liz kershaw emma woolf and shahab mossavat.story, which i think is absolutely fascinating. i've got to say. and it is about royal protocol. emma woolf i don't think that camilla, queen camilla had any choice but to rebuff the gesture because she's responsible for upholding royal tradition. i like camilla, but i thought where's this going. no. >> where's the buts . no >> where's the buts. no i thought this home wrecker, i thought this home wrecker, i thought this home wrecker, i thought this was unworthy . thought this was unworthy. >> three of us in this marriage. >> three of us in this marriage. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, all of that i thought this was unworthy of her. it costs nothing to return a little hand squeeze. she's only been queen for a year or so. i don't know why she's getting all these airs. there's nothing wrong with taking someone's hand. if you look at the princess of wales out and about, or even meghan markle out and about, they are hugging , they are interacting hugging, they are interacting with the public. the

liz kershaw emma woolf and shahab mossavat.story, which i think is absolutely fascinating. i've got to say. and it is about royal protocol. emma woolf i don't think that camilla, queen camilla had any choice but to rebuff the gesture because she's responsible for upholding royal tradition. i like camilla, but i thought where's this going. no. >> where's the buts . no >> where's the buts. no i thought this home wrecker, i thought this home wrecker, i thought this home wrecker, i thought this was unworthy . thought this was unworthy. >> three of us in this marriage. >> three of us in this marriage. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> no, all of that i thought this was unworthy of her. it costs nothing to return a little hand squeeze. she's only been queen for a year or so. i don't know why she's getting all these airs. there's nothing wrong with taking someone's hand. if you look at the princess of wales out and about, or even meghan markle out and about, they are hugging , they are interacting hugging, they are interacting with the public. the

emma woolf and political commentatorjonathan liss. who's commentator jonathan liss. who's next? nless we get serious about long term investment in renewables, not these unpopular things like low traffic neighbourhoods, like electric cars, but not having enough charging points. unless we get long term serious and do the investment that takes decades, then yes, net zero is dead and it's not achievable by 2050. it's really, really ridiculous to decide to bring in. everybody's got to have electric cars and then you haven't got enough charging points. everybody's got to insulate their homes, but you haven't built homes with insulation, fuel price. i mean, people would get behind this stuff if it made sense, if it was affordable and if it worked. lots of people are green and they want to save the planet. they want to achieve net zero, which, by the way, is a pretty meaningless term. you're never going to actually achieve net zero carbon emissions. but anyway, it's the term that we use unless we get serious about that and make it cross—party because what they're doing is one party annou

very, very bad idea . idea. >> okay, emma woolf.der of the opposition, sir keir starmer, unwilling to make a bet with christopher hope, our political editor, about bringing down the number of illegal crossings in his first year. should he win? is that a revealing answer ? that he revealing answer? that he wouldn't do the bet exactly. >> pretty revealing. he won't commit to anything now. you used the words reveal and absorbing about keir starmer, and i don't think anybody could ever argue that that man is revealing. interesting or absorbing. so that's a first. but again, we get the same old, same old. we get the same old, same old. we get this rhetoric about this sort of meaningless rhetoric about we're going to smash the criminal gangs. we're going to have this special elite border force command, you know, sort of big words command elite border through the thesaurus a few times. yeah, exactly. they've chosen the big macho sas words. and what does it come to ? down and what does it come to? down how is this actually going to work? he

very, very bad idea . idea. >> okay, emma woolf.der of the opposition, sir keir starmer, unwilling to make a bet with christopher hope, our political editor, about bringing down the number of illegal crossings in his first year. should he win? is that a revealing answer ? that he revealing answer? that he wouldn't do the bet exactly. >> pretty revealing. he won't commit to anything now. you used the words reveal and absorbing about keir starmer, and i don't think anybody could ever argue that that man is revealing. interesting or absorbing. so that's a first. but again, we get the same old, same old. we get the same old, same old. we get this rhetoric about this sort of meaningless rhetoric about we're going to smash the criminal gangs. we're going to have this special elite border force command, you know, sort of big words command elite border through the thesaurus a few times. yeah, exactly. they've chosen the big macho sas words. and what does it come to ? down and what does it come to? down how is this actually going to work? he

and great niece, emma woolf.use their privileged positions and voices to influence votes in our general election and in our taste of britain segment, we will be savouring some of the best british ice creams. that's the scoop. step away . away. welcome to the second hour of sunday with michael portillo on gb news. the fearsome noonday sun beats down upon us mercilessly by one of the paradoxes made possible by television . withdraw into the television. withdraw into the shade with us in order to achieve enlightenment. in other words, please spend the next hour with me as we expose ourselves unprotected by any uv factor to informed opinion on political , artistic factor to informed opinion on political, artistic and factor to informed opinion on political , artistic and creative political, artistic and creative subjects. as france votes today possibly to install marine le pen's party in office and as britain polls on thursday , britain polls on thursday, possibly to put labour in downing street. our britain and euro

i am still joined by my panel nichi hodgson and emma woolf to digest what nigel has said.ery optimistic, upbeat. speech i think very optimistic, upbeat . and nigel, whatever you upbeat. and nigel, whatever you think of his politics and many, many people support him , it was many people support him, it was a speech that actually was rallying. you listened to it. unlike watching starmer and sunak. or you merge their names together very nicely . earlier on together very nicely. earlier on i thought, unlike watching them, which is a bit like watching paint dry, to be honest. i know he's preaching to the converted at the rally, but it was a very positive and looking forward speech. >> yeah , exactly. and i think >> yeah, exactly. and i think the country desperately needs some optimism. i know we're in summer, but it's been an up and down summer. and i think for a couple of years now, probably since lockdown, we've been in this kind of terminal decline, not only kind of economic decline , but actually with the decline, but actually with the nation's mental health, with young peo

that's kevin schofield and emma woolf right. >> i think we should go to emma woolf first. >> yeah. >>eah. >> let's go emma. we just when we thought this might have been settled and we had the cast report and all sides seem to be agreeing here, we've got on the front page of the times and the telegraph today. labour are going to shift the goalposts again . again. >> and the thing is, you guys are joking about that. but we're adults and we and we can joke about that sort of tongue in cheek. what do all these different identities mean ? you different identities mean? you know, people chopping off genitals, all of that. but actually there are two questions here. there's gender identity, biological reality, which we can debate as adults. and then there's the very serious issue of this gender ideology in our children's classrooms. and it absolutely appalling. it's a complex, complex issue that we have created as adults, partly from the beginning of people questioning their sexuality and all of that. fine. that's on us. but when you start introducing that to young children, to young teens, i

let's have a quick look at the papers this morning with gp doctor renee hoenderkamp and the author emma woolfg, morning, morning. >> morning, emma. >> morning, emma. >> let's kick off with the front of the telegraph, because it's sort of following on from what was all happening last night that we were talking to kevin hollinrake about, sunak saying, don't surrender britain to laboun don't surrender britain to labour. i mean, it's very evocative language. yeah. >> i mean, i lost count of the number of times there. kevin hollinrake said, we have a plan. i think after 20 i kind of gave up.and i think after 20 i kind of gave up. and sometimes i think i think you're right, stephen. sometimes people just want to vote for change. you know, because to be presiding over whatever over 50,000 migrants crossing the channel record high net migration and then to be saying, sorry, we do have a plan. i think people feel like they're being taken for fools. funnily enough, this was the theme of sunak last night. he's got a new theme which is don't surrender . he says don't take, surrender. he says don't take,

let's have a look through the papers this morning with emma woolf and winston davies. good morning. of the royal lodge has come to such a pass between him and the king, he's rejected the offer. he's been asked repeatedly to move out. it'sjust been asked repeatedly to move out. it's just a been asked repeatedly to move out. it'sjust a bit been asked repeatedly to move out. it's just a bit of levity in our dire political times. he's been repeatedly asked to vacate the property, forthwith , vacate the property, forthwith, 30 room mansion, basically. and he's refusing this man who feels that he's entitled to it. he's being offered frogmore cottage, which has been newly refurbished, which is a very, very nice residence. >> and it's got about 6 or 7 bedrooms. it's quite large. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> i mean, it's not a cottage meghan would have put up with it if it it's really not a cottage. >> it's the phraseology that the royal lodge makes it sound like one of those gatehouses. >> yeah. you know, it's quite small. yeah. and frogmore cottage sounds like a cottage, but neither of them are. >

see what we make of this scarlett mccgwire emma woolf still with me, still having some heated debate , what do you make of the snp and everything that's going up? >> well, the border to say it hasn't been a great couple of years for the snp, i think is the understatement of the of the last couple of years, possibly. i mean, let's see if john swinney can steady the ship. he certainly so far seems like a much more capable pair of hands. but there are still many, many issues. i'm not going to mention nicola sturgeon, but many issues swirling around , aren't there? swirling around, aren't there? literally mentioned? i literally just did say her name twice in two sentences. that's fine, and lots of issues swirling around. and i'm not going to mention campervans either. no, no expensive campervans at that, scarlett, what do you make of the snp situation? >> it's a disaster, isn't it? i mean, i mean, there is no question and he's absolutely right. i mean, why are they concentrating on the conservatives, pretending that they're , they're the answer to they're, they're the answer to they're, t

with emma woolf and andy jones. morning you two. let's have the sunday times. should we? fifth if you include somebody else's wife. but this is now the fourth sort of insider within the top tory ranks to be investigated. and you just start to think and this is over, betting over the potential date of the general election, you start to think this is quite a bizarre situation. did these people not realise that they weren't, you know, whether or not they had privileged information, whether or not they have or haven't done anything wrong? we have to, you know, there is a presumption of innocence . of course they are innocence. of course they are allegations. they are being investigated . but my interest is investigated. but my interest is does this sort of does this damage rishi sunak or not really at this stage? i mean, is he already so he's he's so wounded already so he's he's so wounded already that i don't think it's going to do you know that much damage? i don't know if he were dithering, if you were thinking, i don't know whether i like these stories anymore. >> i suppo

have you got the papers with louis oakley emma woolf? me back to breakfast. we're going through the papers now with writer and podcaster lewis oakley and writer and journalist emma wolf. good morning, you two. good morning. and emma, let's start with the guardian front page, shall we? and this is rishi sunak closest parliamentary aide, placed a £100 bet on a july election date, just days before the announcement. >> not the wisest thing to have done, really ? you could have done, really? you could have thought about this, craig williams, this is the parliamentary private secretary to the prime minister, seemed to have known something that we didn't know. possibly. anyway, he placed a bet with ladbrokes just a few days before the prime minister made his announcement. ladbrokes raised a red flag and they referred it to the gambling commission because because, williams was his name flagged up as a politically exposed person. i mean, was he not aware of this himself ? he i mean, was he not aware of this himself? he calls it a i mean, was he no

and emma woolf matthew laza are all over the place on this? no. >> absolutely not.the airwaves this morning , and she was asked very morning, and she was asked very simply the question if a if a trans woman who's had a gender recognition certificate is sent to jail, what jail will they go in as of before this, this, this , this much trumpeted change, they'd go into a women's prison under this much trumpeted change, they'd go into a women's prison. so it's exactly the same. what she's what she's trying to fight is a paper tiger, which is self id, which is what the, scottish government, the snp government tried to introduce and which labour's been absolutely clear it will not introduce here. >> well hang on, labour weren't in scotland. labour in scotland supported it. >> well. labour in scotland was split on it and they supported. they've changed them. they've changed their minds because they've listened to an issue like that. >> they've changed their mind on an issue like that and what they did get is what they did get is they got the they got the legislation in scot

time for the papers with emma woolf and alan miller. morning again. you two.>> yes . so this is kerbs? >> yes. so this is interesting, it's a top party official is revealing that the goal is to restore freedom of movement for brits. as tories warn, the real aim is to rejoin in the eu. now, obviously the conservatives are going to make some hay out of this, but it turns out that fiona urquhart, who's the chairman chairperson of the labour international , the group labour international, the group that's involved in trying to raise as many votes , has argued raise as many votes, has argued that there needs to be free movement across the eu. so the fears and the concerns that some people have had in terms of labour and its trajectory with the eu after the vote was passed for brexit, is being raised here. and there's also an editorial on this, particularly at a time this is of big concern in the election that the question of border controls and on the one hand, whether you like the rwanda policy or what the government have tried to do, there does seem to have been

and still to come, we've got all the papers with frazer myers and emma woolf and quite a lot of timem, too, which is nice. you're watching gb news breakfast with stephen and an. >> it's 641. let's have a look at some of the front pages for you this morning. and the telegraph has president biden being given a week to stand down? >> the guardian leads with his very shaky tv debate sparking calls to quit the presidential race. >> the times has kemi badenoch with saying voters must see through farage's act. >> the daily mail leads with bofis >> the daily mail leads with boris johnson telling the public that britain can still swerve starmageddon . starmageddon. >> the express has rishi sunak saying talking about his hurt and anger at his daughter's heanng and anger at his daughter's hearing racist slurs, after that reform, uk campaigners issue . reform, uk campaigners issue. >> so lots to talk about. i mean, we said the election was boring, but my goodness we've got writer and journalist emma wolf and deputy editor of spiked frazer myers, looking through the papers for us. good morning. go

nicole turner and also i'm looking at your forgotten your name , emma your forgotten your name, emma woolfver 50, darling. it's the menopause. it's the menopause. right. well, stay with us. but now let's get your latest news headlines with tatiana sanchez. >> nana, thank you very much. and good morning to you . the top and good morning to you. the top stories this morning from the gb newsroom. the prime minister has apologised for leaving a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of d—day so that he could carry out an interview on television. rishi sunak said it was a mistake not to stay in france longer after he missed the major gathering attended by world leaders, including us president joe biden. the liberal democrat said he'd brought shame to the office of prime minister, calling the move a dereliction of duty, while labour said it was more of a chaotic conservative party. rishi sunak has denied lying over claims that a labour government would raise taxes by £2,000 per household. the prime minister said during a televised debate that the figure had been checked by independent treasury of

emma woolf and nichi hodgson are with us in the studio. ies of the day. emma, shall we start with suella braverman urging the tories to embrace nigel farage? what's happened? >> well, something she's talking about uniting the right and something needs to unite the right. and this is not about they all blaming nigel farage. oh, look what he's doing. he's splitting the vote. do you know what? the conservative party have destroyed themselves . and i have destroyed themselves. and i think after july the 4th, they are going to be in a terrible, terrible state if they survive. you know what state are they going to be in after the general election? so the idea and there's been some interesting, tim shipman, some interesting kind of speculation about the possibility of nigel taking over , nigel farage taking over eventually as, as a, as a potential leader, jacob rees—mogg coming out and saying that would be a great idea. somebody needs to bring them back together. somebody needs to remind them of basic conservative values. yeah >> cutting taxes, sm

very interesting points made on both sides stephanie takyi and emma woolf.h indeed. let us know what you think at home about this. if you go to a concert and they start talking about geopolitics and foreign affairs and who they're going to vote for at the next election , vote for at the next election, what's your reaction? what's your reaction? you fed up with it all? it does seem to be i mean, glastonbury coming up. there'll be a lot of politics. they have the red tent. yes where, jeremy corbyn used to hang out and make his speeches. l, hang out and make his speeches. 1, well, i didn't go to the red tent. >> you didn't. tent. >> you didn't . you didn't. you >> you didn't. you didn't. you just have a bit of a curious. >> a little bit, yes, see what i think? jeremy corbyn was there making various speeches , and you making various speeches, and you were precisely the other end of the site. >> but does tend to be sort of the left wing bias, does it? >> not with the celebrities. >> not with the celebrities. >> oh, goodness me. well, much more to come up on the s

norman baker, stuart crawford and also emma woolf.n. it's 434. for your latest news headlines with me, ray addison , the home me, ray addison, the home secretary, says it's inappropriate for party officials to have benefited from using inside information to bet on the timing of the general election. the conservative party's chief data officer, nick mason, has taken a leave of absence, according to reports, amid claims that he gambled on the polling day date. the tories director of campaigns, tony leigh, and his wife laura saunders, are also being probed, as is the prime minister's parliamentary private secretary, craig williams, who's admitted to an error of judgement . the to an error of judgement. the labour leader has suggested that living on benefits offers less dignity to people than earning through work . dignity to people than earning through work. sir keir starmer took aim at handouts from the state in a piece for the sunday telegraph. his comments come as the latest savanta poll shows that labour is retaining its lead over th

jonathan lewis emma woolf and also charlotte griffins and danny kelly. saturday five is next.>> hello and welcome to your gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. well, it's been an unsettled weekend . it's been an unsettled weekend. plenty of rain and showers, even some thunder at times in the north. and it's all because of this area of low pressure which we currently have swirling across the uk, which is sticking with us through sunday and also saturday. now through into the evening, we'll continue to see plenty of scattered showers. these heavy and thundery at times across the north and southern parts of scotland, but moving through fairly quickly across the south, where we have some fairly brisk winds and some longer outbreaks of rain , will longer outbreaks of rain, will start to move their way into northern parts of scotland too , northern parts of scotland too, and plenty of cloud overnight, which means it's going to be a fairly mild night on offer now through into the second part of the weekend. we will continue to see those unsettled conditions, those