tax raid on pensions. this fresh tax raid on pensions. this as it's revealed more than 80% of pensioners in poverty are set to lose out on the winter fuel payment. >> a race against time. millions of people across florida are rushing to evacuate before what's been dubbed the storm of the century smashes into tampa tonight. the city's mayor warns that those who refuse to leave will likely die and head to head. >> less than half an hour now will likely die and head to head. >> less than half an hour now until the final tory mp until the final tory mp leadership ballot, as leadership ballot, as conservative mps decide which conservative mps decide which final two contenders will fight final two contenders will fight it out to become leader of his it out to become leader of his majesty's most loyal opposition. majesty's most loyal opposition. we'll be slap bang in the middle we'll be slap bang in the middle of the action. of the action. put die and head to >> and what a fascinating prime >> and what a fascinating prime minister's questions it was. did minister's questions it was. did you see the prime minister you see the prime minister slightly flounder on those two slightly flounder on those two important and specific questions important and specific questions

put to him by the current leader of the opposition , rishi sunak, of the opposition, rishi sunak, both on national insurance paid by employers and also, what was the other navalny.7 >> i don't know which one you're talking about. i thought that was the only one. the falklands.

on gate, huge amounts to go out on economic competency. and yet i felt it fell a little flat. >> well it wasn't a piece of theatre because it was a piece of i think there will be elements of that prime minister's questions that we didn't hear a big roar at or no roars, but we'll come back to that in the days after the budget, because the other one was go on. rishi sunak reminded starmer that reeves said changing the debt target would be fiddling the figures. that's what she said before the election and now we're given to understand she will change the debt target. so it's these it's these complicated specifics that keir starmer is getting nailed down on at this point in time, and there will be a lot of red faces on the labour benches. >> i mean, she's changing the rules. she's changing the rules that she has to play by. is that on.7 is that economically sound? we'll on? is that economically sound? we'll get stuck into that . after we'll get stuck into that. after your headlines with will hollis . your headlines with will hollis. >> good afternoon. the time is

1:03. your headlines. >> good afternoon. the time is 1:03. your headlines . the >> good afternoon. the time is 1:03. your headlines. the prime minister has faced questions in the house of commons over lunchtime. the leader of the opposition, rishi sunak, probed sir keir on whether tax rises were on the horizon in the upcoming budget. the tory leader is , in one of his last pmqs, is, in one of his last pmqs, questioned the prime minister on if a promise not to raise taxes in the chancellor's budget appues in the chancellor's budget applies to national insurance contributions from both employers and employees. here's what the prime minister had to say. >> we made an absolute commitment in relation to not raising tax on working people. he, of course, was the experts expert on raising taxes. and what did we get in return for it? we've got a broken economy, broken public services and a £22 billion black hole in the economy. we're here to stabilise the economy and we will do so . the economy and we will do so. >> the leader of the opposition also joked about the recent

departure of sue gray , ahead of departure of sue gray, ahead of labour's announcement on employment law tomorrow in the weekend's events, when did the prime minister first become a convert to fire and rehire ? convert to fire and rehire? >> minister ? well, i'm i'm very ? convert to fire and rehire? >> minister ? well, i'm i'm very >> minister? well, i'm i'm very >> minister? well, i'm i'm very pleased and proud that tomorrow , pleased and proud that tomorrow , pleased and proud that tomorrow, pleased and proud that tomorrow, tomorrow we will publish the tomorrow we will publish the bill, which will be the biggest bill, which will be the biggest upgrade of workers rights in a upgrade of workers rights in a generation . generation . generation. >> the prime minister also faced generation. >> the prime minister also faced questions from lib dem leader ed questions from lib dem leader ed davey over british fishermen in davey over british fishermen in the falklands, amidst a the falklands, amidst a controversial decision to hand the chagos islands back to controversial decision to hand the chagos islands back to mauritius. sir keir said the mauritius. sir keir said the falklands, which is personal to falklands, which is personal to him, are british and they will him, are british and they will remain british as two will. remain british as two will. gibraltar to america. now the gibraltar to america. now the biggest hurricane in a century biggest hurricane in a century is hitting florida with american is hitting florida with american president joe biden warning it's president joe biden warning it's a matter of life and death for a matter of life and death for residents. these are live residents. these are live

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from tampa on the west coast of the eiizé—zcame a close second, jenrick came a close second, followed by kemi badenoch in third. the two will now battle it out to scoop up the remainder of tom tugendhat supporters. cleverly's lead means he's just one vote away from a guaranteed spot in the final two, when the conservative party membership will get a chance to pick the final leader of the party. let's hear from one of those contenders, robert jenrick polling suggests that i am the best placed candidate to win back the voters that we've lost to reform, as well as those on the left, as well . the left, as well. >> and there's a yougov poll that came out only a week ago that came out only a week ago that showed that i was ahead of james cleverly amongst the members. so i think i have a very clear path to winning the contest and more importantly, because it's not about the party, this is actually about our country to winning back voters more generally. and getting us back into government . getting us back into government. >> and finally , the photo of >> and finally, the photo of a swarm of toad tadpoles has won

this year's wildlife photographer of the year competition. it was captured by conservationist photojournalist shane gross while out snorkelling. he beat a record breaking 60,000 entries to scoop up the top award. his images will now be displayed alongside others in the natural history museum . those are your top museum. those are your top stories. i'll be back in around 23 minutes 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 . or go to gbnews.com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it's 1:07. the government squeeze on pensioners so shows no sign of abating after it emerged rachel reevesis abating after it emerged rachel reeves is considering a cut to the tax free lump sum. savers can withdraw from their pensions. >> yes. so the chancellor is

reportedly considering this move following recommendations by two major think tanks and she hopes potentially it could raise around £2 billion for the treasury. >> however , there are concerns >> however, there are concerns that the policy could open the door to legal challenges and further damage the government's image. following the controversial cuts to winter fuel allowance for most pensioners. >> okay, well, let's get the views now of two political editor at the financial times, jim pickard. jim, thank you very much indeed . jim pickard. jim, thank you very much indeed. is jim pickard. jim, thank you very much indeed . is rachel reeves much indeed. is rachel reeves now going after? er, well, responsible savers , people who responsible savers, people who have worked their whole lives done the right thing, put the money in their pension and then they find out that the rules have changed. >> well, they've been very clear for quite some time that this budget at the end of the month is going to see higher taxes in some shape and form on people with more wealth, rather than on income. >> and therefore the problem they've got is that because they want to keep most of the details under their hats until october the 30th, that means there's an

awful lot of areas where they are unable to rule out changes, because, of course, if journalists keep seeing various opfions journalists keep seeing various options ruled out by the government, you eventually find out what's going to be in the budget. >> and they don't want that to happen. but it means that there's an awful lot of hares running. so, for example, in pmqs just now, rishi sunak asked keir starmer you ruled out national insurance rises for employees, but could you put up national insurance for employers? and keir starmer refused to comment. similarly, they're not commenting on this issue of lump sum withdrawal from pensions and there are a whole load of other areas, including inheritance tax loopholes, for example, on agricultural land and on shares on the aim listed market, where we think they might do something, but they're neither ruling in nor ruling it out. you know, capital gains tax, for example, we think they might put it up , but they example, we think they might put it up, but they are in a bit of a limbo. and i think it's one of the problems they've got by winning the election in early july and then having this very long period of around three months before they have their first budget. it was quite

interesting yesterday, listening to alastair campbell, a former labour spin doctor, saying that if you look at previous incoming governments, they tend to do those difficult decisions, fiscal decisions and budgets a little bit more quickly. >> am i being foolish here, jim, or am i just misunderstanding what was said in the election? because when they said we will not raise national insurance , i not raise national insurance, i naturally assumed that would apply to the whole of national insurance, not just half of it. is that is that me being silly? is that is that me being silly? is that is that me being silly? is that me being dumb? should i have only thought that that only appues have only thought that that only applies to national insurance or to half of it? i mean, most of us did presume that it applied, that they were ruling out increases to any kind of national insurance. >> but interestingly, darren jones, the chief secretary to the treasury, was interviewed in august, i think, in the telegraph. and he said something about how we've got no plans to put up employee national insurance and unsurprisingly, journalists jumped on that and said, well, why are you only ruling out half of this equafion?| ruling out half of this equation? i think one thing that is fascinating is if you go back

over the last couple of years, they really have not been completely honest about these plans. they were honest around the time of the election and certainly after the election, but there are quite a few times in the last couple of years where they've said they kept saying, we have no plans to put up specific taxes and we have no plan. they said we have no plans for example, to increase inheritance tax on agricultural land. what's very clear now is that when they said they have no plans to do something, it meant that they were neither ruling it in or ruling it out. and the only things they specifically ruled out were the increases to income tax, vat, i think corporation tax, and now some of national insurance. we're not entirely sure whether it's all of it or just the employee part of it or just the employee part of it. >> it does give this sort of sense that they have not been entirely honest before the election that apart from a couple of slips where they didn't commit or let slip more than they meant to say, it doesn't take a cynic to think that there were these plans

before the election. they said the minimum possible and even potentially misled many voters over winter fuel, over national insurance, over even changing the borrowing rules, which which rachel reeves. this is something else that came up in pmqs rachel reeves, before the election, said changing the borrowing rules would be akin to fiddling the figures. and now it's almost dead certain that she'll do just that. >> yeah, and of course, that was something else that came up at prime minister's questions. rishi sunak pursued keir starmer over the idea that rachel reeves had previously criticised people fiddling fiscal rules, and now she's about to do the same thing. now, tom, you sound shocked that politicians might not be entirely candid all of the time. i think if you were talking to economists or think tanks about the general election we've just had, i think they would say that there was a bit of a conspiracy of silence from all the political parties, really, about the state of britain's public finances and in particular about the spending cuts to non—protected

departments. so basically all departments, apart from defence and health and education, all of them have quite steep real terms cuts baked in by jeremy hunt a couple of years ago and, you know, excruciatingly difficult cuts to those departments which would have befallen whoever won the general election. and people did not talk about that at all in june. it was not a topic that came up very much at all. and i think the way labour sees these potential wealth tax rises or taxes on on property, pensions, whatever it is at the end of this month, is basically a way to get around those very difficult departmental cuts that otherwise they would have to do. >> thank you very much indeed , >> thank you very much indeed, jim pickard. it's a complex picture. it is. and i guess we'll find out on the budget day, october the 30th. i believe it is. what exactly will be in there? but this long period of speculation, this long period of briefings to the media, is just terrible and leaks just terrible for the economy and confidence

in it anyway. should we speak to a pension expert at the lang cat, tom mcphail, about this particular headline this morning about rachel reeves now considering plans to cap 25% tax free pension lump sums to £100,000, can you, in layman's terms, explain exactly what that is and what impact that might have on people with pensions? >> yeah, sure. thank you. >> yeah, sure. thank you. >> and i want to pick up on jim's point in your previous guest that they've created this atmosphere of uncertainty and fear through their. well, the long gap between the election victory and then the budget and then also this constant narrative of doom mongering and woe and these promises of tax rises that have understandably undermined individuals and businesses confidence. and i also want to pick up on the point that was made around the manifesto promises, because one of the promises they made was to not increase income tax. and it's worth noting that if they make the change we're now discussing around pension tax free lump sums that will result in an increase in income tax. the way that the revenue will be

raised is through income tax. so arguably that too would be a breach of their manifesto promise. what we're talking about here is the amount of money you can take out of your pension pot tax free at retirement, and it's the lower of either a quarter of your pension fund or £268,275. so you need a pot of over £1 million to hit that upper ceiling. there's been a proposal that this tax free lump sum should be reduced to a maximum of £100,000, so quite a substantial reduction. now the question then becomes well, would they do it immediately. would they effectively make it retrospective and undermine the plans of millions of people who are approaching retirement and were expecting to be able to take out more, or would they introduce it gradually, in which case, for obvious reasons, it would then raise less revenue in the short term because it would take longer to implement. but again, it's caused a lot of disquiet and uncertainty. i'm getting people ringing me up out of the blue, random strangers getting hold of my phone number and ringing me up and saying, what should i do? should i take

my money out before the budget? so it's a really unhealthy environment? >> no. goodness me tom, you really lay it out very, very clearly there. and it's fascinating that the mechanism this works through is actually income tax. this is more money being subject to income tax. in effect, an income tax rise . but effect, an income tax rise. but but to get to your point there, people are ringing you up saying what can they do if they're worried about this tax raid. what can people do? >> well , you've got basically >> well, you've got basically you've got two choices. you either hunker down, sit tight and hope it doesn't happen in a few weeks time . or if you're few weeks time. or if you're really uncomfortable with that, let's say you need to pay off a mortgage. you need to get the money out. you need to be sure you're going to get that money without having to pay extra tax. the only other thing you could do is to take the money out ahead of the budget. and that would mean dipping into your pension pot now. and of course, this will only be relevant to you if they were to introduce that new limit of £100,000. for some people, it's just not relevant at all. but triggering that that decision is doesn't it's not consequence free because you'd be taking money out of your retirement pot where it's tax exempt . it's growing

it's tax exempt. it's growing tax free. you then have a big bag of money on the table in front of you. now suppose the chancellor then says, well , i chancellor then says, well, i wasn't going to do that anyway. right. so now you've got the money out of your pension pot. you can't easily put it back in again. so. so now what are you going to do with the money? are you going to reinvest it into isas. are you going to stick it in the bank? it's all going to get taxed. so it's a really difficult decision in a way. you're if you do and if you don't . and i would, i would say don't. and i would, i would say to anyone watching this, you know, don't act precipitously. don't rush into decision. if you're really thinking about taking money out of your pension because you're worried about this , talk to a financial this, talk to a financial adviser first. >> it's so hard to know what to do when every day there's a new leak. every day there's a new think tank that's telling. you know, rachel reeves what to do. we hear that the treasury are considering all sorts of different things, and here people are who need to make life decisions, need to protect their assets, their wealth, their pension , etcetera. not knowing pension, etcetera. not knowing what on earth to do, how many, what on earth to do, how many, what proportion of people with pensions would be impacted by these changes? there is this kind of assumption going around

that this would only impact wealthy people . wealthy people. >> the institute for fiscal studies helpfully did some research on this. they reckon about 1 in 5 people. so by no means, you know, it's a minority, but it's a pretty substantial minority. interestingly, they've also said, and this is the one thing, the one saving grace potentially, that will get us out of this hole. they said almost a half of public sector workers would be affected by this. so if rachel reeves goes ahead and does this well, it will raise some money for her in the short term. but she might then find she's got a fight on her hands once more with the pubuc her hands once more with the public sector unions, which is quite interesting, isn't it? >> because of course, rachel reeves has been trying to keep the trade unions sweet with all the trade unions sweet with all the pay rises recently. so this will actually impact those people. >> it explains it, though, doesn't it? if she's giving all this to money doctors and train drivers, she's going to take it all back out of their pensions. i mean, perhaps it's going to be this, this merry go round of money being being taken out of the exchequer to only then be lifted up and a lot sloshed around through administration

and just confusing for people at the same time. >> tom mcphail, thank you very much indeed. you're a pensions expert at the lang cat. well, that was very interesting, wasn't it? setting it out in true terms and just that impact on people. this sort of stuff does make people anxious, not knowing what to do, how they can keep hold of, you know, the money that they've earned. >> but those numbers are fascinating. 1 in 5, 20% of people with pensions this this could affect and half of all those who worked in the public sector. i mean, number one, it shows how generous public sector pensions are. but number two, it shows that actually this will have a very, very pernicious effect electorally. what sort if people genuinely feel like their wealth is, is dwindling as a result of this budget? how does that affect this? government's already almost record low approval. >> but there's also there's a strong feeling among a lot of people that if you do the right thing, you put the money away for a rainy day. you invest when you should. you try and, you know, do the right thing. that

actually you get punished by the government. whereas those who don't do those things seem to benefit in irony, the almost infuriating irony in all of this is rachel reeves is someone who painted herself as mrs. stability. >> everything has to be predictable. markets love stability , predictability. you stability, predictability. you need to be able to plan. you need to be able to plan. you need to be able to invest. this was her big criticism of the chaos of the last few years in terms of politics. well, on the one hand, you can't say that i'm going to be mrs. stability. i'm going to be mrs. stability. i'm going to be mrs. stability. i'm going to have a level playing field. i'm going to set the rules and abide by the rules. when, number one, you're going to change your borrowing rules. number two, you're going to abruptly change people's plans about whether or not they can withdraw their money from their pensions . that's the opposite of pensions. that's the opposite of stability. that's changing the rules of the game while you're playing that game. >> i think that changing changing the fiscal rules, changing the fiscal rules, changing the fiscal rules, changing the borrowing rules, that is. yeah, slightly worrying billions and billions to invest. do you believe that that will

pay do you believe that that will pay back. you know there are different views on this stuff aren't there? do get in touch. are you concerned about this potential changes to pensions and the withdrawals. perhaps you are perhaps not gb news. com forward slash your say now elsewhere life and death decisions are being made currently in florida as citizens brace themselves for the arrival of hurricane milton. now, state officials have pleaded with residents to get out whilst they can with the warning of death. if they do not. >> wow. well, we'll be live on the ground with the very latest after this

good afternoon britain. it's 1:24 now. the biggest hurricane in a century is expected to hit florida later today, with the american president, joe biden, warning it's a matter of life

and death for residents. >> okay, well , you're now >> okay, well, you're now looking at live pictures from fort myers on the west coast of the united states. it very much looks like the calm before the potential devastation that we're being warned about. fort myers. there you can see the breeze picking up . picking up. >> yes. around a million people living in the path of hurricane milton are being evacuated with concern for their lives. and the dangeris concern for their lives. and the danger is clearly very, very present. >> it is indeed now residents in fort myers are securing their homes there. you can see with sandbags, wooden boards, etc. and the us weather service, they're upgrading the storm to a category five now. winds could reach 175mph. >> now . consequently, flights >> now. consequently, flights between the uk and florida have been cancelled. not a single flight between the uk and florida is taking off today, and likely not for the near future ehhen likely not for the near future either, and always, with all of these, as always with these things, there are people who just want to stay there and just ride it out. >> whether they're storm chasers or whether they're just that's

just the way they're built. >> but the but the predicted surge in sea levels is something to behold. i mean, it's not three feet, it's not six feet. there are predictions of 12 to 15ft of water rising in these in these areas . these areas. >> terrifying. gb news interviewed florida resident aaron pilkington about the situation. >> now we're out in front of tropicana field in the parking lot where the municipalities are now loading up a bunch of ambulances and medical supplies for the storm that is to come. so it looks like the preparation is on high alert, and we're ready for the storm to approach us as it's coming towards either saint pete or sarasota. right now, we're definitely worried. i would fully suggest that if you are in the saint pete all the way to sarasota and even down to the naples area, that you definitely evacuate , obviously definitely evacuate, obviously don't do what we are doing here and stay , but if you are in this and stay, but if you are in this area, please try to get out of town . go up north to georgia or

town. go up north to georgia or nonh town. go up north to georgia or north carolina. it's going to be a devastating storm. >> and just looking at those images from space, we can see how this storm is frankly gargantuan. well, to get more on this, joining us is the former bbc weatherman john kettley. john, we keep saying this is a 1 in 100 year storm. what does that actually mean? >> well, it means that the intensity of this storm allegedly is going to be the worst for 100 years, or you'd only get one like this. >> every 100 years. i doubt that that's going to be the case. you know, i'm just getting a sense from the states in the past few hours as america wakes up this morning that the meteorologists are just beginning to tone it down, ever so slightly, and it certainly will get ripped apart as it makes landfall in florida at the end of today. >> now, that's to not belittle it at all. it is still giving gusts, as you say , well over 150 gusts, as you say, well over 150 miles an hour. that's a sustained wind actually out in the middle of the gulf of mexico. but it's approaching florida rapidly. and as it makes landfall later on today , 12 landfall later on today, 12 hours time, say it is going to be broken apart, quite honestly.

and that means to say that the winds will severely be dissipating. and also we're going to find that it moves away very quickly through tomorrow. i think the main danger, if you've touched on it already, tom, is the fact that it's going to be torrential rainfall. there will be very high storm surges. and that does mean to say that there's a real danger to much of this state of florida, which is extremely low lying anyway. and that's where the danger occurs. there's no such thing as a tame hurricane. they're all a matter of life and death. it is a very severe storm, and it is going to cause absolute mayhem in the next 12 to 18 hours. i just sense this morning that there's a slight change downwards in the severity of the winds once it gets on land. >> that's interesting. i mean, millions of people have been told that their house will be their coffin if they don't evacuate. but as always, with these types of weather events, there are people who want to see it out who either want to witness the storm because they're fascinated by such things, or just because they think, oh , well, it'll be all

think, oh, well, it'll be all right on the night. >> yeah, well, that's probably ridiculous, isn't it? i mean, you've we've all seen these sorts of events come and go over the decades. there are some extremely dangerous hurricanes. they can cause death amounting to what, 20,000 people, perhaps in new orleans, what, 20 years ago? something like that. so there are very, very dangerous hurricanes. they've come and gone over the years, and it could well be a very major storm, as i say. but to just hunker down is one thing, but i think you really should be very , think you really should be very, very careful with them. >> now, john, i want to show you what the weather channel in the united states has been reporting, just to give a sense of the scale of what is expected with the water rising. this is the graphic from the weather channelin the graphic from the weather channel in the united states showing what a three foot rise in in water would look like. but that's not what this hurricane is predicted to lead to at all. see the water rising here now further up to six feet is this

this is six feet. that again, is not what the hurricane is predicted to lead to. we're going to see another rise in this water level. now . it's this water level. now. it's going to be potentially nine feet or even higher. i've seen reports of 15ft. i mean, it's almost unimaginable . it's almost unimaginable. it's terrifying to see the scale of that water and the way that the weather channel is reporting it pretty pretty much like a horror movie. >> yeah, i don't think she'd be dressed like that. if she's in the middle of this storm in 12 hours time, will she? but no, it is absolutely true. i think . i is absolutely true. i think. i think it is a case of extremely high storm surges . that think it is a case of extremely high storm surges. that is the main danger with this one. the winds will be gusting up to 95 to 100 miles an hour. there's no doubt about that. even on landfall. but it is the storm surge. it's the torrential rainfall as well. there's going to be an awful lot of water around the problem with florida, as i've mentioned already, it's extremely low lying. it's the same problem as over in new

orleans 20 years ago with katrina. in fact, that's largely below sea level, isn't it? over there . so it's a huge danger, there. so it's a huge danger, huge danger to life in this particular part of the world. and they don't see these sort of storms very often, thank goodness. most of them, most of the hurricanes actually go up the hurricanes actually go up the eastern flank of florida and away into the atlantic ocean. once again, it's come at us from a different direction . it a different direction. it started over in, well, mexico, really, and it's come across the yucatan peninsula, heading northeastwards now up into florida. so that's an unusual direction. doesn't make it any better at all. in fact, it's making it far worse. >> john, just very, very quickly, is there nothing the wit of man, we have very, very clever scientists and made huge strides. is there nothing we could do potentially to stop these type of weather formations? perhaps not now, but but in the future is that a potential possibility or is that just ridiculous? >> well, it would make a great television programme, i have to say, and i don't think i've got the nous to be able to be incorporated into that television programme. i think it would be extremely difficult to do. you're talking about nature .

do. you're talking about nature. it's a wall of nature. it's a wall which is just full of dangers, full of wind and rain and everything else. it's producing high sea levels. and no, quite frankly , i can't see no, quite frankly, i can't see anything changing in the next century. things may get worse, of course, with sea level rises. >> john kelly, thank you so much for talking us through that grave situation there in florida. former bbc weatherman. really appreciate your time. >> yes. well, in the next hour or two, we're going to be speaking to someone on the ground in florida, a resident there will be asking, you know, what are their plans ? are they what are their plans? are they are they not evacuating? are they in a safe area? what's going on exactly over there? i imagine there's a lot of worry and concern also coming up when three become two conservative mps have just commenced their final knockout vote, they'll be deciding who will make it to the final two in the leadership contest . contest. >> good afternoon. i'm will hollis with your latest headlines. the prime minister has faced questions in the house

of commons this lunchtime. the leader of the opposition, rishi sunak, probed sir keir on whether tax rises were on the honzon whether tax rises were on the horizon in the upcoming budget. the tory leader, in one of his last pmqs, questioned the prime minister on if a promise not to raise taxes in the chancellor's budget applies to national insurance contributions from both employers and employees. here's what the prime minister had to say. >> we made an absolute commitment in relation to not raising tax on working people. he, of course, was the experts expert on raising taxes. and what did we get in return for it? we've got a broken economy , it? we've got a broken economy, broken public services and a £22 billion black hole in the economy. we're here to stabilise the economy and we will do so , the economy and we will do so, the economy and we will do so, the leader of the opposition joked about the recent departure of sue gray, ahead of labour's announcement on employment law tomorrow. >> in the weekend's events. when

did the prime minister first become a convert to fire and rehire minister ? well, i'm i'm rehire minister? well, i'm i'm very pleased and proud that tomorrow, tomorrow we will pubush tomorrow, tomorrow we will publish the bill, which will be the biggest upgrade of workers rights in a generation . rights in a generation. >> the biggest hurricane in a century is hitting florida , with century is hitting florida, with american president joe biden warning it's a matter of life and death for residents . now, and death for residents. now, these are live pictures that we're bringing you from fort myer on the west coast of the united states. around a million people living in the path of hurricane milton are being evacuated with concern. lives are in danger. others choosing to stay in places like fort myer have been securing their homes and neighbourhoods with sandbags and neighbourhoods with sandbags and wooden boards over windows. the us weather service restrengthened its classification of the storm to

the highest rating category five, with winds of 175mph. expected flights between the uk and florida have been cancelled . and florida have been cancelled. new to the newsroom rebekah vardy has been ordered to pay coleen rooney a further £100,000 following their high profile wagatha. christie libel battle. mrs. vardy sued mrs. rooney for libel but lost the high court legal action in 2022. mrs. rooney had earlier accused mrs. vardy of leaking her private information to the press, with wednesday marking the fifth anniversary of the viral social media post at the heart of the dispute . the final stages of the dispute. the final stages of the tory leadership race inches closer with just three contenders left tom tugendhat fell during the latest round of voting, with james cleverly coming out on top. robert jenrick came a close second, followed by kemi badenoch. mps vote for the final time this

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>> good afternoon britain. it's 1:39. it's crunch time for the tory leadership hopefuls as the final knockout vote kicks off. well, it kicked off nine minutes ago. >> you may make it sound like a sporting event. >> maybe. ding ding ding. >> maybe. ding ding ding. >> this is seconds away. >> this is seconds away. >> sport for nerds. >> sport for nerds. >> the result will be revealed in less than two hours now. >> well, the three candidates battling it out are robert jenrick , kemi badenoch and james

jenrick, kemi badenoch and james cleverly. by later this afternoon, one will be eliminated. >> but which one will it be? thatis >> but which one will it be? that is the big question on everyone in westminster's lips, including gb. news, political correspondent katherine forster, who joins us, joins us now in westminster hall. catherine, what are you hearing on the ground ? ground? >> oh my goodness. who will it be? well , >> oh my goodness. who will it be? well, basically nobody knows. it's very, very, very close. what i can tell you is that, of course, given that james cleverly got 39 votes yesterday of the 120, and pretty much everybody expects that he will make it to the final two, but no one is sure what is going to happen regarding whether it will be robert jenrick or kemi badenoch. who goes to that critical vote with the members with him, because of course , with him, because of course, robert jenrick is on 31. yesterday he was down two, so lost a bit of momentum but ahead

of kemi badenoch who was on 30, she'd gained two. so they do seem to be neck and neck. now. i spoke to robert jenrick this morning and his team. i don't think they've had a lot of sleep. they have been hitting the phones and i've also spoken to mps and james cleverly yesterday afternoon told me that his message to colleagues is if you think i should lead, vote for me. he's saying don't start going into this sort of jiggery pokery of lending votes because the numbers are so small in terms of the numbers of mps, and it's so tight that that's a very dangerous game. i have to say, that isn't stopping the candidates that need to get into the final two with him. i've heard from an mp that one of them, one of the candidates, actually rang up an mp this morning woke him up. he didn't

actually speak to him, but this is all going on behind the scenes. and james cleverly may be saying, let's not be lending votes to anybody else. but certainly people on the other teams are definitely looking at some of james cleverly's supporters and saying, just give us a bit of a boost to get us across the line to get us to the final two. now, james cleverly, i suspect, would prefer to face robert jenrick in the final two. there's plenty of people who think that if kemi badenoch gets to the final two, the members are very, very keen on her and she will get the leadership. we won't have very long to wait how. >> now. >> not to long wait. and of course, members of parliament walking into that, that committee room that's up above you sort of voting one by one, one, one member of parliament did not vote last time. one

conservative member of parliament did not vote. there's a lot of speculation over who could that have been. could it be that rishi sunak actually voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be the chairman voted? could it be that the chairman of the 22 committee voted? i mean, lots and lots of speculation about all sorts of skulduggery, but i'm looking at the numbers here. catherine. 30 3139. yes. james cleverly ahead, but only by eight, i mean, he couldn't really spare many. it couldn't really spare many. it could be the case that he doesn't actually make it through. i mean, this is a three horse race. >> anything is possible at this point . and he was saying point. and he was saying yesterday, you know, people have a surge and then they drop back. that happened to him in the previous round . and so no, he's previous round. and so no, he's taking nothing for granted, which is why he's saying to colleagues, if you want me to, if you think i should lead , vote if you think i should lead, vote for me. but of course, the other two have got different ideas. so no, we simply do not know. i'm

told that it was the former prime minister, rishi sunak, who did not vote yesterday. and also, of course, because there's 120, there is the remote possibility that it could be a three way tie. what would happen then? who knows? >> now, catherine, to turn our attention to the government just very quickly, of course, it was pmqs. rishi sunak was there, soon to be replaced by one of these three. but you asked keir starmer a little while ago. well, not a while ago. a couple of days ago, about the chagos islands. that decision to hand them over to mauritius. then there was lots of talk about potentially could the falklands go the same way? he was asked about this. wasn't he in pmqs? should we have a look at the clip? >> so when the prime minister renegotiates the trade deal, can you remember the overseas territories and why? and ensure that british citizens fishing off the falklands can sail proudly under the union jack? the prime minister , my uncle, the prime minister, my uncle, nearly lost his life when his

ship was torpedoed defending the falklands. >> they are british and they will remain british. and sovereignty in gibraltar is equally to not be negotiated . equally to not be negotiated. >> goodness me, catherine, that's a very different answer to the answer he gave you when you asked about the falklands last week . last week. >> yes, it was friday that i asked the prime minister up near merseyside to guarantee, given what's happened with the chagos islands, that no other overseas territory would be given away . territory would be given away. he blatantly did not answer that question , but that was picked up question, but that was picked up on. of course, there's been quite a lot of bad headlines and he's obviously decided that he needs to make the position very clear because ed davey did not ask him about that. he asked him about fishing rights. so it seemed that the prime minister wanted to shoehorn that in. but he did say very clearly and

again about his uncle that he said nearly died defending the falkland islands. he says that it is personal to him. so let's hope that the falkland islanders and those in gibraltar will have their minds set to rest by what their minds set to rest by what the prime minister said just how. >> now. >> better late than never. well, katherine forster, thank you so much for joining katherine forster, thank you so much forjoining us and talking much for joining us and talking through those two issues. >> it does make me think, does it have to be personal to the prime minister for him to make sure that we, you know, continue with sovereignty over a territory? >> yeah. can't you sort of hold it in the abstract, slightly worrying. >> anyway, this is good afternoon britain on gb news. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. top labour politicians have been accused of pressing police to give taylor swift a royalty style blue light escort to stadium. is that right use of our limited resources? more on

welcome back. you're watching listening to good afternoon britain. it is now 150 and top labour politicians, including home secretary yvette cooper and the london mayor, sadiq khan, are being heavily criticised for allegedly pressuring the police to provide a royal style vip escort for taylor swift's wembley concerts. >> this convoy typically reserved for royalty or high ranking officials, was granted despite police concerns over taxpayer costs. swift's team reportedly threatened to cancel the shows following a foiled bomb. plot. in austria, leading to a debate over the appropriateness of such high level protection for celebrities. >> there's also a bit of controversy over the fact that sadiq khan and keir starmer both received a free tickets from the record label of taylor swift. anyway, joining us now is former police and crime commissioner festus akinbusoye. thank you very much indeed . great to have very much indeed. great to have you on the show. what do you make of this all then? should we be upset that taylor swift was granted this this privilege?

>> well, this is clearly yet another potential freebie gate scandal that the government will hope closes very swiftly. right. because the reality is this londoners will be absolutely astonished to find out that at a time when they're being told that there aren't enough police resources to take knives off the streets, to take guns off the streets, to take guns off the streets, to take and rapists and serious violent offenders off the streets . their police force the streets. their police force is being used effectively as a private security company to provide private security service to one of the wealthiest art female artists in the world. i don't think this is what londoners will be wanting their police force to be doing , police force to be doing, especially when we now know that apparently they initially rejected this request. but thanks to the intervention of the labour mayor of london and the labour mayor of london and the home secretary, the force was forced to make a u—turn. i don't think that's what

londoners want their police force to be doing, and yet festus taylor swift is a high profile potential targets. >> we saw what happened in vienna with those concerts being cancelled. i suppose there is this concern that without extra police protection, even this royal style escort, she could have cancelled the shows. does that not weigh on the decision of the mayor of london? >> well, i am a small swifty, let's be honest. right. and , you let's be honest. right. and, you know, and i think taylor swift is an absolutely amazing woman who she's a huge role model to so many around the world, especially to young women. and so, of course, we would welcome her coming to london. i think it's a fantastic thing, especially when people start stomping when she's playing her song and how that that's all well and good. my concern here is this what precedents does this set for other artists,

other global superstars who want to come to london and do a concert or to play sports? do they get a royal vip treatment as well? and at a time when we've got this ongoing freebie gate issue, is this really a good look for the police when politicians are putting pressure on them? allegedly. anyway, to u—turn on an operational policing? and in any case, we want the police to be operationally independent of politicians once they've made a decision . yes, they get decision. yes, they get supported. but is this really what we need ? and i think for what we need? and i think for londoners they will be quite gobsmacked by that. this is what their, their police officers are being asked to do . yeah. being asked to do. yeah. >> and presumably it's all it all comes at great cost to the taxpayer. festus, thank you very much indeed for your time. former police and crime commissioner. thank you . yeah, i commissioner. thank you. yeah, i think the fact that they also took free tickets to the concert, i mean, i don't know if those two things are linked, but apparently it was the mother of taylor swift that managed to sort of change this decision. >> but but taylor swift is

billionaire. >> she could have paid for it herself. >> she could have had private security. why? why is she relying on your and my taxes to fund this royal escort ? yeah. strange. >> well, let us know what you make of it all. we've got lots more coming up on today's show. we're going to be live on the ground in florida as this once in a century storm approaches. stay with us. >> there will be a light breeze in the morning leading to a warm front . boxt heat pumps sponsors front. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again. here's your gb news weather update coming to you from the met office . for you from the met office. for many of us it has been a pretty wet few days and we are actually going to see a lot of that rain. those showers easing as we go through the next 24 hours or so. we do still have low pressure nearby and we are still seeing some rain for the next couple of hours, but a lot of that rain is pushing its way southwards and breaking up. most of the showers will be easing and clearing away as well as we go through this

evening with some clearer skies developing, particularly across parts of scotland , northern parts of scotland, northern ireland and later northern england. overnight. ireland and later northern england. overnight . all of that england. overnight. all of that happening because we have a brisk northerly wind and that could lead to some blustery conditions for some of us in the north, where we get those clear skies, it is going to be a chilly night. could be a touch of frost in some places, still a bit milder though towards the south. here it's actually going to be a bit of a damp start to the day, but further north, away from areas exposed to that northerly wind, it's largely dry across central and southern scotland, with some bright sunshine , but elsewhere, where sunshine, but elsewhere, where we have that northerly wind, we are going to see some showers pushing through some showers across parts of northern ireland first thing, and down the eastern side of england as well . eastern side of england as well. elsewhere, many places across central, northern england starting the day largely fine. a few showers for parts of wales and, like i said, across the far south of england, a bit of a damp start, but that rain will clear away as we go through the day. and so for many, tomorrow is going to be a much drier and much brighter day than of late. a few showers inland, but the

showers will be most frequent around areas exposed to that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind it is going to feel quite chilly, temperatures dropping compared to how high they have been recently. 13 or 14 celsius at best towards the south and feeling a bit colder than that in that wind. more fine weather to come for many of us as we go through the end of the day, but still some showers in some places, particularly towards the far north—west of scotland. a bit of a north south split as we go towards the weekend, wettest towards the north there could be some wintriness, some sleet or snow over the higher ground . over the higher ground. >> by judith raanan we can expect clear skies leading to a light and warm day ahead. lovely boxt solar sponsoi's sponsors of weather

gb news. >> good afternoon britain. it's 2:00 on wednesday the 9th of october. i'm tom harwood and i'm emily carver a race against time. millions of people across

florida are rushing to evacuate before what's been dubbed the storm of the century smashes into tampa tonight. now, the city's mayor, who warns those who refuse to leave, will likely die. we're going to be on the ground. there are live pictures here of the winds beginning to pick up. >> yes, indeed. and closer to home, is there a war on pensioners? rachel reeves is now considering a fresh tax raid on pensions. this, as it's also revealed today, that more than 80% of pensioners currently in poverty could be set to lose the winter fuel payment head to head. >> the voting has now commenced. conservative members of parliament decide which final two contenders will fight it out to become leader of his majesty's most loyal opposition. we'll be slap bang in the middle of the action in westminster. >> we will indeed. and on another note, is britain full official figures show immigration fuelled the biggest rise in the population of england and wales for at least

three quarters of a century. the population grew by 1% last year alone . can britain cope ? i think the problem in the framing of this debate vi?h is alone. can britain cope? >> i don't think we should be alone. can britain cope? >> i don't think we should be too concerned about a larger too concerned about a larger population provided, provided population provided, provided that we build the infrastructure that we build the infrastructure required to support it. required to support it. that we build the infrastructure required to support it . a bigger that we build the infrastructure required to support it . a bigger required to support it. a bigger population is a problem if we required to support it. a bigger population is a problem if we don't have new train lines , if don't have new train lines , if don't have new train lines, if we don't have new houses, if we don't have new train lines, if we don't have new houses, if we don't have new schools, if we don't have new schools, if we don't have new schools, if we don't have new schools, if we don't have new hospitals, but if we have all of those things , a don't have new hospitals, but if we have all of those things , a we have all of those things, a bigger population is a much we have all of those things, a bigger population is a much better thing . better thing . better thing. >> but hang on, don't we have a better thing. >> but hang on, don't we have a problem here that people already problem here that people already in britain aren't having in britain aren't having children? so what we're doing is children? so what we're doing is just importing people from all just importing people from all oven just importing people from all over, and then actually the oven just importing people from all over, and then actually the population is increasing and population is increasing and british people don't have the british people don't have the resources necessarily , because resources necessarily , because resources necessarily, because housing is so high, because resources necessarily, because housing is so high, because various taxes are so high that various taxes are so high that they're not having families they're not having families themselves. shouldn't we themselves. shouldn't we concentrate on people here? concentrate on people here? >> well, i think we should have. >> well, i think we should have. i think the problem in the i think the problem in the

framing of this debate with is framing of this debate with is britain full is we should be aiming for a growing population. >> yeah, but we are where we are. and britain very much feels full. the roads are full, the trains are full, the hospitals are full, the schools are full in most areas. >> we haven't we haven't built any of this. we haven't built. look at how many motorways france has built in the last 20 years and then how many we haven't done that, have we? >> we haven't done that. we've had incompetent governments just think, oh, we'll just have huge amounts of immigration from all over the world and we won't even bother building any new roads. i mean, it takes about 20 years to build a bypass. >> no, it is extraordinary. i mean, we only need to look at the mess that is hs2 to sort of determine what exactly has gone wrong. in the meantime , wrong. in the meantime, countries in europe are building and building and building. i mean leeds doesn't have a tram system or a light rail or anything. it's the largest city in europe to not have any of that sort of infrastructure. and yet you go to even small cities in france and they have that.

>> but yeah, but you're seeing through things through all this sort of, oh, if we build enough infrastructure, then everything will be okay. well, actually there are bigger issues. what about integration? what about making sure that we have a cohesive society so that people have a strong sense of trust and belonging? all of those things don't matter whether there's a, you know, a new hospital or not. >> yes. but those are issues of integration, not of population size . size. >> yeah, but i'm sorry, but if you increase the population by 1% purely from migration, then you're going to have those issues on, you know, to a magnitude that we've never seen before. >> not if that 1% comes all from australia. well, that's not the case is it. well, no. but but then again, it's not a it's not a matter of numbers there. it's a matter of numbers there. it's a matter of culture. >> okay. we'll just, we'll just, you know, we'll just concrete over the entire beautiful engush over the entire beautiful english countryside. all right. >> well , just 0.3% of it. all of it. >> all of it it. - >> all of it . it.— >> all of it. be it.— >> all of it . be done it. >> all of it . be done with it. >> all of it. be done with it. we don't need to worry. we have a billion people here. 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion. >> oh, no, no, no, that's for the that's for the british mars colony. that's when we get a billion brits. right. >> well, let's see what our viewers think.

gbnews.com/yoursay do you think it's sustainable for the population to increase by 1% in one year due solely to immigration? let me know. but it's the headlines with will. >> good afternoon. this lunchtime, the prime minister faced questions in the house of commons. the leader of the opposition, rishi sunak, probed sir keir on whether tax rises

in and a £22 billion black hole in the economy. we're here to stabilise the economy and we will do so . will do so. >> the leader of the opposition joked about the recent departure of sue gray ahead of labour's announcement on employment law tomorrow in the weekend's events. >> when did the prime minister first become a convert to fire and rehire minister ? and rehire minister? >> well, i'm i'm very pleased and proud that tomorrow , and proud that tomorrow, tomorrow we will publish the bill, which will be the biggest upgrade of workers rights in a generation . generation. >> the prime minister also faced questions from lib dem leader ed davey over british fishermen in the falklands amidst the controversial decision to hand the chagos islands back to mauritius. sir keir said the falklands, which is personal to him, are british and they will remain british as too will gibraltar to the tories now the

final stages of the leadership race inches closer with just three contenders left . by mps three contenders left. by mps james cleverly came out on top with 39 votes. robert jenrick came second, followed by kemi badenoch in that third position. the two of those will now battle it out to scoop up enough of tugendhat's supporters to stay in the race. cleverly's lead mean means he's just one vote away from a guaranteed spot in the final two, where the choice reaches the conservative party membership . two america, now the membership. two america, now the biggest hurricane in a century, is hitting florida today with american president joe biden warning it's a matter of life and death for residents . these and death for residents. these pictures you're seeing on screen right now are live. we're bringing to you them from fort myers on the eastern coast of the united states, around a

million people living in the path of hurricane milton are being evacuated with concern. lives are in danger. others are choosing to stay, have been securing their homes and neighbourhoods with sandbags and wooden barriers over windows. the us weather service restrengthened its classification of the storm to the highest rating category five, with winds of 175mph. expected flights between the uk and florida have been cancelled earlier today, gb news spoke to florida resident erin pilkington. >> i know it's going to be a devastating storm right now. the weather hasn't changed very much , weather hasn't changed very much, but we have seen a little bit of rainfall and the wind has calmed down. so i guess you could say it's the calm before the storm, but right now we're out in front of tropicana field in the parking lot where the municipalities are now loading up a bunch of ambulances and medical supplies for the storm thatis medical supplies for the storm that is to come. so it looks

like the preparation is on high alert , and we're ready for the alert, and we're ready for the storm to approach us. >> and your last story for now, rebekah vardy has been ordered to pay coleen rooney a further £100,000 following their high profile wagatha christie libel battle . mrs. vardy sued mrs. battle. mrs. vardy sued mrs. rooney for libel but lost the high court legal action in 2022. mrs. rooney had earlier accused mrs. rooney had earlier accused mrs. vardy of leaking her private information to the press, with wednesday marking the fifth anniversary of the viral social media post at the heart of the dispute . those are heart of the dispute. those are your top stories for now, but i'll be back in 30 minutes 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 code, or go to gbnews.com forward slash alerts .

forward slash alerts. >> good afternoon britain. it is 2:09 now. the government squeeze on pensioners shows no sign of abating after it emerged that the chancellor is considering a cut to the tax free lump sum. savers can withdraw from their pensions. >> yes, the chancellor is reportedly considering such a move, following recommendations by two major think tanks that hopeit by two major think tanks that hope it could raise around £2 billion for the treasury. >> let's speak to the political correspondent at the spectator magazine , james heale now, magazine, james heale now, because james, there is so much thatis because james, there is so much that is sort of coming to the fore. lots of froth around the budget at the end of this month. today is the day that the chancellor has to hand her draft plan to the office for budget responsibility, so she knows what she's going to do. seems like half the media knows what she's going to do. and yet this is a very, very delayed budget. many, many weeks where people

are frankly quite anxious about what's going to happen to their income, to their pensions. >> yeah, absolutely. and i think it's worth noting of course, that most new governments come in and they set a budget within the first two months. >> this is what margaret thatcher did , tony blair did thatcher did, tony blair did david cameron in 2010. >> and yet with labour, of course, it's been four months between that 4th of july election triumph and then the budget , election triumph and then the budget, which we were election triumph and then the budget , which we were expecting budget, which we were expecting on the 30th of october, at the end of this month. >> i think the people think everyone's really concerned aboutis everyone's really concerned about is about personal finance and where is the axe going to fall? it seems, according to initial reports, we've seen this week that a lot of the schemes that labour was planning to do for revenue raisers , things such for revenue raisers, things such as non—doms, looking at the vat on private school fees, they're not going to raise as much as previously thought. and therefore it's no surprise now that we see attention focusing on pensions instead, which obviously much more difficult to kind of take the money out of in that respect. >> and so there's now reports in the telegraph suggesting that 2 billion could be raised by this move, and actually that the

number of money could be saved by down to £100,000. >> so i think a really interesting kind of story here, whether it will get denied or not, it remains to be seen, but i think there'll be a lot of concern. >> i think pensioners are the ones who are looking at this after the winter fuel allowance and saying, hang on a sec, are we going to be targeted in this autumn budget? >> yeah. and we've been told that the chancellor is going to be very sensible when it comes to spending and the management of the economy, but she seems to want to change the rules. and as tom says, we'll find out in a little bit about what those rules might look like. but she previously said, and this is something that rishi sunak pointed out in the pmqs, didn't she? she said that changing the debt target would be fiddling the figures now . she seems to be the figures now. she seems to be doing exactly that . she clearly doing exactly that. she clearly thinks that borrowing billions is absolutely fine. if it's for investment. but might the markets have a different idea ? markets have a different idea? >> well, yes, certainly. >> well, yes, certainly. >> and i think it's important to look at the gilt yields. and obviously the uk has been issuing gilts at an unprecedented rate recently. and given the way in which sort of

the american gilt was moving against ours, there's a real concern. now. i think about borrowing costs and what that money will be. britain is going to have to borrow at a premium. we've unfortunately borrowing far too much for far too long. and obviously we have this pre—briefing about fiscal rules. i suspect it's a sort of a little bit of rolling the pitch to see what they can kind of get away with. as of the 30th of october. one other point to make, of course, is when we're talking about pensions and everything like that is normally you'd have everything come at once, and it would take a few days for a kind of budget to be dissected and analysed and for things to unwind. the danger for labouris things to unwind. the danger for labour is that they've allowed the narrative to get away from themselves, partly because they've had so long before the budget. so now we've had a lot of talk about fiscal rules being loosened, etc, and i think the markets are very jumpy about that. yeah. >> and we've already started to see it. as you rightly say, gilt yields are rising. i mean, the cost of borrowing is going up. but at some point the cost of servicing the debt will outweigh any benefit from that borrowing. i'm not sure at what concern and it' a difference in tone from the chancellor briefing. that's going on now about this.

apparently she's told the cabinet yesterday she was going to change the rules. and yet it's precisely the opposite of what she was saying before the election . election. >> yeah. and i think that within labour there's a sense, perhaps, of making too many hostages to fortune. they obviously said what they had to, to kind of get through that election. one wonders perhaps, maybe if their position would be a little bit different and had they sort of done a nudge and a wink and said, well, we might consider these rules, they were always very restrictive. the other thing of course, to note, tom, is, you know, going along with that national insurance cut previously with jeremy hunt and rishi sunak, i think that really kind of boxed in labour. if they'd kind of come in and reversed that, that might have given them a bit more money to spend, free up some of those finances. as it is, they're in a very difficult fiscal position. i think that most people would accept perhaps some of the inheritance is a is a genuine issue, but that being said, labour has been really boxed itself in by being so tight on those rules. and of course, you know, it's one of the papers. for instance, reporting this to the financial times. i mean, it was the very financial times to which reeves told in june that she wouldn't actually be

changing these rules. so i think that it remains to be seen, perhaps, whether the political, you know, penalty for that is something that will be matched in market reality as well. >> now, james, as a political journalist , >> now, james, as a political journalist, you were at pmqs in the room. it's always a little bit different when you're actually there to see everyone's reactions and how things are going down. how was keir starmer? i mean, he's he's had a lot of negative headlines in the past few weeks. a huge amount of pressure on him. how was he? did you sense any any nervousness ? you sense any any nervousness? >> no. >> no. >> i thought he was fairly robust. actually. i think he was actually trying to draw a line under what's recently happened. i think that what he's got this new line about is investment with labour versus decline with the tories. it's a sort of gordon brown line. when he used to talk about our investments versus their cuts. and so what we see now is keir starmer trying to move to a more positive direction after the negativity and actually start to talk about some of the good work that labour is going to be doing in office, spending a lot more on green plans in order to invest in the future. and i

think that what we're going to see much more of is a sense, perhaps, of turning the corner, moving on from the sue gray era. and of course, rishi sunak was able to very much make a mockery of that by saying that, you know, after the rehiring of morgan mcsweeney, what a first attracted to the prime minister to fire and rehire . to fire and rehire. >> moving on from the sue gray era , all 96 days of it. james era, all 96 days of it. james heale thank you so much for joining us here on good afternoon britain. i appreciate your time. yeah, i think rishi sunak probably could have made a bit more of that. >> there are a couple of little funny quips, but not a lot, but also a fire and rehire. >> i mean, who is he rehired? he's just fired someone. >> morgan. >> morgan. >> well, not rehired in the same. >> no. well, rehired in a different role. yeah, it's not quite the same, is it? it doesn't quite work or doesn't even work. >> and this is why he lost the election. >> he lost the election . can't >> he lost the election. can't get his quips quite right. anyway, should we get the thoughts now of former conservative mp anna firth and anna? thank you very much indeed for joining us. there is forjoining us. there is a perception among many people who are of pension age that there's are of pension age that there's a bit of a bit of a war against

them at the moment. >> oh, absolutely. >> oh, absolutely. >> i think that this latest suggestion is completely outrageous. you know , coming on outrageous. you know, coming on the back of stripping pensioners of their winter fuel allowance, it's absolutely clear that this government is hell bent on penalising pensioners and now penalising pensioners and now penalising savers as well. and as i've i've written and spoken constantly, you know, this is either vindictive or incompetent or both. >> i suspect it's both. >> i suspect it's both. >> it is astonishing to see how many marginal constituencies this will actually affect places with the highest number of pensioners and particularly things like the winter fuel allowance. and now this pension withdrawal limit. i mean , is withdrawal limit. i mean, is this just really bad politics? do you represented up until this summer has a very high number of pensioners, for example? >> this isn't just bad politics. >> this isn't just bad politics. >> this is completely and

utterly immoral because pensioners and i represented southend west and now southend west and lee, which has nearly 20,000 pensioners. it's one of the highest populations, particularly of the over seconds in the country. these are people who have worked hard all their lives, who are not on huge incomes, but most importantly have no ability now in their 70s and 80s to actually change things , to actually make things, to actually make different decisions, different savings decisions and to earn money. so to be attacking our pensioners, in my opinion, is completely immoral. it's also incompetent because just take the winter fuel allowance. we know that if all the pensioners who are actually entitled to that went through the bureaucratic nightmare of claiming their their pension credit, this government would not only save no money, it would actually cost it money the same

amount again , just to pay people amount again, just to pay people the pension credit that they're actually due, for which they don't claim because they can make make amends by getting their winter fuel allowance. but this this additional potential attack on people's pensions is completely outrageous. this is effectively the government changing the goalposts long after the game has been played, and thinking that it can just reach its greedy fingers into people's pension pots. it's also completely incompetent because obviously if they reduce the cap, people will simply not take out the maximum amount of £300,000 at the moment. so where rachel reeves actually thinks she's going to get this additional £2 billion from, i have no idea. we all know what this is about. >> i mean, anna, it is fair to say that the conservatives did leave a tricky picture when it came to the public finances. is

there anything that you think there anything that you think the labour government are doing right? you know , is there right? you know, is there anything that you do support when it comes to their policy agenda? they would point to things like gb energy, they'd point to workers rights that they're going to improve. they point to investment in various things and the need to invest in pubuc things and the need to invest in public services that have have been struggling under the conservatives. >> well, i'm sorry, i take i would take issue with the premise of your question because actually the conservatives left this labour government with a very decent inheritance, with an economy that is growing at the fastest rate in the g7, the 22 billion black hole that they have made up, let's not forget, is a black hole that neither the treasury or the independent body for budgetary forecasting, the ibr, has actually been able to identify what this is actually aboutis identify what this is actually about is the labour government scrabbling around to find the £10 billion that they've actually paid out in inflation

busting pay rises to train drivers and to doctors. so no, i'm sorry, i don't accept that. they have inherited a tricky financial situation. yes, of course. in fact, inflation, remember, was to down target levels when they took over the reins of government. so no, i don't i don't accept that there there that they're making the right decisions. and at the moment i think we're seeing the most incompetent labour government that certainly in my lifetime. >> well, anna firth, former conservative mp, really appreciate your time and your thoughts. thanks for joining appreciate your time and your thoughts. thanks forjoining us. >> thank you very much indeed. i think they've certainly got some pr to do when it comes to people at pension age, that's for sure. >> yeah, and if there's one group of people in this country who are guaranteed to vote, who are a politically powerful constituency , it's the grey constituency, it's the grey vote, the grey vote, anyway, we've got lots more coming up on today's show. >> millions of people across

florida are rushing to evacuate before what's been dubbed the storm of the century smashes into tampa tonight. here we go. the city's mayor is warning those who refuse to leave will likely die. live pictures here from sarasota and fort myers. it very much is the calm before the storm, but you can see the winds already picking up, can't you? >> well, we'll be on the ground after this

>> okay. good afternoon. britain. it is now 2:24, and the uk population has seen its largest annual increase in size since 1971. >> yes. the office for national statistics estimates the total population grew by 1% in just one year, reaching 68.3 million by mid 2023. that's covering england , scotland, wales and of england, scotland, wales and of course, northern ireland. >> yes, the ons say migration

was the main factor behind this latest rise. >> well, we're joined now by director at the centre for migration and economic prosperity , stephen wolf. prosperity, stephen wolf. stephen, thanks for joining us. if we're concerned about economic prosperity, should we not want a growing population? isn't the sign of economic decline a shrinking population ? decline a shrinking population? >> not necessarily. there are two really key important factors that one has to consider when looking at economic prosperity. one is whether we have a population that, as you say, actually grows to match those numbers of people that are dying. and then this ons figures, we see for the first time that the population of, of immigrants from abroad actually surpasses those people who are dying in the uk, but more importantly, to economic growth. it's whether we have what's called gnp per capita growing thatis called gnp per capita growing that is our natural wealth. that's the wealth of you, me and all these people in the country.

and what we clearly see in this country is a massive decline. only ten years ago, the uk was the fifth in the world of having the fifth in the world of having the population of our growth growing with the population. now we're the 25th. and what that's showing is that we're becoming poorer and poorer because of the large numbers of immigration, which suppresses tax and the costs of living in this country. >> stephen, i can see why immigration, depending on who's coming , immigration, depending on who's coming, could not make us nchen coming, could not make us richer. but can you explain why it makes us poorer? >> well , it makes us poorer? >> well, quite simply, if you just take a look around you , just take a look around you, what are the big things that are coming on your show from your from people watching it? what are you hearing? what are politicians listening to? and what we're hearing is that there's more people trying to get to doctors. so it costs more in terms of us to provide for the nhs. we have more children trying to go to schools. our roads are fuller and therefore we're having to build more infrastructure. that means,

therefore we've got to have more water, electricity, gas to suppress, to supply the country. and as a consequence of that, how do we pay for it? we have to pay how do we pay for it? we have to pay for that by either borrowing more or getting more taxation from people. and that's what's making us poorer. as the economy grows through a larger population, we demand more from services. the only way we can pay services. the only way we can pay for that is by taxation and bonds, and therefore that's what's making us poorer. >> well, some economists would point to is the dependency ratio. that's the number of people in work compared to the number of people out of work, particularly through retirement. now we know that we've got an ageing population. people are living longer and that's a very, very good thing. but it does mean that we do need more people in work to pay for those pension obligations, to pay for that extra health care and all the rest of it . and seeing as and rest of it. and seeing as and we've mentioned this a lot on the show, the birth rate is simply not rising. it's been going down recently, not going

up. i mean, how how does the gap get plugged? >> well, the gap gets plugged in a number of ways . first of all, a number of ways. first of all, we know that more people are working for longer. so make it more attractive for people to work longer. secondly, we also know one of the factors of people not going to work at the moment is the large number of students who aren't working, both here in the uk and from abroad, make it attractive for them. increase productivity, increase the ability for companies to invest in technology that reduces the employability, i.e. the numbers of people needing to work and all of those combined removes the ideology, the very simple and painfully pure ideology. i would say in the modern world that requires have to more people working at lower incomes to be able to supply those people who are getting older. thatis people who are getting older. that is an old method of thinking about our economics . thinking about our economics. but bear in mind this and this is the really crucial factor about population. the office of national statistics figures, and i quote straight from them now , i quote straight from them now,

says that the population of the uk will grow from mid 21 to mid 2036. that's 15 years to 73 million based on. and here is the key point. long term net migration figures of 315,000 a yeah migration figures of 315,000 a year. we haven't had that in years. our net migration figures years. our net migration figures are 737,000 a year. that's the are 737,000 a year. that's the average. so that means our average. so that means our population will grow to nearly population will grow to nearly 80,000,000 in 15 years. do we 80,000,000 in 15 years. do we really think that's going to be really think that's going to be sustainable in this country? sustainable in this country? >> yeah, and it was last month, >> yeah, and it was last month, wasn't it, that the office for wasn't it, that the office for budget responsibility, this was budget responsibility, this was reported quite widely. they said reported quite widely. they said i our net migration figures the average lower earner who the average lower earner who came to britain cost the came to britain cost the government more overall than government more overall than they paid in cumulative bill they paid in cumulative bill rose to an estimated 151,000 by rose to an estimated 151,000 by the time they could claim the the time they could claim the state pension at 66. this is a state pension at 66. this is a question of the individual question of the individual migrant. there will be some who migrant. there will be some who are net contributors. there will are net contributors. there will be some who are net takers. but be some who are net takers. but

i also wonder if, sorry, another question that's come to mind. could the low domestic birth rate, could the low domestic birth rate that we currently

housing costs have because the housing costs have increased due to increased demand from large scale migration and the increases in population. that is a very clear factor that most economies. and finally, i think actually the treasury are beginning to recognise that the correlation of gdp does not work when you're looking across housing. and so people do generally say, i can't afford to have children because i don't want them to live in cramped accommodation. that's one factor. but the real factors that we've got to face is that as population grows, the demand on services for structure, accommodation , health increases accommodation, health increases and that the numbers of people coming at the moment and the projections that we see does not allow this country to build more , allow this country to build more, grow more or create an environment that's safe and secure with growth for the population going forward. >> well, steven wolf of the centre for migration and economic prosperity, appreciate

your time on this issue. thanks for joining us. >> and forjoining us. >> and then there's also the issue of democracy, isn't there? the public have time and time again voted for immigration to come down. they get exactly the reverse. whoever they for vote. that's the massive issue . that's the massive issue. massive, massive. absolutely. well, hold on to your hats because yes, in less than an houn because yes, in less than an hour, we'll find out who the final two contenders to be the leader of the opposition will be. >> that's to come after your headunes >> that's to come after your headlines with will. >> good afternoon. i've got your latest headlines. pmqs. first, the prime minister has faced questions in the house of commons this lunchtime. the leader of the opposition, rishi sunak, probed keir on whether tax rises here were on the honzon tax rises here were on the horizon in the upcoming budget. the tory leader , in one of his the tory leader, in one of his last pmqs, questioned the prime minister on if a promise not to raise taxes in the chancellor's budget applies to national

insurance contributions from both employers and employees. here's what the prime minister had to say. >> it an absolute commitment in relation to not raising tax on working people. he, of course, was the experts expert on raising taxes and what did we get in return for it? we've got a broken economy, broken public services and a £22 billion black hole in the economy. we're here to stabilise the economy and we will do so . will do so. >> the leader of the opposition joked about the recent departure of sir keir's former chief of staff, sue gray, ahead of labour's announcement on employment law tomorrow. >> given the weekend's events, when did the prime minister first become a convert to fire and rehire minister ? well, i'm and rehire minister? well, i'm i'm very pleased and proud that tomorrow, tomorrow we will

pubush tomorrow, tomorrow we will publish the bill, which will be the biggest upgrade of workers rights in a generation . rights in a generation. >> next, the final stages of the tory leadership race inches closer with just three contenders left. yesterday we saw tom tugendhat fall out of the race and james cleverly came out on top. robert jenrick came second, followed by kemi badenoch mps vote for the very last time this afternoon, whittling the three down to two before the final decision is given to the tory membership to america. now the biggest hurricane in a century is hitting florida with american president joe biden warning it's a matter of life and death for residents. these are live pictures we're bringing you from fort myers on the eastern coast of the united states . around of the united states. around a million people living in the path of hurricane milton are being evacuated, with concern. lives are in danger. others are choosing to stay in places like fort myer have been securing

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>> right. well, there's plenty more coming up on today's show, but first we better speak to martin daubney because he's up at 3:00. martin, thank you very much indeed. what have you got in store then ? in store then? >> well, of course, all eyes on 3:30 pm. today. >> three become two. who will make the grade? certainly. james cleverly. will it be him who takes the party back towards the centre? will that open up the battlefield for the reform party, or will they go for badenoch, or to try and neutralise nigel farage's reform party? also, i'm asking , does

party? also, i'm asking, does the labour party hate pensioners? first of all, the winter fuel allowance are now a tax grab worth £2 billion on pension pots. what's going on with the labour party and old people island is on the brink of a political revolution on the island is full movement started by one man, malachy steenson. they're calling him ireland's nigel farage. he'll join me in the studio this afternoon to tell me why he thinks there needs to be a radical political change on the emerald isle, as we had here with brexit. talking of which, 15 out of 27 eu member states are on a collision course with brussels because guess what? they want to arrest and deport illegal immigrants. why can't we do the same here? we're not even in the european union. that's what brexit was meant to be about. are we the weak man of europe? and finally, i'll be joined by britain's meanest nana, a nana of five, who blows a whistle and makes her grandkids stand to attention and write letters of apology if they offend anybody, because she doesn't want them to grow up to

be snowflakes. an action packed menu three, two, six. >> standing to attention for your whistle, martin. thank you very much indeed. jam packed show. looking forward to it. >> sounds very jam packed indeed, doesn't it? you won't want to miss a second of that. you might miss something brilliant. anyway. prime minister's questions it returned today as sir keir starmer and rishi sunak clashed on a wide range of issues, ranging from the economy, workers rights and the economy, workers rights and the falkland islands. >> well, the prime minister joked that rishi sunak was an expert when it came to raising taxes after being pressed on possible rises to national insurance and changing borrowing rules. two things that the prime minister refused to rule out taking place. he also said categorically that the falkland islands were not to be negotiated away. >> yes, well, this comes as the conservatives prepare to whittle down those candidates for the leadership of the to party just two. we will have that result in about an hour's time. right. well, let's return to westminster and speak to gb news political correspondent, katherine forster, who is there for us. catherine, can we start a little birdies? told me that

you might have a little update on the whole questioning over the falklands . the falklands. >> yes, indeed. that was one of the most striking things from pmqs, wasn't it? i asked the prime minister on friday if he could rule out ever giving any other overseas territory away , other overseas territory away, like they have with the chagos islands. he did not answer that question, which did not go down very well. but in pmqs today he categorically said, in fact went out of his way to say in response to a question by ed davey that the falklands are british and will remain british and he said the same about gibraltar. but he also went on to add that this matter was very personal to him because his uncle had served in in the falkland island conflict and nearly died. and in fact, he did speak in a speech about security

a few months ago about his uncle. i'll just read you a little bit of it. my uncle's sorry, my mum's brother, my uncle roger, served in the falklands on hms antelope . i falklands on hms antelope. i remember the terrible wait when his ship was bombed. my mum's fear as she sat by the radio every day listening for news. and then the relief. after a long week of waiting. so it is personal to him. all of which makes it all the more curious why he didn't just shut down speculation last friday. but i thought that the former prime minister, rishi sunak , really minister, rishi sunak, really had quite an enjoyable time picking different topics to go on.the picking different topics to go on. the current prime minister with, and also sir keir starmer this time didn't make the mistake of referring to rishi sunak as the prime minister. he's obviously finally realised that that is him. >> yes, it has been quite, quite

comedic to listen to the previous few prime minister's questions. where i think, i think, i think the prime minister did that six times on one occasion. but no, he seems to have learnt, catherine, as we speak, conservative mps or perhaps 120, maybe even 121 of them are voting up in the committee room, up in the committee room, up in the committee corridor to determine who goes out next, who are the final two candidates that go to the membership? it's really too close to call . close to call. >> it really is too close to call. there's three very nervous candidates in 50 minutes from now. two of them will be thrilled to bits, and one of them will be very disappointed indeed. now we don't know who is going through the numbers are very tight. james cleverly had a huge surge in his numbers. he went up from 21 to 39 yesterday. that's eight ahead of robert jenrick and nine ahead of kemi badenoch. but as he said to me yesterday, you know, these

things don't go in a smooth fashion. he was saying he was saying to colleagues, if you want me to lead , vote for me want me to lead, vote for me urging against people thinking that perhaps he's got his ticket to the final two in the bag. i know that the other campaigns robert jenrick and company, i don't think have had much sleep. i imagine it's the same for kemi badenoch. i spoke to one mp earlier who had been woken by one of the one of the candidates ringing him quite early on the morning, but he did not take the call. so behind the scenes, there are all sorts of frantic efforts being made to get those critical numbers, because i expect it will be very, very tight indeed. >> i love that anecdote. catherine. the idea that conservative mps don't need alarm clocks anymore because the candidates are just ringing them so constantly . can i have your so constantly. can i have your vote? can i have your vote? goodness me. less than an hour to go. we'll be back. of course.

back in westminster with you and the rest of the team. when those results are declared, it's rather charming how enthused you are about these types of things. >> it's lovely. it keeps it exciting, don't you think? >> at home you've got you've got to have sort of hobbies, don't you? >> you've got to have sort of hobbies. yes. >> some people like to, you know, follow the football. others like to follow the conservative party leadership race. >> and he watches, he watches old election night coverage. don't you ? black and white. don't you? black and white. >> oh, yes. actually the what was it, 19, 1964 was one of the. it's a good one. 1970 was great though because they all got it wrong. all the polls said that labour was going to win. the tories actually did anyway. >> and that would have been really exciting. >> and that was the first on the edge of your seat for that first election, 18 year olds could vote and they were all very excited about the prospect. >> oh well, there you go. anyway, in other news and worrying news, millions of people across florida are rushing to evacuate before what's been dubbed the storm of the century. here you go. live pictures from sarasota and fort myers. >> well, we're speaking to someone on the ground in florida in a few short minutes

good afternoon britain. it is now 10 to 3, and the biggest hurricane in a century is expected to hit florida later on today with the american president, joe biden. yes, he's still president , president, joe biden. yes, he's still president, warning it's a matter of life and death for residents around a million people living in the path of hurricane milton are being evacuated. >> now, as you can see from our map, which is coming up on your screens here, the storm, we will wait for the map to come. well, anyway, the storm is there. it is. the storm is gathering momentum throughout the afternoon. there you can see the storm getting stronger and stronger. >> yes, you can see the real intensity of yellow and red there, just as it hits the land. the whole of florida obscured in cloud. there . and the storm cloud. there. and the storm passes over the whole of that

peninsula and off to the other side . this is the central side. this is the central forecast that we can see. if you look at the time in the top right of your screen, you can see that by the early evening, almost all of florida is covered by a lesser or greater degree of this hurricane. hurricane milton, the largest, most intense hurricane in 100 years. >> you were saying that there could be 15ft of flooding . could be 15ft of flooding. >> that's the upper estimate in some places, up to 15ft of flooding, which is just an extraordinary i mean, if you think will destroy anything, if you think six feet tall, i mean, that would obscure most people. i mean, if you if you double that, i mean, it's twice the height of i mean, just imagine that wall of water, right . that wall of water, right. >> okay. let's speak to pablo alvarado, who is a florida resident. pablo, thank you very much for taking the time out of your day. are you still in florida? what's what's going on in your life ? in your life? >> so i'm here located in central florida. >> i've been in florida resident my whole life. i've seen several hurricanes from like irma and

michael, charley, irene and helene that just passed by. >> i stayed here because we don't have an evacuation zone here in central florida on this spot specifically, but there are places that are going to are going to experience a big amount of storm surge, like you said, 15ft high, like we're going to have water from people's rooftops of their houses, like there's probably going to be film of canoes, of people's pets coming out and all that. but tampa just got hit like there there's film of them not even, like cleaned up yet from their last hurricane . there's debris last hurricane. there's debris like left out on the street. so and literally in about 20 hours, we're about to have all that debns we're about to have all that debris flying around. so we're all just getting ready . we're all just getting ready. we're stacking up on gas for the generators because we're all expected to lose electricity, canned goods, food that doesn't go out bad. >> candles, flashlights. you name it. we're just trying to get prepared because any bad hurricane we've experienced almost like three weeks of no

electricity, like that's no way of communicating. >> like we can't even cook our own food unless we have. we're out here grilling. but yeah, we're just trying to get safe. the gas stations are running out of gas . like it's just been of gas. like it's just been a hectic because the media has been all over it more than general. so a lot of people have been, i don't know, i guess there have been like freaking out. but we're all going to bunker down and everyone that's had the evacuation has already made it out. hopefully. >> well , made it out. hopefully. >> well, pablo made it out. hopefully. >> well , pablo alvarado, really >> well, pablo alvarado, really appreciate you speaking to us and hope that you can stay safe. batten down the hatches and ride out that storm. of course you got yourself in an evacuation area. thanks for joining got yourself in an evacuation area. thanks forjoining us here on sky news. thank you pablo. >> gosh, i mean, if you're in the area and you're reading oh well, seeing i mean, the broadcasts on this, i mean, they are they look apocalyptic, don't they? and then you get warnings that you're going to be in a coffin if you don't leave right now. yeah. i mean, scary stuff and also scary if you don't live

in an evacuation zone, if you're just on the border of an evacuation zone, i'm imagining quite a few people would have left as well. well, absolutely. anyway, thank you very much indeed for watching. good afternoon britain. you won't want to go anywhere because martin is up next, and we will find out who the two left in the tory leadership contest are not long to go now, so do stick around that result coming in just around half an hour's time . just around half an hour's time. >> despite the morning rain, it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead. it'll be a nice, warm, cosy day ahead . boxt heat pumps sponsors ahead. boxt heat pumps sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello again. here's your gb news, weather update coming to you from the met office. for many of us it has been a pretty wet few days and we are actually going to see a lot of that rain. those showers easing as we go through the next 24 hours or so. we do still have low pressure nearby and we are still seeing some rain for the next couple of hours, but a lot of that rain is pushing its way southwards and breaking up. most of the showers will be easing and clearing away

as well as we go through this evening with some clearer skies developing, particularly across parts of scotland , northern parts of scotland, northern ireland and later northern england. overnight. ireland and later northern england. overnight . all of that england. overnight. all of that happening because we have a brisk northerly wind and that could lead to some blustery conditions for some of us in the north, where we get those clear skies, it is going to be a chilly night. could be a touch of frost in some places, still a bit milder though towards the south. here it's actually going to be a bit of a damp start to the day, but further north, away from areas exposed to that northerly wind, it's largely dry across central and southern scotland, with some bright sunshine, but elsewhere, where we have that northerly wind we are going to see some showers pushing through, some showers across parts of northern ireland first thing, and down the eastern side of england as well. elsewhere, many places across central northern england, starting the day largely fine. a few showers for parts of wales and like i said, across the far south of england, a bit of a damp start, but that rain will clear away as we go through the day. and so for many, tomorrow is going to be a much drier and much brighter day than of late.

a few showers inland, but the showers will be most frequent around areas exposed to that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind, and in that northerly wind it is going to feel quite chilly, temperatures dropping compared to how high they have been recently 13 or 14 celsius at best towards the south and feeling a bit colder than that in that wind. more fine weather to come for many of us as we go through the end of the day, but still some showers in some places, particularly towards the far north—west of scotland . a bit of a north south scotland. a bit of a north south split as we go towards the weekend , wettest towards the weekend, wettest towards the north there could be some wintriness, some sleet or snow over the higher ground by. >> a chilly start will give way to a lovely warm afternoon. >> boxt heat pumps sponsors of

>>a >> a very good afternoon to you. what an afternoon of politics we've got ahead. it's 3:00 pm and welcome to the martin daubney show here on gb news. of

course we're broadcasting live from the heart of westminster and all across the uk in around 30 minutes time. the final two tory leadership candidates will be announced. will they play it safe and go for centrist james cleverly, or will they move to the right to try and eliminate the right to try and eliminate the threat of nigel farage? will any of it make any difference? anyway, we'll have the results live and then full expert analysis from both westminster and here back in the studio. and first, the labour party acts, the winter fuel allowance. next chancellor rachel reeves is eyeing up a £2 billion tax grab by lowering the tax free cap on pensions withdrawals. today's uncomfortable question is simply this does the labour party hate pensioners? that's all coming up in your next hour. welcome to the show. and three will become two in around about 30 minutes time. who do you want to be the future leader of the

conservative party? do you