well. >> good morning labour wages. war on fat people. >> well, the health secretary wes streeting says if you're obese and unemployed , he could obese and unemployed, he could help you the most. people will be given weight loss injections, which he thinks will get them back into work. >> the move comes as he claims obesity has placed a huge burden on the nhs and is holding 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 elsewhere, the novichok inquiry hears the perfume bottle, opened by dawn sturgess before her death, did contain enough medicine and poison to kill thousands of people . so this is eamonn holmes people. so this is eamonn holmes here and that is isabel webster. and you're waking up to gb news.

and you're waking up to gb news. and the whole shrinkflation thing is ridiculous. it really is. yeah. yesterday i went on a little confectionery shop and, you know, went into the nothing more alike than calling into the petrol station and buying the essentials. yes. >> you know, the essential chocolates , the wine gums and chocolates, the wine gums and the jelly babies and all that sort of thing. >> the jelly baby situation is ridiculous . they haven't reduced ridiculous. they haven't reduced the actual size of the baby, but they've reduced the packet. so it's absolutely. so you open it up and you think, will i offer one to isabel.7 i think no, because i offer offer that that's going to leave very few left for me. and it really is very few. there's like something like you know, a total of 12 in there or something. >> but the trouble is, whilst i would think that's good because you're eating less of the poison, you're still paying the same amount, so you're paying more for less, which is where the stinger is. yeah.

>> and also i mean, this gets me for christmas. i mean, one of the things i really used to look forward to at christmas was the selection box. yes. right. well , selection box. yes. right. well, now your tins and whatever of chocolate are in these plastic things and it's ridiculously small and there's just nothing left. it's not worth doing . left. it's not worth doing. >> well, just don't do it then. >> well, just don't do it then. >> but there's things i mean, do kids still get annuals at christmas? did you get an annual a barbie annual or something like that? >> i didn't, but my kids have been given them. >> yeah, yeah, i don't know if they still do the rounds or not, but that would have been one of my highlights at christmas. an annual my highlights at christmas. an annual. but but what's that got to do with shrinkflation? >> just just christmas. no. yeah. no. anyway . right. let's yeah. no. anyway. right. let's talk about some of the things people have been emailing in about this morning. we've been talking about jabs for jobs. about this morning. we've been talking about jabs for jobs . and talking about jabs for jobs. and sarah says this is worrying. i can't help but wonder if ozempic could prove to be ten times worse than the covid vaccination side effects. well, she doesn't think it's been tested enough,

and david shares those concerns. he says it's become a big money—maker for big pharma. how many people should be using them? is this just a big cash grab? so fair enough. claire saying unemployment figures down. but what about sickness benefit claimants? i wonder if that's gone up. interesting considering jabs for jobs. >> do you know why we were talking about what you should leave inheritance for your for your children as well this morning. so thank you for all your views and comments on that as i get my chair moves and makes noises and sinks yet again. but david soul, who died i think earlier in the year, he was the actor from starsky and hutch. so he was he was , which hutch. so he was he was, which was he started. he was he was hutch . right. he was hutch. and hutch. right. he was hutch. and so he left his will. he lived in sevenoaks in kent . and people sevenoaks in kent. and people think, you know, you're on the telly and you're someone like him. you're american. whatever. you must be worth a fortune. his whole estate, whole estate,

everything he owned was £181,000, and i'm sure he'll be taxed on that in some way. but yeah, that's that's what he left to his family. and he was in 92 episodes of starsky and hutch 92. that's amazing. so 92 episodes. and then come the end of his life, he's left with 181, which is 181,000, more than a lot of people. that has to be said . said. >> that's true. >> that's true. >> god rest him. >> god rest him. >> yeah. now, listen, just two weeks to go until rachel reeves delivers the autumn budget and many small businesses in the uk are waiting. like all of us, to find out what it means for them. >> meanwhile, the chancellor has announced she will cap corporation tax at 25% in order to boost british business. i don't know how does that boost british? >> well, it's not increasing it, isuppose. >> well, it's not increasing it, i suppose . let's get the i suppose. let's get the thoughts of our north—west of england reporter sophie reaper. she's been sitting down with one small business owner to find out how they're feeling ahead of the budget .

budget. >> good morning. morning. >> good morning. morning. >> a bright lancashire morning. and lauren mcguire is open for business. she owns a small cheese delicatessen on a bustling high street. and things are going well. but looking ahead to the budget come the end of this month, lauren says there's a lot for her to think about. >> we've got staff wages and we've got stock we've to pay for fuel, the rent, the bills. you know, gas and electric keeps going. sky high. so there's a lot of factors that, you know, we need to take into consideration. we have to then start thinking about putting our pnces start thinking about putting our prices up, which is something that i don't really want to do. but again, we still need to be able to make enough money to keep the business going as part of their manifesto, labour promised to outline a so—called business roadmap in their autumn budget. >> they say it will encourage investment and give businesses the confidence to grow. but after four years of owning her own, lauren is sceptical. >> i feel like they always say

that just to get them on your side and then they don't follow through. people want to contribute, as in like open up their own business, but there's so many obstacles that they need to overcome and i just feel like the government sometimes doesn't help. >> for small business owners up and down the country, this is a time of uncertainty as costs increase and disposable income continues to fall, many will look to to labour help them through this tricky time in the future. >> if there's any sort of changes, you know that is going to be hard to face. you know we'd welcome any support from the government, i think because there's been that many different changes. i feel like i'm prepared for the worst. >> sophie reaper gb news. >> sophie reaper gb news. >> obese, unemployed people will be given weight loss injections to help them get back into work. the health secretary says what do you think about this? >> let us know this morning. wes streeting said that the sickness

caused by obesity is holding back our economy. he's unveiled a £279 million investment from the world's biggest pharmaceutical company. >> while the chancellor, rachel reeves, has been accused of breaking the party's pledge on tax, she has hinted at increasing national insurance contributions for employers. here she is with our political edhon here she is with our political editor, chris hope . editor, chris hope. >> the budget your manifesto says we will not increase national insurance, but you're looking at increasing employers, national insurance. aren't you breaking a manifesto pledge with that? well, you've read our manifesto, and in black and white it said we will not increase taxes on working people. >> and that was national insurance, income tax and vat and not employers. that was not in the manifesto. >> ooh. what do you think of that? >> that comes as king charles looked to be in high spirits as saint paul's cathedral last night. and this was at the international investment summit. >> yes. you can see him pictured there with tim peake, the astronaut. he was also alongside

sir tim berners—lee, who of course invented the internet, as well as andrew lloyd webber. and they enjoyed performances from they enjoyed performances from the one and only sir elton john. all inside the beautiful setting of saint paul's cathedral. >> i was in chichester last week and tim peake was born there. oh really? he lived there. he grew up there. >> yeah, my grandparents lived there, so i spent a lot of time there, so i spent a lot of time there as a child. very lovely. >> so it is very lovely. that's very, very true. you can't get near the cathedral at all. >> why not be able to parking restrictions. >> all sorts of nonsense. anyway , >> all sorts of nonsense. anyway, earlier we got the views of oscar . oscar was a former oscar. oscar was a former adviser to