the on winter fuel payments and the decision to withhold arms from israel. >> proud to be british. well. are you.7 a >> proud to be british. well. are you? a survey reveals a fall of 20% for those who say they are proud of britain's history. >> tugendhat for tory leader, shadow secretary minister tom tugendhat is launching his campaign for leadership of the conservative party. we'll be watching that live. and the great british railway legislation is being fast tracked through the commons to renationalise the railways. >> but is this what's best for passengers ? passengers? >> homeowner dreams crushed almost two thirds of uk adults are abandoning home ownership dreams with affordability and the cost of living as the biggest worry. and could ketamine be the answer to depression? >> a london wellness clinic is offering the well—known party drug to help treat anxiety and other mood related disorders .

other mood related disorders. >> that's what i'm doing. how old were you when you bought your own home? did you buy a house? have you ever. >> i bought my first house, i think, when i was 22, and i can remember it cost £19,000. it was a little tiny semi—detached in worcester. >> oh it's lovely. i bought my first house and it was £95,000 in london. right. little two bed victorian thing. >> where would you find that now? >> you would never find that now. you'd be lucky to find a garage for that. >> you would. i know. and now , >> you would. i know. and now, of course, if you get to 35 and you haven't got a home, this report suggests you're never going to own your own home. but then what's the point? >> they take it off you anyway. if you end up with alzheimer's, you might as well just not bother. that's what i think. but what do you think? we'd love to hear your thoughts. send us your views. post your comments, gbnews.com/yoursay. but first, let's get your latest . news. let's get your latest. news. >> nana. thank you and good morning. the top stories from

the gb newsroom. there's been a backlash over the decision that the government's made to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended, stressing he says this is not a blanket ban. this is not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media this morning the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey has insisted today that israel's security will not be weakened by that suspension . in other news, that suspension. in other news, tom tugendhat is launching his campaign for the leadership of the conservative party at an event this morning, the shadow security minister will set out

his vision for the future of the party and the nation. he's promised a return of honesty to politics as his tory leadership rival, robert jenrick defended his desire for the uk to ditch a key human rights treaty. mr tugendhat, one of six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. mps returned to westminster yesterday after the summer recess as james cleverly and kemi badenoch also launched their campaigns . headteachers in their campaigns. headteachers in schools in england will now be told on a monday if they're due an ofsted inspection, that week. it comes after a major review found that ofsted's response to a headteachers suicide following a headteachers suicide following a school inspection was defensive and complacent. the independent review was commissioned after an inquest last year concluded that a critical ofsted inspection contributed to ruth perry's death. mrs. perry took her own life after an ofsted report downgraded her primary school in

reading from its highest rating of outstanding to its lowest rating, inadequate over safeguarding concerns. a coroner concluded the ofsted inspection november 2022, contributed to her death. the findings come after the government scrapped the practice of inspectors, issuing an overall grade for a school either outstanding good requires improvement or inadequate . and the government inadequate. and the government has pledged to crack down on snatch thefts after cases soared by more than 150% in the last yeah by more than 150% in the last year. an estimated 78,000 people had phones or bags grabbed from them on the streets, with policing intelligence suggesting it's being driven by increased demand for second hand smartphones both in the uk and overseas. to tackle this challenge head on, tech companies and manufacturers will be called to attend a home office summit on the issue, looking at the new innovations that could take on the illegal market. and this will build on anti—theft smartphone features anti —theft smartphone features that anti—theft smartphone features that some tech firms have already rolled out to protect

their customers . and those are their customers. and those are their customers. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> well good morning. hello and welcome. this is britain's newsroom. we're live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and nana akua. >> well, the labour party is under pressure. the government that is, of course, the growing backlash in winter fuel because they're not going to permit a vote or a debate on it in the commons. so it's going to be the tories have had to launch a petition to try to oppose it. but there is some now resistance from within the labour party itself. >> the government's also under the spotlight for its decision to suspend some arms sales to israel, with david lammy's timing being questioned after

the killing of six hostages in gaza. well, joining us now, former editor of the sunday mirror, paul connew. paul, let's start with the winter fuel payments now , they are not going payments now, they are not going to allow a vote or an actual discussion about this, does it not feel like the labour party are throwing their weight around are throwing their weight around a little bit here? >> well, it's interesting that a labour mp, neil duncan jordan, who's the first ever labour mp for the rather affluent area of poole, although he only has an 18 seat majority, he's actually calling, you know, for, you know, for , a debate, in, in the know, for, a debate, in, in the commons and my information is there are up to 40 or 50 labour mps who, if it did go to a vote, would actually rebel, either by voting against or abstaining, which would be a problem . you which would be a problem. you know, i'm a labour supporter, but it would be a problem for the care. starmer. i mean, he suspended the seven mps who

rebelled , you know, over the two rebelled, you know, over the two child benefit cap recently. but could he afford to do it if, child benefit cap recently. but could he afford to do it if , if could he afford to do it if, if there were 40 or 50. so it's an interesting it's an interesting scenario. but certainly he's under a lot of pressure and i'm sure it will be a burning issue tomorrow to the first pmqs of the new session . the new session. >> yeah. and we've got treasury questions today paul. so the chancellor, rachel reeves, will be on her feet in the commons and she will be challenged about it. and of course, at some point, even though because the government control the commons agenda, at some point the tories will be able to have an opposition day debate and there will be a vote at that. it won't be what they call a meaningful vote, but that would be an opportunity for labour mps to protest . protest. >> it would it would it would be, rachel reeves is under a lot of pressure on this, and she was determined to stick by it. you know, judging by the piece she wrote in the observer on on

sunday. but i'm not convinced that labour aren't going to have to at least backtrack to a degree that veteran former cabinet minister and a man of great common sense, alan johnson, came up with a proposal i heard about a ten days ago where he he he argued the case for a sliding scale similar to income tax, where in depending on your depending on your income level rather than the rigid thing of whether you claimed, benefits or not, should, you know, should be the criteria. and it's an interesting it's an interesting idea. i suppose the argument against it would be it might prove very expensive in terms of administering that. but but who knows. but certainly it would be a more just system. and the public i mean you're seeing the public i mean you're seeing the age uk petition, you know, on its website has now got over half a million. you know, people, you know, opposing this. so it's a very tricky one, one for the government and whether

they can hold firm on this one. i question. >> well, i don't know why they just sometimes paul, it's a new government. there's goodwill towards a new government normally. why don't they just say actually we've taken soundings, we've got this wrong. we're going to think again. >> well, i think they should think again. and i wouldn't rule out that happening. i don't think there can be a complete reversal, but i think there could be some fine tuning. and i think the alan johnson idea might be one way they could go. i mean, the flip side of the coin, of course, is when you see social media posting by rich pensioners boasting about how they spend their winter fuel payments to buy a crate of vintage champagne. >> but but that's just a few people . i mean, you know, you people. i mean, you know, you couldn't make a policy based on just around a couple of people who can afford it. but what about the fact that even the directing people towards pension credit, but even the 20 page

form, if that isn't bad enough, it will take you about nine weeks for them to even process it. so the alternative that they're offering to people who may not be able to, if they do take the winter fuel allowance, is an alternative that will take a minimum of at least two months to even go through the processing procedures, which is ridiculous . ridiculous. >> it is, it is. it is a difficult one, and i'm sure and it's gifted the tories an attack weapon, especially for those competing to succeed rishi sunak. but, you know, but at the same time , there is a black hole same time, there is a black hole about how much you argue about it. there is a very large black hole which rachel reeves has to find some way of, of tackling. but whether this is the right, this is the right choice or not is the is the issue which has made the hole bigger , hasn't she? >> with all the big payouts that she's given to unions , she's given to unions, everyone's going on strike. but anyway, let's move on to israel ,

anyway, let's move on to israel, shall we? david lammy he has the foreign secretary. he has suspended some licences for arms exports to israel. people are saying that actually this is kind of giving hamas the green light to carry on. >> that's that's absurd. i think bofis >> that's that's absurd. i think boris johnson was, you know, who you quoted earlier on was actually it's bunkum that we've abandoned israel. if iran launched another missile attack, i am sure that british planes, you know, would, would, would intervene as we did last time. but this is this is complying with international law and without doubt, the previous tory government had the same legal advice as labour are getting and did and did nothing, but this isn't this is a if you like it, it is complying on one level with international law, which we should do. and secondly, yes, of course it does placate. it does placate the labour backbenchers who rebelled before, over, over

gaza. who rebelled before, over, over gaza . i mean, who rebelled before, over, over gaza. i mean, i'm a i'm a strong supporter of israel, but not of the netanyahu regime. what happened on october the 7th was last year was obscene and barbaric, but so has been the scale of the civilian carnage in gaza. most of my jewish friends and by and some by marriage relatives, in fact , you know, relatives, in fact, you know, they they are very cynical about about netanyahu, who, who needs to prolong this war, in a sense, for his own political survival. because if it was an election, he would undoubtedly lose it. and if it wasn't for what's happened on october 7 and subsequently, he would almost certainly have been convicted, you know, on the corruption charges he was facing. >> paul, is there not an issue about the timing, though? the weekend six israeli hostages shot dead by hamas, the timing and then the government announces this just a few days

later , the it's not a good later, the it's not a good optic, but you know but but andrew you can look at that both ways. >> there are mass protests in in israel, including by the families of hostages opposing netanyahu's refusal to seek a ceasefire that would free the hostages. even his own defence minister and most of the military chiefs in israel, you know, are opposing his position of saying he wants to keep troops in in the philadelphia strip , in in gaza, which strip, in in gaza, which obviously is a barrier to any ceasefire, it'll be interesting to see what how america plays this with its election looming, they obviously haven't taken the step that the uk has taken , step that the uk has taken, whether that they will shift on that as the election comes closer. in fact, i don't know . closer. in fact, i don't know. but but without doubt, i think pubuc but but without doubt, i think public opinion in the uk supports will support the we

haven't had a poll yet on it but but will support the action. the government have taken. >> all right. well i mean i was just going to briefly point out that actually two of the largest arms buyers were qatar. i mean, like that's where the hamas, apparently the leaders are there. so to me, i'm not i'm not buying any of this. i think it's just some sort of postulating political posturing to kind of keep the pro—palestinian vote. i think that's what are you saying? >> we should ignore international law. in fact , what international law. in fact, what about qatar? >> yeah, but but that's all very well. but you're dealing with an opponent who is not is ignoring international law. so they're not on equal footing . they're not on equal footing. they're deaung not on equal footing. they're dealing with hamas. they're deaung dealing with hamas. they're dealing up to international law treaty. yeah, but that's not the point, is it? when they're in war against somebody who's not observing it, all you're doing is exposing them to the opponent. the enemy. and i just don't think that's i don't think that makes any sense. but listen, paul, i've got to leave it there. paul connor, thank you very much. it's been the sunday mirror now. >> up next, are you proud to

call yourself british? the study suggests few of us be. you're with newsroom on

gb news. >> good morning. 48 minutes after 9:00, this is britain's newsroom on gb news now, a new survey has shown that fewer of us than ever feel proud of britain. and less than half of us believe someone needs to be born in the uk to be british. >> so what about our history, our democracy , or even our our democracy, or even our economic achievements? we're quite proud about what we do on the sporting field. olympics england football team scotland football team. but we're not so proud of the rest of it. >> well, i think a lot of people are . but then you see what are. but then you see what happens. you can be demonised as far right if you're holding the flag of saint george. yeah. you could be demonised as almost far right for saying that. you think immigration is too high. yeah. and even listening to keir

starmer , him saying, you know starmer, him saying, you know things will get worse before they get better and kind of talking britain down. yeah. it just it feels as though those who should be promoting and being proud of this great nation aren't. i'm very proud to be british, i love it. >> well, apparently the overall impression in this survey is a country that is quite proud of itself. quite. not very. >> i don't know who wrote this , >> i don't know who wrote this, but i think if you ask most british people, we're very proud. but we have to sort of hide our pride. but joining us now , former police now, former police superintendent leroy logan leroy, welcome. lovely to talk to you this morning . so, leroy, to you this morning. so, leroy, fewer people than a decade ago believe that someone must have to be born to in have or have an ancestry in the uk to describe themselves as british. that's a good thing, right? >> well, i think it depends on a person's experience, i know as a first generation, from the windrush, settlers who came over as a, you know, in response to

the motherland, britain asked them to help restore the country. they how they were treated. and i saw firsthand how my parents found it difficult to even get a job. much less get a roof over their head. and, you know , really try and not just know, really try and not just survive, but strive and achieve their true potential. so having seen that, you know, you feel that you're not being valued and then, on top of that, you hear you've got a tolerant society. and you think to yourself, tolerate means you just put up with people . and, again, it with people. and, again, it doesn't give you a sense of being valued, being appreciated . being valued, being appreciated. and, it gives a negative connotation of what being part of this country can be, but that's on the negative side. on the positive side, obviously, when we see, sporting events , when we see, sporting events, more diversity in various

sporting events, the arts , and, sporting events, the arts, and, you know, when it comes to award ceremonies, whether it's the baftas or the olympics or whatever, you know, or , you whatever, you know, or, you know, and celebrations of, you know, and celebrations of, you know, the queen's jubilee, i think there is definitely a coming together. and i think it's that when everyone's coming together at the same level and not being devalued or demonised, you get that great sense of being proud of being british, but sometimes it doesn't reflect the day to day experience of people. >> so if you go to america, you see a flag pole in in a lot of gardens, people are quite proud to fly the stars and stripes. there's seems almost a great reluctance here. and i remember when gordon brown became prime minister, one of the first things he did was he flew the union flag from every government building in whitehall, but that just faded away very quickly . just faded away very quickly. >> yeah, i suppose in some

respects, the union jack, again , respects, the union jack, again, has been used and hijacked in so many ways, especially by the far right and the populist. it used to be the, the george flag, and, you know, the way in which they use that , as a way of, you know, use that, as a way of, you know, scaring people, i remember as a youngster when, when the that flag was used, you know, you'd think , okay, there's going to be think, okay, there's going to be trouble. you know, there's going to be racial tension at least, and sometimes lead to violence. so, you know, that's that's the thing for me, it was, trying to disaggregate and but at least it didn't stop me from joining the police service in 1983. i was able to really filter through and process the, the all the issues i'm dealing with and, and

having really positive parents to say, listen, okay, despite our reluctance, you joining the police, we'll be with you and support you, but unfortunately, a lot of my peers, they were very adversarial. you know, they didn't want. why are you joining, you know, the feds , you joining, you know, the feds, you know, you're a traitor and everything. but i knew the reasons why i'm joining. i wanted to make, changes from within. i wanted to ensure that, you know, the experiences my parents, went through at the hands of policing and so forth didn't happen to other people, but i could see that that unified reluctance , to unified reluctance, to appreciate the police even. and because of their day to day experience. so that's, that's that's what offsets a lot of feeling part of britain when your day to day experience doesn't reflect that well. >> leroy logan, we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much. he's a former police

superintendent. >> do you feel proud to be british? >> oh, i'm so proud. i love it. i've got a union jack dress. i've got a union jack dress. i've got a union jack dress. i've got it all. listen, i know that a lot of people get one of the spice girls had it. i know i've got one like that. has you really see your sparklers as well? and everything? stay with us. still to come. we'll be heading live to tom tugendhat's leadership speech. >> and should we renationalise british railways? because that's what the government's going to do. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news .

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united kingdom. this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and nana akua two going out for tory leader. >> the shadow security minister, tom tugendhat, is launching his campaign to be leader of the tory party. we'll be watching it live . live. >> homeowner dreams are crushed. almost two thirds of uk adults are abandoning home ownership dreams, with affordability and cost of living as their biggest worry. >> and the great british railway legislation is being fast tracked through the commons to renationalise our railways. but is that what's really best for the passenger? >> and could ketamine be the answer to depression? a london wellness clinic is now offering the well—known party drug to help treat anxiety and other mood related disorders . yes, mood related disorders. yes, there's lots going on today. there is. >> there is parliament. back at second day today, i was in the house briefly yesterday. there is so much talk about the winter fuel allowance, but then they're trying to sort of suppress that conversation . they are they conversation. they are they don't they don't want a debate

on it. they don't want to vote on it. they don't want to vote on it. they don't want to vote on it. and at some point the tories will push it. but i thought we might have had an emergency statement at some point this week on the blooming riots. >> well, you would think so. or even something on carnival or any of the things that have been happening. i suppose they might argue that it's recess, but we'd love to hear all of your thoughts, post your comments. well, not all of them. perhaps not gbnews.com/yoursay, but first, let's get your latest news with tatiana sanchez . news with tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top stories. there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel , government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including government to suspend some arms sales to israel , including from sales to israel, including from former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban

andifs stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo . and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media this morning the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports. shadow transport secretary helen whately told gb news this morning it's bad timing. well, i think it's really important that we stand firm in our support of israel in their conflict with hamas, which of course is a terrorist organisation. i, like many people, i am concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza, but we know hamas is using people as human shields and still has israeli hostages. in fact, one of the problems with this announcement is one of timing. it was just a few days ago that hamas murdered six hostages, rather than release them and write on the back of thatis them and write on the back of that is this announcement by labour about limiting arms sales to israel. in other news, tom tugendhat is launching his campaign for the leadership of

the conservative party at an event shortly the shadow security minister will set out his vision for the future of the party and the nation. he's promised a return of honesty to politics as his tory leadership rival, robert jenrick, defended his desire for the uk to ditch a key human rights treaty. mr tugendhat, one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. mps returned to westminster yesterday after the summer recess as james cleverly and kemi badenoch also launched their campaigns . headteachers in their campaigns. headteachers in schools in england will now be told on a monday if they're due an ofsted inspection that week, and it comes after a major review found that ofsted's response to a headteachers suicide following a school inspection was defensive and complacent. the independent review was commissioned after an inquest last year concluded that a critical ofsted inspection contributed to ruth perry's

death. mrs. perry took her own life after an ofsted report downgraded her primary school in reading from its highest rating of outstanding to its lowest rating inadequate over safeguarding concerns. the findings come after the government scrapped the practice of inspectors issuing an overall grade for a school either outstanding good requires improvement or inadequate . now, improvement or inadequate. now, two teenage boys have been charged with the murder of a 13 year old. west midlands police says josiah coke died after he was stabbed at his home in oldbury last thursday. the two teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were arrested on sunday. a man in his 40s has also been charged with assisting an offender. all three are being held in police custody and will appearin held in police custody and will appear in court today. in other news, the full inquest hearing into the death of steve dymond, who died of an overdose after appearing on the jeremy kyle show, begins today. mr dymond , show, begins today. mr dymond, suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming

for the itv programme in may 2019, he had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his fiancee. mr dymond died of an overdose and heart problems at his home in portsmouth . the his home in portsmouth. the government has pledged to crack down on snatch thefts after cases soared by more than 150% in the last year. an estimated 78,000 people, or more than 200 a day, had their phones or bags stolen in the year leading up to march this year, to according home office analysis of data from the crime survey for england and wales. that's more than double the 31,000 incidents in the same period to march last yeah in the same period to march last year. police intelligence shows that the increase is likely dnven that the increase is likely driven by greater demand for second hand phones in the uk and abroad. tech companies and manufacturers will be called to attend a home office summit on the issue. looking at the new innovations that could take on the illegal market. the

chancellor has been urged to impose a pay per mile scheme on british drivers to avoid a black hole, they say, from lost fuel duty revenue. public transport charity campaign for better transport issued the plea, claiming it would have public support. it's proposing drivers of zero emission vehicles, such as electric cars , should be as electric cars, should be charged based on how far they travel. under the plan, drivers with a zero emission vehicle before the implementation date would be exempt, incentivising the switch to electric motoring. dufies the switch to electric motoring. duties levied on petrol, diesel and other fuels generate around £25 billion a year in revenue for the treasury , and that for the treasury, and that figure is expected to fall as more drivers transition to zevs and five seabird species have been added to the uk's red list of greatest conservation concern. the new entries include the arctic tern, known for its incredible migration , the great incredible migration, the great skua or pirate of the sea, and

two types of gull. the uk is known for its colonies of seabirds nesting in huge numbers on cliffs , but populations are on cliffs, but populations are plummeting amid a host of pressures from climate change to a lack of food. the royal society for the protection of birds is calling for urgent government action to address the issue , and those are the latest issue, and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tatiana sanchez, more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code , alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome! this is britain's newsroom gb news i'm andrew pierce. this is nana akua . andrew pierce. this is nana akua. >> right. well let's move on to legislation to renationalise. rail services in britain has been fast tracked through parliament after the government are calling years of

unacceptably low performance. >> well, they pledged in their election campaign to fully nationalise british rail within british rail within five years in office. >> that was of course, under the planned name great british railways. the state owned company will oversee all rail transport except for transport for london, mercy travel light train and tram services. >> well, let's talk to our political news. gb news political news. gb news political correspondent olivia utley olivia. this is a big moment for the government. it was a key part of their manifesto. and while i have to say i'm not a fan of nationalisation, i suspect it's probably a policy that might be popular with commuters who are fed up with trains that don't run on time, that are incredibly expensive and often, frankly, filthy, dirty . filthy, dirty. >> well, all polling suggests that it >> well, all polling suggests thatitis >> well, all polling suggests that it is a popular move among members of the public. it was perhaps arguably one of the most popular things on the labour

manifesto. the argument at the moment is whether or not the government is rushing this through. yes, it was a key part of its manifesto, but helen whately, the shadow transport secretary, says that she believes the conservatives believes the conservatives believe that the government isn't allowing proper scrutiny over it. and you can see where she's coming from. the government was only elected in july. it's the beginning of september now. there's been a recess of four weeks. so you could argue that there just hasn't been enough time for the commons to properly assess this legislation. that said, this has beenin legislation. that said, this has been in the pipeline for a very long time. as you say , andrew, long time. as you say, andrew, the privatised railways haven't been working very well for a long time and there are plenty of conservatives who believe, if not, that, the railways should be nationalised, that the public that the current franchise system sort of isn't working particularly well . labour particularly well. labour definitely has a mandate to push through on this. it's just a question of how quickly they're doing it. this is the first opportunity really for the conservatives to get their claws

into the labour party. but of course , with the size of course, with the size of labour's majority, there is no doubt that this legislation will go straight through the commons with no issues. >> and as my understanding, olivia, the way it will be nationalised when the franchises expire, they've reached the end of their time limit. expire, they've reached the end of their time limit . that's when of their time limit. that's when they'll be taken into public ownership. but is there going to be a cost? i mean, to the shareholders, i mean, are the shareholders, i mean, are the shareholders going to be compensated ? compensated? >> well, that is that is the question which we still don't properly have an answer to yet. the labour government, properly have an answer to yet. the labour government , the the labour government, the previous one, when jeremy corbyn was leader of the labour party, he claimed that it would be possible to simply to renationalise the railways and, and, and basically rob shareholders of what they were owed. keir starmer is being more practical about this, but obviously if the cost sort of stretches into the multi multi, multi millions, which it which it almost certainly will, then there is a question of how does

there is a question of how does the taxpayer foot that bill. we already know that labour really doesn't have very much wiggle room at the moment when it comes to public spending. they have painted themselves into a corner over taxes, saying that they're not going to raise taxes on ordinary working people. but we are expecting at the budget for taxes to rise, capital gains for example, probably will go up. inheritance tax could go up too. there's talk about scrapping of the reduction in council tax for single person households. if that money is then put towards sort of paying off shareholders, there could be a kickback from that as well. although labour supporters who are who are supportive of this policy to renationalise the railways must understand that there probably will be some large costs to this. >> it'll be interesting to see how they manage to sort of dismantle all of that, but we'll watch that very closely. now let's move on to israel and the arms deal. i mean, they've accused israel, have accused the british government of rewarding hamas terrorists because it's david lammy has announced that

he's going to suspend some arms export licences. can you tell us more about that ? more about that? >> well, david lammy has made this announcement today and it is very contentious indeed in terms of sort of absolute funding. it isn't hugely important. the british government . only contributes government. only contributes 0.02% of israel's arms. it's not going to make a big difference in israel's arsenal, but it is a statement of intent. the labour government at the moment is saying that it is still fully behind israel, but there is no getting around the fact that it has gone now further than the us in stopping israel receive everything that it needs . david everything that it needs. david lammy is so far saying essentially that it's basically a technicality that he has received this report saying that there is a chance, just a chance that britain's weapons could be used to break international law by israel. he's not saying that they are breaking international law, just that they could. and

so he has no choice but to make this decision . he and the this decision. he and the defence secretary, john healey, are still maintaining that britain is fully behind israel . britain is fully behind israel. but of course, actions speak louder than words and while the us has threatened to block arms deals with israel, it hasn't actually gone that far . and actually gone that far. and kamala harris, the democrat nominee, is saying that she wouldn't go that far, that she will continue supporting israel. there is a bit of a question mark over whether this is all actually quite politically motivated, ever since october the 7th, keir starmer has been under a lot of pressure from some of his backbenchers, particularly those with a big population of muslim constituents , to be less constituents, to be less supportive of israel. and you could argue that labour actually lost five seats in the general election to pro gaza candidates. are those people in parliament now putting pressure on keir starmer and is that why he's decided to make this move now? >> i think for sure. olivia, thank you for that. that's our political correspondent, olivia

utley. i think that's for sure. >> why the timing of it, really, it does feel a bit like that. but joining us now, a spokesperson that we own it, john bosco ngannou i think i probably got that wrong. john bosco i'm sorry about that. how do you say your name ? john do you say your name? john bosco, the second bit. >> mobo mobo i wasn't far off. >> mobo mobo i wasn't far off. >> john, what are your what are your views on this then? this nationalisation of railways? is it is it long overdue? >> it absolutely is, the latest polling from yougov shows that something like 82% of the public support taking our railway into pubuc support taking our railway into public ownership and to just respond to something that your political correspondent said earlier, the reason that the government is going about nationalising the railway the way that they are doing is because this way it's actually costless to do it. so in essence, they have contracts with private rail operators lasting for a certain duration, say 4 or 5 years. and the idea

is to not take those contracts off them before they end , off them before they end, because you'd have to compensate them if you do. but to wait until the contracts run out and then just not renew it, taking then just not renew it, taking the contracts back in—house, that way it costs the taxpayer taxpayers £0.00 at the end of the day. and that's something that's important to remember. >> but aren't there shareholders involved here, john? what about the shareholders ? the shareholders? >> there are the shareholders are shareholders of the companies that we have contracts with. and once the contracts are oven with. and once the contracts are over, we no longer have any deaungs over, we no longer have any dealings with them. now, if we're talking about taking over the rolling stock companies, the companies that own the trains themselves. so we have rail operating companies, the people that operate the trains, and then we have rolling stock companies, those that own the trains themselves . then i think trains themselves. then i think we could be talking about shareholders there. but i think that there are things that the government could do on that front, such as creating their own rolling stock company and

buying all new trains from manufacturers directly. but things like that could go even further to save money for the pubuc further to save money for the public purse and bring more investment into the railway system. just something that's important to mention is that by removing privatisation from our railway system, we could be saving up to £15 billion every single year, money that's currently going out in profits or money that's wasted as a result of fragmentation due to privatisation. that money could actually go towards cutting rail fares by about 18%. >> come on john, come on john, when have you ever seen any fares go down? i mean, come on, it's a lovely idea and maybe it will work, maybe it won't. but i do not for one minute believe that the price of travel will be reduced by by it being renationalised. what happens to the railway lines as well? is that a separate entity, or is it

just the rolling stock, or is it just the rolling stock, or is it just the rolling stock, or is it just the trains? what will happen ? is it the entire thing? happen? is it the entire thing? >> so there is the rolling stock, the trains themselves. and then of course we have the rail operating companies, the companies that go lease the trains from the rolling stock companies and operate them on the tracks. the track itself is owned. it's currently publicly owned. it's currently publicly owned by network rail. so that bit you may remember in the mid 1990s was actually privatised, was privatised before that. but in the mid 1990s, railtrack, the company that owned it, oversaw a series of disastrous accidents because they did not invest into the system. and tony blair's government actually made the decision then to take them into pubuc decision then to take them into public ownership and keep them permanently in public ownership, and is thriving at the moment. where we are seeing the crisis is with these private companies. >> all right, john bosco, thank you very much . really good to you very much. really good to talk to you. that's john bosco. he's from the spokesperson for. we own it. well, still ahead, we're going live to tom

tugendhat's leadership event. >> but you can't wait. >> but you can't wait. >> i can't wait. >> yeah. but up next, we're going to the papers with nigel nelson and piers you with britain's newsroom on

gb news. 1021 this is britain's newsroom with andrew pierce and anna akua. we are joined by the legends that are nigel nelson and piers pottinger. they always have fantastic fall outs , which have fantastic fall outs, which is why they're such legends. and what are you going to fall out today, gentlemen, what about, arms to israel. arms to israel? so we've gone out on a limb here in the sense that some countries have gone there already, but the united states significantly haven't. >> well , what of course, the >> well, what of course, the extraordinary david lammy, a man who's already embarrassing us internationally as such a useless foreign secretary. he's saying that we're not going to

send these parts. they're mostly parts for arms in case they're used to break and. and the law , used to break and. and the law, international humanitarian law. well, that is true of any arms deal well, that is true of any arms deal, of course. so and it's also hypothetical and preposterous. what in fact, he's doneis preposterous. what in fact, he's done is it's a political move , done is it's a political move, because it's no coincidence that jeremy corbyn has formed an alliance with pro—palestinian groups in parliament, and this was announced at the same time as corbyn announced his alliance, and i'm sure it was to unsettle and distract from corbyn's move and also partly to, show support for the palestinian supporters within the labour party. lammy of course, having agreed that the international arrest warrant for netanyahu should support. he supported it. he then flew to

the middle east to try and inter intervene in the ceasefire discussions, and was shocked to find netanyahu didn't want to speak to him. well, i mean, i'm sorry, the man is absolutely he's shown himself within a very short space of time to be, in my opinion, actively dangerous to have as foreign secretary. >> you're spluttering with rage here, nigel. >> i think that's tosh. >> i think that's tosh. >> i think that's tosh. >> i mean , all of it. the idea >> i mean, all of it. the idea has got anything to do with jeremy corbyn. i think is a nonsense. >> i think he's got a point, particularly about the independent mps. five labour lost five seats. that's right, they did because of the gaza situation. >> but i mean and they could lose more. well yeah, but they can't lose it yet at the moment. >> but the muslim vote will solidify and strengthen because this war in gaza is going nowhere. >> well, i mean, we don't have to worry too much until the next election. so i agree with you that gaza, in fact, costs five mps their seats. and i think jonathan ashworth was

particularly sad to lose someone of his talent from the labour frontbench. but what we've had here is, first of all, it doesn't matter hugely to israel. they'll get upset about it, but only 1% of less than 1% of arms being . being. >> it's symbolism, isn't it? >> it's symbolism, isn't it? >> yeah. it's a symbolic thing that america obviously is the big one because they send 70%. we're joining other countries like italy with the arms embargo. i think the important thing about this is that a review was carried out, and some of the evidence is, i think, where where piers is. right. some of the evidence is not absolutely clear, but there is a definite risk of british arms being used against international humanitarian law. so it seems to me it's absolutely right to then make sure that that those components and the irony components and the irony components aren't used for that purpose. so a limited arms ban is only 30 licenses out of 350, a limited arms ban seems to be

the right way forward, but i don't understand it . don't understand it. >> if i might ask you about this, then if that's the case, we supplied qatar two point something billion pounds worth. qatar, where the leaders of hamas are apparently residing . hamas are apparently residing. we have sent and they have a massive trade with us. we have licensing with people who don't subscribe to international law, like qatar, who is mainly sharia law in saudi arabia there. so why , why, why is david lammy now why, why, why is david lammy now postulating on his high moral high chair about arms to israel, when yet qatar and other countries that don't subscribe to international law, we're quite happy to supply them. well i don't know if qatar has ever used british arms against international law. >> i would agree with you. >> i would agree with you. >> the leaders of hamas are even in qatar. well, there may be, but but they're separate issues. i mean, that's the but you've got you can't completely disassociate it. >> no, but we're talking about about about using british arms. so for instance, i would agree with you, with our trade with saudi arabia, much bigger than our trade with israel. and saudi

arabia have used british missiles to kill yemeni children . missiles to kill yemeni children. and i'm very uncomfortable, comfortable about our arms trade with saudi. >> if you're uncomfortable, this is sheer hypocrisy because i can be uncomfortable about both. but the labour party is sheer hypocrisy. you're doing one. you will take the licences off them, but not them. but yet they're doing exactly the same thing. well, we haven't i mean, saudi has been a been a long standing contract. >> and it's not just labour. i mean the tories kept it going . mean the tories kept it going. it keeps it keeps about 40,000 jobs going in this country. okay then. well no, it's not okay. that's why i'm saying to you that i would like to see us have some kind of arms embargo on saudi. >> do you remember robin cook? robin cook tried to have an unethical foreign policy. do you remember that? yes. and it was abandoned within months. >> no. and the saudi contract with bae is actually the biggest industrial contract britain has ever had. when it was signed, originally it was £76 billion. and it's now since then grown

enormously . it's the most enormously. it's the most important industrial contract this country has, and it's many more than 40,000 jobs at risk. if that was to go so that the contract there and in terms of the amount we send to israel, we're going to pick this up, we'll pick this up. >> we've got to go for a break, because obviously tom tugendhat will be speaking very shortly. we don't want to miss. >> but you're staying with there. >> stay with us. nigel

right. it's just coming up at 10:30. this is britain's newsroom. we're joined by gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, also a pubuc commentator nigel nelson, also a public affairs consultant . piers pottinger. >> we have got tom tugendhat throwing his hat in the ring this morning. officially, the former soldier , a currently the former soldier, a currently the defence security spokesman. what's how do you think? i mean, do you think anybody's paying

any attention to the tory leadership contest, piers. >> no, and i'm not really. and i don't think many of the tories are because they're pretty uninspiring choice in my view. right. and we need something fresh. we need something dynamic, the conservatives have lost their way and they need a redefining, if they're going to have any hope of coming back in five years time. otherwise increasingly, the, the, the centre right will move towards reform . and, unless there's no reform. and, unless there's no point in them being centre and trying to be all things to all people, it doesn't work as it's shown, because then you get the tory rebels as they're called, which destroyed the tory party. because of the split. and that's why they were unelectable, and they have to be one party with a clear vision, a clear set of

principles and hopefully some policies that are going to actually, be popular with the electorate. >> good luck with that lot. exactly. >> well, james cleverly, james cleverly, yeah. james cleverly, who was the home secretary and foreign secretary, he's come up with scrapping stamp duty altogether on households. and that would be a popular policy with younger people who cannot. we've got a report today suggesting if you haven't got on the housing at the time, you're 35, forget it. it's never going to happen. and it's one that would be quite popular because of its historic nature. >> it's one of the few taxes where the government takes money. it doesn't give you anything for it. absolutely. so stamp duty would be a popular one. it costs about £2 billion to get rid of it. so you'd have to get rid of it. so you'd have to find the 2 billion. but if you are looking at taxes to scrap at some point in the future, then that's a good one to a good one to go for. well, there'll be plenty more taxes soon because labour rachel reeves keen to do it. >> i mean, everything this government has done so far has been to take away stuff from

people . there's nothing positive people. there's nothing positive they've done at all. there's nothing to stimulate growth. and it's really i mean, they've also lied. i mean, ed miliband said he was they promised they were going to cut the energy bill £300 a year. and of course, it's the absolute reverse. >> by the end of the, the end of this parliament, they weren't talking about, being able to cut energy bills by £300 in the first year. >> they didn't tell us that they didn't tell us that pensioners energy bills were going to go up by nearly £500. >> no, i mean, the, the, the winter fuel allowance is a whole different ball game. and i think that i would like to see rachel reeves. i was talking to nana about this on the weekend, but i would like to see rachel, rachel reeves put that in, keep the allowance, but put it into the bafic allowance, but put it into the basic state pension so it's taxed that way. wealthier pensioners would pay a substantial proportion of it back, and she would still save money. why not? >> why doesn't she do that? is it expensive to administer? >> well, she the reason she

hasn't done it. and i think she needs to explain in detail why not. is that she needed £1.4 billion. now instantly, before the end of the year, there's very few ways of being able to get that without cancelling the winter. >> well, there are lots of ways of getting that because they they gave much more than that in absurd pay rises to their trade union paymasters. >> pay rises were already costed in that, well they weren't 10 billion. >> sorry. >> sorry. >> well 6 billion is the figure that that's on the, on the government's books. >> i didn't know they were going to pay the train drivers 15%. >> well, at what stage? >> well, at what stage? >> who costed them in. >> who costed them in. >> well, they didn't talk about that in the election campaign. >> in the financial statement that rachel reeves released when she mentioned the business about the winter fuel allowance, that the winter fuel allowance, that the pay rises were also costed in, they were costed at six. 6 billion. but she gave that pay rises and that comes from cuts. yeah but it was costed in the making. i thought the figure was not part of the black hole.

>> isn't the figure 10 billion? >> isn't the figure 10 billion? >> it is part of the black hole. >> it is part of the black hole. >> no it's not. >> no it's not. >> it is. >> it is. >> no, the black hole. >> no, the black hole. >> that seems to be. well, i think it is. >> well, it's not the black. the black hole was the bit that was left by the tories. and we can argue about how big it is, whether or not it's the 20. >> do you think it was. >> do you think it was. >> well, i mean i can only go on. rachel reeves, figure of 22 billion. i would like to see that broken down so i can understand that. >> everyone would like to see it break down. >> you see bits of it. i mean, last week we discovered, there was a report that came out that the home office had budgeted 110 million every year to look after asylum seekers, and every year they spent 2.3 billion. that goes into the black hole. right. >> okay, so back to the tory leadership contest . leadership contest. >> do you roundabout route? >> do you roundabout route? >> do you who does labour fear out of those candidates, >> i'm not sure labour fears any of them because i doubt very much whoever wins this time round will be there by the time of the election. we're looking at as kind of iain duncan smith

figure here. yeah. and i'm sure the tories will change leader at least once, if not twice, before we get to 2029. >> and for once, i agree with nigel. i think it probably won't be. whoever wins this time round will probably not be the person leading them into the next election. and actually, because you think the polls, they won't be able to shift the polls. well, i think if they're not scoring a lot of points and i don't see any of these other than maybe kemi badenoch scoring enough points to keep them popular with the mps. and don't forget , it's the mps that count. forget, it's the mps that count. not really the members of the party, even though they have a vote, which i actually think doesn't make it actually doesn't mean much because the leader has to lead the people in the house, the members of parliament and have their support and confidence. and if they don't have that, there's no point in having a leader. >> what about priti patel? i mean, she she laid her cards out earlier on, but i think she's made she's made a lot of mistakes.

>> i think she's deeply unpopular in certain sectors of the party. i'm not sure how bright she is , i would put kemi bright she is, i would put kemi badenoch as number one. i think i think it's between her and jenrick . i hope it's not jenrick. i hope it's not jenrick. i hope it's not jenrick. i hope it's not jenrick. i don't think much of him, there is a view that mel stride is the dark horse. no one's ever talked about him. could be a caretaker leader , could be a caretaker leader, rather like the iain duncan smith figure that nigel was talking about . and stride is an talking about. and stride is an unknown quantity to some degree, but very experienced parliamentary wise. yes. >> he was chairman of a select committee and he was leader of the house. >> he actually has quite a lot of quiet support , and he may of quiet support, and he may spnng of quiet support, and he may spring a little bit of a surprise in the first round of voting. what do you think about that? >> that's quite interesting. >> that's quite interesting. >> everyone i've talked to reckons that mel stride will go out in the first round tomorrow,

and that's been the i mean, that's what i'm interested in. what what piers says that the that that's been sort of the conventional wisdom amongst the mps that i've talked to. and i don't think priti patel is actually a busted flush. i think that she won't appreciate my endorsement or anything, but, i can see her coming through the middle. what she's done is that she's been trying to unite both the right and the left . and one the right and the left. and one of the things i think piers is right about the tories have to decide between now and the next election what they want to be. yeah. and so the starting point would be somebody who could actually span both , both left actually span both, both left and right, and priti patel's campaign has very much been on that kind of line. >> but they've got the big issue which the previous leaders haven't had. >> reform and that is the big issue. and if you look at what's happening in the rest of europe, where the right of centre parties are gathering momentum, we saw in germany very recently, and also, of course, in france,

where the situation is very dire because france has got a terrible economy. macron can't appoint a prime minister. still, since their election, they are without a prime minister because the president can't find someone who's acceptable to them all. and the far right are the beneficiaries of this situation in in italy is the is the far right and germany very sinister? they're obviously the far right gaining momentum because people are fed up with the centre ground and because their economies are struggling and the centre centrists and leftists have shown to be incompetent at running these economies. people are turning to these further right and that means that reform have a big opportunity. i must say, since the election , i think say, since the election, i think that reform haven't done terribly well because they seem to have disappeared. all we've got is nigel farage talking a bit about pub smoking, which i

mean, sorry. let's talk about the big issues again. the reforms problem is they've only got a handful of mps other than nigel. they don't really have. and lee anderson is the sort of token bluff yorkshireman almost out of a harry enfield sitcom. >> no, come on, that's a bit unfair. >> that's unfair. >> that's unfair. >> no, no, no, it's lee anderson is extremely popular and he speaks to the real working class people who labour, the labour party, were meant to represent and frankly, have abandoned them. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> i think that's a little bit unfair on lee. >> no, i mean, ijust don't think he's heavyweight enough. i don't think he's got enough gravitas, and you can't have a party with only a one person party, and really, really cut it. and i think reform are going to struggle. unless they start really engaging on, on a serious level. not what i would say populist. >> and it depends what they do in local elections next year. >> yeah, we shall see.

>> yeah, we shall see. >> i mean, maybe if they get a good list of candidates for reform, i think they've got a lot of chances because, well, the local elections could be very big. >> i mean, for example, something that hasn't been reported the new labour wandsworth council, which was when it was conservative, the best run council, the best, has just taken out a loan for £450 million, having been debt free up until now. >> fascinating isn't it? they'll be bust soon. >> yeah. stay with us. our panel be with us, too. tom tugendhat will

gb news. >> 44, this is britain's newsroom. we've still got our panel with us, senior political commentator nigel nelson. and the uber public affairs consultant piers pottinger. we are breathless with excitement at the prospect of tom tugendhat, tom tugendhat leadership speech. and of course we had we had kemi badenoch yesterday. what did you make of

her speech yesterday, piers? did you watch much of it? >> i watched a little bit of it. i thought it was okay, but, and you can see that they've worked on her, taken her glasses off and smartened her up. but, you know, i cannot really get very enthusiastic about any of these candidates, and i think the problem is, neither does the electorate really get excited by any of these people, because where is their vision? i mean, it's all very well talking about stamp duty, but that's just a i mean, that's just an element of policy. what i'm talking about is a proper vision , a vision is a proper vision, a vision where we're going to deal with immigration, where we're going to lower taxes, where we're going to have free markets, where we're going to improve education, not actually make it worse, which is what bridget phillipson is coming. >> there's come later. >> there's come later. >> don't they know we should be doing all these things? it should be a central. >> but that's not something you

do. >> you do it, you do it a leadership speech, i mean, the one thing i thought kemi badenoch yesterday actually surprised me really? well, one of the things she said unrwa clueless, irresponsible and dishonest. yeah, well, there was all that kind of banter that you expect from those things, but the surprising bit was that we don't necessarily have to leave the echr, given that the other candidates want to, including tom tugendhat when he, when he comes up , she says that a tom tugendhat when he, when he comes up, she says that a cap on immigration is not the way to do it, because caps haven't worked in the past. certainly i would agree with that, immigration shouldn't be a numbers game. it's a question of what the country needs, so it's bound to be something that's fairly fluid. so when she said those various things, you sort of thought she may have put some thought she may have put some thought into it, but she kept going on about being an engineer. >> she's an engineer, and engineers fix things and blah, blah, blah. she did a bit of kamala harris laughing as well, which i feel somebody given a little bit of her because she she doesn't normally laugh.

>> was her father a toolmaker? >> was her father a toolmaker? >> i wonder, i don't know whether she needed to do all that, i mean, but but it's good that, i mean, but but it's good that you were impressed with that. >> i thought she was all right, but i felt she did actually avoid the question on immigration and not really answer it, which i didn't really like that at all. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> but it is significant that she goes away from a cap because some of the others have actually said they would. they would cap immigration, and it just i can't see how it works. >> you should. >> you should. >> but how do you cap say you need 250,000 health workers , you need 250,000 health workers, you can't you can't say get an unemployed nuclear physicist in britain or a bricklayer to come in and train immediately in this country to do some of these jobs in the end. but but but there can't be a doctor, can they? immediately? >> no, but what all these candidates are doing is, as i've just been saying, moving to the centre, badenoch, who was always been seen as tough on immigration, was less tough yesterday. and tugendhat, who was always seen to be less

tough, is now trying to sound tough. that's right. so they're all trying to capture everyone's ground. they're trying to please everyone, which is of course not going to happen. and then they will revert to their proper selves and what they, if they do believe in anything. i mean, i must say, i think it's a disappointing group of candidates and i don't i don't feel that we see amongst any of them a future prime minister. >> we're just about to go to tom tugendhat now. he's about to start his speech. he is, of course, the apparently the shadow security secretary here. we are. >> it's nice to see you too . >> it's nice to see you too. >> look, i'm here actually to apply >> look, i'm here actually to apply for a job, but i've got to be honest with you, it's not the job i want . i be honest with you, it's not the job i want. i don't want to be leader of the opposition. i want to be prime minister. because,

look, i don't want to oppose . i look, i don't want to oppose. i want to govern. but first. first, we need to change. because while people may sometimes vote for a party, they don't always love, and sometimes they'll vote for a programme that they don't fully agree with. king seriously , now that's with. king seriously, now that's why i'm standing. i will make the conservative party a serious force again . i will the conservative party a serious force again. i will make us respected for our experience and our realism, admired for our integrity, acknowledged for our achievements, and given credit for seeing the errors that we may make and correcting them now by doing that, i believe that i will lead our party back to power . and

power. and. now my campaign will be sober. i'm just looking at a few. it will earn and deserve trust, and it will be about governing. and i will work in opposition . as you would expect opposition. as you would expect a future prime minister to act . a future prime minister to act. security. i didn't learn in westminster, but in the army. and i won't be playing politics. i know that integrity matters. so i want to start with an apology. the conservative party owed you better . politics is not owed you better. politics is not a game, and we all know the

cost. when government isn't sober and serious. cost. when government isn't sober and serious . we saw it in sober and serious. we saw it in the lives lost in afghanistan and then in that wasted chaos of that withdrawal . we saw it that withdrawal. we saw it dunng that withdrawal. we saw it during covid, not just in the lost years of education that cost. so many or the opportunities missed, nor even in the grief for lost loved ones or those left to cope alone . but or those left to cope alone. but through the disrespect and the double standards. now, like you , double standards. now, like you, i witnessed the recent political trauma with a combination of depression and anger. i witnessed the failed coups and the successful ones, and i saw duty give way to ego. and that's why i'm standing before you today. because this country can change. we must change. and britain deserves better. and we need a different government, one that will serve our country with

conviction and act for you . one conviction and act for you. one that remembers the core duty of the state. and i believe that message is simple. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now, let me say that again to be absolutely clear, my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now it's easy to say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people . it's the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation. but it's also about freedom, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's about a commitment to grow our economy and to see our people prosper. and that's why this election, it's not just a coronation, it's not just a referendum on immigration or any other policy. it's not just a chance to refight old battles. that's all the politics of the past. what

we are doing is we are choosing a new leader who sees clearly the challenges that we face, and we're giving them four years to do the hard work to prepare so that the next conservative government will not waste one moment. we need to be ready from day one. now, the last great economic transformation that our country saw was in the 1980s. some of you will remember it well. it's time for a new conservative revolution, since those changes, britain's creeping bureaucracy has returned and it's stifling growth and it's smothering opportunity. and we need a clear back. those cobwebs so that once again, our economy and most

importantly of course, our people can breathe free and make our country grow again. now we have some of the most creative and entrepreneurial people in the world. but without freedom, no one can prosper. now i'm standing because we need leadership and we need to deliver that vision . and as deliver that vision. and as leader, i will bring back the honest, the responsible state, one that serves you , one that one that serves you, one that leads the changes that we need and that acts on its word. and that's what i'll deliver , not that's what i'll deliver, not just as leader of the conservative party, but as prime minister of this amazing united kingdom. now i will set out the agenda for us to win back trust. and i'm optimistic for the future, because i know that this country's history and culture have built, have been built on the strongest possible foundations for success. and that's why i will lead in opposition as i will govern in office. i will listen to the

serious ideas that come to us and support those who champion what is best for our country. i will win back younger voters and i will deliver on these four. england, scotland, wales and northern ireland to see our shared economy grow. the government can't pull a lever, but it can release a brake. we can invest in infrastructure and recognise that what ben houchen has delivered in teesside proves that conservatives can deliver and can win across the united kingdom. we know that the state has a role to create the environment for long term investment, and that's what allows enterprise to take risks to and flourish because government doesn't create jobs, we all know that, but it can enable others to. and that's not

just about planning. it's about everything from lower energy costs and better transportation to infrastructure, education and transport. it's about recognising that talent is found across our country , but across our country, but opportunity is not. this is about making sure that every part of our great united kingdom has the respect and the commitment from our government to allow our people to succeed. it's about ensuring that this country has the right skills, the right grid connections, and the right grid connections, and the right grid connections, and the right infrastructure. we are already a nation of entrepreneurs . europe and we entrepreneurs. europe and we also have more unicorns than my daughter has drawn on the walls of her bedroom . but our of her bedroom. but our overregulation has made pensioners poorer by reducing savings, returns , and it's savings, returns, and it's drained the pools of capital. we need to grow global leaders now i'm going to draw lessons from australia and canada , where

australia and canada, where private sector where private savings and public investment have seen resilience and investment in infrastructure grow. and i will sunset the rules that are constraining smaller firms from innovating and competing . after. and competing. after. all. >> is only around the corner. so that's a bit. >> we'll find him again. >> we'll find him again. >> we'll find him again. >> we'll get him. we'll get him piers pottinger. >> and well, i mean, you know, tom tugendhat is a decent chap and quite likeable and i think that's where it ends. right? >> you don't see that as a great leader ? leader? >> not at all. i mean, he doesn't come across as a leader. he comes across as a likeable, decent chap. >> well, i think we've got him

back. let's go back to the rest of what we've got. >> this likeable, decent chap, tom tugendhat. >> that's it. nothing more. it's not to play games , it's not to not to play games, it's not to study the afghan tribes, no matter how interesting some of us may find them. and it's not to virtue signal. we must be completely focused on putting our own people first. now, of course, this doesn't mean britain alone. we need partners and allies to keep us safe from nato , lancaster house, the five nato, lancaster house, the five eyes alliance to the cptpp and aukus . our partnerships protect aukus. our partnerships protect us and they all matter. alongside our allies in europe. we are supporting ukraine, but that should never come second to our own interests . now no one our own interests. now no one else would do differently . so else would do differently. so let's focus on what we really need. let's focus on what we really need . we need to use our own need. we need to use our own armed forces and intelligence services to go further . by. to

services to go further. by. to go further in making sure our defence is strong and our people are safe , because our strength are safe, because our strength matters and that's why investing in defence is not a choice. like with other budget lines. it's not a decision we can make on our own. our enemies and our allies set the conditions that we have to adapt to. they help determine what we must spend now as we face a more dangerous world. let's be clear we need to invest in our security . we invest in our security. we cannot bet our future on the choices of others. and let's be honest, we can't depend on the kindness of strangers . and kindness of strangers. and that's why labour's plans are so wrong . they're planning to draw wrong. they're planning to draw down our defences , to close off down our defences, to close off technology, to and reduce our protection. we need to make it absolutely clear that we will defend our national security and

be clear about planning for 3% of our gdp to be spent on our national security . national security. now, many years ago, many of you heard me warning about the dangers that we're seeing change around the world. with . around the world. with. >> we've lost him again. unfortunately a bit of a dodgy signal there to tom tugendhat , signal there to tom tugendhat, but i don't know. >> that's a big commitment. 3% of gross domestic product. >> yeah, well, that's a target that they've talked about in the past. and i think that's right. and i mean he's sound on defence as an ex—soldier he would be and i agree with everything he's

said there. but he still any leader has got to capture the aspirations of the people. none of these candidates, in my view, have got their finger on the pulse. that's going to say the right sort of thing. the person who is cleverest at getting the thing, recognising the aspirations, is actually nigel farage. and the more you see these candidates, the more you think, what a difference it would be if nigel was running the conservative party. >> would that worry labour? >> would that worry labour? >> yes it would, yes, yes. >> yes it would, yes, yes. >> i mean, i think that yeah, if nigel were running the conservative party, that would be a whole different ball game, i mean, you're right. i think that one thing about nigel, i don't agree with with his party or pretty much anything he says. but i do recognise he's probably the foremost politician of our generation. and certainly history will judge him as achieving more than pretty much anyone else when it comes to

brexit. so i think he's a skilful politician. he would be very difficult for labour, what you'd also have is the clear blue water that everyone's moaning about. the parties are too similar. you'd have the clear blue water between labour and, and a reform stroke tory party. >> he wouldn't hesitate to set a cap on immigration, because if you look at the main planks of the reform party, their main policies, which they mentioned all the way through the election and before it, they're all what were old conservative policies and they are the linchpins of what people want to vote for in the conservatives of that, i'm convinced. >> and why we sadly don't have nigel running the conservative party. i don't know, i think it would be certainly the most effective thing. and as nigel admits, the thing that would worry labour the most . so sorry, worry labour the most. so sorry, mr tugendhat , we want nigel. mr tugendhat, we want nigel. >> i think that i think the

brand of the tory brand is too toxic. i mean, it's just they've been fighting and fighting and everything else like that. i don't think anyone will tolerate that. and i don't think nigel will want to do that. but listen, stay with us. we will continue with our panel. but right now, let's get to your latest news with tatiana sanchez . latest news with tatiana sanchez. >> nana. thank you. the top stories. there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from the former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning israel. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of the 350 licences will be suspended, but stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told

media this morning the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension of some arms exports. shadow transport secretary helen whately says it's bad timing. well, i think it's really important that we stand firm in our support of israel in their conflict with hamas, which of course is a terrorist organisation. i, like many people, i am concerned about the humanitarian situation in gaza, but we know hamas is using people as human shields and still has israeli hostages. and in fact, one of the problems with this announcement is one of timing. it was just a few days ago that hamas murdered six hostages, rather than release them and write on the back of thatis them and write on the back of that is this announcement by labour about limiting arms sales to israel. tom tugendhat has been launching his tory leadership campaign, the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and the nation. mr tugendhat, one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's

successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public. mps returned to westminster yesterday after the summer recess as james cleverly and kemi badenoch also launched their campaigns. mr tugendhat has promised a return of honesty to politics. >> we must change and britain deserves better and we need a different government , one that different government, one that will serve our country with conviction and act for you . my conviction and act for you. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now it's to easy say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation, but it's also about freedom, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's about a commitment to grow our economy and to see our people prosper. >> in other news, headteachers

in schools in england will now be told on a monday if they're due an ofsted inspection that week. and it comes after a major review found that ofsted's response to a headteachers suicide following a school inspection was defensive and complacent. the independent review was commissioned after an inquest last year concluded that a critical ofsted inspection contributed to headteacher ruth perry's death. mrs. perry took her own life after an ofsted report downgraded her primary school in reading from its highest rating of outstanding to its lowest rating, inadequate over safeguarding concerns. the findings come after the government scrapped the practice of inspectors issuing an overall grade for a school either outstanding, good requires improvement or inadequate . the improvement or inadequate. the inquest of steve dymond, a guest on the jeremy kyle show, has heard that the 63 year old died of an overdose of morphine and a heart problem. he is suspected to have taken his own life seven days after filming for the itv

programme in may 2019. he had taken a lie detector test for the show after being accused of cheating on his ex—fiancee . two cheating on his ex—fiancee. two teenage boys have been charged with the murder of a 13 year old, west midlands police says. josiah coke died after he was stabbed at his home in oldbury last thursday. the two teenagers, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were arrested on sunday. a man in his 40s has also been charged with assisting an offender. all three are being held in police custody and appearin held in police custody and appear in court today. in other news, the government has pledged to crack down on snatch thefts after cases soared by more than 150% in the last year. an estimated 78,000 people, or more than 200 a day, had their phones or bags stolen in the year leading up to march this year. that's according to the home office analysis of data from the crime survey for england and wales. that's more than double the 31,000 incidents in the same penod the 31,000 incidents in the same

period to march last year. police intelligence shows that the increase is likely driven by greater demand for second hand phonesin greater demand for second hand phones in the uk, and abroad. tech companies and manufacturers will be called to attend a home office summit on the issue, looking at the new innovations that could take on the illegal market. and a yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for a large part of the uk. the met office warning covers the east of england, south east, east midlands, west midlands, southwest and london and parts of wales. the warnings of heavy showers, perhaps thundery, are in place from 9 pm. tomorrow and will remain in p.m. tomorrow and will remain in place until 9 am. on thursday morning. there's a small chance that homes and businesses could be flooded quickly, according to that warning . and those are the that warning. and those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews.com forward

slash alerts . slash alerts. >> good morning. hello. welcome. this is britain's newsroom. we're live across the united kingdom on gb news with andrew pierce and me. nana akua. >> well, have you brought your own home? i was very lucky to buy mine at the first one at 22. a little steamy in worcester for £19,000, but over half of uk adults may now be abandoning the dream of home ownership in the uk. >> so that's nearly two thirds of non—homeowners aged between 35 to 54 are uncertain if they will ever own a home or have no plans to do so with affordability and the cost living site is the major barriers. >> the reality is even worse for younger people. >> well, joining us now, the director of mortgage distribution at yorkshire building society, jeremy dunscomb. jeremy, tell us a little bit more about this. and in any case, why would anyone really want to be bothered to

buy a home? because if you do get dementia, they take it off you anyway. you might as well just just rent and then let the state pay. >> yeah, some interesting research that we've done. so it follows off from the back of a5k deposit mortgage we brought out earlier in the year. and as you mentioned there a lot of people, older first time buyers between 35 and 50 saying they're giving up on the dream of home ownership but also younger first time buyers, potential first time buyers, potential first time buyers, potential first time buyers, 20% of younger first time buyers. also say they're potentially giving up, which is really worrying because, you know, we the research that we did, people were holding back on lifestyle events such as getting married or having children because they couldn't get their foot on the housing ladder, and it was taking them up to seven years to save up that deposit. and what this research this time today has shown is that in the other real driving point on this one is the potential £2.6 million wealth gap for people who choose to rent over the course of their

lifetime , versus people who can lifetime, versus people who can get on the housing ladder earlier . so get on the housing ladder earlier. so it's really saying the earlier you get on the housing ladder, the better it could be to the tune of up to £26 million, which is quite £2.6 million, which is quite a stark figure . stark figure. >> how big, a block to people's home owning ambitions. jeremy is stamp duty, one of the leadership contenders for the tory party james cleverly says he would scrap it completely. is it particularly an issue for first time buyers? because i know perhaps you can remind us when the threshold kicks in. >> yeah. so up to for most first time buyers, actually the stamp duty threshold wouldn't wouldn't apply duty threshold wouldn't wouldn't apply because it is discounted completely below certain loan sizes. so but you know, there's a much wider problem here. i think there's, there's so many things that come into stopping people buying their first home. one is deposit. and lenders like ourselves can help with schemes that allow you to borrow a home from only a 1% deposit, but equally, there's things like education, letting people know that they can get on the housing

ladden that they can get on the housing ladder, that if they how they can do that and what can happen. but also, you know , there are but also, you know, there are challenges, particularly around things like affordability, but also not building enough homes. you know, it's one of the biggest challenges at the moment is , is there are just not enough is, is there are just not enough homes. and the house prices continue to go up. so there's a number of factors. but first time buyers probably stamp duty. not one of the biggest ones. >> what are lenders like yourselves doing to make it easier for people who are younger to get on and get those loans? >> yeah. so i'd say we have a product which is called our £5,000 deposit mortgage. literally, it does what it says on the tin , you can take on the tin, you can take a mortgage with a, with a £5,000 deposit. so it's only a 1% deposit. so it's only a 1% deposit on some properties. so things like that help other lenders have other innovative schemes that allow people to get on the housing ladder. you can borrow with parents sometimes on things like what's called a joint borrower, sole proprietor mortgage. so there are a number of things that lenders can do,

also from an affordability. we've changed our requirements recently. so you can borrow a little bit more, more multiples on your, on your salary. but, you know, it comes back to the schemes. there are two general problems for first time buyers. one is deposit and the second is affordability. and what we're doing is trying to get the government also to look at maybe replacements for help to buy scheme, which was successful in getting people on the housing ladder previously. >> why don't lenders take into account the amount that people are paying in rent? so if you're paying are paying in rent? so if you're paying two and a half grand in rent, you should be able to get a mortgage that could deliver that similar payment structure. but yet that doesn't seem available. surely that would be available. surely that would be a good thing to help people and also for the lenders to ascertain whether somebody can actually afford an actual mortgage. >> yeah. so there is a scheme out there which does something similar to that, but we also have to work on regulatory limits as to what we can lend . limits as to what we can lend. mortgages have to be stress tested, you know, very sensibly to make sure the loans that we

make are prudent and affordable. so there are limits on affordability that lenders all have to comply with. and stress tests that we have to apply, which effectively mean that the borrower could continue to make their mortgage payments even if rates were significantly higher than they are today. and that's prudent. but what we're also maybe suggesting to the government is that they could look at those stress test rates and possibly look to reduce those to give lenders the opportunity to lend more money. because currently i say a lot of this is regulatory. we have limits on what we're allowed to lend is the worry, jeremy, because when i was it was drummed into me by my parents when i was brought up in a council house and it was drummed into my me and my siblings by my parents. >> get a deposit, buy your own home. it was almost a crusade for us, and the zeal in that appears to have gone, because i think so many people now just think so many people now just think it's unrealistic and they've just given up on it . they've just given up on it. >> and i think that's part of the concern that comes out of

this research. you know, if people are giving up on the dream of home ownership. our previous research said that people did still want to, but they felt they couldn't , so they felt they couldn't, so i think that is a concern. and people, you know , not wanting to people, you know, not wanting to go through with life events because they're not sure where they're going to be living in 6 or 12 months time. and i think this, this research maybe gives an opportunity for people to revisit that and understand the long term benefit of buying a home compared to possibly renting. and there are, you know, quite sensible reasons why people choose to rent, but actually , ultimately, this £2.6 actually, ultimately, this £2.6 million is a bit of a number that people can look back to and say, you know, this could be the catalyst for me that says, i should continue to have a look to get on the housing ladder, it's also a benefit for, for the country as a whole, for the uk economy, because what we don't want to be doing is supporting people in retirement in rental accommodation and, you know, having a property, having equity, having something that will support your lifestyle in retirement is also good for the

uk. in addition to for the for the customer themselves and also very good for the building societies and banks. >> you want to keep people taking out those mortgages. jeremy, thank you very much. that's jeremy dunscomb, he's there from the yorkshire building society. i am a bit sick of all this home ownership thing, because i know one of my very good friends , she sold very good friends, she sold a house, she got the money and then she's in her sort of. she's almost turning to 50, 60 even. she goes, i'm not buying another house. i'm just going to rent and keep all the money here and just earn interest off the money. and i actually, i kind of i'm almost looking at it thinking other countries. so germany , holland, they aren't germany, holland, they aren't that obsessed with owning property. and what's the big deal property. and what's the big deal. because when in this country, if you get dementia or any one of those illnesses where you have to then sell your house to pay for your illness, you sit beside somebody who never bought a house, may have lived in a council house. i don't blame them. what's the point? >> well, i just i think you feel more secure, don't you, if you own your home and if you paid your mortgage off, do you think?

yeah. because landlords can put the rent up just like that. rent controls don't work, in my view , controls don't work, in my view, anyway, i wonder what you think. tell us what you think . and are tell us what you think. and are you one of those 35 year olds who've given up? up next, we're going to go back to our wonderful panel, nigel nelson and piers pottinger for round two of their latest. ding dong views. exactly. this is britain's newsroom on

two 1120 this is britain's newsroom live across the uk. i'm andrew pierce and i'm here with nana akua. >> now coming up, chancellor rachel reeves. now she's seriously considering introducing a pay per mile scheme on uk drivers as labour rev up their plan to avoid a black hole will affect drivers of all electric cars, which are supposed to help bring in money. >> despite the loss of fuel duty revenue. but will reeves drive this plan forward ? if you pardon this plan forward? if you pardon the pun? let's talk to gb news

political correspondent olivia utley, who's been listening to kyrees, who's been taking questions in the treasury, questions in the treasury, questions in the commons. this morning. olivia >> yes, this is rachel reeves first treasury questions in the commons up against jeremy hunt, the former chancellor. she is under the microscope on her plans for the budget, which is going to take place on october the 30th. we already know from keir starmer's, frankly, quite depressing speech last week that the government believes that taxes will have to rise, or pubuc taxes will have to rise, or public spending will have to be cut in order to fix this enormous black hole, which labour says that it's found in pubuc labour says that it's found in public finances. there will be a lot of questions on exactly what's going to to change fill that black hole. could this pay per mile scheme come in? could we see a to change capital gains tax, to inheritance tax? all of these taxes, which labour didn't specifically explicitly rule out rising during the general election campaign? we expect

rachel reeves to stay pretty tight lipped. it's going to be a morning of her essentially dodging questions from jeremy hunt on what's going to be in that budget on october the 30th. she wants to keep her powder dry, but we do know that it's going to be probably pretty bleak for quite a lot of people, particularly. i expect drivers in the uk. >> olivia utley, thank you very much. they're all in the black hole, the labour party, as far as i can see, and they're pulling us all in. right, well, joining us now, piers pottinger and also nigel nelson, what do you think nigel nelson , are you you think nigel nelson, are you pleased about this potentially pay per pleased about this potentially pay per mile. but they're also encouraging. they're also there's also apparently going to be a shortage of petrol and hybnd be a shortage of petrol and hybrid cars . hybrid cars. >> yes. >> yes. >> well, we're pushing us all to buy the electric things. >> two things. they're paper mile. yes. i've always thought that's actually a good idea. why should should not the people who drive the most pay the most. so if you're an elderly person who just uses your car to pop down two miles to the shops every couple of days , you're still

couple of days, you're still paying couple of days, you're still paying the same vehicle excise duty. when you buy your petrol, you're paying very high taxes on that. if pay per mile was to reduce fuel taxes and scrap vehicle excise duty as well. >> but it won't, it will just be an additional tax. >> well, we don't well, as this is not even a proposal yet, we don't know that. but what i'm saying is what i'm saying is i'm in favour of it. if it does those things. yes >> well, i doubt it's going to replace anything . it's a new replace anything. it's a new tax. and it's another example of how this government wants to rule our lives . it's crazy rule our lives. it's crazy because again, rather like almost every department of this government, the policy is not thought out. it's a mess. i mean, you've got a real problems in the car industry at the moment. i mean, volkswagen have said they're going to close plants in germany for the first time, and sales of electric cars in germany have not lifted off, which is surprising. and here

we're now relying more and more on chinese imports for our electric cars, which is also worrying. and the problem with electric cars is everyone knows that not enough charging points, they run out quickly. they don't go as far in winter as they do in summer . go as far in winter as they do in summer. all kinds of problems with them. and you need a coherent, long term, proper policy, not just say we're going to tax people and people who drive further. i'll have to pay more. what about car drivers? what about people who actually, for a living, drive people around the country ? i mean, around the country? i mean, that's just a tiny aspect of it . that's just a tiny aspect of it. penalising motorists is a fantastic thing governments like to do. and it's deeply unfair. if you want a mobile society. >> i just think of what's happening in london, for instance, we've got the congestion charge, we've now got the ultra low emission zone. that's that's £27.50 to drive anywhere in london if you've got anywhere in london if you've got an older car. yeah. and there's

talk that ulez is going to be extended across the country 20 mile an hour. speed limits in wales . wales. >> and sadiq khan is going to put a toll on the on blackwall. >> he is he is. and they are looking at pay per mile technology. he's denied it. but we know they're looking at the technology paper. does the labour party just not like motorists. >> well i mean i think that with the london thing it seems to be right that the more you can decongest london, the more you can get cars out of london, the better. and that probably appues better. and that probably applies to most major towns. if we're going to hit net zero, why splutter? >> splutter? >> splutter? >> there's no real evidence that that's actually the right thing to be doing. this is just based on. >> on. >> well, i mean, there are various and one of the arguments i think robert jenrick used it was that our emissions are only 1%. >> that is a completely misleading figure that, emissions are a cumulative thing. and if you take us as a world polluter, say, since 1850,

we are we are fourth, just behind america. >> are you talking about the industrial revolution? yes, i am , industrial revolution? yes, i am, for god's sake. it's 2024. i know, but but but it's the industrial revolution that got us to where we are now. us to where we are now. >> us to where we are now. >> no . >> no. >> no. >> yes yes, yes, yes. >> the industrial revolution did get us to where we are, like all the equipment and technical. that's probably why we're all still alive. why we've got heating, why we've got gas. >> yeah, everything else. but it also did it also. it also caused climate change since sadiq khan in london introduced all these unnecessary cycle lanes, it has had more stagnation in traffic and congestion has gone up. >> and far from actually decreasing emissions, it's increased. london's got much worse. london's a car park by every recent statistic published. london's got the worst congestion of any major capital in the world, and that is down to sadiq khan's useless policies. >> well, there's also london is a car park. >> yeah, but what you want to do is get cars out of it.

>> well, maybe, but there's also now a shortage of petrol and hybnd now a shortage of petrol and hybrid cars because manufacturers are being rationed, so they can't make any more petrol hybrid. they're supposed to be making the electric ones, obviously, to push people to buy them so they could charge you pay per mile, but people aren't falling for it. people are not buying these electric cars. people don't want them. >> but i think one of the reasons piers made a very good point, that there aren't enough charging points. i can't find a charging points. i can't find a charging points. i can't find a charging point around my area for instance, electric cars themselves are technologically not good enough for people to go and do it, and they're more expensive. so the issue for the industry is to is to change that. so petrol cars sorry . so that. so petrol cars sorry. so electric cars become cheaper, the issue for the government is to make sure there's enough places to actually fill them up. >> i think they're looking in the wrong place. >> can we ask you about oasis? are you a fan? >> no. >> no. >> right. are you a fan? yes, sort of. >> but i wouldn't pay. pay £400 a ticket, right? >> no, but i'm more of a fan of oasis than i am of keir starmer. >> and of course, i don't think

he's performing for the price of the prime minister has now got involved in this row over what they call dynamic pricing, because the price of tickets has gone through the roof, through these ticket agencies. >> ticketmaster is the big offender. what business is it of the prime minister? >> well , i the prime minister? >> well, i think he's maybe wishes in some form or another he was a ticket tout or something. i mean, it seems i don't know why on earth he's got involved in it. >> i don't need to buy the tickets. >> i don't like the ticket price. >> don't buy it. i mean, it's very hard to get a ticket for steve coogan in doctor strangelove coming up. >> maybe keir could sort that out for me. >> but what about the problem? >> but what about the problem? >> but what about the problem? >> but is it not wrong to profiteer like this? >> it's the market they always. >> it's the market they always. >> it's the market they always. >> i know you defended the free market, but this has always without being too communist about it. this is my argument about it. this is my argument about the free market still has to be controlled . to be controlled. >> and if you're standing, minister is going to get involved in the ticket prices of an oasis reunion. >> if you stand in a queue and you're going to buy a ticket at £148, and then when you arrive

at the front of the queue, it's £350 tickets. how is that? >> ever since i was a child, ever since i was a child, there were ticket touts in the queue. >> nigel, you just leave the queue. so i'm not paying that or i'm paying that. >> yeah, it's the stars. >> yeah, it's the stars. >> like taylor swift. don't do it. they don't have any dynamic pricing for well, not for their for their concerts elsewhere . for their concerts elsewhere. >> oasis sold out. i mean, they've sold all the tickets, so why interfere now? yeah, i mean, the point is, if the market can stand it and people are mad enough to pay thousands of pounds to see two rather reprehensible characters. >> yes, i quite agree with that. >> yes, i quite agree with that. >> you know, good luck to them . >> you know, good luck to them. >> you know, good luck to them. >> i this is where my free market goes wrong. so what do you want? >> the prime minister to do? >> the prime minister to do? >> well, i mean, what i mean, what are labour mp cyrus bev turner wants these ticket agents, these nationalists. >> let's not go that far. i don't think you nationalise the ticket agency. the free market is important. and we do rely on it. and i do get that. but there have to be checks and balances on it and on something like this, dynamic pricing should be outlawed. if you if you want to

tick it up there for £148, that's what you should you should buy hotels, airlines , should buy hotels, airlines, rail services, all kinds of services use this system. >> i was in edinburgh a few weeks ago. >> here's what i paid for a ticket. hotel bill during the edinburgh festival is almost double what you're paying. another time of year. that's the market. >> it's just like holidays term times during the during the holidays that should be dealt with. >> i mean, it seems to be it seems to be appalling that parents can't take their kids on houday parents can't take their kids on holiday without paying a premium rate . if you if you even that rate. if you if you even that out to nationalise that, then no even nationalised school holidays . holidays. >> nationalised industry. >> nationalised industry. >> nationalised industry. >> nationalised children? >> nationalised children? >> yes , yes. >> yes, yes. »- >> yes, yes. >> i don't think we're being serious. >> the labour party would like that. they'd like to tell you how many children you should have and how they should behave. >> and just even it out a bit, even it out a bit to make it more affordable. >> this has got to stop pretending he's not leader of the opposition anymore. he's the prime minister. he's got to start behaving like one. >> i don't think he's actually going to do anything about oasis tickets, but he might look at

the whole idea of dynamic pricing he's got. >> i think he's got bigger fish to fry, like immigration. he should be focusing on that. nigel nelson and also piers pottinger, thank you very much. >> always a pleasure with those two, isn't it? we're going to get the headlines now with tatiana sanchez . tatiana sanchez. >> andrew, thank you and good morning. the top stories. there's been a backlash over the decision by the government to suspend some arms sales to israel, including from former prime minister boris johnson, who's accused sir keir starmer of abandoning the country. foreign secretary david lammy says the decision follows a review which found there was a clear risk they might be used to commit a serious violation of international humanitarian law. mr lammy says around 30 of 350 licences will be suspended, stressing it's not a blanket ban andifs stressing it's not a blanket ban and it's not an arms embargo. however, former defence secretary grant shapps has told media this morning the suspension was akin to student politics, also calling it a very

retrograde step. but defence secretary john healey insists israel's security will not be weakened by the suspension . tom weakened by the suspension. tom tugendhat has been launching his tory leadership campaign, the shadow security minister setting out his vision for the future of the party and the nation . mr the party and the nation. mr tugendhat, one of the six tory mps vying to be rishi sunak's successor, says he'll promise to reset the party's relationship with the public and mr tugendhat has promised a return of honesty to politics. >> we must change and britain deserves better and we need a different government, one that will serve our country with conviction and act for you. my mission is the happiness and prosperity of the british people. now it's easy to say, but it's tough to deliver because at its heart, it's about putting the government back at the service of the people. it's about investment and innovation, but it's also about freedom,

freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to succeed and yes, freedom to fail. it's about a commitment to grow our economy and to see our people prosper. >> headteachers and schools in england will now be told on a monday if they're due an ofsted inspection, that week. it comes after a major review found that ofsted's response to a headteachers suicide following a school inspection was defensive and complacent. the independent review was commissioned after an inquest last year concluded that a critical ofsted inspection contributed to headteacher ruth perry's death . mrs. perry took perry's death. mrs. perry took her own life after an ofsted report downgraded her primary school in reading from its highest rating of outstanding to its lowest rating inadequate over safeguarding concerns and a yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued for a large part of the uk. the met office warning covers the east of england, south east, east midlands, west midlands ,

midlands, west midlands, southwest london and also parts of wales. the warning of heavy showers, perhaps thundery as well, are in place from 9:00 pm tomorrow until 9 am. on thursday morning . and those are thursday morning. and those are the latest gb news headlines. for now i'm tatiana sanchez. more from me in half an hour for the very latest gb news to direct your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news. >> .com. forward slash alerts . >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> .com. forward slash alerts. >> up at noon. good afternoon britain with patrick and emily here they are, the dream team. >> here we are. we've got a huge amount actually coming up. is david lammy completely out of his depth? >> he's out. >> he's out. >> he's out. >> he's managed to alienate. >> he's managed to alienate. >> he'd be out of debt in puddle. >> okay, well, that's the answer then. finished end of show. he's managed to alienate a key ally in the middle east. he's allegedly lied to the white house. he's upset a huge number of british jews, including the

chief rabbi, who's had a lot to say. of course, boris johnson also slamming him for his decision over these arms sales to israel, partially suspended them. who exactly is he appealing to here? no one's happy with labour mps. not on the left, not on the right. the labour party, because they want him to go further. >> pro—palestinian lobbies seems to be what he's appealing to. so what exactly is i mean, yeah, it's crazy. >> so we're going to look at that. we've also got a bit of a war on motorists that seems to be emerging once more pay per mile. it used to be a bit of a conspiracy didn't it? could we actually see it? apparently rachel reeves has all the campaigners in her ear. well, this is for electric car drivers. >> get an electric car, do the right thing. it's like the diesel thing all over again, isn't it? who did that? was that. that was labour gordon brown. get get get an electric car. do the right thing. on we're going to pay you make you pay per we're going to pay you make you pay per mile. >> well they must have known that was coming down the line. we all did didn't we. i'm not buying one. i can't been developing the technology for months and months and months. >> he denies it, but he has and he is and we know he is. >> cameras are everywhere.

everything. you've been bang to rights and this islamist jihadi who stabbed a woman in the neck in marks and spencers because he thought that m&s was supporting israel, has avoided jail. he's been given an indefinite hospital order. now, i would have thought that every single jihadi is a lunatic. so does that set a precedent that we don't send any of them to prison anymore? very interesting question. do we send them all to, you know, these hospital orders, similar hospital order, i believe, to the one that valdo calocane got, the nottingham stabber that really angered the victims families there. of course, i think it's an interesting discussion that because surely anyone can make a interesting discussion that because case for someone who does something like this being mental. >> yeah, but you're not. you're not in your sane mind, . so if not in your sane mind,. so if you've carried the knife and you've carried the knife and you've brought it in, that is premeditated. you knew what you were going to do and you've gone and done it. i don't think there should be any cover for that. and you know me. you know what i think? i think that does happen all the time like that. >> well, it seems to happen all the time. stabbed a woman in the neck. this was back in 2020. so

it was before the recent war in that area. also the corbyn gang, the corbyn five, gang of five, the corbyn five, gang of five, the gang of five. we're going to be digging into who exactly they are, what exactly they for stand and just how much influence they might have. >> and keir starmer can't get around the fact that he tried to get jeremy corbyn elected twice. and now look at who he is he did with wanted him to be prime minister. now look at who jeremy corbyn is hanging around the commons with. and everyone was banging on about reform and oh, is it dangerous that you've got these five blokes sitting there on the benches from reform? well, hang on a minute. is this not maybe the start of sectarian politics in britain? it certainly is. >> it's going to be an exciting show. yeah, absolutely. they're on their way at midday. up next, could party drug ketamine . could that be the answer to

gb news. >> it is. 1141. britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and nana akua notpla. we've been getting in touch.

>> they have been indeed. yes. this one from norfolk, he says a mile on paper pay per mile. but you have to drive miles more, thanks to all the diversions. we already effectively have pay per mile. it's called the fuel duty. they just need an equivalent for the smug virtue signalling evs. i kind of am with him there because everyone was saying i'm fine driving an ev. i'm driving an ev. we don't have to pay. it's so much cheaper. yeah, we'll see about that. in portugal they do pay per mile and it seems everyone just drives along and it's fine. but the motorways are completely bare. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and they probably don't have to pay vehicle tax. >> well, i don't know about that. but the roads are beautiful. there's nobody on them. and that's because the main roads, the motorways are all taxed in that way. >> so people avoid them. >> so people avoid them. >> yeah yeah yeah. oh well it's a big moment in the comments today of course, because they're back. >> the house is back. and rachel reeves as chancellor is taking questions for the first time at the despatch box as chancellor of the exchequer. she's under pressure on a lot of issues, not least scrapping the winter fuel

allowance. let's have a listen to what's going on there constituents. >> but also based on her background working in science and technology before entering this house, my right hon. friend is absolutely right that the nonh is absolutely right that the north east has got huge potential to grow the economy through sectors including advanced manufacturing, health, technology and also our creative industries. and this government will work with our local mayors, including kim mcguinness , to including kim mcguinness, to develop those ambitious long term local growth plans that reflect the north east's strengths and looks to address some of the barriers to growth and support delivery of our national industrial strategy, as well as narrowing some of the inequalities that have persisted for far too long. >> lauryn goodman international investment is important for the aviation and aerospace sector, as an aviation and aerospace is important for my constituents in central asia, with 55% of aerospace jobs based in prestwick. >> can my right hon. friend tell me what more the government will do to ensure continued international investment in these sectors? yeah i thank my hon.

>> friend for that question, and i know that his experience as his majesty's trade commissioner in india means that he understands the importance of global trade and investment to the uk economy, including to the scottish economy. last week, i had the opportunity to visit the national manufacturing institute in scotland and see first hand the excellent work that is going on to promote innovation in a whole range of sectors, including aerospace and satellite technology. the uk already produces around half of the world's large civil aircraft wings and engines, and the aerospace sector added £11 billion to the uk economy just last year. the government is putting investment at the heart of our growth strategy, including supporting advanced manufacturing in scotland, and i look forward to working with the honourable member on this endeavoun >> millom millom . >> millom millom. >> millom millom. >> thank you, mr speaker, and thank the chancellor for her further reassurance to businesses this morning . mr businesses this morning. mr speaken businesses this morning. mr speaker, london is the top

choice in europe for inward investment and is home to more headquarters than any other european city, including many based in stratford in my constituency. how will the government support our capital city to continue its success on the global stage and ensure that london can help encourage inward investment and support wider economic growth around the country? >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> i thank my hon. friend for that question and welcome her to her place. the regeneration of stratford after the olympic games is truly phenomenal, and i know that the honourable lady will be a really strong voice for her constituency and help deliver the growth mission, which is the number one priority of this new government. the success of london's economy will be integral to delivering that mission and we will work with the mayor of london, sadiq khan, as well as our mps, to deliver to ensure that economic growth benefits people in the capital and across the country, ensuring that we narrow the gap between rich and poor, but also showcase

the huge opportunities that london has on the international stage. and we will be hosting an international investment summit international investment summit in london on the 14th of october, bringing together some of the biggest global investors in the world to showcase everything that our great country has to offer. >> tim farron thank you, mr speaken >> she's quite robotic , isn't >> she's quite robotic, isn't she? don't you think? rachel reeves people tell me that she's had voice training of course. i think she needs a bit more. i mean, it's not all about presentation, but that is a voice that i think could very quickly irritate. >> it's very heavy, isn't it? quite hard. and it doesn't feel like it's compassionate in any way. i mean, when she's going to be talking about winter fuel, i you want to hear there's some empathy and compassion in her voice to, to actually be taken along with her on that. i mean, she, she was she was responding to what we call planted questions from our own side. >> so she was reading as well, which, yeah, she was definitely reading, but, but she will be under pressure on that. wonderful. it's going to continue to run. we'd love to hear what you think. do send us

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gb news. well, it's 49 minutes after 11. good morning. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and me . nana akua. now, pierce and me. nana akua. now, lots of you have been getting in touch with your thoughts and your comments. now, andrew, you know, you mentioned that richard rachel reeves phil morrish has got a very distinctive voice. very robotic voice. yes. well, we've had a few comments on that. brian cole says her voice really winds me up as well. i think she's i think if she was auditioning for a part in doctor who, she would get the dalek part. >> oh, yeah. without hesitation. >> oh, absolutely. that would be the voice, wouldn't it? >> maybe she used a voice over for the dalek. >> perhaps she might be. christine says the gap between the rich and poor. she's attacked pensioners from day one, obviously referring to the

winter fuel allowance for pensioners . and there's somebody pensioners. and there's somebody called dubbing. i won't say the other bit, just in case. it sounds odd. if i say the whole thing together, it would be to good see all this talk of investment translate into actual investment translate into actual investment and growth. yeah, because we hear a lot of it . but because we hear a lot of it. but what's it done? it seems that people are those who want to invest are running away . now i'm invest are running away. now i'm going to read this one. it's a long one from anne marie. she says home ownership nana andrew, i'm almost 61 and have around five years left on my mortgage. last year i contracted sepsis and ended up in hospital, in a coma and on a ventilator and nearly never made my 60th birthday. after five months in hospital and plenty of time to reflect and now the prospect of facing five years of labour, i've decided to sell up next year and take the money and run . year and take the money and run. i plan to travel for a couple of years and enjoy myself because i feel until i feel, it's safe to return home. she says she's got some grown children and all that, and she doesn't want to stay here as well. >> good for her. >> good for her. enjoy. >> good for her. enjoy. >> well, a wellness clinic in london is offering ketamine to help treat depression, anxiety and other mood related disorders. >> silver wellness offers

bespoke ketamine therapy packages in various formats. >> it's provided by a prescriber nurse who also supervises therapy sessions at the clinic. >> so joining me now chief executive of silver wellness and psychotherapist lucy da silva, so what exactly is ketamine? the last time i heard about it, it was a horse tranquilliser. now people are taking it. what is it and how does it work , and how does it work, >> so, yeah, i mean, and the amount of times i've heard about it being a horse tranquilliser. >> and that's one of the things we as a business really want to change the stigma related to that, because actually it is used in all types of veterinary surgery. so it's not only used with horses, but ketamine when it's used in relation to mental health issues, works on the brain and the neural plasticity of the brain. and when it's used in conjunction with psychotherapy, it is extremely beneficial for changing the ways that people can be quite rigid. thinking when you have sort of a

treatment resistant depression or anxiety or even addiction as well . it's very, very beneficial well. it's very, very beneficial when it's used as a chemical component, but also in conjunction with some through your lines going a bit. >> it's extremely transformational. so when you say the neuroplasticity, which i've done quite a bit on, on, on the brain and things, so it's more malleable. how does it work. does it work with the connections in between the brain? what does it do to enable you to change people's way of thinking ? thinking? >> yeah. so it generally works on the glutamate receptors. and the glutamate receptors are unked the glutamate receptors are linked to our central nervous system and our central nervous system and our central nervous system is obviously a lot to do with how we emotionally respond to various things. so if, with how we emotionally respond to various things. so if , for to various things. so if, for example, when we're looking at treatment resistant depression or high anxiety or even ocd, it's linked to how our emotional well—being . so ketamine actually

well—being. so ketamine actually helps to also build those new neurological pathways in a chemical sense. but then like i said, with the psychotherapy, when it's used in conjunction , when it's used in conjunction, it's extremely you can have extremely profound changes to people's behaviours. people's belief systems. also, when it comes to trauma, you know, if people have ptsd, that's also something we treat as well . so something we treat as well. so it's when we when we give people a relatively low dose of the ketamine, it's a very good sweet spot to actually work with traumas that people actually have as well. so yeah, chemically it helps to rebuild new neurological pathways. so yeah, i'm seeing profound changes with the clients that i'm working with. >> quite controversial though, because in the wrong hands, ketamine can be lethal. >> well, it's we're running out of time for this one because i'd love to have heard more about it, but it's really good to talk to you. that's lucy da silva. she's a wellness and psychotherapist, expert. would you do it? me? ketamine? no. what for? neuroplasticity of the

brain . you could do lots of brain. you could do lots of other things rather than that exercise. eating well, you know, relaxation , sleep. i think relaxation, sleep. i think there's lots of other ways of treating depression. >> something like you've got a shirt on now. you're not. i can't quite. >> yeah. that's it from britain's newsroom, we'll be back tomorrow. up next, good afternoon, britain with patrick and emily. we'll see you tomorrow. thanks >> looks like things are heating up . boxt boilers sponsors of up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you from the met office. it's going to be a fresher day for most of us through today. still some sunny intervals. sunny spells, a sunshine slither pushing across the country in fact, but also some heavy showers. particularly where we see these fronts across the southeast and then into the northwest later on. but between thatis northwest later on. but between that is where we do have that suther that is where we do have that slither of sunshine through parts of wales, northern areas of england and then southwestern england later on this afternoon ,

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gb news. away. >> good afternoon britain. it's 12:00 on tuesday the 3rd of september. i'm emily carver and i'm patrick christys. well, lammy lambasted is foreign secretary david lammy dangerously out of his depth

after announcing the partial suspension of arms sales to israel. he's managed to alienate a key ally , upset british jews a key ally, upset british jews and stands accused now of lying to the white house. is he fit for the job and a war on motorists? >> labour could make electric car owners pay per mile in the latest attack on drivers, with campaigners urging the chancellor to bring in the controversial measure. but hang on a minute. isn't this a tax on working people who are told to go green? >> and the gaza group, fears of sectarian politics as britain now has a group of five mps elected on a palestine ticket, spearheaded by jeremy corbyn. what could this mean for british politics? >> and an islamist who stabbed a woman in the neck in marks and spencer's has avoided jail. instead, he received an indefinite hospital order. is that really .

that really. justice? >> yes. we've got