gb news. way. >> morning. 930. on wednesday, the 9th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner rig. >> good morning. so prince harry

is back in britain today , but is back in britain today, but his father, king charles, is too busy to see him. what do you make of that .7 make of that? >> i'm thousand stranded at airports across britain. last night, as the e—gate system failed. were you caught up in the chaos? we'll be talking to somebody who was . somebody who was. >> men and women are now welcome. the men only garrick club in london voted to allow women to join their ranks after 139 years. and why would we want to? >> and reform? uk leader richard tice joins us next to discuss his party's performance at the local elections. did you vote for them? >> and we've got an amazing story this morning. the papers about allergies, particularly in children, food allergies, so many kids have got them now. you might have children or grandchildren who have them. peanut allergies. well, there's been remarkable results in one study. so we're going to be

telling you all about that as well. we are you excited about harry being here, aren't you, andrew? >> i think the king's quite right not to see him. why would you wouldn't trust him? the word he says. >> i am making this a harry potter jvt zone this morning. he's here for the invictus games. we have to applaud that. some might say it's a one good thing he's done well . let us thing he's done well. let us know your thoughts this morning. gbnews.com forward slash your safe first for the very latest news with tatiana sanchez . news with tatiana sanchez. >> bev, thank you very much and good morning. the top stories social media companies are being warned that they could be banned for those under 18 if they don't keep children safe . the media keep children safe. the media regulator ofcom says platforms must take action to stop their algorithms recommending harmful content to children. it's draft children's safety codes of practice sets out how it expects some of the world's biggest onune some of the world's biggest online platforms to protect children online, and penalties for companies who fail to comply

. two thirds of nhs trusts are missing their target to treat patients within 18 weeks of referral. that's according to analysis by labour. the party says that 114 trusts out of 167 have failed to meet the target in any month since december 2019. trusts are meant to ensure that 92% of patients are treated within 18 weeks of gp referral. most trusts also failed to meet targets, ensuring that most patients wait less than four hours in a&e departments . the hours in a&e departments. the sentence of nottingham triple killer valdo calocane will be reviewed by the court of appeal over concerns it may have been unduly lenient. khalife was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of barnaby webber, grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last june. the 32 year old's pleas were accepted by prosecutors in january after medical evidence

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andrew and. bev. >> very good morning. welcome to britain's newsroom. it's 935 now then , i think the fact that then, i think the fact that prince harry is here to celebrate ten years of invictus games, a wonderful event, a brilliant project is and i think we have to give him some credit on a day like this. >> yeah, he's going to a service at saint paul's cathedral later 5:00 actually. so we'll be there for that, but he'll be there for that. for that, but he'll be there for that . well, i won't be there for that. well, i won't be there for that. well, i won't be there for that. i'm not invited, but. interesting there'll be no member of the royal family there, my understanding. but significantly , harry arrived significantly, harry arrived yesterday. we think he's probably going either later today or tomorrow. the king has no time to see him. why is that? it's because the king doesn't trust his son. >> do we know that? harry wanted to see him, though? >> yeah. he put a statement out yesterday saying that he wouldn't be seeing his father and that he'd hoped to see him. but his father's schedule of events was too busy. he was three miles from the king yesterday at one point, and the

king is seeing the. he's got engagements today. he's seeing the prime minister, for instance, the weekly audience . instance, the weekly audience. but you can always find ten minutes, half an hour or harry. well, why do you say poor harry? harry wrote the book called spare, which dumped bucket loads on his family. they took part in that documentary with oprah winfrey which dumped bucket loads on the royal family. all for money. bev. yeah, all for money. you reap what you sow. >> i know, but look, his dad's got cancer. his sister in law's got cancer. his sister in law's got cancer. his sister in law's got cancer . if there's never got cancer. if there's never a if there is ever a time to let that stuff go and move forward. this has got to be. it hasn't it? >> some people might argue that the stress caused by harry's behaviour may have. i'm not saying caused cancer , but it saying caused cancer, but it won't have helped the king's health. he's a man of 75 and you know what doesn't help? >> health as well is not forgiving people. that's worse forgiving people. that's worse for your health. there was a story, the paper. we did it earlier in the week, didn't we, about the fact that if you can't forgive and move on, that will make you ill. isn't this king

charles just being a little bit petulant? we know he can be a bit childish and a bit sulky, can't he? maybe he's just. he's got to be the adult here, hasn't he, to say to his son, come on then, come and see me. come and have a cup of tea at the palace. >> they met before for half an houn >> they met before for half an hour. what? we don't know is did something that went on between those two men get leaked? >> maybe . well, who knows? well, >> maybe. well, who knows? well, look, because we don't know what. >> what? we don't know what the king's cancer. we don't know what it is. and can you have a proper conversation with your son and not talk about the cancer? i suspect he feels he can't . can't. >> what a shame. well, royal biographer ingrid seward joins us now to reflect on this a little more. ingrid, you've heard us talking about it. now what? what do you make of this and how might it play out between the two of them? >> well, i actually agree with both of you annoyingly, but i do remember i have to go back because andrew likes me to talk about what has happened before. i remember diana telling me once that she could not get an

appointment with the queen. this is the queen head of state, the, you know, our late queen. so what she used to do. because. because the queen's diary literally had appointments every 20 minutes. and there was hardly a gap between them. so what diana used to do, because she wanted to see the queen and have a little moan at her about her life. she used to go into the page's vestibule next door to the queen's private sitting rooms, and she would wait in there until the visitor that was with the queen left, and then she would run in and literally run in, as only diana could . run in, as only diana could. now, unless harry is prepared to do that, i do understand that his father, who as monarch , not his father, who as monarch, not as the prince of wales's father, but father as monarch , has very, but father as monarch, has very, very little time to himself and he's obviously very busy today. i believe he's going to a garden party. he's got he's got his meeting with the prime minister,

and in between that he's got the business of being monarch. so i think we can't blame charles. and also charles probably feels that anything, anything he says to harry will be repeated, like harry has already repeated. the fact that his father is too busy to see him. now that's not a very kind thing to say. so but we don't know what's going on on the telephone . we don't know the telephone. we don't know what's going on, on, on, you know, on maybe on email. maybe they've been in constant touch. we don't know. and unless harry chooses to tell us, we will never know. >> it's also quite interesting that the king charles doesn't really care what the public think about him not seeing harry. you know, if he was concerned about public perception, then he would have made time to see him. perhaps what does it what does it tell us about how king charles wants us about how king charles wants us to view that relationship? >> well, king charles won't play to the to the audience. he won't play to the to the audience. he won't play to us, the media, and he

won't play to the public, and in particular in this harry situation, it's obviously very delicate. i don't believe for one minute that charles has cut harry out of his life or or not forgiven him because he's a very religious man and, you know, religion is all about forgiveness. i don't i think he has forgiven him. i think he's probably very wary of seeing him, but i don't think it's because he's cut harry out of his life. >> i mean, ingrid, i, i mean, we don't know because the king doesn't discuss these things, but there must be a big issue over trust . over trust. >> i think there's a huge issue over trust, as i said. i mean, harry has already told us that his father is too busy to see him, which isn't a very. isn't a very nice thing to say. better left unsaid . he he could have left unsaid. he he could have said, you know, we're unfortunately we both got back to back appointments and it's not going to work this time, but i'll see him soon. i'll be going up to scotland in the summer to spend some quality time with him. i mean, one of the other.

all the royal children say they never really saw their mother at all except up at balmoral . all except up at balmoral. >> and harry put that. and it was quite interesting because his harry's office put that statement out yesterday. ingrid didn't saying just that, that harry hoped to see his father, but his father's diary didn't allow it . allow it. >> absolutely. but, i mean, if harry had said, you know, got them to word it a little differently , he could have said differently, he could have said he'd hoped to see his father, but unfortunately, they were both too busy. would have been a rather kinder sort of remark. don't you agree with that ? don't you agree with that? >> do you see this ever? can this ever be fixed? >> i think everything can be fixed if you want it to, but the longer they leave it, the more awkward it's going to get, and the more time you're going to need to mend it, so i feel that, well, i think it can be fixed and i think it will be fixed, but i don't think it'll be fixed right now. no.

>> all right. i'm just going to say. >> but nobody's even mentioned william ingrid because there was obviously not even a prospect of a meeting with his big brother. no >> that's right. >> that's right. >> absolutely. but the thing that does actually surprise me is that harry hasn't seen kate because he was very, very close to kate. i know he's insulted her, but she seems to me like a very level headed, forgiving sort of lady. and, i mean, maybe he has . maybe sort of lady. and, i mean, maybe he has. maybe he's sort of lady. and, i mean, maybe he has . maybe he's staying down he has. maybe he's staying down down near windsor. maybe he's staying at coworth park where he stayed before, and he could be seeing her completely without anyone knowing that that we won't know because, you know, kate will make him say , please, kate will make him say, please, please, please don't say to anyone , okay. anyone, okay. >> all right. thank you. >> all right. thank you. >> ingrid, a lot of don't knows and a lot of guessing. >> yeah, absolutely. >> yeah, absolutely. >> thank you so much. but ten years of the invictus games and that i think, is reason to applaud him at least a little bit. >> just to remind you, that's why he's here. there's a service today to mark ten years. the invictus games are being held in vancouver in february. and it's of course, to help former servicemen and women who've been

injured, badly injured but can still compete in sport. >> now a nationwide issue is being called with e—gates at airports that caused major disruption. it's now been resolved, according to the home office. it said the system was back up and running and there was no indication of malicious cyber activity. this is what you get with facial recognition technology. that's what happened here. the facial recognition broke down. i kind of like that . broke down. i kind of like that. we were looking at it online this morning, and there popped up the face of gb news director sam morter, who joins us now. hi sam. so i turn on my phone this morning and there you are telling the world about the chaos at the airport. how was it ? >> well, 7- >> well, it 7_ >> well, it was 7 >> well, it was just so frustrating. just quickly, this is hugo, by the way. he keeps barking, so i'm having to hold him. otherwise he'll keep barking all the time, yeah. it was very chaotic. we, just got back from a trip to sri lanka , back from a trip to sri lanka, so we'd been flying for 11 hours, as had a lot of people had been, had been flying for a long time. so a lot of

passengers, very grouchy and just want to go home. and then we got into the, passport control area, and it was pandemonium. all of the screens were blank. none of them were working on the e—gates. so you could see border force officials , frantically running around trying to, alleviate some of the pressure from the amount of people coming in, and they suddenly got a load of, you know, border force officials to try and start manually processing uk passports , but processing uk passports, but there were only i could only see about five people, doing this, for uk passports . and at the for uk passports. and at the same time, you've got hundreds of people, coming in from other flights, which just. yeah. meant it was bedlam in there. there was no information being given there was no, tannoy announcement. there was no staff telling people what was going on. they did provide, cans of water to people because they knew, people were going to be, queuing for a long time, but just a lot of angry , frustrated

just a lot of angry, frustrated people and a lot of, a lot of because it's not the first time that this has happened. it's happened, before . and, they happened, before. and, they can't seem to get it right. how long were you stuck for, sam? i was king for over an hour and a half, which isn't, you know, as bad as what a lot of people had it. i think we landed just as the problem started. so i was relatively towards the front ish of the queue , but i was still of the queue, but i was still waiting over an hour and a half, the people coming in, behind me, they would have had to have queued, a lot longer. they actually stopped letting people into the, passport control area at one point because it got to capacity. okay >> all right. thank you so much, sam. it's nice to see you on the other side of the camera for a change in front of us and victor hugo as well. thank you for joining us. do you know what it was? >> a sweet dog. >> a sweet dog. >> hugo was basically like this is, you know, we've all got the experience of the self checkouts. we hate them in the supermarket. right. >> and i never used them ever. >> and i never used them ever. >> i always queue up. >> i always queue up. >> well there will be cashier. there will come a time when you literally can't shop because

they're just normal now. they break down. they bring in a human being . this is what human being. this is what happens when you over rely on technology . technology. >> i got i had a long weekend in italy recently, just a few weeks ago and they were breaking down. so you're in a queue. it broke. you got into another queue. it broke. it was infuriating . broke. it was infuriating. >> it is infuriating. but like i say, it's a little bit of me that sings inside when this technology breaks down and why we have to be cautious with it. >> where are the staff who used to man the, the booths? where have they gone? >> well, they were all in bed and they had to get them up to come back and help out. but you're right. where have they gone? what are their jobs? right. we're going to be talking in just moments to the leader of reform uk, richard tice, about his party's local election results. i know a lot of you will be interested in what he concludes about those results from last week. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. >> so we had the big local election results, and i tweeted this. reform uk's 30,000 votes cost andy street the west midlands mayoralty to a labour candidate who scraped home by 1500 votes. be careful what you wish for . 1500 votes. be careful what you wish for. here he is, richard tice. so your lot cost andy street , the west midlands. do street, the west midlands. do you not believe in competition, andrew? i mean, competition is a good thing, isn't it? and here's the thing. hang on, let me finish. i think he was a good man. i think you probably agree. >> no, i don't actually no . the >> no, i don't actually no. the reality is he was pro hs2, which is a massive white elephant, cost the country tens of billions of pounds. okay, so on that basis alone he deserved to be fired. and look the reality is we believe in competition. the tories used to believe andy street thinks the party needs to go to the left . forget that. why go to the left. forget that. why do you think it's doing so badly? because it's a socialist party. it'sjust badly? because it's a socialist party. it's just like the labour party. but what do you know about the labour guys? >> one. >> one. >> now look, i'm not pro any of them. frankly they're both awful. they're both forms of socialism. >> you're mine. only got 30,000 votes. pathetic. not even 3. but

you're now complaining that we stop. >> either you believe in competition, andrew, or you don't. let's move to blackpool south, shall we? blackpool south, shall we? blackpool south, we got. >> what do you get in london? what do you get in london? we got a london assembly member for the first time okay. >> so you know and that's under proportional representation which of course is a much better fairer electoral system that most nations, most nations in the western world have that because it's fair. i mean, we share first past the post with belarus . not share first past the post with belarus. not great company, andrew, is it? let's be honest. so no, we're delighted with the results. first assembly member and blackpool south. that was our highest ever. we got within 60 people of beating the tories into third place. it's happening whether you like it or not. >> we are 30. >> we are 30. >> that's right. and we'd love many more people to vote. but the reality is you deal with the situation in front of you and we made great progress there. we're heading upwards in the north in, in ukip got more votes at the same stage after 20 years of trying. we've been there three years in sunderland , in barnsley years in sunderland, in barnsley we're now second to labour. the difference. so in the north, hear me out in the north, in the

locals. we're now the party of opposition to labour. the tories are sinking. you may not like it, but the tories are sinking. >> doddie weir the tories deserve to sink because they've been useless. the point is they did so well ukip last time. nigel farage, if you'd had nigel farage on the ticket, much as i love you, richard, you'd have done a lot better, you'd have done a lot better, you'd have done a lot better. >> and it's very exciting because nigel's got a big decision to make, hasn't he? well, why aren't he going to make it? >> well, you know, i mean, you know, time is, you know, time is ticking by. >> he'll make a decision in due course. you know, there's lots of opportunities. >> didn't seem rushing, didn't seem rushing to embrace your results the other day . oh. results the other day. oh. >> he was i think he was thrilled with the results. but obviously he was in america doing things in america. and he's more interested. as you know, he's a very fine broadcaster. so he's got he's our honorary president, which which area were you disappointed in your performance ? in your performance? >> in which area in the country would you say? i thought we'd have done better. there >> we're delighted everywhere because almost everywhere she can't be delighted . can't be delighted. >> everywhere. >> everywhere. >> almost everywhere, almost everywhere. >> about howard cox in london. mayor. yeah. >> howard pointing. >> howard pointing. >> well, howard got squeezed in

in the desperation to get rid of sadiq khan, which failed . but sadiq khan, which failed. but we're delighted we got an assembly member and i think in the locals we are within a whisker of our national polling average. all the media said we never did that well, we did in blackpool south. we beat it. so actually, no, you know we're making progress. roads not built in in hartlepool. >> this is where you're standing. what happened in hartlepool. labour crushing victory for labour in hartlepool. what happened to reform in hartlepool because the tories flagbearer , the tories, tories flagbearer, the tories, should have stood down and let us win the seats. >> but they didn't. you see, they're now splitting the vote because they're toxic. well, you're not standing for down the tories, so why would they stand down for you? why should we stand down? we're we're the party on the down for you. because they failed. they betrayed the country. they've allowed mass immigration. they're pro—nazi . they're pro they're pro—nazi. they're pro all the policies that are destroying our economy , killing destroying our economy, killing our jobs, destroying our economy, killing ourjobs, killing our our jobs, killing our communities ourjobs, killing our communities like port talbot. they're on the way down. >> if that was a general election, you'd probably lost your deposit. richard in hartlepool. >> know how many of your councillors are going to be your candidates for mp? >> really good question. >> really good question. >> i'll have to come back to you

on that. >> i know it was a bit of i have lots of data in here. that's not one of them. >> sorry. i don't expect to know the figure off the top of your head, but how many of them are now? >> so we didn't stand enthused to go forward. >> and how many of them are demoralised ? demoralised? >> oh, i would say lots are enthused. >> so we stood about 300 councillors and you've got two in the general, in the general. >> how many councillors, one of which was one of which was a tory council. how many councillors have you got now, richard? >> i'd have to check because we've had i think it's two no nonsense. we've had lots of defections and you wait before the general election, how many did you win last week? >> it was two. >> it was two. >> we won two from the tories. >> we won two from the tories. >> there's a great result there. two councillors. they won last week. >> yeah, because we had a dodgy first past the post system and we've got two seconds. >> richard tice always good to see you. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom. here's the weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> hello. good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. it should be a dry day for most of us. there's a bit of

a cloudier start across the east coast. that's because some clouds pulled in overnight that should slowly start to burn back throughout this morning and into the afternoon. there could also be some cloudier skies across western coast into this afternoon, but i think many inland areas will see some long lived sunshine. it will feel quite warm in the sunshine , quite warm in the sunshine, however. notice across northwestern areas of scotland starting to see some rain approach through this afternoon that will mainly be restricted to the western isles, perhaps parts of the highlands, and it will feel a little bit cooler here with a bit of a breeze. but in the sunshine, highs of 21 degrees are expected this afternoon, so a similar feel to yesterday through this evening. that rain will continue to persist across the far north—west, turning heavy at times , but it will remain times, but it will remain restricted to the north of scotland . elsewhere it should scotland. elsewhere it should stay dry overnight, but again we could see some mist and fog starting to develop. some drizzly rain is also possible over parts of the pennines, and southern scotland should be another fairly mild night despite any clearer skies, so a bright start for many areas of the uk on thursday. perhaps some

mist and fog that will be fairly quick to clear. and it's going to be another dry, bright and sunny day on thursday. however across the far northwest of scotland, still skies will remain cloudier. scotland, still skies will remain cloudier . rain should remain cloudier. rain should start to ease though, as you head towards the afternoon with some brightness developing here as well, but in the sunshine. highs of 22 or 23 degrees, so rather warm with high uv levels. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. way. >> very good morning. it's 10:00 >> very good morning. it's10:00 on wednesday, the 8th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me, bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, he's back , prince >> well, he's back, prince harry. but his dad, the king, too busy to see him. cameron walker has the latest . walker has the latest. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> diplomatic response from prince harry after he was snubbed by his father's busy

diary. but as buckingham palace shifted the spotlight off of the invictus games and onto a rare joint engagement between the king and prince william , more king and prince william, more details shortly. >> isotherm . time the bells for >> isotherm. time the bells for us, wasn't it? now thousands of passengers were stranded at airports across britain last night as the facial recognition e—gate system failed. were you caught up in the chaos and how frustrating are you finding these kind of technological meltdowns? >> it's infuriating , isn't it? >> it's infuriating, isn't it? >> it's infuriating, isn't it? >> and women welcome the men. only garrick club in london has voted to allow women to join their ranks . after 193 years, their ranks. after 193 years, bev turner is rushing to the door to see if they'll let her join, and an independent review into the bbc. >> this is great, has told the broadcaster later that it is not racist to air concerns about migration, and that they must view the topic through. they must view it through through a wider political lens. >> and the home secretary, james cleverly , says pubs can extend cleverly, says pubs can extend their opening hours to 1 am.

goody two shoes, isn't he? if england or scotland make it to the euro 2024 semi finals this summer, how nice of him. i bumped into him last night. >> james cleverly. >> james cleverly. >> yeah, i bumped into him. and because i've just been to the garrick, see what had happened with the vote. and i told him about the vote and said what was his view ? and he was all smiles his view? and he was all smiles because he thought this pub opening thing would be very popular. it'sjust opening thing would be very popular. it's just like a crumb off the table, isn't it? >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> oh, if they do well in the football, you can stay open late. >> it's the patrician attitude. it's this sort of parental. well, if they do well we'll let the pub stay open . well, just the pub stay open. well, just let the pubs stay open. doesn't matter who's in the final . the matter who's in the final. the british people are going to want to have a night out and watch it anyway. >> yeah, because they will watch it. even if it's belarus versus croatia, i won't, not interested. but yeah , let the interested. but yeah, let the pubs down because actually they're up against it and have been for years.

>> what are they thinking right. >> what are they thinking right. >> gbnews.com forward slash your say tell us what they are thinking. if you have any sort ofideas thinking. if you have any sort of ideas about that. first though, the very latest news with tatiana sanchez. >> bev thank you and good morning. the top stories from the gb newsroom. social media companies are being warned that they could be banned for those under the age of 18 if they don't keep children safe . the don't keep children safe. the media regulator ofcom says platforms must take action to stop their algorithms recommending harmful content to children. it's draft children's safety codes of practice sets out how to expect some of the world's biggest online platforms to protect children online, and penalties for companies who fail to comply. energy secretary security secretary clare pochettino told gb news the uk aims to be the safest in the world. >> when i was children's minister, i looked at well—being and one of the things that i was

really interested in was the link between how much time our children are spending online and their mental health. and for me, there was two things. it's what they could access, and i'm really pleased that we're doing that online safety legislation because that that will tackle that part. but it's also what it's stopping them doing. so that's the things that i care about. i definitely welcome government's efforts to act on this and make sure that we're the safest place in the country when it comes to sorry in the world. when it comes to being onune world. when it comes to being online for children , two thirds online for children, two thirds of nhs trusts are missing their target to treat patients within 18 weeks of referral , according 18 weeks of referral, according to analysis by labour. >> the party says that 114 trusts out of 167 have failed to meet the target in any month since december 2019. trusts are meant to ensure that 92% of patients are treated within 18 weeks of gp referral. most trusts also failed to meet targets, ensuring that most patients wait less than four hours in a&e departments. shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth says the government is failing to properly fund britain's health service .

britain's health service. >> this is a consequence of 14 years of the conservatives driving our nhs into the ground. so what's labour's solution? we would introduce a proper tax on the very super wealthy non—doms, and we would use the proceeds from that to fund extra appointments, 2 million extra appointments, 2 million extra appointments a year in our nhs. so we can start driving those waiting times down. so if you're waiting times down. so if you're waiting for a hip replacement or a knee replacement or hernia , a knee replacement or hernia, perhaps a cataract operation you need, you can get your operations on time. too many people are waiting in pain and agony at the moment for an operation. after 14 years of the conservatives the sentence of nottingham triple killer valdo calocane will be reviewed by the court of appeal over concerns that may have been unduly lenient. >> calocane was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of barnaby webber. grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last june. the 32 year old was found to have been

suffering paranoid schizophrenia. the attorney general's office is expected to argue that he should be given a hybnd argue that he should be given a hybrid order, seeing him treated in hospital before being transferred to prison . rail transferred to prison. rail passengers are facing more travel disruption today due to ongoing strikes by train drivers, making it the longest ever dispute in the rail industry. members of aslef are walking out, affecting services across england, wales and scotland. the few services that are running will start later and finish earlier than usual. aslef says its members haven't had a pay says its members haven't had a pay rise in five years, and it's accusing the government of giving up trying to resolve the dispute . john swinney was sworn dispute. john swinney was sworn in as the new first minister of scotland at a ceremony in edinburgh. in the last hour, he told gb news that it's an enormous privilege, it's an enormous privilege, it's an enormous honour to come to the court of session and to be sworn in in a link to the history and

the roots of our country, our democracy and the and the rule of law. >> so for me, an enormous honour and a privilege to do that and look forward very much to doing so. a big surprise for me and an enormous privilege . and as enormous privilege. and as i said yesterday, i am here to serve everyone in scotland, and i look forward to doing so . i look forward to doing so. >> in the us, the judge is indefinitely postponed donald trump's trial over claims he illegally kept classified documents after leaving office. it had previously been scheduled to begin in just under two weeks time. this decision has been made due to still unresolved issues in the case and because the former president is currently attending a separate trial over hush money allegations. donald trump denies allegations. donald trump denies all of the charges against him and last drinks will come a little later. this summer. if england or scotland make it to the euro semi finals, venues will be allowed to stay open for an extra two hours on match

days, pushing closing times to 1 am. if either or both teams reach the last four or the final. most pubs shut by 11 pm, but the law allows some ministers to relax licensing hours to mark occasions or exceptional national significance . for the latest significance. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news comment alerts. now it's back to andrew and . andrew and. bev. >> the time is 1007. you're with andrew and bev on britain's newsroom, so people have been getting in touch, says andrew. >> read the room. what have we lost? >> the running order. so tell me what's happening in this programme. >> read the room. reform are the great hope for saving the uk and richard tice is inspiring. >> my job is to challenge, i think, reform are a breath of fresh air, and they need to keep the tories on their toes and but

we've got to challenge richard tice and i don't think it was , tice and i don't think it was, despite what he said last week, a great result, particularly in hartlepool , he'd have lost his hartlepool, he'd have lost his deposit and mick has got in touch and said move on, you dinosaurs. >> that's you and me, right? i suspect technology breakdowns are very rare. i don't suspect they're very rare. >> well, hang on, they're very common. >> just go into the supermarket. >> just go into the supermarket. >> can i just tell you as a dinosaur, who was that? who sent that message? that was mick. mick as a dinosaur. i was just two weeks ago in heathrow, and it was chaos with. with the one after another after another after another after another after another. and people got more and more bad tempered because you've been queuing, you almost got to the front of the queue and it went out the machine and they said, it's happening all the time, get used to it, because this is what this is what the future is morphing into. and this didn't happen at one airport. this happened at seven. so this was this chaos was replicated throughout the entire country. >> i don't know what the solution is because we have we can't be luddites. we have to move forward. but we but we've doneit move forward. but we but we've done it without any sort of staff there as well. it's pushing all the profit to the top of these corporations.

>> when i go to the supermarket or deliberately when i stay, they push me, point me towards they push me, point me towards the checkout free, i don't, i queue up for the checkout. >> well, for good you. >> well, for good you. >> well, for good you. >> we have to. >> we have to. >> we have to. >> we have to do that. >> we have to do that. >> i say to self, why are you pushing me somewhere? you're putting somebody out of a job. >> james, who's gb news member , >> james, who's gb news member, has said, well said andrew, andy street was a great mayor >> he was look, whether he was tory or not, he was a good mayor. and we heard it from nigel nelson, no less yesterday, who's no supporter of the tory party, saying he was a good mayor, very technical. he was a businessman . he proper businessman. he proper experience and i'm afraid the labour mayor is a dud. >> yeah. and roger said, morning. it's time for harry to learn some humility and get a life out of the public eye. it's no way to live trying to prove something to the public. a lot of you are giving me a kick in for being a bit pro, harry this morning. >> well, you're a mum and i get that. so you'd always want families. yeah, and i always think about my mum's favourite. christmas was when the family was together. >> oh yeah. >> oh yeah. >> absolutely. all she thought about, all my mum wants. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> always, always. all the children were back. but at what age we were if, if, even if we

were under the same roof, we all saw each other. so i get that. but i'm sorry. harry has broken a bond of trust with his family, with his brother, with his sister in all, and with his dad. and it's hard to fix it. >> and on that note, cameron walker joins us now. >> and on that note, cameron walkerjoins us now. hi, cameron . our royal correspondent is in central london this morning, right. cameron, what's happening today ? why are we talking about today? why are we talking about harry and his father today ? harry and his father today? >> well, bev, it's because prince harry, duke of sussex , prince harry, duke of sussex, will be at saint paul's cathedral this afternoon. and he will want the focus very much to be on the invictus games, his invictus games , celebrating ten invictus games, celebrating ten years of supporting wounded veterans with their recovery through paralympic style competitions and subsequent support. but all the headlines this morning is that he is way , this morning is that he is way, way too. his father is way, way too busy to see him. a spokesperson for duke of sussex yesterday told me that in response to the many inquiries and continued speculation on whether or not the duke would

meet his father while in the uk this week, it's unfortunately will not be possible due to his majesty's full program. the duke, of course, is understanding of his father's diary of commitment and various other priorities and hopes to see him soon. now, i think this is an attempt by the sussex camp to stamp out all of this speculation around a potential meeting, thus putting the focus back on the invictus games. but it's this line that really sticks out to me and it's the one that says the duke is, of course, understanding of his father's diary of commitments and various priorities, because it's very diplomatic, it's very warm and friendly. it reads like a royal press release, which is in complete contrast to a statement which perhaps we might have got from the duke and duchess of sussex. just a couple of years ago. if you remember, back in 2021, where the late queen stripped both him and meghan of the honorary military titles and patronages, they released a statement saying that service is universal. now, friends of the sussexes said that that was in the context of their charity work, but many critics said that that was a very bitter statement and very

disrespectful to the late queen. yesterday's statement, as i said, far more diplomatic, far more warm, which suggests to me that prince harry does genuinely want to try and build more of a relationship between his father and other members of the royal family here in the uk. now, both buckingham palace and kensington palace are not commenting on anything to do with the duke of sussex. neither prince william or the king are expected to be in saint paul's cathedral this afternoon . but there was the afternoon. but there was the timing of a rare statement from buckingham palace yesterday announcing a rare joint engagements between prince william and the king, scheduled for next week, was announced as prince harry touched down in the uk yesterday. now, of course, this could just be coincidence , this could just be coincidence, but perhaps the cynic in me would say that this is a bit of a show of unity between the king and his oldest son, while also at the same time his youngest son and the king seemed to have perhaps strained their relations, because there doesn't seem to be ten minutes in the king's diary to see him while he's in the uk now. meghan is

not in the uk either. she is in california . both him and meghan. california. both him and meghan. harry and meghan expected to fly to nigeria later this month to do some cultural visits, and invictus visits too. >> okay, thank you cameron. and as we say, prince harry will be arriving there this afternoon. you can watch it on gb news. but joining us now is former royal correspondent for the sun charles rae. good morning, charles. >> good morning andrew. >> good morning andrew. >> good morning andrew. >> good morning. i'm defending harry for one day only because i think invictus games is a fantastic initiative. >> he started it ten years ago. somebody did message our inbox saying it was his grandfather that made him do it, saying it was his grandfather that made him do it , to give his that made him do it, to give his grandson something to do to keep him busy. don't give him too much credit, beth, but i think that's a bit harsh . that's a bit harsh. >> i think you're absolutely right. beverley on on this on the subject of the invictus games, you cannot fault harry and his commitment for those games. he's done brilliantly and i think the comments about him being so good with with those games , that's where it stops. games, that's where it stops. after that, it's back to , you after that, it's back to, you know, harry is basically a back .

know, harry is basically a back. >> harry is a what a berk. >> harry is a what a berk. >> well, that's a i don't hear very often. charles i, we don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but we were talking to ingnd scenes, but we were talking to ingrid seward about it. there must be a trust issue here, charles. oh, yeah. >> i'll listen to ingrid. and she's absolutely right. i mean, the fact that it's the sussexes office that put out the statement saying why he couldn't meet his dad, now we know he wanted to see his dad because he's over here and the king has not got , as cameron has just not got, as cameron has just said, five, ten minutes to see harry, and that just shows you just how deep the rift is between the sussexes and the rest of the royal family. and it is an issue of trust . you cannot is an issue of trust. you cannot trust harry. certainly you cannot trust meghan , there is no cannot trust meghan, there is no question about that. and i'm not surprised that the king is too busy. i'm sure he is busy and you would have thought, though, that harry would have sorted this out beforehand . and, you

this out beforehand. and, you know, to say, i'm coming over. is there any time that we could work it out? and it just goes to show how bad things are between them all. >> that's harry's problem, is it? why does he have to press release everything , charles? release everything, charles? because we were all wondering yesterday. is he going to see the king? but bomb in my inbox comes a statement from prince harry's office saying no, i wanted to see him, but my dad's too busy. in other words, charles implying that charles doesn't really care enough to want to see his son. >> and it's interesting as well. >> and it's interesting as well. >> don't forget the significance of the announcement that charles and william will be, taking part in a ceremony next week, for william to take over as colonel in chief of harry's former apache regiment. helicopter regiment, now , they could have regiment, now, they could have waited to announce that when harry was on his way back to california on thursday. but they didn't. they announced that yesterday on his arrival. so that just goes to show that they don't really care about harry any, any, any more. i'm sure the king loves harry. i'm absolutely certain that there is no father

who does not love his son, no matter what the son does. however there is there are times you've got to sort of say, call a halt and say , you know, you're a halt and say, you know, you're overstepping the mark and it's down to you now to sort it out. i think harry wants to have a relationship again with the royal family. the way things have been going just the last few weeks, the last couple of months , it looks as if he wants months, it looks as if he wants to get back again, but i'm not sure that the royal family, particularly william, are interested in any rapprochement. >> and we know they saw each other. for what? for half an hour before when he was here last time. and you wonder, charles, if something that happened between them or something then was leaked , which something then was leaked, which the king read and thought, that can only have come from harry. >> well, it could, it could be that it was only half an hour, and, it wasn't that that long. i think it was just, you know. oh, god. harry's here. we'll have to. we'll have to see him. it's that simple. let's just get him in for a few minutes and that'll be it . but no, it's not in for a few minutes and that'll be it. but no, it's not going to happen. and one other thing i'd just like to say , andrew and just like to say, andrew and bev. is that, you know, harry

and meghan are going off to nigeria quite soon now. how do you spend quite a lot of time and a lot of money in this country going through the courts telling us how dangerous britain is? he's going to one of the most dangerous countries in the world, and the foreign office have still got their alerts in, in, in, in lie—in to say, don't go to nigeria. it's not safe . i go to nigeria. it's not safe. i mean, you know, come on, harry, get a grip . get a grip. >> okay charles thank you so much. charles rae there , i much. charles rae there, i haven't heard a member of the royal family called a berk for a very long time. >> much underused word. i think it's a good word. talking of burke's, the bbc have been found in a review to be, reporting immigration in a way that is not balanced. >> it's a fascinating report. it tells us what we already knew. >> well, they were largely and on brexit, the same. >> but it's so nice to see it written down in paper. yeah. we're going to tell you what they've been told. >> anybody who supported brexit was a horrible racist. >> that was me . that was me.

>> that was me. that was me. >> that was me. that was me. >> this is all about the fact that the bbc have to reflect immigration as also sometimes being problematic to people in this country, and they don't do it enough. don't go anywhere. >> this is hugely

gb news. >> oh! stop talking. it's 1021. >> oh! stop talking. it's1021. >> oh! stop talking. it's1021. >> that was mike parry on gb news. >> mike parry , stephen pound, >> mike parry, stephen pound, how are you? >> sorry about the train strike, which is hardly getting any coverage because people are sick to death . i am of aslef the to death. i am of aslef the train drivers getting who were already on 64,000 a year. they could have 65 grand a year for a four day week, right? >> if they accept the offer. but the thing that most irritated me yesterday was i had to get in and out of london for, you know, and out of london for, you know, a job i was doing elsewhere. it took 2.5 hours to get in in the morning, and 1.5 hours to get out in the afternoon, four hours to get in our london in a journey that normally takes 40 minutes. but my biggest bugbear is why aren't the rail companies

using the laws? the government have given them to stop these things happening ? i don't things happening? i don't understand it. >> they don't care because you know and i know that if the government actually brought in a no strike law and said, thou shah no strike law and said, thou shalt come to work, they'll just throw a sickie, you've got to negotiate your way around this. you can't use a sledgehammer. >> they've got it in germany. they've got it in lots of european countries. stephen, why can't we do it here? >> sorry. look at. sorry you look at. i mean, i take your point about germany, but look at the terms and conditions that the terms and conditions that the german rail workers have. are people would be green with envy. they've got fabulous terms and conditions there. >> do they get £65,000 a year? they get considerably more than that because they get 100,000 a yearin that because they get 100,000 a year in germany. >> they're very well paid. but stephen, tell me this. if the government goes to the trouble of introducing laws and then the people running the trains, the body that officially runs them ignores them, then we've got anarchy, haven't we? >> and the transport secretary? does anybody know his name? yeah. do you know his name, it's. >> well, it's mark harper , isn't it? >> but most people, if he walked in, i wouldn't be walking forest of building. most people wouldn't know who he was. >> well, he was something else so low profile.

>> but it's usually grant shapps, isn't it? yeah, exactly. >> yeah. he's done every other job. >> yeah, i know we weren't actually going to talk about that, but i'm sure a lot of people at home relate to this because a lot of people would have just stayed at uncle greg. >> of course they will. >> of course they will. >> i've just come through paddington station, which is around the corner. there are no trains, there are no people . how trains, there are no people. how do you get a thriving economy when you bring half it to a halt like this? >> it's hopeless and you can't get through passport control anyway . anyway. >> no, i mean, let's not forget stephen's mates in the unions. >> well, that's it. absolutely. >> well, that's it. absolutely. >> yeah, right. >> yeah, right. >> can we talk about this new rules? actually, they're not rules, are they? guidance around social media, stephen and children having to confirm who they are with a passport image. >> i'm sorry. the minute you start asking young children to actually put their personal details out, their passport details out, their passport details and photographs, you know, that opens the door to the most sinister and horrific potential, you know, not just control, but but you know, this could actually be, you know, commercially useful, all sorts of things. look, the reality is that kids will find their way around these things anyway. they always do. i'm sorry. where is

the element of parental control in this right? >> battling against as a parent of two young girls? i'll tell you where it is. i'll tell you where it is. relentlessly battling against children who are always one step ahead of you when it comes to technology. and i am pretty good, but it is still very, very difficult . but still very, very difficult. but i don't like that this puts me as a parent in a dilemma. this mike, because i want them to watch less inappropriate content , but i don't also want them to think it's normal to put their face and their passport or their id. >> i agree with stephen. >> i agree with stephen. >> i agree with stephen. >> i don't want that to be normal for them. >> i think it's ridiculous. so the lady doing this michelle donelan right, she's a technology secretary. she uses the word which i always feel politicians use when they want to say, i'm getting tough, robust. yeah. we're introducing robust. yeah. we're introducing robust age checks. we all know the kids will get over it. and i always go back to the basic premise that i believe in is that if the filthy content wasn't there, the children couldn't access it. can't we do it from the other end of the

telescope and tell the giant media companies in america , media companies in america, introduce a piece of equipment that means it can't get into the system because they must be able to do it. they make billions of pounds of profits. >> i can remember writing about this when cameron was prime minister. he had a big summit at downing street with google and all those people, and they were going to introduce an opt. you have to opt in to see this muck. yeah. and it's and it was going to happen. it was an agreement. you never happened. you have to opt in to see the porn. you'd have to opt in to see to get into the dark net. yeah a very simple device. they won't do it. yeah stephen, because it costs them money. >> when all else fails, follow the money. look, people are making a huge amount of money about this. that money is being paid to somewhere where it's being paid in bitcoin or sterling or yen. who knows? but it's being paid somewhere. track the money back and then you will find the source of it. the minute it becomes commercially unviable. then it stops . but the unviable. then it stops. but the other thing is people in all weird parts. a lot of this comes from russia. a lot of this comes from, you know, some of the former soviet countries. we should be able to track this back and actually cut it off at

source . i think, you know, mike source. i think, you know, mike makes a good point about the wrong end of the telescope . wrong end of the telescope. we're looking at it in the kid's bedroom when we actually looking at it in some sweaty cellar in ekaterinburg. if you're half a dozen cyber pirates , if you ask dozen cyber pirates, if you ask the chinese to stop it happening, they would , because happening, they would, because they're so good with al, you know, they're infiltrating every government computer in the world and they would do it the other thing about michelle donelan, she says they could be fined up to billions of pounds. >> well, they earn about 100 billion a year in a minute. >> agreement maybe. >> agreement maybe. >> one good thing i think from this advice is melanie dawes, ofcom chief executive, has said that the companies have to tame these aggressive algorithms. so in other words, if a child looks at content on, let's say, self—harming or suicide , the self—harming or suicide, the phone will give them more of that content. they have to be. they can switch off those algorithms, they can do that. that's what they should be forcing. >> this is the problem. when it links on the thing. i had a situation when i was an mp where we had a mormon bishop came to see me. he was complaining about this idea of this underwear that they have the mormons have to wear. it's supposed to be flame

proof. and the woman in my office couldn't do it. >> need flame proof under. >> need flame proof under. >> it's sort of like a chastity thing, as far as i can gather anyway. but the point being, i googled strange and unusual underwear on my computer in the office, and next thing i know, i was being inundated with a tsunami of absolute crotchless knickers and the foul filth and the porn squad then came round to my office in parliament street and said, we understand you've been accessing inappropriate data material, mr power, and i'm sorry. you know, ihave power, and i'm sorry. you know, i have no interest, bishop, in edible knickers and the. >> well, you know, the mormon bishop. >> excuse me, by the way. >> excuse me, by the way. >> yeah, yeah. too much information there. and do we not think a 13 year old kid is capable of forging a passport identity? i mean, it's ridiculous, isn't it? >> they're much. they're brighter than the politicians who are coming up of course they are. >> it's a mess. >> it's a mess. >> it's a mess. now, >> it's a mess. now, can >> it's a mess. now, can we >> it's a mess. now, can we just bnng >> it's a mess. now, can we just bring you some breaking news, gentlemen? england and manchester city star jack grealish. heard of him andrew. yeah, yeah, he's been fined £666

for speeding at 44 miles an hour in a 30 mile an hour zone in north worcestershire in july last year. i don't think it's going to cripple him well, but that'll be what will that be a minute's wage? >> yeah. jack grealish is an interesting character. he was the most fouled player in the premier league last year because he's also the most irritating player he is . he's also the most irritating player he is. he's he's also the most irritating player he is . he's the sort of player he is. he's the sort of person, as mike and i both played football, the sort of person who absolutely had nasty, niggling little back biting goes down all the time with his socks round his ankles all the time, and that ludicrous hairband now losing the room here. yeah, gentlemen, but the money just to he is capable of a divine ball into the box from time to time. >> he is. but to put his financial situation into perspective? he's britain's most expensive footballer at 100 million obe. he recently signed a commercial deal to promote boots for 10 million. and see he gets paid about £300,000 a week, so 660. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> they should have banned him. no they shouldn't. example well or fine. if he didn't do well.

>> i mean i'm sorry, andrew is very fast in a 30 mile zone. oh no. but here's here's an interesting thing. i'm mrs. p is a senior magistrate on the middlesex bench. and she's quite brutal. and when they actually find people, they actually take their income into account. oh yes. and so if somebody comes up in front of her at uxbridge magistrates and they're a multi—billionaire, they get a multi—billionaire, they get a multi—billion fine. well, how did he get £666. well, we've got the judge , a man city supporter. the judge, a man city supporter. all the sixes. >> yeah. all the sixes. >> yeah. all the sixes. >> no, that is remarkable. i read about a bloke who was a ferrari driver who got fined 27,000 on a speeding offence. >> yeah, well, that would be better. yeah, yeah , because. better. yeah, yeah, because. >> and you put the money to some decent causes, i know. >> absolutely . yes. >> absolutely. yes. >> absolutely. yes. >> and also, if he gets a ban, he'll just get a chauffeur. well, this is, this is the thing. now we are moving genuinely towards a world in which the super rich can just live free and make no change. >> absolutely. >> absolutely. >> you only need normal people who are losing our life communities 3040 beverley. >> we socialists have been saying that i no actually why can't weird what's happened to

politics? >> why shouldn't they make him do a bit of community service with young lads and young girls who want to play football? that would be really good. >> it'd be good because he is a role model to some people. >> he won't need, he won't need a chauffeur because clubs like manchester city have fleets of 4x4 cars which ferry their players all over the world anyway. so you know what? >> we didn't even get on to the fact that the bbc is will isn't isn't serving the viewers properly when it comes to the migration. >> oh, what a surprise about that. we've got any new news, first though, here's tatiana sanchez in the gp newsroom. >> bev turner, thank you very much. the top stories at 1030. social media companies are being warned they could be banned for those under 18 if they don't keep children safe. the media regulator ofcom says platforms must take action to stop their algorithms recommending harmful content to children. it's draft children's safety codes of practice sets out to how expect

some of the world's biggest onune some of the world's biggest online platforms to protect children online, and penalties for companies who fail to comply . two thirds of nhs trusts are missing their target to treat patients within 18 weeks of referral, according to analysis by labour. the party says 114 trusts out of 167 have failed to meet the target in any month since december 2019. most also failed to ensure patients faced waits of less than four hours in a&e departments. this the sentence of nottingham triple killer osvaldo calocane will be reviewed by the court of appeal over concerns it may have been unduly lenient. the 32 year old was found to have been suffering paranoid schizophrenia , for paranoid schizophrenia, for calocane was given an indefinite hospital order for the manslaughter of barnaby webber. grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last june. the attorney general's office is expected to argue that he should be given a hybnd argue that he should be given a hybrid order, seeing him treated

in hospital before being transferred to prison and rail passengers are facing more travel disruption due to ongoing strikes by train drivers, making it the longest ever dispute in the rail industry. members of aslef are walking out, affecting services across england, wales and scotland. the few services that are running will start later and finish earlier than usual. later and finish earlier than usual . aslef says its members usual. aslef says its members haven't had a pay rise in five years, and it's accusing the government of giving up trying to resolve the dispute . for the to resolve the dispute. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. carmelites . news. carmelites. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> here's a quick snapshot of today's markets. the pound will buy you $1.2479 and ,1.1612. the

price of gold is £1,849.88 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8343 points. >> cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> still to come, the guardian newspaper is celebrating this morning because it had nothing better to do than draw attention to the garrick club membership. andrew pierce is a member. very recently, 193 years, they've been forced because of public shame, to allow women in as members. would we even want to be? it doesn't look much fun . is be? it doesn't look much fun. is it fun? >> i quite like it. that's why i joined. but, just, just i've just joined a few weeks ago, and the vote last night was 59, 41 or 6040. pretty decisive. >> i think my problem is the fact that they were forced into it by the public campaign with the guardian. it's not something that anyone was particularly bothered to. >> the guardian points out that

the cabinet secretary, the most senior civil servant, was a member . senior civil servant, was a member. common senior civil servant, was a member . common knowledge, member. common knowledge, actually, yeah, because it's not actually, yeah, because it's not a secret. but he then quit as a result. pathetic. and then it went to this vote and they've now voted to allow women members . beverley turner clearly isn't going to do that. >> and a lot more. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. stay with .

us. so. private members club in london. the garrick club has voted to allow women members for the first time in its history. >> so it's been around for 193 years. women were not allowed as members, but they could go in as guests of male members. but the vote? there was a vote last night, 60% said time to allow women in on equal terms. >> we don't really care about being part of a stuffy boys club. and to join us to talk about this is george gilhooly.

good morning, georgia. do women care about this ? have the care about this? have the guardian got nothing better to do? apparently not, considering we have a huge range of domestic and global crises ongoing at the moment. >> i think first and foremost, this was a campaign. it's been successful now by and for elites, i believe the chief reporter at the guardian, who spearheaded this was amelia gentleman. that's right. and in the initial coverage, she didn't even mention that her father in law, i believe stanley johnson , law, i believe stanley johnson, obviously the father of former prime minister boris johnson, a very influential member of the tory party. she didn't mention that he was a member , which i that he was a member, which i find bizarre. it's something that should have gone on that list. if it was a list of influential members, which it was. >> so hang on a minute. who's that? >> that's amelia gentleman wrote the story in the guardian. she's married to joe johnson, boris's brother, boris's brother. and so stanley is a member of the garrick. but she omitted that from her piece. >> and i think, you know, the majority of british women won't have even heard of the garrick club, nor any sort of private members clubs in london. >> it's a very kind of, elite

inside thing. it's actor lawyers, writers. yeah. and i think they absolutely have their place, especially for networking with people in different careers or the same career as you. i think they have their place holding charity events, that kind of thing, and conferences, but i think , you know, to force but i think, you know, to force women to be a mum to be members doesn't make any sense. here's the thing. >> if this is meant to be a feminist campaign to help women, it doesn't work, because why women struggle. i think georgia to get professional advancement because men are not very good at cross—gender networking, i would argue. so i think there is a lot of networking goes on in these clubs. it's a lot of backslapping. there's a lot of, oh, you do a deal with me, i'll do a deal with you. we already have members clubs mixed, and that stuff is still not happening. just putting men and women together in this one space isn't going to help women in terms of cross—gender networking. what do they so what do you think is actually behind it? what are they trying to do ,

it? what are they trying to do, i think there's a certain subsection of the media and the political elite who kind of see these very small issues as kind of getting one over on certain groups of men, people who they may actually, you know , share an may actually, you know, share an office with sometimes. and i think also it's very it's so easy to focus on something really this minimal that no one actually cares about. they don't want to talk about, you know , want to talk about, you know, historically low conviction rates for sexual offences or for female genital mutilation, which usually only happens in certain immigrant communities. these are really uncomfortable moral issues to discuss that often lead to people being offended and that kind of thing. this is very easy because everyone in their friend group, or everyone who might join this club with them, agrees with them. they're not changing anything. and as you're saying, it's very kind of secluded elite club and it's not something that's going to help the majority of women or just women starting out in their career . career. >> i can remember back in 2008, when he was leader of the opposition , david cameron opposition, david cameron resigned from whites. now that is probably one of the poshest of the poshest of these

whitehall clubs , as i call them, whitehall clubs, as i call them, because it had, women weren't allowed . guess what? now he's no allowed. guess what? now he's no longer prime minister. he's back as a member of whites. just ludicrous. sort of the worst sort of virtue signalling. >> it's all just pr management, really. it's kind of something thatis really. it's kind of something that is filling a gap in the media at that time and can try and help sort of look, make certain mps or lawyers , certain mps or lawyers, charlotte, for example, look better, campaign against us and you have mps backing this campaign who we know attend islamic community centres or mosques that have gender segregation, which is absolutely their right as a religious institution to do . but i think institution to do. but i think it's evidence of the fact that these kind of segregations exist in certain places, and we ought to respect that. and i think that we don't live in a society like afghanistan or iran, thankfully, where we have very harsh sex segregation, a sort of part of everyday life, i think that's unhealthy and dysfunctional. >> and what about i mean, i'm just thinking here, the university women's club, a haven, it's described as a haven in london for educated women. it's been around since 1886. the guardian aren't making a fuss about that . having only women

about that. having only women members. that's okay. >> i suppose it's because, you know, the majority of people working at the guardian , working at the guardian, especially on this series of reports, will be people who obviously buy into the kind of critical theory nonsense that, you know, women are an oppressed minority, which is odd because women aren't really a minority. they're roughly half of the population in the uk , and kind population in the uk, and kind of we need, you know, specific kind of discrimination to help us, which is ridiculous, we need to acknowledge , obviously, that to acknowledge, obviously, that women and men are different, you know, for example, in their careers, women, might have different experiences as, because they might get pregnant or something like that, but it doesn't mean that we need to force our way into spaces that are meant for men. >> also the irony, though, because i can't believe for a second that any of these guardian journalists would want to be a member. it's not like they're breaking down the door. so they can go and share in this elite social group. >> do you think people wouldn't wouldn't it just wouldn't they hate to be spending whatever it is, over £1,000 a year

membership anyway, well, the reality is that social mobility is at its lowest in 50 years, and in journalism especially, that's, a very difficult issue. >> and i think it's because our comprehensive system just does not help people advance in careers they want. so i think the reality is, if you're working at the guardian, you're part of that elite anyway. so £1,000 a year is sort of, you know, they don't want to go, but but they just want to spoil it for the people. >> they don't want to be there themselves . themselves. >> where could this go to? if you think about cambridge, newnham college, very famous college run by women for women academics , is that going to academics, is that going to change? should it change, why should it? it's been very successful for i'm not familiar with each college, but i think some oxbridge colleges already have started to admit people who identify as the gender they weren't born with, that kind of thing. >> so i think we already see those those walls breaking down. i think it's a shame because especially in education, actually, there's evidence that kind of separating boys and girls or young men and women actually helps. yeah. and that's historically what we've done. you know, for thousands of years. really. so, yeah.

>> are you a member of a club, i'm not i've been to events with them and that kind of thing , i them and that kind of thing, i don't know if i would join one of the future. it's definitely not my list at the moment. especially as you're saying. they're quite expensive. yeah, i'd rather join, like, a trade i'd ratherjoin, like, a trade association that, there are some in the city that for different professions, there's one that journalists can join and they do lots of charity work and stuff. so i'm thinking of joining that. >> all right. thank you georgia. thank you so much for coming in georgia gilhooly there. now up next, travel chaos at the airports. this morning, stansted, i think this is what we're looking at here. this is stansted. this is the facial recognition technology at passport control. where you stand there, you put your face up against that screen, you hold your passport on the machine, and guess what? the machine's broke down. they had to bring in people in seven airports. >> was it seven airports, airports? country chaos . airports? country chaos. >> right. this is britain's

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with andrew pierce and bev turner. lots of people getting in touch. >> that's right, so kg has said men are happy with women being women. some women dislike men doing men things simply because some women feel inferior within themselves . themselves. >> i was told not just that i was told this lovely story about one member of the garrick who's in his 90s said, we can't have women members. >> my wife won't let me go to the club anymore. >> oh, well, don't you love it? >> oh, well, don't you love it? >> it's brilliant, isn't it? and this. you've all been getting in touch as well about these digital id fails at the passport control , just a girl who said, control, just a girl who said, you know what replaces the e—gates civil servants as well? employees of the airport. suppose. >> wait, it's border force. >> wait, it's border force. >> border force? >> border force? >> border force? well, >> border force? well, yes >> border force? well, yes , >> border force? well, yes , of >> border force? well, yes, of course it's border. >> it's border force. >> it's border force. >> civil servants. >> civil servants. >> yeah. and they do work with border force. yeah. and there'd be a queue. they'd ask you questions and. >> yeah, as a woman, it only seems to go one way, says joanne.i seems to go one way, says joanne. i don't think many men would bother about women only clubs. >> well, that's what i was

asking. if you are a member of one of these women only clubs, we'd love to hear from you. maggie who is a member of gb news. >> com thank you. that's the only members club that we're on board with. i can't lie , maggie. board with. i can't lie, maggie. >> keep joining us. >> keep joining us. >> who are women who will join this club ? barristers, crown this club? barristers, crown court judges. it's hardly open to all ordinary women. >> yeah, the i think the criteria is act or legal journey in the theatre district in london. yeah it is. yeah. it's in garrick street. >> and greg has said i'd love to hobnobin >> and greg has said i'd love to hobnob in the garrick club with the elites just for a day to see what goes on. andrew pierce can you get me a membership? that's greg in cumbria. >> and greg, i'm not elite . >> and greg, i'm not elite. definitely not. >> oh, you are a bit. >> get out of it . >> get out of it. >> it's a great place to go. if you have been to the theatre and you have been to the theatre and you want to have a you want to have a beer after the theatre. yeah, it's right in the heart of theatre land. so it's very nice. it's a nice club, right? >> it has been chaos at airports again. country. it's thousands of people were left stranded because of this passport. it systems, these e—gates went down. >> passengers had to queue for up to two hours, some even

longer i think, because and border staff, good gracious me, they had to manually process their passports and said how terrible is that ? terrible is that? >> well, we're joined now by the travel editor at the sun, lisa minnow. good morning lisa, this will make people's hearts sink as we look forward to the summer holidays and the weather getting nicer here. i'm actually getting on a plane tomorrow from stansted . indeed, and it does stansted. indeed, and it does make me nervous about travelling. we need people to be confident that they can get to the airport smoothly , can't we? the airport smoothly, can't we? but that isn't there at the moment. lisa >> no, i mean, you know, this is worrying because this is just the second time in a couple of weeks that we've seen the e—gates go down. it happened a couple of weeks ago at certain airports. it was a partial outage. but this total outage that's 270 e—gates across all of our airports and not just airports, train stations, all went down at the same time. and delays of up to four hours. i'm hearing, because people are being kept on planes because there wasn't enough room in the terminals to have everyone

queuing up. so it pretty worrying and comes exactly a year after exactly the same total outage happened in the last may. bank holiday >> look, neither of those are technical, but we call it an outage. i mean, effectively it's like a power cut. so they all went down. how can it have happened again when we had this big problem a year ago? why haven't they fixed it? >> well, it does seem to me that perhaps there's some kind of an issue when you've got lots of people travelling. so this would have been the busiest weekend of the year so far because of the bank holiday. and then of course, by tuesday you've got people coming back, having been away for that lovely long weekend , and it seems to be when weekend, and it seems to be when there's lots of people travelling , the system can't travelling, the system can't cope and we've got to build some kind of resilience into these technology systems because 70% of people who are using an airport will go through an e gate. it's not just brits, it's people from the eu, from america, canada, australia. now, if you've actually staffed up your border force staff to only process 30% of the people coming

through the airport, it will inevitably turn to chaos. if those gates fail . those gates fail. >> the irony is, these wretched things are supposed to be programmed . yes, lisa. programmed. yes, lisa. >> yeah, exactly. that and you know, this is the problem. we've become so much more reliant on these kind of technologies, as you say, border force staff not staffing up in for the number of people at the airport because we rely on the technology. and i think this is a focus of what could come. i mean, we've got, the idea coming at very soon that actually you won't even have to put your passport onto a, onto a little scanner when you go through e—gates in the future, it will all be biometric. there will just be checking your eyeball and we've got the new entry exit system to get us in and out of europe coming up soon. that's going to involve everyone having their fingerprints taken and their eyes checked as well. and all of this involves technology . and this involves technology. and when technology goes wrong, that's when we seem to have these really massive problems. yeah. >> lisa, just explain that to our viewers because it's got very little press attention here actually, how it's changing

across europe, how and actually that we will have to be if we want to go into europe, even though we're not in the eu. we as british citizens will also have to have our biometrics taken. >> that's right. i mean, this is any third party country. now, this is a long delayed system . this is a long delayed system. even the eu have admitted that actually this technology is very difficult to put in place. so you've got the entry exit system that's coming in that will involve everybody having their fingerprints taken and their eyes biometrics checked , and eyes biometrics checked, and basically they'll renew it on a sort of rolling basis . but if sort of rolling basis. but if you think about our ports, people who are used to just being able to drive onto a eurostar and eurotunnel train or onto a ferry, now every single person is going to have to get out of the car. it's going to have to make sure they've had their fingerprints and eyes done. now that is going to involve huge queues , i think. involve huge queues, i think. and we've already got a house of lords report coming out this week , which is saying exactly week, which is saying exactly that we haven't yet addressed what's going to happen when this system finally gets put in

what's going to happen when this system finally geenhance ,77 is it supposed to enhance security ? security? >> yes. and it's something very similar to what we're actually going to be doing here in the uk as well. our systems again will it's enhancing security. it's making sure that only people that we want in the country can actually access the country. >> and we know it won't work like that at all. it will control all of us. lisa, that'll be always great to see you. yeah. it's not going to do anything about illegal immigration. >> if only we could stop it. >> if only we could stop it. >> we are all going to be a data set and therefore infinitely controllable . controllable. >> i hate these conspiracy theories coming true. >> what do they do with that information ? they don't give it away. >> and what do they do under a politician that you don't like? here's the weather. don't go anywhere . anywhere. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. fog and mist should continue to clear through the rest of the day, bringing sunny spells for many of us. however,

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gb news. >> 11 am. on wednesday, the 8th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce and bev turner. >> so very good morning. an independent review into the bbc has told the broadcaster that it is not racist to air concerns about migration and that they view the topic through a narrow political lens. we could have told them that same old bbc thousands of passengers were

stranded at airports across britain last night as the e—gate system failed again. >> that technology now doesn't seem such a good idea, does it? >> and keeping children safe online, ofcom could introduce strict new age restrictions to use social media. if young people want to check facebook, they will need to have their photo id ready . photo id ready. >> and the home secretary says pubs can extend their opening hours to 1 am. if england or scotland make it to the euro 2024 semi finals this summer. he's all heart, isn't he? that james cleverly ? james cleverly? >> well, the hospitality industry, as you would imagine, is , really welcoming this move. is, really welcoming this move. but of course, the one caveat is that england and scotland or scotland do very well in the competition. they need to at least reach the semi—finals before there's any prospect of a late drink.

>> what are they thinking? which politician thought i know what we'll do. we'll give the british pubuc we'll do. we'll give the british public a treat of a little extra hour of drinking. if we do well in the euros. no, just give us that anyway . help the pubs. we that anyway. help the pubs. we don't. you don't, we don't. we don't. you don't, we don't. we don't. here to be given. like you said before, the crumbs. >> it is a crumb off the table. honestly we have a word with them. i bumped into him last night. >> james creevey, the home secretary, was pleased as punch because he thought that was a good idea. >> james cleverly, give me a call. i'll tell you what real people think. >> i wonder if it would come up at prime six questions today. >> it might do. tom and gloria are going to be covering prime minister's questions for us this afternoon, and they want your questions. what would you ask the prime minister today? gbnews.com/yoursay say first, though, tatiana sanchez in the gb newsroom . gb newsroom. >> bev turner. thank you. social

media companies are being warned that they could be banned for those under 18 if they don't keep children safe. the media regulator ofcom says platforms must take action to stop their algorithms recommending harmful content to children. it's draft children's safety codes of practice sets out how to expect some of the world's biggest onune some of the world's biggest online platforms to protect onune online platforms to protect online children, and penalties for companies who fail to comply. energy security secretary clare pochettino told gb news. the uk aims to be the safest in the world. >> when i was children's minister, i looked at well—being and one of the things that i was really interested in was the link between how much time our children are spending online and their mental health. and for me, there was two things. it's what they could access, and i'm really pleased that we're doing that online safety legislation because that that will tackle that part. but it's also what it's stopping them doing. so that's the things that i care about. i'm definitely welcome government's efforts to act on this and make sure that we're the safest place in the country when it comes to sorry in the world, when it comes to being

onune world, when it comes to being online for children, two thirds of nhs trusts are missing their target to treat patients within 18 weeks of referral, according to analysis by labour. >> the party says 114 trusts out of 167 have failed to meet the target in any month since december 2019. trusts are meant to ensure that 92% of patients are treated within 18 weeks of gp referral. most trusts also failed to meet targets, ensuring that most patients wait less than four hours in a&e departments. shadow paymaster general jonathan ashworth says the government is failing to properly fund britain's health service . service. >> this is a consequence of 14 years of the conservatives driving our nhs into the ground. so what's labour's solution? we would introduce a proper tax on the very super wealthy non—doms, and we would use the proceeds from that to fund extra appointments. 2 million extra appointments. 2 million extra appointments a year in our nhs , appointments a year in our nhs, so we can start driving those

waiting times down. so if you're waiting times down. so if you're waiting for a hip replacement or a knee replacement or hernia, perhaps a cataract operation you need, you can get your operations on time. too many people are waiting in pain and agony at the moment for an operation . after 14 years of the operation. after 14 years of the conservatives three judges at the royal courts of justice heanng the royal courts of justice hearing a bid to change the sentence of triple killer valdo calocane , say they'll give their calocane, say they'll give their decision at a later date . decision at a later date. >> calocane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, was given an indefinite hospital order. it's after he killed barnaby webber. grace o'malley kumar and ian coates last june. but the sentence is being reviewed by the court of appeal over concerns it may have been unduly lenient . rail passengers are lenient. rail passengers are facing more travel disruption today due to ongoing strikes by train drivers, making it the longest ever dispute in the rail industry. members of aslef are walking out, affecting services across england, wales and in

scotland. the few services that are running will start later and finish earlier than usual. aslef says its members haven't got a pay says its members haven't got a pay rise in five years and is accusing the government of giving up trying to resolve the dispute . john swinney was sworn dispute. john swinney was sworn in as the new first minister of scotland at a ceremony in edinburgh . in the last hour, he edinburgh. in the last hour, he told gb news it's an enormous privilege and it's an enormous honour to come to the court of session and to be sworn in in a link to the history and the roots of our country, our democracy and the and the rule of law. >> so for me, an enormous honour and a privilege to do that and look forward very much to doing so. a big surprise for me and an enormous privilege and as i said yesterday, i'm here to serve everyone in scotland, and i look forward to doing so in the us. >> the judge has indefinitely postponed donald trump's trial over claims he illegally kept classified documents after

leaving office. it had previously been scheduled to begin in just under two weeks time. the decision was made due to still unresolved issues in the case and because the former president is currently attending a separate trial over hush money allegations. he denies all the charges made against him . and charges made against him. and last drinks will come a little later this summer if england or scotland make it to the euro semi—finals , venues will be semi—finals, venues will be allowed to stay open for an extra hour or two on match days, pushing closing times to 1 am. if either or both teams reach the last four or the final, most pub shut by 11 pm, but the law allows some ministers to relax licensing hours to mark occasions of exceptional national significance . for the national significance. for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. now back to andrew and . bev.

to andrew and. bev. >> welcome back. it is 1107. this is britain's newsroom on gb news with me bev turner and andrew pierce. >> well, what about this? >> well, what about this? >> the bbc has been told they must reflect public concerns about immigration. really >> that's right. >> that's right. >> this report was commissioned by the broadcaster and they were told it was not racist to discuss the channel. basically proving what gb news has known all along that a mass immigration has an effect on people in this country as well. and we should be okay about that. >> nhs, that. >> n hs, schools, that. >> nhs, schools, jobs , wages >> nhs, schools, jobs, wages editor at large from the mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths joins us now. >> charlotte good to see you. we're going to talk about the royals with you as well. but first of all it just seems outrageous that the bbc has to have a report commissioned to conclude that they have to take a more balanced approach to immigration. >> yeah, it's sort of what we all know, and obviously what gb news has been talking about for ages. and in the report it used this word problematic. i have a problem with that word problematic because it's widespread now, and it's a real

sort of woke term that people use. and it also people are very afraid . people are very afraid. afraid. people are very afraid. this report has shown at the bbc of being problematic. it's sort of being problematic. it's sort of like the worst thing you could be accused of being . and could be accused of being. and so they won't, you know, investigate both sides of the argument in case they're accused of being problematic or worse, racist. >> yeah. and we know it's obvious isn't it. >> it's not rocket science. massive migration is causing huge problems on for schools, housing, nhs jobs, integration and integration, social cohesion. and we saw some of the results in the local elections last week where muslim candidates, some of whom are islamists who want a muslim caliphate, are now elected members. >> yeah. and i think i think what this bbc report is saying is that by completely ignoring other people, you know, in this argument, people in say, kent and just and actually being quite snobbish, i find the bbc is very snobbish towards people who say, gosh, the landscape of my local town has changed. is it okay to talk about this? and the answer from the bbc is no slap wrists. you know, snobby, you

know, you're just sort of lowest common denominator for bringing this up. and it's not it's a real it's a real thing that's happening to real people. >> and they took the same view on brexit, which they almost ignored. and people who supported brexit were dismissed as nasty, working class, white racist . right. that's me. thank racist. right. that's me. thank you. yeah. >> well the widespread and the report concluded the bbc's coverage should have equal empathy for migrants and uk residents who worry about the impacts of migration . do you impacts of migration. do you think it will make any difference to the bbc's coverage? >> i actually think it could do because it gives people, you know, a license to look at both sides of the story at last without feeling like they're going to be sort of chastised by their colleagues or by their viewers. i think it could make a difference. it's kind of giving them to use modern woke speak permission to talk about things a bit more openly. it's amazing. >> step forward, but it's amazing. >> it takes a report by by the migration observatory service done by doctor madeleine sumption to tell them what we've already know. >> yeah, but that's classic bbc, isn't it? you have to have a report on the report and the report. yeah. and then maybe you can say cautiously something

thatis can say cautiously something that is just actually a fact that is just actually a fact that we all know. the rest of us know, know here at. >> yeah, we need to give we need to give the statement, sir nicholas serota, bbc board member and chair of the editorial guidelines and standards committee, said as recent events confirm, migration is a highly contested area of pubuc is a highly contested area of public policy and that is why the bbc reporting on it must meet the highest editorial standards . meet the highest editorial standards. he goes on. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> this board commission review finds bbc coverage of migration has many strengths, but it could better reflect the topics complexities as well as ensuring coverage is not overly dominated by political and high profile voices. >> right, charlotte ? >> right, charlotte? >> right, charlotte? >> let's talk about royals and harry being here today and his father not seeing him. should we read a lot into that, do you think i actually think we can read a lot into this. >> i'm i'm actually really surprised . i think this >> i'm i'm actually really surprised. i think this is >> i'm i'm actually really surprised . i think this is the surprised. i think this is the saddest development yet actually , because, you know, he's obviously very ill with cancer. he saw his son last time in february. last time it came over and this is a genuine snub. i mean, this is this is it's not a perceived snub. and how he often perceives snubs that are not there . but this one perceives snubs that are not there. but this one is perceives snubs that are not there . but this one is real. you there. but this one is real. you know, he refused to see his son.

>> he couldn't take because they're saying diary commitments. but everybody can find ten minutes breakfast. >> maybe he's the king of england of course he can clear up his diary. yeah. and actually he's going to be at a buckingham palace garden party. i mean, in another world where he'll meet 4000 people. totally. it'll be totally normal for harry to just. you know, be invited along. sorry, harry. i'm busy having this massive garden party. come and stand by my side for the two hour event. yeah, let's catch up in between. >> in between tea or have a chat before. before we go into the party or after the party number. >> there's any number of moments. >> and what about the announcement, charlotte, that came out yesterday, which you and i both thought, blimey, that's very significant coming out of the palace. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> about william and about william and his father. >> yeah. so, yeah, there were two announcements. there was, there was harry's yesterday as well, which was also so pointed. but the, the william one was that he's going to do a joint engagement with his father next week, and that william is going to take over very important role as head of the army air corps. well, obviously, this is this is something harry really wanted. and it's a regiment that harry served in. it just seemed incredibly pointed. it was the

statement was released late last night as all of this stuff about , you know, charles not meeting harry was developing. so it felt incredibly pointed, a bit spiteful, i think. spiteful i think actually you reap what you sow. i think harry's finally getting a taste of his own medicine. you know, these kind of pointed statements that we get from harry all the time, you know, they're not being matched by statements by the royals because they can't they just have to keep saying no comment. but they can never complain. >> never explain. >> never explain. >> yes, but they can release pretty savage announcements, such as the one last night, which is that actually william's going to be in charge of that. >> do you think, though both of you are much more invested in the royal stories? you've worked there for years and you among that beat andrew and you do charlotte now, though, is it that it could get to the point where if charles and william are sufficiently mean to harry that it could change public opinion and people start to feel sorry for him? it could be. >> and this is what harry's wanted all along. so harry's said to the world, look how awful they are to me for the last few years. and we've all said, no, that's that's you know, in most cases he brought this on yourself. it was brought

on. brought this on yourself or actually, harry, that wasn't a slight. that wasn't clearly you weren't being pushed out. clearly the queen went to great lengths to welcome meghan . harry lengths to welcome meghan. harry perceived constantly that he was being pushed out, but now he actually is being pushed out and this could change public opinion, by the way. >> yeah, maybe. but i suspect it won't because i think people think, as you said earlier, the expression i've used earlier what you say, mate. yeah and that harry did not have to put that harry did not have to put that statement out yesterday afternoon saying my father is too busy to see me . that was too busy to see me. that was very pointed. >> it was very pointed. and he said, other , other priorities, said, other, other priorities, didn't he? which just felt so his father is battling cancer. >> for all we know, the king was having treatment for cancer. we don't know. well, it's a good point. >> that is a good point. and we know that when charles comes to london it is to take treatment. it is so yeah, i mean, another argument that people say is couldn't have harry harry have come a couple of days earlier because charles has been completely doing nothing since thursday, and now it's one year since he got the coronation and now he's ramped up his commitments. and now harry's come. >> well wasn't it archie's wasn't it? archie's birthday on

monday? well, harry always manages to you as a child doesn't always manage his his child's birthday because he could have come next week. >> he could have come last week. >> he could have come last week. >> he. there could have been other times. i mean, he knew that this week was going to be very, very busy for his father, who's just started to do events again, which is, you know, brand new really. he's been kind of laying low for a long time. i just think it's all very messy. he could have chosen a better time. >> and then harry's going to disappear later this week with his wife to nigeria. >> yeah, well, this is another reason that charles may have refused to see harry. because if he has a very important meeting with the king of england and then goes on this pseudo royal tour to nigeria, which isn't a royal tour , it's something royal tour, it's something they've taken upon themselves and their complete live wires. they might say anything during that royal tour. yeah. and if charles had just seen harry beforehand, it could have looked like he was almost endorsing the tour somehow. yeah. you know, there's any number of reasons why this meeting didn't happen, and i think that's probably one of them, to be honest. >> she's wants to get in touch with her colonial roots. >> megan, 43% nigerian. >> megan, 43% nigerian. >> she's found out she's discovered off she goes to nigeria. you know, this is a

woman who who has said that the empire, the commonwealth is empire 2.0. so it's pretty you know, she is a live wire. charles will not want to look like he's approving this message in any way. >> i don't think actually gone to make a program about herself and there'll be a netflix camera crew in tow. >> presumably there will be. >> presumably there will be. >> and it will be very scripted and very managed. we know that everything meghan does is very, very managed. >> so editor at large mail on sunday, charlotte griffiths, thank you so much for joining sunday, charlotte griffiths, thank you so much forjoining us this morning. now still to come spanked with a rolled up not me. this isn't andrew pearce's weekend plans but a former us president likes it apparently. >> i wonder which one. >> i wonder which one. >> britain's newsroom on gb news roll this up while we just guess which one.

>> contained. britain's newsroom @gbnews with andrew pearson. bev turner. the panel is back. mike parry and stephen pound. >> right, gentlemen , should we >> right, gentlemen, should we talk about this bbc, migration coverage about the fact that the bbc handle migration ? iron mike, bbc handle migration? iron mike, in a very one sided way , that in a very one sided way, that everybody coming here is welcome and it has no impact on the country. yeah. and i'm glad that somebody now called them out on this. >> well, nobody on the left can say any fault whatsoever in mass immigration if they can turn, you know, it's all going to revolutionise the economy and they don't see any downside to it. it's amazing, isn't it, that the, the bbc have actually got to sort of get a senior, producer there or a senior programmer to say it's not racist to air concerns about migration. now, isn't it strange that there seems to have come in the wake of what i would say is an unveiling king of wokeism in this country? i mean, this started with the cass report, doctor hilary cass, children's general report . it's the prime

general report. it's the prime minister's picked it up and said, you've got to fight back against these woke issues. okay. you know, the idea here, now that you've got to believe everything you hear on tv from the bbc is being questioned. and that's a good thing, because also there have been a number of complaints recently which i've been aware of, and we must have read about that. the bbc has been less than balanced in its coverage of the middle east, and that's another issue . it's the. that's another issue. it's the. >> yeah. yeah. >> yeah. yeah. >> sorry, mike. yeah. not at all. but i it's the daughter of lord sumption, madeleine sumption , who's done this sumption, who's done this research. and he's been remarkable, i think, in the last few years . yeah. providing few years. yeah. providing balance in many areas of public life. >> but here's, here's the thing. look who's the biggest supporter. the biggest fan of mass immigration to this country. it is not the left. certainly isn't the labour party. we introduced the immigration and nationality act back in 2001. it is the bosses of the big firms and the big factories who absolutely glory in the fact that you can get people here to work in slaughterhouses and chicken farms. yeah so those are the

biggest supporters. but look, yes, that's why they that's why they opposed brexit because they saw brexit as ending a cheap supply of labour. well i'm not you know, more about okay. may day the cbi. the trouble is every time i've had an argument with you, you've won. so i'm not going to have another one. >> but but it's a generally accepted point now isn't it, that, you know, we can have one. i mean, we were supposed to accept the rabid belief all immigration is good for the economy because it improves gdp. but it doesn't, does it ? it but it doesn't, does it? it doesn't improve gdp per head. it might overall, you know, go up by 0.1% through the numbers. right. but as for the individual wealth of people in this country, that in my view, is going down, and also who's going to accept that the housing crisis in this country is 90% because of the fact that we've got too many people here. >> and mike made a very interesting point a minute ago about the unveiling of wokester. i don't know if you've been watching robert jenrick lately. robert jenrick you know, the pounng robert jenrick you know, the pouring the studios today , who pouring the studios today, who who is certainly on manoeuvres without any shadow of a doubt.

robert jenrick is actually saying a lot of these things about the impact the social and economic and educational impact of mass migration in particular areas, and the lack of total integration. and, you know, you know, just look at the green party council candidates, for example, of that in leeds. yeah, i think i think mike's right. there is actually i think we've reached a tipping point now . i reached a tipping point now. i mean, i think there's a good aspect. i mean, wokester just aspect. i mean, wokesterjust meant being a awake and aware of these things, but it got silly. i think we've moved on from that. but watch jenrick, jenrick is on manoeuvres potential future labour conservative party leader. yeah he's he's he's published 115 page report or 15 page report about how to cut back on legal migration, let alone illegal migration, which is running at three quarter of million. >> mike. >> mike. >> absolutely. and somebody made an observation to me about jenrick this morning, a very seasoned political observer who said that he's had his hair cut like a skinhead. yeah, he's lost weight. he has and he's trying to look like a political bruiser. >> so isn't that what osborne

did? he did precisely. >> but it was me. i'm afraid i wrote it first. he said a caesar haircut. he's lost weight. yes and? and it's because he's on manoeuvres. is that right, andrew? >> is that right? >> is that right? >> that's amazing. >> that's amazing. >> andrew, this . >> andrew, this. >> andrew, this. >> can i just one last quick thing. this thing about legal migration. when i was an mp, i'd very often get somebody would come over here to this country to work as you know, in a care home. they could then bring 15 or 16 members of their family over here that is scandalous. >> and that's being stopped now. oh yeah. we've got some breaking news. >> but also i'm talking about the bbc. we need to tell you that sir nicholas serota, bbc board member, has said the board commissioned review finds the bbc coverage of migration has many strengths, but that it could also better reflect the topics complexities, as well as ensuring that coverage overly dominated by political and high profile voices. right breaking news former england cricketer monty panesar he came on this show announcing that he was going to stand for george galloway's party at the election . well, now he's announced that he's with. >> and it's all your fault. it's all your fault. that was a car crash interview. >> put ten questions to him and he got nine wrong. >> he has written, i realise i

need more time to listen, learn and find my political home. >> one that aligns with my personal and political values. well that's a bit disappointing what you make of that, mike, after what you did to him , i was after what you did to him, i was i was about to say, i think he walked out of here pretty stunned, has gone back. >> and either somebody said to him, monty, that was the worst interview of any political potential candidate i've ever seen. >> he was he was going to run for a seat in ealing, i think was he ealing? southall? and we asked him the population of ealing. he said 200,000. it's 360,000. >> i can, i can virtually name all, all of them. >> the only question he got right was who's top of the football league. >> arsenal. yeah, but the interesting thing is that, you know, with him he thought that nato was the organisation which was actually, you know, stopping migration. i know , i know, no, migration. i know, i know, no, but come on, i'm going to defend him a little bit here. >> we need people who aren't afraid to go into public life and into politics. i'd love to know what's changed his mind . know what's changed his mind. was it just those instincts? >> i think he's found out he doesn't know anything about politics. and therefore it was a good.i politics. and therefore it was a good. i mean, you know, you've got to hand it now to andrew because there are some people in

politics who are the kingmakers and some of the king breakers. >> we did. >> we did. >> we did. >> we were going to have him do a little quiz music, but we weren't allowed to use mastermind, remember? >> we wanted that as the music. >> we wanted that as the music. >> you know, i did get everything wrong. i think this is a bad news story. >> i think you want people from outside of politics particularly. i would say sport, if you're going to establish that intelligence is a necessary quality to be a member of parliament, you got to have a fairly thin comment. >> and i remember in 2016, he backed zac goldsmith for the tory mayoral. in 2019, he thought case that, who's the current mayor of london, sadiq khan. khan. he thought sadiq khan. khan. he thought sadiq khan was going to hand the mayoralty over to him. so he's on quite a political journey here. >> well, we wish him luck anyway with his because he's a nice bloke. >> we talk about donald trump getting smacked on the bottom with the newspaper stephen pound. >> this has got you written all over it. >> sorry, sorry, smacked with a magazine with a picture of his own face on the front of it. but is that what that victoria wood thing about smacked me on the bottom with? >> a woman's weekly? was it? let's do it. but yeah, this is stormy daniels purely in the interests of research. i've been

actually looking into stormy daniels, and i discovered that she actually made a film called desert stormy, which was a sort of a take, a take on the iraq war from a most remarkable perspective. i have a porn star they call her an adult. so she's not a flipping adult star. porn >> now, remember, children may be watching stephen. yeah, well , be watching stephen. yeah, well, not for much longer. >> they won't. if their parents are in the room, you might. >> they won't. if their parents are in the room, you might . no, are in the room, you might. no, no, in all honesty, this is just so utterly sordid at every level. the awful business about, you know, the silk pyjamas and the, you know, the all, you know, sits around in his boxer shorts . the stuff he said, she shorts. the stuff he said, she said in court, you know, it's well way before, you know, before the watershed. it shouldn't have been said. will he survive? they did a poll, didn't they, a couple of days ago. and they 80% of the trump supporters said whatever happens, they'll still support it. however, 20, which is the highest number ever , has said highest number ever, has said they're starting to have second thoughts. and in a couple of states, biden , incredibly, is states, biden, incredibly, is ahead of trump. >> but but the more that comes out, the more people will question whether or not this man can ever return to the white house.i can ever return to the white house. i thought that the you see the stock picture from the

courtroom . i thought he looked courtroom. i thought he looked more worried then and older in that shot than i've seen him for a long time. i think his, you know, his total surround of self—confidence had kind of disappeared. what is it about us presidents? because ever since john f kennedy, right through to bill clinton and now , trump, bill clinton and now, trump, they take such incredible risks with the opposite sex. you can't believe they've got the intelligence to be a president and act like they do. it's unbelievable, isn't it? >> yeah. and i mean, because i mean , but i wonder how much of mean, but i wonder how much of it is factored in for trump. well i think we know matthew paris had a very interesting article in the times last week and about risk taking in politics. it mike, talking about here and he's talking talking about mark menzies and how some politicians, the whole business of getting into politics is a huge risk anyway. >> you invest a huge amount of money to get your seat and to get elected. so there is that sort of dangerous risk element about it. but i would exclude jemmy carter from that. jemmy carter was well, no, he is hard for him. >> middle aged babe magnet since it might. >> well, we all know he's a

middle aged babe magnet. >> well, yes, i claim that title, but even jemmy carter , title, but even jemmy carter, believe it or not, said i had lust in my mind. >> you remember he was a southern baptist? >> yeah, i do, i think ronald reagan was . all right. stay with reagan was. all right. stay with us on gb news. >> we're trying to get monty panesar to come and tell us what happened to come back. >> he might he well, he lie—ins gb newsroom. >> i

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wales and northern ireland till 1:00? mark white is with us home and security security editor. can you just make me feel better about this, mark? because it makes me want to go and get a tannoy outside 10 downing street and say, don't give us these conditional treats and help the hospitality industry . hospitality industry. >> i think it's marvellous if someone gives me an extra couple of hours, me too, for two hours. >> but don't make it contingent on something i've got no control over. >> oven >> yeah, well, unfortunately they do have control over licensing hours. effectively so it is in their gift to give us these extra hours. >> i thought it was. >> i thought it was. >> on whether england do well in the football , and it used to be the football, and it used to be down to the local licensing authority, which is the local council. >> well, interestingly, let's just sort of break down, go back a little bit. so this is effectively if either england or scotland get through to the latter stages of the competition. so it's a semi—finals on the ninth and the 10th of july, and then the final

on the 14th of july. if either team or both teams are still in the competition, then, then we'll get two hours extra. the pubs will be able to open until one in the morning in england and wales, however , there we and wales, however, there we might have the situation where scotland, the scottish government are saying, well, it's up to local licensing authorities to decide that nothing to do with us in central government. so you could have the bizarre situation if it comes to pass, that they do very well in the competition that scotland is playing, say, in the semi—finals of the finals ? let's semi—finals of the finals? let's hope so, then the they can't dnnk hope so, then the they can't drink until one in the morning and bars in scotland and then they're coming all over the border from my hometown in the scottish borders, right over to carlisle and newcastle to enjoy their drink. >> so what if they get into the quarter finals and they're playing each other? the pubs aren't going to extend that. >> listen, this is it. you know,

the whole competition from the very first match in early june when it kicks off. then of course, people in mid june i should say, people will be at the pub , they will be enjoying the pub, they will be enjoying themselves and some bars, some people already will have late licenses, so people will be able to enjoy the competition. but clearly this is going to be a country wide, relaxation of these powers to allow people to go out and drink. >> why are they doing this, mark? because also, do you know what? the government can't win either way. if they, england and scotland do well and the pubs stay open, the government are then basking in a bit of reflected glory that they've had nothing to do with. they've not kicked those balls in the back of the net. and if we do badly and everyone, everyone's already depressed, they're going to be double punished by the government not letting them have an extra hours drinking, two hours drinking because they'll be watching whoever's in the final. >> well, yeah, there's no doubt that it would be a popular move for the government if the nation is caught up in euro 2024 fever. and we're doing well either team

or both teams in the competition. and there is a relaxation in the licensing laws anyway . it's a kind of relaxation in the licensing laws anyway. it's a kind of remind me anyway. it's a kind of remind me an alderney situation. >> remind me, mark, what happened last time because we got in the final. i do remember that and i do remember watching it in a friend's house. it wasn't in a pub. did they extend the licensing? yeah, the 1:00 in the licensing? yeah, the 1:00 in the morning. >> this is this is a thing that happens regularly. it happened during, some of the royal celebrations, the coronation, and i think the queen's 90th birthday, there was a relaxation in. >> i know you wouldn't expect the queen down the pub . oh, god. the queen down the pub. oh, god. >> ceo is having a pint. so it's not without precedent. >> it has happened on numerous occasions , but, hey, you're just occasions, but, hey, you're just delighted. not very happy about it. so? so i think many people will be, pretty happy at the opportunity to drink a couple of hours if they. >> yes, but just do that anyway. don't predicate it on whether we do well in the tournament. just say, you know what? celebrate doesn't matter if it's germany, france in the final , or you

france in the final, or you might want to help the hospitality. >> we might want to go to the pub and drown our sorrows if we lose. correct? yeah. >> well, there's no doubt the hospitality industry have welcomed this move anyway . welcomed this move anyway. regardless, they're expecting they're up for summer because clearly you've got the euros, you've got all the summer sports like wimbledon and everything that takes place. and then the key one, the olympics that are taking place in paris. so hopefully after really difficult period, obviously covid that they've gone through, but they've gone through, but they've gone through a cost of living crisis as well, which is really affected trade with a very significant number of pubs and bars right across the country. closing shop because he just can't afford to stay open. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> and part of the reason they can't afford to is because the amount of tax the government has put on alcohol, well, indeed. but nobody would be mentioning that when the pubs well, the government extended certainly, benefit from the extra revenue as well because it'll come off in tax for them. >> so everybody wins. >> so everybody wins. >> is scotland going to get to the semi—final . the semi—final.

>> well i'll just ask a football question i'm asking. i wouldn't know the answer might might know. >> well so are they. i certainly hope so. >> who's the manager of scotland. >> oh god. oh don't ask me questions like that . questions like that. >> i know the england manager. southgate, gareth southgate. i saw the play about him. >> you saw a player, steve clarke. apparently he's a scottish manager. >> who would have known that you didn't know. >> so out of tune . >> so out of tune. >> so out of tune. >> is he scottish? >> is he scottish? >> i'm a southern softy i don't know. >> no. >> no. >> well we love you as a southern soft. we do white right. still to come. we have some great news for people who have peanut allergies. don't go anywhere. this is britain's newsroom on

gb news. very good morning. 1143. two big health stories this morning. bad news for astrazeneca and good news for astrazeneca and good news for astrazeneca and good news for people who have peanut allergies. >> yeah , so doctors have said >> yeah, so doctors have said that children taking part in what's been called a life transformed clinical trial have been enjoying foods which would normally have triggered severe allergic reactions. >> let's talk to our health and

social affairs editor for the sunday express. >> lucy johnston joins us now. good morning lucy. so two big health stories this morning. let's start with the allergy. one. what does this clinical trial show us? >> well, the trial hasn't ended yet, but already the parents of these children are saying that these children are saying that the children have their lives have transformed because they are able to have significant doses of foods that would have normally caused them potentially deadly, anaphylactic or allergic reactions. and it's very exciting because to date, we haven't had a clinical trial that has shown, you know, that across the board we can help children with severe allergies, and it is the fastest growing, one of the fastest growing epidemics, food allergies . it's, epidemics, food allergies. it's, you know, debated about why, and

it's about ten people die every year because of food allergies. it's a growing problem. and despite, rules introduced in 2021 to ensure there was correct labelling on all foodstuffs, still, people are dying and being hospitalised because of allergies , allergic reactions to allergies, allergic reactions to foods. it's often milk or peanuts. so what this trial is doing is desensitising individual trials to those foodstuffs with tiny, tiny amounts and big warning don't try this at home. but it's done under clinical conditions and each individual person has, an amount that they can tolerate and that is gradually , gradually and that is gradually, gradually increased. so it just means they don't have to panic and they don't have to panic and they don't have to worry all the time. potentially because, you know, in case there's cross—contamination or they come into contact with with a foodstuff that they're allergic

to. >> so it's not great. >> so it's not great. >> it's not it's not that these children are being given any sort of medicine or any kind of supplements . they're just being supplements. they're just being given a little bit of each of these allergens in a controlled situation and then building up their resistance . am i right ? their resistance. am i right? >> exactly. and that's part of the part of the point, a drug company has tried to market this, with a particular drug , this, with a particular drug, which is on offer privately, but it costs about £10,000 a year for people to use it. so there's no i think there's 500 people on the waiting list to try and get that. and no one it's not really given out . so what this trial is given out. so what this trial is doing, which is been set up by the natasha research allergy foundation and that was the parents of a girl who died of a peanut allergy , or nut allergy peanut allergy, or nut allergy after eating a baguette , they've after eating a baguette, they've set up this research foundation.

it's funded by the food industry, and it's trying to democratise this process so that instead of having to buy a drug, these children are given a tiny, tiny dose of everyday foods in a clinical setting. so it's done very safely and they're followed up very carefully over a whole yean up very carefully over a whole year, just to make sure that, you know, they're not suffering adverse reactions . so the adverse reactions. so the results aren't published yet. i think they're published in a couple of years. but this the sort of early signs are showing that this is really working for some of the children, and it could be just transformational . could be just transformational. >> so yeah, we can we talk to you as well about the oxford and astrazeneca covid vaccine, lucy, because this is a huge story, isn't it. because they're withdrawing it. it was the vaccine which was used for covid, and this is after they admitted in court, didn't they, that it can cause or has caused a rare thrombotic side effect thrombocytopenia. >> yeah .

>> yeah. >> yeah. >> go on lucy . >> go on lucy. >> well, it it sort of quietly disappeared, didn't it, from , disappeared, didn't it, from, from from the market, and not much was said about it, and it has taken quite a lot of fuss and quite a lot of campaigning, really , from victims of the, really, from victims of the, this vaccine. and i think at the time there were very, fierce questions being asked about the benefits versus the risks to younger populations , regions, younger populations, regions, and it was particularly in young boys that we were seeing, heart problems and those young boys, many people argued , or young many people argued, or young people were not needing a vaccine at all because their own immune system meant that they could cope with covid. they weren't at very much risk of dying or getting severely ill from covid. and the fact that

these vaccines were they weren't mandated , but we were pretty mandated, but we were pretty much locked down unless we were to have one, raised serious questions among some people, so for those victims , it's, you for those victims, it's, you know, it's probably , in some know, it's probably, in some ways a good day to see that, you know, this has finally being acknowledged. >> yeah. yeah, absolutely. lucy. except of course, that the drug companies are immune from any sort of libel claims. and so it is the british taxpayer, despite the fact that these drug companies made billions of dollars of profit during the pandemic, we are going to have to pay the compensation because the government allowed them immunity. >> they're saying just the astrazeneca. >> they were incredibly proud of the role the vaxzevria played in ending the global pandemic. according to independent estimates, over 6.5 million lives were saved in the first year of use alone. 3 billion doses were supplied globally . doses were supplied globally. however, they've withdrawn it globally, which is a huge step. lucy isn't it a huge step to withdraw it? yeah

>> well, it's you know, there is data , you know, and you can look data, you know, and you can look at data in any way. and they would argue that it did save many lives. and it depends how you, you read the figures, and, and that could well be true. but the point is you do have to prove that you were 60% damaged in order to get compensation . in order to get compensation. and people say that that in itself is quite hard work . itself is quite hard work. >> and the people who died, who knows? yeah, absolutely. okay thank you, lucy. and the eight people who died from the astrazeneca jab. it was the one that was phased out very, very early for on particularly the under 40 because of the bleeding issues. right. your weather don't go anywhere . don't go anywhere. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> good morning. welcome to your latest gb news weather update brought to you by the met office. fog and mist should continue to clear through the rest of the day, bringing sunny spells for many of us. however, in the north and west some rain

is likely to arrive across parts of northwest scotland. that's because weather fronts are still approaching these areas, but elsewhere, high pressure is building in, so that should bnng building in, so that should bring plenty of dry weather and bright weather. the best of the sunshine will be across southeastern areas through this afternoon. there could still be some fog and low cloud lingering across eastern coast close to the north sea, and we could also see some low cloud across the south coast as well. later on today. but in the best of the sunshine, highs of 22, possibly 23 across central areas of england , east and wales as well. england, east and wales as well. it will be that much cooler underneath the cloud and rain though, across parts of the highlands and the western isles, and that rain will likely turn quite persistent overnight. and we'll push elsewhere into many areas of scotland. we could also see some drizzly rain across parts of the pennines, some other areas of northern england as well. so a cloudier night for northern areas in the south, though it should stay dry and fairly clear that we could see some mist and fog around, but it's likely to be another fairly mild start to the day on thursday , and i think thursday thursday, and i think thursday is going to be a warmer day than today. there'll be more in the

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gb news. >> it's wednesday. that means pmqs. let's go to gloria de piero and tom harwood. they are in our westminster studio. good afternoon to you both. and first of all, can i just say what an amazing job you both did on our local election coverage? no offence , tom, but especially offence, tom, but especially you, gloria, because i don't see you, gloria, because i don't see you as much. i'm used to tom being brilliant, but he wouldn't

like that. >> he wouldn't like that. >> he wouldn't like that. >> no, it is entirely correct. you were amazing. you said that. >> you said that constituencies, like nobody other. >> you did say that to me privately, bev. it is characteristically generous of you to say it publicly, too. >> thank you so much. whatever your pmqs today we're going to say it's marvellous . okay. but say it's marvellous. okay. but actually, it's not just about you. this programme . it is the you. this programme. it is the alert for people watching or listening wherever you are. if you're going to be joining us for pmqs, we want your questions for pmqs, we want your questions for the prime minister or indeed the leader of the opposition. >> indeed , please send in these >> indeed, please send in these questions. but also, when you send your questions, tell us who you are and where you're from. we're going to put them to our excellent panel here in the studio. so that's gbnews.com forward slash your say to put your questions. forward slash your say to put your questions . after all pmqs your questions. after all pmqs live is all about you . but live is all about you. but andrew and bev briefly, what would you like to ask the prime minister first today. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> so i would ask the prime minister how relieved is he that the bbc have now got to handle the bbc have now got to handle the immigration issue in a more balanced way, like gb news do?

>> and i'm going to ask the prime minister. i would ask the prime minister. i would ask the prime minister. i would ask the prime minister like donald trump. has he ever been smacked on the bottom with a magazine beanng on the bottom with a magazine bearing his image ? oh, order, order! >> my goodness, i, i have to say, i thought i guessed what you two might ask. that was not on my list , you two might ask. that was not on my list, but my you two might ask. that was not on my list , but my goodness, on my list, but my goodness, thank you very much . andrew and thank you very much. andrew and bev, it's fast approaching midday . midday. >> this is gb news. britain's election channel. pmqs live starts right now it it is 1158 on wednesday, the 8th of may. this is pmqs live on gb news with tom howard and gloria de piero. >> in just a moment, rishi sunak and keir starmer go head to head at prime minister's questions .

at prime minister's questions. we'll have full coverage of every moment and we'll be getting full reaction too, from health minister helen whately and shadow environment secretary steve reed. >> so we've probably got about one minute 40s before we go live to the house of commons time, labour's steve reed, if you had a question today, if you were in keir starmer's shoes as the leader of the opposition, what would you be asking the prime minister? >> i'd pick up gloria on a story i read in the papers today that the government has been releasing prisoners early. >> they won't tell us how many . >> they won't tell us how many. they won't tell us what category. they won't tell us why they're doing it. other than they're doing it. other than they haven't built enough prison places. so i'd want to know why prisoners are not serving their full time in prison for what they've done wrong. >> goodness me, helen wheatley, how would you respond? >> so i think the prime minister would have no problem coming back robustly on our record , on back robustly on our record, on law and order and no doubt talking about policing and what we've been doing, investing in the police and increasing the numbers of police , but also the numbers of police, but also the role of sentencing and how important that is . and we know important that is. and we know that we have to invest and improve our prison estate. so

he's definitely he's always got facts and figures to hand. i have no doubt he'd come back strongly on that. >> do you think the local elections will come up, how how do how important is it not to gloat? because you had a good night ? night? >> we had. we had a good night. but, you know, the next set of elections is the general election, and not a single vote has been cast in that yet. so i don't think you'll see gloating, but i think you will see a reference to it, because it was our best set of local election results for 40 years. interest ing. >> although the prime minister has, of course, been trying to claim that it's a hung parliament that's on the cards. >> well, i think the local election results come up. and of course they might. one thing the prime minister is likely to point out is it wasn't actually such a great night for labour. the results weren't as good as labour would have been hoping for. yes, of course they were tough for us and we know that the last time we had this set of elections was that it was a high point for us as a party and yes, you know, voters sent us a message, but actually there was also a message for labour there that actually maybe voters aren't really liking what they're seeing for labour. and they've spotted that keir starmer doesn't have a plan .

starmer doesn't have a plan. >> i have regular discussions with the automotive industry. i've also , well, it doesn't look astonishing. >> uc davis is still there . >> uc davis is still there. >> uc davis is still there. >> questions? yes, absolutely. oh, god , it's pretty difficult , oh, god, it's pretty difficult, isn't it, to respond to the elections. what? i thought , as elections. what? i thought, as you know, i'm a member of the labour party. i was like, oh, be a bit cautious in how you respond to these results. don't look like you're measuring the curtains. and i thought, no. are they on the right side of that ? they on the right side of that? tell me, tell me that. >> no, i mean, it was a good set of result, you know, the blackpool south by—election was the third biggest swing in by—election history. you've got you've got to congratulate chris webb because he you know for him big deal. >> he's got a baby 12 weeks old. >> he's got a baby 12 weeks old. >> it's amazing that he could stay at home. >> it's perfectly possible to prosecute an argument like that isn't it, that on such a low turnout , isn't it, that on such a low turnout, tories isn't it, that on such a low turnout , tories stayed at isn't it, that on such a low turnout, tories stayed at home and they'll be back at the general election? >> isn't it ? because if you if >> isn't it? because if you if you gloat too much, you're told that you're that you're measuring the curtains. but if you try and downplay it, you give credence to the prime ministers? well, some might say

spunous ministers? well, some might say spurious arguments about hung parliament. >> i think the right thing