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labour are doing 1 in 10. think labour are doing a good job in government showing a good job in government showing a collapse in support unprecedented in the modern era, with voters experiencing so—called buyer's remorse. is that you.7 but so—called buyer's remorse. is that you? but it's not all doom and gloom for keir starmer. he seems to have a fan in wait for it. president trump, who maintains the prime minister is doing his words a very good job thus far and that the pair have a very good relationship. could the president help boost the pm's popularity at home? oh yes. and do bored blokes really have a secret super power over women? thatis a secret super power over women? that is a new study. and some men, obviously. a new study has found men lacking in the hair department were more likely to be chatted up on putting it politely here by the opposite sex gents, it could be time to consider that razor. i'm dawn neesom and this is the weekend.
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so we have all bases covered this afternoon for you. from starmer to sex and everything in between. and if that's an unpleasant thought for you, i do apologise. it is a sunday afternoon and this show is nothing without you and your views. it really is important to me. so get your thoughts coming in. very, very simple to do so. visiting gb news dot com forward slash your say anything you want to talk about. basically it's a sunday afternoon. anything goes. and talking of anything going these two are keeping me company this afternoon. it is political commentator matthew stadlen and former conservative adviser charlie rowley who are both well, they've got a lot to say on bald men being sexy, and one of them might be nearly in that category a no names, no pack drill just yet. but before we get stuck into today's stories, here is the news with the very lovely sophia wenzler.
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>> dawn. thank you. good afternoon. it'sjust >> dawn. thank you. good afternoon. it's just gone. 1:00. these are your headlines. the home secretary has warned tech companies terrorist material viewed by southport killer axel rudakubana could inspire another atrocity unless they take action. yvette cooper has written to meta, tiktok, google and youtube, calling on them to urgently review material accessed by the killer, which is still available on nine rudakubana easily downloaded an al—qaeda training manual and watched graphic footage of a terrorist knife attack before he killed three young girls. it comes as it's been revealed the home office missed several opportunities to identify him as a terror threat. meanwhile, conservative leader kemi badenoch told gb news the issue of integration must be looked at following the attack. >> he should have been in love with this country. he should have been saying, this is the
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best country on earth, i say. and the. parents and the parents, i don't know. i don't know if they did or not, because that's how i feel. and i do think that we need to have a broader conversation about integration in this country. it's got to be active, not passive. it didn't matter so much when only a handful of people were coming from nearby countries at a very slow rate. now, people from all over the place are coming very quickly, and because of technology, they can still keep their heads and their cultures elsewhere. this is dangerous. >> meanwhile, the government says stricter checks for online knife purchases will be introduced following the southport attack. retailers selling knives online will require id to purchase and also on delivery. it's after it emerged the southport killer axel rudakubana bought the knife he used to kill three young girls from amazon when he was just 17 years old. the government has now brought forward planned changes to onune forward planned changes to online knife sales. in other news, donald trump has said he
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thinks sir keir starmer has done a very good job thus far and said the pair will speak over the phone over the next 24 hours. the us president said he and the prime minister get along well, despite sir keir being liberal, which he said is a little bit different from me. mr trump told reporters on air force one that his first international trip could be to the uk or saudi arabia, the first country he travelled to as president during his first term. sir keir most recently met with mr trump at trump tower in new york during the presidential campaign. a 53 year old man has been charged with the murder of 48 year old claire chick, who was found fatally injured in a street in plymouth. miss chick, who was previously known as claire butler, was taken to hospital but sadly died on thursday. paul butler has been charged with her murder and is due to appear before plymouth magistrates court tomorrow. israel has prevented thousands
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of displaced palestinians from returning home to northern gaza after accusing hamas of breaching the ceasefire deal. this comes after hamas released four israeli female soldiers and israel freed 200 palestinian prisoners. but the israeli government said palestinians would not be allowed to travel north until plans were in place for the release of israeli civilian arbel yahud. according to the deal, hamas was to release civilians before soldiers. a 19 year old man has died after his car was struck by a falling tree in scotland dunng a falling tree in scotland during storm arwen, which the met office says was the strongest storm to hit the uk in ten years, with wind gusts of up to 100mph. around 75,000 in northern ireland and 35,000 in scotland are still without power. some will have to wait several days to be reconnected. meanwhile, travel services remain severely disrupted in scotland, with trains and
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ferries suspended and roads closed. and it's not over yet. the spanish, named storm herminia is on the way and will bnng herminia is on the way and will bring heavy rain, gales and hail snow up from the southwest on sunday and monday. and elon musk has made a surprise appearance at a campaign event for germany's right leaning afd, where he urged supporters to move beyond their past guilt. speaking via video link to a haul of around 4500 alternative fur deutschland supporters, the tech billionaire said they are the best hope for germany. >> it's, you know, it's okay to be proud to be german. this is a very important principle and it's okay. it's good to be proud of german culture, german values and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that, that that that dilutes everything. >> those are the latest gb news
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headlines. now it's back to dawn. >> for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to. gbnews.com/alerts. >> thank you very much. i have a rule of thumb normally when i'm working with sophia, who is slightly younger than me, i say not to wear the same colour, right? because no matter what colour it is, she always wears it better than me. and guess what? hey, we're both wearing blue today and guess who looks better in it? yeah, if you want to have a comment on that gbnews.com/yoursay. but keep it nice, please. thank you. okay, now let's get stuck into today's story, shall we? a sir keir starmer continues to face an uphill battle to win back the support of the public. after a turbulent few months, shall we, for his labour government. new polling shows that just 1 in 10
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people think labour are doing a good job, while over half of those asked believe the country is heading in the wrong direction. however, it's not all doom and gloom for starmer. he seems to have a fan in president trump, who maintains that the prime minister is doing a very good job thus far, saying the two have a very good relationship. that special relationship. that special relationship in full there. joining me now is former labour mp lloyd russell—moyle to delve more into this story. lloyd, thank you very much for joining us this morning. now, i think it's fair to say, even as a labour person, that there are some mistakes that keir starmer and co have made. >> well, my, my mp, who's the prime minister's private secretary, said to our clp this week that he acknowledges that, that there are mistakes that have been made. so i think that from the very top, they
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understand that nothing is going to be perfect. but i think we can get too obsessed on polls and polling. if we remember in 1981, thatcher was trailing both labour and the sdp—liberal alliance in third place, and everyone said she was a goner. now, i don't always agree with thatcher's policies or views or what she did, but no one can doubt that she went on to become one of the most successful prime ministers this country has had in terms of electoral terms and in terms of electoral terms and in terms of changing the country in terms of changing the country in her image. so i do think that we can get too worked up about how we can get too worked up about ho
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