will be given weight loss injections to get them back into work. >> now the move comes as he claims obesity has placed a huge burden on the nhs and held the country's economy back . country's economy back. >> chancellor rachel reeves is accused of breaking labour's pledge on tax, as she hints the government will increase national insurance payments for employers. >> the race narrows for conservatives as the party leadership hopefuls are into their big week debate. here on

gb news. we'll be speaking to backers from both sides. >> the dangers of doom scrolling children who spend hours a day on their phones risk long term harm . harm. >> and in sport, the fa have apparently made a soft approach to pep guardiola to become the next england manager. i think it just involves, if you're free and known you fancy it, please let us know. a win for wales last night in the nations league. it's the turn of scotland to take on cristiano ronaldo's portugal. northern ireland play bulgaria this evening and in sailing the america's cup, which is in spain and features britain and new zealand. work that one out. he's not going well for your ineos britannia. four nil down and it's the first of seven. >> pretty mild start out there for most of us. it's also fairly dry, but it should get a bit brighter as the day goes on. and it could be even warmer on wednesday. join me later for a full forecast. >> good to have you on board. >> good to have you on board. >> i'm eamonn holmes, i'm isabel webster and this is gb news

breakfast. doomscrolling. >> no doomscrolling is bad for you. we're doomed. >> we're all doomed. >> we're all doomed. >> so you saw it in the headunes >> so you saw it in the headlines there, and we're going to be talking about it. and you know, i agree that all of us and i criticise other people and i say, get off your phone, get off your phone. but then i realise as a major form of entertainment, i am addicted to instagram. i would say i watch rubbish, absolute rubbish on instagram and then i watch interesting things. >> you send most of that rubbish to me though, don't you.7 that's to me though, don't you? that's the problem. >> yes, i do , i do do that. the >> yes, i do, i do do that. the thing is, we find like kids programmes when we, when we were much younger and i will send them to him and he'll send football stuff to me and, and whatever. but i find youtube is actually still full of nonsense. but good nonsense. it gives you

the history of things like, you know , programmes like the know, programmes like the persuaders with roger doomscrolling, tony curtis. >> that's all right. that's educational. but have you ever thought about doing a detox and saying, right, i'm going to ban myself from instagram for a fortnight and see what you can pack into a day with the time that you lose, because you're just essentially wasting . just essentially wasting. >> i mean, i think i'm practising, i don't practice what i preach, i also doomscroll, but i would like to see what i could do with my life if i didn't waste it. so doomscrolling interiors all day long just looking at rubbish, right. >> that's that's just like just flicking. it's not actually watching. something's not thinking. >> you're not being creative. you're not doing any of the jobs on your chores list . you're not on your chores list. you're not exercising. you're not being creative or anything. you are literally staring at nonsense that you'd never thought about before. and you'll never think about it again. and wasting your precious time on this planet. >> are you talking to me? you are talking to myself about my life over the past year or so. >> but then i scroll on things like watermelon and broccoli. >> i know , eamonn, but just eat

>> i know, eamonn, but just eat some. and then, you know, these are wonder foods. >> yeah, apparently if you were just to, like, eat watermelon and nothing else, you would be like clark kent, would you? yeah, really? >> well, you could fly. >> well, you could fly. >> probably . >> probably. >> probably. >> well, if you just ate watermelon. >> watermelon is a superfood. >> watermelon is a superfood. >> should we set ourselves a challenge and see if we can do, like, a week detox? no, not up for it. no , it's. can't teach for it. no, it's. can't teach a dog. old dog. new tricks. >> no, i'm too integrated. and i'm happy that i look back at my childhood and my teenage years and my early 20s and whatever, and my early 20s and whatever, and think i lived life and i did experience a lot of things, and i do not miss having a phone in my hand. i think these things are evil . yeah. are evil. yeah. >> so genuinely, could you give it up for a day? because i'm starting to think maybe you do have an addiction. so maybe just say for a day, i'm not going to go on any social media. i'll see how much happier you feel. should we do like a ban after we come off air from here? who? >> go first. you go first. >> go first. you go first. >> i'll go for it. see how you

like to see how much happier. >> i'll send you a text and say. how's it going? oh, it's going okay. thanks. oh, no. you see? >> how can we do that? we can't send it if you're offered on a on a saturday. you can't send each other a text. >> you can text. it's not a phone ban. it's a social media ban. social media ban 24 hours. >> okay. fine. >> okay. fine. >> okay. fine. >> okay. heard it here first. i could do that. >> we'll report back and then we'll try the melon after that. yeah. >> and then we'll see if we can fly. >> see you later, paul. okay. at the end of the conservative leadership, race draws to a close, the former irrigation minister robert jenrick, has challenged rival kemi badenoch to face him head to head in a live tv debate. >> yes, badenoch is yet to confirm her appearance, but the pair will be coming together. we can confirm on gb news this thursday for our leadership special. the race to lead robert jenrick. >> why are you saying they're not doing a live tv debate? they are. >> they're on our. yeah. yeah, right. >> gb news from 7:00 on thursday. >> this is where this is the place to be. so we are joined this morning in our own sort of little mock up of what's happening on thursday by the conservative mp for droitwich and evesham. if i pronounce that correctly, nigel huddleston, who is backing kemi badenoch and

conservative mp here in the studio. >> dumfries and galloway. john cooper joins behind robert jenrick. gentlemen, good morning to both of you. and robert. could i ask you first of all or john, sorry, could i ask you first of all, how close is this race? >> so i think it's close . i >> so i think it's close. i think we've moved on now from what was what i called the tories have got talent, which was the kind of broad, large numbers. and we've moved down to two. so it's kind of the hunger games now. and at the end of this there can be only one. i'm confident that that's going to be robert jenrick. >> right, nigel, how strong is cami's campaign ? cami's campaign? >> i think you've seen she's incredibly popular with the membership and she's out and about across the country now, making sure that we get every single vote. we're not taking anything for granted. this is a tough fight. >> are you concerned nigel and john might have a different opinion to you on this? are you concerned that kemi badenoch for all her, you know, strong qualities? lots of people love

that she shoots from the hip that, you know, in some ways she's termed affectionately a difficult woman, that sometimes she is too controversial, generates headlines. i'm thinking about the row around maternity pay for example. you know, is this what the tories need at this point? somebody who could perhaps be getting negative headlines? >> well, actually, to be fair, both candidates are exceptional people and all six finalists were friends of mine. and i think that's sometimes underestimated by the media. we all made a difficult choice on who to back, but i've worked really closely with kemi. i was a junior minister when she was business and trade minister, and i've seen the side of her that is incredibly dedicated, incredibly hardworking, very, very knowledgeable about business. she does attract headunes business. she does attract headlines and sometimes the media misinterpret those those comments for a variety of reasons. but she's forthright in her views and she's always articulating core conservative principles. now, not everybody likes that. so she often comes under attack, but she can take that attack .

that attack. >> well, let's just see what john thinks about that. do you think that you want a leader that the media misinterpret as nigel sees it? >> so i think what i like about rob and i've spoken to all the candidates as well, and i know many of them personally, too. i think that rob is the man with the plan. he's thought about this very carefully. and if 1557