let's catch up with it all now with christopher hope, our political editor . ristopher, what do you editor. christopher, what do you think are the big takeaway moments today? i should mention to people that are listening on the radio? you're on a fast moving battle bus as things stand, so we'll hope the line holds . holds. >> that's right. hi, tom. yeah i'm travelling through the scottish highlands with the prime minister's party. he's hit the ground running . of course, the ground running. of course, the ground running. of course, the time of the election was his choice. he could plan for this big day today. he started in london. he went to erewash. maggie throup seat held with a majority of ten. >> we did warn you. we did warn you . oh, i think we might have you. oh, i think we might have christopher back. the highlands . christopher back. the highlands. not the best place for signal in the world, but christopher hope we've got you back . and of we've got you back. and of course, so i know. okay, we're gonna we're gonna see if we can catch up with christopher

i'm christopher hope gb nation.al editor, sitting in for sir jacob news, political editor, sitting in for sirjacob rees—mogg. in for sir jacob rees—mogg. we've been discussing the israel crisis with hamas and the sussexes. and you've been getting in touch. tony says that the bbc ran a number of commercial channels which carry adverts . yeah, tony's right, but adverts. yeah, tony's right, but the question is, should those adverts continue on to podcasts? alan says simply bring meghan and harry home. i think he means the duke and duchess of sussex there, alan, but thank you for that. and steve says why does anybody care about these two? well, steve, many would agree with you. now, last month the unherd website revealed how an organisation partly funded by the uk government is censoring journalism. unherd says it receives between 2 and 6% of the advertising revenue expected for an online magazine of its size because of claims of the actions of an organisation called the global disinformation index, or the gdi. now the

well, let's cross to downing street now with christopher hope. our political editor. christopher, what a day it has been, very few people woke up this morning thinking we were going to enter a general election campaign. it's been reverberating through westminster. what's the reaction? been on the ground ? reaction? been on the ground? >> well, it depends who you ask. laboun >> well, it depends who you ask. labour, of course. can't wait for an election. they are the opposition. they have to be ready for an election. tory mps, the ones i'm speaking to , are the ones i'm speaking to, are pretty cross. tom. i'm hearing letters are going in tonight . letters are going in tonight. the prime minister, they are concerned about why on earth the pm is going, having election when he's 21 points behind in the polls . we heard what he said the polls. we heard what he said from the lectern behind us. it's about certain vie delivery of the tory party's, his plans against uncertainty of labour. but a lot of tory mps do not understand it. they listen again to that statement, saying the

4th and we go now to downing street with our political edhon street with our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, how's rishi played? a blinder or has he got this all wrong ? wrong? >> well, time will tell , won't >> well, time will tell, won't it, patrick? and good evening from downing street, where jeremy hunt has just arrived back from this fundraiser. the pm has been in charge of over in east london. the election starts today. it has caught virtually everybody , apart from a few everybody, apart from a few people around the prime minister, completely unawares . i minister, completely unawares. i was talking with a member of the whips office earlier tonight. they told their flock there two dozen mps or so. there will be an election in november. i have been told for ages it will be in november because that's when it makes sense, because by then you may have had some cuts in interest rates, maybe two of those from the mpc, the monetary policy committee. by then, inflation is down to well under or around 2. net migration falls . patrick. illegal migration may start to tick down. eve

so let me cross live to our political editor, christopher hope. christopher good evening to you.oke to you, i think it was on the m40 on a bus somewhere. it's good to have you back in the studio. what have we missed today? >> hi, michelle. it's great to be back in the studio with you. yeah, it's been a busy day for rachel reeves. now she's been making a speech in derby setting out what the labour government might do or more often than not, won't do if they win power. in the speech and an interview with me for gb news afterwards at rolls—royce's plant, there , she rolls—royce's plant, there, she made clear labour would not increase national insurance will not increase income tax will not increase corporation tax and have no plans for wealth taxes, thatis have no plans for wealth taxes, that is a big sub space moved, moved to one side to raise money for any plans. the labour's idea is to fund tax growth, tax cuts from growth and the economy is forecast to grow. if labour does win power on july the 4th. so that's where they are and they've been responding and i think slightly tetchi

so it is this is true, christopher hope.nd he's saying that they are desperately trying to stop the election . election. >> well, i mean, first of all, you say it's remarkable. it should be remarkable. but it's so entirely typical of all the infighting that's gone on and all the undermining of rishi sunak position that's gone on oven sunak position that's gone on over, you know, the last couple of years, that is not remarkable at all. it's almost predictable, but it just shows you what an utterly chaotic circus they are, and the only choice , if it were and the only choice, if it were just keir starmer is choice between chaos and no policies at all. yeah >> look, let me stick with this breaking line that we're getting here @gbnews from our political edhon here @gbnews from our political editor, which is there is an ongoing plot to call off the election. i think i might know why. i think we all probably know why, but here's how many seats each party is projected to win. if the general election was held today , labour 443, hel

christopher hope, thank you very much for joining christopher hope, thank you very much forjoining usuch for joining us live from inverness. well, with me now is someone you might recognise who normally sits in this chair at this time . sirjacob rees—mogg this time. sirjacob rees—mogg is with me, as well as our esteemed panel gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson , the former editor of nelson, the former editor of labourlist, peter edwards and the barrister and former tory mp jerry hayes. well, jacob, let's start with you. first full day of campaigning. start with you. first full day of campaigning . and i was just of campaigning. and i was just writing down where christopher hope was saying he was following the prime minister from london to erewash, derbyshire to wales , to erewash, derbyshire to wales, in the vale of glamorgan and then up to inverness. he's done three countries in one day. >> yeah, well, the prime minister has got lots of energy and he's well organised. >> he's got his campaign off to a flying start. this is really important. the momentum in campaigns is

listening to it was our political editor, christopher hope. live from downing street.this sign of more to come . this sign of more to come. >> yes. and hi, tom. that's right. you heard there the attack on sir keir starmer. you'll hear more of that over the next six weeks. what does he believe in? is he someone who's going to say one thing, anything, frankly, to get elected? that is the tory attack line. we first heard it first, last week when the pm gave a speech at policy exchange. he said, then didn't he, the pm. sorry. forgive me, sir keir starmer supported jeremy corbyn in 2019 and in 2024 he backed a right wing tory mp, now a labour mp, called natalie elphicke. you heard there though , other heard there though, other talking about how he's delivered on, on on covid the energy bill cap how the how how you're seeing there how there's a choice here between stability with the economy and risk with labour and that that is a very defensive play to start any campaign from. but that's all they've got. they can show here quite clearly to voters that that stick with us. the

he's editor, christopher hope. he's not just anywhere.d gents, he is live on the battle boss of rishi sunak. look at that. he's moving. boss of rishi sunak. look at that. he's moving . we're going that. he's moving. we're going to be able to test in real time the broadband connectivity up and down the country whilst we're doing this, because if we lose you, we'll know that it's not up to much in your neck of the woods. tell us where you are and bring everyone up to speed of the goings on of the day . of the goings on of the day. >> michelle. good evening. great to on your show. i'm on the m40 heading back to london after an extraordinary 36 hours with the prime minister. we started set off yesterday, going to derbyshire , to erewash, and then derbyshire, to erewash, and then we flew to cardiff in wales, to a brewery, then flew to the highlands overnight, where we went to the port of nigg, where they build these wind farms, then flew today to belfast and then flew today to belfast and then where we where we went to the, the titanic quarter

in a moment with state of the nation, christopher hope is in forjacob christopher hope is in for jacob . first aidan mcgivern rees—mogg. first aidan mcgivern and the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> hi there, time for a look at the weather with the met office for gb news. cloud and rain moves east very slowly over the next 24 hours. showers follow the main band of rain that we've seen across western parts during the day, and it's going to turn cooler across the country as we lose the warm sunshine that we've seen so much of during the last few days. we do keep some clear spells in the east on monday night, but otherwise there is this cloud and rain progressing. its way very slowly eastwards, followed by showers into the southwest , interspersed into the southwest, interspersed by clear spells where we do get some clear spells in the west. temperatures will dip into the single figures, but otherwise it's 12 to 15 celsius. first thing tuesday and a damp, dreary start for central and southern scotland, nor

joining me now, as promised, is christopher hope christopher. of course.s is political editor . you've had a busy day, editor. you've had a busy day, day six of the campaign chopper. my day six of the campaign chopper. my goodness, have we got the energy for this? have we got the stamina? i hope so, and you've been busy. first of all, covering nigel's speech. it made headunes covering nigel's speech. it made headlines across all publications and broadcasters, but not necessary in a way that you might expect, not least after bbc presenter geeta guru—murthy mask appeared to slip when she made a remark in reaction to some of the comments he had made. >> that's right, that was the bbc there, those remarks saying that that was inflammatory comments. the bbc then had to apologise. it just shows, i think, that we are in a in getting towards the white heat. these the, the embers of the, of the election campaign are warming up in the great right, right now. today i was in derby with rolls royce, camilla listening to rachel reeves and i was so struck. i was so struc

well, christopher hope, thank you very much.oining us now on the sofas, this is why we're on the sofas after all. that's not us. no. here we are, is gloria de piero, of course, a former the good old days mp. now gb news presenter as well. but, gloria, let's dive into wales first because i've been looking at the numbers . and been looking at the numbers. and the first rule of politics is to learn to count the labour party in the senate, have 30 seats. all opposition parties put together have 30 seats. the convention is the speaker will break in favour of the government. so there's one vote in it. >> yes, but look, this is a general election campaign going on. >> how do you seize the initiative if you are the opponents to the labour party in wales, then you put this vote of no confidence down, which is going to dominate the news agenda on that particular day. >> we're talking about it today. you're not going to win, but it stops the labour party talking about whatever they want to be talking about, a bit like actually the tories a

. >> yes, well , let's speak to our >> yes, well, let's speak to our political editor, christopher hopekinghamshire , hope, who is in buckinghamshire, and also our correspondent katherine forster, who is in wales , christopher, just a quick wales, christopher, just a quick word from you on this , word from you on this, immigration policy announcement from the reform party . from the reform party. >> wales. yes. hi, tom. >> hi, emily. yes difficult, isn't it, to that net, that net immigration policy which you talked about there, which had been the plan set out a few weeks ago from reform. but i think it's got something for it. theidea think it's got something for it. the idea of british jobs for british workers has been mooted since gordon brown was in power, and we do know that lots of companies have brought in lots of cheap labour, which has meant we have got a lot of people who aren't working in this country on benefits. if you can give a tax cut for companies that do employ people who are british, british, it might actually work. it's quite a radical policy, which i think will be sta

joining me now, as promised, is christopher hope christopher. of course.ews is political editor . you've had a busy day, editor. you've had a busy day, day six of the campaign chopper. my day six of the campaign chopper. my goodness, have we got the energy for this? have we got the stamina? i hope so, and you've been busy. first of all, covering nigel's speech. it made headunes covering nigel's speech. it made headlines across all publications and broadcasters, but not necessary in a way that you might expect, not least after bbc presenter geeta guru—murthy mask appeared to slip when she made a remark in reaction to some of the comments he had made. >> that's right, that was the bbc there, those remarks saying that that was inflammatory comments. the bbc then had to apologise. it just shows, i think, that we are in a in getting towards the white heat. these the, the embers of the, of the election campaign are warming up in the great right, right now. today i was in derby with rolls royce, camilla listening to rachel reeves and i was so struck. i was so str

i'll just say, you can watch that documentary with christopher hope, our political edhon christopher have been. right? let's rattle through the union jack asses. so go on, the guy who jumped the new zealand man who jumped on that whale. that's quite horrifying, actually. >> yeah , ridiculous. but fined >> yeah, ridiculous. but fined £600. he's lucky to be alive, and he'll go on to another, the bbc. >> do you know why? >> do you know why? >> all right. >> all right. >> the union jack every week. >> the union jack every week. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> it's a theme. there's a theme going. amy, here's your union jackass, jeremy hunt for using up civil service time and money, points out facts . points out facts. >> attack the government. >> attack the government. >> i'm not sure that's in their remit . remit. >> okay. >> okay. >> okay, fine, and today's, we need jack carson the bbc. >> so for the old. that's shocking , but for the old, you shocking, but for the old, you know, mixed legacy of the butcher of tehran. >> all of that stuff. right. well, look, i will be back again tomorrow at 9 pm. m

let's bring the tweet up that we've got here from from christopher hope. all right.ps are tonight working on a plot to call off the general election by replacing rishi sunak as leader before parliament has been dissolved . he believes several dissolved. he believes several more letters of no confidence have been submitted . and so he have been submitted. and so he went to the king. you think, before announcing it deliberately to try to stop his own mps from ousting him? i mean, what a way to start an election campaign. >> i mean, i, i mean, i can't guarantee that, but i mean , guarantee that, but i mean, that's certainly one way to do it, isn't it? but i think now, patrick, we've got to take the fight to labour. i'm seriously worried about a labour government . i think this is an government. i think this is an election, of a of a generation. it's a most important election of a generation. this and i'm going to fight tooth and nail to stop a starmer led labour government because look, we've seen he's a man who kneels. he's a man who is so low key , he, he a man who is

and christopher hope is with us.mean, i've known craig for a long time and i'd heard he'd been so ill. >> but chris, extraordinary. his fortitude. he's coming back to work. when you think how many tory mps are abandoning parliament cause they think they might lose their seat. yeah and he's got a majority of 10 or 11,000. >> might well leave the model of pubuc >> might well leave the model of public service, isn't it? and you set aside. he's obviously not everyone's cup of tea. he's marmite. he's on the erg. he's one of 28 spartan tories who fought theresa may's deal . one of 28 spartan tories who fought theresa may's deal. he chairs the brexiteer. brexiteer. he's a net zero scrutiny group chairman. he doesn't like net zero much or he like he understands it, doesn't want to be imposed government diktats on people. but all that to one side. he's lost his arms and legs and he wants to be fight and win his seat again in south thanet, becoming east thanet in a general election. it's a it's a general election. it's a it's

joining us now is our political editor , our political editor, christopher hope, christopher, what wille public at large? rishi sunak talking about defence spending and a dangerous world. or keir starmer out and about with all his regional mayors talking about, levelling up. >> well, the proof will be in the pudding on that one. emily. it's very clear, though, that sunakis it's very clear, though, that sunak is coming out fighting after those very difficult local election results. i mean, in the wake of that, he was saying that it looks like we're heading for a hung parliament in the next election with keir starmer as therefore, as the prime minister and labour as the biggest party, and labour as the biggest party, and then in a press conference today after the speech, he denied really saying that and instead said that he thinks that his party can win that majority . his party can win that majority. vie he's trying to stress this idea of security with with me. trust me, it's a very dangerous place. the next five years, the back end of the 2020s, don't risk it all on on keir starmer, he

. >> well, mckinley and his wife spoke to our political editor, christopher hope , about his christopher hope, about his journey. but just to warn you, the following report does contain some sensitive images . contain some sensitive images. >> but one day, his life changed. suddenly. it was one of those days that will be etched on craig's memory for life . it on craig's memory for life. it was the end of september 2023. he was getting ready to go on houday he was getting ready to go on holiday with his family. he started to feel unwell and unexpectedly , craig had unexpectedly, craig had contracted sepsis. >> so the grim reaper let me survive. but he's taken his payment in four of my limbs. but that's the way it is. plenty of worse things happening. >> that is it. no way back. and, yes, he was very matter of fact. he accepted that they black. they're not any use anymore . and they're not any use anymore. and that's it. so he had a very long, a very long operation . and long, a very long operation. and he did come back , without those he did come back, without those black arms and legs. a

but i mean, to have i mean, christopher hope you're christopher hope, you know , did a wonderful tweetwonderful tweet last night saying, you know, did a wonderful tweet last night saying , you know, i know, did a wonderful tweet last night saying, you know, i hear that the conservatives are trying to stop the general election . yeah. i mean, have you election. yeah. i mean, have you had any truth in that, charlie? >> have you heard those rumours? >> have you heard those rumours? >> well, i, i saw the tweet and i saw a flurry of tweets after that from, from from people. i think, you know, it has taken the party by surprise. there's no doubt about it. i think people were expecting it to go to the autumn. that's where the smart money was. and so i think people might have planned for a summer holiday. they might have planned to have a summer in their constituencies to try and, you know, get back to their, their roots and, and be able to sort of, again, build up a sort of personal platform with the electorate ahead of a general election. but as it happens, i think they've, you know, people

well, we're going to see if we can get christopher hope up very, very soon to talk through preciselyd seats? and is, lord frost, david frost, the former brexit negotiator among them, or is it a whole hoo—ha over nothing. >> we'll find out. we will find out. >> but of course, we're approaching. we're approaching voting no. we're approaching the 80th anniversary of the d—day. it's been a long week. >> it's been a long week. please forgive us. >> yeah, well, that was, of course, the beginning of the end of the second world war in 1944, as allied troops retook at first france and then all of europe from the grip of nazi germany. >> yes. to mark the occasion, various events have been taking place across the uk, including one lighting their legacy torch eventin one lighting their legacy torch event in harrogate today. >> well, our reporter anna riley was there . she joins us now. and was there. she joins us now. and anna, what's this event all about ? about? >> good afternoon to you both. well, this event is put on by the commonwealth war graves commission . the lighting their commission.

while our political editor christopher hope, caught up with sir keir earlier on today. sir keir earlier on today. and here's what he had to say. >> keir starmer, thanks for joining gb news. what is this? is it a pledge card? >> it is the first steps towards the delivery of the missions that i've set out, which will transform this country and take it forward for everybody, for their families, their communities . so it's the first communities. so it's the first steps, the down payment, if you like, on the change that we want to bring about for the country, change that's desperately needed i >> -- >> thank hum >> thank you. >> thank you. >> then number three, launch a new border security command. you're not saying stop the boats. you're not talking about the outcomes . just how are you the outcomes. just how are you going to do it? why is that hopeful for people who want to deal with illegal migration? >> i want to be really clear. no dodi, but nobody should be making that journey across the channelin making that journey across the channel in a small boat. this government

. >> well, let's speak to our political editor, christopher hope.'s been on the tory battlebus in the west country today. chris, there you are, ploughing along more road miles than alan whicker. i want to ask you a basic question on this one. why should the taxpayer care about what students waste their money on? we live in a free market. why is rishi sunak extending the state control to who can take what degrees and why ? why? >> hi martin, great to be on the show . i'm charging through devon show. i'm charging through devon on the way to another. the third of three stops here. we came overnight with the prime minister on the on the overnight sleeper train to penzance. we've been to liskeard and we're off now towards devon for another event which will bring to you live on your programme within an houn live on your programme within an hour. an hour and a half or so. yeah. why should the state get involved? it's a very, very good question. the government's concerned that the market for degrees has ballooned since the labour expanded it back in the 90s

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we'll go to christopher hope he's in, he's in scotland. yes. with the scottish labour leader.nched their big green energy plan. chopper, what's going on. >> morning. yeah. are you joining me in glasgow here with anas sarwar, the scottish labour leader , you're here unveiling leader, you're here unveiling your great british energy plan. how much will it save families? >> look, we have got two parts of this plan. one is the immediate, which is partly using the windfall tax to drive down people's bills. >> but also the medium to longer term, which is gb energy, a publicly owned energy generation company that will be headquartered here in scotland, helping to make those strategic investments in onshore wind, offshore wind , tidal, solar, offshore wind, tidal, solar, hydrogen, as well as carbon capture and storage, which we believe can bring down people's bills permanently . alongside bills permanently. alongside that, of course, the economic stability that's required to drive down inflation and bring down the cost of people's mortgages . and another part of mortgages. and another

this is pmqs live on gb news with gloria de piero and christopher hope.ak and sir keir starmer go head to head in a weekly joust. prime minister's questions straight from the house of commons chamber will have full coverage every moment, every spit and cough. we'll be getting the full reaction from cabinet office minister alex burghart and shadow education minister matt weston, and we've got a couple of minutes before we go live to the house of commons. >> so let us go to labour's matt western, keir starmer, the labour leader. he gets six questions today. what should he be asking the prime minister. >> well it's a bit of a turkey issue isn't it. i think there's just it's wide open, all sorts of areas he could be exploiting. i've got to say personally , i'm i've got to say personally, i'm really concerned about the housing situation in the uk. i was very i picked up this morning that, in scotland, they've got this motion, that's going through just about a declaring a housing crisis. i think that exists right across the uk. but particularly in england. and

our political editor, christopher hope, is up in scotland.ne forster is also with us in the north west. but let's go to chris first because you've been talking to the leader of the scottish labour party, anas sarwar . labour party, anas sarwar. >> yeah. hi tom. and hi emily here from glasgow. that's right. we've been here for the unveiling of great british energy. a logo is being put out there. this is a state owned wind power, the green energy business which labour will set up if sir keir starmer becomes prime minister in five weeks time, there's been some questions about sir keir starmer. he flew here by private jet. now close followers of this kind of thing will know that labouris kind of thing will know that labour is always criticising . labour is always criticising. rishi sunak was saying the same thing, sir keir starmer had to admit that in a press conference. and i asked anas sarwar, the scottish leader, whether he felt this was hypocritical . hypocritical. >> of course he's going to offset his carbon emissions, as you would expect hi

tonight, i ask you, hopefully absolutely nowhere, look, let me cross live to our political editor, christopher hope. christopher, good evening to you. i mean, i've just been pontificating at the absolute spectacle of the prime minister. absolutely pounng prime minister. absolutely pouring wet . it was certainly pouring wet. it was certainly a surprise to many. bring everybody up to speed. if they're just tuning in. >> yeah, it surprised many in westminster. michel and good evening from our studio here in, in in the qe2 centre in westminster. a few saw it coming . it's been, it's been rumoured, been rumoured a while that there would be this, this election to be called, but we thought it would be november. not, not now. and that's why it's such a surprise to so many people. i think this is the biggest gamble, michel, taken by a sitting prime minister being so far behind the polls in living political memory. he's 21 behind, behind points behind the polls , according to ipsos mori. polls, according to ipsos mori. the gamble has to be, as he said there, that that is a soft lead for the labour party. whe

sunak does exactly the same thing, he sat down after the speech with gb news political editor christopher hope first question that chris asked was about tax reform. >> we, have said we will raise taxes. we've set out what we will raise and what we'll spend the money on. so what you did hear this morning is that we're going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools. we did here is we're going to get rid of the non—dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists. the tax burden on people is as high as it's ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time. i think, chris hope asked him, well, you know, who do you support? >> where's your consistency? what do you really stand for? >> your opponent ? the prime >> your opponent? the prime minister said on monday that you're someone who backed jeremy corbyn in 2019, a left wing politician. now you're backing natalie elphicke, a right wing politician. what do you stand for? do you stand for anyth

let's have a clip of what keir starmer said to christopher hope about immigration. >> number three, launchsecurity command. you're not saying stop the boat. >> nobody but nobody should be making that journey across the channelin making that journey across the channel in a small boat. i think that we can smash the vile gangs that we can smash the vile gangs that are running this trade, that are running this trade, that are running this trade, that are making a fortune putting people into boats. gimmicks such as rwanda, which cost a fortune and removes less than 1% of those arriving by small boat, is not going to work. i want to tackle the very real problem with a serious response . response. >> this is exactly what the government has been trying and this hasn't actually worked. because without a deterrent for people to come, all the command and control, all the money given to the french, all the extra resources hasn't stopped people coming. and there's no plan to stop the boats. the conservative government, which you personify. >> now, tell me about a policy i'm going to tell you. >> i was

. >> and also, i noticed yesterday , christopher hope, our political editor, he was picking up on somehat there was a little bit of, plotting going on, potentially , and going on, potentially, and people in the tory party not willing to accept that decision that was made by rishi sunak. did anything come of that today or not? >> not at the moment, but it is worth saying the conservative party is deeply fractious at the best of times, and i think controlling them or having any semblance of control over them was becoming increasingly difficult for rishi sunak. i suspect that that probably also played a part into why he's decided to go now. now, of course , no one knows the number course, no one knows the number of letters that have gone into sir graham brady except sir graham brady. but yeah, a lot of speculation and that there could be an attempt to stop this general election . i have to say general election. i have to say i think it's very, very unlikely. but then i also have to say i didn't think we'd have a prime minister that only lasted seven weeks, and i didn't think they'd get ri

speaking to gb news political editor christopher hope, miss reeves said wages remain flat and taxpayersonstantly asked to pay more for less. >> everything that i put forward will be fully costed and fully funded because i will never play fast and loose with the public finances, because when you do so , you put family finances and pensioners finances in peril. and the conservatives are now adding bauble after bauble to the christmas tree without any idea of how they're going to fund these new commitments. yesterday they said they were going to use this money to create national service scheme. today, they're saying they'll use the same pot of money to give a tax break for pensioners . give a tax break for pensioners. well, the reason that pensioners are paying more tax today is because of decisions by this conservative prime minister >> the deputy labour leader has accused the conservatives of using desperate tactics after greater manchester police said today it's going to be taking no further action in its investigation into the sale of her council house. back in 2015, angela rayner had

prime minister approved this suggestion a few months ago when he was talking to our very own christopher hope wandering around your conference first time in decades. would you have him back as a member of the tory party? no. >> the tory party is a very broad church, right? i welcome lots of people who want to subscribe to our ideals, to our values. right. >> so, rishi sunak is happy with this. so we can have him have him in. well as you just heard the prime minister say, we welcome anyone who prescribes to our values. and i think there's the sense of what is it that bnngs the sense of what is it that brings someone like nigel farage into the tory party >> it's not the tory party moving towards nigel farage. and i think that's the big difference that we have to understand, jacob. and i'd say , understand, jacob. and i'd say, you know, because we heard there, nigel, that very interesting conversation that you both had and within a couple of minutes you were disagreeing because, look , no one can take because, look, no one can take away from nigel farage has been away from nigel farage has been

. >> you've been watching and listen to pmqs live with gloria de piero and me, christopher hope, don'tming up next, it's good afternoon britain with tom and emily. thanks for joining afternoon britain with tom and emily. thanks forjoining . us. emily. thanks forjoining. us. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> welcome along to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. many places. seeing a bit of sunshine today, but for some it's pretty drab over parts of northern and eastern england. highest temperatures to the north of this weather front across northern scotland. low pressure down to the southwest , down to the southwest, generating some showers for devon and cornwall and this weather front is that cloudier zone, pretty drab over much of northern england and eastern england. rain and drizzle on and off here. maybe some heavier showers over the midlands later, but much of wales, southeast england dry and bright with some sunshine . plenty of sunshine sunshine. plenty of sunshine across norther

but one detail i could add, which we haven't heard yet, is that, gb's own christopher hope tweeted thatme furious conservative mps tonight working on a plot to call off the general election by replacing sunak ezedi before parliament is dissolved next thursday. so imagine that you get in all your letters and you oust him and you call off the whole thing. i can't believe that would be allowed to happen because it would be such a bleep storm. but even by the tory standards, that would be absurd. i would imagine also undermine their own, you know, their legitimacy. >> exactly. yeah, absolutely. yeah. >> even more going into election with the third unelected with your fingernails scraping along. >> yeah. but also the idea that like another leader would make a difference. >> i don't know if who who they get in. >> no churchill maybe would do it. >> i mean, the one thing somebody said this on, on twitter, which i thought was quite interesting that starmer, if he does come in, will be the first sort of not just post—war but post. there was a generation of prime ministers who were who had seen a

we've seen christopher hope on the bus with the sunak team this morning.e forster out there . we've got keir starmer there. we've got keir starmer who was down in kent this morning. you know they're going to meet her in surrey. they're all focused. they're all trying to get your vote. now all around the country. and so suddenly it feels like it all very much . feels like it all very much. >> and you know, the house of commons doesn't get prorogued until next week. but i can tell you it'll be a ghost town . oh, you it'll be a ghost town. oh, i'm sure they've abandoned ship in their constituencies . in their constituencies. >> yeah. good morning gary, you've said the biggest problem about the july the fourth will be the low turnout and the average person not voting because of all the extreme minority groups will be out in force , changing our political force, changing our political landscape for the next five years, or in some cases forever, where we won't recognise the uk anymore. i will be voting and it won't be labour, but i will not stand by and let the