here's what's leading the program today. >> the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are to outline their alternate political visions as they put their pre—election pitches to their pre—election pitches to the country . the country. >> nigel farage has joined a new international campaign to reform the world health organisation. we'll be finding out why when we speak to him live here in the studio at 8:00. >> the duke and duchess of sussex have concluded their tour of nigeria. as meghan reveals a surprising heritage claim and

the stars of tv were out last night for the bafta awards, with succession in happy valley and top boy winning big. >> a very good morning. it was mission accomplished by arsenal at old trafford yesterday as they returned to the top of the premier league with victory over manchester united. we'll find out how liverpool could still impact the title race this evening and in golf, rory mcilroy's fine form continues as he triumphs at the wells fargo championship. more later. >> a change in the weather this week with outbreaks of heavy rain in the west, dry in the east. i'll have all the details coming up. >> hello there. new day, new week and our top story this morning, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are set to make pre—election pitches today with both leaders giving major speeches. >> that's right. the prime minister is set to tell voters we're at a crossroads and that

he's the best person to lead the country through some of what he calls the most dangerous years ahead. >> while keir starmer will bring together labour's newly elected local mayors as he focuses on growing local economies. >> well, let's get the thoughts on all of this from the political correspondent at the spectator, james heale, who joins us this morning. hello. lovely to see you . interesting lovely to see you. interesting day that they've decided to kind of go head to head in this way. and totally different tax. which do you think is likely to resonate more with the electorate today. well i think right now the electorate, i think the message that tends to resonate more is keir starmer and i think both these speeches are going to be a response to the local elections we saw about ten days ago. >> keir starmer is going to be out there outlining all his new mayors. he got elected ten days ago, talking about the success they had in the west midlands and how this shows that they can, you know, win over the rest of the country and how labour's a changed party. rishi sunak, on the other hand, wants to refocus the other hand, wants to refocus the agenda, bring it back onto security as a theme, suggesting that his party is the only one

that his party is the only one that can kind of guide britain through over the next five years or so. and he's going to be emphasising things like artificial intelligence, which is a topic that feels very comfortable on. so it's a finely ground in which they both want to work and campaign on ahead of the election later this year. and is that quite a canny position, do you think, for the prime minister, given the, i suppose, things that you can't necessarily blame on, on the tory government that they've had to deal with.7 >> i mean, obviously the truss experiment to one side, you know, the ukraine war, the energy crisis as a result and the hugely generous energy support that the government has given, you know, might that cut through, could that be a successful idea? >> i think unfortunately for the government, they're just not getting any kind of political credit or acknowledgement of that. but it will be a point that. but it will be a point that rishi sunak is making today. he's going to be talking about how we've had the shocks the last five years supply chains, issues, covid, all these different issues. and then it's going to be kind of his argument for saying, we've gone through this before. we can go through the next five challenges, five years of challenges together. so he's going to be looking and pointing to things like the covid vaccine that has come out

saying that this shows that actually, you know, we thought we wouldn't get a covid vaccine until 2025 or so, actually, only much quicker than expected. tech can be a good thing and we should therefore take strength of that. so it's an interesting argument because obviously, someone who tends to be a bit more downbeat than boris johnson was the great booster optimist. so it's going to be a difficult speech for him to make. but i look forward to seeing him make it. >> he's like, i'm just looking at rishi sunak there. he's like, erik ten hag at manchester united. he may be in charge at the moment, but he's not going to be in charge next season. >> yeah, i think the foundation's got a bit more rotten than perhaps rishi sunak would like. i think a lot of the issues we saw last week with natalie elphicke go way deeper than him, and i think one man is going to really struggle to fix all of that. but for him, he certainly thinks, you know, it's amazing. he kind of optimism. he's able to draw on. but i think it's probably too late for him to turn it around a bit. like ten hag at united. >> yeah, but what about sir keir starmer? he'll be out there trying to sort of crow about the fact that he's won these new mayors and focusing on that. but he's got some problems, hasn't he? as you mentioned, the natalie elphicke defection today, the front of the left leaning paper, the guardian

saying union bosses say that she's completely incompatible with labour. and i just wonder whether or not he's made a big whoopsie by allowing her into the party. david cameron calling it naked opportunism. >> absolutely. and i think that, you know, natalie elphicke you know, for natalie elphicke to be seen as an effective defector, she'd have to be someone who was credible. and she's not, frankly, given her history with her husband, given her policy views as well. and i think, therefore, that, you know , keir starmer is probably storing up issues for himself longer term . right now, it longer term. right now, it doesn't matter, because when you're 30 points ahead, everyone lets things slide with the leader and they'll shut up and won't make a fuss about it. but i think, yeah, longer term keir starmer in government can have a real issue with his party. and his parliamentary management style leaves a lot to be desired. >> why? why was he so keen to bnng >> why? why was he so keen to bring her on board? >> and i mean, just for people who may not be totally aware how unelectable or how, uncredible is she? >> well, she's someone who is on the right of the tory party. she was a member of the european research group, hardline immigration sceptic, and the local dover mp. so small boats was very much her constituents main concern and therefore the argument was, well, if she comes

across suddenly, the tories can't have a go about migration because this is someone who cares more about migration than any other issue. if she backs keir starmer, why isn't that good enough for the voters ? but good enough for the voters? but of course, the danger against thatis of course, the danger against that is that, you know, she's not respected enough . and i not respected enough. and i think that, you know, given that what we've seen now, the stories about her and the meeting with robert buckland in which she was alleged to have tried to change alleged to have tried to change a trial involving she denies that which she denies, which she denies . i that which she denies, which she denies. i think it shows that perhaps that there's a lot of baggage that comes with these defectors, which suggest they shouldn't always be welcomed with open arms. >> the sense is whether or not labour admit it, that they are courting a number of disillusioned conservatives because to people who aren't following all of politics day in, day out, all they see is somebody just fed up with the tories wanting to punish the tories, prepared to go to the labour party. and if that, as a message gets through to voters, then i suppose that will be sir keir starmers calculation. so are they offering sweeteners, peerages, whatever it might be, to persuade some others? do you think and do you think, that natalie elphicke was possibly offered some sort of sweetener? >> i don't even think it has to be so explicit. it's just implicit. labour will be the next government and therefore

people want to go where the tide is going, and they can know all sorts of commissions that can be available, all different available, all different available opportunities. so i think that she won't be the last. probably. >> interesting. okay, james heale for now, thanks very much indeed. >> yeah. okay. keep those ideas stored, james. we'll get some reaction to those throughout the morning and speak to you again later . thank morning and speak to you again later. thank you. and right morning and speak to you again later . thank you. and right now, later. thank you. and right now, the duke and duchess of sussex, they have concluded their tour of nick gibb to meeting local charities, schools and the armed forces in the country. and in a memorable moment, meghan has declared nigeria her country as she revealed she is 43% nigerian. this according to a dna test. >> well, let's bring in our favourite royal reporter kinsey schofield, who joins us this morning with her assessment of this. not royal tour. and what did you make of it all from my point of view, i've seen an awful lot of meghan's sort of fixed, happy, posed, smiling face and harry looking quite stressed out. i don't know if you've spotted that i was watching some footage of the

national anthem being played and meghan, looking delighted and harry looking mortified. there were a few moments like that over the course of the last few days, weren't there? >> i agree, i do think that meghan is obviously the skill trained actress and prince harry has a bit of a problem hiding some of his anxiety sometimes, but meghan being by his side certainly calms him down and helps him out throughout that process. it i mean, i understand that their objective is to court nigeria for a future invictus games . i nigeria for a future invictus games. i think nigeria for a future invictus games . i think that they games. i think that they probably did a great job doing that. probably did a great job doing that . this probably did a great job doing that. this was great pr for them because if you look at if you just google meghan markle today, 90% of the headlines are about how glamorous her wardrobe was, how glamorous her wardrobe was, how beautiful she was. the i lost count of how many times i saw the word glam and so obviously they wanted positive press out of this and they wanted people to start saying some nicer things about them. but the reality is nigeria is, you know , it's an interesting you know, it's an interesting

venue for them. meghan says she's a feminist and they the us department of justice, still is concerned with things like child bndes concerned with things like child brides and child labour in nigeria and the mutilation of little girls there. and so how can a feminist sit on a stage and say, oh, i'm so excited to be in my country without , you be in my country without, you know, speaking out for those for some of those victims , there are some of those victims, there are real human rights violations happening there, you know, today, yesterday, every day. and it seems odd that these two would come there and do this kind of like disney land show with all these smiles and act like everything's fine and normal, not speak out against it. >> there's the word act like hillary clinton. hillary clinton's a very , very polished clinton's a very, very polished politician, but she has an act which meghan has copied, which is she walks into an empty room and it doesn't matter who's there, who's not there, whatever hillary clinton comes in and goes. hillary clinton comes in and goes . pretending she knows goes. pretending she knows people in the room, pretending

people in the room, pretending people are are signalling to her and whatever. and it seems to work very well. and if you saw meghan markle over the weekend , meghan markle over the weekend, that's exactly what she did. she just got so excited. everybody she saw. >> it's the hugging as well, hugging everybody . oh, what what hugging everybody. oh, what what do you make of the fact that she says she feels at home in this country she's never visited before? didn't realise was of her heritage until very recently. and yet we're to led believe that whilst, on her way to nigeria, she stopped off in the uk but didn't step foot outside of the windsor suite, picked up harry the nation where she got married . the family into she got married. the family into which she married. she doesn't have any affection or comments or even want to step foot out of the airport, but nigeria is now suddenly her home. >> i mean, it's very insincere, obviously. i think she's obviously. i think she's obviously trying to win , win obviously trying to win, win these people over and that's, you know, letter. that's fine . i you know, letter. that's fine. i go where you're celebrated, not where you're tolerated. i mean, i would be hurt if i was the uk because it does feel like a rejection. but obviously she doesn't want to be there anymore. and for some reason she

is really trying to make nigeria fall in love with her. and there are some people that are excited about it. there are some people that are you know, are happy that are you know, are happy that they're there, and then there's others that are like , there's others that are like, you know, a significant amount of us are in poverty, right now, and we can't believe that our government is paying for their presidential security, you know, detail. >> well, look , i may just be too >> well, look, i may just be too cynical on this. i may be completely wrong, but my feeling, my theory is anything with meghan and harry is equals money. so everything they're involved in, if there's cash at the end of it or the possibility of cash or cementing them in a very good business position, they will have it. and this is an example in in my opinion, i may be wrong. standby tell me that i am wrong today, but they just see cash signs. what's the currency of nigeria? >> i don't know, question. >> i don't know, question. >> i don't know, question. >> i think that i think that their yearly salary is like

$200, a 200 american dollars. i think the ultimate objective is to have that respect that they had when they were members of the royal family and be seen that way, and that's what they were trying to do. and some people will fall for it again. but at the end of the day, a week ago, she was driving around montecito handing people jars of jam . jam. >> yes. that's true. are you are you falling for it ? you falling for it? >> no, i mean, i would i'm not, i'm not, i'm not. i'm going to eat my jam from the official royal family. that's the only jam for me. >> yeah. okay. >> yeah. okay. >> kinsey, thanks a million. thank you very much indeed. and we're going to get what people think of what kinsey had to say, what i've had to say, what isabel had to say this morning. and we will discuss that throughout the program this morning. there it is. there gbnews.com/yoursay to say. love to hear from you. >> right with the time at 612. let's take a look at some of the other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. and russian president vladimir putin set to replace his defence minister, sergei shoigu, who's beenin minister, sergei shoigu, who's been in the role for 12 years and played a key role in russia's invasion of ukraine.

andrei belousov has been chosen to take his place . he's an to take his place. he's an economist and former deputy prime minister with little military experience. lots of questions about what that means about the power balance in the kremlin. >> well, it means he'll do what he's told. and the final seasons of top boy and happy valley have won at the bafta tv awards last night, top boy clinching best drama , with sarah lancashire drama, with sarah lancashire winning best actress for happy valley. there were also special awards for baroness floella benjamin and the tv presenter lorraine kelly. >> two skydivers have become the first to navigate their way through tower bridge, wearing wing suits . the through tower bridge, wearing wing suits. the pair, through tower bridge, wearing wing suits . the pair, from wing suits. the pair, from austria, jumped from a helicopter and flew across the river thames, reaching a top speed of 152mph before successfully winging their way between the bridge towers. the stunt followed extensive training in oxford, oxfordshire, which involved the use of cranes to simulate the bridge rather than the main.

to simulate the bridge rather than the main . could you than the main. could you ever be persuaded to do something like that ? oh, that's not a no. that? oh, that's not a no. >> maybe not a no. no, it's not it's not a no no for me. >> it's not a no. it's that whole thing about, you know, flying like superman, directing yourself like that, it must be a heck of a to buzz be able to do it. >> maybe afterwards, once you've survived it. yeah, yeah , yeah. survived it. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> yes, actually, maybe now you've got me thinking about it. maybe not such a good idea. >> would you like that at home? let us know. gbnews.com forward slash yourself. >> did you enjoy the sunshine over the weekend? >> i did, you did? yes. >> i did, you did? yes. >> oh, i live for the sunshine . >> oh, i live for the sunshine. yeah. we had breakfast, lunch and dinner outside every meal of the day. all weekend. it's fabulous. >> that's what we do. >> that's what we do. >> it's that way you're sitting with no shoes on this morning. >> don't tell everyone i'm barefoot . the air con has barefoot. the air con has broken. >> no. >> no. >> what else is bare there? the feet are bare. >> the legs are bare. >> the legs are bare. >> it's all the arms. >> it's all the arms. >> yeah, i've got to stay cool.

i'm impressed that you're managing with full, full armour. >> well, you see, we have a situation in the studio whereby the air condition or the air cooling system, is broken. it's been broken for about eight weeks. no, no. it's ridiculous. i mean, under health and safety , i mean, under health and safety, i mean, under health and safety, i mean, under health and safety, i mean, we could be very close to walking out here under health and safety rules. it is so hot. it's unrwa. it's u nrwa. >> i it's unrwa. >> i think. shoes and socks off first. why not just, you know , first. why not just, you know, embrace that summer vibe? anyway, we're going to talk about dementia now. >> the true cause you're not keen to talk about the work conditions in here? well, no. i could take your shoes and socks off for you if you want. no, i'm talking to somebody. >> just fix the bloomin air conditioning. and that would be more like it, wouldn't it? i think i think we might be quite close to a walkout here in the studio at some stage, but, somebody better take this seriously and keep the doors open and the noise up and all that sort of thing. now, at the time, at a quarter past six, new research has revealed the cost of dementia in this country has

now reached 42 billion. it's a staggering £42 billion a year. >> yeah, but it could increase significantly, almost doubling to 90 billion by 2040 unless urgent action is taken now. >> it revealed that people living with dementia and their families are shouldering 63% of all costs, with that rising from £29,000 per year for mild dementia to 81,000 if the condition is severe. >> well, joining us now is the associate director of advocacy and system change at the alzheimer's society . mark alzheimer's society. mark mcdonald. good morning. thank you for joining mcdonald. good morning. thank you forjoining us, goodness me, eye—watering sums of money even for the mildest form of this disease, which we know almost touches everybody in some way or another, just explain, first of all, how you get to those figures. what why it's costing so much money, morning. both. i mean, dementia is an incurable currently largely untreatable condition, it results in people

having to make really heavy use of and are reliant on the nhs, the social care system . and as the social care system. and as our research shows today, huge amounts of reliance on individuals and carers and in unpaid care. and when you package all that up , it suggests package all that up, it suggests a disease that's applying enormous pressure to the system and enormous pressure, to individuals and their families. and that's why we're seeing today, as we've seen said for years now, that the single most effective thing people can do, to provide that certainty that they need at times of confusion and distress and to ease the pressure on the system, potentially , is to get a potentially, is to get a diagnosis of dementia . diagnosis of dementia. >> goodness me. and is there no hope to be derived from the huge progress that's being made in a number of trials in recent years, which suggests that if you catch alzheimer's early on, a lot of people can mitigate

some of those effects before it gets full blown . gets full blown. >> yeah, i mean, there is there's hope. there's hope on there's hope. there's hope on the way . we've not been able to the way. we've not been able to say that before, there are, drugs, in trial right now . there drugs, in trial right now. there are some that are about to be assessed by regulators here in the uk, which could present a future where we can slow down the progression of alzheimer's disease in particular. but we're not quite there yet. and while we're waiting for this new, really kind of hopeful future, which we hope will be just around the corner, we have got to ease the pressure on individuals, families, the nhs and social care. and as i say, the best way to do that is to provide people with the dignity and the certainty of a diagnosis. we know that the vast majority of people living with dementia and affected by dementia and affected by dementia , know, feel that dementia, know, feel that diagnosis is a beneficial thing for them. we're long past the

days where people should be questioning why a diagnosis is beneficial, but a diagnosis can help to, to slow down and, reduce the pressure. that is all too evident in these new numbers today. >> give us an insight into this, mark, diagnosis a of, hearing deficiencies , i was with deficiencies, i was with somebody at the weekend, and they were boasting about how they, could need hearing aids, but they were resisting them to keep their their hearing sharp . keep their their hearing sharp. i also read that by not exceeding to hearing aids, you are accelerating , dementia. do are accelerating, dementia. do you have you got any latest on that? >> there's some, research , some >> there's some, research, some discussion on that. and i'm not a research specialist . i'll a research specialist. i'll leave that to the researchers, but what does happen with a diagnosis is that people can get then assessed for the full range of support that they need, including , of support that they need, including, support for hearing loss or sight loss or anything

else that may be playing through in the symptoms that have allowed them to present at the doctor , worried about their doctor, worried about their memory. so my message to everyone is, if you're worried at all about your hearing and how that might play into, any, future dementia, or particularly if you've got memory loss that you're worried about yourself or others, go and see your gp, go and have a look in our website and have a look in our website and download our symptoms checklist. take that along with you to help the conversation and just get it checked out . just get it checked out. >> and lifestyle is such a factor. we're always reading, aren't we, about people who do shift work, night shifts. we always worry that, it's not good for our outcome . but listen, for our outcome. but listen, this is something that has huge personal significance to people who are touched by it and a huge cost to society as well , so cost to society as well, so thank you very much for shining a light on it this morning and hopefully this will shake everybody into trying to get a grip of this problem as soon as possible . possible. >> thank you. thank you very

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. please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. good luck , we've got demand. good luck, we've got aidan magee. he's got the sport this morning, that's coming up next with all the big football results off the weekend, including the ladies fa cup. who won that? we'll

we had a lot of games to sort out over the weekend, here, we've got aidan magee, and he's telling you what will happen. and, the most significant result is, was manchester united against arsenal. >> indeed. yeah look, arsenal had the pressure placed upon them because manchester city went and won at fulham on saturday at 1230 and four nil over there to put themselves top of the league. so arsenal go to old trafford. they've only got one league win there since 2006, and 20 20th minute goal by leandro trossard did the damage. there wasn't a convincing

performance by arsenal but you know very well yourself. eamonn it's not the performances that matter at this time of the year when you're embroiled in a title race, it's the result and it puts pressure again on manchester city tomorrow night going to tottenham hotspur. >> it's not a hideous kit . >> it's not a hideous kit. arsenal have their that away kit. >> i thought, you know what, i was in discussion with someone yesterday watching the game. i think it's all right because i always remember i like goalkeepers, they all look like goalkeepers, they all look like goalkeepers or something. i just, i just think it's traditional. when arsenal play at old trafford that they wear yellow too often, they wear blue down the years. >> yeah. but that's, that's luminous sort of greenness. ghastly. >> look, i did think it clashed with the pitch a little bit actually. but but look nonetheless they got the job done. man united. injury hit it must be said rashford. martinez. fernandez maguire out. and there was some interesting comments after the game from wayne rooney. he said in his analysis that some of the man united players were hiding behind their injuries. he said that too many of them are taking it easy ahead of them are taking it easy ahead of them are taking it easy ahead of the fa cup final. they've got euros places to get . he wasn't euros places to get. he wasn't happy with the attitude. he thinks that i've seen it before when i've been at clubs in the past. manchester united, presumably he was there for 14 years or whatever it was, and he doesn't like what he's seeing. he doesn't like the manager

coming out afterwards and questioning the attitude of the players, which he's done many times in the last few weeks, and he's got a little bit of an air of comical ali erik ten hag know what you think, but to me he's somebody who's he's off kilter in terms of what we see on tv isn't the game that he's seeing. and to me, he doesn't look like the man united manager anymore. he looks i mean, i was never he's not he's not going to be there next year. but we should say as well man city go to tottenham tomorrow night. tonight's game between villa and liverpool could have a bearing on the title race. and i'll tell you why. because if aston villa were to lose that game tonight against liverpool and that's eminently possible. liverpool are in the final throes of the jurgen klopp era . they've got jurgen klopp era. they've got plenty to play for. still, they want to finish third. if they win that game, villa lose. it gives tottenham the incentive to go to play manchester city tomorrow night and beat them because the door to the top four has opened. it keeps tottenham honest. okay and that's important ahead of ahead of the weekend's games, just also to mention the women's fa cup final, consolation big consolation for united on that one. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, where the men failed, the women certainly succeeded. it's

interesting because united were one of the clubs who who were late to the party in terms of the women's game. and their team is really clicking into gear right now. ella toone proving once again that she's not just an outstanding player at international level. she's brilliant at domestic level as well . and i think you'll see man well. and i think you'll see man united challenge for the title in the next couple of years. and break that dominance between chelsea and man city, the championship playoffs, really, really tight there as well. my friend. you had west brom and southampton, you had norwich and leeds. >> yeah . >> yeah. >> yeah. >> not a goal between them. >> not a goal between them. >> i think it's worth half a sentence about, but yeah it was extremely dull. i mean i gave it a big sell over the weekend this is the, the playoff semi—finals of the new fa cup semi—finals. obviously the final. the biggest game in football, £250 million. it's apparently worth, according to luton town last season anyway. but no, i barely a shot on target in both games and it all goes back now to thursday and friday. you have to favour the away teams now. >> okay, rory mcilroy, he had the shots in the bag. he won the wells fargo championship by six strokes. i think he did indeed. >> yeah, he was outstanding, actually. look, that's a second.

always a back to back, pga title for him. it's ominous for his opponents at valhalla, but he's got to beat this psychological barrier. he's not won a major in ten years. his four majors. he's won ten years. now, for someone between the age of 25 and 35, that's the peak years . eamonn that's the peak years. eamonn really when it comes to golf. and i would say as an individual sport , the golf is probably more sport, the golf is probably more psychological than any other sport around there, including boxing. i would even argue. can he handle the sunday evening battle against his opponents? i'm not sure that he can. at the moment, because i think it's a big, big stage for him to get past. however, he's in excellent form. he's the world number two. he's not struggling for form throughout those ten years. he's very consistent and let's see if he can he can do it. but yeah, he can he can do it. but yeah, he had a strong back nine yesterday and looks impressive. >> well done rory, in we'll see you again 7:20, this morning we've got lots to talk about next time as well. for the moment. thank you very much. >> i was just reading on how to beautify your bottom . it says beautify your bottom. it says brush up your buttocks. do you know what those are ? it's where know what those are? it's where your thigh reaches your buttocks. see, live and learn. this is what you find in the papers of the day on my

buttocks. so i. >> to be fair, it's a point people often do say , well, we're people often do say, well, we're going through this and all the other stories making the headunesin other stories making the headlines in the newspapers with paula london and kriss akabusi. >> just a moment.

joining us now to go through what's making the newspapers. paula london and kriss akabusi. we say, good morning to. >> good morning. morning, morning. >> did you collaborate on what you were going to wear this morning? >> i did see something on social media about her being in red, paula. so i said, you know what? let me lash a little bit of red on to match my co—presenter. so sweet. oh. >> you too. >> you too. >> fantastic. okay so chris, we go to the front of most of the pages today and it's rishi sunak facing some of the most dangerous years, in, in the sort of the uk is facing some of the

most dangerous years in its history, says sunak . yeah. history, says sunak. yeah. >> so he's going to be having a speech today to talk about the dangers of ai, migration and, forces like, like russia, china, and he's i think basically what he's trying to say is the world is safer in my hands than in the opposition's hands. now, last week they were talking about the brave new world and taxes and inflation being under control. and now this is the angle of attack. so the sense that i get is that mr sunak is trying to present out there that we've had some turbulent period over the last 14 years, but i'm a safe pair of hands. >> do you think people believe him? and when you think of the state of the armed forces under conservative leadership, yes, he's announced this huge investment at the 11th hour. lots of people cynical . that's lots of people cynical. that's because there's an election around the corner. but if he really did think that the world is such a dangerous place, why

haven't they done more to try and keep us safe thus far? well, labour has prevented them. >> labour have voted so many times against bills that would help our national security, and i feel much safer with rishi sunak, even though i'm not his biggest fan. then keir starmer , biggest fan. then keir starmer, keir starmer let's not forget he has campaigned so we can stop so we can't deport foreign criminals. what what type of man would do that? i just can't understand. i would worry for my safety and other people's safety with keir starmer as a prime minister, i feel safer with rishi sunak. >> i think. i think that, i think that mr sunak would, would say that over the last 14 years we've had a lot of things to deal with outside of the control of british government. so for example, a global financial crisis 2008. well, that was that was tony blair era still. well, yes. well, yeah. and but then cameron came in didn't they. so cameron came in didn't they. so cameron and the chancellor george osborne, osborne, you know that they had all those austerity measures. you know, we were dealing with the economy now it affects us, the people. but then we go on from that. and then we had this . mr cameron. in

then we had this. mr cameron. in fact, if you look about the last five conservative and prime ministers, then we had mr cameron sort of dealing with brexit and then the fallout of brexit. then you've got theresa may's strong and stable then, then you've got, the 49 days of, mistrust the prime minister. so i think what he's trying to say is we've had all of these things to deal with. i'm now in control. you can trust me rather than the guys that have . than the guys that have. >> yeah, it's a big it's a big ask of the of the public to persuade them on that . persuade them on that. >> i think probably i mean, i don't think let's see. >> and it's also the timing is interesting. they're going head to head, both of them doing these keynote speeches. i think they're even tabled to be at the same time, i don't know how the broadcasters are going to do that. yeah, it's three screens and where all the pundits are going to go and all the anyway, maybe they'll change margaret thatcher back. >> that's what we need. >> that's what we need. >> well, i'm afraid that's impossible. >> does labour need natalie elphicke? >> that is the question. >> that is the question. >> the unions don't think so. paula >> no. and i think it's quite strange what's going on? firstly i think there should be an

immediate by—election. i mean, i don't think she's even going to stand anyway. but when you're in a constituency, you should decide what colour rosette your mp wears. i think it's terrible what's going on and it hasn't happened a lot. i mean, it's happened, i believe a few times. >> well, twice in two weeks. >> well, twice in two weeks. >> yeah, but before then it hadnt >> yeah, but before then it hadn't happened for decades. i mean, it is atypical for this to happen , and i don't know why happen, and i don't know why she's done it, but i was reading about the anti strike stance that she has and i have as well. i mean i don't believe a lot of people should be striking, especially , national health especially, national health service staff etc. etc. but labour are very against this because labour i mean a lot of people do strike under labour and people do forget . people now and people do forget. people now are saying, oh, things can't get worse, we need labour, but they forget the winter of discontent. so many people were striking pubuc so many people were striking public sector and private sector and the country fell apart. so yeah, i don't know what's going on.she yeah, i don't know what's going on. she as i say she's anti—strike and labour think you can strike. but then all of these labour supporters, they

think everything that's going to be brilliant, there's going to be brilliant, there's going to be a magic wand. if labour come into power and then everyone strikes, the country is going to be like the winter of discontent. so, yeah , maybe she discontent. so, yeah, maybe she was promised something. >> she knew she wasn't going to stand at the end of this election. maybe she was being given an offer of a peerage . given an offer of a peerage. >> i don't think she did it. >> i don't think she did it. >> yeah, maybe before labour offered. >> apparently. quentin davies, a peerage in two thousand and seven, when he defected from the tories to the labour party . tories to the labour party. >> i when i look at this story there, i'm asking myself again, what does the leader of the opposition really for , stand opposition really for, stand obviously labour is much more right wing than it used to be in my day when i was growing up, when there was michael foot and carrington and the like. but, you know , keir starmer is now you know, keir starmer is now agreed to have him hsi on his team. what is his real world view? do we really know what he believes in and stands for? because it would seem an anathema for somebody like miss ethic to be. >> he's all things to all people. >> yeah , well then you please no

one. one. >> one. >> you have to stand by something . if you try to please something. if you try to please everyone, you please. no. >> well, it shows you you want for me. >> people like you amaze me. paula, where you go? thank you. i am anti—strike, but if you were in a position where you had to strike, you don't know it from that position. >> no. >> no. >> i'm anti—strike political strikes like france and spain . strikes like france and spain. they ban politically, motivated strikes as do belgium, netherlands and germany. >> how do you know they're politically motivated? >> most strikes are when you see the nhs strikes. i've seen them like tory party, 14 years of tory. they talk about that more. >> do you think paying conditions, the train workers at the moment. do you think that's, political, possibly . political, possibly. >> very possibly. i just i'm, i believe in law and order. i mean, i wouldn't let employees dictate to me if i was the prime minister. i mean, i do law and order. >> that is in the law. >> that is in the law. >> well, it depends what depends. because when you're when you become a doctor, you are some people do still sign, they take the oath. so you're not supposed to put patients in danger and they are putting patients in danger. you can't let employees dictate constantly

because you give them an inch. oh, no. now we want more. now we want this. now we want that. you know, you have to have law and order and so many people at the moment, they just think they can do what they like, say what they like. they want to get paid, not even to go to work. they want to sit at home and tell their boss what they're doing at some point. you know, there needs to be a hierarchy. you have to have a boss and an employee. >> oh, here's a here's an interesting one. the lib dems have deselected a candidate, and the candidate sin. chris was what, being a christian? >> this is , for me, quite a >> this is, for me, quite a pernicious story. now, obviously , i'm not living in the constituent see of sutton bower. lib dems , and i don't know the lib dems, and i don't know the ins and outs, but basically there's been a campaign by a group of people to oust this. david campanale, who was a journalist , david campanale, who was a journalist, and he was part of the he's had a previous stint

with the christian people's alliance, which is a political party, and the christian people's alliance were quite fundamentalist, i think, you know, stood for things like, well, anti—gay rights and so anti—gay marriage and abortion issues . now, this was in 2012. issues. now, this was in 2012. that's 12 years ago. they were part and parcel of that . he's part and parcel of that. he's been hammered for it. >> well, the lib dems have said a spokesperson for the party said we are a home to people of all faiths and none, including many christians. in the meantime, the matter has been referred to the human rights commission, so we're open to all of that except in this case. well, we don't know the facts of it, but that's what they're saying at this point. we're going to take a pause in the papers, come back to both of you in just a moment, because we have maria caulfield standing by. >> let's let's find out from maria caulfield. and its medical school places. we're going to talk about maria today, but where do you stand on the idea that a candidate can or can't be selected because of their religion? and in this case, being a . christian?

being a. christian? >> well, i think it's important for all political parties that their candidates represent kind of the wide breadth of the population of great of the united kingdom. and christians are a significant proportion. this is a christian country. i'm a christian mp myself, but the lib dems do unfortunately have a track record of this. when tim farron was their leader, he got a particularly hard time for his faith. so it is a concern. and the equality act, actually, religion is a protected characteristic and that does include christians. so i don't know the details of this particular case in depth, but it's important that people of all faiths and none feel confident coming forward to stand for elections. >> 350 extra medical school places how you paying for those? how they coming about? maria >> well, we've already costed this. this is part of our long term workforce plan which we announced last year. term workforce plan which we announced last year . we want to announced last year. we want to double the number of medical school places by 7500. so this is the first step towards this. we are increasing the number of

doctors . we had 7000 new extra doctors. we had 7000 new extra doctors. we had 7000 new extra doctors in the last 12 months and 21,000 new nurses. but increasing medical school places and making it as easy as possible for people who want to become doctors to be able to do so , is part of our kind of long so, is part of our kind of long term workforce plan to get more capacity into the nhs? >> sure. australia and canada are absolutely delighted about your plans, where we have the best medical training anywhere in the world and then we export our best and brightest to those countries. when is the government going to change the rules so that our highly capable and well trained doctors actually have to serve a minimum term here in the uk ? term here in the uk? >> well, we know from our statistics about 93% of those who train in the nhs stay in the nhs , which is good news. and we nhs, which is good news. and we also welcome doctors from overseas to work in the nhs as well. but it is part of the long term workforce plan, both for doctors and for dentists , that doctors and for dentists, that they would be expected to work a minimum a period within the nhs after doing their training. so

we have taken that on board, but what we want to do is improve the conditions as well. for those doctors who are qualified . those doctors who are qualified. and the secretary of state for health only last week announced some measures to improve that around rotering so that they get their rosters, you know, a good amount of time in advance rather than just at the start of the month, that they are given protected time for training and development, that their work environment is better for them. so it's a combination of factors, but also having more medical staff on those wards helps retention too. if you're constantly in a cycle of being short of staff, that doesn't help retention. so a combination of factors will hopefully mean that both doctors, nurses, midwives, physios are feeling the benefit of our the first ever workforce plan for the nhs. so over the next few years we've got a sustainable, pool of people coming through and delivering health care for our patients. >> we've got a keynote speech from your boss today trying to persuade us that britain is

safer under the tories, but he's really struggling to cut through, isn't he? rishi sunak. i mean, you've got hard liners within your own party, like natalie elphicke showing lots of conservative voters up and down the country, how easy it is to switch to labour. >> well, you know, we are the only party promising to increase defence funding by 2.5. the labour party haven't committed to that at all. but also the prime minister is going to set out the kind of wider threat to the country from countries like russia and china. and i, in fact, which was not on the honzon fact, which was not on the horizon a few years ago. so we'll have to wait for his speech to see the details of what he's going to say. but we are the only party committing to increasing defence spending because we recognise the serious threats that we are facing . threats that we are facing. >> you dodged my question about natalie elphicke there, the likes of which demonstrate somebody on the right of the party being able to switch to laboun party being able to switch to labour, goes to show the level of disillusionment within the conservatives. and that can only be echoed amongst the public as

well, who traditionally vote conservative. if you look at the local election results. >> well, if you look at the local election results , we did local election results, we did actually fairly well in things like the police, crime commissioners. we won 19 out of the 33. but specifically to natalie elphicke, natalie's not standing again. and i think we all acknowledge there are ulterior motives for that. switch to labour. it's not necessarily because of disillusionment within the conservative party she's got an agenda of her own, which is very disappointing and i think the pubuc disappointing and i think the public have seen very clearly through that. and i think actually the labour party have suffered as a result of these political gains. the public do not want these political games. they want a government that's getting on and delivering for the people. that's what the prime minister is doing, and that's what he's going to be setting out later today, specifically in relation to defence, which labour have no plan at all on. >> they labour say they're going to be more defections. you don't 7 ee. agree? >> well, i'm not worried about defections . i'm worried about defections. i'm worried about getting on and delivering for the country. i've just announcing today that we're

releasing more medical places to train more doctors . we're train more doctors. we're increasing the number of midwives. we've got 21,000 extra nurses this year. the pm's going to be setting out what we're doing in defence, in support of the defence of the nation and the defence of the nation and the threats we're facing. the economy is turning a corner. we've got bigger growth than countries like germany, france and spain . you know, the country and spain. you know, the country is turning a corner now. if labour just wants to play games around defections of tory mps, that's up to them. we're getting on and delivering for the british people . okay, okay. british people. okay, okay. >> maria caulfield, thank you very much indeed . maria very much indeed. maria caulfield is a health minister. thank you , let's get back to thank you, let's get back to paula and chris here in the studio. and, on staying with health matters. paula. obese people are twice as likely to be off work. does that surprise us? this is front page of the times. this is front page of the times. this morning. >> yeah, it doesn't surprise me at all. when you're overweight, you're more likely to get sick. and i feel like sometimes people are sitting at home, they're quite lazy, they're overeating ,

quite lazy, they're overeating, etc, yeah. it doesn't surprise me, but i think, i think only america have like larger people than the uk. i mean, when you travel around europe , we do have travel around europe, we do have a lot of very large people. i think there's a lot of ready meals, a lot of fast food, etc, etc. but people know what to do and they just don't do it. so i don't have too much sympathy. >> chris. >> chris. >> yeah, so the question is whether the obesity is a symptom for me, whether it's a symptom or a cause. i mean, a lot is going to be over the next few years blamed on covid and lockdown and mental health. and paula was correct. you know, if you've been working very hard, it's easier to go to get a ready meal or eat some chocolate on the way on christmas, on the way home, than to actually get back home, than to actually get back home and then start cooking from scratch, so, you know , i do see scratch, so, you know, i do see obesity, you know, although we were rising obesity in the noughfies were rising obesity in the noughties anyway , a symptomatic noughties anyway, a symptomatic of a generation of people who

mental health issues are also working very, very hard and just haven't got time to really take care and prepare their meals properly. fast food, fast food . properly. fast food, fast food. let's get it done. let's move on. yeah. drinking alcoholic , on. yeah. drinking alcoholic, you know, alcohol to sort of soothe. >> exactly. what's the solution to all of this then? because we've seen the government really reluctant to bring in sugar tax, fat tax, trying to sort of the nanny state. is it better education. is it drilling into people that have got to be responsible for their own health, their own gym memberships? >> i think some gps there is a scheme or do you know what a i don't if i can say, but there is a gym that's being boycotted at the moment just because the gentleman said that he believes that israel had the right to defend itself. so people are boycotting it, but then other people are now joining and i just joined myself. it's a very cheap chain chain. rather, i think it's only about £20 a month and you can get a mcdonald's or burger king or whatever, fast food for half that price. so i think, and i think if the doctors did give a free membership to like a cheap,

not cheap, but cheap gym chain , not cheap, but cheap gym chain, it would pay dividends because if they lose weight, they wouldn't like , they wouldn't wouldn't like, they wouldn't need to see the doctors so much. so i think exercise is great for your mental health. well, should we be paying? i've been down the gym really helps me. >> the question you are free. you can just go for a run or ride a bike. i know, but not everyone wants to do that. >> if you're anxious and depressed, you don't want to be running around with people staring at you like in the gym. it's better. >> the question you asked, though, was what's? what's the solution now? malnutrition. we have malnutrition in our country as our malnutrition is. we have too much, too much offer, too fast, too soon. the solution will be when people link early death to obesity or, you know, all this fast food, then all of all this fast food, then all of a sudden we will take control of our own, eating habits, it's not even early death that scares me. it's all the problems that will beset you before then . you know, beset you before then. you know, the endless issues with stroke. >> well, diabetes. but everything. diabetes, quality of life, heart attacks . absolutely,

life, heart attacks. absolutely, you know, but you get used to a sedentary life. don't you? so whereas most of my life is being physically active , other people physically active, other people have got used to being sedentary. >> well, it seems a good time to talk about this story. paula espressos with cheese. >> oh, that's really fun. i'm quite atypical. >> i've never had drunk coffee in my life, yeah . in my life, yeah. >> you? my husband? >> you? my husband? >> both. i'm very suspicious of people that don't drink coffee. >> i just don't like the smell. and like, i was a good student. but one teacher didn't like me, and she used to shout at me a lot. and i used to be. oh, my god, your coffee breath. so that, like, put me off for life, i think. and my parents didn't dnnk i think. and my parents didn't drink coffee, so i would never. >> i mean, i love cheese of gouda, apparently a cheese burger. yeah, he's come up with gouda. sorry, i should know. it's a dutch cheese. >> yes. yeah >> yes. yeah >> perfect powder to dunk into a coffee. cheese geek founder says nine month aged swiss reserve. oh, it's swiss is delicious. with an americano espresso. i can imagine that is delicious. >> can you? i can actually oh, gosh. absolutely. >> there are two of my great loves cheese and coffee. >> so why not? >> so why not? >> people love together ? >> people love together? >> people love together? >> gowda's got like a creamy, creamy, nutty sort of taste and i can't exactly. >> that goes perfectly with the coffee. no, my worry about all

of that is the legacy is, the way your breath smells afterwards. >> yeah. i don't drink coffee, but anybody who does have. >> oh, you're like me. fine breath . people love it. that's breath. people love it. that's what that's what chewing gums for. >> you , i guess. >> you, i guess. >> you, i guess. >> i guess you become addicted to coffee and people say, oh, i can't do anything until i have my coffee. and i think it's so crazy. >> yeah, yeah. what we. what he's addicted to on tv last night were the, the bafta awards, which i thought were really quite pathetic, actually a lot of, sort of ordinary programs and, and really happy valley wasn't i said a lot of ordinary programs. big winner, and i would say, why is strictly and i would say, why is strictly a big winner 20 years being a big winner, why don't we just get over strictly? that's a great program. fine. i've never watched it strictly. >> i'm not into dancing like born dancing or things like that. >> watching. it's one thing sitting through it. my wife was on it. oh, really? it was horrendous . oh, you get the most

horrendous. oh, you get the most uncomfortable seats and you have to sit there in the audience and pretend you're interested. >> i saw the american one that's even more cheesy . they're so even more cheesy. they're so cheesy. i don't like you being on it. >> chris. >> chris. >> no, not a prayer . no, >> no, not a prayer. no, absolutely not a prayer. >> can you dance? >> can you dance? >> well, if you talk about lots of people, if you talk about disco style and stuff, you know what i mean? yeah. urban style. yeah. crack on. >> i'd love to see you on strictly. okay. >> shake my leg. but no no, no, no, not for me at all on that. >> you've got such a great personality. yeah. >> so, i mean, to be fair, i've been looking at this, but this is a spread in the mirror. page two and three. and what strikes me is , is how diverse the awards me is, is how diverse the awards were, and lorraine kelly herself said that, a tv veteran, she got an award for opportunities, that as she stands there, she takes the award. she can't believe that some glasgow woman like her could be standing there getting this award. you know, from from her background . and so. and then her background. and so. and then and then there's what a picture of joe lycett. >> i actually didn't recognise him . him. >> queen elizabeth the first. no. yeah. i don't know if you

can see that. i mean a picture of joe lycett here and he's holding it there. full regalia. elizabeth first red hair he's got you know that very iconic look, i don't know what you call it, but that that background to her, like a halo type of art. it's just amazing . so i mean, it's just amazing. so i mean, everybody's there, you know, race, colour, creed , race, colour, creed, orientation, age, demographic. it doesn't matter if you're in it, you can win it. >> there we go. well, you see, i would say to you're more likely to win if you're dressed like him. >> i mean, i thought eurovision was a classic example of that on on saturday night. just ridiculousness . and you had to ridiculousness. and you had to be buy into the ridiculousness of it or else it's not. there's nothing normal in it. >> i'm really glad the guy got no points because he deserved that. i just think he was so vulgar. if you want to be like sam smith and be depraved, that's fine. if people buy tickets, but it's like it's a family audience. like i think 150 million people watch around the world. and he embarrassed us even before he wasn't happy

about the uk guy. >> yeah, he got no points. he got no points. yeah. >> i was so happy. normally i'm patriotic, but i was like, yes, they thought i was going to be went down like a good. >> serves him right to say goodbye to both of you. >> more from these two soon. here's catherine chaulk with the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather updates by the met office. a change is in store with heavy rain in the west, dry in the east, but really feeling cooler than what we've had lately. so through this morning we've got a band of heavy rain pushing its way across south southern parts of england, wales and northern ireland. the met office have got a yellow rain warning in force here. we could see some difficult driving conditions further towards the north and east. brighter conditions here may be some showers developing across parts of scotland. it will still feel warm in that sunshine, but much

cooler, especially underneath all this cloud and rain across western parts through monday, that rain continues to push its way north and eastwards through this evening, maybe giving some difficult driving conditions at rush hour and continuing to push its way northwards to affect parts of northern england and even into the south—east as well, followed by some blustery showers and some clear spells into tuesday. but it is going to be another rather mild night, especially underneath all that cloud and rain, with temperatures generally around 14 degrees through tuesday, it's a bit of a contrast. we'll see a damp start across northern parts northern ireland and east anglia, as this rain gradually pushes his way northwards into scotland. behind that, some brighter weather, but also some blustery, scattered showers feeding in some of these could be heavy at times, but temperatures are generally around 18 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather

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gb news. away. >> a very good morning to you. it's fast approaching. 7:00. it is monday the 13th of may. a brand new week. >> good to see you. breakfast, eamonn holmes and isabel webster . on the news front, the prime minister and opposition leader are to outline their alternate political visions today as they put their pre—election pitches to the country . to the country. >> the duke and duchess of sussex have concluded their tour of nigeria, as meghan has revealed a surprising heritage claim. >> stars of tv were out last night for the baftas in london, with succession , happy valley with succession, happy valley and top boy winning big. >> nigel farage has joined a new international campaign to reform the world health organisation . the world health organisation. we'll be speaking to the man himself live in just over an

hour. houn >> good morning. they weren't at their best, but arsenal came away from old trafford with the win which put them back on top of the premier league. manchester united's women, meanwhile, won the fa cup at wembley and we'll hear about. novak djokovic bottle job as he exits the italian open. >> a change in the weather this week with outbreaks of heavy rain in the west. dry in the east. i'll have all the details coming up. >> and thanks for getting in touch on gbnews.com/yoursay. a real mixed bag of comments from you all this morning. lots on politics because we've got a big sort of head to head, haven't we, today, with sir keir starmer and rishi sunak both delivering big speeches? well, debbie says i'd like to see how starmer is going to tackle the streets of london about crime happening, like what happened yesterday in broad daylight to that couple. and jan says this is why sunak will lose. they've abandoned pensioners in favour of trying

to bribe working age people to vote for them with national insurance cuts. and lee says whoever votes for the tories or labouris whoever votes for the tories or labour is a fool will only get more of the same. the uk will be done for and we'll also be done for. >> as regards food, we're talking about processed food. people are obese and we're talking about obesity in this country and the rise people are obese because of processed food. we need to ban it. some of it, or at least ban advertising on it , says or at least ban advertising on it, says simon. and i think this is absolutely right. everybody talks about health and supplements that we take or don't take or what we take too much off. we've got to address the food lobby. we have got to address the food lobby and say, you can't keep feeding us this muck , particularly from the muck, particularly from the united states. >> absolutely. and the other point that you've been getting in touch on as well is the sussexes, who've been in nigeria. d says so much mean spirited criticism of the duke and duchess of sussex. it's really time to just let this go. that was d and jennifer says remark, isn't it? meghan is.

>> she's irritating . she's as >> she's irritating. she's as irritating as hell. but she is. you cannot look at her meghan markle and not be irritated by her. she's an actress. she can see she's acting everything out, well, jennifer says meghan's always the one with the microphone whilst harry looks on like a spare part pun. they're awkward . she has money magazine awkward. she has money magazine glam than royal elegance obviously splits opinion. let us know what you guys think this morning . morning. >> your say is where you need to go to on our website a bit of divided opinion. >> 5% of people can't stand the sight of her. that's that's not splitting opinion. but here's another one. simon says politics should be completely free of religion. all religions. it's another stupid idea. >> well, no, but that's after the lib dems have allegedly deselected a candidate for being a christian, and he obviously thinks that that's , you know, thinks that that's, you know, not a bad thing. >> religion plays such an important part in everyday life and in running the country and

in politics in general. i think it's quite good. whether you like that religion or not. that's another matter. it's up to you to do something about it. very, very interesting. i mean, i come from a system in northern ireland which is dictated by religion. you know what your religion. you know what your religion is determines what your political party is. it may be warped, but it's fact. it happens. yeah that is not what you think. >> right. our top story this morning. then i alluded to it a moment ago. we have the prime minister and the leader of his majesty's opposition set to make their pre—election pitches to their pre—election pitches to the nation, with both leaders giving major speeches . giving major speeches. >> now, the prime minister will tell you that you're at a crossroads , and he is the best crossroads, and he is the best person to take you through some of, in his words, the most dangerous years ahead. >> meanwhile, sir keir starmer will bring together labour's newly elected local mayors as he focuses on growing local economies . economies. >> let's go to political correspondent of the spectator, james heale , and we've got james heale, and we've got former adviser to the labour party as well , kevin former adviser to the labour party as well, kevin maguire as well. hello, kevin. good morning

to you. how are you, james, you heard the reaction there and you were on an hour ago, talking about things . what do you think about things. what do you think has got people going ? has got people going? >> well, i think really, i suppose it's the difference between the kind of rhetoric of the politicians and actually the kind of state the country is in. and i think that really it's quite a pretty depressing time, i think, for the uk in terms of the last few years of the post covid growth rates. so i think it's going to be about the challenge about who can lead us on to the future. i think rishi sunaks whole pitch is going to be about, you know, look, we may have got into a bit of a mess right now, but i'm the person who can take us out of it, and he's going to be trying to sort of frame it as sort of against two different parties and different visions for britain, and i think keir starmer, on the other hand, will say, look, the tories have had their time, let's give change a chance. >> well, let's bring kevin meeker in a bit of an uphill struggle, perhaps, for rishi sunak today to persuade the electorate that he's the right man to continue in the post. but what about sir keir starmer? i mean, he's his focus is going to be very much on the gains that they made in terms of the mayoral candidates, now in post

and this brand new cohort, people really care about that . people really care about that. >> i think they do. i think i think, you know, ultimately all politics is local, as a hoary old saying goes. and i mean, i'm just struck by, just to remark a minute ago about about prime ministers facing the electorate and sort of saying, look, you know, don't let the other side ruin it. every losing prime minister in history has said something very similar to that. and that's pretty much what rishi sunak is saying again here today. i think what keir starmer is saying is slightly more complicated. what he's saying is that the government's claims about levelling up, that we've heard, you know, this phrase levelling up for the last 5 or 6 years is a busted flush. it's not happened. it's not it's not made any difference. it's been a gimmick. interestingly if you went a few years further back to george osborne and the concept of the northern powerhouse, that was a vision. there was there was a vision. there was there was actually some substance to that and fair play to george osborne for in a sense, getting it. he spent five years in the treasury not getting it and then suddenly realised that actually, if you want to, you really want to embed growth in this country, what you've got to do is have all the regions of this country,

all the regions of this country, all the regions of this country, all the northern regions in the west midlands and the east midlands in particular, firing on all economic cylinders. and that just has not happened under the tories watch. frankly, it's certainly not happened in the advent of the levelling up conversation. so i think what keir starmer is going to be saying is, look, we've got these mayors in position . you know, mayors in position. you know, they're pretty much all a clean sweep of labour mayors. now at the moment, they can work effectively with a strong labour government to drive and embed economic growth in the regions for the first time, really in the last 40 years. so it's pretty significant . it's pretty pretty significant. it's pretty deep. and i think what it what it tends to show is that the thinking of the starmer camp now is looking past an election and actually looking to how they would actually govern the country and bring about real radical change, meanwhile, james, i wonder if this pitch to the electorate from from rishi sunak will actually be a bit of a pitch to silicon valley in la. talking about how almost l.a. talking about how almost every aspect of people's lives is going to change in the next five years. he's tried to be a leader, hasn't he, in al? is he sort of. is this more of this

kind of like life after number 10, actually, rather than actually think he's going to win the election? >> well, i mean, there'll be always i think, a bit of the prime minister's own sort of self—interest kind of at play here. and it's obviously a subject that really matters to him. he's very interested in it, but i do think there's a wider point. it's true. you know, ai is going to massively change the future of this country. jobs market all different forms of technology, etc. and i don't think there's anything wrong with the prime minister leaning into that as a theme. it's good the uk is taking a leading role on that signing agreements with the us. we've got a huge amount of tech here in the uk and, you know, one of the best sectors in the world, why not embrace that? i think the key thing is trying to balance that with kind of realism and make sure that people at home who are suffering from a cost of living crisis, think that you're actually delivering for them and governing in their interests as well as your own. >> it's always difficult when it's kind of like a nebulous threat, isn't it? yeah, i people can't quite imagine what the problem is. there meanwhile, kevin, the problem of natalie elphicke for sir keir starmer was this a really bad political calculation ? would you have calculation? would you have advised him to accept in a hard

line? erg anti—strike candidate to the party? it was just bizarre, i think. >> i think there's two things. i think one, it never look a gift horse in the mouth. and if you've got a member of parliament for the governing party that's willing to defect , party that's willing to defect, then then of course you would take that. >> so you would have advised him to do that. i think i think it's fairly inevitable that that in any prime minister, any, any party leader would frankly welcome this. >> and what happened, of course, a couple of days later was that keir starmer was able to go down to dover, which is natalie elphick's constituency , and talk elphick's constituency, and talk about his, his, his new policy about his, his, his new policy about about addressing the boats in the english channel. so, so i think i think there's i think the, the for an average person viewing this outside of the westminster bubble, i suspect what they will see is look, it's just another it's another bit of the conservative government breaking apart. and actually, you know, if conservative mps think that, you know, keir starmer is the better person to be in downing street , then be in downing street, then that's going to have some effect. i think, with with swing, with swing voters. now, that said, natalie elphicke has

had some interesting views, if we can put it like that. and i think if you were to line up a list of all the conservative mps that labour mps would prefer defected, she wouldn't be particularly high on that list. i think you can put it like that. >> okay. thank you very much indeed. kevin and james got to leave it there. >> thank you. the time 7:09, the final seasons of top boy, happy valley and succession have won big at the bafta tv awards yesterday. top boy clinching best drama with sarah lancashire winning best actress and happy valley. there were also special awards for daytime tv institution lorraine kelly and baroness floella benjamin. >> well, let's bring in showbiz reporter ellie phillips for her take on the red carpet and everything else in between. good morning. lovely to see you , i morning. lovely to see you, i personally was thrilled to see sarah lancashire win big last night. happy valley feels like a million years ago since it was on but really deserved winner there. her her portrayal of that sort of. i don't know how you'd

describe that copper sort of just really tough female role that she played was phenomenal. yeah. >> and she got very emotional when she accepted the award at the end, the last award of the night, she was thrilled by it, but surprisingly, oh , happy but surprisingly, oh, happy valley only walked away with two awards. i think people were expecting it to win more than that, but having said that, i think it was quite a good night in terms of a mix of awards, because i think the most boring thing about awards is when they, they go on, they happen, and absolutely everyone is predicted to win wins and you're like, okay, that well, that was that actually last night. what happened was that the crown, who was up for the most awards, got completely snubbed, didn't get any. happy valley got two awards, top boy got two, and sixth commandment got two. and i'm really, really pleased. sixth man, because i think it was massively underrated. and for timothy spall who, timothy spall, sorry, who played one of the lead roles in it, he won leading actor last night and he beat out the likes of brian cox, steve coogan, dominic west. so i

think that was and he was so shocked that he genuinely didn't have a speech prepared because he wasn't even in the running in terms of favoured odds. so that was a really, really lovely to see, and as well, i've got to mention that i think it was great to see different people winning in other categories as well. so entertainment performance went to joe lycett, which again , year on year it's which again, year on year it's like, oh, will it be ant and dec or graham norton ? and it wasn't or graham norton? and it wasn't it was july set. so it was someone a bit different. it was giving them the limelight for a second, and as well as that entertainment series strictly come dancing, daytime tv. interesting. went to scam interpreters where you had the likes of loose women and lorraine up there. so again , lorraine up there. so again, giving the limelight to different shows, different, you know, presenters and different actors. so i think overall a really good night. i think the biggest surprise other than, timothy spall has got to be jasmine jobson, and top boy because they, they were up for a few awards, but no one expected them to really take home anything. jasmine won supporting actress for her role as jack in

the netflix drama and top boy won drama series , but it beat won drama series, but it beat out the likes of happy valley, which we've obviously just mentioned , and slow horses. so mentioned, and slow horses. so again, it was good to just see that range there represented through the night rather than just one winning ten, you know. so i think that was really, really to good see, it is though, amazing how minority nddenl though, amazing how minority ridden i suppose a lot of these programmes are slow horses, a superb series, but you have to go some to find it. it's on apple tv, i think it is, not everybody would have access to that. as for top boy? no idea. never heard of it. >> no. >> no. >> top boy is actually really , >> top boy is actually really, really popular. so it's a british crime drama, set in kind of, east london council estate. very gritty, very powerful. and it's interesting what you say about slow horses. it's one of my favourite shows. yeah i absolutely love it. gary oldman wasn't shortlisted this year, which i think is one of the

biggest travesties, because gary oldman, playing jack millom in slow horses is the most genius role . if you've ever seen him do role. if you've ever seen him do it, you're just like, this is the he makes it so fun to watch and you really buy into his character, which is just brilliant. he wasn't even shortlisted, which is a shame , shortlisted, which is a shame, but i'm glad for you as well, because obviously eamonn you love slow horses, is he? you love slow horses, is he? you love happy valley and happy valley won the p&o cruises memorable moment. there you go. which was that kitchen showdown, which we all was like gobsmacked by at the end of it. that was great. >> i wonder about the future of tv and the way we're all going to watch tv. we mentioned slow horses there and, you know, happy boy or top boy or whatever. you have to go looking for them , and it's not just the for them, and it's not just the way you would switch on telly. and there it is. there's four channels and you'll get it on one of those channels. now, i wonder about even programs like bafta last night. what future? why would you screen that on tv? surely that should be streamed somewhere for that, you go looking for it because people by

and large aren't aware of the menu that is being offered on something like the bafta awards program. >> yeah, absolutely. but that's why i think it is so important as well, because there are these amazing programs out there and things like bafta, things like these awards where you're like, what's that? i've never heard of it because the critics and because the industry experts are like, no, this is so good. then people will go out and search for it and will watch it and will get that enjoyment. so that's why i think it kind of that's why i think it kind of that full circle moment. >> there was also recognition for strictly. now, amy and i were talking about how come they're winning baftas when it's been going since forever, really. but i suppose maybe it's a nod to the longevity. i mean, i remember watching , in my late i remember watching, in my late teens or early teens and loving it in my sort of youth, and now my kids love it, you know, and i'm watching it through their eyes as well. and they absolutely look forward to the christmas run up. and everything. so perhaps deserved in that respect that they've stood the test of time. >> they're absolutely. they mentioned yesterday it's their 20th anniversary this year as

well. so it was a really special one for them. and i think with the entertainment series category, particularly with the likes of strictly come dancing and the others that were up for it, like michael mcintyre's big show and such. they are those family friendly shows that everyone can join together and watch. i always watched strictly growing up with my nan, you know? so it's that generational thing and i think every year, even though it's exactly the same because they bring different people in and they bnngin different people in and they bring in such a huge variety of people. you get to know and love different characters almost through it. and obviously now alongside that runs kind of the press and social media. when there's drama going on, when there's drama going on, when there's relationships developing. so it's kind of got that extra element to it. now when you watch it, beyond just the dancing on a saturday night. >> lovely. >> lovely. >> thanks very much, ellie, appreciate your take on glowing. thank you. thanks. >> see you soon. >>— >> see you soon. >> i think my problem is, if you say to me, what are you watching at the moment, i'd go and i wouldn't know the name of the programme. >> yeah, that is the problem. >> yeah, that is the problem.

>> yeah. >> yeah. >> i don't know the names of the actors or actresses either, or the stations that they're on. although my guilty pleasure slightly gone down a rabbit hole of watching married at first sight australia, which is just such rubbish and it doesn't win any awards, but i've committed to it now, and there's 40 episodes, so i have to sit through them all. yeah, it's a bit of light relief from all the miserable news and everything. >> well, at least you've got something. there are a lot of dramas that i've watched on various streaming platforms. yeah and i couldn't name them. yeah, that's the trouble. >> i've been watching a gentleman in moscow that's been very good with, ewan mcgregor. and i've been watching. >> what channel is that on? >> what channel is that on? >> don't ask me . and >> don't ask me. and yellowstone. i know that's on paramount because it takes me forever to get it through all the apps, which has got 1000 series as well. so that'll keep you going for generations. illegal apps. no, i don't no no, no, i pay for all my channels. yeah. >> oh sorry. i was just just was wasn't accusing. >> it was just right. >> it was just right. >> no, no i know some of your friends use those illegal ones. the big in northern ireland. >> aren't they very big in northern ireland? >> not so sorry ones in northern ireland. to be quite truthful, it's the way it is. >> there we go. >> there we go.

>> but yeah, lots of programmes, but none of us can, can name them. >> yeah. and let us know what you're watching at the moment. what you are wishing had won an award last night for. and what do you make of the winners and losers? yeah. oh, jeremy clarkson's farm is a good one. wasn't it? >> yeah. jeremy clarkson's show was good, right. let's get an update. what's happening? news. my 70 minutes past seven. the russian president is set to replace his defence minister, sergey shoygu , who's been in the sergey shoygu, who's been in the role for 12 years and played a key role in russia's invasion of ukraine and andrei belousov has been chosen to take his place . been chosen to take his place. he's an economist. he's a former deputy prime minister, but has little military experience. >> angela rayner is expected to be interviewed under police caution as part of a tax investigation. the deputy labour leader is understood to have been contacted by manchester police concerning the sale of a house in 2015, amid claims she may not have paid the right amount of tax and may have made amount of tax and may have made

a false declaration about her primary residence on the electoral register. she said she's confident the rules have been followed at all times , and been followed at all times, and two skydivers have become the first to navigate their way through tower bridge wearing wing suits, the pair , from wing suits, the pair, from austria jumped from a helicopter and flew across the river thames, reaching a top speed of 152mph. and they then winged their way between the bridge towers. it followed extensive training in oxfordshire, which involved the use of cranes to simulate the bridge. >> now, never mind the baftas, the tric awards is the only awards ceremony in town as far as we're concerned, because we've been nominated and we've been nominated for best news program and eamonn once again for best news presenter. >> well, we could do with your help to win. of course, we can't do it without you, so here comes the begging bit, you had to pull

dash trick.org .uk and all the details are there on gbnews.com as well. so there's a number of programs and personalities on the station who have been nominated. so if you head there, you can make your vote count. >> yeah. what's your favourite phrase? get your vote in early voting often. although i don't think you're allowed to do multiple votes anymore, but give it a good go, time now for a check on the weather. it's a bit of a story of two halves. dry in the east, wet in the west. here's catherine chalk with much more scientific take on it all. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb solar sponsors of weather on. gb news. good morning. >> welcome to your gb news weather updates by the met office. a change is in store with heavy rain in the west, dry in the east, but really feeling cooler than what we've had lately. so through this morning we've got a band of heavy rain

pushing its way across south southern parts of england, wales and northern ireland. the met office have got a yellow rain warning in force here. we could see some difficult driving conditions further towards the north and east. brighter conditions here, maybe some showers developing across parts of scotland. it will still feel warm in that sunshine , but much warm in that sunshine, but much cooler, especially underneath all this cloud and rain across western parts through monday , western parts through monday, that rain continues to push its way north and eastwards through this evening, maybe giving some difficult driving conditions at rush hour and continuing to push its way northwards to affect parts of northern england and even into the south—east as well , followed by some blustery showers and some clear spells into tuesday. but it is going to be another rather mild night, especially underneath all that cloud and rain, with temperatures generally around 14 degrees through tuesday, it's a bit of a contrast. we'll see a damp start across northern parts, northern ireland and east

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don't know. is everybody lighting barbecues in public spaces? we're playing music later or taking their shirts off and walking the streets of london or wherever it might be in the uk. perhaps that's the best part of summer. let us know what you think. we'll be debating this

break. >> well. the weekend made lots of us think about summer. temperatures reached mid—twenties. and with summer comes trips to, say, the beach. >> but as the sun comes out, do our manners disappear? do we get hot and bothered? well, we've been asking you this morning what your pet peeves are at the beach, but i suppose it doesn't just have to be the beach. it can be at the park where you live, or just walking down the street. let's get the thoughts of the founder of polished manners, laura akano, and the leading etiquette expert, liz bro. good morning to both of you. morning. good morning to you. morning. good morning to you. first of all then do we

literally leave our manners at the front door when the sun comes out and get a little bit overexcited? >> we need to consider our manners and our behaviour, especially our social behaviour at all times. you know, we are very much what we think and it's a bit like the picture of dorian grey up in the attic, which age did and showed the true personality of the man below who didn't age. and with us, we're not taught this, but our thoughts and the way we consider others and the way we behave and our energy is a reflection of who we are. and eventually that is shown that comes out in us and other people pick it up. when you're on the beach, you know you're more relaxed and therefore and especially in hot temperatures. but you're outside. you've still got to consider others , even in the consider others, even in the workplace. if you're not lucky enough to have air conditioning, you've still got to make adjustment , you've still got to make adjustment, and you've still got to make adjustment , and you've got to adjustment, and you've got to consider others. make other

people feel comfortable and happy. you know, we live in a world at the moment which isn't very happy. no. so let's treat others as we'd like to be treated ourselves. >> okay, well, let's let's speak to laura and i and laura. what way would you like to be treated when the sun shines ? when the sun shines? >> i would like people, as elise just said , to show a bit more just said, to show a bit more consideration. and also to remember the fact that not everybody enjoys the hot weather. and so a lot of people weather. and so a lot of people we hear about, oh, it's going to be sunny, people want to go out, they want to , wear their best they want to, wear their best summer clothes and things like that. but really , you need to that. but really, you need to think about other people that some people may not find it comfortable and as she said, you just really your manners should not go on holiday just because we have a few days of sunshine, or even if you were abroad, you should always take your manners with you. >> trouble is, we all live on top of each other, don't we? now, liz? i mean, i think about

my terraced house in london and i live next door to chainsmokers, and they would sit in the garden on a sunny evening, quite entitled to, in their own garden, smoking cigarette after cigarette. but my two babies bedrooms are up on the top floor, windows open and all of that smoke going straight into their bedrooms whilst they were sleeping. you used to drive me crazy, but i didn't feel i could do anything because they were in their own backyard. yeah. should people be thinking about these sorts of things? >> you can do something, you know, but it's the way you go about it. it's the attitude, you know, if you you go and appeal to their better nature. explain about your babies. but it's the way you do it. and it's no good going around and sort of dictating. nobody likes to be dictated to you don't learn by being dictated to . you have to being dictated to. you have to appeal to their better nature and actually become friends. you know you've got a next door neighbour. it's best to be friends with them than enemies. therefore, explain . but in a way therefore, explain. but in a way that's gentle and a way that you're going to change what their what their attitude is. would you agree with that , laura? >> i would certainly agree with

the confrontation . behaviour is the confrontation. behaviour is really not ideal, especially when it's a neighbour. this is someone you're going to see for most, you know, for as long as you're living there. so it's really better to approach things in a friendly manner. and, most people are reasonable enough if you speak to them and speak to them politely and in a respectful manner, most, most of the time you'll be able to come to an agreement. >> people's attitude to the sun's amazing. i mean, i'm from ireland. everybody's pale in ireland. everybody's pale in ireland. i love the sun. i love being in the sun , it agrees with being in the sun, it agrees with me, one of my best friends is filipino, and she detests the sun because laura, she says she gets tan and she doesn't want to be tan . and in the philippines be tan. and in the philippines to be tan shows that you're an outdoor worker and therefore that sort of anti—social if you're with me, that she she would prefer to appear paler rather than tanned .

rather than tanned. >> well, there goes the cultural element as well, which is what etiquette is all about, that it's culturally bound. and i did mention initially that not everybody appreciates hot weather. and that's a good example of your your neighbour saying saying that. so again , saying saying that. so again, it's just really stopping to think that it's, you know, sunshine is out, but it's not necessarily something that everybody's happy about. and i know people get really, joyful and probably do things that they wouldn't normally do just because what about what we wear? >> that's the thing. what's the thing, liz? what we wear. i mean, you look at you look at, you know, film starring cary grant or grace kelly or, you know, people like that, and they are impeccable. they are impeccable in the sun. they've turban on their linen shirts. there's never a wrinkle in them. whatever but real life is just not like that. >> well, it's becoming easier because the fabrics we wear nowadays , you know, don't crease

nowadays, you know, don't crease so much. and they, they we can look good. and i'm a great believer. i was brought up, my mother would say, you know, you never know. you might have a car crash . you could be, you know, crash. you could be, you know, npped crash. you could be, you know, ripped off here, there and everywhere . always have clean everywhere. always have clean knickers. yes. and you know, it's a question of, you know, your own self esteem. so if you're going out in the sun, think about it. you want to feel good and by by looking good or feeling that you're looking good, you behave in a different way. if you catch a glance of yourself in a in a mirror or a shop window and you think, gosh, i look dreadful , shop window and you think, gosh, i look dreadful, who's shop window and you think, gosh, i look dreadful , who's that i look dreadful, who's that person in the window that reduces your self esteem, you know? >> and laura, final word from you, just in terms of advice about how you should prepare or how you should dress or how you should feel in the sun, what would you say ideally cover up. >> that's that's the thing. even the specialists, they do tell us to keep our skin covered in, in

when the weather is hot in heat, heat. so ideally you want to cover up, wear fabrics that are that can breed like cotton and linen. those are the best fabncs linen. those are the best fabrics in in hot weather and dress modestly . vie and a little dress modestly. vie and a little bit of decorum would be great, compared to what we see most of the time when we're out and about disagreeing with that, you don't mind bearing a bit of flesh ? flesh? >> no, it's a sunshine. but we've got, you know, you've got creams and things. but today people are so wary of going in the sun because it it damages your skin. so you've got to be careful. yeah, but you can have fake tan and that still looks good. >> guys. you both look good. thank you for joining >> guys. you both look good. thank you forjoining us >> guys. you both look good. thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. thank you.thank morning. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. >> it just reminded me when liz was talking there about one of my favourite quotes by roald dahl my favourite quotes by roald dahl. if you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. >> that's what i said, i love that that is what she said. >> i always say to you, clean knickers, i say that to you and

i always say to you, good thoughts. >> keep those thoughts clean as well. right? coming up aidan magee he has all your sport in for paul coyte today. he's in

break. bringing you up to date with what's happening on the sports front over the weekend. we've got aidan magee here at top of the table in the premier league. arsenal, go back up there in deed. >> now, look as neutrals. if you don't support any of the teams involved, you want to see a decent title race. we don't see it every year because man city make it. their brilliance makes it processional most in two years out of three, but this time we're going to see it go into the final weekend of the season. and that's because arsenal weren't convincing yesterday. the performance wasn't fantastic, but it's results that matter. they got the job done. a 20th minute goal by leandro trossard was enough to see off united, who i have to say were a little bit listless, even allowing for the fact that

they they had some quite significant injuries . rashford, significant injuries. rashford, martinez, fernandez, maguire now tonight's game between aston villa and liverpool is going to be pivotal. i believe, because if villa lose, it opens the door for tottenham to get into the champions league. i estimate that's worth about £90 million. the difference between finishing the top four and outside of it, there is no way massive there is no way out. daniel levy is going to say. going to be looking at his players tomorrow night and saying, you know, we don't want arsenal to win the league. but even if it costs us £90 million, it keeps tottenham honest. it means that if villa were to lose tonight, if they've got an extra incentive to beat manchester city and who knows if it goes, if it's a draw, it could be a goal shootout on the final day of the season. i think that would be absolutely extraordinary. as for man united, wayne rooney was very scathing about them. afterwards, he said too many players are hiding behind injuries, saving themselves for the fa cup, saving himself for the euros , saving himself for the euros, that's a damning indictment on erik ten hag's legacy. i think so the fa cups a couple of weeks away now? >> yes. united. united against city, fa cup, women's fa cup. on saturday. yeah. >> exactly. so if this was at wembley , man united beat

wembley, man united beat tottenham by four goals to nil. it was the first saturday. >> was it yesterday, it was . yes. >> anyway it was a big game anyway. >> yeah it was anyway it was four nil ella toone proving that she's as good at club level as she's as good at club level as she is at international level. but also this is the first major trophy won by man united's women's team. and they were late to the party on this. ehm. and when they were, when the wsl got going with man city and chelsea and asked i mean arsenal have been involved in it since the 90s and so united were paying playing catch up to some degree, and i wonder if this victory would be a staging post. mark skinner, the manager, said well, i think so. >> i think it is. and you think they'll go on and win win more? yeah, i think, the win more . yeah, i think, the win more. yeah. this says we are one of the big players now. that's. >> yeah, it is. but as i say it was an outstanding performance and they looked well worth it as well. but tottenham good for that. good for them. another a final for them for the first time. >> big player rory mcilroy in golf, the wells fargo championship. >> yes . so a championship. >> yes. so a really championship. >> yes . so a really outstanding >> yes. so a really outstanding back nine for him. he was ahead of xander scheffler who, brother of xander scheffler who, brother of the world number one. of

course , a no mean player course, a no mean player himself. and i wonder if this, given that it's a back to back title he won in zurich two weeks ago. i wonder if it's going to put him in good fettle for valhalla. unfortunately given it's ten years since he last won a major at the age of 25, i do have fears that it could be still only a child . still only a child. >> ms3 bones are hardly formed. >> ms3 bones are hardly formed. >> no, no, that's right. but ten years though, i mean between 25 and 35. that's a peak in sport, isn't it? and psychology. eamonn when you get to those crucial sunday nights and you and the world seems to be caving in around you, the lead that you had yesterday has been whittled down. can you cope in that pressure? can you see it over the line? i think he has grave doubts in his own ability to do that. however, world number two, he's got consistency. he's not a bad golf golf player, but some players just don't. well, he's obviously won major, but lee westwood couldn't get over the line. could he have all those years? yeah, luke donald was another one on top of the order of merit. and he couldn't get it done either. no, let's switch to tennis. >> let's talk about novak djokovic, this business of the, the water bottle falling on his head.i the water bottle falling on his head. i believe it didn't hurt him at all, but i believe that he was metal . it was metal,

he was metal. it was metal, wasn't it? yeah. yeah. okay. right okay. well, it might have hurt a wee bit, but, the thing is, he went down as if he had been shot. he was like jfk. he went down boom, boom, boom boom, look. oh, yeah . look. oh, yeah. >> benefit of our radio listeners were seeing djokovic on friday after his win. yeah. and he got hit. and he's saying it caused dizziness and nauseous nausea yesterday. i mean he was dispatched in 67 minutes by alessandro or alejandro tabilo of chile. >> he made the most of it. >> he made the most of it. >> three well, look, i mean i think he's going to be in decent he's going to be in decent. he might give him a rest ahead of the french open because he's going to look to retain that. but but he's not he's not someone to give, give excuses. he was accused of this early in his career. he's a bit of a federer. and nadal famously called him a cry—baby, but he got over those hurdles. he's one of those guys. i like djokovic, he's a bit divisive, isn't he? but i like him and i think he's not the sort to give excuses unless there's something in it. and if it did make him feel dizzy and nauseous, why would he say that? i mean, you know, he's not got nothing to prove, is he? he's he could he could make it

25 grand slams next month. >> maybe. let's see next time. we'll see you next time. 8:20. aiden. thank you very much indeed. >> still to come, we're welcoming back paula london and kriss akabusi to take us through what's making the news this morning. classic

and we're going through the papers in the company. paula london and kriss akabusi. chris, i'm really pleased you've chosen this story for the front of the guardian about superbugs making covid 19 look minor. this is dame sally davies, and she was the godmother of my best friend emily, who we've had on. you've interviewed many times, and she talks about i mean, she's photographed inside the paper as well, but it's on the front page, you know, the reason that these super superbugs basically are going to kill us all in the end? >> yes. yeah. so these superbugs are resistant to , antibiotics, are resistant to, antibiotics, basically we've got too many, too many of us taking too many

antibiotics and, she says that her fear is in the next ten years, if we don't get on top of it, it will be worse than covid 19. and covid 19 will look like a minor disease. frightening. it is. and i think many of us over the last year have had like a reoccurring , cold or nasal or reoccurring, cold or nasal or cardiovascular related illnesses. so, it sort of seems to chime every time i meet someone in a golf course, you know, somebody is coughing and spluttering , and so it does spluttering, and so it does raise alarm bells. you know, my fear, though, as i began to read through the piece, it says it looks like a lot of people with untreatable infections, and we would have to move to isolating people. and all of a sudden that spectre of four years ago is coming back on me again, and we're going to go back to people staying in their homes. and you can't do this and you can't do

that. >> oh, we can't do another lockdown. >> well, but but you know , i'm >> well, but but you know, i'm just reading what it says in the papen just reading what it says in the paper, you know, but i mean , the paper, you know, but i mean, the best way to protect against superbugs is just basically washing your hands , you know, washing your hands, you know, just basic hygiene. >> and, you know, i think we take too many antibiotics in this country sometimes. obviously you need them, but people forget to take good bacteria afterwards, like probiotics. i mean, i had probiotics. i mean, i had probiotics every day in capsule form and i have yoghurts. so it's something more people need to do in this, which we're not educated in at all. >> we're not educated there. i mean, medicine's way of dealing with this is to say we'll not give you an antibiotic or have a half a headache tablet instead of a full headache tablet. and that's not the right way, enhen that's not the right way, ehheni that's not the right way, either. i was in hospital in the past week, and the medication i was taking before i went into hospital, compared to the medication i got in hospital, i just kept saying, just let me know, are you doing this for cost reasons? are these medical reasons or does no one have a clue? and i sort of felt that no one had a clue, really. >> at the end of the day, it's like with childbirth and they will only give you paracetamol

once labour's over and you're like, are you kidding me? it's just basically been through a car crash and you're saying take a paracetamol. but in this particular case, dame sally jenkins davies is talking about how emily, who had cystic fibrosis, was born with that. and obviously we know there have been huge, developments in treating that. in fact, you shouldn't die from cystic fibrosis anymore. she's one of the few people in this country who had two lung transplants. but in the end, it was a horrendous infection that no drugs could get rid of that killed her. and that was so sad. after everything, she'd battled. and she talks about the rise of these really aggressive infections, which is really quite frightening when they're resistant to treatment . resistant to treatment. >> it is, but i think it is a bit of scaremongering as well. i think she's a chief medical officer. she needs to be get things wrong all the time. >> but some of the things they say, though, is that we need to have a one global health thought process . so, for example, it's process. so, for example, it's not just about human beings, but it's also about animals. they have antibiotics. it's also about the farmers and what they're spraying on their crops. it's also about the pharmaceutical industry and how they dispose of their waste when they dispose of their waste when they do their testing . so they

they do their testing. so they say we need one grown up system, global system, to ensure that we're not feeding these bugs . we're not feeding these bugs. who can become resistant? >> well, i think we should use hand sanitiser more as well, because, i mean, a lot of people got used to doing that in covid, and that's a great thing to do. that really can stop you getting some bugs. >> yeah, i don't think it's going to help the superbugs, but you see, it's again, you raise another very simple thing hand sanitiser and you sort of think, well, of course everybody washes their hands after a, b and c, but not everyone does. >> but they don't. i know i think it's a great thing. they don't. they don't. and that's how bugs spreads. yeah. >> and diseases and all sorts of upsets and whatever it is goodness me. >> right . goodness me. >> right. paula goodness me. >> right . paula you've chosen >> right. paula you've chosen this story. there's talk in the papers today about angela rayner and being taken in under caution for her tax affairs. and the mirror are launching a bit of a fightback on her behalf, questioning the tax status of four conservative mps , probably four conservative mps, probably the most famous of whom is maria miller. but the person who stands to have gained the most, david tredinnick, who had a £2 million profit, so what is what

is the paper alleging here? hypocrisy, i suppose . hypocrisy, i suppose. >> well, this story angela obviously, clearly wants it to go away and it's not going anywhere. and obviously that is upset. her so it's probably why the mirror are now are talking about tory mps just to deflect. but, i mean she'll be interviewed in the next couple of weeks under caution and she's also said, obviously she wanted bons also said, obviously she wanted boris johnson to resign when he was under police investigation and she should have just published her tax dossier because she's asked other people to do that. then she wouldn't have to be under investigation. the fact is, she bought the council house in two thousand and seven, sold it in 2015 and insisted she she owes no capital gains tax. knowing that married couples are only permitted to have one main residence. so she would only owe no more than £3,500. but she drives around in a bentley, pretend she's the working class lady made good. >> she does. she drive in a bentley? >> yeah. she did. i saw her. not just a normal one, even though it was like a big 4x4 one.

>> you're bentayga. yes yes. >> you're bentayga. yes yes. >> and the story is not going away. bentley i believe so. i mean, she was driving in a bentley. yeah she's not, she's not who she says she is. and you know, she can, you know, say oh, people don't like her because of class, etc. it's nothing to do with that. you know what's good for the goose is good for the ganden >> she's not who she says she was, but she, because she's now, you know, a high profile political figure. >> but she's a working class woman. she does everything right. >> i mean, i was a working class man. >> i don't pay enough tax. >> i don't pay enough tax. >> yeah, but if it's happening on any side of the political spectrum, it should be looked into. and i think she's claiming this is a smear. i would just say all of you clean your act up, own up, pay what you owe, and stop lecturing the rest of us about what we should be doing. exactly. >> yeah. and the story will not going away. i mean, in the mail, they're doing a i think it's day 36 now and it's really enraging a lot of people on the left with updates about it. but we're not just going to just ignore this story. you know, it's a real story. you know, it's a real story. and we're very interested in it. >> yes, meanwhile, we hear that britons are heading to spain for

the cost of living , says the mirror. >> i don't blame them. in this country . i mean, especially in country. i mean, especially in london, i think there's been five murders in london since khan, obviously was re—elected. it's very dangerous. the weather ordinarily is very bad. obviously the last few days have been atypical. it's been great quality of life. food is so expensive, grocery inflation has gone down, but it's still very high. life is short. gone down, but it's still very high. life is short . you know, high. life is short. you know, we're worried about an impending war that can happen and people are thinking, life's short. let me enjoy myself. it's harder with brexit. but you can obviously live cheaper in spain. better quality of life . better quality of life. >> no proper until you need things, until you need the health service, until you need the police service around with tougher police. >> our police are useless, yes, but they're also pretty useless. >> tough towards you. i remember having a burglary in portugal and the police turn up and they they they machine guns, they've jackboots on, they've, you know, they're paramilitary. >> you had to you had a burglar in.

>> yeah. yeah, yeah. >> yeah. yeah, yeah. >> in a holiday home or. >> in a holiday home or. >> no. and a rental and a rental. didn't you really. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and, which was quite common. really. yeah. and i think it was an inside job. the security people who were on the development as well just turned a blind eye and they came in and obviously they split the loot with them. whatever but my point was, nothing happened until one day they asked me for my name. i sat in the police station. i was sitting for hours and i said and had sky news on the background, and i said , see that? that's and i said, see that? that's what i do. and then i handed them the thing . suddenly things them the thing. suddenly things happen. suddenly things change. good as a result of that. but the point is, i would like to live abroad. i would like the idea of the weather and all that sort of thing. but, would i do it? that's the question . it? that's the question. >> i just don't think i would see this. so that's sort of a dream of mine, actually. 0 mine to, to, to sort of retire abroad before i love it. >> i'd move abroad if i could. >> i'd move abroad if i could. >> you know, what i would do if you said to me, m and you and me will go and live in the same street, and isabella will be there, and paula will be there

as well. i'd love it. i'd love to be there with my wine at lunch time. >> tappers, people that are known by me, my community, good community, the expat community. >> have a ball. don't they, we're having a ball with you guys. we've got to pause it more of the same just after 8:30. thank you very much for now. in a moment nigel farage in the studio. stay with us for that. here's the weather. first. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boiler sailors sponsors of weather on . gb news. weather on. gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your gb news weather updates by the met office. a change is in store with heavy rain in the west, dry in the east, but really feeling cooler than what we've had lately. so through this morning we've got a band of heavy rain pushing its way across south southern parts of england, wales and northern ireland. the met office have got a yellow rain warning in force here. we could see some difficult driving conditions further towards the north and east. brighter conditions here may be some showers developing across parts

of scotland. it will still feel warm in that sunshine, but much cooler, especially underneath all this cloud and rain across western parts through monday , western parts through monday, that rain continues to push its way north and eastwards through this evening, maybe giving some difficult driving conditions at rush hour and continuing to push its way northwards to affect parts of northern england and even into the southeast as well , even into the southeast as well, followed by some blustery showers and some clear spells into tuesday. but it is going to be another rather mild night, especially underneath all that cloud and rain, with temperatures generally around 14 degrees through tuesday , it's degrees through tuesday, it's a bit of a contrast. we'll see a damp start across northern parts northern ireland and east anglia as this rain gradually pushes away northwards into scotland. behind that, some brighter weather, but also some blustery, scattered showers feeding in some of these could be heavy at times, but temperatures are generally around 18 degrees. >> it looks like things are

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the outline, their alternate political visions as they put their pre—election pitches to their pre—election pitches to the country. >> yes, we are in true election season now with both leaders laying out their plans for the country. can rishi sunak deliver a boris johnson style, booster esque message? let's find out . esque message? let's find out. >> nigel farage has joined a new international campaign to reform the world health organisation will be speaking to him live in just a few minutes.

>> the duke and duchess of sussex have concluded their tour of nigeria as meghan reveals a surprising heritage claim . surprising heritage claim. >> good morning. arsenal's win at old trafford may not have looked convincing, but it does mean the premier league title race will go into the final week of the season. we'll found out why liverpool could still have a say in the destination of the trophy, ahead of their trips to aston villa tonight . aston villa tonight. >> a change in the weather this week, with outbreaks of heavy rain in the west. dry in the east. i'll have all the details coming up. >> starting this off straight away with nigel farage. nigel has joined a new international campaign committed to reforming the world health organisation and this is set to launch today. let's go to nigel and find out exactly. nigel, what's your what's your issue with the world

health organisation. >> good morning. good morning. so the world health organisation , which is part of the united nations, was set up and designed to be an early warning system. you know, something like sars hit a few years ago. the rest of the world needs to know about it. and if it's there for us to share best practice, how we deal with problems . you know, how we with problems. you know, how we deal with new phenomena like covid. and if we can all go there and learn from each other, that's terrific. no objections whatsoever. however in two weeks time, our government is committed to signing a new treaty. it will be binding under international law, and that treaty would now give this organisation the power to number one in an emergency. take 20% of our ppe, 20% of our vaccines, which they would take and give to poorer third world countries. number two, it would give them the right to declare a pandemic a global pandemic. and they could tell us we have to lock

down. now. i think not only have we had enough of lockdowns, we can all now see that the approach that florida took, the approach that florida took, the approach that florida took, the approach that sweden took, where you know, life carried on, albeit with a few restrictions, but life carried on was a better approach, so that shouldn't be removed for us from us. and anyway, it's for us to decide how we deal with the member to the member bodies of this organisation, the world health organisation . organisation. >> do they not have a vote in all of this? >> well, the problem is we'll be giving authority to the world health organisation just to do this. they would have the ability to say, right, there is ability to say, right, there is a global pandemic. you must all lock down. now look, you know, brexit britain, what was brexit about? it was about taking back control. it was about us being in charge of these big decisions and to not give a bureaucracy and to not give a bureaucracy and one that's fairly questionable in terms of the way that it operates financially and much else . and look, in america, much else. and look, in america, 49 of the republican senators

have got together, written to joe biden to say, look , let's joe biden to say, look, let's try and reform the who. let's not try and, you know, sign this treaty. and what's happening in britain is we're on the verge of signing this, and there is no debate. there ought to be a pubuc debate. there ought to be a public debate in parliament where ministers explain publicly why they intend to sign this. >> so, i mean, you've explained it perfectly there because i was scratching my head. why on earth is nigel farage bothered about the world health organisation? but it comes back to that issue, doesn't it? as you said there about sovereignty, about control. now, the government have absolutely been adamant that no outside third party would be dictating whether or not we would go into a lockdown or not. yes. back to the days of the european union where no no no no no no no, the eu haven't really got power over us. >> and then you find that they have british governments are very keen, whether they're labour or conservative. they love signing international treaties. they love being popular on the world stage, going with the flow . and a time going with the flow. and a time and again we found on these issues of who's really in control. they don't actually

tell us the whole truth , but how tell us the whole truth, but how easy is it ever to take back control? >> a lot of people would say, the brexit that you envisioned, the brexit that you envisioned, the brexit that you envisioned, the brexit that you sold to the british population hasn't really happened. we haven't been able to take back control. could that be the same with the world health organisation? and isn't it better to have some sort of international overarching cooperation when it comes to a pandemic, which it by very nature is global? i'm all for cooperation. >> what i'm not for is surrendering the ability to make decisions, and they are two fundamentally different things. look, the brexit we've got, it's not the way it hasn't worked out the way that i wanted, but all i ever said to people was we would be in control and we might make a total mess of things, or we might do things very well, but we are in control. >> so what we ideally would you see a reorganised world health organisation, would we have a contributory vote, a voluntary vote and no vote? how would you see it? >> very simple. we go, we should go to geneva in two weeks time for this big summit. and we

should say to the bureaucrats, right. this is not what we intended. we are not going to give you the power to do all of these things. what we will do is use you as a coordination point where we can share intelligence and share best practice , and and share best practice, and this thing needs to be reformed. and if you don't reform, we're going to stop making financial contributions and we will play no longer play a part in it. and that's how negotiations work in life. you know, you've got to threaten. you've got to threaten to get what you want. i suspect that if we if we make this stand, we'll find that other countries join us. >> and you're talking about reform there is this move into this area, part of your role as president of reform or is it totally separate? this isn't a position of reform. >> they don't completely non—party political in every way. it's just a slight alignment with the republicans in the states. well, yes, but i'm hoping that other i'm hoping now that democrat voices come out and say much the same thing. i mean, the americans are very, very big on sovereignty, regardless whether they're democrat or republican, no, this is non—political . well, it's

is non—political. well, it's a simple fact that that it's you're elected. parliaments should make these decisions and then be held accountable to you at the next election . at the next election. >> so if people at home are listening to you this morning going, i agree with everything, nigel is saying, what can they do to ensure that in two weeks time a proper debate is had? >> what what we're doing now is we're collecting names, you know, action for world health. the websites are all going up today. we're going to collect names of people who support us, want to help us. and when i've got this moving in a couple of days time, i will launch a petition on the government's website, and i'm hoping we get hundreds of thousands of people who say we should not do this without a proper parliamentary debate, and the fact that it hasn't even been discussed, i think, is wrong. >> well, who's there at the moment representing us? >> we have a variety of people. we have doctors, we have all sorts of people that input mostly on a part time basis, you know, and actually if you talk to the medical profession, you know, a lot of them, a lot of our top cancer specialists and many others have actually found

this organisation to be very valuable over the last few years. and all the while, it's operating on the basis of cooperation but not giving away powers. it can be a force for good, but it's heading now into territory that it shouldn't be going towards, so you don't want to see it disbanded. >> you understand that there is a role for the world health organisation. i mean, is there a risk possibly by starting this debate of undermining it rather than reforming? oh, i think it undermined itself. >> i think the boss, mr tedros, the boss of it, undermined it. he was put into that position with the substantial backing of china and when the pandemic broke, he insisted to the world it was the wet markets that were the source of covid 19. so his his position actually is highly questionable. >> okay. well, fascinating talking to you this morning. thanks for coming in. lovely to have you in the flesh so early in the gb news studio. people don't usually expect to see you this time here. thank you very much, nigel jul, speaking on behalf of action on world health, your views on what it

should do or if you should be allowed to do it, let us know your views on that one. >> gbnews.com/yoursay you're saying, nigel, thank you, thank you.the saying, nigel, thank you, thank you. the prime minister and the opposition leader are set to make their pre—election pitches to the country today. both leaders giving major speeches . leaders giving major speeches. earlier, we spoke to health minister maria caulfield , who minister maria caulfield, who previewed the speech. >> the prime minister is going to set out the kind of wider threat to the country from countries like russia and china and i, in fact, which was not on the horizon a few years ago. >> well, he won't be allowed to hog the limelight because sir keir starmer is also launching a big speech today , bringing big speech today, bringing together labour's newly elected local mayors as he focuses on trying to grow local economies. >> let's go to our political correspondent olivia utley. in our westminster studio. she will tell us more. olivia >> i mean, this set piece speech from rishi sunak today is set to

be pretty depressing as a whole. he's looking at the threats to britain over the next five years. we're expecting him to say that the world is going to change over the next five years, more than it has changed in the last 30 years because of existential threats from countries like russia, china and iran . he will talk countries like russia, china and iran. he will talk a countries like russia, china and iran . he will talk a lot, we iran. he will talk a lot, we expect, about his commitment to raise defence spending to 2.5, something which labour has failed to match. essentially the message of the speech is the world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place and you are safer with the conservatives than you are with laboun conservatives than you are with labour. but of course, he also has to give some sort of positive message too. and that will will be that the country is bouncing back, the economy is bouncing back, the economy is bouncing back, the economy is bouncing back and there is some evidence for that. last week it was revealed that the economy grew by 0.6, meaning that the country is now officially out of recession . rishi sunak will recession. rishi sunak will point to that as evidence that the conservatives have a plan andifs the conservatives have a plan and it's working. we will hear

that phrase time and again both today and over the weeks ahead. and he will say that starmer doesn't have a vision, doesn't have a plan. labour is anti—everything a sort of boris johnson esque message . but as johnson esque message. but as you said there, rishi sunak isn't going to have a chance to hog the headlines very much. we are also going to be hearing from kirsty armour. he's got his gang of newly elected metro mayors and his message will be far more local . it will all be far more local. it will all be about restoring reviving local economies . while rishi sunak is economies. while rishi sunak is going to be a sort of much more existential talking about al, how to harness ai global threats, specific threats to britain keir starmer will go down completely the other route and sort of zoom in on exactly what's happening in local communities. which message will resonate more with the british public. we'll have to wait and see. >> indeed. all right, olivia, thanks very much indeed . thanks very much indeed. >> let's have a look at some of the other news stories making it into the newsroom today. angela rayneris into the newsroom today. angela

rayner is expected to be interviewed under caution as part of a council tax investigation . the deputy labour investigation. the deputy labour leader is understood to have been contacted by manchester police concerning the sale of a home in 2015, amid claims she may not have paid the right amount of tax and may have made amount of tax and may have made a false declaration about her primary residence . she has said primary residence. she has said she's confident the rules have been followed at all times . been followed at all times. >> the quality of maternity care is shockingly poor. the birth trauma inquiry has found. it discovered the good pregnancy care is the exception and not the rule, as new mothers risk suffering lifelong injuries as hospitals are covering up endemic failures. mps and nhs bosses have said they're committed to producing a comprehensive strategy for maternity services. >> the russian president, vladimir putin, is set to replace his defence minister, who's been in the role for 12 years and played a key role in russia's invasion of ukraine, and his successor has been

chosen to take the place already . he is an economist and former deputy prime minister with little military experience and take a look at these pictures. >> if you're listening on the radio, you've got to check them out. two skydivers have become the first to navigate their way through tower bridge, wearing wing suits. the pair jumped from wing suits. the pairjumped from a helicopter from austria . they a helicopter from austria. they flew across the river thames, reaching a top speed of 152 miles an hour before they successfully made it between the bndge successfully made it between the bridge towers. they've been practising in oxfordshire , which practising in oxfordshire, which involved the use of cranes to simulate the bridge rather than the me. you have to be incredibly brave to do something like that, not only skilful but brave, because if it goes wrong, it doesn't just go wrong. it's catastrophic. >> just. just to be clear, the helicopter was from austria. >> not the jump, i know. sorry. as i said that, i realised i'd made it sound like they jumped

from austria into the thames. sorry, now i read that wrong. >> but i would have been even more impressive to do that. >> yeah , i just i recently went >> yeah, i just i recently went in a car at 135 miles an hour on a race track, being driven by a professional racing driver. it was the worst three minutes of my life. i thought i was going to die. i hated every second of it. so the idea of doing that is literally the sort of thing i wake up from dreams thinking that's happening to me. so thank you. if you're mad enough to want to do something like, let us know gbnews.com/yoursay you are quite tempted earlier, but i've persuaded you it's a bad idea. >> now do you ever dream of your bed spinning? yeah, i wonder why i wake up and i'm holding on to the side of my bed. >> well, that happened to me when i was pregnant, so maybe that's your problem, maybe. >> did it happen to you? did that get you pregnant? >> no, no, that was a whole nother story , but that's how nother story, but that's how i realised i was pregnant. is. the bed started to spin. >> do you dream about your bed spinning? and if so, what does it mean? why do you think that

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channel. >> have you ever been wild swimming new? >> i haven't been any swimming because i can't swim. >> i forget that about you. you have a swimming pool. what do you dip in it? >> you can dip in it. >> you can dip in it. >> dip in a dip in it. okay, well, wild swimming might not be for you. i've not actually done wild swimming myself, but i can see the appeal. so that's nakedness. no, there's nothing to do with nakedness. is just no. >> so you've been doing it not knowing that you've been breaking the rules? >> no, i haven't done wild swimming. but what i'm saying is people wear swimming suits when they're wild swimming. no they don't. yes they do. >> no they don't. >> no they don't. >> it's not naked swimming. >> it's not naked swimming. >> it's not naked swimming. >> it is. >> it is. >> stop it. it's not in the back me up. >> it's in the raw. >> it's in the raw. >> it's in the raw. >> it's not in the mud. >> it's not in the mud. >> all right. tell me. oh, dear. >> all right. tell me. oh, dear. >> well, let's find out a record number. >> say no to. >> say no to. >> apparently it's all the rage at the moment. the wild swimming bit. i'm not sure about the nakedness. lots of areas have been designated as bathing sites in england ahead of the summer.

now, the environment agency will start monitoring water quality at 27 sites, which have been proposed so far. >> so we're going to go to one of those sites in the south—east of those sites in the south—east of england at goring beach. ray addison, who certainly doesn't look as though he's dressed for a dip today. ray, good morning to you. >> yeah. good morning to you both. yes, this is goring beach in worthing in west sussex. and as you were saying, it's one of the government's 27 newly designated bathing water sites. now, that's a mixture this year of rivers and beaches. there's three beaches here in sussex. this one, there's two actually here at worthing and then one further down the coast at rottingdean, near brighton, at locations across the country include devon, dorset, cumbria and north yorkshire as well. now by giving these sites this bathing water status, it means that the government is now legally obliged to test the water levels for pollution throughout what they call the

summer bathing period that runs from the 15th of may, all the way through to the 30th of september, and the environment agency will be responsible for that. they'll have to see if action is required by water companies and also local farmers as well, because of runoff of chemicals from their land into rivers and streams, as well . so rivers and streams, as well. so why is all this taking place now? well, last year only four new sites were added to that list of bathing sites. this year we've got 27. so why have we seen this huge increase? well, of course it follows as we know, growing public anger about the state of pollution , along our state of pollution, along our coastal waters, our rivers and streams as well. and of course, swimmers have encountered bacterias like e.coli, which can make them very, very ill indeed. indeed. and we've seen conservatives suffer in the polls because of this perceived lack of action that they've been

taking. and so it's quite interesting, when we notice that 22 of these new 27 sites are actually in tory constituencies as well. and so the cynic amongst us might suggest that they are trying to shore up some of those local votes. now, we've had a statement issued by the water minister. yes, there's a water minister, robbie moore . he water minister, robbie moore. he said, i'm fully committed to seeing the quality of our coastal waters, rivers and lakes rise further for the benefit of the environment and everyone who uses them. we've also heard from the environment agency who they say that overall bathing water quality has improved massively over the last decade. so here we are. i'm at one of those newly designated 27 sites. >> thank you. ray, i tell a lie. >> thank you. ray, i tell a lie. >> well, i have been wild swimming , >> well, i have been wild swimming, not nude swimming, wild swimming at tellisford . wild swimming at tellisford. we're in somerset. there's an incredible sort of natural pool

there and loads of people go swimming. it's not absolutely glorious. well, as in, it's not a swimming pool. it's actually just the river frome and it's one of the best experiences of my life. we bought an inflatable kayak. we were diving off the weir into the water. the children were swimming. so i have done it. i have done it once. that's really wild. it's wild. yeah, because it's not in a swimming pool. >> there's no chlorine to me. there's no chlorine. >> there's actual fish in there. >> there's actual fish in there. >> it's natural, unnatural, which gets us back to nakedness again. >> some people may choose to do it naked, but that's not the norm. >> and aidan magee with your he's a he looks like a naked swimmer. >> he'll be fully clothed for the sports. >> he's always covered in scent , >> he's always covered in scent, you know, there's always. >> that's true. he does smell very,

next. it's tight at the top. it's tight at the bottom. it's tight everywhere. a bit like my trousers . but anyway, here's the

trousers. but anyway, here's the aidan magee. he's got your, your sports, situation. so at the top, it's going to go to the last week. >> yes, indeed. that's good, that's good. we want to see that as a neutral. if you haven't got any skin in the in the fight, then you want it going to the last kick. >> aguero. that was today. >> aguero. that was today. >> that was today 14 years ago. my team queens park rangers i was at the game. yeah yeah qpr looked as if they were going to turn them over didn't they. sick that day i know and you know i see what sunderland weren't they with rooney scoring scoring the goal up there. so anyway fast forward to 2024. united a little bit out of sorts. so the hole in the roof causing the embarrassment on a global scale. once again arsenal nicking off with the points having scored the winner on the 20th minute. leandro trossard now the pressure was on. city had gone to fulham on saturday, they'd won four nil and the 1230 kick off that put them top of the league, not a happy hunting ground for united for arsenal enhen ground for united for arsenal either. just one win in the league there since 2006. they did well to come away from that despite not playing well. what is it we always say about champions? you win, you grind

out results, you get the points without playing well. performances matter least less at this time of year. it's about the results, but it's not in their hands, i mean, even if they win, no city have to slip up. >> they do, they do. so big game for city. so let me let me explain. villa play liverpool this evening. yeah. if villa were to lose that game and they're playing liverpool you know they're playing the team. hired them in the table. it could happen. then that keeps tottenham honest. tomorrow night when they host manchester city. don't forget manchester city have never scored a premier league goal at that new stadium in five visits. that's a tricky, tncky in five visits. that's a tricky, tricky place for them to go, but it means that tottenham have to try and win that game. there's no question about them rolling oven no question about them rolling over. i don't believe, i think, i think we're past the era of teams rolling over to appease fans or rivals or whatever. i think that's that's child's play. in an era when these matches are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. but i think it means that if villa, if villa lose or sorry, if villa lose, it opens the door to the champions league. that could be worth £90 million. there is no way tottenham owner daniel levy and everybody else on the board can countenance tottenham not going hell for leather to win that

game. and if it goes into if it's a draw, we could see a situation next weekend where it's just a goal shoot out, which would be fantastic. that's what we want to see, isn't it? yeah we don't want to see processional stuff that man city have given us in three of the last four years. they get criticism for that. they're just good. >> it'll be exciting. it'll be exciting, women's f.a cup final. >> yes. so manchester united, a bit late to the party with women's football, but it looks as if they're starting to make some of their their know that they're at the table. >> i can't see them not being at the table. >> well the next, the next thing has to be the league. that has to be go for the league. now chelsea are dropping off, slightly. emma hayes is leaving to go to the states as we know. so there's going to be a slight vacuum there. they're going to have to regroup. manchester city have to regroup. manchester city have been been decent. arsenal not been so good in recent years, decent in the cups. but i think there's an opening there for manchester united and tottenham. actually, tottenham may day is a good staging post for them to get to the get to the fa cup final. nonetheless, yesterday they were well beaten. ella toone proving that she's outstanding at domestic football as well as international football, and she'll be one to watch for england at the world cup, in the championship. we talked about the premiership there in the championship again for the play off places very,

very tight. you had west brom against southampton, norwich against southampton, norwich against leeds playing at the weekend, between any of weekend, no goals between any of them all play for. and that's them all to play for. and that's going to happen the thursday and friday. fri day. >> friday. >> you have to favour the away teams now, but this is how important, you know, i spoke over the weekend that this promotion to the premier league is worth about £250 million. that's what luton put it out last summer at least. but it shows how tense these occasions are, how much is riding on them. we barely saw a shot of shot on goalin we barely saw a shot of shot on goal in either of those two games. they are so, so tense. remember those really tight fa cup finals used to see? well, nothing used to happen. the teams never used to lay a glove on them. something's gonna have to change on thursday and friday because someone's going have to win this. and the team who goes through is going to change their lives for probably five, ten years ahead. >> now you're saying the teams who are going to be at home on thursday and friday are going to be favourites, so that's going to be leeds and southampton? >> yes. only one set of just in their first season down. they've just had what, 13 years in the premier league. they'll be strong going back. norwich have had good, good form since. since january . yeah, but none of these january. yeah, but none of these sides eamonn have got any decent. they will say if you go in the playoffs you want to be in the playoffs you want to be in decent form. i calculated over the weekend of the four

teams of the last five games each, that's 20 games in total, ten defeats. yes it is, and they've only won six. >> so relegation form, well it is qpr. >> i think we'd be better than better than that. yeah. don't laugh. so i mean look it's because it's tense that's why. and leeds going into these these playoffs they don't have a good record in the playoffs anyway. but when you're going into it and you're 17 points ahead you finish 17 points ahead. if the team that you're up against in the semi—final , that's going to the semi—final, that's going to be a psychological blow given how they've blown up at the end of the season. and as i say, when there's so much money riding on this, they had new owners last summer as well. they've got a ceo, will ferrell, the actor who played elf has bought into leeds. yes, that's right, i know we've i did a bit on that last last week. he's bought he's so he's bought a proportion or a percentage of 40 niners enterprises who own leeds united. he needs them to get in the premier league, believe me. otherwise he's not going to see a return on that in a hurry. yeah.i a return on that in a hurry. yeah. i mean, people have asked me about investing in football clubs for many years. i say, look, do something else with your money because you put it into the club. you're not going to see it ever again. that's the reality. because the money goes to they think they run these other businesses, right? they do

very well. they do. they're very savvy and they think football is going to be the same. i have had success running, i don't know, a car, a car manufacturer. so i'm going to have a success running leeds united. not as simple as that. you've got these three holes transfer fees, player wages and one other one other one. yeah there's one, there's one. yeah there's one, there's one. on agents fees a massive hole and you just chuck money down it and you didn't come back. >> steve. >> steve. >> steve. >> steve parish palace said to me about 3 or 4 years ago, he said, you're always going to lose money, aiden. you've just got to decide how much you're prepared to lose. yeah. >> and novak djokovic, he nearly lost his head , tell us what lost his head, tell us what happened to him. >> well, he played on friday, and, he won quite comfortably in the italian, the italian open. he's won that tournament six times before. it's a good springboard for the french open, where he was champion, of course, having won it last year at the expense of rafa nadal. so he gets hit by a bottle . it's he gets hit by a bottle. it's unexpected. it's accidental. no one's targeting him, but it's a metal bottle. it's not any old bottle. i mean, a glass bottle would have been bad, but it wasn't plastic. it was. it hurt. his head. do you think he was swinging the lead, don't you? >> well, i thought it was

plastic, but anyway, it does look a heavy bottle. anyway, he's a bit of a. >> he's blamed his defeat yesterday at the hands of a chilean opponent. alejandro tabilo, six two, six three, and he said he felt dizzy and nauseous. it's not often novak djokovic gets beaten, even two on sets. in 67 minutes. he was out of sorts completely. it's not the best preparation for the upcoming french open, but he said it affected him mentally over the weekend. i mean, you'd think you'd think he might have 48 hours to get over it, but maybe, maybe he goes to bed thinking what it was. actually. maybe it was accidental. what if it wasn't? what if someone targeted him? he's a divisive character. >> that's that's the secret. i think that's what they do. that's where it gets out of control when they think about those things, thanks very much, mate. nice to have you about today. thank you very much. right. still to come, paula london and kriss akabusi. what are they doing? >> they're taking us to one final look at the papers and what's making the news today. stay with us here on breakfast on gb news

oh, dear me, i tell you what, andrew pierce can write, can't he? i'm just reading his excerpt from finding margaret , reading his excerpt from finding margaret, his book that's about to come out. it had me in tears on saturday. there's another excerpt from it. i'm desperate to know what happens in the end. and i never get to finish it because there's not enough time. but it's well worth a read if you've got a copy of the mail today. but anyway, talking of the papers . the papers. >> okay, talking of the papers, we've got paula london, we've got kriss akabusi. we welcome you both. and paula , holidays, you both. and paula, holidays, people seem to be jetting off here, there and everywhere. and, being a pilot, it here, there and everywhere. and, being a pilot , it seems to be being a pilot, it seems to be a good profession. a well paid profession, an honourable profession. according to the sun, if you, work for easyjet, you could be on 200 grand yeah >>i yeah >> i couldn't quite believe this story. i was speaking earlier about people looking forward to going on holiday or perhaps even moving somewhere. basically, looks like there's going to be strike actions, captains, of ten years were on 163,000, and then

they have a union, working for them on their behalf, trying to get a better deal. and they were offered 200,000, and they've turned it down. so it looks right. oh, i think that's terrible to turn that down, chris. >> i wouldn't want a tree in the length of time it took me to train to be a pilot. flying those dangerous conditions have the responsibility of people's lives. and when you look around the world, they want 50% rise, though that's not around the world. idiots who work in tv studios, for instance, who will who will be on, who will be getting paid more than that? >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> everyone in tv, some people. >> everyone in tv, some people. >> no, not everybody who flies a plane is going to be on 200 grand and almost a 50% rise. >> that's outrageous. >> that's outrageous. >> yeah, that that 50% rise might be to keep pace with inflation. we don't know what their wages were like. >> not that well no. >> not that well no. >> well hang on. no. but we're talking about ten, 20 years. they might they may not have had a pay they might they may not have had a pay rise. it's a highly skilled job as well. >> it's not just like, you know , >> it's not just like, you know, sweeping, but i just think

asking for 50% rise and fuel has gone up a lot. >> so obviously airlines are having to pay for fuel. that's due to go up even more. >> why do i care ? he's the one >> why do i care? he's the one that has to fly the plane. they're going to replace the pilot, male or female, with robots soon enough . well, they robots soon enough. well, they do it now if they could actually. but it's the public that resist that. >> yeah, but when you're a pilot, you fly obviously landing is very difficult and then obviously taken off. but during the actual flight it's not like they're doing a lot of hard. >> but but you but you definitely want a qualified best pilot when things start to hold on. yeah. but when things start going wrong you want somebody in that cockpit who knows exactly what they are doing. >> if you don't pay what they're worth, then you're going to get any old person flying monkeys. >> thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> surprised that i'm the only one that thinks this? i just think asking for a 5% pay rise. i think you're just upset with with the concept of somebody asking for a 50% pay rise. >> but actually, if you think about the job itself, if you know there's a lot of jobs, i'm not necessarily talking about the 200 grand bit, but you should pay what the job's worth. >> if the pilot wasn't being

paid £200,000. >> no, he turned down 200,000. they want more. but you imagine little kids going on holiday, their annual holiday. they're so excited . get to the airport. oh, excited. get to the airport. oh, sorry. pilot is strike because 200,000 is not enough. and, you know, they might not. they don't normally give a lot of notice because then it's major disruption for people. and you know, a lot of people are very stressed at the moment. obviously they can ill afford holidays. they save up. and i think some of these pilots are being selfish. >> take that child into the cockpit on the flight that they eventually do get on and say, if you work really hard, can't do that anymore. whatever it might be, you might be lucky enough to fly a plane one day. aspirational >> well, it cost a lot of money to train. it costs doctors a lot of money to train. and i believe doctors should. should you care? because it's just i as i say, i just think there's right and wrong in life. i just think, well, i think it's wrong if you don't play a doctor, a school teacher or a pilot. >> i agree, certain people the top, the top one. >> do you think pilots should get what, half a million a year to fly easyjet? no, i think these companies that are on share dividends and options and millions multi—millions and tv

who leave tv the job all the time and they're given pay offs and they're saying, i've left the company and the program in a stronger position than when i joined. >> that's what they always write, right? and they get paid off to go away because they're rubbish, basically. and the idea that somebody in tv for pushing a pan, i mean , imagine if your a pan, i mean, imagine if your job was to decide what goes out at 7:00 on bbc one or itv, whatever . i at 7:00 on bbc one or itv, whatever. i mean, you sit and think, oh my goodness, what a tough job. my backside, it's tough, you know. and they get and none of them are on less than 300,000. >> yeah. there's not there's not many jobs like that. >> no there's not many top pilots. there's more pilots than. >> well i don't agree with you. i'd say pilots think at home. >> do you want well—paid pilots or your lives are in the hand? >> and as you were saying, they don't do much flying in between the biggest problems in between when you hit turbulence. >> oh, yeah. and that's on the rise. >> and turbulence is on the rise. and if you cannot sort of relay to the passengers . look relay to the passengers. look guys, rough spot. we'll go

through this. it's going to take 20 minutes i'm afraid. but i've got it under control. that's fine. all i know is i would want to be flying a plane that eamonn holmes is piloting because i would do it well. he obviously would do it well. he obviously would do it well. he obviously would do it well. she would do it well. but forget perm. >> oh dear. so he pulled up anyway. >> they'll, they'll, that'll be good news for these hard up pilots because there's the rise in the 40 year mortgage which you could see people going into their 80s still trying to pay off their homes. chris. and this is on the front of the eye today. >> yeah, yeah . initially it >> yeah, yeah. initially it sounds alarming, but actually when you begin to think it through, i mean, i've still got a mortgage. i'm 65. yeah, i'm still paying the mortgage. and the great thing about when you have a mortgage, a property, it does rise ahead of the rate of inflation because part of the, challenge is given here is that, the, the people who are going to be paying their mortgage later on into life, you know, they're

going to have to relinquish their pension in order to pay off their home. we're not necessarily you can you can sell your house. you sell your house. you've got a massive amount of eqtuin you've got a massive amount of equity in that house. >> the point is, chris, if you're 65, you won't be able to raise a mortgage. if you're with me, you can pay it off. yes, but you can't go to a company and say, i'd like another £300,000 on memorial. >> no, but you can you do it now? i mean, you said even now there's a limit. so look, i've got my mortgage up until i'm 70 and you have to either pay it off or get rid of your house. correct. so, so. but, but i think what will happen in the future, very much like in germany, you will have a family mortgage so that your young children will inherit the right to take on your mortgage without cgt. et cetera. et cetera. and it'll become a family heirloom. so when we got into. well, so speak for myself , when i got speak for myself, when i got into the housing market, it was very, very clear that it was a way of progression. i was going to sell my, semi—detached. i was going to get a detached, i was going to get a detached, i was going to get detached with a bit of garden and then acreages . so

of garden and then acreages. so the, the concept is, is changed. so that, for example, 30 to 49 year olds today, when they think about getting their mortgage, they've got to think about a 3040 year thing rather than a 2025 year old thing. when i was younger. yeah, i mean, we've got a 40 year mortgage on our house. >> i'll still be paying it off into my 80s. >> yeah, but but eventually you either sell it or one of your children will move into it. yeah. take over. >> okay, let's talk about let's talk about the weather situation. paula, so pretty good over the weekend. and i think it changes people's moods. a lot of things happen. what a difference life is when the sun shines. oh, yeah. >> i'm much happier when it's sunny. i live near regent's park, actually, and it's so beautiful to walk around there. but i did read that there was supposed to be thunderstorms yesterday and they didn't appeah yesterday and they didn't appear, but now it's saying it's going to happen this week. so yeah, weather's great. i have seen some awful arguments . so on seen some awful arguments. so on twitter, in pub gardens, sometimes when the weather's good some people go out and

arguments happen. but ordinarily . people are out in the parks. >> are they arguing about in pub gardens? >> i don't know, i guess sometimes in the first sunny day people go out, they drink more than they normally do. and, you know, things happen. but, yeah, i love the great weather. it's nice and hot in here as well. today >> it's hotter than outside in here. well i hope these storms don't materialise. i thought it was the east of the country was getting a bit of a battering. we just haven't got it over yet. >> i thought. i thought it was the other side, like i saw. sorry. the west. the west? yeah. the west. yeah, exactly. >> yeah. so. >> yeah. so. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> so. right we've got, time to talk about daredevils in the caphal talk about daredevils in the capital. chris, i don't know about you. this is not for me. wings suit flying. >> have you not done anything like that? no. have you done wing walking? >> no. the most scary thing i've done recently is go in a racing car where we went 130 miles an hour as the worst two minutes of my life. couldn't wait to get out the wing walk. >> i've done some wing walking. yeah, i had to do it for a tv programme. and when you're young and stupid now i'm just old and stupid. but when you're young and stupid, you do things like

that. so yeah, i've got to have a biplane walked along the wing, got back into it and it's only now, at this age, i feel. >> yes. what was i doing? >> yes. what was i doing? >> what? hell, yeah. yeah. what was i thinking? >> camera was there, that's why. >> camera was there, that's why. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> you'd have a heart attack of stress. then you just die. >> it was absolute, absolute, absolute madness. >> but look at this. >> but look at this. >> they even landed on. but this is landing spots perfectly . and is landing spots perfectly. and what an iconic location to do it. if you're listening on the radio, you've got to check out these pictures. >> yes. >> yes. >> don't see this kind of thing very often. >> tower bridge is a couple of, young guys from the 30s. i think the dutch. and what what's special about this one is that they jumped off a helicopter 3000ft. they're skydivers. about the shard there. it's a powered suit. they fly, they go under tower bridge, and then the boom, they go under. and then somehow they go under. and then somehow they also elevate back up. >> yeah. before they before they. before they descend again on the landing pad. >> so if you're into adrenaline junkies, if you're into sort of being a daredevil, if you're

young and stupid, have a go. not for me anymore, thank you very much. but it looks quite exciting. yeah >> fantastic. >> fantastic. >> i'd love to have seen that. i'd love to have been a spectator, but over so quickly. i think those things you're always amazed at, you know, all the build up, all the preparation and that's kind of donein preparation and that's kind of done in a minute. would you ever done in a minute. would you ever do that? >> probably not. no, no. >> probably not. no, no. >> well fair enough. >> well fair enough. >> would you ever drive a white van? white van? i'd love to be a white van woman. paula. right. so white van men or women are four times more prone to what? >> depression or anxiety. and it really surprised me because i normally see white vans go down the road with their mates . they the road with their mates. they normally play music, having a chat, and then they clock off exactly when they're supposed to finish, go to the pub, socialise with their friends. i always thought they're very happy bunch. >> i think now they're being tracked . i think now they're tracked. i think now they're monitored everywhere. they they 90, monitored everywhere. they they go, so they so the bosses know when they're stopping to go to the loo, whether they're stopping oh really? or whatever , stopping oh really? or whatever, whatever. yeah. >> no, it's a very good point. and also their, their time

pressured. they've got to do drop ten parcels in a space of i guess the parking regulations now and stuff. >> that's probably annoying them. >> and the 20 mile an hour speed limits everywhere they anybody loco. >> and also also often a lot of people who are in the vehicles are aggressive towards white van man. >> you know they can hold their own though. they know they can hold their own. so the idea is over time you get very stressed . over time you get very stressed. having to back off and be be aggressive cyclists, annoying them all day long, i'm sure. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> see, i bet you can, make a lot of comparisons between white van man and easyjet, man. as well. no, no, i do, because aeroplanes are being forced into time slots. they've got to do so. they're only allowed, you know, whatever it is , 20 minute know, whatever it is, 20 minute turnarounds, all that sort of thing. there's pressure, pressure, pressure all the time to fulfil time slots. >> yes, but once they fly, they can often stay in the destination, put on their sun shorts and then relax. maybe not easyjet so much because they're not too long haul, but they probably have. they probably do

stay over sometimes. i mean, white van man just goes home to a nagging wife or something, so it's different. >> what's your ideal job then if you were to be able? >> i love the news. that's always what i wanted to do. do you want to be a news reader? >> no. >> no. >> talking about the news. i love the news. i love reading what you're doing. your ideal. i'm doing my ideal job at the moment, yes, but i used to work in pr, so i like pr as well. and then i have my own business, which i lost in covid. >> what about you, chris? would you think you fulfilled your idealjob? >> oh, there's absolutely no doubt my ideal job i had between the age of 25 and 34, world class athletics . class athletics. >> yeah, yeah, that is amazing. >> yeah, yeah, that is amazing. >> couldn't beat it with a big stick . stick. >> oh, no, but no, but you work hard, you play hard, and you get rewards right there. right? then i suppose, isabel, when we look at, i suppose we're all round this table. >> do our ideal job. >> do our ideal job. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> although if money was no object, i would probably do something a bit more creative. possibly. i mean, i sometimes dream about opening a wedding dress shop, but now i think the

bridezillas would be too much for me. i'm not something in interiors. i'd love to do something in interiors, but you know, i do love television and i've been very lucky to do a job that i love. but if money was no object, would i still do it? don't know. 3:00 alarm call. >> but maybe that's something you come to when you get to retirement age. >> yeah, maybe. there we go, guys. >> that's it. we've come to the end of the lollipop. paul and chris. end of the lollipop. paul and chns.thank end of the lollipop. paul and chris. thank you . chris. thank you. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. good morning. >> welcome to your gb news weather updates by the met office. a change is in store with heavy rain in the west, dry in the east, but really feeling cooler than what we've had lately. so through this morning we've got a band of heavy rain pushing its way across south southern parts of england, wales and northern ireland. the met office have got a yellow rain warning in force here. we could see some difficult driving conditions further towards the north and east. brighter conditions here may be some

showers developing across parts of scotland. it will still feel warm in that sunshine, but much cooler, especially underneath all this cloud and rain across western parts through monday, that rain continues to push its way north and eastwards through this evening, maybe giving some difficult driving conditions at rush hour and continuing to push its way northwards to affect parts of northern england and even into the southeast as well, followed by some blustery showers and some clear spells into tuesday. but it is going to be another rather mild night, especially underneath all that cloud and rain, with temperatures generally around 14 degrees through tuesday, it's a bit of a contrast. we'll see a damp start across northern parts northern ireland and east anglia as this rain gradually pushes away northwards into scotland. behind that, some brighter weather, but also some blustery, scattered showers feeding in some of these could be heavy at times, but temperatures are generally around 18 degrees.

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gb news. >> good morning. it's 9:00. it is monday the 13th of may. and i'm pleased to say i'm sitting here alongside eamonn holmes after breakfast. >> how's your day going? hopefully better than mine. >> loving sitting next to me. loving sitting. all right. loving sitting. all right. loving add that in. >> it couldn't be better. it couldn't be better. here are the headunes couldn't be better. here are the headlines we've got for you on this monday morning, the prime minister and leader of the opposition are to outline their alternate political visions today as they put their pre—election pitches to the country . country. >> yes, we are very much in election season now as both rishi sunak and keir starmer lay out their pitches, who will be more compelling ? find out more more compelling? find out more with me very soon.

>> three men have been charged with offences under the national security act, allegedly assisting hong kong's intelligence service and foreign interference branch. we'll get the latest on that in a moment. >> nigel farage has joined a new international campaign to reform the world health organisation as concerns grow over a global pandemic treaty, they would have the ability to say, right, there is a global pandemic, you must all lock down now, you know, brexit, britain. >> what was brexit about ? it was >> what was brexit about? it was about taking back control . about taking back control. >> the duke and duchess of sussex have concluded their tour of nigeria, as meghan reveals a surprising heritage claim. will be chatting to angela levin very shortly and finding out more . shortly and finding out more. >> a change in the weather this week, with outbreaks of heavy rain in the west dry in the east. i'll have all the details coming up.

>> lots of you getting in touch this morning on nigel's proposals to reform the world health organisation . steve says health organisation. steve says no more lockdowns. have we learnt nothing? liz says excellent, nigel. right behind you. spot on. nige says. tim graham says organisations like the world health organisation have gone too far to be redeemable . jul nathaniel raneem redeemable. jul nathaniel raneem oudeh has also been in touch , oudeh has also been in touch, although i have to say it's got 16 thumbs down on our your say section. but he said rather a global multi—country leadership governance like the who than a trump telling us to put bleach into our bodies. britain has thousands of medical experts, scientists and politicians representing us on the who. just because we don't like the proposals doesn't make them wrong. so let us know where you stand on all this. have to say, the vast, vast majority of you absolutely behind nigel on his proposals to try and take back control from the world health organisation. >> jason, good morning . >> jason, good morning. eurovision was fun. when terry wogan was hosting it.

>> was it was brilliant. >> was it was brilliant. >> he was really funny. and martin says , well, said eamonn, martin says, well, said eamonn, the sussexes are a pain in the backside and are always seeking the limelight. we'll come to that. we'll have about ten minutes on that. yeah, towards the end, this one make me laugh. >> paul says now that meghan has done a tour for 43% of her genetic makeup, is her next tour going to be for the other 57? >> yeah, that's very true . >> yeah, that's very true. that's the way, way that'll go. i wonder where that will be from and let us know. nigel farage so we're talking about this morning has joined, a new international campaign group committed to reforming the world health organisation ation. now, earlier we spoke to him , the world we spoke to him, the world health organisation, which is part of the united nations , was part of the united nations, was set up and designed to be an early warning system . early warning system. >> you know, something like sars hit a few years ago . the rest of hit a few years ago. the rest of the world needs to know about it, and if it's there for us to share best practice, how we deal with problems . you know, how we

with problems. you know, how we deal with new phenomena like covid. and if we can all go there and learn from each other, that's terrific. no objections whatsoever. however in two weeks time, our government is committed to signing a new treaty. it will be binding under international law, and that treaty would now give this organisation the power to number one in an emergency, take 20% of our ppe, 20% of our vaccines, which they would take and give to poorer third world countries. number two, it would give them the right to declare a pandemic , the right to declare a pandemic, a global pandemic. and they could tell us we have to lock down. now. i think not only have we had enough of lockdowns, we can all now see that the approach that florida took, the approach that florida took, the approach that florida took, the approach that sweden took, where, you know , life carried where, you know, life carried on, albeit with a few restrictions, but life carried on was a better approach, so that shouldn't be removed for us from us. and anyway, it's for us to decide how we deal with to

the member, to the member bodies of this organisation, the world health organisation . health organisation. >> do they not have a vote in all of this? >> well , the problem is we'll be >> well, the problem is we'll be giving authority to the world health organisation just to do this. they would have the ability to say, right, there is ability to say, right, there is a global pandemic, you must all lock down. >> well, let us know what you think about all of that. i was, to begin with, sort of confused nigel farage world health organisation, what's this all about? but it kind of comes back to that whole issue of sovereignty and taking back control and let us know what you think in this gbnews.com/yoursay mish . mish. >> meanwhile, the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are set to make their pre—election pitches to the country today. both of them giving major speeches. >> well, earlier we spoke to the health minister, maria caulfield, who previewed the prime minister's speech. >> the prime minister is going to set out the kind of wider threat to the country from countries like russia and china and i, in fact, which was not on the horizon a few years ago.

>> well, while sir keir starmer will bring together labour's newly elected local mayors as he focuses on growing local economies as well, gb news political correspondent olivia utley joins us now. >> i suppose the question is whether or not either of them will be able to talk about what they want to, or whether the whole issue of natalie, elphicke and everything that she's been accused of and denied, and whether or not it was a bad move from starmer, indeed a sign of a weak party that she even considered defecting, kind of overshadowing the whole thing. olivia >> well, i think that is definitely going to be a problem, particularly for keir starmer. i've seen some of the questions from journalists coming in, and it does sound as though there will be quite a few questions about natalie elphicke. if the two leaders get a chance to talk about what they want to talk about, what we're expecting to hear from sunak is essentially a speech about britain's security. he's going to make the point that britain is going to be in more danger, essentially in the last, in the next five years than it has been

in the last 30 years. the world is changing at a very fast pace, and there are existential threats from countries like china, from russia, from iran. he will say that britain is safer under a conservative government and he'll talk about that pledge to raise defence spending to 2.5% of gdp, something that labour has failed to match. meanwhile, while sunak sort of zooming out looking big, keir starmer will be zooming in, he's got his gang of new local metro mayors, surrounding him today, and he'll be talking about growing the local economy , about growing the local economy, which might resonate more with a british public who at the moment seem to be most concerned with the cost of living crisis again and again. that is coming up as the top of people's polling worries. a little bit further down we have the state of the world and britain's place in it. so it'll be fascinating to see what they both have to say. it really does feel as though we are getting into general election territory, even though we're only we're expecting election in six months time. this is going to be a very long

campaign indeed. but as you say, isabel, it might all be completely overshadowed by whether or not keir starmer should have accepted natalie elphicke into his party, particularly with the news that she apparently lobbied robert buckland about her husband's case. her husband, charlie elphicke, when he was , accused elphicke, when he was, accused and eventually convicted of sexual misconduct. that is going to be a big topic of the day. >> she does deny that, doesn't she? but lots of questions swirling around that. olivia, thanks very much indeed on that very question. >> let's go to andrew and nana, who are presenting britain's newsroom from half nine today. well, what do you think of mr elphicke and keir starmer's decision to bring her on board? >> shameless opportunism of the worst sort. and i, when i heard she defected i thought they've got this wrong. she must have defected to reform because she's makes me eamonn look like a liberal. >> she's lots of commentary. >> she's lots of commentary. >> hasn't there? next will be farage. yeah, exactly. >> exactly. i mean, it is . and >> exactly. i mean, it is. and she's the mp for dover. she has

been the most passionate advocate of the rwanda policy to get the migrants on keir starmer is going to abolish that whether it works or not. it's it is it's the most shameless and how does he justify it? he thinks he gets a cheap headline , doesn't he? a cheap headline, doesn't he? another mp defects. >> well, also, for those people who don't follow westminster in the way that we do might just see, oh look, a disillusioned tory going to labour and he's hoping a lot of people will do that themselves . i don't think that themselves. i don't think we're not that stupid. >> the public aren't that stupid. the british public have shown that they're intelligent. they a lot of them since brexit have been following politics very heavily. and i would say also the other thing that keir starmer has is the backlash from the trade unions, because a lot of people are looking at this going, hang on, who is this guy ? going, hang on, who is this guy? can he be trusted? what does he stand for? >> it is extraordinary. >> it is extraordinary. >> and the women he stands for is getting a vote at any price. any price. >> that's exactly. >> that's exactly. >> yeah. and he wanted a cheap shot at the tories , didn't he. shot at the tories, didn't he. >> look, he's really upset the labour sister because of the way she went to. she attacked the victims of her husband who was sent to prison for two years. he

attacked his victims for making it all up, even though he'd been convicted . convicted. >> angela rayner lesson.i hasn't gone away either. >> we're expecting her to be questioned by the police. could be later today or it's certainly this week. so there are problems we all assume it's a it's a slam dunk. labour to win the next election. and it feels like they will win and win comfortably. but there are problems again. you see i still think the problem is neil kinnock said it last week, the former leader of the labour party, they're not in love with starmer. he's not in love with starmer. he's not in love with starmer. do you remember the 9697 young tony blair, telegenic , charismatic blair, telegenic, charismatic people thought he was going to be 92 all over again. >> maybe. who knows . what else >> maybe. who knows. what else have you got in store? >> we've got some big speeches. rishi sunak speech, which we're looking forward to hearing that and also esther mcvey, her speech as well during the show, and i'm so with her on the civil service, the minister for common sense. >> yes, she wants a stop to all these nonsense diversity schemes which cost the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds. can these civil servants just get on and do their job and stop wittering on about diversity ?

on about diversity? >> i've just been reading an excerpt, another excerpt from your paper about your new book. will you come on to breakfast and tell us about it when it comes out next week? i'm going to pin you down. >> i will the book comes out. it's called finding margaret. it comes out next week. it is about finding my birth mother. and it was a roller coaster emotional journey for me and for her. when i found her, i found her very late in life, knowing i was nearly 50. never told my own mum, my real mum, my adopted mum who i worshipped, what i'd done did either. >> the two of you watch eurovision on saturday, i did, oh, i watched it. >> i was embarrassed, some british entry. >> i was going to say something. >> i was going to say something. >> shamed of it. >> shamed of it. >> it's. it's supposed to be about diversity and whatever it is and everybody says that's great, but there wasn't anything but diversity . yeah, quite. yes but diversity. yeah, quite. yes it was. >> and the british entry appeared to be based in a public lavatory. >> it was in a toilet. >> it was in a toilet. >> it was in a toilet. >> i just didn't get it was horrible. >> does make me laugh, doesn't it? it's not really family viewing anymore, but it was going to be a top five finish. >> at least a top five finish, nil point and he got attacked. >> how embarrassing. nothing. couldn't sing. he couldn't sing either .

ehheh >> he had two brilliant songs either side of him. and then there was a is it? >> i thought it was really embarrassing, but i, i voted for the israeli song. i did too, on principle, even if it was a terrible song, i was going to vote for it because i hated the way that poor woman was. it was a good song in a hotel, a good song by all these ridiculous pro—palestinian protesters. what's that got to do with it? >> yeah, well, it also got hijacked by the politics as well. yeah. >> find out about more of that at half past nine. thank you. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> and we're giving away the great british giveaway. here we go . go. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners getting that winning phone call from us. >> i'm charles, i'm on £18,000 cash. it was just amazing . and cash. it was just amazing. and as soon as it goes into your bank account, it just changes the life changing thing. just go for it. it's an absolute must. you must try and go for it. >> the next winning call could be answered by you for another

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i >> walkabout. now on the duke and duchess of sussex . and duchess of sussex. >> yes. they've concluded their not royal tour of nigeria . not royal tour of nigeria. they've been meeting local

charities, though schools, armed forces . been to areas that the forces. been to areas that the british foreign office have advised against visiting . and in advised against visiting. and in advised against visiting. and in a memorable moment, meghan has declared nigeria is her country and said that she's feeling very at home after finding out she's 43% nigerian. according to a dna test. >> okay is royal biographer angela levin . would you like to angela levin. would you like to claim any nigerian? what's the word? i'm looking for heritage. heritage? the very word . heritage? the very word. >> yes. well, she did say some years ago that she had quite a large percentage of maltese people in her as well, not as much as the nigerian bit. no, but i mean, there was but the person who did it never mentioned nigeria to her. and i would imagine that you wouldn't miss out on one, but obviously she did. yes there's also a bit of german from her father's side , and that's it. but i think this whole thing wasn't actually about invictus games. i think

this is really trying to make a stand as someone in the commonwealth who's modern and clever and good and beautiful and charming. >> so all of it is it's an image thing and it's a business thing. i would have thought as well, anywhere where she can stake a business, claim, a claim to earning money in the future. >> well, money, of course. yes. but i think the other thing is that it knocks out, i mean, people in the royal proper, royal family haven't been to the commonwealth because they haven't been able to due to illness. and i think this is to say , look, you know, forget say, look, you know, forget about these lot and come with us. and i found it very painful actually to want to do that. i mean, you saw when they stood up for the national anthem, neither of them opened their mouth. i think they were shocked. >> incredibly awkward, didn't he just. we've got a clip of it, but he almost looked close to tears, and you can see a palpable sense of emotion , palpable sense of emotion, tension, anxiety and harry. meghan's face was perfect act.

>> yeah, well, she's great at that. you know, that's what people admire when they first met her. meet her. but when you get to know her, you see there's a lot underneath that. she's she's she's very, very powerful about things like that. and there is this argument as well about whether, king charles said he couldn't have any time for him, whether he did. i mean, there's two sides now. one is that he never asked. he never ianed that he never asked. he never invited king charles to go to saint paul's for the celebration of the ten years of invictus games and other people. he refused to go because he was too busy. so i think you have to work out. but i was very pleased to hear this other side because it means that they're ditching the late queen singer. don't explain, don't complain. and they actually want them to say something if they're not being true. so people have to make up their own mind who they who they believe, who they listen to. and it's very hard, i think. yeah.

for the royals, you know, the thing for me, angela, is when the, the meghan bashing thing, it reaches a point for me where i actually start to feel like i don't like being a bully, you know, like everybody turns on her and everyone can't stand her. >> and then i start to think, question myself, going, am i part of the problem? so i don't like it. i don't like focusing on the negatives. except on the other hand, when i read that she stepped foot into the uk, but only into the windsor, a suite of heathrow airport which is reserved just for royals, which she technically isn't, wouldn't even step outside of the windsor suite at heathrow to come and meet harry in london, to fly with him to nigeria, and then said she felt at home there, having been married in this country, welcomed into our premier family a wedding that cost £32 million. >> when these huge insults just keep coming, it's very insulting, isn't it? yes, it's very insulting to us and i think that she doesn't mind that the fact that she didn't come for the coronation either , not the coronation either, not because she was cross with the king and didn't like him so

much, but she did when she first came over. i mean, he said to me how much he liked her and she's she did the same, but, it's that when it gets a bit below the surface, it all changes . surface, it all changes. >> such a shame, isn't it? such a disappointing outcome from those two. do you think that they look happy together? >> i mean, they never look happy together. actually, more than a minute. i mean, on this , event minute. i mean, on this, event in nigeria, she was talking to a teacher and she obviously got very bored and she turned round as the teacher was speaking to her, turned around and did a wave often, you know, i don't imagine somebody was there. but she did wave and she did. pulled harry away so that they could move away from somewhere where she wasn't getting him enough attention. and you think my goodness, you know, why do that? why not? i also was rather appalled by the dresses she chose to wear, because at the

school, a religious muslim school, a religious muslim school where all the teachers and the women had , you know, and the women had, you know, things up to the top and a lot of them had scarves around. and then to go with something that had no back , you know, and, you had no back, you know, and, you know, show off her shoulders a very keen on shoulders that are covered and none of that was done.i covered and none of that was done. i mean, she she's so determined to do what she thinks is very important. and what about william receiving the title of colonel in chief of the army air corps? >> of course. this is a wing of the military that that harry was very familiar with. >> yes , he was very familiar >> yes, he was very familiar with him. but there's been an argument about why he didn't get it. the thing was, the king, when he was prince charles, that was his job. he had that. and then he passed it on to william , then he passed it on to william, who's next in line. he also learnt to how fly, so there was no reason that he wouldn't get it. first. and harry has said he's no longer a member of the royal family. and he stepped

back from all these things. so i don't think he had a chance to don't think he had a chance to do that. and i think it's very wrong for people to get cross about that when actually it's a natural thing to have done. when you say that, you say it earlier that she's keen to do what is right and to do what is seen to be, to be right, what would be right for the two of them. >> what you see is right and possible possible, as well as right for the two of them to be reintegrated or not. or what way do you see the future for them? >> well, i think if they do want to do that, and i don't think they do, certainly not. meghan is to compromise. harry used to be the one who would help rouse within the royal family he was known for it. he was kind. he was generous. he would make them laugh, he would do all that. but that's all gone now . and he's that's all gone now. and he's very, very determined. and he has been at times when he wants to see the king, his father, he he will say he has to be this

time and he doesn't want camilla there or someone else there. he doesn't. other people there, you know, he gives a whole list of when he can come and all that, instead of turning it around and saying, look, how can i please you? how can i come at a time that suits you ? so, let me stay that suits you? so, let me stay for a couple of days. i won't discuss the past. i don't want to start shouting at you that you've got to apologise for meghan or for me and. and to try to start from the beginning. i think that is their only way around. i can't imagine that if he still sticks to everything, he's very , very determined not he's very, very determined not to move and i think that's a great shame until unfortunately, we have to move. >> you stage. we've come to the end of our chat. thank you very much indeed for the update. appreciate it. royal biographer angela levin . angela levin. >> we'll be back bright and early from 6:00. up next, it's britain's newsroom after your forecast. bye—bye. >> have yourself . >> have yourself. >> have yourself. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather

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showers and some clear spells into tuesday. but it is going to be another rather mild night, especially underneath all that cloud and rain, with temperatures generally around 14 degrees through tuesday, it's a bit of a contrast . we'll see a bit of a contrast. we'll see a damp start across northern parts northern ireland and east anglia as this rain gradually pushes away northwards into scotland. behind that, some brighter weather, but also some blustery, scattered showers feeding in some of these could be heavy at times, but temperatures are generally around 18 degrees. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news. on. gb news. >> britain's newsroom still here nana akua . delighted. nana akua. delighted. >> thank you andrew. >> thank you andrew. >> big speech by the prime minister this morning. big won by esther mcvey which we're really looking forward to. >> yes looking forward to that. we're also going to be talking about natalie elphicke. i mean she's moved on to the labour party, but the trade unions are

not happy . not happy. >> and also our take on the eurovision, we hated our entry and found it embarrassing for britain

well -- well . 930 on monday, the 13th of well. 930 on monday, the 13th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and nana akua . and nana akua. >> well, loads to come on the show. of course . we've got that show. of course. we've got that brilliant speech, there we go . brilliant speech, there we go. of course, from rishi sunak. he's going to be bringing out his vision. he'll say britain is safer in tory hands as he sets out his pre—election pitch this morning and, of course, the labour leader, sir keir starmer. >> he's going to be meeting those 10 or 11 metro mayors who won big in those local elections. regional growth will be top of the agenda in his party's plans, then of course, another big speech. esther mcvey. her war on woke . the mcvey. her war on woke. the common sense minister will be discussing the need to put common sense at the heart of

everything the government does. this morning