huge pensions from the drawing huge pensions from the european union because of the amount of people who work. they're not knocking neil kinnock, sorry. his wife glennis, obviously is departed, but i mean, he was the ultimate career politician and a new minister in the new government who's only been an mp for a week, becomes a minister. >> hamish faulkner, who's his dad? >> hamish faulkner, who's his dad.7 oh, charlie faulkner, who was blair's lord chancellor. >> that's right. and even lord gould, who was never a politician, he was just a great adviser behind the scenes, wasn't he manages to get his children in and she's a minister. georgia gould, what about sue gray, the moment she's appointed, her son becomes an mp. >> i know there are right no nepotism here. you are both here on your merits. thank you so much, samuel and mike. up next, england's flailing football team have appointed a new german manager. if you're just joining us, we are going be discussing that is gb news. l is gb news.

yeah. >> revelation i've just found out that andrew pierce can swim in the sea on new year's day. that that's what he normally doesin that that's what he normally does in your swimming trunks. yeah, not even a wetsuit. >> no wetsuit. >> no wetsuit. >> you are tougher than you look. i have got pierce, what we call a rashie at the top. but you've got a rashie. yeah. who are you and what have you done with andrew pierce? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, i'm a i'm a good, strong swimmer. >> are you a cold water swimmer? i had no idea. honestly. i think you know someone, right? don't forget, it's pmqs at midday. as always. christopher hope and gloria de piero want your question for the prime minister? send them in. gbnews.com/yoursay. now, though, very latest headlines with sam . very latest headlines with sam. >> very good morning to you. 1134 we start with some sporting news, and prince william has congratulated thomas tuchel on being named the new england head coach, telling him we're all behind you. the prince of wales, patron of the fa, said in this personal message posted on social media. exciting times for

england with a generation of talented players and a new manager taking the reins, adding thomas, we wish you the best of luck. well. tuchel, best known for his time at chelsea and bayern munich, will officially take over in january. he has already won the champions league and worked closely with england captain harry kane, but concerns remain over his fiery reputation . remain over his fiery reputation. in other news, inflation has dropped below the 2% target for the first time in over three years. figures for september show it fell to 1.7%. that's the lowest since april 2021. analysts had expected it to fall to 1.9%, and now warned that it could continue to rise again with higher energy costs on the horizon. the ons says that lower petrol prices and cheaper airfares drove the drop. however, food inflation picked up again faster than it did in august. treasury chief darren jones says it's still good news, though, for british families,

adding the government is determined to fix the economy to ease pressure on households. >> good news for family finances that inflation has fallen below 2%. but of course there's more work to be done to protect working people and bring stability and growth back to the economy, which is what the chancellor and this government is doing now. and in the run up to the budget at the end of october, the debate on assisted dying is intensifying as new legislation is set to be introduced in parliament for the first time in nearly a decade. >> dame esther rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer, has called for careful legislation, sharing her fears of a painful death and urging the public to write to mps ahead of that vote. meanwhile, veterans with ptsd have reportedly been offered assisted suicide as a treatment opfion assisted suicide as a treatment option in cancer, raising concerns over the misuse of the law. campaigners on both sides are gearing up with a demonstration planned at parliament square and the current law bans assisted suicide in the uk, with a maximum sentence of 14 years. a

ship carrying the first group of migrants from italy has arrived in albania, kicking a kicking off a new controversial asylum plan. the italian vessel, carried from lampedusa on monday. 16 men from bangladesh and egypt' 16 men from bangladesh and egypt, all rescued in international waters. italy says the scheme could see up to 36,000 asylum seekers sent to albania each year, but only non—vulnerable men from countries it deems safe would be eligible . and beirut has been eligible. and beirut has been rocked by israeli airstrikes, the first in days to hit the lebanese capital. those strikes come as tensions continue to escalate in the region, with washington now stepping in. the biden administration has given israel a 30 day ultimatum to improve humanitarian conditions in gaza or face military funding cuts. reports suggest that at the moment, israel is blocking nearly 90% of aid movements, as civilians in northern gaza face a growing death toll and escalating israeli offensives .

escalating israeli offensives. well, those are the latest gb news headlines. for now, we'll just finish with a quick update from our sports reporter , andrew from our sports reporter, andrew pierce, who joins me now. andrew, what's the latest on the thomas tuchel situation? >> disaster. that's what's the latest. and i couldn't care less what prince of wales thinks ehhen what prince of wales thinks either. he's got it wrong. we don't want a german. can we have an englishman, a scotsman, a welshman or a northern irishman? >> andrew, i think we can leave it there. i would stick to the day job. those are the latest headunes day job. those are the latest headlines from me back to beth and andrew for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone , sign up to news smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com. >> forward slash alerts . >> forward slash alerts. >> forward slash alerts. >> you didn't know sam was going to do that, did you? it sounds like a joke. there was an englishman, an irishman, a scotsman, a german. which of them is the coach of the england

football team? >> i think it's just short sighted. >> well, we know you've made your feelings about this. >> when you think like someone like chris blackhurst, former editor of the independent, in instinctively liberal man, very disappointed. >> very disappointed. >> very disappointed. >> what does it say about all the money that premier league generates in football, that we can't plough that back into grassroots football and grow a decent manager? >> that is the question, isn't it? grow a decent manager. thomas tuchel german has been confirmed as england's new head coach by the fa. he becomes the third non—englishman to take the role after sven—goran eriksson and fabio capello. >> let's talk to the sports broadcaster chris skudder, who will know all about thomas tuchel. i'm sure in a way that beverly and i don't. chris, it's disappointing, isn't it, that we can't find a brit? >> i knew you'd say that. i knew you'd say that. no it isn't. listen, there's nobody there's nobody english who can do it. really? i mean, okay, eddie howe , really? i mean, okay, eddie howe, but he. newcastle pay him far more than england are playing tuchel. listen, the record of engush tuchel. listen, the record of english coaches is pretty terrible. the last major honour.

you got to go back to 2008. harry redknapp , you know, short harry redknapp, you know, short of howe and potter, there's nobody around. and you know , nobody around. and you know, tuchel is an elite coach. i think we've got used to it in this country. now to having a foreign coach. i think tuchel is exceeds what erickson was and certainly what capello was . that certainly what capello was. that was a disaster. i was there in south africa and throughout erickson's reign . tuchel is a erickson's reign. tuchel is a very pragmatic manager. he's a winner and i don't think he really cares what people think now. potentially there might be flashpoints because every job he's had really is ended. kind of fractiously you think of his time at chelsea where there was the takeover, todd boehly, it all ended a little bit acrimoniously. bayern munich last year, where he didn't have a great time and they didn't win the league for the first time in ages. but what he is, he's a

very he's considered to be a very he's considered to be a very elite coach who gets the job done. and i think that's what england need to get across the line. for all the, you know, the line. for all the, you know, the things that gareth southgate did, he did it all very correctly and he was popular with the players. he didn't he wasn't a great coach and he didn't get us across the line. that's the important bit. this is the man who could do that. >> chris, what i'm really interested in though, is why we have no english managers. what happenedin have no english managers. what happened in the last? what would you say 30 years to mean that we haven't got any english managers. is it just the english footballers? don't want to become england managers ? become england managers? football managers? >> no, they do. and i just think, you know, 1519 00:11:41,544