nearly 7% next year, as the of nearly 7% next year, as the government has confirmed the minimum wage will be increased in the budget tomorrow. the minimum wage will rise to £12.21 an hour next year after the chancellor confirmed a 6.7% increase. businesses have warned of the impact of a rise alongside an increase in the national insurance contributions. they must pay on the wages . meanwhile, on the eve the wages. meanwhile, on the eve of her budget, rachel reeves has replaced a portrait of margaret thatcher's chancellor with a picture of one of the founding members of the communist party of great britain. the treasury released a photograph of the chancellor in her office in front of a new portrait of former labour education minister ellen wilkinson. miss wilkinson was one of the founding members of the communist party of great britain in 1920, before becoming a labour mp . now the prime a labour mp. now the prime minister has warned that israel's ban on the un's relief

work in gaza will deepen the suffering of palestinians , suffering of palestinians, calling the crisis in the region simply unacceptable. sir keir starmer is demanding an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages and a major increase in aid to gaza, warning the ban jeopardises essential health and education services. the law, passed by israel's parliament strips the un staff of legal protections and labels the united nations relief and works agency, a terror organisation to the us now, where donald trump has taken aim at his rival kamala harris, accusing her of heartless and cold blooded betrayal over borders. the republican presidential candidate has been speaking at his mar a lago, florida, residence. with one week to go till the us election . despite till the us election. despite keeping crowds waiting, he was greeted by chants of usa, usa! trump also took another swipe at harris, claiming she launched a coup to steal the presidency from joe biden . those are the from joe biden. those are the latest gb news headlines. now

it's latest gb news headlines. now wsfime latest gb news headlines. now it's time for headliners . it's time for headliners. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gb news .com forward slash alerts . .com forward slash alerts. >> hello and welcome to headliners. it's your first look at wednesday's top stories with three comedians. i'm andrew doyle and with me tonight is the comedic duo of ectomorph leo kearse and endomorph paul cox. you need to know what that means. just look it up. are you both well? >> is that from ghostbusters? yeah. >> no. that's ectoplasm. yeah, that's the residue that ghosts leave behind when they haunt libraries. oh, really? >> yeah. that's science. leo. >> yeah, that is science for you. yeah, i got i got my science gcse. i know what i'm talking about. we're going to start off now, leo, with the daily mail. you've got this. >> so the daily mail leads with the story that a lot of papers

are leading with. southport suspect had ricin poison and al—qaeda material. so this is this is the southport accused. obviously the trial is coming up in january. so there are new charges, new terror charges added added to that trial or i don't know if there's going to be a subsequent trial for the for the new charges. and so we've got to be very careful about what we say. >> so we can't we can't really comment on it other than to say it's happening. >> exactly. yeah. but i mean, it is interesting that, you know, when it happened, we were told this is the most british man of all time. he was born in cardiff, which makes him incredibly british, even though somehow people whose ancestors have lived in australia or america for 400 years are still in stolen land. but he was born in stolen land. but he was born in cardiff. so yeah, i mean, i reckon my top, my top three british people are probably hugh grant king charles and axel sinwar, rudy cabana . that's sinwar, rudy cabana. that's that's the most british people of all time. i'd say. no, no, it's turned out that, well, you know, these aren't traditional british hobbies. creating ricin and possessing al—qaeda terror training manuals.

>> well, let's let's move on from that story. i mean, there's also a picture of nadine dorries looking fabulous. she's fabulous. well, she says she's she's lost two stone with ozempic. yeah, but can she keep it? i think she , she just wants it? i think she, she just wants to show off that dress. it's a fantastic dress. >> she does look marvellous, doesn't she? >> but can you keep it up with ozempic? do we even know? you know, i mean, i have no idea. well, there haven't been long term studies. >> no, i probably should try. >> no, i probably should try. >> i mean , wes streeting would >> i mean, wes streeting would be happy, won't he? >> why? >> why? >> because he's going to use ozempic to save the nhs. so maybe now she's been on ozempic . maybe now she's been on ozempic. >> we can get nadine back to work. >> maybe we've also got the i and they're going with the rachel reeves story. she's been around in the press over the past week or two. >> hasn't she just the i here trying to spin some joy out of what's likely to be the biggest day of doom for some time tomorrow? >> yeah, reeves has a 6.7 wage rise to lower earners . millions rise to lower earners. millions face painful tax increases , face painful tax increases, painful tax increases, which the manifesto said would never happen. >> by the way, what's happening with her black hole at the moment? >> because i tell you what, and i'm glad we're focusing on her

black hole because it is getting bigger. >> well, that's what they keep saying. like it was 22 billion and then it was. now it's bigger. i think it's unladylike. >> is it 40 now it's 40 billion. but i mean, she's just making up numbers. i mean, luckily after five years of labour, i mean 40 billion, it will be like zimbabwean lira . inflation is zimbabwean lira. inflation is going to be so insane. we'll be using 40 billion in a wheelbarrow to buy your bread. it all sounds marvellous, doesn't it? >> 6.7% wage rise is the equivalent of. it's going up from £11.44 to £12.12. it's the equivalent of chucking a £0.50 piece at a poor person and saying, don't spend it all at once.i saying, don't spend it all at once. i don't think it's going to solve. i went shopping this afternoon and just just to pick up a few bits. you can easily do £40 without thinking about it. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so people on the and that's just bread and butter, cheese, all the things i eat for lunch. >> i mean £40 on bread and butter for you. i would have thought that a few loaves i enjoy my lunch. yeah. what can say. >> you're quite a fellow aren't you ? you? >> i'm very curvy. yeah, on the full. i'm on the full. full carb

diet, to be fair. but it does feel a little patronising. >> and of course, they're saying, you know, there's not, though they did say they weren't going to be tax rises and they are going to tax businesses. but when you tax businesses everybody gets taxed. >> and this, this is effectively a tax rise as well because these costs will be passed on to employers who will have to pay their employees more for the minimum wage. and then obviously they'll have to charge customers more. and this will be in particular service industries, hospitality, wetherspoons. its share price apparently dropped on the on the news. so you know these are these are the places that working people use. so working people are going to end up paying for this as well. on top of the tax rises that we were told wouldn't happen. >> but leo, are you not excited that it's the first woman ever delivering the budget? because i've seen a lot of people on twitter saying this is an exciting moment. >> yeah. i mean, no, there we go. >> i think that pretty much sums that up. let's move on to the telegraph. the front of wednesday's telegraph. they've also got the southport attacker possessed al—qaeda manual. they've also got chancellor gives armed forces 3 billion boost. anything to add liam.

>> yeah. so this is i mean this is good news for the armed forces at least, which have been chronically underfunded underfunded over the last few years because we haven't seen a, you know, a credible threat until now. and now we see, you know, putin and putin is actually making advances in ukraine. he's going to come out of the war, which i mean , i can of the war, which i mean, i can see the sort of hot phase of the war ending next year, probably early next year, and then we're going to be in a, you know, locked in a cold war with with russia again. >> but why will it end? because of trump . of trump. >> putin is trump. trump is probably going to probably going to end it. but also i mean, both sides are just exhausted, like ukraine is going to have to push for a deal. but but russia is going to have an army, a standing army with military experience. standing army with military