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Peruvian colossal. Peruvian colossal. And well have a sports roundup with aiden. Yes thats right. Good morning to you, stuart. Abroad. Could he be following up his ashes success with an appearance in strictly an arsenal suffer a major injury blow just ten days before the start of the premier League Season and whats the weather going to look like today . Hello there bright today. Today a mixture of sunny spells and scattered heavy showers. Find out exactly where with me sooii. 500. Soon. Good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im ellie costello. Costello. And this is breakfast on gb news. News. Fancy bit of cake. This morning. Will you pay for it . Morning. Will you pay for it . Well, you could find yourself in hot water if you ask for a load of free cakes. So thats exactly what happened to the corrie actress Catherine Tyldesley. Her agent emailed a bakery and essentially asked for 100 cupcake acas a large birthday cake and a small birthday cake and a small birthday cake and a small birthday cake for free in exchange for exposure, exposure, exposure and sharing it on the actresss instagram page, which i believe has about 700 followers. Now this little this little bakery has posted the messages, but now its all being denied. No, wed pay you. Wed pay you. It says on the messages they wouldnt pay it. Theyd just get some pr this woman anyway , its some pr this woman anyway, its the response from the bakery is brilliant. So really sorry to brilliant. So really sorry to hear your client hasnt got enough money to pay for cakes. Hard times. Hard times. So its, you know, so its great. But anyway, catherine, chelseas fought back saying she knows nothing about it , chelseas fought back saying she knows nothing about it, and shes very upset that reporters have knocked on her door because she has children. But she also she has children. But she also said and this is i think this could be what she regrets. She also says on the instagram thing, i hope the bakeries happy with all the publicity they were craving. They werent after any publicity. Thats the point. Publicity. Thats the point. Well, those emails, steven said, that were shared by the bakery, the three little birds bakery in West Yorkshire. They have gone viral. Their response have gone viral. Their response to that request, lots of Small Businesses actually sharing those emails, saying that this happens to them all of the time. Celebrities and influencers asking for handouts, essentially asking for handouts, essentially asking for handouts, essentially asking for freebies. So were asking for freebies. So were asking this morning, have influencers gone too far . Do they ask for too much . I mean, these are people who are probably on very large salaries themselves, arent they . Do wonder and you do wonder because and weve got to be honest, when youre on telly, you do get some freebies and occasionally you do ask for the odd freebie. I think theres a difference, though , theres a difference, though, when its if you ask a big, Big Companies have budgets set aside for it because its all pr , for it because its all pr, right . Its pr, so they have budgets set aside for it and is that different to asking for something from a small, a small store actually. I mean, what use is a whole load of pr going to be to the three birds bakery . Yeah im not going to be sending stuff out world wide, are they . Well, it does just feel all pretty tone deaf, doesnt it . Greedy greedy and a cost of greedy and greedy and a cost of living crisis to ask a Small Business. Do 100 cupcakes. A big cake and a small cake. I mean, thats a days work, is it not . Yeah for nowt. A small yeah for nowt. For a Small Business. Yeah, for now. Exactly we do. Let us know what you make of that story. It is a pretty big one online at the moment. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Interesting though. You havent got many celebrities saying anything about it. Why is that . Probably will do it. Probably will do it. They all do it. But as i say, weve got to youve got to be a bit careful because i said ive had free things offered and taken them. Ive got a free bag of dog food the other day. Oh, did you. But but it was offered. It was offered. And sometimes businesses actually really want you to to, take their things. So in exchange. Yeah. You know , so weve got yeah. You know, so weve got to not be hypocritical with this, but its a legitimate question. On gb views the question. On gb views the gbnews. Com to our top story now and the bank of england is poised to raise Interest Rates for the 14th consecutive time today as it fights to take back control of inflation. Well, signs do suggest that inflation is coming down, with policy makers set to opt for a quarter rather than a half point rise. Rather than a half point rise. If we know all that at this stage, why do we have to wait till 12 00 for the announcement . Its like we sort of know whats going happen. Going to happen. Very true, isnt it . Its very true, isnt it . Yeah, you say that with a yeah, you could say that with a lot things in this business. Lot of things in this business. I think when we get a copy of a speech hours before it actually is said. Anyway, for is said. Anyway, joining us for more is reform uk advisor ben habib. You habib. Really good to see you this morning. Good morning, ben. So are expecting that 14th so we are expecting that 14th rise in a row from the bank of england at midday, but inflation is coming down. It is it really needed . Its well, its coming down very slowly. But your question is spot on. You know, weve had 13 Interest Rate rises. And one 13 Interest Rate rises. And one of the things about the way the british economy acts at the moment is that its much slower to react to Interest Rate rises than it used to be. When i was a young man. In those days, most people borrowed money on floating rate Interest Rate. So you immediately felt the impact of an Interest Rate rise in your back pocket, you know, with your mortgage bills going up. But nowadays most people are on fixed Rate Mortgages , so it fixed Rate Mortgages, so it takes a while for the transmission of Interest Rate increases to impact the economy and to kerb demand. And theres and to kerb demand. And theres and to kerb demand. And theres a real risk here to that. The bank of england is going to overdo it. And i think the governments all already preparing us for it because theyre talking about the country needing potentially to go into recession in order to get inflation back under control. You talked about tone deafness. Can you control. You talked about tone deafness. Can you imagine what thats like for the electorate to hear when youve got a cost of living crisis, your mortgage bills are going through the roof. 5. 9 Million People on universal credit and the government saying, well, actually, know, bit of actually, you know, a bit of necessary medicines are going to be recession. Great terrific. Be a recession. Great terrific. Its not what we need, is it . Look, with all of this, theres always been the argument with this that this doesnt work anyway because this the inflation ocean that were experiencing at the moment is because of things that we have no choice but to buy. Absolutely right. The inflation were experiencing is not because weve had a demand led boom in the economy with everyone going mad, buying new sofas and housing the inflation weve got is a direct result of lockdowns. The breaking of supply chains, the breaking of Labour Markets, the pushing up of Energy Prices and thats all nothing not raising Interest Rates will have zero impact on all those costs, including most pertinently food , which, you pertinently food, which, you know, which we all know. Surprise, surprise , need to surprise, surprise, need to consume in order to survive. So is this a case of the bank of england just doing something to look like its doing something rather than having any tangible effect apart from causing more misery . , you know, its a really well, you know, its a really good question. Who argue there are people who argue that all the printing of money that all the printing of money that took place during the pandemic has caused this inflationary boom. I dont think personally , i dont think thats personally, i dont think thats the case. Its not a matter of excess cash in the economy. I think youre absolutely right. Its the breaking of the supply chains and breaking of Labour Markets. Et cetera. Thats markets. Et cetera. Thats caused this inflationary bout. I caused this inflationary bout. I think the bank of england could possibly have done much less and be in the same position in the economy, would be in the same position that its in now. The bank of england, of course, is laying on even more pain, about which were not aware. You know, which were not aware. You know, it owns about 40 of all Government Debt. Government debt now is about 100 of gdp, just over £2 trillion. And about £900 billion of that is owned by the bank of england. And in order to balance its own books, its selling some of that debt into the market, which is raising the cost of funding for the government, raising the cost of funding for us in the economy as well. So its almost doing two things to slow us down, taking cash out of the economy by selling government bonds as well as raising Interest Rates. And i think they will overdo it. You know, in my life, ive never known a central bank to get it spot on. They always overdo stimulus when they when they need to stimulate the economy. Need to stimulate the economy. And they always overdo constraining the economy when they need to constrain it. They need to constrain it. Iea has said that bank the iea has said that bank should hold off. It should wait for these previous Interest Rates to take effect before raising them any further. It says its going to inflict more economic damage doing things this way, is that something youd agree with . I completely i completely agree with that. And the other thing that , you know, is allied thing that, you know, is allied to that is that the government is completely out of ideas of how to grow the economy. You know, we could all deal with inflation more easily if our businesses were growing, if our wages were growing and we were flourishing. But were not and were caught in a kind of doom loop where the cost of living is very high, Government Debt is very high, Government Debt is very high, Government Debt is very high, taxes are very high, andifs very high, taxes are very high, and its not paying to work. Weve got this broken Labour Market that i mentioned, company is are not investing because theyre being taxed very highly rich. Sunak made all that rich. Sunak made all that fanfare last week of issuing a new 100 new licences for drilling gas in the north sea , drilling gas in the north sea, but very few of those gas licences are to going be used because oil , licences are to going be used because oil, oil and Gas Companies are taxed at 75 of their profits. Theres no incentive for them to go in and make the investment required to extract that oil. And as and gas. And, of course, the other thing that we havent touched on, which i will touch on now, just since were on the north sea, is the embed ad cost of our energy. You know , weve had energy. You know, weve had weve had completely hopeless or absence of any energy policies, absence of any energy policies, a coherent Energy Policy for the last 25 years. And so weve ended up turning our back on nonh ended up turning our back on north sea oil, which would have provided a plentiful supply of domestic fossil fuels, turning our back on that, championing this this drive to net zero and renewables way ahead of the technology being ready for it. And of course all of that is very costly for the economy. Embeds an inflation damper on growth and continues that doom loop and in terms of growth, then because that is so essential to get us going, how do we stimulate growth . Because nobody seems to have i mean, look , at least the i mean, look, at least the labour party had some sort of policy with the green growth agenda, whatever they were calling it, though theyve scaled back on that. Scaled back on that. The 28 billion, the 28 billion, yeah. They say we cant afford that. Now, within within the Current System with this government, i mean, thing government, i mean, one thing which being really badly hit which is being really badly hit is housing market, is is the housing market, which is a key growth, key stimulus for growth. So thats been really hit that. So how do hit and all of that. So how do we start push growth in this country . Well, i mean, there are a number of things would do number of things that i would do straight the first is to straight away. The first is to take lower wage earners out of the tax net completely. Id raise the threshold on paying tax to 20,000 a year rather than the 12. 5, which is where its at. Its got to pay to work. Weve got to get those 5. 9 Million People who are partially surviving on universal credit, some of them entirely. I surviving on universal credit, some of them entirely. I think about 2. 5 million entirely surviving on universal credit back the workplace. If they back into the workplace. If they get into the workplace, you get back into the workplace, you automatically growing automatically have a growing economy. Youve got to cut taxes economy. Youve got to cut taxes on business. And weve got to deregulate. Theres been a big amount spoken about esg , amount spoken about esg, environmental, social and Corporate Governance regulations. You know , the regulations. You know, the reason nigel farage was banked, but the other side of the esg coin is that its a huge burden on businesses. Coin is that its a huge burden on businesses. People often say on businesses. People often say to me, youre a brexiteer. What to me, youre a brexiteer. What would you which regulations do you want so desperately ditch . Well, ill give you one esg ditch it. Its a huge burden on business. We need to take the regular , dilatory knee as it regular, dilatory knee as it were, off the neck of the private sector. We need to cut taxes on the private sector. We need to cut taxes on the working middle classes. And weve got to get the organism, the economic organism moving forward again. And at the moment, were in this doom loop where the governments looking at its deficit thinking, oh my goodness , cant oh my goodness, we cant cut taxes because afford to taxes because we cant afford to do it. We cant borrow more because we cant afford to do it. Cant spend much more. It. We cant spend much more. And know where and they just dont know where to theyve got the to go. Theyve got to have the courage of knowing that cutting taxes , deregulating will taxes, deregulating will stimulate the economy. And when the economy grows, actually their tax take will automatically grow. Just briefly then id hate to say it, i sort of i sort of really do hate to say it. That sounds like trussonomics it is trussonomics. And i want one more thing i want to talk about on trust. She was absolutely right. She understood what was required , understood what was required, hired, and at the same time that she was unveiling her mini budget or indeed the day before the bank of england was briefing against her, talking about a recession, the bank of england was selling gilts. About a recession, the bank of england was selling gilts. Do england was selling gilts. Do you remember i mentioned the bank of england was reversing some of the purchases it had made of government bonds , and as made of government bonds, and as it selling those gilts , it it was selling those gilts, it created the Pension Fund Crisis that all that was all blamed on. On liz truss, the bank of england didnt like. Liz truss agenda and it decided it was going to defenestrate her. And this might sound all most on the verge of Conspiracy Theory. It verge of Conspiracy Theory. It isnt. If you look back and you see what the bank of england did in the days running up to liz truss mini budget and immediately thereafter they almost conspire to make her her plan fail. Ben habib, good to talk to you this morning. Talk to you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. Oh, that went on longer than i was expecting thing. But it was interesting, wasnt it . Really interesting. Really, really interesting. Really, really interesting. View you know youve got a view if you know how solve our problems or how to solve our problems or what youd to see happen. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Yeah. Or if youre coming off a fixed Rate Mortgage at the moment, do let us know how youre feeling about that. Or indeedif youre feeling about that. Or indeed if youre if youre a saver, have those savings been passed on to you . Are those rates benefiting yet . Are rates benefiting you yet . Are you feeling that . Do let us know. Gb gb news. Com now. Gb views gb news. Com now donald trump has hit back at prosecutors just hours before his Court Appearance later on today charges of trying to today on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Well , the former president well, the former president said the indictment was unprecedented and showed the corruption of the biden presidency. Well, its the third time in four months hes been charged with something, as he, of course, is campaigning to regain the presidency in 2024. And meanwhile , his son, and meanwhile, his son, donald jr spoke to nigel farage last night questioning the timing of the indictment. You know , i dont believe any of know, i dont believe any of this has anything to do with january 6th. If it did and if january 6th was everything that they said, why, why, why, nigel, did they wait two and a half years to charge him . I mean, the people that were there that did those, they were charged day were i well, hm well, Amy Tarkanian is the former chairwoman of the Nevada Republican party and joins us now from nevada. Good to see you this morning. Now from nevada. Good to see you this morning. And look, i mean, this morning. And look, i mean, don jr could make all the points he wants. Theres no arguing, is there , that there are actually there, that there are actually whatever the timings there are legitimate questions to be asked here. Oh, absolutely. And im going to tell you that nevada is one of those states who actually is unfortunately , you know, dealing unfortunately, you know, dealing with the repercussions , versions with the repercussions, versions of Donald Trumps rhetoric. And he continues to spew the same message of there being systemic fraud. And we actually had six fraud. And we actually had six of our state Party Leaders participate in whats called fake electors. And then two of fake electors. And then two of them were actually granted limited immunity for their subpoenas. So theres something subpoenas. So theres something not right. Obviously going on the fact that his misbehaviour has trickled down to the point where our legislature had to pass a law making it against the law to have acas poll workers and election workers just tells you enough as it is because people think its okay to misbehave. Dave its misbehave. Dave its unacceptable. Unacceptable. So what do you think we can expect today . Trumps court heanng expect today . Trumps Court Hearing is at about 4 pm. Eastern time. It be about at 8 pm, i believe our time. He has got the option to appear via video link. But do you think we will see what weve seen before and he will appear in person . And he will appear in person . Well , from what were well, from what were hearing, he will show up. He will not be going into jail. He may be fingerprinted , and that may be fingerprinted, and that will probably be about it. And hell go ahead and say, you know, hes either guilty or not guilty and then well move on to the next step. Now the funny thing, or actually its not even funny, but the incredible thing is lets say worst case scenario, he was to go to jail at the end of all of this. He could still run for president. And pardon himself, which is crazy. He and look, i mean, im crazy. He and look, i mean, im intrigued at your position because , as you know, you were because, as you know, you were you were the Republican Party chairwoman in nevada. Chairwoman in nevada. So what do you say to fellow republicans who are saying this is a witch hunt . He is our saviour. We do need him back . No. And actually, im a former state party chair. Thankfully. Im so glad that im not a part of it right now because this would be a mess. And i think the current leadership, if you want to call it that out in our state party, has entangled themselves into this this mess thats going to possibly be, you know, get them into a lot of trouble, even though theyve been granted , you though theyve been granted, you know, immunity to some degree. I think the fact that theyve been subpoenaed, i think that speaks volumes. I think the fact that volumes. I think the fact that you know, we have a new secretary of state that has put together a nonpartisan group, which i happen to be a part of, one of nine, to try to get together and figure out how to not have this situation happen again of this nonsense. Because what they did to the prior secretary of state, who was also a republican , is they censured a republican, is they censured her because they didnt want her to certify the election. And so its almost like its a smaller degree of what donald trump wanted Vice President pence to do. But at the state level. And do. But at the state level. And so they all felt that was acceptable. Acceptable. Well, i mean, that sounds like out and out corruption. Like out and out corruption. You would think , amy, it is you would think, amy, it is really remarkable. Really remarkable. All watching and listening to this from across the pond over here that mr trump is the clear frontrunner to be the republican candidate for 2024. And these charges , these trials that were charges, these trials that were going to see happen next year, they only seem to actually add to his popularity amongst his supporters. Supporters. Right. And hes actually probably going to get a fourth one here very for soon that phone call that he made to the georgia secretary of state asking for him to find more votes. And so now were going to have somebody with not three, but four indictments whos going to be possibly the nominee. And so what this does is it just continues to strengthen him because what hes done so well is he has had his base think that they are also victims. And so his famous line of, you know , theyre not just coming for you or theyre not coming for you, but theyre coming for, you know, through me to you literally, is what they all feel. So now they all feel that the Justice System is not just a valid Justice System, but its a two tiered Justice System. And two tiered Justice System. And nothing is fair. Nothing is done. Correct and so a lot of these people who follow him follow his every word and think that , you know, there is follow his every word and think that, you know, there is just just nothing correct going on. And its unacceptable. And its unacceptable. Well, Amy Tarkanian really good to talk to you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. I know youre split on on trump. You are. You know, we saw from the emails you sent through yesterday absolutely split. But i do think its very interesting to talk to someone who was the chairwoman of the Nevada Republican party at the time. All this was going at the time. All this was going on. Who clearly thinks trump was in the wrong , whereas obviously in the wrong, whereas obviously you talk to a lot of republicans and they they sort of follow the party line, as it were. So i think thats its an interesting insight it up to you what you think of it all, of course, is a remarkable set of circumstances, isnt it . I mean, what amy said there about there a possibility he about there is a possibility he that he does get jail time, that if he does get jail time, hes able to run to be hes still able to run to be president. And then can pardon himself. And thats an himself. And thats an astonishing set of circumstances, isnt it . It yes. It seems like justice can be bought, doesnt it . I mean, its the facts, as we were saying yesterday, you know, the Justice System in the states is political. It is, which doesnt seem right , political. It is, which doesnt seem right, does it to us over here anyway , keep your thoughts here anyway, keep your thoughts coming through on that one. You have on this as well. Have thoughts on this as well. Because ashes hero yes, because ashes hero stuart shown his stuart broad has shown us his move the cricket field. But move on the cricket field. But what about his moves in the ballroom aidan magee ballroom sports with aidan magee is next. Is gb news, that is next. This is gb news, that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst and welcome to your latest news. Weather forecast. A brighter day overall. While there will still overall. While there will still be some heavy showers around but with some sunny spells, it should just feel a touch warmer than has done of late this than it has done of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, generally quite parts, but generally quite a cloudy northerly cloudy picture, a northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery across northern and showery rain across northern and Western Areas and then through into see an into the afternoon, well see an increase in risk of some showers developing a few of these could be perhaps thundery at be heavy, perhaps thundery at times, will some times, but there will be some sunny spells, some places staying dry, particularly towards the and south east staying dry, particularly torengland. And south east staying dry, particularly torengland. Here, south east of england. And here, temperatures reaching 22 or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still with that northerly breeze into the risk1ing time. Showers still with that northerly breeze into the risk ofg time. Showers still with that northerly breeze into the risk of some�. Showers still with that northerly breeze into the risk of some heavyners still with that northerly breeze into the risk of some heavy ones;till the risk of some heavy ones across eastern areas, but starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells overnight to showers during the early hours. Generally on the early hours. Generally on the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures most double temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the day. On friday. Best of the sunny spells dry weather sunny spells and dry weather across parts of uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of heavy times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by end of the across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news 627. This is breakfast with stephen and ellie dawn says stephen, your nails look fabulous. How can you tell from all the way over there . Do they glimmer . I tell you what, heres the secret that i wouldnt normally talk about this, but im a i have always been my whole life. A terrible nail biter. Cannot stop up. And biter. And i cannot stop up. And it was this one in last december who said go and have a manicure. Sure. And i was like, oh, i dont know if i can do that. And im not sure if my nails two, three. The director telling me, no, mind your own business, but andifs no, mind your own business, but and its worked and i havent bitten my nails since december. But it does mean as a lot of you will know, ladies mainly me, ive got to fork out every month. You dont get my nails done. Yeah. And we get our nails donein yeah. And we get our nails done in unison. Now dont we . But it works. So at least i have nice nails now rather than bitten to the quick nails. Yeah. And he gets of and he gets loads of compliments well. Every compliments on it as well. Every guest that comes in here loves his nails. But fellas, know, it sort but fellas, you know, it sort of feel very masculine of doesnt feel very masculine when there and when youre sat there and someones filing nails like someones filing your nails like that. 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Recycled our coronation outfit. Recycled this incarnation recycling. Glad that you all all appreciate that. Do keep reviews coming in gbviews gbnews. Com sadly were letting the side down a little bit when it comes to dress sense because aidans here. Well done. Whats wrong . Whats wrong . Did you not get the purple memo . No, i didnt. You should have told me. Id have coordinated. You i would. You know i would. You would do purple yeah, you would do purple things in your wardrobe. Purple . Quite like the purple . No i quite like the purple sweets, though. Get purple sweets, though. You get in the. Oh, yeah, yeah. Theyre nice. I done well by the way, i was done as well by the way, once month. You really. Once a month. Do you really. Yeah, do. Yeah. Yeah. Quite yeah, i do. Yeah. Yeah. I quite enjoy it. Get a pedicure. I do. Yeah indeed. Very good. Thats very good. Its a tight one. Diabetic. Yeah, it is. Its advice, isnt it . But fingers. Not quite graduated to that yet but think but something i might think about having having seen about having seen, having seen how look. How good yours look. Okay. Start star start a trend stuart broad. Transitory sport yeah. How transitory is sport i couple of weeks you i mean a couple of weeks ago you were bars you know, were wanting bars out, you know, england. England were being trashed their cricket trashed for their cricket performance. They produce a performance. They produce a performance gods. He performance from the gods. He gets two wickets. Gets the final two wickets. Wickets draw in wickets that forces a draw in the and then hours the ashes. And then 48 hours later, you see from the later, as you can see from the front of for the sun, the benefit of our radio listeners, he is now in talks, apparently to appear on strictly, to go on or appear on strictly, which starts the which usually starts in the autumn, it . Been autumn, doesnt it . Hes been contacted by show producers the quote sun a from quote in the sun from a from a source is stuart is very much the hero of the hour and the Perfect Choice to fill the sports slot. They have sports star slot. They have a sports star slot. They have a sports slot dont they. Sports star slot dont they. Oh do they. Do, yeah. So do they. Oh they do, yeah. So Peter Shiltons been on at the england england england former england goalkeeper on it goalkeeper tony adams is on it last but theres a rich last year. But theres a rich history of cricketers taking part as well. Former england players, captain players, former england captain michael it. Michael vaughan was on it. Graeme gough, graeme swann, darren gough, Mark Ramprakash and they reckon theres way of there theres a good way of there might be a way incorporate theres a good way of there migbandanavay incorporate theres a good way of there migbandana into incorporate theres a good way of there migbandana into the corporate theres a good way of there migbandana into the intorate his bandana into the into proceedings well. Fiance proceedings as well. His fiance mollie king, from the saturday she it 2017. She was in it in 2017. Its family affair. Its a family affair. Its a family affair. Is a little bit yeah, it is a little bit yeah, exactly. And quite well. Exactly. And she did quite well. She too far off winning she wasnt too far off winning it. You dont want the strictly curse, do you . You dont. Curse, do you . No, you dont. Oh, me. Well theyve oh, goodness me. Well theyve got theyve got theyve got a baby on. Shes pregnant. I had the they anabella the baby, they had the anabella i or arabella. I think, or arabella. Not pregnant again. I is she not pregnant again. I dont know the intimate details of their relationship. Aiden. I thought. Thought no, no, i thought. I thought she mum to be as she said there was mum to be as well though i thought she could be pregnant again. Dont know. But theres i dont know. But theres definitely the definitely a baby in the pictures. No, no, im saying its 51 weeks with two much older brothers. That kind of brothers. So so that you kind of children quick succession, children in quick succession, you thats all im saying. You know, thats all im saying. Thats more well, lovely. Thats more information need at this information than i need at this time of day. Call them, dont they, they call them, dont they, irish Something Like irish twins or Something Like ten you. Ten months between you. Possible. Im yeah, its possible. Im sorry. Else are we talking . Sorry. What else are we talking . Lets talk gabriel. Jesus. Oh, what a pronunciation. Thats fantastic. Really, really good. Good. A real good. Very good. Yeah. A real blow theyve signed blow for arsenal. Theyve signed all players in summer. All these players in the summer. £105 on. Declan rice, £105 million on. On declan rice, of which we covered of course, which we covered extensively on this programme. Kai chelsea yuri kai havertz from chelsea yuri and from, from ajax. And and timber from, from ajax. And its been undermined slightly because of gabriel jesus, their main striker, the guy they were because of gabriel jesus, their main strforr, the guy they were because of gabriel jesus, their main strfor athe guy they were because of gabriel jesus, their main strfor a period they were because of gabriel jesus, their main strfor a period lasty were because of gabriel jesus, their main strfor a period last season missing for a period last season because injured playing because he got injured playing for at the world cup. He for brazil at the world cup. He has had to undergo knee surgery. For brazil at the world cup. He has aad to undergo knee surgery. For brazil at the world cup. He has a minorjndergo knee surgery. For brazil at the world cup. He has a minorjndergsurgery surgery. For brazil at the world cup. He has a minorjndergsurgery. Urgery. For brazil at the world cup. He has a minorjndergsurgery. Mikel its a minor knee surgery. Mikel arteta, arsenal manager , arteta, the arsenal manager, says yesterday, but nonetheless, ten before the start of the ten days before the start of the season , they manchester season, they play Manchester City in the city this weekend in the community hes an ex Community Shield. Hes an ex manchester player Manchester City player of course, that game in the course, and that game in the Community Shield this weekend is going psychologically going to be psychologically important. City beat them three times city look times last season. City look a little weaker this this little bit weaker this this this season because theyve lost a couple of players as touch couple of players as well touch on but arsenal on in a moment but arsenal losing their main striker theyre out and out forward and its a real blow for its going to be a real blow for them, because he was them, i think because he was there. He was a statement signing last summer alongside alexander city. And with with Manchester City. And with with him mean. Yeah, okay. Him out, i mean. Yeah, okay. Theyve Eddie Nketiah to theyve got Eddie Nketiah to come but you want to start come in. But you want to start when signed all these when youve signed all these players, you want all your jewels out on the first of players, you want all your jewi season on the first of players, you want all your jewi season forthe first of players, you want all your jewi season for everyone of players, you want all your jewi season for everyone to of players, you want all your jewi season for everyone to see, the season for everyone to see, to make, to make a real statement at the start of the season. And its yeah it season. And its not. Yeah it would. Certainly yeah. Would. It certainly would. Yeah. And going happen for and its not going to happen for them time, but hopefully he them this time, but hopefully he wont too long. Wont be out for too long. Yeah, hopefully not. Man city lets talk about that. Yeah. You when youre news you know when youre strong, well. Strong, when youre doing well. When youve treble, when youve won the treble, sometimes out there and sometimes you go out there and spend on player. We spend big on another player. We remember Manchester United remember when Manchester United won back in 1999, won the treble back in 1999, steve remember they brought steve may remember they brought in they in ruud van nistelrooy. They got even stronger. Van roy remember that the curtains, didnt he . Did. Yeah come back yeah, he did. Yeah come back in fashion believe thinking in fashion now. Believe thinking of myself. Of getting my son myself. That guy. No lovely. That guy. No no. Lovely. That guy. No no. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe not. But spent £77 but anyway, city have spent £77 million leipzig million on the rb leipzig defender gvardiol. He is a defenderjosko gvardiol. He is a 21 year old croatian international. Theyve lost a couple of players. Ilkay gundogan went to barcelona. Riyad mahrez has gone to saudi, taking the cash over there. Pep guardiola two weeks ago guardiola said two weeks ago hes a bit unsure about how his squadis hes a bit unsure about how his squad is going look at the squad is going to look at the start season. As i say, start of the season. As i say, its a big game for them its a really big game for them on sunday as against on sunday as well. Against arsenal. But key to staying on sunday as well. Against ar� thell. But key to staying on sunday as well. Against ar� the top ut key to staying on sunday as well. Against ar� the top once key to staying on sunday as well. Against ar� the top once youve staying on sunday as well. Against ar� the top once youve got ying at the top once youve got theyre staying at the top is spending to stay at the spending big to stay at the i say that i think i mean theres talk city being linked with talk of city being linked with kylian think thats Kylian Mbappe i think thats going in the last going a bit quiet in the last few days. Having that, few days. Having said that, i think theyll be strong for the start of the season. Question start of the season. No question about start of the season. No question abolets start of the season. No question abo lets very quickly start of the season. No question abolets very quickly have lets very quickly have a look at a very slow runner. Yeah, exactly. So this was i thought was just hilarious. Thought it was just hilarious. So this is the somali minister thought it was just hilarious. Soyouth; the somali minister thought it was just hilarious. Soyouth; thesportsli minister thought it was just hilarious. Soyouth; the sports sent1ister thought it was just hilarious. Soyouth; the sports sent sent of youth and sports sent sent one their relatives into a one of their relatives into a 100 metre race in china. And as well see on the race now, here he is. I know. Shes sorry. Yeah thats is this one of his relatives . I believe so, yeah. I believe so, yeah. At the of it, it because at the end of it, it was the somalian Sports Ministry said person was being said that the person was being deau said that the person was being dealt italy from a dealt with in italy from a disciplinary point of view because embarrassed because theyve embarrassed the nation. Not the not the runner, but person who her up but the person who put her up for it. If you see it now, for it. But if you see it now, i mean, everyone else in that race, i mean, the winner got 11. 58 now 11. 58 seconds. Now no. 11. 58 seconds. Now i no. 11. 58 seconds. Now i mean, you know, i think i did it when i was about ten. I did it when i was about ten. I did it when i was about ten. I did it in 21. And thats probably the record for the 200m. Shes so far out of shot because shes so because shes so thats and i to be so slow. Thats and i mean to be fair to her and its not being critical. She doesnt look like an athlete. I didnt want to, if you know what i mean. I dont want say. But the i dont want to say. But the her time was 21. 81 seconds. Thats 10s behind the thats a full 10s behind the winner. I mean, she probably had time and have a sandwich time to go and have a sandwich didnt she. Still dont think and i still dont think thats bad. One second. Thats that bad. 21 one second. Well to be fair, you well i suppose to be fair, you wouldnt normally do it when youre up people who do youre up against people who do it in. If was us, id be happy if it was us, id be happy with 21 seconds. Yeah, but were not athletes. With 21 seconds. Yeah, but were not well, athletes. With 21 seconds. Yeah, but were not well, clearly,. With 21 seconds. Yeah, but were not well, clearly, neither is she. 21 seconds. Had a car, surely . Yes. Oh, thats. Thats. I cant imagine what they were thinking. I know, i know. It didnt. It doesnt look good. Is it . Sir. Thats no. No, sir. Thats. Thats a little bit a little bit embarrassing her. Embarrassing for her. No, no. No, no. Anyway, aidan, good to see you. Thanks very much. Best now weve to come weve got plenty more to come this including a look this morning, including a look through newspapers. At 638, very dearly. Lets bring you up to date with the papers this morning. The express has the prime ministers blunt ultimatum to striking doctors. Striking doctors. The daily mail focuses on a green power firm accused of dodging hundreds of millions in consumer payouts. Also, a lovely picture of harry and meghan taken in their garden with big smiles on their face. Oh, yes. Theyre very, very happy. And theyre making sure we all know about it. The telegraph leads with a cabinet minister facing a Police Inquiry over a racist leaflet , and the over a racist leaflet, and the mirror highlights the prime ministers claim that nhs strikes are to blame for waiting lists. The guardian says donald lists. The guardian says Donald Trumps court date sets the us on course for an election clash i were joined now by political consultant emma burnell and freddie grey , Deputy Editor for freddie grey, Deputy Editor for the spectator. Good morning to the spectator. Good morning to you both. Good morning. Very you both. Good morning. Very pleased to have you with us. Emma. Lets start with that story on the front page of the mirror, shall we, with nhs strikes being blamed for waiting lists blamed by rishi lists being blamed by rishi sunak not any independent analyst or economist or health expert, but it isnt going to help, is it . It doesnt help. But if you look at why theyre striking, a lot of the reasons that theyre striking are because staff morale is low, pay is low , morale is low, pay is low, retention is low , recruitment is retention is low, recruitment is low. All of these things have been happening for a decade or more. Building up and building up, building up massively , up, building up massively, exacerbated, of course, by the pandemic. So the idea that the pandemic. So the idea that the end point, which is where the doctors and nurses have been at breaking point and have gone on strike, is whats caused this is really for the birds. Really for the birds. Freddie . Well, i think what it has caused, which is why rishi sunak said across about it , means that his pledge to bring down waiting list times is ruined. And i think of all those ruined. And i think of all those pledges, it looks as though, i mean, possibly none of them will be achieved. Now i think the nhs one is perhaps the most painfully wrong because its gone so dramatically the other way and waiting lists are going up and i think the government do blame doctors for that. And i think there is a discussion to be had there about that. But in terms of the tories record on the nhs, theres no getting around and thats right, around it. And thats right, its a disaster. They have its been a disaster. They have not they havent had not fixed it. They havent had the to the kind of the guts to do the kind of reforms think they to reforms they think they need to do and as it is, theyve sort of thrown money at the problem without fixing the problem. But this is this is the i mean, look, i feel a little bit sorry for on. For the tories on. Well, do with the nhs well, i do with the nhs because as they around the edges , they do anything more substantial. All hell breaks loose. The only party that can actually substantially reform the nhs and get away with it is the nhs and get away with it is the labour party, because theyre the ones who were trusted on the nhs. Trusted on the nhs. They are certainly far more trusted the nhs. Youre trusted on the nhs. And youre right, in many ways its the old phrase goes china. Phrase nixon goes to china. Labour can the nhs, but labour can reform the nhs, but lets not forget that actually some of the biggest reforms and part of reason that were in part of the reason that were in the trouble were the trouble were in were actually brought the actually brought in under the cameron government 2012. Cameron government in 2012. A reform that was described as so big you could see it from space. So actually there have been reforms. They just werent good reforms. They just werent good ones. Well, a ones. Well, 01195. wen, well, thats a fair point. Well, thats a fair point. Similarly, you know, in the blair years, there were there were dramatic attempts sort were dramatic attempts to sort of introduce elements of introduce private elements into the nhs. That backfired quite dramatically. What quite dramatically. I think what weve lack of long term weve got is a lack of long term planning and if you have a state run Government Health system , run Government Health system, you do need long term planning , you do need long term planning, you do need long term planning, you need sort of china style, long term planning. Luckily we dont live in china , but as it dont live in china, but as it is, we have a system in the nhs where just handbrake turns are happening every few years somebody comes up with a policy sort of half implemented. Everybody accepts its failing and as a result you know, there are parts of nhs that are things parts of the nhs that still work extremely well, but on basic things like gp provision , waiting a e and provision, waiting a e and ambulance care, were really, really bad now and its getting worse. Yeah. Worse. Yeah. Freddy, lets have a look at the guardian. Should we looking at donald trump and donald trump latest court date today . Latest court date today . Well, yes, donald trump is appearing in court. Im quite struck that i mean, i accept that were were in britain. Were not in america. And it will be on the front page of most american newspapers tomorrow. Only on two tomorrow. But its only on two newspapers and if you newspapers today. And if you think about always say think about how we always say every is indicted , every time trump is indicted, which is going to happen again in happened a couple more times this year, i think say , you this year, i think we say, you know, this is historic. This has never happened before and it is dramatic. Amazing story dramatic. Its amazing story that president of the united that a president of the United States who is running again, who may well be in the white house in a years time, sorry, in beginning of 2025, is now facing a very serious criminal indictments and is still winning indictments and is still winning in the polls. Indictments and is still winning in the polls. This indictments and is still winning in the polls. This is an in the polls. This is an extraordinary story. But the extraordinary story. But the indictment stuff is just washing off people. And i think its because a lot of people accept what donald trump says to a certain extent. I dont think certain extent. I dont think they go along with him. They dont even necessarily like him, but they accept that is but they accept that this is lawfare, this is the use of justice for political means. And the reason its being used hold on a minute. Shaking her head. So ill let her come in and say the reason the reason its being the reason the reason its being the reason the reason its being the reason lawfare is being used is because donald trump will not go away politically. He has go away politically. He has about 30 to 40 of republican support that that will probably mean almost certainly it looks like mean he will win the nomination for the Republican Party and he will then face joe biden, whos a very weak candidate. So he has a very, very weak president. We have a realistic chance that donald trump will be re elected. He cannot be stopped politically and true to say that a lot and it is true to say that a lot of people are keen to stop him, use using Justice System , use using the Justice System, and i dont think thats healthy i i i dont emma i dont think that you can be above the constitution and the law of the country you wish to run, and thats the bottom line, really. If hes broken the law and if hes found in a court of law with a jury of his peers to have broken the law, then that that doesnt matter. If youre donald trump or john smith. This donald trump orjohn smith. This is important. Its an important is important. Its an important principle. But also, i mean, freddy says hes ahead in the polls. Hes ahead in the polls of the republican primary. The country itself is incredibly divided and it is about 5050. Im not going to pretend that it always is ahead. It always, always is ahead. It always, always these elections are always 5050. These elections are always 5050. These elections are always won on the margins. Freddy says that that joe freddy also says that that joe biden is a weak president. I think joe bidens a weak candidate in some ways. But in terms of his presidency , its terms of his presidency, its actually been incredibly substantial. And if you look at the difference between their economy the investment economy and the investment thats in through the thats come in through the inflation reduction act, theyve brought inflation right brought their inflation right down there. Economy is booming. Down there. Economy is booming. Hes actually been quite a substantial president , but he is i absolutely accept not a great front man , particularly at his front man, particularly at his age and with his kind of i mean, lifelong gaffe prone. Thats not an age thing. Do you think hell appear in person today . Yes, i think he i think he will. And i think you have to consider that this is a court. I mean, if you look at the judgements of this judge with other january 6th defendants, you sort of the words you read the sort of the words she uses when she talks to the january 6th defendants. She is a very obviously partisan democrat. I just think thats just true to say i dont blame her for being that you can be a partisan democrat and be a judge, but she is. And so this is another example of the blurring of lines between politics and justice. And is it possible i mean, it may be impossible for there to be a sort of normal trial. And youre quite right to say no one is above the law. But again, i think its a sort of slightly forgive me for saying this, a slightly platitudinous thing to say, because everybody agrees with that the with you. Nobody thinks that the president be above the president should be above the law, few apart apart law, very few apart from apart from who thinks trump and from trump, who thinks trump and Rudy Giuliani and all people Rudy Giuliani and all the people going on the this is theres nothing to it but the issue with this is and i think freddys got a point in in in being used as an election obstacle is that you look at some of the previous charges against him and some of those are very weak and this this looks a lot more substantial. Substantial. But in a way, if they hadnt brought those other charges, this would carry more weight, wouldnt it . I mean, we are getting to a point where were just tired of this story, i think, and that thatis this story, i think, and that that is a probably a concern for people who would use this politically me, think the politically. For me, i think the documents case is incredibly strong. I mean, its kind of strong. I mean, its kind of black and white. Weve seen videos, weve seen weve heard him this him saying, ive got this document. Not supposed document. Im not supposed to have in this one. There are have it in this one. There are things that are going to be legally complicated. And a charge like this has never been made to someone like this before for i think the false electors part of it is the strongest part of this case because was whether or not trump wilfully directed the insurrection thats going to be about proving whats in his mind when it comes to the false , when it comes to the false electors. That is a thing that happened, that there is people who have signed up, signed up to do this. And that was led by the Trump Campaign, which was led by donald trump. Donald trump. And of course, the other element is mike pence, who is, of course, running to be of course, himself running to be president Vice President trumps Vice President , has clearly been president , who has clearly been working jack smith, the working with jack smith, the special prosecutor, to talk to him about what trump was saying to on the phone. And pence to him on the phone. And pence is loathed by trump. Hes quite a calculating politician. It a calculating politician. It looks as though he will say he will say the worst possible things he can, or perhaps he has evidence of trump saying, well, if hes got recordings, i think it sounds like sounds like notes, notes, contemporary memos , he meant that he took them at the time rather than can prove that they were taken at the time, rather than making it later. And well see what happensin later. And well see what happens in the trial. But i think it would very difficult think it would be very difficult to prove that trump wilfully lied i know, lied because as far as i know, he believes that the he genuinely believes that the election and youre election was stolen and youre allowed that allowed to believe things that are wrong. Thats going to are wrong. And thats going to be his defence. But the prosecutor made that point, didnt he . Prosecutor made that point, did he he . Prosecutor made that point, did he said donald trump is he said donald trump is absolutely allowed to believe things hes things that arent true. Hes absolutely their absolutely allowed under their First Amendment to say things that what hes not that arent true. What hes not allowed then to use allowed to do is then to use those beliefs interval in in those beliefs to interval in in the system to try and overturn the system to try and overturn the outcome. Where the the outcome. Thats where the case well, we shall see. Emma, lets have a look at the front page of the mail, shall we . And this is the green power firms scandal. Is, i mean, drax yeah, this is, i mean, drax is one of those companies that neither side seems to be particularly fond of. They say they do wood burning , particularly fond of. They say they do wood burning, and its supposed to be greener , but supposed to be greener, but actually its quite a big carbon emitter. So the actually its quite a big carbon emitter. So the environmental lobby arent that keen on them either , and they seem to have either, and they seem to have been using an awful lot of loopholes in terms of the windfall taxes and various other things in order to stop them. Things in order to stop them. Their obligation, frankly , to their obligation, frankly, to give a little back to the consumers who are using their their their energy supplying classic greenwashing, isnt it . And you see a lot of companies do it. You know, they badge something as eco. Yeah. Badge something as eco. Yeah. And they only need a tiny reason to say that it is eco and it could actually be very polluting. Yeah. And yet that means get the breaks means they get the tax breaks and on. Means they get the tax breaks anc mm n. Means they get the tax breaks ancmm hmm. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Freddie can we have a look at because this is very important in the star. Oh, yes. In the star. Oh, yes. Im glad youre coming to this. We have evidence, apparently, that aliens exist. Apparently, that aliens exist. Yes. Yes. I love this. If you think i was going Conspiracy Theory about donald trump just wait till i get on. So the worlds number one scientist, which is his name , let me just because his name, let me just because its important to know who it is hes called avi loeb. Hes an hes called avi loeb. Hes an astrophysicist. Right. And he astrophysicist. Right. And he has some particles as droplets. He calls them from a meteor that hit the sea. Apparently an and hit the sea. Apparently an and broke up , hit the sea. Apparently an and broke up, broke up on impact, but was going incredibly fast. Yeah, apparently. And he is to yeah, apparently. And he is to going test them and tell us within five weeks if this is all according to daily star. Take this with a pinch of salt and tell us with whether they they they prove that theres alien , they prove that theres alien, that it was an alien spacecraft or whether it was an alien space craft what the meteor was a spacecraft. The meteor was in fact, an alien spacecraft. I fact, an alien spacecraft. I think thats what hes looking to so i think it would be to prove. So i think it would be incredibly arrogant of the human race to think were it. Yeah. In the vast infinity of space. Lets face it, theres something out there thats bigger better than but bigger and better than us. But im also just generally quite sceptical of the i saw a little green man in the plains of nevada somewhere. Well, yeah , nevada somewhere. Well, yeah, there has got to be this middle ground, hasnt there . And i mean there are so many smartphones now. If there are all these sightings youd have thought wed have had a better one by now. So thats the sceptical the reason sceptical reason. The reason to actually there might be actually think there might be something in this is that congress recently had congress in america recently had this about ufos or this long hearing about ufos or uaps. Uaps yeah, theyve theyve renamed ufos for no good reason. Well, because i think theyre saying theyre just its ufos , saying theyre just its ufos, suggests aliens, isnt it. Yeah. They just want to get away. Ufo means unidentified flying objects. Uap unexplained objects. Uap is unexplained aerial. How are those aerial phenomenon. How are those Different Things . Well, yeah, the unexplained bit. Bit. But i mean, certainly, you know, and was a former know, and there was a former military man, quite senior military man, quite a senior figure said that he figure there, who said that he knows that the pentagon have wreckage of an alien spacecraft. And so on. So, i mean, it does sound like looneyville, but theres a lot of people quite high up in america who are talking about it a lot. Weve had a very big jump in technology in the last 30 or 40 years. Yes. Where does that come from . Well you think its come from . Well you think its come from alien . Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah , yeah. Yeah, yeah. All your superconductors and microchips. Yeah. Its retro. Microchips. Yeah. Its retro. Well, looking at i interviewed someone who was quite into all this stuff, and he says that its because of ai that. That the aliens are watching us now because their concerned were going to achieve the singularity. Singularity. Oh, really . Oh, really . Yeah. Which. Which is a pretty wacky stuff. Yeah. Pretty wacky stuff. Yeah. There you go. There you go. Well, im for all it. Well, im for all it. I am. You may not be alone. No, were definitely not alone. The truth is out there. The truth is out there. It is emma burnell. The truth is out there. It is emma burnell. Freddie it is emma burnell. Freddie grey. Thank you. We shall see you a little later on. You a little bit later on. Thank you. Thank you. Now, now, if you thought july was wet, well, wait until you see coming. See whats coming. The met office issuing warnings for office is issuing warnings for thunderstorms, heavy and thunderstorms, heavy rain and strong right. Strong winds. All right. Are we having such a so why are we having such a wet summer . Lets ask senior meteorologist at the british weather services, jim dale. Morning to you, jim. Can we morning to you, jim. Can we blame the aliens this one . Blame the aliens for this one . Do think . Sorry you cut off do you think . Sorry you cut off then, just as you as i joined you. Say again you. Say again . Say again . Say again . I was going to say, can we blame the aliens for this one . You can try , but i dont you can try, but i dont think so. To be honest with you. Look, we got look, we got short memories. June was if you love the dry, sunny, hot weather, then june was it wasnt it long, soon. Forgotten you might say its a bit of a timing issue, isnt it . July schools kick out end of july. August comes up. End of july. August comes up. You know, all the weathers in the wrong mood at the moment, at least for ourselves. Its ourselves. Northwest, europe, ourselves. Northwest, europe, really. Scandinavia for a bit of iceland, ireland. The farmers iceland, ireland. The farmers there are up in arms. Iceland, ireland. The farmers there are up in arms. Cant, there are up in arms. Cant, cant do any harvesting. All of that sort of stuff. So yeah, it really is a timing issue and maybe if you put the two together, you kind of say, okay, june and july, you balance them out and you say, well, thats an average british summer. But we need sunshine oh, but we need some sunshine and some warmth. Jim when is that going to for us . That going to happen for us . Weve got some hope perhaps at the of this month. The end of this month. Think before then, to yeah, i think before then, to ellie, honest with you, let ellie, be honest with you, let me me tell you what weve me let me tell you what weve got as the latest. So look, theres bit a rough weekend theres a bit of a rough weekend coming it starts friday, coming up. It starts on friday, friday evening, almost an friday evening, again, almost an instant what we just instant replay of what we just had. Yesterday. Had. In actual fact, yesterday. So of rain to come out the so a lot of rain to come out the atlantic friday, saturday, atlantic for friday, saturday, friday saturday. And then friday night, saturday. And then showers on sunday. I think then as the week unwinds next week, now get this one. Okay. This is what i think people want to hear a little bit of into the southeast by where are we today . Were thursday, arent we . Um, i think we are. Sorry. Its wednesday, isnt it . Im losing. No, its thursday. Thursday no, its thursday. Thursday which day are we on . Which day are we on . Sorry . Thursday. Sorry . Thursday. Sorry . Thursday. Ill check for you. Ill check for you. Thursday. Thursday. Thursday . Yeah. Sorry. Im zooming back a day. There. There we go. Uh, look, this time next week, even maybe a day before that. Week, even maybe a day before that. Could well be next that. So it could well be next wednesday beautiful weather wednesday. Beautiful weather coming into the southeast and starting up. And by the starting to move up. And by the time we get to friday, saturday, 30 degrees, sunshine , 30. 30 degrees, sunshine, 30. Believe me. Uh yeah, yeah. Its a potentially coming into next weekend. So look, doesnt start off at 30. 26 is 27 that type of weather. So were getting a bit of the High Pressure thats been sitting over the mediterranean. We get a southerly flow, so thats going to help affairs. So yeah, is a week. Its still yeah, this is a week. Its still a forecast mind, but nonetheless , this is coming. So its going to change the psyche big style. I just realised the retail sales that have come out in the last day or so, in the last 24 hours, uh, for the first time in history, there were better in june than they were in july. By july being obviously the wet month, june being the super month, june being the super month in terms of the sunshine. So there you go. It affects everything, but im going to give you a three ps here for people who are still just very quickly, jim. Yeah, planning protection and positivity as far as the bad weather is concerned, planning the planning, the poor weather, protect yourself. If it is that bad were youre right, close. Go inside and remain positive because the Better Weather is coming. Lovely and look forward to a summer blow. Look forward to a summer blow. Excellent news, jim. Thank you very much indeed. Lets find out whats happening for you today. Heres greg. Looks like things are heating up. Boxed boilers , proud up. Boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on gb news as. As. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst and welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. A brighter day overall. There will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells. It should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite a cloudy picture, a northerly bringing some northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery rain across northern Western Areas. And northern and Western Areas. And then through afternoon then through into the afternoon , well an increasing risk , well see an increasing risk of showers developing. Of some showers developing. A few these could be heavy, few of these could be heavy, perhaps at but perhaps thundery at times, but there some sunny spells, there will be some sunny spells, some places staying dry, particularly towards east some places staying dry, part south eastards east some places staying dry, part south east ofs east some places staying dry, part south east of england. T some places staying dry, part south east of england. And and south east of england. And here, temperatures reaching 22 or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into evening time. Showers into the evening time. Showers still of some heavy still the risk of some heavy ones across areas, but ones across eastern areas, but starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells overnight to showers during the early hours. Generally on the early hours. Generally on the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures most double temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the on friday. Best of the the day. On friday. Best of the sunny spells and dry weather across uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further increasing risk further east, an increasing risk of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of could be heavy at times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by the end the day across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, the high teens similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s. To low 20s. Looks like things are heating up. Boxed gb news. Good morning to you. Its 7 00 on thursday. The 3rd of august. Today Interest Rates could rise again as the bank of England Monetary Policy Committee meets today in what could be more bad news for mortgage holders , former us mortgage holders, former us President Donald Trump is due to be formally charged at a court heanng be formally charged at a Court Hearing in washington, dc today on charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. The worlds heaviest defeat. The worlds heaviest ever animal has been discovered. Signs artists have found the bones of an ancient whale that could have weighed in at 200 tonnes. Its called the peruvian colossal owl. Imagine. Imagine. Imagine. Can you imagine . And what will the weather look like today . Hello there , bright today. Hello there, bright today. Today mixture of sunny spells today a mixture of sunny spells and scattered heavy showers. Find out exactly where with me sooii. 500. Soon. Good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im ellie costello. And this is breakfast on gb news. Right. Were talking cakes. Oh, god. You want to do cakes this morning . Yeah, if you dont mind. No. Hashtag cake gate. Its kicking hashtag cake gate. Its kicking off online. Its all about the corrie actress. Her name off online. Its all about the corrie actress. Her name is Catherine Tyldesley , and her Catherine Tyldesley, and her agent got in touch with a small bakery. Its called the three little birds bakery. Keighley in West Yorkshire. And the agent West Yorkshire. And the agent asked for a big cake. Little cake and 100 cupcakes for free in return for some exposure and being shared on catherines Instagram Story , catherine says Instagram Story, catherine says she knows nothing about it. She knows nothing about it. Catherine says she knows nothing about it. Its all very bizarre, but response from the bakery but the response from the bakery has gone viral. But the response from the bakery has gone viral. All they said, has gone viral. All they said, thank you very much for your email. Im so sorry to hear that your client has fallen on such hard times they cant pay hard times that they cant pay a Small Business for their products. Unfortunately, my products. Unfortunately, my mortgage provider doesnt take payment in the form of promotion on socials and my staff on their socials and my staff cant feed their kids with exposure instagram. Um, so exposure on instagram. Um, so i will have decline your very will have to decline your very generous offer. Generous offer. Fabulous. Love it. Jennys fabulous. I love it. Jennys beenin fabulous. I love it. Jennys been in touch and says, i think celebrities cheek celebrities have got a cheek asking Small Businesses who are already struggling free already struggling for free stuff just pay the rest of stuff just pay like the rest of us. Yeah, i agree, jack says typical of the celebrity culture. Take now pay never good on the bakery for exposing the actress and the pr company that was organising the party and apparently has threatened to sue. Oh really . Apparently yeah. Its still going viral. I think it is still trending on twitter this morning. So thats x on x now. Sorry x kiss x what . What do we call x x. What do we call x x. Yes. The name is still trending, but the actress, Catherine Tyldesley, she said that its all bizarre. She didnt know it was happening, but hopes that theyve but she hopes that theyve enjoyed publicity and the enjoyed the publicity and the exposure that the bakery was craving. Yeah, i mean, that i think thats just i hate to say i think thats a litigious line because this lady is basically said, ive been asked for something for free and ive said, no. And they offered her exposure. And she said in her video, i hope the cake lady got the exposure was craving. Well, exposure she was craving. Well, she wasnt craving any exposure. I think thats litigious. You know, i do was just calling out behaviour that well quite frankly is tone deaf isnt it. You dont ask a small bakery for what is a huge order. Actually thats days work. At actually thats a days work. At least from a Small Business. And what good is it if its a big business . A bit of pr, not a bad thing. Small business. What difference is it to going make to a bakery in keighley . Theyre not going to theyre going not going to theyre not going to theyre going to to care. Theyre not going to start out orders to start sending out orders to japan whatever. Are japan or whatever. Are they . I mean, its just not going to happen. Go. Its an happen. So there you go. Its an interesting its an interesting one. Its an interesting one. Its an interesting and if if interesting one. And if you if you thats make you slobber for a of cake. I know. Then a slice of cake. I know. Then kimberlys slobbering this morning she . But not over my morning is she . But not over my nails because my ive been exposed as someone who gets a manicure kimberly says i like to see men with workers hands not liking the whole manicure thing. Not Nothing Better than a man that comes home mucky after a days graft and comes out of the shower looking and smelling great. Oh, we know what youre into, kimberly, then. Yeah yeah. There you go. Not wrong with that , but lots of you actually that, but lots of you actually are loving the manicure on steven. So its goodbye to you this morning. I like the manicure. Well, of course you do. You made me get it. I got him hooked on his beauty treatment, but it stopped me biting my nails. Thats the main thing. Thats the main thing. Very, very good. Thats the main thing. So y, very good. Thats the main thing. So therey good. Thats the main thing. So there you od. Thats the main thing. So there you go. Now, you may be your nails be biting your nails in anticipation of the of anticipation of the bank of england today because its not good is poised to raise good news. It is poised to raise Interest Rates for the 14th consecutive month , claiming that consecutive month, claiming that its all part of the fight to take back control of inflation. Well, signs do suggest that inflation is slowly coming down with policy makers set to opt for a quarter rather than a half point rise. All right. Well, lets see what the independent north London Estate Agency owner jeremy leaf independent north London Estate Agency ownerjeremy leaf makes agency owner jeremy leaf makes of it all morning to you , of it all morning to you, jeremy. Good morning. Morning. I was slightly intrigued to hear yesterday that actually some mortgage deals have come down recently, despite all this hoo ha. So what is going on . Well youve got the two elements of that. On the one hand, weve got the anticipation of bad news rates going up, but actually theres a glimmer of good news as well, because if they dont go as well, because if they dont 9 up as well, because if they dont go up quite as much as some people are suggesting, like five and a quarter, not five and a half, and the pace is seen to be slowing, theyre actually starts to Mortgage Rates , which to bring Mortgage Rates, which affects most of us down, down and those on the market are starting to come down just a little bit. So its that glimmer having your cake and eat it. Sorry the cake. Sorry about the cake. No, no, no. But is that a case of fixed deals only . Not i mean, if youre on variable, its just going to go up anyway. Well, is it. I mean, the well, this is it. I mean, the pain deferred a lot of pain is deferred for a lot of people because i was reading this morning about 800,000 people because i was reading this mornirare bout 800,000 people because i was reading this mornir are bout to 10,000 people because i was reading this mornirare bout to fall30 people because i was reading this mornirare bout to fall in mortgages are due to fall in this and about 1. 6 the this year and about 1. 6 the following year. But the number of repossessions and arrears is actually relatively low because the lenders have formed this group to try and reduce the pain for mortgage, extending them. We for mortgage, extending them. We saw yesterday that people are taking out 35, 36 year mortgage is it Interest Rate, holidays . All sorts of things to try and put off the evil day. So there are things that people can do in terms of seeking help and advice because it is really, really difficult for people out there, which im sure youre seeing in your everyday business. But jill, im just going to share this, says that her mortgage is interest only mortgage she fixed yesterday. Its an additional yesterday. Its an additional £279 a month. Shes not sure where shes going to find that £279. Shes on a School Support staff salary, says its very difficult time ahead. Its theres some awful stories out there. Were seeing it in our offices all the time. And people offices all the time. And people are really hurting and its just really awful. But all we can say to people is speak to your lender as soon as you can. They are trying to help deferring arrears, deferring repossession loans, trying to work with their customers. And thats why the customers. And thats why the numbers are much lower than they have been in the past. But within all of this, we are hitting a point, arent we, that unless i mean, if the lenders are taking serious to action help people, doesnt get rid of the debt, if you like, but maybe spread it out a little bit thinner. But there is a danger of people actually finding themselves in real trouble now. And with house prices down, what is it , four . Was it 4. 5 or 3. 8 is it, four . Was it 4. 5 or 3. 8 year on year . You know, its year on year . You know, its a theres a theres going to be a little bit of negative equity about. Absolutely. And its just absolutely. And its just sort of pushing the problem, kicking the problem down the road. Its still there because, road. Its still there because, of course, you might reduce your payments in the short term , but payments in the short term, but a mortgage, youre a 36 year mortgage, youre paying a 36 year mortgage, youre paying a hell of a lot more interest for that period than you have done. You would have done. Are you finding with what are you finding with First Time Buyers because you think glimmer of hope First Time Buyers because you thihouse glimmer of hope First Time Buyers because you thihouse pricesjlimmer of hope First Time Buyers because you thihouse prices coming of hope First Time Buyers because you thihouse prices coming down pe First Time Buyers because you thihouse prices coming down that of house prices coming down that little it might be little bit, that it might be more for people more affordable for people to get the ladder, but then get on the ladder, but then youve got the issue where youre struggling those youre struggling with those Mortgage Rates. Driving yeah, well, whats driving first actually, First Time Buyers . Actually, the First Time Buyers . Actually, the first numbers were First Time Buyers numbers were seeing say, in our seeing is, as i say, in our offices and so on, higher than we would have expected. And what were the are were hearing is the rents are pushing to buy because pushing them to buy because theyd rather pay pay their mortgage rather than paying for the for the landlord and making sure that they can at least have something to look forward to so that that has been perhaps a surprising small good news story. Is any of this going . Because obviously the London Housing bubble got life of its bubble has got a life of its own, right . I mean, prices are ridiculous in london. The rental pnces ridiculous in london. The rental prices are much, much higher in london. It could this see a push for the rest of the country where things are obviously much, much cheaper. People are still struggling, but its nevertheless much cheaper. Could nevertheless much cheaper. Could we see some a push away from the from the sort of attraction of to london get people in other parts of the country . Well, its a good point, steve, because. Exactly. Thats what was happening in the in the during brexit and also during the pandemic. People were looking for work patterns are for value work patterns are changing. Work life balance is changing. Work life balance is changing as well. People are working from home more. They dont need to be in towns and cities as much as they were. And thats reflected the housing thats reflected in the housing market. Are looking thats reflected in the housing mavalue are looking thats reflected in the housing mavalue , are looking thats reflected in the housing mavalue , particularlye looking thats reflected in the housing mavalue , particularly everying for value, particularly every little push on on mortgage payments just pushes more people away from paying expensive loans if they can. Where do you think were going with this . Do you think this will be the last Interest Rate rise that we see . Will it start to come down after . Well, actually, whats more important at the moment is not necessarily the base rate. Its actually the inflation rate because the inflation rate that seems determining where seems to be determining where the base rate is going. So if inflation its the inflation continues, its the old story. Just looking at one months figures thinking, months figures and thinking, well the way well, yeah, is this the way weve to see bit weve got to see a little bit more evidence that inflation is definitely tamed . And then definitely tamed . And then i think we can start to say that were at at or near the peak for base rates. And thats what people really want to know, whats happening in their pockets. Oh isnt it just. Jeremy, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Is a indeed. I mean, it is just a tale of misery for so many people. Julie in suffolk says, my people. Julie in suffolk says, my daughters mortgage renewed in up by in september and will go up by £493 a month. Theyre already struggling. Theyve got an struggling. Theyve got an autistic child , which means that autistic child, which means that they cant move. Thats adding to the problems there. She works to the problems there. She works the maximum hours allowed. She the maximum hours allowed. She gets a carers allowance , gets a carers allowance, looking after her son, a partner works long hours and hes trying to get a second job. Nothing else they can do. £500 a month extra. Theyve got to find from next month. I mean, that is just a killer. Yeah, absolute killer for people. Terrible itsjust for people. Terrible its just so very difficult, isnt it, for so many people at the moment. So thank you, julie, for sharing that with us. Really, really, really difficult , isnt it . I was reading this morning, i think if you took out jeremy, you might know about this. Take out something this. If you take out Something Like £400,000 on a mortgage over 35 year term thats gone up in the last year by £1,000 a month, does sound about right to you . It depends, obviously, on the terms got and terms that youve got and deposits on. Yeah , deposits and so on. But yeah, were hearing those sort of stories. Really stories. Its really, really painful. Unbelievable. Yeah, i mean, where are people an extra £1,000 a people finding an extra £1,000 a month people finding an extra £1,000 a mo dont know. Dont know. Dont know. A first time buyer, and a first time buyer, you would that sort of would take out that sort of money, if buying in money, especially if buying in the south east. What the south east. Thats what you need house in the need to buy a house in the south east these days. An extra £1,000 a month. Got to £1,000 a month. Youve got to find difficult for find thats so difficult for lots people. Contrast lots of people. Contrast that with story and you can with our cake story and you can see lots of people are see why lots of people are responding saying in that sense, arent they . Theyre saying it is this cost of is tone deaf in this cost of living crisis when everything is going for a massive influence going up for a massive influence or actress like this going up for a massive influence or ask actress like this going up for a massive influence or ask for actress like this going up for a massive influence or ask for free ctress like this going up for a massive influence or ask for free cake, like this going up for a massive influence or ask for free cake, free this going up for a massive influence or ask for free cake, free cake to ask for free cake, free cake from a very Small Business, its not not sitting not right. Its not sitting right with lot of read the right with a lot of read the room right. Room right. Lets move across the other side of the pond. Should we because donald trump has hit back at prosecutors just hours before his Court Appearance on charges overturn charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Yes the former president yes, the former president said indictment was said the indictment was unprecedented and showed the corruption of the biden presidency. Presidency. Well, its the third time in four months hes charged. Four months hes been charged. And understand it, and as we understand it, probably the last as he probably not the last as he campaigns to regain the presidency. Meanwhile, his son, presidency. Meanwhile, his son, his eldest, donald jr spoke to nigel farage last night and he questions the timing of the indictment. Indictment. You know, i dont believe any of this has anything to do with january 6th. If it did and if january 6th. If it did and if january sixth was everything that they said, why , why, why, that they said, why, why, why, nigel, did they wait two and a half years to charge him . I mean, the people that were there that did those, they were charged well lets charged that day. Well lets talk to jan halper, whos whos a us political analyst and is here in the studio. Good to see you, as always. Good to see you, as always. Good to see you, as always. Good see you. Good to see you. See you. Theres so many people this as people putting this down as a political Conspiracy Theory , but political Conspiracy Theory, but actually, are real actually, there are real questions answered here. Questions to be answered here. Are, of course there are, yeah, of course there are. Of course there are. Of course there are. Of course there are. What . Hes being accused of. But what part do you think is to answer that . The 2020 election is going to be litigated because of this . Theyve made a huge , of this . Theyve made a huge, huge mistake with this one because even though we thought what was going to happen was they were going to go after him for treason or sedition , but for treason or sedition, but they did criminally charge him. But they didnt go to that extreme came as a result. He has due process so he can subpoena people and bring things in. Now, let me Say Something about this 2020 election, brian. Is that biden is the legitimate president , but hes the legitimate president of what is now the bank at Us Corporation. Now the bank at Us Corporation. And that was a treaty in 1871. Well on september 12th, 2018, trump created an executive order. Within that, he outlined and in future elections , any and in future elections, any kind of foreign or domestic interference, specific for the 2020 election. So we say , how 2020 election. So we say, how did he know some of these things were going to happen . Election integrity on both sides of the aisle is tough. Its really tough. But what this has done is its opened the door for trump to present his case. Well, thats a good thing, isnt it . Because i mean because i mean, what we see on this side of the pond is a very difficult situation where the legal system is politicised in the United States, which is abhorrent to us over here. So the fact that trump can subpoena some people saying its a mistake by jack smith , but actually he can smith, but actually he can subpoena people can actually see evidence from both sides. Thats a sensible move. Exactly. And its a great exactly. And its a great mistake by jack smith that hes done that. Absolutely great. See, the thing is , think about see, the thing is, think about Edward Snowden and all the information he had. Think about the fact that our military sorry, our department of Defence Space force, if you think that they dont have the actual real results from , um, the election, results from, um, the election, then then youre fooling yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But what we, what we do know with this is there are, were told that there are plenty of notes from people, including Vice President pence, that there are some recordings of donald trump acknowledging that actually what he said in public was nonsense , that some of these was nonsense, that some of these states, whether he claimed he was saying it, i mean, look at detroit. Its corrupt. Its all corrupt. The results are corrupt. And when in reality , he knew. And when in reality, he knew it wasnt. Thats illegal. Well, but you know what . Thats what someones claiming. But thats not the fact. And thats not what donald trump really has ever said. Hes been very, very clear. I mean, the issues were, for example, in pennsylvania , the Supreme Court pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of the state of pennsylvania stepped in and changed some of the election laws under our constitution, its only the state legislators that can do that. 2000 mules, the film that came out, what they did, they spent over 4 million tracking the phones. And the reason its the phones. And the reason its only 2000 mules is that based on the visits to the dropbox cases in georgia, they had to have gone over ten times. And theyve got all the film for that. So the thing is that. The election the thing is that. The Election Integrity is so different and so problematic in every single state, every single state. But that doesnt mean that the machines didnt do something, that there were some other kind of finagling. But the long and short. Go ahead. Short. Go ahead. Well, it doesnt. But thats thats where conspiracy comes in, is it to say, well, it doesnt mean that something didnt happen in. Well, theres no evidence that it happened. I mean, how many how many court cases did the Trump Campaign try to bring . Theres nothings gone in his favour. Okay. Okay. Wait a minute. Every sw1 the media goes, oh, there were 60, 60 court cases that were 60, 60 court cases that were rejected. No, there were were rejected. No, there were three. He won two. Two. He lost one. 57 three. He won two. Two. He lost one. 57 were never heard because they had no standing and standing means that the person bringing the case has to claim some kind of impact or injury. So its really you know, the media did that and theyre great at doing that. But it was a fallacy in there. And the thing is that , you know, you know, is that, you know, you know, i sit on a task force at the department of defence and the thing is theyve got the goods, theyve got the goods. And trump knew that if he presented any of the goods early on, wed have a civil war that he really felt that the people needed to see how bad it could get. How bad it could get. And thats the sense that were getting from trumps lawyer about what his defence is going to be. So he this is all going to be. So he this is all going to be based on free speech, the First Amendment in the us constitution, that he had a right to say what he believed and he believed that the Election Results were not as was put out. But the point is, if put out. But the point is, if you live in a democracy and you believe in a democracy , then believe in a democracy, then that means that even if you dont like the outcome of an election or you respect that because its a democratic vote, well , all a democratic vote. Well, all a democratic vote. And so therefore, he should be silent about it. Be silent about it. So he has a right to speak. But the issue, of course, is if he then acts to subvert that election result so that because you think hes being criticised because in georgia he said, can you find me 12,000 votes or you know, the thing is he didnt try to subvert anything. To subvert anything. What hes really done is he set up the deep state to come out and thats why were seeing all these things. I mean, it all these things. I mean, it just was revealed with whistleblowers and Hunter Bidens ex best friend that in 2015, the head of burisma gave joe and hunter biden 10 million bribe. In 2018, hunter is i mean, joe is on tv publicly saying that he threaten that unless they got the prosecutor fired that he wasnt going to let them have their 1 billion in let them have their1 billion in support in 2019. Trump calls zelenskyy to find out about what went on to get the prosecutor fired. Fired, and he gets fired. Fired, and he gets impeached. I mean, thats weve impeached. I mean, thats weve lived with it for a long time. Lived with it for a long time. Were almost at a time. I just want i just want to pick you up on one thing you said earlier on. You know, donald trump has been very clear on this. Is he a trump has been very clear on this. Is he a man that you i mean, look, hes about a believable as a chocolate teapot, isnt he . Look, i know. Oh, thank god. Look, i know. Oh, thank god. You got the negativity in at the end and not the beginning. I can always count on you for that. Always as well. Its a legitimate point to say that donald trump is a man who always speaks the truth. That cant be the case. Its hardly the case of any leader, to be fair. But i mean, definitely not donald trump. Well dont know if i said well i dont know if i said everything wrong or always, because call him the because i do call him the embellisher in chief, because hes a marketer. But in terms of telling us things , optics, you better things, optics, you Better Believe that hes very much a straight shooter in terms of action means that hes going to take or what he thinks needs to be done. You know, they made fun of him because they assumed he broke protocol and walked in front of the queen no, if you go back and look at it, you will see he looked at her. She gave a wave with her hand. He proceeded she took a couple of steps. He stopped and he waited for her to join. That was an optic to tell us that he then was going to bankrupt the Us Corporation because it was the vatican, the crown and the us that was part since 1871. And we were giving you our tax dollars. We were paying you our tax dollars. We were paying back, you know, forget this tea party and without taxation, without representation , we owed you a lot of money because you helped us in the civil war. And so that is what trump has now. He told the queen, im ending this. Trump has now. He told the queen, im ending this. Were queen, im ending this. Were dissolving this corporation nation. Were going to go back to being a republic and well all be separate. But the pope wasnt happy. You should find the picture of him visiting the pope. It took 650 planes to remove our gold from the vatican bank. Im not very happy about it, jan, to be perfectly honest. We could your money the could do with your money at the minute. Flowing. I say. Minute. Keep it flowing. I say. Jan is really good to jan halbach is really good to see you. You too much. You too. Now, should Asylum Seekers be allowed to work . Allowed to work . I will ask that question and debate both sides in just a moment. Stay with us here on moment. Stay with us here on britains news channel. But lets have a look at your weather. Weather. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst. And welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. A brighter day overall. There will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells it should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late morning. The best of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite a cloudy picture, a northerly bringing some northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery rain across northern Western Areas. And northern and Western Areas. And then through afternoon then through into the afternoon , well an increasing risk , well see an increasing risk of showers developing. Of some showers developing. A few these could heavy, few of these could be heavy, perhaps thundery times, but perhaps thundery at times, but there be sunny spells, there will be some sunny spells, some dry , some places staying dry, particularly east particularly towards the east and of england. And and south east of england. And here, temperatures reaching 22 or celsius, just a little or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still the risk of some heavy ones across eastern areas, but starting to become drier from the with some clear spells the west with some clear spells overnight to showers during the early hours. Generally on the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier east, the risk cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the best of the the day. On friday. Best of the sunny and dry weather sunny spells and dry weather across parts of uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of be at times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by end of the day across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news. News im interesting email from ian from towcester love towcester im always in towcester im always in towcester ian , ill see you in towcester ian, ill see you in costa. Its possible, he says , costa. Its possible, he says, that two things can be right at once. That two things can be right at once. This is a very good point. Once. This is a very good point. Trump trump. Trump. Trump is a wrongun and trump is being got at by the political establishment. Yeah. Two things, right . I mean, its a its a very fair point because we do sort of go either or, dont we . Yeah, thats there you go. Yeah, thats there you go. Well, its dividing you as even well, its dividing you as ever. The trump issue , robert ever. The trump issue, robert says this is a witch hunt against trump. The democrats have been trying to bring him down since 2016 with their lies. Whereas john says, i would love to see donald trump in an orange suit that would match his spray tan and see him locked up and just on the whether someones having a go at jim dale, who we had on earlier on, lesley we like jim dale, but clive says, how can we trust a man who doesnt know what day of the week it is, is hes working so hard, hes losing track of the days we do that. Dont we . Dont we . We do. We dont know what day it was. This morning. No, we dont. Oh, we. No, no, no, we dont. Oh, we. We no, no, no, we dont. Oh, we. We know what time it is. We hate to know what time it is. Jack from blackpool. Hi, jack. I hate hot weather as soon as its extreme weather like thunder and lightning, picking lightning, i go walking, picking driftwood. Blackpool beach is best six the morning with best at six in the morning with no yeah. That point no punters. Yeah. At that point. Point. Cant argue. Yeah. Fair point. Cant argue with jim dale did say with that, jim dale did say though, that next week end, not this next weekend and this weekend, next weekend and hes saying 30 degrees. Him if it doesnt i blame him if it doesnt happen, wow. Well, the happen, not me. Wow. Well, the sun coming. Sun is coming. Well, 30 degrees down south. Dont what that means six or something. I dont know what that means, jack. For you in blackpool. Im going to be in blackpool. Im going to be in blackpool on saturday day, actually, so maybe see you actually, so maybe ill see you there on the. Im not to the beach im not going to the beach flocking to the beach. Not going the beach at im not going to the beach at 6 00 the morning. Might go 6 00 in the morning. I might go a little bit later on the sunshine. Anyway, keep your thoughts coming through. Gb views gbnews. Com now as thousands continue thousands of migrants continue to britains to come through britains borders taxpayers foot the borders and taxpayers foot the £6 million a day bill to house them in hotels has many are asking if those claiming asylum should allowed to work while should be allowed to work while waiting for claims to be processed. Well, lets hear from former brexit party mep rupert lowe, whos in wiltshire this morning. Good to see you this morning. Is it a bad idea to say , is it a bad idea to say, actually, you know , work, add to actually, you know, work, add to the economy , we pay for your the economy, we pay for your own, keep . Own, keep . Well, good morning, ellie. Good morning, stephen. So well, ive been consistently saying that the solution to this is to stop people coming illegally into the country. I stop people coming illegally into the country. I think were have about 166,000 asylum applications which are pending at the moment. And its we have the treaties. Weve watched the treaties. Weve watched Australia Police her borders successfully. So it is possible. But the problem weve got is that we have, despite the fact we have an 80 seat majority and a sovereign government, we have a sovereign government, we have a government that is unable to actually deliver what the british people need and that is to stop them coming in the first place. Secondly if they do get here to process them quickly, which were failing to do, which doesnt surprise me because trying to do any business in the uk now you are hampered by the Civil Service who, despite the fact theres been huge growth in numbers, have become extremely inefficient and are incapable of doing anything that basically serves the interests of the people , despite the fact theyve people, despite the fact theyve got huge pensions and they cost a lot. So once theyre here, which the situation we have now, i my view is that they without breaching treaties , we have all breaching treaties, we have all these various treaties and agreements and the echr, weve got all the various in the equality act, all the acts that we saw imported here through our time in the eu. We saw imported here through our time in the eu. What weve got time in the eu. What weve got to make sure is we dont create a problem for ourselves by creating a right for people to stay if they work. So thats thats the first caveat. But in principle, yes, stephen, i do agree we should be asking them to do some work rather than sort of having a joy ride around portland. They should be doing portland. They should be doing something which actually benefits the taxpayer whos funding them at the moment. So we fund them to a huge extent. We fund them to a huge extent. Its very damaging to our local infrastructure. So i think infrastructure. So i think i think there are 395 hotel hotels being used to house migrants at the moment. They are obviously costing the taxpayer a fortune and because of the benefits system that we have at the moment, which doesnt encourage british people to work , what british people to work, what weve got is weve got a shortage of skills in various areas. One of those areas areas. One of those areas obviously is farming where people are constantly complaining about a lack of fruit picking. So there are jobs that i think we need done here and i see absolutely no reason why people who come here illegally shouldnt be asked to shoulder some some of the work thats needed. But i dont want thats needed. But i dont want to create a situation where they then have a right to stay because theyve actually done some work. So i think weve got to approach it by looking at the legal situation. But the first legal situation. But the first thing id like is to see nobody coming here illegally. If they do get here illegally, theyre processed immediately and sent back theyve come from, back to where theyve come from, because lot of these people because a lot of these people are not economic migrants. Theyre seeking a better theyre just seeking a better life away from albania or one of the countries thats perfectly capable of providing them with a job if they stay there. So job if they stay there. So thats thats my opinion. The latest figures that we have on processing times is about 20 months in this country, so that processing time is very, very long. And in that time we pay very long. And in that time we pay that hotel bill to the tune of £6 million a day. We also give Asylum Seekers £45 a week as well. So that is very, very costly for the taxpayer. Many people listening to you would say it would make sense to contribute to our to our economy and also not only is that good for us, but its good for them as well. It cant be good for them to sit in a hotel all mindlessly for 20 months. If you get yourself to work, its a benefit to them as well. Benefit to them as well. Well, it isnt a benefit to them. As you say earlier, i think, you know, when i was an mep in the west midlands, the first thing youd find is a hotel got populated by a illegal immigrants. The hotel got shut. Immigrants. The hotel got shut. The hotel often sits at the heart of the local community. The next thing is there are lots of people wandering around, as you theyre you say, spending. Theyre spending cigarettes or spending money on cigarettes or whatever, no whatever, and nobody no discussion took place. So i think its extremely damaging for them to be locked up. The question have to ask why question we have to ask is why is it taking so long to process these applications . Is the civil these applications . Is the Civil Service will tell you that they need more staff . Well, thats patently wrong. The actual the Civil Service has grown like a weed since covid. I mean, covid was an absolute godsend for them. They could they made lots of bad decisions, which personally i, i think need to be looked at. Even though the covid inquiries cost £40 million so far. I read the other day, so , far. I read the other day, so, you know, i think i think they should be asked to do something concerning productive and given that we control our own borders now as a result of brexit, given that we have a government with an 80 seat majority, we should be finding a solution to this. But the problem i think is i feel for Suella Braverman she, i think has the right sentiments , think has the right sentiments, but the problem is shes backed up but the problem is shes backed p by but the problem is shes backed up by a Civil Service who arent fit for purpose. And hold on, though , rob. And hold on, though, rob. Rupert, hold on. What about the idea of and a lot of people would this, you know, would say this, you know, british for british workers british jobs for british workers because theres the there is bound to be some circumstance where someones going to apply for job and well, for a job and say, well, actually, we dont we dont need it. Weve got Asylum Seekers covering this. Well, i think, again, no. Well, i think, again, youve be careful on youve got to be careful on that, there there that, stephen. There are there are which is are tax breaks, which is ridiculous the moment for ridiculous at the moment for people come over from abroad people who come over from abroad and on farms. So the and work on farms. So the farmers actually have tax breaks for providing them with accommodation, but dont accommodation, but we dont need to into now. But i dont to go into that now. But i dont think theres danger of taking think theres a danger of taking british lot of our british jobs. A lot of our people doing a lot of people and im doing a lot of research are the research on this are the benefits system is broken. I mean, there are far too many people here on benefits. They can certify a lot of can almost self certify a lot of the time now and you know, we complain that weve got shortages. So i think the policy should start with using or providing jobs for areas where were short in our own economy and then go from there. If we cant get our processing right. So i agree. We dont want to be damaging the interests of british people, but from where i sit, theres a lot of british people who arent working. And if you look at the number of people who are on benefits and are actually also themselves recipients of a state handout, i dont think theres too much of a danger of taking jobs from from from , from from english or from from, from from english or british people. Okay rupert british people. Okay rupert lowe, ill leave it there. Really good to talk to you this morning. Thanks very much indeed, as you might have a view on that, im sure you will. Yes. I mean, we talk about shortages of labour on farms all the , dont hear the time, dont we . We hear about fruit pickers and needing more fruit pickers, perhaps thats that asylum thats something that Asylum Seekers be doing. Seekers could be doing. Is it a case of saying, do we is it a case of saying, well, youre here, therefore you must work and your work therefore contributes to the cost your stay . Or do they cost of your stay . Or do they get paid and then spend it in the in local the economy, in the local economy know, mean, its economy . You know, i mean, its not its not an easy solution. Its not a straightforward answer, but maybe its something we think about. Let us we need to think about. Let us know what you think. Yeah. Vaiews gbnews. Uk com. All other stories in all the other stories in thursdays papers. Thats coming up next. This is. Gb news. It is 742. Good morning to you. And lets bring you up to date with the front pages. Should we say up to date . Theyve been out for a few hours now, two hours now. Yes. Well, the guardian says Donald Trumps court date sets the course for election the us on course for an election clash. Clash. The express has rishi sunak blunt ultimatum to striking doctors. The daily mail focuses on a green power firm accused of dodging hundreds of millions of poundsin dodging hundreds of millions of pounds in consumer payouts. Also a lovely picture of harry and meghan. Very happy. Big smiles meghan. Very happy. Big smiles there , sitting in their garden there, sitting in their garden together. A loved up video, together. A loved up video, were told. Oh , its gorgeous. Oh, its gorgeous. Oh, its gorgeous. Never seen a happier and more suhed never seen a happier and more suited couple. The Daily Telegraph has a cabinet minister facing a policing inquiry over an apparent racist leaflet and the mirror highlights the prime ministers claim that nhs strikes are to blame for waiting lists. So lets go through some of those with political consultant emma burnell and freddie grey, Deputy Editor of the spectator. Deputy editor of the spectator. Good to see you both this morning. Lets start with the morning. Lets start with the guardian and depher. Forestation has fallen down significantly. Has fallen down significantly. Great news. Its absolutely brilliant news. The amazon year on year from july 20, 22 to july 20th, 23, the levels of deforestation have dropped 60, which is being described as absolutely incredible. So this is a really incredible. So this is a really good news story. The amazon is going to be essential as has always been essential. Yeah and you know, when were talking about climate change, when were talking about the need, we keep talking about the need, we keep talking about the need, we keep talking about reducing carbon output, but we also need these forests to soak it all up. And forests to soak it all up. And the amazon has always been the lungs of the world. So the fact that this is managed to be turned around in a year is absolutely extraordinary. And it just shows the importance of Political Leadership here, because whats changed. Because thats whats changed. Weve moved from Jair Bolsonaro to Lula Da Silva and the focus of government activity has just completely reversed. And its, completely reversed. And its, you know, its nothing but a good news story. Yeah no, what can you say anything to add to that . Nothing to add. I mean, i do i do think, you know, bolsonaro was clearly an authoritarian figure in many ways. I think that the guardians fondness for lula is a little bit too extreme. I mean , he was very, extreme. I mean, he was very, very corrupt when he led brazil the first time. And a lot of brazilians hated him for that. And thats why he very nearly didnt win against bolsonaro, even though bolsonaro was a even though bolsonaro was such a controversial figure. But on rainforests, cant rainforests, you know, one cant argue trees. Pro trees. Argue with trees. Pro trees. Yes. Yes. Yeah, weve got to be pro. I mean, actually, the way were going, as you said, weve always said that. How important the rainforest but i mean, now rainforest is. But i mean, now at we know, the lungs at least we you know, the lungs of the planet. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Freddie telegraph , page four, freddie telegraph, page four, hunts card page band. Tell us more. This is another de banking story , which nigel farage is story, which nigel farage is obviously blown up. This banking scandal and it is scandal. And the latest element is on the front page of the telegraph today. And thats the hunts, which are fox hunting is illegal and has been since 2004. But there are legal hunts. You can have legal hunting activity, and its an important part for a lot of countryside. And sure of the countryside. And im sure a viewers gb news a lot of viewers gb news viewers, an important viewers, its an important part of lives. Important of their lives. Its important Part Community life and part of rural Community Life and they they have been debunked by sum up, which is a major card reader and provider. And its another example of banks possibly be making these we dont know because its not been sum up have not given their defence yet but they seem to be making moral judgements about who they allow to bank and then shouldnt really be allowed to well look ive got to say i hate hunting. I think. I think hunting is a terrible thing. Terrible thing. But even when theres no animals involved. Well, no, no, no. If theres no animals involved, if its just. Its just people just. If its just a people riding around drag hunt or riding around a drag hunt or whatever, thats fine. But any hunting that involves animals. But. Nevertheless. But. But if it it nevertheless. That aside and if it is what theyre carrying out is a legal thing , then they should have thing, then they should have access to the same things as everybody else. I mean, thats the bottom line , isnt it . The bottom line, isnt it . I mean, ultimately, this whole de banking saga is very complex , but there are problems complex, but there are problems where on the right you want very , very little regulation. And , very little regulation. And that also means telling, not telling private companies who they should or should not have as customers, which means that private companies have the right to say, no, youre not our type of customer on the other hand, on the left , i im of customer on the other hand, on the left, i im very of customer on the other hand, on the left , i im very im with on the left, i im very im with you on hunting. Stephen completely. And i believe that some of the complexities of this is some of the hunting is done with the guns they have with the guns and they have a sort of blanket ban on any kind of investment in munitions or arms. But im not going to outsource my political and moral judgements to some private corporation , even if i believe corporation, even if i believe these people shouldnt be able to do things like shooting birds, shooting deer or whatever. I think that should be done through government regulation and democracy, not through private corporation decisions. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. And exactly what. Oh, we all agree. Agree. We do. We agree about everything today. Lets mark this in our diary. Everyone agrees we had a bit of a disagreement about trump earlier. We did. We did. Yeah. We did. We did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But no, its about if. If it is currently legal in this country , if its a legally held country, if its a legally held view , if there shouldnt be view, if there shouldnt be a problem. Yeah if youre a group that is not breaking the law and you have funds, you should be legally allowed to them. Yeah and allowed to access them. Yeah and nobody able stop nobody should be able to stop you it. You from doing it. And think particularly in and i think particularly in the Banking System we live the Banking System that we live in, moment now, i would the Banking System that we live in, lotsoment now, i would the Banking System that we live in, lots and nt now, i would the Banking System that we live in, lots and lotsyw, i would the Banking System that we live in, lots and lots about ould the Banking System that we live in, lots and lots about that, change lots and lots about that, but we are in a place where Digital Banking is essential. Its an on. So we should its not an add on. So we should not be stopping people pursuing legal activities from access to it. However distasteful we may personally find those legal activities to be a fully functioning member of society. Functioning member of society. Now you need a bank account and thats whats so important about what nigel farage is absolutely lifted lid on. Lets have a look at the mirror. Emma two fat for Life Insurance. Some some, some insurance. Some some, some people are too overweight to get well, no, but you see, its interesting that youve picked this one because i didnt this one because and i didnt know. We didnt know. So we saw know. We didnt know. So we saw you posted something on x the other day and about how much weight you have lost over the last decade or so. And it is on believable. Yeah. Ive lost 12 stone. Ive lost a person basically half my body weight. Well nearly. Im a bit over 12 stone at the moment. Its a bit of fun summer but yeah, i mean its a it is quite an enormous change in my own personal circumstances and therefore its something that i get very emotionally engaged with when i hear that people are being shut out of things. Now i people are being shut out of things. Now i understand that Life Insurance will have a health element. Theres an obvious, although frankly , it obvious, although frankly, it doesnt matter if youre going to the gym like freddie or if youre rarely as overweight as i once was, were all going to die. So Life Insurance premiums are probably going to take that into account. There is a you into account. There is a you know, there are reckonings that need to be had. But if youre actually shutting 1. 8 Million People out of it and using a tool as blunt and as pointless as bmi ratings , which we all as bmi ratings, which we all know are just a really, really poor rating for Actual Health and wellbeing anyway. On with a and wellbeing anyway. On with a bmi of a 38 apparently is finding this a real struggle to get Life Insurance . Get Life Insurance . But there are i suppose there is an argument to say, look, you you struggle with with Life Insurance if you have an ongoing condition. I mean, my Life Insurance, i dont have Life Insurance, i dont have Life Insurance , actually, because im insurance, actually, because im a type diabetic. And it just a type one diabetic. And it just was the up and all was bumping the price up and all the well i dont have the rest. Well i dont have because kids, so i because i havent got kids, so i cant the well, yeah, cant see the point. Well, yeah, no, point. But if you are no, fair point. But if you are extremely overweight , that does extremely overweight, that does have serious implications on your health and longevity. Does it does. It does. E can see the actuarial and you can see the actuarial arguments. Know, get that. Arguments. You know, i get that. But i do feel like if there are people who arent able to provide for able to get a product , never provide for able to get a product, never mind pay more for it , you know, you probably would it, you know, you probably would pay it, you know, you probably would pay more because you would be expected to have a shorter life and therefore the payer would pay and therefore the payer would pay out, would come out sooner. But just dont have but but if you just dont have access to it at all, thats a different matter. Yeah. Fair point. I like no, thats fair point. I like the way people get around the steps thing. So, you know, for lot of so, you know, for a lot of Life Insurance, health insurance, to insurance, things, you have to show that youre doing enough insurance, things, you have to show 1really . re doing enough steps. Really . They do now . Is that what they do now . Is that what they do now . Creepy. Yeah but i know someone who attached his bracelet, whatever call it, bracelet, whatever you call it, fitbit thing horse. And it fitbit thing to a horse. And it just trotted around the field all day. And he was doing way over 10,000 steps, 125,000 steps a day. Yeah. Yeah. And he just sat at home watching telly. Its a great idea, really, isnt it . Give it to the dog or something. I think theyre going to monitor you. You can cheat a little bit. Yeah, very big brother, isnt it . It is not recommending anyone does that. A wristband . No no. A wristband . No no, no. A wristband . No no, no. Think it would because i think it would probably your probably invalidate your insurance found that insurance if they found out that youd didnt. Youd done that. I didnt. I didnt know that they. They were checking like that. Checking on things like that. That i think thats i find that i think thats the system. There are Car Insurance packages well where you can packages as well where you can get a thing put into your car and how safe and it monitors how safe a driver you are, which reduce driver you are, which can reduce your as well. Your premiums as well. Ghastly, but thats its also ghastly, but thats thats good young thats quite good for Young Drivers because that can drivers though, because that can significantly premiums. Yes. Younger drivers, if yes. For younger drivers, if theyre a good driver, i wouldnt want one of those on my car. Ill say that much. Oh freddie. Yes. Telegraph. Oh no. Freddie. Yes. Telegraph. Oh no. Ill tell you what, because weve only got two minutes. Oh, no. Lets go. Should we do the form . Lets get into the fun. Wetherspoon fans, please. Lets talk pubs right. So jd wetherspoons, which is where you can a cheaper normally can get a cheaper pint. Normally its go into spoons its we all love go into spoons in in airports. Its now £7 for a leather blonde which is well thats a fancy pint, but stellar is now up to 650in in in airports. Is now up to 650in in in airports. Wetherspoons say this airports. Wetherspoons say this is because of the higher rents in airports and certain other locations. Central london locations. Central london location is and their general price is 450. But i think were just you know, i live in london and you just accept now £7 is what you pay for a pint. Really . Its ridiculous. Its ridiculous. I went i went to spoons, me and my husband went to spoons for breakfast up north a couple of months ago for two full breakfasts, plus drinks. It was about £8 stop. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, i went to a similar thing. Me and my friend quite regularly meet for breakfast and we went to the premier inn. It was a tenner for all you can eat. It was. I mean, i shouldnt, but i did. Well. Well. And you know, the government made about the made quite big. Hey about the penny pint which came to penny off the pint which came to force on the first of this month. But its made no significant to £7 pint. It wont. It wont. No, no. No, no. Wines going up. Wines going up. Wines going spirits going wines going up. Spirits going up. Its classic tory up. And its classic tory thinking like muddled tory thinking like muddled tory thinking because they think, oh, people like pints, you know, lets give them a penny off the pint. Theyll like that. And then jacking up the price on all other alcohols. And its actually its very popular around cost of a round around and the cost of a round that and youre that matters and if youre buying of wine thats buying a pint of wine thats still its even sexist still up yeah its even sexist i will say thats because freddie because women prefer to drink wine and theyre having proseccos gone down, though. Freddie , do you know why . Freddie, do you know why . Freddie, do you know why . Because were trying to give breaks to the english sparkling wine mean , i wine industry. But i mean, i guessi wine industry. But i mean, i guess i suppose you can all drink. Prosecco they cant all be very manly. Ale drinkers like you, freddie. Ill drink a pint of stout. I like beer, wine, spirits, the lot. I used to. The lot. I used to. I used to like a stout. You know. Oh, i cant bear stout. Its so oh, i cant bear stout. Its so heavy. Stout or a guinness. Stout or a guinness. There you go. There you go. Got a lovely summers ive got a lovely summers day. Lager. Day. A lager. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, quite right, right yeah, quite right, too. Right that is it. Very much. Very much. Well see you a little bit later on. Thank you. Do stay with us. Lots now, do stay with us. Lots more to including all the more to come, including all the lowdown the predicted lowdown on the predicted Interest Rate thats next. Interest rate hike. Thats next. But take a look at but first, lets take a look at your for you. Your weather for you. Warm feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers are proud sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst. And welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. A brighter day overall. There will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells it should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite picture. A quite a cloudy picture. A northerly bringing some northerly breeze bringing some patchy rain across patchy showery rain across northern and Western Areas and then through into the afternoon, well see an increase in risk of some developing. A few some showers developing. A few of could be heavy, perhaps of these could be heavy, perhaps thundery there thundery at times, but there will sunny spells, some will be some sunny spells, some places particularly places staying dry, particularly towards and south east towards the east and south east of and here of england. And here temperatures reaching 22 or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still the evening time. Showers still the risk some heavy ones the risk of some heavy ones across eastern but across eastern areas, but starting become drier from starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells overnight, two showers during the early hours , generally on the early hours, generally on the early hours, generally on the light side, but still feeding across eastern areas feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing, cloudier further east, risk cloudier further east, the risk of few showers and thats of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the day on friday. Of the the day on friday. Best of the sunny dry weather sunny spells and dry weather across western the uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of could be heavy times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by the day across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of bad news if youve got mortgage. Former us President Donald Trump is due to be formally charged at a Court Hearing in washington, dc today on charges of plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat. Election defeat. And the worlds heaviest animal has been discovered. Animal has been discovered. Scientists have found the bones of an ancient whale that could have weighed in at about 200 tonnes, much bigger than the blue. While theyre calling it the colossal peruvian. The colossal peruvian. What a name. And what will the weather look like today . Hello there, bright today. Today a mixture of sunny spells and scattered heavy showers. Find out exactly where with me. Soon with me. Soon good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im ellie costello. And this is breakfast on gb news. Oh, dear. What we like what are we like . Well get to the whale. We promise we will get to the whale at some point. Weve talked about it a lot. Weve talked about it a lot. Thats what were giggling about. Anyway, were talking about. But anyway, were talking good bad advice this good advice and bad advice this morning. Its a story, one of the papers this morning. Its actually the daily mail about bad advice. This is a poll on britains worst advice theyve received , up 42 received in their life, up 42 say the very worst advice is just stop worrying now. Easier said than done. Easier said than done. Well, it doesnt help at all, does it . It cant help but worry i oh, no. oh, no. Always in a state of worry , always in a state of worry, 30 said revenge is sweet , but 30 said revenge is sweet, but very bad advice is bad advice followed by marry for security , followed by marry for security, not love. Thats terrible advice. Who thats terrible advice. Who would say that to anybody . Would say that to anybody . Stephen hadnt heard that before. I hadnt heard that. Im shocked. Maybe thats something people say to women that you marry for security, not love. If you heard it before. If you heard it before. Yeah, love you, a friend. Say something. Right . Really . Right . Really . , not love. Thats security, not love. Thats the thing. Thats terrible. Well, yeah. The thing. Wonder errible. Well, yeah. The thing. Wonder the le. Well, yeah. The thing. Wonder the le. Welrates h. No wonder the divorce rates going up 48 in this country. Thats terrible. And always speak your mind. Also, very poor advice is poor advice. Poll so were asking you this morning, whats the best advice piece that received . One that youve ever received . One of the things that you know, you stick in life to make life stick to in life to make life better, do you . Better, do you . Its things like its things like know, youve two like, you know, youve got two ears mouth for reason i oh, thats a good one. Oh, thats a good one. Thats quite a good one, isnt it . Its a very good one. If youre going to do something, do it would say, it right. My mother would say, my is my best friend, best my dad is my best friend, best advice is financial advice, think. And we very good at that. And we are very good at that. We do talk a lot about financial stuff in the family. Thats thats because were northerners. Always about money. So we always talk about money. And is always said, you and my dad is always said, you can only spend it once. You can only spend it once. You think, oh, should i buy this . Should i . You can only spend it once. Thats very good. Very good, isnt it wise man, my father, in terms of financial advice, i have heard once that if you can afford to buy it three over , you could three times over, you could afford it. If you cant afford to buy it three times over, you cant. Oh, really . Yeah. Oh, really . Yeah. Oh, really . Yeah. Ive heard that wouldnt apply ive heard that wouldnt apply to a house then. Wouldnt apply apply to a house then. Wouldnt apply to a house then. Wouldnt apply to house. Just thinking apply to a house then. Wouldnt appldoesntouse. Just thinking apply to a house then. Wouldnt appldoesnt go e. Just thinking apply to a house then. Wouldnt appldoesnt go that st thinking apply to a house then. Wouldnt appldoesnt go that far. |inking apply to a house then. Wouldnt appldoesnt go that far. Im ng that doesnt go that far. Im thinking more or shoes or thinking more shoes or shoes or a maybe but yeah. Do get in thinking more shoes or shoes or a withbe but yeah. Do get in thinking more shoes or shoes or a with the ut yeah. Do get in thinking more shoes or shoes or a with the bestaah. Do get in thinking more shoes or shoes or a with the best advice get in thinking more shoes or shoes or a with the best advice that in touch with the best advice that youve had in life. What do you stick to . Vaiews gbnews. Com. Apparently the age 48 is when people are the most wise according to this article. Oh really . Which is why youre a wise owl. Wise owl. Well, im not 48 anymore. Well, im not 48 anymore. Well, im not 48 anymore. Well, you were when i first met you. You were . I was once. And he was wiser than i am. Losing my was wiser than i am. I losing my mind now . Youre very good. Youre very, very good. It gives me lots of advice. Does ring up advice, actually. Actually, all the time on a on a myriad of issues. Actually, i should charge. On a myriad of issues. Should. I should charge. You should. Very grateful. Im very im very grateful. Im very grateful. Gb views grateful. Yeah. Gb views gbnews. Com. Do love to hear gbnews. Com. We do love to hear from you. Anyway, talking financial anyway, talking of financial advice, where this advice, i dont know where this leaves bank england leaves you. The bank of england is raise interest is poised to raise Interest Rates for the 14th consecutive time today as it fights to take back control of inflation. Well , back control of inflation. Well, signs do suggest that inflation is slowly coming down with policy makers set to opt for a quarter rather than a half point rise. Point rise. Well, lets talk to our economics and Business Editor, Liam Halligan , whos here in the Liam Halligan, whos here in the studio. Morning to you, liam. Look no good. No good turn goes unpunished. No good turn goes unpunished. Oh , thats very good. Oh, thats very good. Oh, thats very good. Cynical. But lawyer once cynical. But a lawyer once said me. Yeah. Said that to me. Yeah. Negotiation its true. Yeah. Yeah. Tell you what. Its no good turn unpunished. Turn goes unpunished. About my then . What about my advice, then . About three about importing something three times only when you times over . Is it only when you can afford it . I think shoes and handbags that yeah. That sound advice . Yeah. Not for a house. Not for a house. For house. No. Look if not for a house. No. Look if inflation coming down, then. Inflation is coming down, then. Right. Shock drop right. It was that shock drop last 8. 7, not nowhere last month, 8. 7, not nowhere near low enough. 7. 9 now. Were now 07. 9, almost four times the two cent bank of england target , of bank of england target, of course, but its heading in the right direction. So why then would we see another hike in Interest Rates . Youre looking the well, youre looking at the guy arguing the guy whos been arguing the interest should be frozen Interest Rates should be frozen since. Thats when since march. Thats when i started writing my started writing that in my telegraph was telegraph column was was pilloried it. Telegraph column was was pilloried it. But it seems pilloried for it. But it seems a lot of are now coming lot of people are now coming around to that view because inflation is at least in inflation is at least going in the direction. There are a the right direction. There are a few months there when inflation stayed where it was, which was really shocking. Really quite shocking. Lets have at whats happened have a look at whats happened to rates over recent to Interest Rates over recent years. Steve and we have seen so many rate rises since many Interest Rate rises since 2013, since 2017, sorry. You can see there the line starts moving , got the covid lockdown, Interest Rates fell to emergency lows. Theyve since gone up 13 times. Theyre now at 5. Now if you talk to me a month ago, the money markets were predicting would see a rise to 5. 5, eventually going to six, six and a quarter, maybe even 6. 5, pummelling a lot of young mortgage holders, particularly those who are having to remortgage off lower rates that they got during that time, whereas you can see on the graph, particularly during lockdown, they did deals when rates were very, very low, two, three fixed rate three and five year fixed rate deals. Now now because that inflation down, Inflation Numbers come down, because inflation in the us has come down, its now 3 because inflation in the eurozone has come down, its now 5. 5. Theres a general sense that we are eventually getting our arms around this inflation problem , around this inflation problem, not enough for the bank of england raise interest england to not raise Interest Rates today. England to not raise Interest Rates today. Id england to not raise Interest Rates today. Id the rates today. Id say the consensusis rates today. Id say the consensus is were going to see not a rise to 5. 5, but a rise from 5 to 5. 25. Thats to going add, you know, a couple of hundred quid to your average mortgage over the year. So it is still significant. We are now still significant. We are now seeing, though, that at least banks with lots of finger wagging from ministers and select committees are starting to pass on some of those rate rises a bit more generously for savers. Savers. But it does take a long time, doesnt it, for these Interest Rates to actually trickle down through the economy, for to us actually feel the effects of them. And thats why there is this argument, including from the iea this morning saying stop the iea this morning saying stop the freeze. Let let those 13 consecutive rises in a row start to take effect as they already have and go from there. There are a few things going on here. Firstly, the banks arent slow. As soon as theres a rate rise, your Mortgage Rate goes up. You get you get an email literally within 24 hours. Weve put up your Mortgage Rate. Whereas if youre a saver, the banks may not pass the Interest Rate rise on at all. Mean, rate rise on at all. I mean, there decent savings there are decent savings accounts but a lot of accounts out there, but a lot of bog standard savings accounts. They wont pass the rise on they wont pass the rate rise on for and months and for months and months and months. What getting months. Now, what youre getting at, rightly so , is at, ellie, and rightly so, is the that more broadly the idea that more broadly when you rates , it can you raise Interest Rates, it can take a long for that to take a long time for that to have on the overall have an impact on the overall economy even impacts economy, even if it impacts individual mortgage holders straight thats true , straight away. And thats true, too. There was a famous economist back in the 60s and 70s, Milton Friedman won a nobel prize. He says Monetary Policy, which Interest Rates which is moving Interest Rates around it only works with around it only ever works with long variable lags. And ive long and variable lags. And ive been quoting that a lot recently in my telegraph columns and here on gb news, because when youve already raised Interest Rates 13 times, youve got all that tightening in the system that takes time to Impact Business decisions , investments, decisions, investments, inflation, supply chains, all the rest of it. So i personally think and ive been saying for a while, the banks should hold fire for now. Were right on the bnnk fire for now. Were right on the brink of a recession in this country. We had 0 growth in may in numbers , as you may in gdp numbers, as you may remember. The is remember. So the economy is definitely can see definitely stalled. You can see that inflation is easing now. So id urge the nine economists on the bank of englands Monetary Policy committee who are in the bank of england now, and ill be hotfooting there later hotfooting it down there later to ready when the decision is to be ready when the decision is announced at 12 noon today. I reckon they should definitely call their boots and stop raising Interest Rates and see what happens from now on. But well see at what point do they look at this . Do they do they at the wider they not look at the wider picture in the sense that this is incredibly damaging to a lot of people . Right. And i mean, of people . Right. And i mean, interesting. Theres a bit of interesting. Theres a bit of a conspiracy from christine. I dont know if shes right or not, but she says, im beginning to think the bank of england is Interest Rate rises a politically motivated to make the look bad the conservatives look bad and verges a crime against the verges on a crime against the people. Well, look, i dont people. Well, look, i dont necessarily agree with with with exactly what christine is saying there, but the idea that it is damaging so many people who are just unable to afford to live in their homes any longer, well, under understand where christine is coming from. Is coming from. We all do. Because when youre enduring these Interest Rate rises, particularly if youve your youve got a mortgage or your kids have a mortgage and kids have got a mortgage and theyre struggling, they may even their house. Even lose their house. Of course, it seems crazy that all these people and these faceless people and theyre people, theyre barely public people, people know Andrew Bailey a little bit. Hes the governor of the bank of england. But the other members the other eight members of the Monetary Policy committee, id have good form to name have to be on good form to name them all. And im Liam Halligan gb do seem gb news. So these people do seem like bureaucrats, but, like faceless bureaucrats, but, you on the contrary, id you know, on the contrary, id say that bank of england is say that the bank of england is politically independent. Thats what for. But politically independent. Thats what for. But it does what its there for. But it does still have a reputation. And the still have a reputation. And the governor the members the governor and the members of the monetary committee, they Monetary Policy committee, they will for that. They will be aware for that. They were slow to start raising Interest Rates. So there will be now, in my view , an element of now, in my view, an element of overcompensation happening, showing that theyre really tough and theyre going to get rid inflation. Im saying rid of inflation. Im saying that they were slow at the that they were too slow at the beginning start raising beginning to start raising rates. Were too cautious at rates. They were too cautious at the beginning, back in late 2021, and now 2021, early 2022. And now theyre overly tough in theyre being overly tough in order to try and salvage some of their battered credibility. I think thats definitely going on. Andi think thats definitely going on. And i think christine should focus on on that rather than thinking that the mpc members are deliberately , overtly party are deliberately, overtly party political. I are deliberately, overtly party political. I dont are deliberately, overtly party political. I dont believe that. Political. I dont believe that. And just just briefly on that point, is there any truth in the school of thought that the bank of england actually want us in a recession to try and tackle soaring prices . I dont think anyone comes into public life, whether theyre politician or a or theyre a politician or a or a nerdy economist , theyre a politician or a or a nerdy economist, or because theyre a politician or a or a nerdy economist , or because they nerdy economist, or because they want to drive people into recession. Almost everybody realises is that a recession means, you know, broken businesses, broken homes , broken businesses, broken homes, broken marriages , broken hearts really marriages, broken hearts really recessions are really, really painful. Recessions are really, really painful. Its when recessions are really, really painful. Its when the economy painful. Its when the economy contracts for two consecutive quarters, thats some kind of scientific definition. It just means, you know, when the economy goes down, all metrics across society, domestic violence. I mean, theres the economy runs everything. Its the economy, stupid, as clintons chief economic adviser, once said back in the 90s, ahead of an election. So the economy is really, really important to peoples well being and how they feel about life. I and how they feel about life. I dont think anybody deliberately goes into public life to cause a recession. Having said that, recession. Having said that, ellie, there is a kind of long history tree of evidence that sometimes to squeeze inflation out of the system, you have to do things which inadvertently do cause a recession. A recession isnt the point of the policy. The point of the policy is to get rid of inflation, because in the end, you have high the end, if you have high inflation for time, you inflation for a long time, you can have recession anyway can have a recession anyway because inflation means people dont want to invest it means people, consumers dont want to spend. It means the economy doesnt work properly. It means doesnt work properly. It means strikes, it means debilitating action. So i would say the bank of england will probably raise Interest Rates today. I would say in my view, personal opinion, it shouldnt. Say in my view, personal opinion, it shouldnt. But id opinion, it shouldnt. But id also say if we get a really good inflation number for july, when the numbers come out in the middle of august, then it may turn out that this is the last fingers crossed, the last the 14th Interest Rate rise in this cycle. Cycle. So lets hope so. Liam, good to see you. Thanks very much indeed. Hopefully we can hit that peak base rate. That would be good news. But in the meantime, this affecting people the this is affecting people on the ground and down country. Ground up and down the country. Well, southeast england well, our southeast england reporter, addison is with reporter, ray addison is with someone on the very front line of this. Good morning to you, ray. Yeah, good morning to you both. Im here yeah, good morning to you both. Im here in yeah, good morning to you both. Im here in crawley in both. Im here in crawley in west sussex. And as youve been discussing, this morning, these continuous Interest Rate rises are having a massive impact on many people , particularly on many people, particularly on housing sales as well. Here in the south east of england, weve actually seeing the biggest fall, the biggest decrease in asking prices as high Mortgage Rates are forcing home owners to sell up fast. Now, one man whos beenin sell up fast. Now, one man whos been in the business for the last 30 years is darren greenaway. Hes the owner of greenaway. Hes the owner of greenaway. Hes the owner of greenaway residential, and he joins me now. Good morning, joins me now. Good morning, darren. Thanks very much for joining us. Now, how have you seen these these rises, these continual rises affect sales here in crawley and the wider area . Id say the last 12 months weve seen certainly property pnces weve seen certainly property prices easing already. Properties are staying on the market a lot longer and were now seeing definite trend of Price Reductions happening. Price reductions happening. Now were hearing that we might see another quarter of a percentage increase today. How will that affect the market and do you think that that could be the final increase before things sort of settle down and start falling again . I certainly dont think it would be the final increase. I reckon probably seen reckon weve probably seen Interest Rates up at least Interest Rates go up at least another 1, one and a half. Ive got horrible feeling todays increase will probably continue dampening the market. Were seeing First Time Buyers sitting back. Ive seen a lot of buy to let investors leaving the Property Market which is causing problems in the rental market as well, but also causing house pnces well, but also causing house prices to continue to start falling. Now as an interesting aside, you actually run your own charitable foundation, the greenaway , and greenaway foundation, and traditionally helps people traditionally that helps people out at christmas time struggling families. You were telling me earlier that youre actually seeing lot more people coming seeing a lot more people coming to for help earlier on to you for help earlier on because of the impact of these Interest Rates . It started off at yeah, it started off at christmas , but now seeing christmas, but were now seeing families come because families come to because we support schools come into school, things like school, uniform, food , food, travel. So uniform, food, food, travel. So theres a lot of problems with peoples Home Economics at the moment. So where do you think we go from here then . What are you hoping could happen . And what do you think the government could do to improve things . Obviously, they cant influence the bank of englands what englands decisions, but what could potentially could the government potentially be improve things for be doing to improve things for people home and people people, home owners and people looking to get on the property ladder . Certainly. Do more with stamp duty. We could see the 3 taken away for buy to let investors and help obviously for First Time Buyers. Again but partly i think that the were going to see these Interest Rates now for a good 24 months. Ive got a feeling. So this is here to stay for a while now. Darren greenaway, thank you very much for joining darren greenaway, thank you very much forjoining us. Really do appreciate it. Very much forjoining us. Really do appreciate it. Im going to be here in crawley all day just speaking families and other speaking to families and other people affected by these rises. And also of course, there is that rally outside the bank of england this morning at about 845 this morning. There protesting against what theyre calling the relentless hiking of these Interest Rates. Theyre saying its making the cost of living crisis worse. And theyre saying that perhaps the government should introduce a windfall tax on unearned profits, that banks are making from these rises. Okay ray, really good to see you this morning. And thank you for giving us that reaction on the ground really to people and what these what these decisions actually mean for real people out there up and down the country. Thats so important to hear. I just want to share this from tom burris and edmonds, whos emailed said , a friend emailed in and said, a friend of mine independent film mine is an independent film maker mortgage payments maker for his mortgage payments are going up £400 a month. His income isnt keeping pace. I wonder if thats anything to do as well with the Writers Strike thats the moment. Thats going on at the moment. And thats stalling a lot of film production. Hes now really worried about his home. Worried about losing his home. I mean, the reality, isnt mean, thats the reality, isnt it . Lose it . Yeah, people could lose homes decisions this. Homes over decisions like this. Very bad. Its very, very bad. Its very, very bad. So do you keep those views coming in on any of the stories that were talking about today . Gb views gbnews. Com. Gb views that gbnews. Com. Trump has hit now, donald trump has hit back just hours back at prosecutors just hours before appearance back at prosecutors just hours beforeon appearance back at prosecutors just hours beforeon charges ppearance back at prosecutors just hours beforeon charges ofaarance back at prosecutors just hours beforeon charges of trying; back at prosecutors just hours beforeon charges of trying to today on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The former president said the indictment was unprecedented and showed the corruption of the biden presidency. Biden presidency. Well, its the third time in four months hes been charged as he campaigns, of course, to regain the presidency. And meanwhile, his eldest, donald jr spoke to nigel farage last night talking about the timing of all of this. You know, i dont believe any of this has anything to do with january 6th. If it did and if january 6th. If it did and if january 6th. If it did and if january 6th was everything that they said, why , why, why, nigel, they said, why, why, why, nigel, did they wait two and a half years to charge him . I mean, the people that were there that did those, they were charged that day. Well i paul hawkins has been covering all of this story. Hes here with the very latest on this. Paul, i mean, its going to be quite a day. Its not as momentous as it could have been because this is now that well have now third time that well have seen court. But seen him appear in court. But these are very serious charges. Charges, its still charges, however, its still being treated absolutely tribally in the United States. Yeah, it is. And thats because a lot of the judges are politically appoint and i mean, this will be part of trumps defence when eventually it does come to trial. Its taking place in which is in washington, dc, which is means jury will probably be means the jury will probably be largely we that largely democrat. We know that the judge, chutkan , shes the judge, Tanya Chutkan, shes she was appointed by obama to the bench in 2014 and shes already come up against trump already come up against trump already when the House Congressional Committee thats looking into the january six riots wanted a certain set of documents he tried to exert executive privilege over that. It went to court. She ruled on it and said, no, the committee can have the documents. Its you can have the documents. Its you dont have the right to do that. So hes already come up against her. She wont be at the hearing later today. It starts at 9 00 uk time, 4 00 washington time. She wont be there. Itll be another judge. She wont be there. Itll be anotherjudge. But she wont be there. Itll be another judge. But we she wont be there. Itll be anotherjudge. But we know she wont be there. Itll be another judge. But we know Tanya Chutkan will oversee the trial when get when eventually we do get a date. But at the centre of this andifs date. But at the centre of this and its interesting listening to trumps son there to Donald Trumps son there talking the january 6th talking about the january 6th riots, this isnt just riots, that this isnt just about january 6th riots. About the january 6th riots. This 45 indictment. This is a 45 page indictment. Theres of detail and it theres a lot of detail and it covers two period covers the two month period leading to the january 6th leading up to the january 6th riots. And hes been very careful with his language because he talks about lies and deceit, fraud, and he talks about fuelling the riots , but about fuelling the riots, but not explicitly condoning them. And acting on them. So one of Donald Trumps defences will be the First Amendment of the constitution, an the right to freedom of speech and that he is absolutely within his rights to say that the outcome of the election was fraudulent. But what the prosecution will rely on is on tying that to actual actions. Essentially, in the actions. Essentially, in the states, you can walk into a bank and say, im going to rob you and say, im going to rob you and thats okay. Thats freedom of speech. But you then got to carry out the act. And so that will be part of the prosecution. That will also be part of Donald Trumps that trumps defence. And that and then seen charges then weve seen the charges there. To defraud the there. Conspiracy to defraud the us obstruct us conspiracy to obstruct an official obstruction us conspiracy to obstruct an offanal obstruction us conspiracy to obstruct an of1an official obstruction us conspiracy to obstruct an of1an official proceeding uction us conspiracy to obstruct an of1an official proceeding andyn of an official proceeding and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. At the citizens. If we look at the second there conspira ac to second one there conspira ac to obstruct proceeding, second one there conspira ac to obstruct the proceeding, second one there conspira ac to obstruct the certification ading, second one there conspira ac to obstruct the certification ofng, that was the certification of the results on january the 6th, which involved mike pence. Now, now this is literally from the document it said that document itself. It said that when the president called when the Vice President called the this is from mike the defendant, this is from mike pences notes, when the Vice President called the defendant to merry christmas, president called the defendant to defendant merry christmas, president called the defendant to defendant quickly hristmas, president called the defendant to defendant quickly hristmethe the defendant quickly turned the conversation 6th, conversation to january the 6th, and request that the vice and his request that the Vice President reject electoral votes on that day. Mike pence, according to his notes, said , according to his notes, said, you know, i dont think i have the authority to change the outcome. Trump then called him on day, and on new years day, and in another conversation, he then put pressure on again to not put pressure on him again to not certify results. And mike certify the results. And mike pence said didnt think he pence said he didnt think he had constitutional basis for had the constitutional basis for such that it was such authority and that it was improper. Such authority and that it was improper. Donald trump him, improper. Donald trump told him, youre too honest. This is according to mike pence notes. Mike pence, of course, running against in the next against donald trump in the next election. And can hear from election. And we can hear from him now on that day, President Trump asked me to put him over the constitution, but i chose the constitution, but i chose the constitution, but i chose the constitution and i always will. And i, i. I really do believe that anyone who puts himself over the constitution should never be president of the United States in anyone who asks someone else to put themselves over the constitution should never be president of the United States again. States again. Its an astonishing situation, isnt it, where you see the ex vp talking about the ex president not asking to choose him over the us constitution. And what is also extraordinary is the fact that this trial, as with the other two trials that we know so far of the indictments that will be taking place next year, when the trump 2024 campaign will be in full swing. Full swing. Yeah, youve got the primaries, so in march you have the trial into falsifying Business Records in new york. Thats thats breaking state law. Those are still criminal charges. But thats law. Those are still criminal charges. But thats breaking thats potentially breaking state law. And then in may, youve got the trial into looking into allegations that trump had those documents at his home in mar a lago, those top secret documents, documents. So the judge in charge of the trial in march has said, yeah, we can move it potentially if you want to do this trial then. But when you look at the calendar, youve got a series of caucuses, of meetings. Youve got the meetings. Youve got the primaries up to may, primaries running up to may, youve got three civil trials, 383 criminal trials. I mean, its just like logistically, just park aside the fact whether hes guilty or not and the implications of that logistically , me physically logistically, me physically getting from one place to another is going to be difficult because there are even clashes in calendar that. It in the calendar on that. So it makes it even more difficult to campaign. That said, at the moment hes way moment the polls show hes way aheadin moment the polls show hes way ahead in the primaries and in the national polls. About the national polls. Hes about neck with joe biden. Neck and neck with joe biden. But could in the weird but we could be in the weird position by by this time position that by by this time next year, donald trump could well have been convicted , could well have been convicted, could well have been convicted, could well have been sent to prison. Well have been sent to prison. And Tanya Chutkan, whos already shes been with a lot of shes been dealing with a lot of people who were involved in the violence january the she violence on january the 6th. She has prison has given out lengthy prison sentences, could be in sentences, but we could be in the position where the weird position where potentially a donald in potentially a Donald Trumps in jail and campaigning from jail and hes campaigning from prison. He could prison. Potentially, he could win the election from prison and govern from prison. This is completely uncharted territory. Govern from prison. This is com he tely uncharted territory. Govern from prison. This is com he could1charted territory. Govern from prison. This is com he could pardoni territory. Govern from prison. This is com he could pardon himselfy. Govern from prison. This is com he could pardon himself from and he could pardon himself from prison he could potentially prison and he could potentially pardon in prison, pardon himself in prison, although are legal although there are some legal experts well, the experts that say, well, the supreme get involved Supreme Court could get involved there. You its messy there. So you know, its messy and we really dont know whats going to happen and how its going to happen and how its going unfold. Going to happen and how its goiiill unfold. Going to happen and how its goiiill unyou. Going to happen and how its goiiill unyou what, though, ill tell you what, though, on positive side, it on the positive side, does it make our politics really make our politics seem really straightforward at the moment and less controversial . Yeah, yeah, it does. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, were all right, jack. Thanks very much indeed. In comparison. Yeah, for now, paul in comparison. Yeah, for now, paul. You very much. And potentially a fourth indictment coming his way if the georgia indictment comes through as. So going to be a as well. So its going to be a busy for donald trump, is busy 2024 for donald trump, is it not . Its just the idea that you could you could pardon yourself off from jail. That seems fundamentally wrong, doesnt it . You know, you should be if youve got the right to pardon other people , even thats other people, even thats slightly dodgy. I think. But, slightly dodgy. I think. But, you know, if you can do it, fine. But pardoning yourself that shouldnt ever be allowed. You can become president whilst sitting in a prison cell. Yeah. How does that sit with you . Do let us know what you you . Do let us know what you think on that. Vaiews gbnews. Com yeah. Very odd. Very odd. Yeah. Very odd. Very odd. Astonishing. Astonishing. Anyway, now strike action by Parking Enforcement staff. Not Parking Enforcement staff. Not our favourite people in the world. Sorry if you are one, but it could disrupt the cycling world champions tips in glasgow today. Yes the inaugural edition of the event will bring together various disciplines. One year pnor various disciplines. One year prior to the olympics. Well, our prior to the olympics. Well, our scotland reporter tony mcguire is there for us covering it. Good morning to you, tony. Good morning. Yes, well, nice good morning. Yes, well, nice to see that the suns finally made an appearance this week after a few pretty damp days up here in scotland. But certainly what a day for that to happen. Last night we saw the Opening Ceremony of this world class cycling event , the biggest of cycling event, the biggest of its kind in the world. And today and tomorrow , the first couple and tomorrow, the first couple of days worth of events are going to be held here at the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome in glasgow. Now about 6000 of the worlds top cyclists will compete in events over the next couple of weeks. And thats quite a lot to get excited about. But get excited about. But unfortunately with an event of this size and scale that also means that theres going to be quite a lot of disruption over the next couple of weeks for people in scotland to try and navigate their way around. So to navigate their way around. So to kind of break it down a little bit here in glasgow, so pretty much every main thoroughfare between the fourth and the eighth, which is tomorrow through to tuesday and then the following weekend, are going to be closed. Now that includes major roads in glasgow and its left many scratching their heads about how to actually get around. Now here in glasgow , at around. Now here in glasgow, at the very least, we do love a good bridge. So if you stick close to the water, its perfectly possible with a minor detour to get your way around. Detour to get your way around. But certainly as we go a bit further off into the more rural up in the perthshire town of aberfeldy and things are a bit different. So on the ninth different. So on the ninth theres going to be quite a large road race there and the ive got the name of it here, the medio fondo and the gran fondo are to going be up there. Fondo are to going be up there. And actually the one closure over a particular bridge which has left one user taking the internet to point out that the detour to get from point a to point b within aberfeldy is around 100 miles. So quite a different scenario in the more rural parts of the country. But rural parts of the country. But certainly right around scotland. Well, a lot of people are going to be extremely excited that this world class event is visited in our Little Country here. That actually we can celebrate it with some rather long petrol consumption. And drives that might not have been on the cards before all the major public transport organisers. So first bus, organisers. So first bus, stagecoach and even scotrail, theyve put out notices to their customers that of course quite a lot of services are going to be disrupted. Scotrail ran a bus between certain of the main stations here in glasgow, but scotrail is countering that with putting on quite a lot more Train Services over the next couple of weeks, which will hopefully alleviate some of the distress for the huge number of fans that expected to appear at events around the country. And events around the country. And we cant really talk about disruption without talking about just stop oil. And theyve been everywhere at major events over the months. This summer the last few months. This summer and earlier in july. And a source for the scottish sun had made a point that they intend an attack to appear at a race and disrupt on sunday. And that will cause people quite a lot of issues. And of course the edinburgh festivals are also happening. So wonder what happening. So i wonder what happensin happening. So i wonder what happens in the worlds biggest art festival collides with the worlds cycling event. Worlds biggest cycling event. It should a good, interesting it should be a good, interesting week if youre a pedestrian. Week if youre a pedestrian. Yeah, yeah, good point , tony. Yeah, yeah, good point, tony. Well, lets hope. Try and ease off some of that disruption. Off some of that disruption. Thank you very much for bringing us up there on the world us up to date there on the world cycling championships taking place where place in glasgow, where apparently their apparently they like their bridges. Like their bridges. They they like their bridges. They are, know, on this whole are, you know, on this whole money thing. Yes. I was just struck by an email from brian morning brian, because morning to you, brian, because this something would have this is something i would have really disagreed with not that long ago. And now im not so sure. Brian says the money men run everything. They care nothing for britain and its inhabitants as long as they can stuff their pockets. And i would have argued against that, brian. I would have said, no, thats so cynical. Well i might change my cynical. Well i might change my mind, but this is this is the problem with what were seeing at the moment. Does it just no one seems to take into consideration on little old you and me in all of this. Consideration on little old you and me in all of this. I know and me in all of this. I know youve got to look at the macro picture, the macro economics and all that. Youve got to yes, of all that. Youve got to yes, of course youve got to do that. But you cant do that whilst ignonng but you cant do that whilst ignoring fact that people ignoring the fact that people cant afford the cant afford to go to the supermarket and cant afford to pay supermarket and cant afford to pay and arent pay the mortgage and arent getting work and getting a pay rise at work and all sort of well, they all that sort of well, they wont be able keep their wont be able to keep their homes or businesses. I mean, thats the reality. I mean, sally says shes being forced move out the forced to move out of the home that shes built three that shes built for three years. Happen in the years. This will happen in the spnng years. This will happen in the spring the fixed rate spring when the fixed Rate Mortgage term because her mortgage term ends because her mortgage term ends because her mortgage going up by mortgage will be going up by about month, she says. About £2,000 a month, she says. Who that kind of money . She who has that kind of money . She says shes already taken a salary hit to keep her pharmacy business alive , as of course, business alive, as of course, the Pharmacy Community is collapsing due to a lack of funding. She says happy times are really, really challenging. Are really, really challenging. Oh dear sir. Well, on a lighter note, because the daily star reckons that the worlds top scientists, spacex scientist, is going to reveal evidence of alien stuff. Right a meteor crashed into the ocean. Well, its not a meteor. Its a spaceship. And hes got evidence , apparently. All right, john says and its a fair point. If says and its a fair point. If auens says and its a fair point. If aliens have the technology to travel across the universe , its travel across the universe, its highly unlikely that so many of them would crash when they get here. Cant argue with that, john. Thats a very good point. Thats a very good point. I hadnt really thought of that, but that is an excellent point. Yeah, very well said. Yeah, very well said. Very well. There you go. Now, you know, youre getting older when the policeman start looking youngen when the policeman start looking younger, explain more after younger, will explain more after the weather. The weather. Warm feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello there. And Greg Dewhurst. And welcome to your latest news. Weather forecast a brighter day overall. While brighter day overall. While there will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny should just sunny spells, it should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern but central southern parts, but generally cloudy generally quite a cloudy picture, a northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery rain across northern and Western Areas through into the areas and then through into the afternoon, an increase afternoon, well see an increase in risk of some showers developing a few of could developing a few of these could be perhaps thundery at be heavy, perhaps thundery at times, will some times, but there will be some sunny places sunny spells, some places staying particularly staying dry, particularly towards the east and south east of here, of england. And here, temperatures reaching 22 or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still the evening time. Showers still the risk of some heavy ones across eastern areas, but starting become from starting to become drier from the west some clear spells the west with some clear spells overnight showers during the overnight to showers during the early hours. Generally on the light side , but still feeding in light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the on friday. Best of the the day. On friday. Best of the sunny spells and dry weather across the uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of some showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of these could be heavy at times and then signs rain coming in and then signs of rain coming in by end day across the by the end of the day across the far behind me there, far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar , reaching the high teens similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s as that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news. Now theres all this controversy at the moment about baby faced bobby is have a look at this. At this. This is from West Yorkshire police and got trolled online on right for putting this this picture on i mean look obviously you know some some things are a pr stunt and some things are just putting something you know but baby bobbys are getting younger or or at least they appear to be like doctors and that sort of thing. And have that sort of thing. And have a look at this very young police constable. Well you see theres a baby face, bobby, for you. But what happens in a few years . You what happens in a few years . You turn into this. There you go. Turn into this. There you go. Quite a few years , quite a quite a few years, quite a few years. Few years. And look, i mean, look , you and look, i mean, look, you can i mean, ridiculous that people get upset about that tweet. Frankly. Its just ridiculous. But there does seem to be, as a result of that concern over baby face bobbys, were not recruiting them any younger than we used to, are we . No. No, not at all. In fact, there has been a bit of a trend for more mature people being encouraged to join the police. But youre youre good but if youre if youre good enough, old enough. My enough, youre old enough. My concern be how is concern would be how good is their training . And their training . And unfortunately, is unfortunately, what is undeniable is the police have lost a lot of very experienced officers in recent times. So officers in recent times. So those young officers keen as mustard, as im sure they are, will they be shown how to do the job on the streets by more experienced officers , or is it experienced officers, or is it probationary officer with probationary officer with probationary officer with probationary officer kind of fumbling as they go along . I mean, you need the old dixon of dock green thing , dont you . Dock green thing, dont you . With with. I cant remember the name of his young constable that he had alongside him, but its, its that sort of thing isnt it. Its the older one taking along the younger one because is what so many Senior Police officers fail to appreciate a lot of policing appreciate is a lot of policing cannot be learned in books. Cannot be learned in books. You learn it out on the streets. Its where you hone streets. Its where you hone your senses. Its where you develop your sense of common sense. Its where you learn sense. Its where you learn discretion , none of which is discretion, none of which is going to be taught in a classroom particularly. No. And unfortunately , if theres not unfortunately, if theres not experienced cops showing you the way, experience wont be way, that experience wont be handed down. Is this respect issue as is this a respect issue as well, peter, where the public simply dont respect people that look young, they dont respect their authority . Their authority . Well, we do live in a much less deferential society than we did when i grew up. Less deferential society than we did when i grew up. And i think did when i grew up. And i think , unfortunately, the police, to a certain extent, have made a bit of a rod for their own back because Neighbourhood Policing got decimate. Did some will say, got decimate. Did some will say, because of Counter Terrorism policing that was necessary. But policing that was necessary. But however, i think the importance of Neighbourhood Policing was dramatically underestimated and so young people dont know that local Police Officer, they dont know his or her name and likewise the officers dont know the errant youths. Yeah. And so the errant youths. Yeah. And so when theyre completely unknown and suddenly that officer gets out of a car and rocks up, there isnt that, oh, heres pc so and so. Yeah. Come on, button it, lets go. Yeah. I mean , and thats, thats i mean, and thats, thats a really big thing , isnt it . Really big thing, isnt it . Because you cant help but think a lot of the crimes which affect a lot of the crimes which affect a lot of us which arent being looked into now and your, your burglaries , your petty thefts, burglaries, your petty thefts, you know, all this sort of stuff. I mean, presumably in the past thered be officer past thered be an officer saying, oh, i know which door to start knocking for on this one. Oh, absolutely. But also major crime as well. I mean, major crime as well. I mean, back in the day, the brilliant as they were called home beat officers. So neighbourhood officers. So neighbourhood officers , they would out of officers, they would go out of the Police Station for an eight hour shift and they would come back a wash with tea and a wash with information. And that information passed to information would be passed to on whoever it was was was going to act it, whether it be to act upon it, whether it be very serious crime about armed robberies and the like, or whether it was crime perhaps of a local theft or a local burglary passed on to whoever deau burglary passed on to whoever dealt with those crimes. And of dealt with those crimes. And of course, that beat officer would go back onto their beat. The following day as we were kicking in doors and arresting people based on the information wed been given. And nobody ever had been given. And nobody ever had any suspicion about that beat cop because they could pass all the information on knowing that he wouldnt act upon it or she other than passing it on. Yeah. And there are benefits, arent there, a younger arent there, to being a Younger Police you think Police Officer. You think you might quicker, might be might be quicker, might be fitter and hungrier to solve crime. Is that what you find in your experience or are we not hiring people like that . Well with that rather embarrassing photograph, there , as i was photograph, there, as i was a cadet soon to become a constable thereafter. Yeah , i was as keen as yeah, i was as keen as mustard and athletic and had done a lot of training and all that kind of stuff. So caught many a burglar who thought he could outrun me and the like , could outrun me and the like, but unfortunately, yet another really ridiculous idea from Senior Police officers, the college of policing and the National Police chiefs council. In recent years is to encourage what they call healthy churn on a ridiculous statement. Well, thats really. Well, thats really. Yeah. So thats they think that its fine for a Police Officer to come in, join the service , do three, four, five, service, do three, four, five, six years and then go. They think that churn is useful. Well, of course it manifests , well, of course it manifests, fails the public because you really become more competent, more capable and more able. The more capable and more able. The more experienced you get. So those career cops on top who lay down these stupid things and encourage ridiculous stuff like churn actually are clearly so dismissive of those on the front line that they dont care if they do three or 4 or 5 years and then go, which of course is nonsense. The training, the uniform, the experience all disappearing. Disappearing. Well, what i dont understand about this, do these idiots not like the rest of us. Sit down over the years and watch inspector morse or a touch of frost or. Well, its always the experienced look. They might be fiction, but its the experienced detective whos actually you know, piecing it all together. Theyve all been too busy trotting off to universal city. Excuse me , so that they get excuse me, so that they get letters after their names. Letters after their names. Because having letters in front of their names simply wasnt sufficient. They wanted to go and become part of the intelligentsia, and intelligentsia, you know, and come policing with their come back to policing with their heads of mumbo jumbo heads full of mumbo jumbo claptrap from university that really has no practical place within policing. It might do within policing. It might do within policing. It might do within management, but not policing. And of course they policing. And of course they were so keen to get away from the rough and tumble of the frontline. Those sort of officers anyway, that they really down their as really looked down their nose as it being a bit distasteful i honestly, lam honestly, it does make you wonder back to basic clearly is what we need and im sure thats what we need and im sure thats what bleksley would liked. You look very smart, peter. I love that photo. Love that photo. Thank standards are thank you. Standards are important. Important. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are. Brilliant stuff, as always. Good see thank you very good to see you. Thank you very much let know what much indeed. Let us know what you that, because you think about that, because i have say, mean, i love it have to say, i mean, i love it when peter comes on, because you do. Its that its that common sense do sense thing, isnt it . How do you arguably what he just you arguably what what he just said its very hard to , said there, its very hard to, isnt it . Think so. Think isnt it . I think so. I think its very and its that its very hard. And its that whole back to basics thing. Lets get back to community policing. People feel a friendship and a respect that for a local officer. There getting all the information pass it on reduces crime. You feel like somethings happening if youre the victim of crime and its trust, isnt it . And trust if a Police Officer is visual , if you know them and is visual, if you know them and you know them, see them in the street and say hello and talk to you, you build up that relationship, dont you . You build up trust. And then perhaps thats where respect from. Thats where respect come from. Comes thats where respect come from. Conyeah, but ill tell what, yeah, but ill tell you what, even if do deal with a very even if you do deal with a very young Police Officer, still show them yes because them respect. Yes because theyre a good job. They theyre doing a good job. They are. M are. Do you stay with now, do you stay with us . Now, do you stay with us . They younger, though, they do get younger, though, do doctors, are you do they . And doctors, are you just getting doctors get young . Its terrifying. Go to its terrifying. You go to hospital really the Doctors Hospital now. Really the doctors are straight out nappies. Are the straight out nappies. Its what its what it feels like. Oh could you just take your shirt off for me for. I beg your pardon . I beg your pardon . I beg your pardon . I beg your pardon . I dont think so. Oh, this is i dont think so. Oh, this is what youve got to get used to. When you get older. Youve got that to come. All this i all. Yeah, its all coming down the track. It is soon enough. Now, do you stay with us. Lots more this side us. Lots more to come this side as all the news and views as well. All the news and views from thursdays thats. Next time for the papers this morning. Political consultant emma burnell and the Deputy Editor of the spectator, mr freddie grey, are here. Good morning to you. Good morning. Morning to you. Good morning. Should we kick off with the telegraph . Freddie and a cabinet minister yes. Facing an inquiry i this is david davis, not david. Oh yes, the other one. Yeah. Yeah. Whos welsh secretary has got into trouble over a leaflet that hed a Campaign Leaflet that he put out which said theres a Gypsy Community are coming to live near you. What do you think about it . The police are about it . The police are investigating this as a possible racist incident. It ties into racist incident. It ties into sort of what the tory party are trying to do at the moment, which is fight the culture wars a little bit harder and not give in to Political Correctness and so on. And i suspect thats why its on the front page of the telegraph. Telegraph. What you reckon, emma it what do you reckon, emma it leaves a bit of a funny , funny leaves a bit of a funny, funny taste in the mouth. Its very, very common. Complex, i think look , and complex, i think look, and travellers and they are two separate communities. Its worth always remember that roma travellers are separate from other types of travellers and there are lots of different communities here. There are also irish travellers are a really, really a minority who face an awful lot of hatred and misunderstanding and oppression and communities are generally very wary of travellers sites. Very wary of travellers sites. Sometimes theyre are reasons for that. Sometimes there are not and it shouldnt be a blanket. Do you want these People Living next door to you . Its too reminiscent of some of the leaflets we saw in the 60s. If you want x for a neighbour, vote labour and. But on the other hand, should the police be involved in this that that leaves it also leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I dont think taste in my mouth. I dont think i dont think david davis every time i say that i think of top cat. Im so sorry. Thats fine. I dont think he should have used this kind of language. Hes used this kind of language. Hes clearly dog whistling. On the clearly dog whistling. On the other hand, i. Im just getting a little tired of the police. A little tired of the police. Weve got a 1 conviction crime of rape. I think there are other things the police could be spending their time with. There surely has to be some sort of middle ground here. But is it not . Perhaps the tone of the leaflet was wrong, but is it not a fair enough thing to campaign on if youre campaigning represent thing to campaign on if youre campaignof] represent thing to campaign on if youre campaignof an represent thing to campaign on if youre campaignof an areaesent thing to campaign on if youre campaignof an area andt residents of an area and residents of an area and residents are concerned about a development, a Community Coming to live in their neighbourhood, its a fair thing to say i will stop it, but its not a parliamentary decision. Its a local council decision. If youre running to be a local councillor, absolutely. If youre be a local councillor, absolutely. If youre running as an mp , what youre doing is an mp, what youre doing is raising an issue. You have no power intervene in order power to intervene over in order to stoke up a controversial. To stoke up a controversial. Thats a fair point. Its thats a fair point. Its a fair point, emma. Lets have a look at something totally different, shall we . In the eye. This is about the pop star. Lizzo yes. So lizzo has been a real champion for women of my size and bigger who and particularly larger black women. Her whole Body Positive Movement has been something that has been seen as a really great way of showing that women of all sizes can be dancers, singers, you know, extra ordinary sort of prowess on the dance floor. And unfortunately , she is now being unfortunately, she is now being accused of behind the scenes having very, very different attitudes and body shaming. Some attitudes and body shaming. Some of her her plus size dancers and also asking them to do really quite extraordinarily graphic things and putting pressure on them to behave in ways that i would be very uncomfortable with in whilst on tour in certain clubs that you can find in amsterdam, lets put it that way. Yeah. No, this is this needs i mean if shes putting on an act and saying one thing and behind the scenes doing Something Else that totally destroys her credibility. Yeah. Shes seen pop stars never do that, do they . But she really is seen as this beacon of body positivity. Yes. And i think theres an element, it seems to me, not that i know anything about lizzo, but just from reading the stories, it seems an element of woke going her woke screening going on in her behaviour. When people behaviour. You know, when people sort virtuousness sort of proclaim virtuousness publicly up the fact publicly to cover up the fact that theyre actually maybe , that theyre actually maybe, maybe all talking of wokeness , maybe all talking of wokeness, lets just, just in 30s prince harry and meghan are very much in love and we know that because theyve filmed themselves together. Well, you know , together. Well, you know, journalists talk about questions to which the answer is no. Yeah will harry and meghans loved up. Video silence the gossips. Up. Video silence the gossips. Yes. No. No yeah. So there we go. Everyone has the same opinion they had before they made the video. But we all like to have our opinions confirmed. But theyve opinions confirmed. But theyve got a new pr push drive going on. Meghans signed up to some agency. Theyre trying to do agency. Theyre trying to do a sort of comeback story. You know, you hated us for an hour, but now see that were actually a lovely couple. It work . A lovely couple. Will it work . We shall wait and see. The last thing i want. Yeah. The last thing i want. Why cant they just sit quietly in their montecito mansion and not these sort of things . I mean, i dont care either way. As you know, i just find the whole thing baffling. Theyve got make and theyve got to make money and they want stay relevant, they want to stay relevant, dont they . Theyve money. How but theyve got money. How much do they of much more money do they need of millions of pounds without security . They want they want the they want billionaire lifestyle. Want the billionaire lifestyle. True. Yeah, thats true. Yeah, thats true. You go. Look well, there you go. Look emma. Freddie, its been really good you all morning this morning. Pleasure. Pleasure. Great pleasure. A pleasure. Thank well well, weve got thank you. Well well, weve got lots still to come for you, lots more still to come for you, but all of that, you need but before all of that, you need to what the weather to know what the weather is going to do. Warm feeling inside from that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst. And welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. A brighter day overall. There will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells it should feel spells it should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late morning. The best of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite picture , a quite a cloudy picture, a northerly bringing some northerly breeze bringing some patchy showery rain across northern Western Areas and northern and Western Areas. And then the afternoon then through into the afternoon , well see an increasing risk of showers developing. Of some showers developing. A few of these could heavy, few of these could be heavy, perhaps times, but perhaps thundery at times, but there sunny spells, there will be some sunny spells, some dry , some places staying dry, particularly towards the east and of england. And and south east of england. And here, temperatures reaching 22 or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west that northerly west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still the risk of some heavy ones across areas , but ones across eastern areas, but starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells over night. Showers during over night. Two showers during the early hours. Generally on the early hours. Generally on the side , but still the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier further east, risk cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally how it stays through the friday. Best of the the day on friday. Best of the sunny spells and dry weather across of the across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of could be heavy at of these could be heavy at times. Then signs of rain times. And then signs of rain coming in by the end of the day across the far behind me across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar , reaching the generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on my way. Good morning. Its 9 00 and this is breakfast on gb news with stephen and ellie. Yeah, weve got lots going on for you this morning. Key thing, of course , Interest Rates, of course, Interest Rates, decision. Were expecting well, decision. Were expecting well, we will hear that at noon today. The big question is, will Interest Rates go up for a 14th consecutive time , which would consecutive time, which would hit you in the pocket . And the hit you in the pocket . And the sad news is it looks like it will all in an attempt to kerb inflation. But is it actually going to work . We just dont know. Also, for you coming up, were going to be talking to Jonathan Reynolds , who is Jonathan Reynolds, who is labours shadow secretary of state for business. And going to be finding out what hes got in mind about the Interest Rates, but also what he thinks the government needs to be doing about debt, which is absolutely hugein about debt, which is absolutely huge in this country and needs to be addressed. So well get his views on that as well for you this morning. And were also going to be talking about that bakery story, hashtag gate, got hashtag cake gate, thats got you this morning. You all talking this morning. Our phillips our lovely Ellie Phillips is going in the studio going to be in the studio telling us all about that and rumours as well the jungle. Rumours as well of the jungle. This year. All of that coming up. Is breakfast gb news up. This is breakfast on gb news i we were just talking about police with Peter Bleksley a minute ago. I mean , on the minute ago. I mean, on the premise that theres been complaints about babyface bobbies and things. But peter was going into great detail about what needs to be done to the police force to make it work. Hes no nonsense, isnt he . Hes no nonsense, isnt he . Hes no nonsense, isnt he . Hes no nonsense. Ill tell hes no nonsense. Ill tell you what, hes blooming brilliant. And jim says as a retired constable, your guest, peter, is absolutely right. And its about getting young people in, teaming them up with older people , community policing, people, community policing, getting the area, getting to know the area, getting to know the area, getting to know those tidbits of information , making it all work information, making it all work. Thats what we need, andy says. We need a military style police force, not social workers in uniform. Yeah, jones says. Get the yeah, jones says. Get the police and nurses out of uni. Who wants to start a job in debt anyway . Them to learn on anyway . Get them to learn on the job, the theory and they job, learn the theory and they will learn with experience. I think a lot of people would agree joan and peter agree with you, joan and peter was saying something which i think very interesting thing. Think is very interesting thing. He saying too, this was he was saying too, this was off actually. Hes off air, actually. He hes saying is being saying too much time is being spent reaching to groups , spent reaching out to groups, whether its on, you know , sex, whether its on, you know, sex, genden whether its on, you know, sex, gender, sexuality, race, religion, you know, having these outreach groups and meetings and things , he said theyre all things, he said theyre all victims of crime. If you actually just deal with crime in these communities as it happens , then you gain their respect because youre doing a good job for them. And i would never have for them. And i would never have thought of it in those terms, but its a really good point, isnt it . Back to basics policing essentially , isnt it . Bobbies essentially, isnt it . Bobbies on the beat, solving crime . Yeah beating burglars, putting people in jail. Thats what people want to see. They want to see crimes being solved. And their community. Because at the moment it feels as though if people are being shoplifted or theres a burglary taking many burglary taking place, many people report people dont even report it anymore. Yeah get is a anymore. Yeah best you get is a crime number. Yeah, exactly. For insurance purposes, do keep those on that those views coming in on that story any of stories that story or any of the stories that were talking today. Were talking about today. Gbs at we were at cbnnews. Com, as we were saying, the bank of england is poised to Interest Rates poised to raise Interest Rates for the 14th consecutive month. Today as it tries to get control of inflation on. Well, signs do suggest that inflation is slowly coming down, with policy makers set to opt for a quarter rather than a half point rise. Point rise. Lets talk to our east midlands. Reporter will hollis, whos with a Peoples Panel for us this morning. Whos with a Peoples Panel for us this morning. What do they us this morning. What do they make of it all . Will good morning. Yes, its not unlike me to get a chance to sit in a cafe when i should be working, but when theres an opportunity to do so and work as well is the kind of thing that i like to do, isnt it . Stephen and ellie . Were here, of course , in chesterfield at number ten cafe and restaurant because weve Peoples Panel, weve got the Peoples Panel, because ultimately were the peoples channel and this the peoples channel and this is the kind where we want to kind of place where we want to hear people think hear what regular people think of big news of the day. Of of the big news of the day. Of course, big news day course, the big news of the day is that Interest Rate decision. How going affect how is it going to affect peoples mortgages . People that have of a debt, how have a little bit of a debt, how much more going to have much more are they going to have to back . And people that to pay back . And the people that dont that kind of stuff dont have that kind of stuff yet but like to make those yet but would like to make those decisions future. Now, decisions in the future. Now, its to be joined by its a pleasure to be joined by joss and teresa. Youre from chester field area. Just chester field local area. Just start you. First of all, start with you. First of all, just describe what do you just describe to me what do you do . A web designer. Just describe to me what do you do . |m a web designer. Just describe to me what do you do . |m a a web designer. Just describe to me what do you do . |m a web ileb designer. Just describe to me what do you do . |m a web designerner. Just describe to me what do you do . |m a web designer and im a web designer and Digital Marketer small Digital Marketer for Small Businesses in the local area. So i promote our businesses and hopefully get them more customers in and make them more profits. Profits. A tough time for Small Business. Whats it like for the people that help Small Businesses for you trying to make in this time of high make a way in this time of high inflation and high Interest Rates in a moment rates difficult in a moment because businesses are not intent on investing. And unfortunately they have to invest and put the services and they dont want want to invest in it. And its becoming stagnant. Theres not much stagnant. Theres not much growth. And so businesses are keeping hold of their money at the moment, waiting to see whats going to happen in the future. Websites are the kind of thing that you need to keep up to but i imagine that the to date, but i imagine that the kind that businesses kind of thing that businesses will one if theyve will put to one side if theyve got staff wages, does got to pay staff wages, does that mean that your business doesnt much cash doesnt get quite as much cash flow theres not as much flow when theres not as much cash not as such . If cash around or not as such . If businesses have got a website and they do nothing with it, the website is going to do nothing at all. And so theres no point in like having and so in like having it. And so basically they to keep it basically they need to keep it updated. Need to have it updated. They need to have it regularly maintained, etcetera. And if they dont, then theyll suffer and lose money. Teresa so youre the kind of Small Business that joss would be helping. Youve got a family , a family business, a restaurant cafe Italian Restaurant and cafe italian themed. Describe for themed. Just describe for me whats of your whats kind of the usp of your business here in chesterfield. Well, i manufacture pasta so well, i manufacture pasta sauces. Thats i started in sauces. Thats how i started in 2005. And i do have a website, but like you say , its just sat but like you say, its just sat there and it does need a somebody to keep it up there and then i moved from my family home and in 2011 to the family restaurant. And thats where restaurant. And thats where i manufacture all the pasta sauces and ive developed the restaurant. Its an italian cafe restaurant. Its an italian cafe pasta bar. And how is that going . Right now when weve had high inflation for a couple of years now, we had the pandemic before that. Since you took over, hows it been and how is it right now . Well, obviously in the beginning i built it up beginning i just built it up really slowly. And then the really slowly. And then the pandemic hit. Really slowly. And then the pandemic hit. And but i had to pandemic hit. And but i had to adapt the business. And i was quick thinking if we changed it to takeaway only and then we did deliveries. But yeah, all all deliveries. But yeah, all all the way through ive had to change the, the structure of it really quick thinking and keeping up with the times basically. And luckily ive been basically. And luckily ive been lucky and im still going. So it , its, its been hard. Its been tough. Ive got two girls to look after. Been tough. Ive got two girls to look after. Im single not that that means anything but you know its been difficult. It has been difficult. And obviously been difficult. And obviously Interest Rates going up, Business Rates have got to pay for. Theres just so much less cash out right now. Cash out right now. I mean, im working hard. Some of the days i can be doing from 6 00 in the morning till 1 00 in the morning. Its tough , but good job. I enjoy what i do long, long days and a long day ahead. As well today, teresa and joss, because weve got the Peoples Panel, weve taken over number ten cafe and were here right up until the end of the day to talk about those Interest Rates. We cant get you out of the pubs, we cant get you out of the cafes any opportunity. Hes hes sitting the middle of a hes sitting in the middle of a cafe. So much. Were cafe. Thanks so much. Were really, really good to hear from really, really good to hear from real people that these decisions are affecting. Talk our yeah. Lets talk to our economics editor economics and Business Editor Liam Halligan here in the studio. Well, you are a real person, but ill tell you what, expert, what we to expert, this is what we need to be hearing about. This is what the a real the people want to be a real boy. Yeah, but this is this is what the people on the on the Monetary Policy committee need to listening to these to be listening to, to these small dont they . Small businesses, dont they . Should talking small we should be talking to Small Business people that business owners, people that work businesses day in, work in Small Businesses day in, day on gb news, should day out on gb news, they should have whole their own have their whole their own dedicate of our dedicate rated part of our schedule because these are the people who employ three quarters of across the country are of us across the country are small and Medium Sized Enterprises and generate at least half of our total gdp, our total economy. And a lot of them are suffering because weve had so many Interest Rate rises. So many Interest Rate rises. Lets have a look at a graphic and gb news radio listeners can listen to my commentary on it. If we look at Interest Rates over recent years, we havent got that graphic in. Im afraid theyre trying to grab it for us. Well, maybe they can grab it. Just put it on the screen when you and ill Start Talking you can and ill Start Talking about basically, weve about it. But basically, weve had rate rises in had 13 Interest Rate rises in around 18 months since late 2021. And now were at 5. Okay thats because inflation is still high. Its still 7. 9. Its still high. Its still 7. 9. Its still almost four times the bank of englands 2 target. Its much higher than in america, where its 3. In the eurozone, its 5. 5. Here we go. So weve now got this up on the screen. Another Interest Rate rise question mark. Back in 2017, we saw the Interest Rates were ultra low at half a they went down down to a quarter during the covid lockdown there. And since then , since late 2021, since then, since late 2021, theyve gone up 13 times. Theyre now at 5. Will we see an increase again today . I think we will. I dont think we should, but i think we will. And i think well see Interest Rates go up to 5. 25, which will knock Mortgage Rates up again. Mortgage rates up again. Unfortunately and hopefully, though, if inflation keeps coming down, this may be the last increase. Okay , liam, stay there. Well okay, liam, stay there. Well come back to you in a minute, because in the meantime, weve just been joined by the shadow business secretary, john reynolds. To see you this reynolds. Good to see you this morning. And this is grim news for everyone. If this if this comes to pass and its going, we could see the 14th consecutive rise. Are you expecting that to happen . Do you think . Happen . Do you think . Yeah, i think everyone expects that to happen today. And whilst these decisions are independent, theyre with the bank of england. I think everyone supports and respects that system. Weve got be that system. Weve got to be conscious what the impact conscious of what the impact of that be. The feature that will be. And the feature you just had showed that obviously huge concerns as well you just had showed that obvpeopleslge concerns as well you just had showed that obv peoples mortgages,; as well you just had showed that obvpeoples mortgages, butwell you just had showed that obvpeoples mortgages, but also for peoples mortgages, but also for peoples mortgages, but also for the governments of for the governments cost of borrowing. Would say that borrowing. And i would say that whilst we whilst you would want to, we want those decisions from the bank england be to bank of england to be to independent on what the independent be based on what the economic are right Economic Conditions are right now, there is an expansive role for government needs for government that needs to happen minimise exposure happen to minimise our exposure to as to these pressures. I think as liam said, we are major liam just said, we are a major outlier in uk compared outlier now in the uk compared to inflation in the eurozone or to inflation in the eurozone or to so for instance, to the us. And so for instance, the kind of things i would want to see the government trying to do, all to realise do, first of all to realise weve so exposed weve been so exposed particularly the price of particularly to the price of natural going into this natural gas going into this crisis, minimising crisis, we should be minimising our those fossil our exposure to those fossil fuels, doubling down on fuels, not doubling down on them. If look at the them. I think if you look at the amount of workers british amount of workers in the british economy, particularly chat economy, particularly some chat today 50 today about people over 50 leaving the Labour Market. Well actually those people actually a lot of those people are waiting lists. Are stuck on waiting lists. Thats to focus for the thats got to be a focus for the government get those people government to get those people back position they back in a position where they can go to work and finally, you know, look at the trade deals that as a country. That weve got as a country. Look for instance, our deal look at, for instance, our deal with eu not covering with the eu not covering agriculture food prospects. Agriculture and food prospects. Therefore got therefore where youve got higher more higher levels of checks, more bureaucracy, more delay in that, that impact on food that has an impact on food prices. The agenda the prices. Thats the agenda the government should pursuing a government should be pursuing a resilient prosperous resilient and prosperous economy. Bank of economy. So yes, the bank of england difficult england have got difficult decisions but decisions to make today, but theres government in theres a role for government in minimising pressures as minimising those pressures as well. Yeah, in terms of that well. Yeah, but in terms of that resilience, talk resilience, i mean, you talk about about the gas and about you talk about the gas and being exposed to the price of gas. And i know even if were producing our own, it then still has into international. Has to go into international. Say that again. You can say that again. You can say that again. I certainly can. You yeah, i certainly can. You talk about the exposure to natural gas prices. And even if natural gas prices. And even if we produce more of our own that goes into the International Market at the minute so it doesnt necessarily affect the price. However it has gone off. It sounds gone well. Well come it sounds gone well. Well come back you we can. Ill put back to you if we can. Ill put that to you. Liam though, because i bet you can answer it. Right. But its, its the so its not necessarily cheaper if we produce our own gas because of this International Pricing structure thing. Or maybe we structure thing. Or maybe we could change it. Structure thing. Or maybe we could change it. I dont structure thing. Or maybe we could change it. I dont know. Could change it. I dont know. But its still important to have Energy Security, which is what we dont have at the moment. There are lots of reasons rishi sunak would say why it makes sense to use more north sea oil and gas. Believe it or not, stephen, we still rely on oil and gas in this country for all talk of this country for all the talk of renewables, for three quarters of our energy right, renewables, for three quarters of our energy right , for three of our energy right, for three quarters of our energy, because so much oil and gas is used in transport. But also heating , 40 transport. But also heating, 40 of our electricity is generated by gas. And it makes a lot more sense to use the gas that we have here in the uk, partly for Energy Security reasons, partly for Carbon Footprint reasons. For Carbon Footprint reasons. Weve been heavily reliant since the war in ukraine on what we call lng. Whats that . Thats uquefied call lng. Whats that . Thats liquefied natural gas. That means you get gas in a in australia to in america in the middle east, particularly qatar. You then spend loads and loads of energy turning that gas into a liquid , a very highly energy a liquid, a very highly Energy Intensive process. You then intensive process. You then stick it on a tanker thats then diesel powered it from america. Its 3000 miles from australia. Its 3000 miles from australia. Its 3000 miles from australia. Its even more. And that, of course, causes carbon emissions. And then when it gets to the uk, we have to regasify that liquid, which again is massively Energy Intensive. Its not exaggeration to say that if we use lng from america , even use lng from america, even america, which is relatively near compared to those other places, we are using three times more carbon than if we just used, extracted and used gas from the north sea. So as a carbon issue too, as an Energy Security issue, theres also a money issue too. If were producing oil and gas in the uk, were getting tax. And by the were getting tax. And by the way, these oil and Gas Producers in the uk, a lot of them small firms, theyre paying 75 on their profits. And i dont agree their profits. And i dont agree with that. I think thats far too high. I think its discouraging north sea exploration, particularly now the governments handed out 100 new and drilling new oil and gas drilling licences contradiction, licences complete contradiction, complete mis thinking within the treasury to be handing out all these licences then taxing these licences and then taxing them 75 rate. But them at a 75 profit rate. But at least were getting some tax revenue. So its tax, its security , its carbon emissions. Security, its carbon emissions. Thats why sunak is going for more drilling in the north sea. Talking about what you think government decisions. I was fascinated by Jonathan Reynolds saying , you know, the bank of saying, you know, the bank of england clearly independent and, you know, and its absolutely right that that that that continues to happen. Gordon continues to happen. Gordon brown brought that in. There is an argument now, isnt there, to say. Right. It served its purpose back in the late 90s and 2000. Its now time to take back control of Interest Rate decisions. There is an argument, you know, im an ofcom regulated chap. Im here to give various sides of the story. So i will. There is that argument because the bank of england has been so slow off the mark to raise Interest Rates and now even with an independent bank of england, weve double digit inflation weve had double digit inflation for a long time, since last summer , interest inflation was summer, interest inflation was in double digits. Its now still almost four times the 2 target has come down to 7. 9. So thats the case. And you know, Andrew Bailey, has he done a great job . A lot of people would say that he hasnt, with all respect to him. Lets just get rid of bank of england independence, right. My of england independence, right. My which counter my view, which is the counter view, that the problem isnt view, is that the problem isnt that the bank of is that the bank of england is independent, that the bank of england is indeproblem, that the bank of england is indeproblem is that the bank of the problem is that the bank of england isnt independent enough. And been absolutely enough. And its been absolutely taken treasury and bank taken over by treasury and bank of england groupthink. Look, i of england groupthink. Look, i think we need a lot more free thinkers, a lot more highly qualified economists who dont ascribe to this view that low taxes are always bad, that dont ascribe to this view that we, you know, we shouldnt care about the amount of money that we create and quantitative easing was always a good thing. I think we need more independent, out of the box thinkers in the bank of englands Monetary Policy committee as they were in the late 90s early by the late 90s and early 2000. By the way , in fairness, under a labour way, in fairness, under a labour government, when the people appointed to the mpc were much more diverse range of views, there was much more cognitive diversity. So i want to see the mpc, the Monetary Policy committee, become more free thinking and more willing to break with treasury orthodoxy. Had that been the case, i would say what people like me were saying in 2020, 2021, inflation is coming. Get these Interest Rate rises now, when i was writing that, i was pilloried by the bank of england and the whole economics establishment. We people that kind we need people saying that kind of who are willing of thing early who are willing to consensus and take to break with consensus and take intellectual risks based on sound research. That hasnt been sound research. That hasnt been happening. Happening. You talk a lot of sense at times. Liam halligan you do just at times, yeah, just at time. I mean, not always. Not always. Good to see you. Thank you. Pleasure. Nice to see you guys. Now, do you stay with us. Theres lots more to come, including gate with ellie including cake gate with Ellie Phillips. Is. Gb news. Welcome back. The time is 921 now. We all love cake. But now. We all love cake. But coronation street star Catherine Tyldesley may have taken the biscuit on this one because the actress has hit back at a local bakery owner who refused to make her 100 cupcakes for her birthday for free in exchange for social media and magazine plugs. Plugs. Ellie phillips is here. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning, guys. Oh, this doesnt taste right, does it . Oh, i like what you did there, guys. Im loving this. Yes, it basically this is cake gate. This is cake. Catherine herself has named it cake gate. Essentially whats happened is its birthday coming its her 40th birthday is coming up did a company up and not only did a company that shes written and to do the Party Planning for her 40th approach small approach this is dependent small cake company in West Yorkshire to make 100 cupcakes. She also asked for a birthday cake for herself and second one for her herself and a second one for her husband. And what happened was husband. And what happened was this went viral because the owner of three little birds bakery in yorkshire called rebecca severs, she printed her email response to the initial request. Know for this involved and she said that she was so sorry that the client had fallen on hard times. Sorry that the client had fallen on hard times. But unfortunately on hard times. But unfortunately her mortgage provider doesnt take payment in form of promotion on social media and she cant feed her staff, cant feed their kids with exposure on instagram. So it points it out. The fact that getting these freebies, might be freebies, while it might be great get ten followers great to get ten more followers on actually is it on social media actually is it going to put money in the pockets at a time when its needed . Exactly. Exactly. It was the response, though, from catherine tilsley that she did that did a video response that knocked me sideways. Yeah. Knocked me sideways. Yeah. Essentially the cake so essentially the cake owner, the cake shop owner put put up the email, didnt name catherine, but journalists did their digging and found out who it named her. And as it was named her. And as a response, she did this video which gone down very badly. Which has gone down very badly. And with catherine. And im friends with catherine. Shes woman. This shes a lovely woman. But this video, think, was ill judged. Video, i think, was ill judged. She essentially tried to become the victim in the situation and said that she hoped that the cake lady got the exposure. She was clearly so was clearly looking for. So yeah, and thats caused a lot of backlash because i think at the end of the day, theres a huge difference between being gifted something by a National Company with marketing as with a huge Marketing Budget as opposed approaching very opposed to approaching a very small bakery where small independent bakery where margins tight, especially margins are so tight, especially at this time when we know were in a cost of living crisis. It tone deaf, doesnt it feels tone deaf, doesnt it, a cost of crisis. It, in a cost of living crisis. And its the only celebrity and its not the only celebrity whos oh gosh. Whos done this. Oh my gosh. So been reminding myself so ive been reminding myself of whats happened past of whats happened in the past and catherine was kind and actually, catherine was kind of caught up with this back in 2013. Unfortunately there was a dispatches put dispatches documentary put together which duped corrie stars into a gifting suite , gave stars into a gifting suite, gave them water, which they said that it had all these properties. It was just hot water and bracelets that they said had all these heaung that they said had all these healing properties. Was just healing properties. It was just costume gave them to costume jewellery, gave them to them. Then went them. And then the stars went off about it. But on off and tweeted about it. But on instagram, say instagram, but they didnt say it gifted. They didnt. So it was gifted. They didnt. So this where all come into this is where its all come into question the advertiser question because the advertiser standards issues. Standards agency issues. Yeah, point as well. Yeah, fair point as well. I think. Really good see you think. Really good to see you this ali. Thank you this morning, ali. Thank you very indeed. Very much indeed. That is that is it so much. That is that is it from here on gb news. From breakfast here on gb news. But britains but up next is britains newsroom with and beth. Newsroom with tom and beth. Right on britains thats right on britains newsroom today with and bev, newsroom today with me and bev, who be here a who will be here in just a moment. Well be talking about those biggest stories, not just the Rate Decision from the Interest Rate decision from the Interest Rate decision from the today that the bank of england today that will all us here in will affect all of us here in britain, also the breaking britain, but also the breaking news the prime ministers news that the prime ministers personal home has just been targeted by green activists. Whats going on . Find out all after the weather. After the weather. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Hello there and Greg Dewhurst. And welcome to your latest gb news weather forecast. A brighter day overall. There will still be some heavy showers around, but with some sunny spells. Just feel spells. It should just feel a touch warmer than it has done of late this morning. The best of the sunshine across central southern parts, but generally quite cloudy picture, a quite a cloudy picture, a northerly bringing some northerly breeze bringing some patchy rain across patchy showery rain across northern and Western Areas. And then into afternoon then through into the afternoon , well an increasing risk , well see an increasing risk of showers developing. Of some showers developing. A few these could be heavy, few of these could be heavy, perhaps at times, but perhaps thundery at times, but there some sunny spells, there will be some sunny spells, some dry, some places staying dry, particularly towards the east and of england. And and south east of england. And here, reaching 22 here, temperatures reaching 22 or celsius, just a little or 23 celsius, just a little cooler around the north and the west with that northerly breeze into the evening time. Showers still the risk of some heavy ones across eastern areas, but starting become drier from starting to become drier from the west with some clear spells overnight showers during the overnight to showers during the early hours. Generally on the light side, but still feeding in across eastern areas and temperatures for most double figures once again, 13 to 15 celsius to take us into friday morning. So we do have some early sunshine across western parts of the uk. First thing cloudier further east, the risk of a few showers and thats generally it stays through generally how it stays through the friday. Of the the day. On friday. Best of the sunny and dry weather sunny spells and dry weather across parts of uk. Across western parts of the uk. Further east, an increasing risk of some afternoon showers. Some of some afternoon showers. Some of be heavy at times of these could be heavy at times and then signs of rain coming in by end of the day across the by the end of the day across the far west behind me there, temperatures are generally similar, reaching the high teens to low 20s that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news. News good morning. At 10 00 on thursday, the 3rd of august, britains newsroom on its 930. What did i say . 10 00 . Oh, what did i say . 10 00 . Oh, gosh, ive already lost half. I can tell were getting near the end of the