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that and bring in new ideas. >> never too early for fish and chips. and in the sport, football. three clubs with a chance to make it into the top four last night, but only one tookit four last night, but only one took it close behind. in cricket, england play their controversial champions trophy against afghanistan game today. and in boxing, chris eubank jr smacks conor benn with an egg. >> we have some heavy rain today. also a bit of hill snow and some hail and thunder possible too. to find out more, stay tuned as i'll have the details coming up. >> hello there. very good morning to you. wherever you're watching. wherever you're listening. this is gb news breakfast. i'm eamonn holmes. >> and i'm ellie costello. >> and i'm ellie costello. >> i know it's only 6:00 in the morning, but seeing that deep fry going on their chips, there

are there are chips in their chips and their fish. >> and chips. >> and chips. >> chips. you're so right. there's a hierarchy. >> they have to be crispy. they have to be. people say fat chips are the best. i'm not a fat chip person. not person, but i'm not a fat chip. >> not a fat person. you're fat chip person. what you like, you don't like the little itty bitty thin fries.7 >> crispy. yeah. >> crispy. yeah. >> you like it.7 >> you like it.7 >> no, no, i don't care if it's an— >> no, no, i don't care if it's an ordinary potato, but if it's if it's more shrivelled than than not. >> it has to be kind of a bronzed colour. is that what you mean? >> i don't like a big fat bit of potato. yeah. battered. >> do you like a wedge? >> do you like a wedge? >> no. >> no. >> i know what you're saying, but i like a proper chippy chip. >> yeah. fish shop chip and chip is the best chip. >> very nice. >> very nice. >> but you see, there are lots of people who have chip shops and who just can't do it. >> can't do it. i agree with that. >> you can walk past and you think i'm not going in there then. >> but don't you know from the outside whether or not their chips are good? don't you think. >> there's a smell, there's a certain aroma. >> and you know it's going to be

good valentine's day. what do we do? going to the fish and chippy. very. it wasn't the plan but we saw the chips and. >> and it was it a sit in fish and chippy. >> no. took it and ate it in the car. very romantic. >> my favourite was the peter mandelson fish and chips story, the peter mandelson fish and chips story in hartlepool. and this was this was years ago and he went up to hartlepool and it was when he was an mp and went up there and said so they've got the fish and chips and they've got the green stuff. and he said, oh, and i'll have a pot of that guacamole as well to go. and it was, it was mushy peas. btec. yes. so yes, with guacamole. >> what would you have as your order? >> i'd have cotton chips. you'd have cotton cotton chips twice, please. >> no, i'm a haddock man. >> no, i'm a haddock man. >> with curry sauce. >> with curry sauce. >> haddock. i could have curry sauce. >> no, i couldn't. >> no, i couldn't. >> do with it. >> do with it. >> yeah. no, i don't do the curry sauce. >> i just salt, vinegar and a sausage. actually, guys, i'm just going to put it out. >> there, okay? >> there, okay? >> not a battered one. >> not a battered one. >> and will you say when they say do you want fish and chips. would you want salt and vinegar with that. will you have them do it there and then. or do you wait till you get home? >> lots of both. >> lots of both. >> very nice. >> very nice.

>> do they know what. >> do they know what. >> they're doing? >> they're doing? >> wrap it up. haddock is much ignored, but i do think i agree. haddock is a meatier type. >> cod. >> cod. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's very expensive now though. cod and haddock. >> yeah, i know you're talking about £12. for fish and chips. >> nobody's gonna. there's no chip shop in the land open now. >> well, there's anybody. anybody. please could you honestly could at this time of the morning, sit down, eat full fish and chips cos i could. >> i think i could. >> i think i could. >> you know. absolutely. >> you know. absolutely. >> it's never too early. it's never too early. anyway, let us know what your order is. >> and that's why i object to places like mcdonald's not serving burgers until 11:00. >> right. okay. >> right. okay. >> they serve wraps and they serve those squidgy egg things that they do and whatever. >> that's quite good to be fair. breakfast bap. >> yeah, but you can only buy a burger from 11:00. >> well, i think you should take that up with mcdonald's. i think they'd listen to you as well. >> which for us, 11:00 in the morning is pretty much 4:00 in the afternoon for most people. >> at the end of the day. yeah. >> at the end of the day. yeah. >> see you later, paul. >> see you later, paul. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> prime minister has announced plans to cut foreign aid by £6 billion. i must admit, yesterday, watching the news coverage on this it. i honestly had to smile because bbc and channel 4, particularly

hand—wringing on everything. they're cutting the foreign aid budget. oh my goodness me, it's the end of the world. what are we going to do now? i take the view that, you know, this is our country, our money. it's up to us to do what we want with it. if we want to spend it in foreign aid, fine. no one asked me. no one asked me to spend money on foreign aid. they just did it. so, like me, i suppose no one has had a say on where this money goes. but channel 4 and bbc are wringing their hands about the whole thing. there's only so much we can do. we've got people sleeping on the streets here, people starving with people who can't pay their heating bills, and we are complaining about everything else that's going on over the world. we cannot solve the world's problems, so why are we trying give us the details? >> well, this is part of sir keir starmer's plans to increase defence spending 2.5% of gdp by 2027, up from the current figure of 2.3%. so we are talking about

0.2%. >> it's nothing. it's nothing. it's no, they're trying to make out it's a huge increase. it's not. here's what he had to say. >> we will keep our manifesto commitment to spend 2.5% of our gdp on defence. but in light of the grave threats that we face, we will bring forward that target. so we meet it in 2027. we will also set out a clear ambition for defence spending to rise to 3% of gdp. in the next parliament. we will fund the initial increase in defence spending by cutting our spending on overseas development, moving from 0.5% of gnp to 0.3%. >> this man does my head in. he really does. it sounds as if it's the end of the world. it sounds as if he's announcing, you know, we've been invaded and you're all going to die in your beds. it's not. he's cut back

and foreign aid budget, and he's spending it where he should be spending it where he should be spending it where he should be spending it on the british armed forces. okay. so you've got all the critics of the government and they're saying these are broken promises. there was a manifesto pledge you would increase foreign aid. didn't ask me as i said, but there we go. did they ask you, is this decision just to move to woo president trump? yes. >> yes it's true. president trump thinks we should do more. and i agree with him. it chimes with my thinking on this. so this is very much my decision based on my assessmen