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a very good morning to you. thank you for your company on this wednesday morning. >> i'm eamonn holmes and on this wednesday morning i'm isabel webster and this is gb news breakfast. >> here's something quite interesting here at school. it should be compulsory that male and female pupils in high school have cookery lessons from year one, says charlie. and i have to say, charlie, i agree with you because i feel useless on that front and all the things i learnt at school and whatever. nothing practical, nothing practical. i would have loved to have done something like that. >> did you not do woodwork? no. we made we made letter openers out of wood. useless. >> he was super bright, so he got sent to the impractical. oh. >> did he? do you not do metalwork? did you do metalwork? >> woodwork? it was just

scholarly learning. >> oh, is that what it was? >> oh, is that what it was? >> mythology. >> mythology. >> oh , yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, yeah. >> so, yeah, he's totally impractical. you want to get result? >> get me that new stephen fry book. yeah. >> you'd be fine, wouldn't you? >> you'd be fine, wouldn't you? >> yeah, that'd be quite good. you're great with odysseus fault, but you can't fry an egg. is that right? okay, fine. >> but, but, but you're a good cook. >> i'm a terrible cook. i'd love to be able to do it. >> would you not prefer to do that than to make something in woodwork? >> i would have preferred to do that, but i was terrible at that as well. i was terrible at all those things. >> so do your kids get taught any? >> yeah, my kids do cooking at school all the time. both of them. do they? yeah. >> that's good. yeah. >> that's good. yeah. >> they make bread. they make crumbles. they make curries. they make everything. >> and they're at a what? i'm trying to say a more academic little village. >> state primary school. and they do cooking all the time. >> well , we never we never they do cooking all the time. >> well, we never we never had that at all. but that's i think that's very, very good. yeah. what else should we have been taught at school that we were never taught? >> where to start? what else? where to? >> where to begin? where to

begin? but that's it. but i was. i'd like to. >> i'd like to have learnt about bookmaking. >> what do you mean? what? as in what? a bookmaker. what? betting. >> how to lay a bet. >> how to lay a bet. >> yeah. amen. >> yeah. amen. >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> why ? earth? >> why? earth? >> why? earth? >> well, because. because when i. when i go. when betting happens. having a clue. >> yes, but it's 5 to 4 that people. it's like an addiction. addictive thing. and people lose everything they have. >> they do. and i'm never tempted. >> yeah. good. >> yeah. good. >> it's a false way. >> it's a false way. >> if you knew how, then you could be in trouble. >> if you ever want a bet, put on. you know, that's one of the reasons i'm here to do that for you, so you don't need to worry about it. >> you could do that for me. >> you could do that for me. >> oh, i could do that for you. >> oh, i could do that for you. >> that was like at school. we did have a guy who was, like, the bookie at school, and he had a bookie at school. well, he was the unofficial bookie. he would do. really? he would do things on the horses. yeah. yeah. he would go down to the bookmakers down at carlisle. how would he get away with that then? >> did he look old? yeah. he looked. is he one of the teachers? no. oh, okay. fine. >> anyway, more on that to come. yeah. >> we're going to turn our attention to all things politics

now, and we are joined by the liberal democrat chief whip, wendy chamberlain, to begin this houn wendy chamberlain, to begin this hour. good morning to you, wendy. if you don't mind, i'd like with breaking like to start with the breaking news hour news in the last hour in relation inflation figures, relation to inflation figures, this the target this shock drop below the target of government of 2% to i.7%. the government have very have every right to be very pleased. this follows pleased. and this follows closely wake of this closely in the wake of this hugely successful investment fund. things on the up? do fund. are things on the up? do you think? >> morning. it's good to be >> good morning. it's good to be here. yes . obviously the here. yes. obviously the inflation fall is good news. but i think what's really important to remember with inflation is it just means that prices are still rising but more slowly. and when we've seen such high levels of inflation in recent years, particularly on those day to day items that people buy every day, butter, cheese, all those kinds of things, clearly it's good news, but we need to see more progress. and in terms of inflation going forward, obviously we've seen an increase to the energy price cap as well as the removal of the winter fuel allowance. so it's still to be seen whether this fall in inflation can be sustained . inflation can be sustained. >> you are most concerned about doctors appointments and nhs treatment and how it impacts on

the workplace and day to day life, and in ways where, you know, just some people get on with life and some people realise they can't and they're held back by this. explain to us the whole dilemma that you've got here. >> yeah. so eamonn what you are referring to is we've got our first opposition day in for parliament 15 years, where the liberal democrats have the opportunity to take control of the parliamentary agenda. and that's because we returned 72 mps at the general election , and mps at the general election, and we campaigned eamonn on nhs , we campaigned eamonn on nhs, social care, carers, sewage, cost of living and we're taking the opportunity to debate those issues in parliament today. and in relation to that , we've done in relation to that, we've done polling that suggests that over a quarter of working uk adults have been unable to access an nhs appointment when they need them, so we are calling for the things we called for in our manifesto and guaranteed access to gp, which means training and delivering more gps and ensuring that we can actually deliver a

stronger economy. the government says that they want to ensure that if our nhs is not working how it should, then it's very difficult to see how that can be sustained. >> and what do the liberal democrats make of this kind of very unusual step being announced by wes streeting, the health secretary yesterday in issuing these so—called fat jabs for obese people in order to try and boost the economy. do you think that that's something that will be good for the nhs, good for the economy, good for obese people ? people? >> well, i think we've got to look at a range of options to tackle the obesity crisis. obviously i would like to see people taking healthier choices in terms of eating and general lifestyle. but for those people where it is a challenge , i think where it is a challenge, i think we should be considering a range of options and potentially injections are part of that. we know how much obesity costs the nhs. >> well, we use those terms, the nhs and cost all in the same

sentence all the time. and you know, wendy , however admirable know, wendy, however admirable what you're looking for is , i what you're looking for is, i would just despair. i would just look and say, you haven't got a chance, you haven't got a chance of changing things . of changing things. >> well, we were elected. we elected 72 liberal democrat mps in july on those things. so what i would say is these are clearly the issues that people care about. and the reality is the nhs fixing social care , nhs fixing social care, supporting unpaid carers, those are not non—political issues in some respects, as in whichever government is in power, needs to tackle those issues. and what we've said since the election is we've said since the election is we want to be a constructive opposition, and if the government want to 1558 00:08:40,800 --> 0