. oh, amazing. and a half stone. oh, amazing. i'm really, really him. i'm really, really proud of him. he's a little bit strapped on. sorry think sometimes sorry but i think sometimes it's, know , this this chap it's, you know, this this chap isn't morbidly obese or obese or anything. you know, he's got a bit of a paunch, but i think, yeah, i think sometimes you have to have this conversation, often not because mean. not because you're being mean. because issues. because there are health issues. yeah >> this is the couple. this is juue >> this is the couple. this is julie cook. fact, she's, julie cook. in fact, she's, she's friend of the show. she's a friend of the show. we've often had julie on as a journalist and she's raised awareness this, saying, awareness of this, saying, should tell should you tell should you tell your half? you, tom

your other half? would you, tom well, here's the thing. >> i think i think that potentially putting a bit of potentially putting on a bit of relationship weight is an inevitable of inevitable conflict sense of being relationship. inevitable conflict sense of beiithe relationship. inevitable conflict sense of beiithe happy|tionship. inevitable conflict sense of beiithe happy |tionshi don't inevitable conflict sense of beiithe happy|tionshi don't pull >> the happy hearts don't pull yourself off market. yourself off the market. >> then who who are you losing the weight for? >> that's true. >> that's true. >> that's true. >> that's a point. >> that's a good point. >> that's a good point. >> actually. because being >> actually. yeah. because being loved and cuddly on the sofa loved up and cuddly on the sofa and you have dinner you take and you have dinner and you take you takeaways and you just you have takeaways and you just hunker down a little bit, don't you? >> it's a difficult one, i have to would i to say. i would definitely i would would other would i would tell my other half, i think. but you hope you wouldn't. hope you don't wouldn't. you hope you don't have hope you work it have to. you hope you work it out yourself. out for yourself. >> it's you know, people >> but it's you know, people know anyway, don't they. >> yeah. >> so yeah, yeah. >> so yeah, yeah. >> i mean, yeah, the husband did realise took someone to realise it just took someone to nagging calls i like nagging as he calls it. i like to think was just gentle to think it was just gentle punch, but perhaps, perhaps outside of relationship, you have built in have that that sort of built in nagging in the that nagging in the sense that perhaps someone wouldn't want to go for drink with you or go for a drink with you or perhaps wouldn't. perhaps you wouldn't. >> you'd find it a harder >> you'd find it a bit harder to, you know, you need to replicate sort of social replicate the sort of social cues outside, right? >> right. within the relationship. exactly. so you

know, i'm not going to go out for dinner you tonight. you know. >> right . pizza. >> right. pizza. >> right. pizza. >> let's come to your by—line. let's come to front page on let's come to your front page on the daily express. what have you been about today? the daily express. what have you beeyeah, about today? the daily express. what have you beeyeah, rishi today? he's >> yeah, it's rishi sunak. he's written piece for us today, written a piece for us today, andifs written a piece for us today, and it's basically he's been very clear with the doctors who were striking junior doctors, consultants that the pay settlement for this year is it's fair and it's final, and it doesn't matter how much they strike, he's not going to change his that. and he points his mind on that. and he points out that actually a lot of the work is in the nhs who are on much lower salaries than these people settled . why they people have settled. why they still pursuing this, why they are pushing up, waiting lists. he them specifically for he blames them specifically for pushing waiting and pushing up, waiting lists and points actually , you know, points out actually, you know, if you if you give a 35% pay rise a junior doctor or rise to a junior doctor or a consultant, that is to going help, not going to help the battle down inflation. battle to bring down inflation. so he's saying, look, this is fair the whole country. fair for the whole country. you're good you're actually on pretty good salaries you're causing salaries anyway. you're causing big problems. i'm not i'm not going to change my mind on pay

negotiations. so it's fairly stark. >> is he right on? >> is he right on? >> well, 35% is ridiculous. >> well, 35% is ridiculous. >> i mean, but i mean, you know, i just want these debates between the government and the unions to be televised on gb news one side says news because one side says they're talking to us. the they're not talking to us. the other side. yes, we are. who are they actually talking to? one another. this applies any of another. this applies to any of having some transparency over these conversations. what conversations place . conversations are taking place. but, i mean, it's quite ridiculous. and listen to a junior on the radio the junior doctor on the radio the day was denying the fact day who was denying the fact that action was having any that their action was having any effect on patients on waiting lists . it clearly is . thousands lists. it clearly is. thousands of people have had their appointments cancelled. oh, absolutely. >> everybody everybody knows somebody, don't they? the prime minister has written this for the express today. >> of course, he's on holiday. he jetted off yesterday afternoon or evening. did he write it on the plane? >> well, he only jetted off in the evening time, so he had the whole day. >> yeah. well, this is what i was going ask you that actually. >> so. he has done this

>> so. so he has done this comment piece. has basically comment piece. has he basically spoken to you and you've ghosted it for he's not. it for him or he's not. >> he's not? no, no, no, no, no. he's literally. come sam. he's literally. come on, sam. >> from number 10 yesterday. >> okay. okay >> okay. okay >> so somebody has written it for and he's checked it, for him and he's checked it, write piece them. write a piece for them. >> so we know. so we know he is. he is working right up until the moment that steps foot in the moment that he steps foot in the rishi moment that he steps foot in the risii mean, i think the one thing >> i mean, i think the one thing we about him is he is workaholic. >> so you know, he wasn't you know, it was actually the airport going the missus. airport going to the missus. >> the door or not? >> did i lock the door or not? >> did i lock the door or not? >> he's glad he did lock the doon >> he's glad he did lock the door. yeah. yeah >> oh, goodness. oh, fantastic. >> oh, goodness. oh, fantastic. >> but i suppose that does tie into when he lands if into when, when he lands or if he's the first he's already landed, the first thing be told is, oh, the thing he'll be told is, oh, the stress. house has been stress. your house has been invaded and we don't, we don't know other the know anything other than the video had been published by video that had been published by the themselves. the activists themselves. you don't else there's no don't know what else there's no and that be. and how stressful that be. >> those little girls >> and those two little girls just a holiday with just want to have a holiday with their and dad. their mum and dad. >> be so disturbed. and >> you'd be so disturbed. and i'm thinking, my youngest is the same their eldest. i

same age as their eldest. i think and as a little girl, think 12. and as a little girl, she so frightened if she would be so frightened if she would be so frightened if she pictures of our house she saw pictures of our house being defaced that way. being defaced in that way. >> i in whatever way will >> i guess in whatever way will they be really, they be able to be really, really upset by that? >> be really disturbed >> you'd be really disturbed by it. and see what it. and i don't see what difference they think it's going to to government in to make to government policy in terms of oil and gas. >> the thing. >> that's the thing. >> that's the thing. >> extraordinary thing, sam, >> the extraordinary thing, sam, that when the government announced licences announced those 100 new licences in graphic they put out in in every graphic they put out in every interview that every minister they said minister went out, they said this we're showing we're stuffing just stop if stuffing it to just stop oil. if anything, the activists that were doing illegal things encouraged the government to take this course of action. >> i think the problem is >> yeah, i think the problem is , now just , though, activists are now just breaking the law with impunity . breaking the law with impunity. and this is the problem, isn't it? and how have we got to this position where the right to protest has actually become the position where the right to prote to has actually become the position where the right to prote to actuallyally become the position where the right to prote to actually do become the position where the right to prote to actually do whatever:he right to actually do whatever you without without being you like without without being prosecuted? that that prosecuted? and i find that that is the big problem. we've got this this point. i thought this at this point. i thought that was a really interesting point, tom, because, you know, when burgled, you when your house is burgled, you never the same. never feel quite the same. >> feel really uncomfortable

never feel quite the same. >>it feel really uncomfortable never feel quite the same. >>it going l really uncomfortable never feel quite the same. >>it going back. .y uncomfortable never feel quite the same. >>it going back. and comfortable never feel quite the same. >>it going back. and thiszortable never feel quite the same. >>it going back. and this istable never feel quite the same. >>it going back. and this is an.e in it going back. and this is an invasion their home. and as invasion of their home. and as you those two little you say, both those two little girls, like they're girls, it's like they're probably my probably looking that's my bedroom they're coming bedroom window. they're coming over you can tell them as >> and you can tell them as parents, you could say, oh, it's fine. they wouldn't do anything to you. but they're not they're not believe that. not going to believe that. that's such a such that's such a it's such a powerful is why powerful image. that is why they've because is they've done it, because it is such powerful and we are such a powerful image and we are talking about it. >> we're giving them publicity. but other we're not but on the other hand, we're not giving good publicity giving them good publicity because angry it. >> also, h-l h“ >> also, i come back to this point, do not think point, i do not think i genuinely do not think the government would have gone ahead with new oil and gas with those new oil and gas licences if it hadn't been for just i think stop just stop oil. i think just stop oil polarised debate where oil polarised this debate where the government where actually the government where actually the the united kingdom the country, the united kingdom was on climate policy was so united on climate policy for until about for the most part up until about a until these a year ago, up until these protests started, it just makes people once you dig your >> and it once you dig your heels in. yeah i mean, do you think he's going to even going to get these these oil and gas licences? >> because since since they >> sam? because since since they announced announced announced since they announced that ago,

that a couple of days ago, actually that would actually anybody that would invest said we invest in that have said we can't in it anyway can't invest in it anyway because of our esg policy. so it's probably not going to get because of our esg policy. so it'sthe bably not going to get because of our esg policy. so it'sthe ground)t going to get because of our esg policy. so it'sthe ground anyway. to get off the ground anyway. >> well, i don't mean, >> well, i don't know. i mean, number 10 quite vague on the number 10 are quite vague on the timescale this happen. timescale for this to happen. they we if they won't even say if we if there'll new drilling before there'll be new drilling before there'll be new drilling before the election. know, the next election. so, you know, these time, but these things can take time, but i will see in autumn i think we will see in autumn some progress and we'll some progress on it and we'll perhaps firmer numbers then. >> yeah. >> em- em— e to have to talk >> do we want to have to talk about this racist leaflets? oh, yes. quickly. cabinet yes. very quickly. cabinet minister the minister faces inquiry over the racist who is racist leaflet. dawn who who is in trouble and what have they done in trouble and what have they dorokay. this is our the >> okay. well this is our the david's davis, the welsh secretary who sent leaflet secretary who has sent a leaflet around warning constituents that there travellers camp there may be a travellers camp set up in the. and how do they feel about it? fine. it seems fairly sensible thing to do doesn't it? but he has been reported for racism for using the g word . i didn't even know the g word. i didn't even know that. >> you're not allowed to say gypsy. >> this is the thing, tom. all gypsy- >> i thought selfies identified in that way. >> they do . >> they do. >> they do. >> so big fat gypsy wedding is a tv programme is a movie.

>> i think there were issues just horrifically racist. just been horrifically racist. >> keep up. >> i can't keep up. >> i can't keep up. >> well, this is look and he is the mp for monmouth and he said, look, not a criticism of look, it's not a criticism of the gypsy traveller community. >> he goes, i just wanted there was no consultation was no there was no consultation with residents . they didn't was no there was no consultation with wasidents . they didn't was no there was no consultation with was happening.y didn't was no there was no consultation with was happening. it'sdn't was no there was no consultation with was happening. it'sjust know it was happening. it's just saying, happy with saying, look, are you happy with this there this camp being set there without talking in another. >> police are investigating a leaflet instead of guarding rishi house and the rishi sunak house and it's the lead page telegraph newspaper. >> thank you , ladies. >> anyway, thank you, ladies. sam and dawn. >> on this in the next houn >> more of you in a bit. we're also to going have a top security expert to discuss these protests you're protests by greenpeace. you're with britain's newsroom i >> -- >> looks like things are heating up . boxed boilers , proud up. boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on gb news . sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello, alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. not quite as wild as yesterday, but a cool cloudy day for most. a bit of sunshine here and there, but there are also a few showers around this low brought the wet

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gb news. >> good morning. it's 11:00 gb news. >> good morning. it's11:00 on thursday, the 3rd of august. this is britain's newsroom on gb news bev turner and tom harwood. >> now greenpeace have covered rishi sunak's £2 million mansion in oil black fabric and unveiled a banner saying rishi sunak oil profits or our future. well i mean, i suppose our future is debateable. there but the move is against the prime minister's backing for a major expansion of nonh backing for a major expansion of north sea oil and gas drilling. we'll have the very latest on this security this extraordinary security breach . breach. >> also , interest rates could >> also, interest rates could rise again as the bank of england policy committee meet today in more bad news for mortgage holders will they come down that announcement will be in about one hour. >> and following in the footsteps of swimming, cycling and athletic british rowing will ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events .

competing in women's events. >> let us know your thoughts on everything that we're discussing this morning, particularly about that story of the prime minister's house being stormed by those pirates . oysters by those pirates. oysters gbviews@gbnews.com is the email address. first, though, here is the very latest news with rhiannon jones. >> bev thank you. good morning. it's 11:01. your >> bev thank you. good morning. it's11:01. your top >> bev thank you. good morning. it's 11:01. your top stories it's11:01. your top stories from the gb newsroom . protesters from the gb newsroom. protesters are gathering outside the bank of england as it's expected to increase its interest rate for the 14th time in a row. today economists predict a 0.25 percentage point rise , percentage point rise, increasing the base rate to 5.25. it would be the highest hike in 15 years. as the bank continues its battle to control the rising cost of living, the increase today would add yet more pressure on borrowers. shadow energy ministerjonathan shadow energy minister jonathan reynolds says the government

needs to do more to help the trade deals that we've got as a country look at for instance, our deal with the eu not covering agriculture and food prospects. >> therefore you've got higher levels of checks, more bureaucracy , more delay in that. bureaucracy, more delay in that. that has an impact on food prices. the agenda the prices. that's the agenda the government should pursuing government should be pursuing a resilient, economy. resilient, prosperous economy. so, yes , the bank of england so, yes, the bank of england have difficult to have got difficult decisions to make there's role make today, but there's a role for minimising make today, but there's a role for pressures minimising make today, but there's a role for pressures asminimising make today, but there's a role for pressures as wellnising make today, but there's a role for pressures as well .ising those pressures as well. >> well, jeremy leaf is an independent estate agent owner. he told gb news there are some positive elements to draw on. >> on the one hand, we've got the anticipation of bad news rates going up, but the anticipation of bad news rates going up , but actually rates going up, but actually there's a glimmer of good news as well, because if they don't go as well, because if they don't 9° up as well, because if they don't go up quite as much as some people are suggesting, like five and quarter, not five and a and a quarter, not five and a half and the pace is seen to be slowing , that actually starts to slowing, that actually starts to bnng slowing, that actually starts to bring mortgage rates, which affects most of us down and those on the market starting to come down just a little bit. so it's that glimmer having your

cake and eat it. sorry about the cake. >> the prime minister says he won't apologise for supporting new oil and gas exploration. it's after greenpeace activists scaled his yorkshire home, draping it in black fabric in protest of the policy . rishi protest of the policy. rishi sunak has granted more than 100 new licences for oil and gas extraction in the north sea. the campaigners say they've taken action to drive home the dangerous consequences of the move. north yorkshire police says it's managing the situation . alex wilson from greenpeace says the prime minister needs to choose a side. we're all here because rishi sunak has opened the door for a new drilling frenzy in the north sea while large parts of our world are literally on fire, this will be a disaster for the climate . a disaster for the climate. >> it won't lower energy bills . >> it won't lower energy bills. it's not going to boost our energy security . we the only energy security. we the only people that are going to profit from this at all are the big oil companies . companies. >> the prime minister says the government's pay offer to

doctors is fair and final . doctors is fair and final. writing in the daily express, rishi sunak says there'll be no more talks on this year's pay, calling the latest offer very generous. he called the nhs an institution the uk's rightly proud of and praised healthcare staff across the country. mr sunakis staff across the country. mr sunak is urging doctors to call off their strikes and gps in england will be able to order a host of checks direct early to help speed up the diagnosis of a range of heart and respiratory conditions. doctors will be able to order checks for some conditions without needing to go via a specialist , conditions without needing to go via a specialist, and conditions without needing to go via a specialist , and patients via a specialist, and patients will instead receive a direct referral to hospital or community diagnostic centres . up community diagnostic centres. up to 1 million people are expected to 1 million people are expected to benefit from the new plans . to benefit from the new plans. the science secretary has accused a labour mp of misleading the public after he shared a fake image of the prime minister. mp for harlow, karl

turner posted a doctored picture showing rishi sunak at a beer festival with a badly pulled pint and a woman seemingly looking on, disapprove . hinckley looking on, disapprove. hinckley michelle donelan has described sharing the deep fake image pretty desperate stuff by labour . mr turner later said he hadn't realised the image was fake and the average price of a litre of petrol rose for a second consecutive month in july . the consecutive month in july. the rac found a litre of unleaded now costs 140 £0.05, up by a penny since the start of the month and up to pence since the start of june . the wholesale start of june. the wholesale price of petrol rose by £0.06 a litre in the middle of july, following hikes on in oil costs , meaning further rises are likely . see diesel, meanwhile, likely. see diesel, meanwhile, remained the same for former us president donald trump is appearing in court in washington , dc to face four new criminal charges as he's accused of conspiring to defraud the us by

preventing congress from certifying joe biden's victory after the 2020 election. it's the third time in four months he's been charged as he campaigns to regain the presidency . see an. and viewers presidency. see an. and viewers are switching off traditional television at record rates. that's according to a new ofcom report. the watchdog found the number of people watching a programme on broadcast tv each week dropped from 83% in 2021 to 79% last year. that's the biggest fall since records began . the declines as a result of increased competition from streaming sites, as well as losing younger viewers to social media platforms . this is gb news media platforms. this is gb news across the uk on tv in your car, on digital radio, and on your smart speaker. by simply saying play gb news now it's back to tom and beth .

tom and beth. >> so as we've been discussing, greenpeace active artists have invaded the prime minister's private home, draping a massive , oily black piece of fabric over the roof. incredible images that we're seeing . here are that we're seeing. here are there are the images. >> you can see that the prime minister's georgian home in nonh minister's georgian home in north yorkshire is being scaled by people with what looks like abseiling equipment . they've abseiling equipment. they've hooked themselves onto various points in the roof of the period property and are draping down measured to fit out black sheets across it in what can only be described as the most incredible sort of security breach from the private home of the prime minister. and his family. >> yeah, well, we'll get this is a security specialist and joins us now. good morning, will. how are you ? good morning, will. i are you? good morning, will. i think will is there with us as we change our autocue flicker.

hi, will. right. you understand a little bit about these sorts of things, security that prime ministers in particular should expect. he he was obviously on his plane to california yesterday, just about the time that we think these protesters were at the property. should there been somebody there there have been somebody there to sure that this wouldn't to make sure that this wouldn't happen? to make sure that this wouldn't hapabsolutely , bev. i mean, i'm >> absolutely, bev. i mean, i'm really quite astounded by firstly how well organised greenpeace are, although to a certain extent they've been doing these sort of stunts for many, many years . so they're many, many years. so they're very well rehearsed . they'll very well rehearsed. they'll certainly have done their planning but the, the thing planning. but the, the thing that me the most is that concerns me the most is this a very prominent this is a very prominent property of rishi sunak. rishi sunak , who is our prime minister sunak, who is our prime minister , and he is a person, an individual who is vulnerable to a wide spectrum of threats amongst those will be eco zealots, but it could be also terrorists and we look at this particular operation , and this particular operation, and this wasn't a simple case of a number

of individuals turning up on the day and rolling this out. this was well planned. well rehearsed, and inevitably well equipped . equipped. >> is it normal , do you think, >> is it normal, do you think, will for a prime minister's constituency home, though, to have no security? we were just saying earlier, i don't want to live in a world where all of our mps or our ministers have to be in gated communities. you know, the point of our old the whole point of our old fashioned democratic , fashioned democratic, particularly the constituency system and the surgeries that mps do, is that they can be close to the public. do you think this would signal a change? maybe >> well, i mean, to be honest, i'm really, really quite surprised. bev anyway , the fact surprised. bev anyway, the fact that there was no security , that there was no security, albeit in a very low level sense, that would have prevented this happening. and i'm not just talking about these turning talking about these guys turning up morning and actually up this morning and actually carrying out their stunt. i'm talking detection. i talking about the detection. i mean, things that we mean, one of the things that we in will continually in security will continually drone on about is threat detection. and it's that hostile reconnaissance advance.

detection. and it's that hostile reconnaissance advance . now, reconnaissance in advance. now, this should have been picked up well in advance. i mean, if you drive through, for example, connaught in central connaught square in central london, tony blair has an london, where tony blair has an actual residence, you will never drive past it and not see uniformed police officers outside it. so this is a retired prime minister, not an active prime minister, not an active prime minister, not an active prime minister who is in a who's in a position during a very contentious period, particularly when it comes to a climate change, when it comes to eco zealots . you know, we only have zealots. you know, we only have to see just drop oil on a weekly bafis to see just drop oil on a weekly basis carrying out their stunts. but this is an individual that a strike by a terrorist group would be a huge success. and in this instance, obviously, it's eco zealots unfurling. obviously a black blanket to demonstrate their point and get their agenda across . but what's to say there across. but what's to say there wouldn't be a lone actor who with an improvised explosive device that they've created putting that on the property, whether that was on a delayed timer that could be remotely

triggered or whether it be a device which literally exploded there. and then that even symbolically without the family actually being a resident at the time, would would send out huge reverberate , obviously, within reverberate, obviously, within the terrorist community, but also to the international community at how poorly protected he seems to be in this incident. and it's worth emphasising again at this point that this this a holiday home. >> this is this is the family home of the prime minister the prime minister works up prime minister often works up from his constituency. no doubt there are national security related documents in that building. of course, he , when he building. of course, he, when he was chancellor, developed the darlington campus of the treasury, where he worked at least once a month. and he does visit there often as prime minister as well . no doubt minister as well. no doubt within that building there is some very sensitive documents . some very sensitive documents. this is a huge risk. >> yeah, it's huge. tom, i mean, and again, we go back to jo cox. i mean, is it really that long ago before we start thinking about mps in their own

constituencies ? and this is just constituencies? and this is just standard mps and about their personal their personal protection, their personal protection, their personal safety? this is the prime minister our country. i prime minister of our country. i mean, almost laughable the mean, it's almost laughable the fact that there was no means of security to prevent these individuals getting there. individuals getting on there. now the one thing we know with environmental protest environmental groups and protest groups they're very savvy to groups is they're very savvy to what law so in terms of what the law is. so in terms of what the law is. so in terms of what they could be prosecuted for, unfurling black sheets is not criminal damage for them being on top of the actual residence itself , being on top of the actual residence itself, again, being on top of the actual residence itself , again, falls residence itself, again, falls into this very foggy, very ambiguous law that we have in this country on trespass . so this country on trespass. so there's a very good chance they'll probably be released with caution once they've eventually been taken off the building. certainly there building. but certainly there are health and safety implications. police simply are health and safety impli drag1s. police simply are health and safety impli drag them police simply are health and safety impli drag them offylice simply are health and safety impli drag them off the simply are health and safety impli drag them off the simofy can't drag them off the top of the building. they could be there certainly the rest of there certainly for the rest of today, few days. today, if not for a few days. and we've this before and we've seen this before with other fathers for other groups like fathers for justice, climbed either justice, who've climbed either on the outside buckingham on the outside of buckingham palace cranes and palace or up large cranes and caused amounts of publicity caused huge amounts of publicity for their cause, but also huge

amounts of disruption. in this instance, probably very little disruption. it is embarrassing. >> okay . thank you so much, >> okay. thank you so much, security expert will geddes here. there. you've been getting in touch here. russell from great the great yarmouth said the greenpeace have greenpeace protesters have a right protest it. of course. right to protest it. of course. however, they broke well , they however, they broke well, they said broke into a private said they broke into a private house causing damage. house and are causing damage. well, said, they didn't well, as will said, they didn't break the house. break into the house. they probably damage break into the house. they probthey damage break into the house. they probthey should damage break into the house. they probthey should be damage break into the house. they probthey should be arrested,mage and they should be arrested, says prosecuted. says russell, and prosecuted. in addition , this is the prime addition, this is the prime minister, like him or not, where the security people and gary agrees. >> he no agrees. >> he what you >> he says no matter what you think or his policies, think of him or his policies, this 100% out of order. and this is 100% out of order. and surely this have crossed surely this must have crossed some law trespassing some criminal law trespassing for one on private property . i for one on private property. i think that's what really sticks it. it's not government property. it's private property. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> okay. so we've been talking about but the about it this morning, but the bank poised bank of england is poised to raise rates the raise interest rates for the 14th consecutive today at 14th consecutive time today at midday tries to take midday as it tries to take back control of inflation. >> but how can people afford control of inflation. >> blmassivein people afford control of inflation. >> blmassive rate ople afford control of inflation. >> blmassive rate rises?fford control of inflation. >> blmassive rate rises? well, these massive rate rises? well, mortgage costs are soaring and putting people into financial difficulty. our yorkshire

reporter anna riley is in bradford for us and anna, i suppose i'm sorry to do this, but first of all, you are our yorkshire reporter . but first of all, you are our yorkshire reporter. how do you feel safe in yorkshire. do you feel safe in yorkshire. do you feel that the police are there to protect you , given that the to protect you, given that the prime minister's home? is there for the most part , yeah. for the most part, yeah. >> for the most part. i suppose it depends. like any place in the country, doesn't it? there's certain safer spots than than others . places where you do feel others. places where you do feel safe , but places where maybe on safe, but places where maybe on a dark night you wouldn't walk safe, but places where maybe on a darialone. you wouldn't walk safe, but places where maybe on a darialone. but wouldn't walk safe, but places where maybe on a darialone. but certainly walk safe, but places where maybe on a darialone. but certainly with: there alone. but certainly with some of the crime figures that we've seen recently, i'll be doing a story tomorrow, actually, about burglary, about burglary and that not being solved . so, yes, fingers solved. so, yes, fingers crossed, will be safe in yorkshire. but yes, here, this morning, i'm at christians against poverty. it's a charity that's dedicated to help people with debt relief and help people that are struggling with the cost of living. of course, with the interest rate at currently at 5, that's been the highest

rate in 15 years. so a rise again, is certainly to going impact people that are facing debt or problems with the cost of living . now i'm joined by of living. now i'm joined by lynn weston . she is the director lynn weston. she is the director of church engage here at christians against poverty . christians against poverty. lynn, what would another interest rate rise do for people that are already struggling with the cost of living? >> well, our clients are already struggling with debt with their already with prices soaring over the last year of being in the midst of the cost of living crisis, things are already really difficult for people who have got debt problems and even for who do have for people who do not have really go up. what really seen those go up. what this means is that people just can't afford the basics in like rent, mortgage, food , food, just rent, mortgage, food, food, just the basics to get by is a real struggle . and we just can't even struggle. and we just can't even get the basic budgets to meet. so this is going to cause even more anxiety amongst our clients. and we're seeing a real increase in people who are having thoughts of suicide . 50% having thoughts of suicide. 50%

of our clients are saying they don't see another way out. so it's heartbreaking to see what's happening at the moment. >> it really is. and you're >> and it really is. and you're obviously your here obviously doing your best here as can see people as a charity. we can see people behind calls from behind us answering calls from people provide people, but you also provide face face services in face to face services in churches well. what are churches as well. what are people telling you? you've obviously just mentioned mental health struggles. there >> we've seen a massive increase in mental health struggles and the vulnerability of our clients and a real sense of feeling isolated . and so the services we isolated. and so the services we offer and i think the face to face element is such an important bit that have got important bit that we have got people churches will people in churches who will go out and people be with out and see people and be with them give them a real sense them and give them a real sense of, this alone. of, you're not in this alone. there help here can there is help here and we can help through process. help you through this process. and we hear of and the stories we hear of clients who just feel weight clients who just feel the weight of lifted off them of the world lifted off them when they know they can walk. this somebody makes this journey with somebody makes such difference. this journey with somebody makes suc thankference.much, this journey with somebody makes sucthankference.much, lynn. so, >> thank you so much, lynn. so, yes , if you are or yes, if you are watching or listening and struggling with debt, and especially feeling worried about this interest rate rise are charities rise, there are charities out there this one, like

there like this one, like christians against poverty to help yeah help with debt. yeah >> okay. thank you very much. anna. anna riley there in yorkshire. and no doubt she'll be hotfooting to the be hotfooting it over to the prime minister's home of richmond now. so get us the very latest there. yes >> really concerning >> no, really, really concerning story, but go story, of course. but let's go to the big concerning to the other big concerning story. well, suppose it all it story. well, i suppose it all it all in together. all does tie in together. we're delighted now in delighted to be joined now in the studio by the former adviser to the bank england, to the bank of england, roger gall, roger, i suppose we gall, and roger, i suppose we were at the start of the hour looking at protesters attacking the home of the prime minister. but today , of course, the bank but today, of course, the bank of england is going to announce this potential interest rate rise should protesters not be going after the bank of england governor instead? absolutely >> i mean, he has a one track mind. i mean , the man has got mind. i mean, the man has got a solution in search of a problem . it's a good thing he wasn't in charge of covid because if he'd seen an unconscious body by the riverside , he would have raised riverside, he would have raised its interest rates . it's all he its interest rates. it's all he knows. so many people. i've been

at this 14 months saying the three things. number one, we have what's called cost push inflation. it's not driven by consumer demand. we're not spending . this is food and spending. this is food and energy prices that we can't control. raising interest rates and making money more expensive for people doesn't stop spending when they're not spending. it doesn't bring down inflation when cost push inflation comes down by itself, just as we're seeing with food and energy right now, it's historic all the way back to wheat starting to grow again in ancient biblical egypt. it's history next year it'll be 3% and it will have ruddy nothing thing to do with sunak , hunt, bailey or anybody sunak, hunt, bailey or anybody else, although of course they'll all claim credit for it. >> but it's interesting what you say there, roger, about the fact that you know, what tom was saying about why aren't people protesting feel strongly protesting people feel strongly enough go and that to the enough to go and do that to the prime home. and yet prime minister's home. and yet there people will there will be people who will have give up their come have to give up their homes come this winter because the mortgage rates huge and yet you

rates are so huge and yet you don't feel that there's the anger why? anger in the public. why? >> question , because oil , >> great question, because oil, every time you put your hand in your pocket at the petrol pump, your pocket at the petrol pump, you feel it. yeah. if this was football , people would be out in football, people would be out in the streets. this stuff, interest rate drive , my interest rate drive, my economics, all the buzz words and all the mystique in the arcane nonsense they all put around this stuff makes people, you know, i mean, they're just not interested. but people don't. and it's always that way, except this time they don't understand. they're going to get home open an envelope, and their mortgage is to going shoot up yet 14th time. so three yet again. 14th time. so three points. number one, this isn't the kind of inflation that was ever going solved by ever going to be solved by raising rates. number raising interest rates. number two, do they have called in ben bernanke, the former head of the federal reserve of america, to come in and check the forecasts of bailey and his associates ? of bailey and his associates? it's miserable. it's wrong all the time. they have made so many mistakes. but i mean , why do we

mistakes. but i mean, why do we need to call in? as somebody said to me, a ruddy yank, to come in and check this. okay. we've got andy haldane, the former economy list of the bank of england sitting right here. oh wait a minute. he doesn't agree with raising interest rates or printing money. quantitative easing, the way bernanke does . bernanke and bernanke does. bernanke and bailey are blood brothers, so they've brought in this apparently great figure who is as criticised for being slow to act and not saying things. bernanke is criticised by no less than the new york times for forgetting small things like not noticing the world financial crisis, stroke credit crunch ten years ago for quantitative easing, which is what's caused a large part of inflation. so they're bringing in this completely wrong foreign guy to back up bailey and the people go , oh, all right, fine. you know, that's why they don't object. >> that speaks of >> but that very much speaks of a sort of a global view as well, doesn't it , a sort of a global view as well, doesn't it, in terms of fixing the british economy, like you say, why are they going to

america? here. picked america? he's here. he's picked the going tell america? he's here. he's picked the what going tell america? he's here. he's picked the what he going tell america? he's here. he's picked the what he wants)ing tell america? he's here. he's picked the what he wants tog tell america? he's here. he's picked the what he wants to hear.all effectively. >> going pick the person >> he's going to pick the person who's going to rubber what who's going to rubber stamp what he's is he's doing in america is completely different. two reasons. one, they have their own supply. putin own energy supply. no putin manipulated price, manipulated the gas price, electricity, blah, blah, blah . electricity, blah, blah, blah. number what's number two, they have what's called demand pull inflation. they have people spending. there's $1.7 trillion hidden in mattresses from the pandemic that people are spending and low inflation. >> well , their inflation has >> well, their inflation has more than halved . more than halved. >> exactly. it's 3. it works there. so but even if bailey is going to slavishly follow america, guys , they didn't raise america, guys, they didn't raise the rate last time. so why is he going to do it today? it's just insane. okay >> all right, roger. well, thank you so much . now, still to come, you so much. now, still to come, british rowing is going to ban transgender athletes from competing in women's events . competing in women's events. >> yes, we'll be tracing that just

guy good morning. it's 1125 guy good morning. it's1125 and you're with britain's newsroom on gb news. with me tom harwood and bev turner. >> so british rowing is the latest sport to abandon its controversial policy on transgender athletes today, restricting the women's category solely to those who are born biologically female . biologically female. >> now transgender, transgender athletes are currently able to compete in britain's elite female rowing races only under certain circumstances. but this

change would get rid of those exceptions. >> that's right. so alex storey is a former olympic rower and peter tatchell is an lgbtq activist . good morning to you activist. good morning to you both. alex, let me come to you first. as the former international rower, do you think this is the right decision? i imagine maybe your answer possibly might be different to a female rower, maybe . maybe. >> no, not unless a girl wants to compete with me on a wig with a wig. i mean, it's an insane proposition. it should never have been discussed . and i. have been discussed. and i. i want to get my money back for the time wasted. talking about this ludicrous topic, which verges on insanity. i have this ludicrous topic, which verges on insanity . i have two verges on insanity. i have two daughters, and i'm delighted that they will not have to compete with the likes of me. i mean, my daughters will be five foot on average. six foot ten on average. i'm six foot ten on average. i'm six foot eight insane that foot eight and it's insane that we ever got so far as to even consider girls rowing against men in the name of fairness . so men in the name of fairness. so it's a step in the right direction. i think that there's

a there's a wider story, though, which is that the ioc is very keen to bring open categories at the olympic games in order to reduce the number of rowers competing because we take too much space and we don't bring enough revenue . enough revenue. >> and peter, if i can come to you, this is a triumph of common sense. surely we well, fairness in sport is absolutely paramount. >> you know , it's absolutely >> you know, it's absolutely important that there is fairness in sport. but we also have to balance that against fairness towards trans athletes as well . towards trans athletes as well. now, i accept that many trans athletes may may have an advantage and that would be wrong. but i don't think we should generalise about trans athletes because they come in all shapes and sizes , different all shapes and sizes, different weakness, different strength . so weakness, different strength. so for example, you know , not all for example, you know, not all trans athletes are six foot five tall and weigh £220. you know, i know a trans woman footballer

who competes in her team . she is who competes in her team. she is the one of the smallest and weakest members of the team. you know, she there are other biological females who tower over her and are much stronger. so i would prefer individual assessment to assess each individual trans athlete on what potential advantages they have and if they do have unfair advantages, then of course they should not compete. but equally , we need to say that all all elite athletes tend to have advantages. so some may have bigger hearts and lungs , which bigger hearts and lungs, which gives them an advantage. and these may be biological, biological females with bigger hearts and lungs . they have a hearts and lungs. they have a clear advantage over other women athletes . but no one is athletes. but no one is proposing for them to be banned. and i just think that the policy is a bit unfair and a bit one sided. >> alex story what do you say to that? because there has been a lot of reporting this morning about this change, putting it in the same bracket, for example, as international swimming, which

said that transgender women who had gone through male puberty weren't allowed to compete . weren't allowed to compete. that's slightly different to what rowing has said today , what rowing has said today, because this is just any trans people, no matter if they went through male puberty or not, no matter what their hormone levels are or what their height is or their muscle mass, just a just a complete ban is that anti—individualist ? right. anti—individualist? right. >> well , the first thing i'd say >> well, the first thing i'd say is that peter owes me an enormous amount of money. i'm on houday enormous amount of money. i'm on holiday here and i have to discuss this insane topic, but i'll forgive him this once the i think the broader topic is, is simply this in order to compete, you need honesty in sports . you need honesty in sports. without honesty, there is there is there are no rules. there are no principles. in other words, you cannot build a sport based on deception . this idea that on deception. this idea that a trans woman is a woman is the beginning of the deconstruction of organised sport. a trans woman is a bloke in a wig

pretending to be a woman and the equally a trans man is not a quy- equally a trans man is not a guy. and we all know this. so the first thing you need to have in any sport is honesty and the core root of honesty is to see a guy and to see a girl and describe them as they are. it's not a subjective point of view . not a subjective point of view. it's an objective statement of fact. anybody who believes the opposite of that is selling you insanity and time wasting. peter i'm 48. i have an enormous amount of stuff to do. if you keep wasting people's time on this, there might not be as generous as me with forgiveness i >> -- >> peter tatchell, if you'd like to respond as a campaigner for trans rights , well , just take trans rights, well, just take the example of trans men. >> this this ban would equally apply >> this this ban would equally apply to trans men. yet according to british rowing , um, according to british rowing, um, trans men , men do not have an trans men, men do not have an advantage . in fact, they have advantage. in fact, they have a deficit . they are. they are

deficit. they are. they are unable to compete on an equal bafis unable to compete on an equal basis because according to british rowing, they do not have the same advantages as biological males. so i'm just saying that there are some holes in this policy. and as i said , i in this policy. and as i said, i would like to see individual assessment , but there's nothing assessment, but there's nothing to prevent individual assessments. i accept that in most cases , as a male person who most cases, as a male person who has gone through puberty as a male will have an advantage in most cases. but we know that people come in all kinds of different biological makeups. you know, some men do not conform to the macho, strong muscle mass bone density, bone size of other men. and i just think that we shouldn't be lumping all trans people in the same category. there individuals. and there's no reason why we couldn't have individual assessments because that way we would ensure that

the sport was fair. >> okay. thank you both. peter tatchell, thank you. and alex story. thank you for interrupting your holiday. we do appreciate it. a voice of reason there somewhere looking absolutely beautiful. so thank you, gentlemen. right right now, moving on. still to come, greenpeace has covered the prime minister's mansion in an oily back black fabric . back black fabric. >> yes, it begs the question just where was the security? so that and much, much more to come after this . after this. >> good morning. it's 1132. after this. >> good morning. it's1132. i'm rhiannon jones in the newsroom. protesters are gathering outside the bank of england ahead of an expected increase in its interest rate. the 14th month in a row is expected. economists predict a 0.25 percentage point rise, increasing the base rate to 5.25. it would be the highest hike in 15 years. as the bank

continues its battle to control the rising cost of living. today's increase , expected at today's increase, expected at midday, would pile yet more pressure on borrowers as the prime minister says, he won't apologise for supporting new oil and gas exploration. it's after greenpeace activists scaled his yorkshire home, draping it in black fabric in protest of the policy . rishi sunak granted more policy. rishi sunak granted more than 100 new licences for extraction in the north sea. the campaigners say they've taken action to drive home the dangerous consequences of the move. north yorkshire police has confirmed its officers are at the scene managing the situation in. the prime minister says the government's pay offer to doctors is fair and final. writing in the daily express, rishi sunak says there'll be no more talks on this year's pay, calling the latest offer very generous. he called the nhs an institution the uk's rightly proud of and praised healthcare staff across the country . mr

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gb news good morning. >> it's 1141 and good morning. >> it's1141 and you're good morning. >> it's 1141 and you're with britain's newsroom here on gb news with me tom harwood and bev turner. >> so several labour mps, including a shadow minister, unwittingly, it seems, have been sharing a photoshopped image of the prime minister. >> yes, for the benefit of those listening on the radio. rishi sunak tweeted out a photo of himself pulling a pint with a barmaid stood behind him, but the doctored version of this picture shows the barmaid staring dismissed at him as if she was mocking him and also accentuates the head on the been >>i been >> ihave been >> i have to say, it's a very, very realistic looking fake image, isn't it? yeah, it is, of course. unless you see them side by side. if you didn't know. i

mean, that's the expression i want to pull. if i was behind rishi sunak, i'd rolling my eyes. >> i just think it looks really peculiar. also the pint peculiar. and also the pint looked little computer looked a little bit computer generated geddes generated maybe, but will geddes is and joins is a tech journalist and joins us . us now. >> us now. >> you've e you've seen a t— e you've seen a lot of >> well, you've seen a lot of fake in your time. was fake images in your time. was this a good one? >> no, it wasn't. and i feel disappointed that the labour mp was foolish enough to post it. >> it was used to possibly accentuate their argument. the challenge we face, though, both of you, is that we're seeing more and more images and content in this space. the very fact that earlier this year the vatican had to put out a statement saying that the pope does not wear balenciaga clothes , goes to tell you just how far this issue has gone. >> he was pictured in a really long one of those long iconic white jackets that balenciaga make . make. >> and they had to say that he doesn't wear them. he obviously wears the clothes that pope wears the clothes that the pope wears. going to see wears. so you're going to see more and more of this. >> and it's not just to going be

funny things like, you know, rishi with rishi sunak and somebody with a face doesn't look normal rishi sunak and somebody with a face them. esn't look normal behind them. >> hasn't been very >> the face hasn't been very well that person. well focussed on that person. but going more and but we're going to see more and more this it could get more of this and it could get more of this and it could get more more serious and could more and more serious and could be sorts of ways to be used in all sorts of ways to try and prove arguments in all kinds of different fashions. am l, kinds of different fashions. am i, to online here? to i, am i just to online here? to me looks like a really, me that looks like a really, really photoshopped really obviously photoshopped image i suppose people image, but i suppose most people don't time staring don't spend their time staring at images all day. so at computer images all day. so so perhaps i'm out of touch here, but. for carl here, but. but. but for carl turner , the labour mp, angela turner, the labour mp, angela eagle, the former labour leadership contender and labour mp and bill esterson, who's actually a shadow minister under keir starmer. actually a shadow minister under keir starmer . should these keir starmer. should these people not be more careful about what they're uncritically sharing , adding their own sharing, adding their own comments to putting out online? do they not have an extra responsible duty here? i agree with you entirely and i should also say, you know, this is obviously examples where we've got labour politicians , but got labour politicians, but conservatives have been just as guilty . guilty. >> i think what happens in some

guilty. >>these1k what happens in some guilty. >>these situations ppens in some guilty. >>these situations is ens in some guilty. >>these situations is if|s in some guilty. >>these situations is if an1 some of these situations is if an image proves your argument, you let kind of reality let all kind of reality disappear. and currently you can look at these images and look for all errors that for all kinds of errors that that the image that's been the image that's been posted yesterday is a photoshopped image. it's not a deep fake image. it's not a deep fake image. it's not a deep fake image. it hasn't been generated by artificial intelligence . you by artificial intelligence. you can still find a number of errors in those artificial intelligence images that are generated as deepfakes. but it's getting harder to getting harder and harder to detect . what's now detect. and what's actually now happening is most of the tech companies are developing artificial intelligence tools to check what images have been deep faked. and this is why it's going to get so challenging over the next few years for viewers and listeners to gb news is going to be when you were youngen going to be when you were younger, remember they used to say, you photos can't say, bev, you know, photos can't lie. they can. they very easily i >> -- >> yeah, exam >> yeah, very much so. thank you. will we all have to have our wits about us, don't we? right back in the studio now, we've got political editor of the lister. we've the express, sam lister. we've got dawn neesom got our very own dawn neesom here. also we've been joined

here. and also we've been joined in white as in the studio by mark white as well, want to talk well, because we want to talk about situation about this situation in yorkshire. prime yorkshire. mark, with the prime minister's covered yorkshire. mark, with the prime mithese s covered yorkshire. mark, with the prime mithese blankets, covered yorkshire. mark, with the prime mithese blankets, let covered yorkshire. mark, with the prime mithese blankets, let mevered yorkshire. mark, with the prime mithese blankets, let me tellj in these blankets, let me tell you some our viewers you what some of our viewers have wasn't it have been saying. wasn't it yorkshire felt yorkshire police that felt no further should taken? further action? should be taken? with starmer's with regards to starmer's obvious with regards to starmer's obv durham with regards to starmer's ovaurham police, well done. >> durham police, well done. >> durham police, well done. >> says maybe the last >> yvonne says maybe the last three made me three years have made me cynical. really to cynical. but are we really to believe prime believe that the prime minister's has no security? believe that the prime ibliveter's has no security? believe that the prime iblive in's has no security? believe that the prime iblive in belfast. has no security? believe that the prime iblive in belfast. has chiefcurity? i live in belfast. our chief constable ranking constable and higher ranking politicians have security politicians all have security detail. their homes are protected or protected either with cameras or security some sort. security presence of some sort. i think stunt a lot of i think this stunt a lot of people getting into saying this was allowed to happen as there were as were some other were as were some of the other protests activists . protests by climate activists. now, why do people think like that? about trust, isn't it? >> yeah, i mean, don't think >> yeah, i mean, i don't think nonh >> yeah, i mean, i don't think north yorkshire police deliberately allowed it to happen that sense, by happen in that sense, but by the very fact that they clearly do not have a presence there guarding this key building, not have a presence there guarding this key building , then guarding this key building, then these greenpeace protesters were able to get access to that prime ministerial home. now, okay, people might argue, well, the pm

is only there some of the time. he's not there at the moment. why does it require for any kind of security ? i think it's of security? i think it's unthinkable that if you look to the united states as the president of the united states, any of the buildings that that president occupies that are connected to him, would not have a secret service detail. if you look even closer to home to the french president, all of the buildings associated with him are under guard as well . it is a are under guard as well. it is a metropolitan police responsibility when the prime minister and his family are in residence there, the parliamentary and diplomatic protection command would be up there. but when they're not there, it's north yorkshire police. it's their responsibility and it just, i think, beggars belief that there is no kind of security presence around . and this house what time around. and this house what time of the day it was, mark? >> i mean, it's clearly daylight . it's not like they did it at

3:00 in the morning. >> it'sjust 3:00 in the morning. >> it's just a couple of hours ago that greenpeace got in there and up onto they're and up onto the roof. they're still we still there as far as we understand, the police have turned up. they have put a what they call containment so they call a containment in. so basically are now present basically they are now present at scene in back front and at the scene in back front and sides of the building. but going up to remove them is always a tncky up to remove them is always a tricky exercise as and has a risk. so it was it's normally a number of hours before the protesters once they've made the point they want to make usually come down of their own volition. >> so when we watch that footage , they've even got their own official photographer who's with them taking them leaping around, taking their photographs. this is very much they've much a stunt that they've been in of. and have been in control of. and have been broadcasting their social media feeds. are they still broadcasting from the roof of the house? do you know, mark? >> not sure if they're >> i'm not sure if they're broadcast, certainly broadcast, but they've certainly broadcast, but they've certainly broadcast all of broadcast and put out all of their pictures. they're very switched course, they're their pictures. they're very swi about course, they're their pictures. they're very swi about getting ourse, they're their pictures. they're very swi about getting ours maximum all about getting the maximum pubuchy all about getting the maximum publicity for the message that they're trying to get across .

they're trying to get across. this, of course, in response to the government granting these 100 oil and gas licences in the nonh 100 oil and gas licences in the north sea. now we've had a reaction in from deputy prime minister oliver dowden. he's just said , stop the stupid just said, stop the stupid stunts . got to be careful how we stunts. got to be careful how we say that. one. but that's all he said on that one. we don't know . the metropolitan police have reached out to they said they don't discuss this protective issues. so that's convenient. can i just you would imagine that there has to be a review now, former former editor of a national newspaper , dawn, national newspaper, dawn, where's the dilemma i'm sitting here with in my heart is how much publicity we give these people . people. >> and when have those >> and when you have those decisions goes decisions to make, what goes through terms of through your mind in terms of what you put on front page is this is very important news story. >> i think there's a huge security issue here. the fact that it security issue here. the fact thatitis security issue here. the fact that it is the minister no that it is the prime minister no matter what you think of his politics, prime politics, it is the prime minister. yeah, this would be politics, it is the prime m i listen yeah, this would be politics, it is the prime mi was'. yeah, this would be politics, it is the prime mi was editing|h, this would be politics, it is the prime mi was editing the his would be politics, it is the prime mi was editing the dailyyuld be politics, it is the prime mi was editing the daily starbe if i was editing the daily star still, which i'm not, by the way, i would consider this a

splash . mean, you're splash. i mean, yes, you're giving publicity, but is giving them publicity, but is there a thing as bad there such a thing as bad publicity? because i think as we discussed earlier on, bev, it's making a lot people angry , making a lot of people angry, you know, because all think, you know, because we all think, well, that was my house and, well, if that was my house and, you know, my kids bedroom, they were the window you know, my kids bedroom, they were bedroom, the window you know, my kids bedroom, they were bedroom, how the window you know, my kids bedroom, they were bedroom, how wouldindow you know, my kids bedroom, they were bedroom, how wouldinfeel to the bedroom, how would i feel ? well, it's exactly ? well, it's not exactly helping. i'm quite environmentally friendly. i don't cycle everywhere. don't drive. i cycle everywhere. it's helping the it's not exactly helping the cause, is it? and that's the thing. it's making people thing. so it's making people angry. and the that angry. so yes. and the fact that we sitting about it we are sitting talking about it and you are getting a very strong response from the viewers and it makes it and the listeners, it makes it a good news story. >> course, sam, the >> so, yes, of course, sam, the prime is on holiday. prime minister is on holiday. >> we be expecting some >> should we be expecting some words prime minister on words from the prime minister on this? normally happens words from the prime minister on tiprime normally happens words from the prime minister on tiprime ministerally happens words from the prime minister on tiprime minister isy happens words from the prime minister on tiprime minister is away?ans words from the prime minister on tiprime minister is away? but a prime minister is away? but something i'm not sure if there's any precedent for something like that. >> anything >> i don't remember anything like happening while the like this happening while the prime minister's been away like this happening while the prime my ster's been away like this happening while the prime my time; been away like this happening while the prime my time .been away during my time. >> i mean, i would hope personally that he doesn't have to respond personally to this because i think important because i think it's important that politicians do have a rest. he had a holiday for four

he hasn't had a holiday for four years. are years. i think people are running country. i think running the country. i think should be overtired . i think should not be overtired. i think it's good to have a break. so i would that he is actually would hope that he is actually leaving people back leaving it to the people back here. we know, here. obviously, as we know, oliver responded. oliver dowden has responded. there's also just quickly there's also i can just quickly read you a response from the former deputy chief constable, peter walker of north yorkshire police, who says this is a major failing and it grieves me to say this it's former this because it's my former force there to be force. there needs to be a significant investigation how force. there needs to be a sign has nt investigation how force. there needs to be a signhas happened.ation how force. there needs to be a signhas happened. iion how force. there needs to be a sign has happened. i suspect)w this has happened. i suspect what has happened is that people have done their job in an have not done theirjob in an operational sense, which is quite operational sense, which is qui'um, would that >> um, that would imply that someone should have been stationed and the decision stationed there and the decision was they sort of was made that they can sort of leave their post. >> well , i leave their post. >> well, i mean, take what you want from statement, want from his statement, i guess, but is the guess, but that is the implication, isn't it? >> ask you, mark, is >> can i just ask you, mark, is this a criminal offence? i mean, have they committed i mean, i'm a to the law of a bit confused as to the law of trespass. it a criminal trespass. is it a criminal act or not? yeah. trespass. is it a criminal act or rlyt? yeah. trespass. is it a criminal act or h mean, yeah. trespass. is it a criminal act or h mean, there's certainly >> i mean, there's certainly trespass the private property, so. would that so. yeah, i would imagine that there level criminal there is a lower level criminal offence. that's committed, offence. that's been committed, but it's , it's more the

but i think it's, it's more the concern whether a security concern over whether a security breach at what is a sensitive property because it is owned by, by the prime minister of our country. and i think that there's no threat to life here. these are eco active estates. there is no one in terms of the prime minister or his family in residence at the moment. but there is the wider security issue surrounding people having access to a home of the leader of this country and, you know, people that maybe have more nefarious intent , actions, you nefarious intent, actions, you know , state actors or anyone know, state actors or anyone else that might want to get access to that home to do whatever. so is it listening devices or whatever device? >> that's what i was thinking . >> that's what i was thinking. yeah, exactly. >> yes. >> yes. >> to say that if this were the united states of america and these were people trying to scale biden's they'd scale joe biden's home, they'd be shot . be shot. >> yes. it's necessarily >> yes. it's not necessarily acas, but it's a nice reminder that that's not a country i want to live in. even though you look like want like you might want to. >> actually, what

>> tom, because actually, what i'm thinking about this is as the gone on, we've the morning has gone on, we've been discussing it. i'm going to make popular. make myself very popular. i think something quite think there's something quite charming about the fact he think there's something quite chara ing about the fact he think there's something quite chara house out the fact he think there's something quite chara house that he fact he think there's something quite chara house that everybody he think there's something quite chara house that everybody knows has a house that everybody knows where just where it is, and you can just walk know that might walk up to it. i know that might make horribly naive, make me sound horribly naive, but as i've said before, don't but as i've said before, i don't want politicians to live in want our politicians to live in gated want our politicians to live in gat true. it does look a >> true. and it does look like a community, doesn't it? there are the farms around it. community, doesn't it? there are timean, farms around it. community, doesn't it? there are timean, what farms around it. community, doesn't it? there are timean, what annoys. around it. community, doesn't it? there are timean, what annoys me und it. community, doesn't it? there are timean, what annoys me going. i mean, what annoys me going back was talking about back to what i was talking about just is the fact that, you just now is the fact that, you know, this is a criminal offence and eco commit and whenever eco warriors commit criminal offences, whether it's glueing themselves to thing or walking of traffic, walking in front of traffic, which offence as which is a criminal offence as well, police let them well, now the police let them get on with it and if any of us, you know, put a toe wrong. yeah, you know, put a toe wrong. yeah, you least you know, at the very least we're of like heavily fined we're sort of like heavily fined for absolutely. we're sort of like heavily fined for absjustely. pointing out >> it's just worth pointing out as well the flip side of how nice to be nice it might be to be accessible politicians , accessible to our politicians, which risk too . we've which is the risk too. we've seen with david amess and other politicians in their constituency right . constituency right. >> all of you. dawn, sam, mark, thank you so much. we've come to the end of the week. it's been

lovely having you here with me this week. we'll do come back again soon, won't you? and tom is, course, in slot is, of course, here in this slot every morning as well. every friday morning as well. coming it's a live desk coming up next, it's a live desk with longhurst pip with mark longhurst and pip tomson interest decision tomson interest rate decision moments . moments away. >> looks like things are heating up. boxed boilers are proud sponsors of weather on gb news hello there and greg dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. >> a brighter day overall. there will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells it should just feel a touch than it has done of touch warmer than it has done of late this morning. the best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite a picture. quite a cloudy picture. a northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery rain across northern western areas. and northern and western areas. and then the afternoon, then through into the afternoon, we'll see an increase in risk of some showers developing. few some showers developing. a few of heavy, perhaps of these could be heavy, perhaps thundery but there thundery at times, but there will sunny spells, some will be some sunny spells, some places staying dry , particularly places staying dry, particularly towards south—east towards the east and south—east of . here, of england. and here, temperatures reaching 22 or 23

celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening showers still the evening time. showers still the evening time. showers still the risk of some heavy ones across eastern areas, but starting become drier from starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells overnight, two showers during the hours , generally on the early hours, generally on the early hours, generally on the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures again, 13 to 15 figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. so we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. first thing, cloudier further east, the risk of few showers and that's of a few showers and that's generally how it stays through the friday. best the the day on friday. best of the sunny weather sunny spells and dry weather across western parts of the uk. further east, an increasing risk of some afternoon showers . some of some afternoon showers. some of some afternoon showers. some of be heavy at times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by end the day across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s . to low 20s. >> looks like things are heating up . boxed boilers proud sponsors

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gb news away. hello and welcome to the live desk here on gb news. >> with 12 noon fast approaching high noon indeed for the bank of england and its decision on interest rates, it is widely expected that the monetary policy committee will raise the base rate by another quarter of

a% to 5.25, the last time we saw that figure was april 2008 . that figure was april 2008. well, throughout the programme, we're going to bring you the latest reaction from across the country and discussing what it means and could we be means for you and could we be seeing more interest rate rises in the pipeline? let's cross now to economics business to our economics and business editor liam, is at the bank editor liam, who is at the bank of england as well. liam, as we should say, few protests, this should say, a few protests, this time the old lady of time joining the old lady of threadneedle street, indicating how contentious all how contentious this has all become . become. >> yeah, there were some protesters here earlier saying that the best way to tackle the cost of living crisis to lower inflation from 7.9% where it currently is four times the bank of england's 2% target protesters saying that the best way to tackle that inflation isn't to raise interest rates any more. and i must say there are quite a few people, including myself , here in the including myself, here in the city of london, who agree with them, who think that given that we've had 13 successive interest

rate rises since december 2021, that the bank of england's done enough. and with the uk economy now on a knife edge , you had 0% now on a knife edge, you had 0% growth in may. the best thing that bank of england can do now is hold fire to cool their boots and to just sit on the current interest rate of 5. so there has been some protest. there's also not, i would say not a consensus here at all about what the bank of england should do. i think we may have a three way split on the monetary policy committee that does that mean? that that what does that mean? that means that them may vote means that some of them may vote to go from 5 to 5.5. some may vote to go 2 to 5.25. and some of the nine economists on the monetary policy committee in the building behind me, they're the bank of england, may even vote for to be on hold. i think for rates to be on hold. i think on balance , this mark and pip, on balance, this mark and pip, the most likely outcome in just a of minutes even less a couple of minutes or even less than that will be a quarter point rise to 5.25. and if that

does happen, if you've got