>>i >> i don't think that benefited me greatly. was not having tuition fees. if and there we go. >> in 2019, keir starmer backed jeremy corbyn's plans to abolish university tuition

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bridget education secretary, bridget phillipson, will announce the increase, which will see tuition fees rise in line with the retail price index inflation. >> this will be the first raise in tuition fees in nearly eight years. in other news, the prime minister has announced an extra

£75 million to tackle people smuggling gangs. sir keir starmer says he wants the country's approach to border security to change, saying the world needs to wake up to the severity of this challenge. here's what the prime minister had to say at the interpol conference in glasgow earlier today. >> we understand how these gangs work. we can invest in new capabilities and enhanced powers to smash them. so we're giving our new border security command an additional £75 million of new funding, on top of the £75 million we've already committed . million we've already committed. this will support a new organised immigration crime intelligence unit , organised immigration crime intelligence unit, hundreds of new investigators and intelligence officers backed by state of the art technology . state of the art technology. >> kemi badenoch is making her first senior appointments as the new leader of the conservative

party. gb news understands that laura trott has been appointed the shadow education secretary, with neil o'brien appointed as the shadow minister of state for education. dame rebecca harris will be the party's chief whip, replacing stuart andrew. nigel huddleston and lord dominic johnson have also been appointed as the joint party chairman. however, gb news also understands that sir oliver dowden will not serve in badenoch shadow cabinet. the leader of the opposition will continue to make her appointments throughout the day , appointments throughout the day, in time for her first shadow cabinet meeting tomorrow . and cabinet meeting tomorrow. and some breaking news. a ten year old girl killed by her family's pet dog has been named as savannah bentham. her family say they are utterly shocked and devastated by her death. north yorkshire police were called to the area on friday and found savannah had suffered what they say were serious injuries, having been bitten by the dog, and she died at the scene. police are continuing to

investigate the attack, including why the dog attacked savannah over to the states now, where the final day of campaigning to decide the next president of the united states begins. candidates. kamala harris and donald trump are touring swing states in a final push for what is being described as a neck and neck election. polls in states such as pennsylvania and michigan show the two candidates are tied ahead of tomorrow's election day. a missing british couple have been found dead days after flash flooding hit spain. it's been reported that the couple's daughter confirmed her parents bodies after they were found in their car on saturday. this comes as spain's airport operator has now cancelled 50 flights from barcelona's airport amid an extreme danger. red alert rainstorm is set to hit the city and quincy jones, the music producer and composer, has died at the age of 91. jones worked with some of the music

industry's titans, such as michael jackson, frank sinatra and snoop dogg. jones's publicist confirmed he died at his home yesterday surrounded by his home yesterday surrounded by his family . those are the latest his family. those are the latest gb news headlines. now it's back to martin 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 . alerts. >> thank you sophia. now another day , another labour u—turn. keir day, another labour u—turn. keir starmer looks set to raise tuition fees for the first time in eight years. a little later today, bridget phillipson , the today, bridget phillipson, the education secretary, is expected to announce an increase which will see tuition fees rise in line with the retail price index. that's inflation and the fee will rise would likely come

into force from september 2025, meaning that it will affect a—level students who are currently applying to universities. that includes my kids. let's now get the latest with our political editor, chris hope. chris, welcome to the show. here we go again. another labour u—turn. i seem to remember sir keir starmer standing on a mandate promising to abolish tuition fees when jeremy corbyn was trying to get his trotters into number 10. and then i definitely remember him saying he benefited greatly from not having to pay tuition fees himself. this will be yet another page in the manual entitled sir keir's flip flops won't it ? won't it? >> well, martin, let's break that down a bit, shall we? i'm joining you now from westminster hall, which has seen its fair share of historical drama over the centuries. a thousand years old. the hammerbeam roof above me . here and here in this me. here and here in this amazingly ancient hall. it's seen a lot of political drama in that time, the latest of which is today in the house of commons. we are going to hear

from bridget phillipson, the education secretary, almost certainly announcing an increase. the first 1 in 8 years of tuition fees from from £9,250 under frozen under the tory part of tory government to £9,535. that's an increase of nearly £200. the maintenance loan will go £200. the maintenance loan will 9° up £200. the maintenance loan will go up for those for poorer students who need help with their living costs. but this is a moment for, i think, for this government. but now the party itself, the labour party, did not say it would cut or increase them in its in its manifesto. but when keir starmer ran to be labour leader back in back in 2020, he said this he would support the abolition of tuition fees and invest in lifelong learning. the abolition of the fees he's now increasing to maybe as much as nine £9,535, so it's not a u—turn by the labour party, but it's certainly a flip flop by the prime minister on where he was just four years

ago. >> and this will no doubt provide opportunities for the conservative party to have their first attack. they have, of course , appointed a shadow course, appointed a shadow education minister, perhaps just in the nick of time, chris, to ask a searing question about this u—turn. later on today. tell us more . tell us more. >> yeah, and there's no, no accident what's happening here is that you've got some big beasts leaving the tory party. shadow frontbench. so just moments ago, andrew mitchell confirmed he is standing down as the shadow foreign secretary. add to that oliver dowden, the former deputy prime minister , former deputy prime minister, jeremy hunt, the former chancellor and shadow chancellor , chancellor and shadow chancellor, james cleverly, the former shadow home secretary and rishi sunak. that's almost a mount rushmore of senior players on the top jobs. i think in the last tory government they are all clearing off to the backbenches, leaving the field open to new names. so we have now. laura trott confirmed as the secretary of state for

education, neil o'brien , education, neil o'brien, crucially, a supporter of robert jenrick . of course, he lost out jenrick. of course, he lost out in the leadership at the weekend to 1510 00:11:08,904