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But first, its time for your headunes first, its time for your headlines and its sophia wenzler. Wenzler. Martin. Thank you from the gb newsroom at 3 00. Your top story. The scottish conservatives are calling for a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens collapsed this morning, leaving mr yousaf in charge of a minority government. He says hell now reach out to other parties on an issue by issue basis , but the issue by issue basis, but the power sharing deal had served its purpose. Scottish tory its purpose. Scottish tory leader douglas ross said it was a coalition of chaos that has now ended in chaos. A coalition of chaos that has now ended in chaos. A court in now ended in chaos. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes. Its a Stunning Development for the former top hollywood producer, whose crimes sparked what became known as the Metoo Movement. Manhattans Metoo Movement. Manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial. Theres little chance of him being released, though. Of him being released, though. Hes also serving 16 years for the rape of a woman in Beverly Hills. Donald trump says that us president s must be immune from the threat of prosecution when it comes as his hush money case continues today. Its a big day for the former president in a separate case, the Us Supreme Court will hear arguments later for why he should be immune from charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Speaking outside the Court Earlier, donald trump said a president must have immunity. Constitutional rights have been taken away from me , but been taken away from me, but every single expert, every legal scholar , every respected scholar scholar, every respected scholar has said this is no case. There is no case here. The argument on immunity is very important. The president has to have immunity. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has to do with a president in the future , for a hundred in the future, for a hundred years from now, if you dont have immunity, youre not going to do anything. Youre going to become a ceremonial president. Youre just going to be doing nothing. Youre not going to take any of the risks, both good and bad. And bad. Back in the uk, the government says more people should be using britains trains despite widespread dissatisfaction with the services, labour is promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts, ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. The government commissioned an independent review into railways independent review into railways in 2018, but little has changed since then. Transport secretary mark harper says the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns. Big the big thing were still having to deal with is the impact of the pandemic. The Rail Industry at the moment is financially not sustainable. At the moment, the only route to solving that is to use the private Sector Innovation , the private Sector Innovation, the stuff they demonstrated they could deliver. When we privatise them, when they doubled passenger numbers. Weve got to get more people using railways. Thats the only way they become financially sustainable. Theres nothing in labours plans thats going to deliver that. Quite the going to deliver that. Quite the reverse. What you now the system of grading schools with one word judgements should stay. Thats according to the department of education. The government says grades such as outstanding or inadequate provide significant benefits and give parents a succinct summary of schools. The grading system came under scrutiny following the death of headteacher ruth perry , who took her own life perry, who took her own life after a report downgraded her school. Her sister, julie school. Her sister, julie walters, says the governments response is woefully inadequate. Response is woefully inadequate. A stabbing at a school in wales yesterday was reportedly halted when a heroic teacher intervened , placing the attacker in an arm lock. Amman Valley School was put into lockdown yesterday when a student allegedly attacked two teachers and a pupil. Their injuries are not life threatening. Daryl campbell, a teacher and chairman of a local rugby club, reportedly disarmed the alleged attacker , putting the alleged attacker, putting her in an arm lock until Emergency Services arrived. The Emergency Services arrived. The school will remain closed today while forensic teams investigate it. The suspect remains in custody and a former Top Executive at the post office says she is truly sorry for the devastation caused to wrongly convicted subpostmasters. The ongoing inquiry is examining governance, redress and how the post office and others responded to the it scandal. Angela van den boogaard says she hopes her evidence will give people the answers they deserve. Answers they deserve. Saying sorry and no doesnt change what happened, but i do want to say to everyone impacted by wrongful convictions and wrongful contract terminations that i am truly , truly sorry for that i am truly, truly sorry for the devastation caused to you, your family and friends. I hope my evidence will assist this inquiry with getting to the answers you and so many others deserve. Deserve. And the famous red windmill on top of the moulin rouge in paris plummeted to the ground overnight. Early visitors were stunned this morning to find the landmark broken into pieces on the street. The theatre is the street. The theatre is currently investigating the cause, though its not believed to be deliberate. Since opening in 1889, its become one of the most popular destinations in paris, inspiring the 2001 film and a stage musical currently playing in london. And for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common. Its now its back to. Martin. Thank you sofia. Now we start with a major policy announcement by the labour party and the partys promised to renationalise the railways if it wins the next general election. Shadow transport secretary louise haigh says that todays broken model simply doesnt work well. Gb news Political Correspondent Katherine Forster is at kings cross station. Catherine, welcome to the show. An idea first tabled on this very channel. In fact, in this very channel. In fact, in this very studio. The surprising thing about this is that quite a lot of people, even from the conservative party in terms of the voters, seem to support it. Two thirds of conservative voters like it compared to 84 of labour voters. It seems they of labour voters. It seems they might be onto something thats just the ticket. It yes. Good afternoon martin. I like that. Just the ticket, sir. Very clever, yes, indeed. Labour very clever, yes, indeed. Labour think that they are on to a winner with this and i think weve had a sudden outbreak of boldness in politics over the last few days. You know, weve had a very long time, people complaining. Theres not much to pick between labour and the conservatives. Whats the difference at a general election. But, you know, weve got this big policy announcement from labour today that comes just two days after rishi sunaks big pledge to up defence spending that he made in warsaw. So big announcements. But certainly, nationalisation of things which were promised by Jeremy Corbyn, of course. And sir keir starmer when he ran to be leader, not necessarily popular on a grand scale, but i think the railways are a little bit different. Lets have a look at what the shadow transport minister, had to say earlier at a press conference that i was at. Lets take a look at that. Now but under the conservatives, our railways have become a symbol of national decline of a country that no longer works and a government with no plan to fix it. Cancellations are at record highs. Fares have risen almost twice as fast as wages since 2010, and strikes are costing us £25 million a day. Todays broken model simply doesnt work i yes, labour also saying that the tax payer currently funds the tax payer currently funds the railways to the tune of some £4 billion a year. But you know, this plan basically early as the rail franchises end, not to renew them, to take them back into into Public Ownership. Labour have said that they wont have to pay a penny in compensation because theyre simply not going to renew those contracts. So certainly thats true. But of course , what they true. But of course, what they will need to do is lease the Rolling Stock from the private companies that own those trains. Now now that is going to be expensive. We dont know how thatis expensive. We dont know how that is going to be paid for. And indeed the conservatives today, mark harper has said, this is unfunded spending from laboun this is unfunded spending from labour. They do not have any plan to pay for it. But of course, you know, the railways. Course, you know, the railways. Anybody who uses them, its not easy, is it . A anybody who uses them, its not easy, is it . A lot of the times the trains are cancelled, theyve been blighted by strikes. Prices have gone through the roof risen much faster than wages. You know , the faster than wages. You know, the railways are in a mess. And just to give you one more quote, she used these words. She said, unlike most privatisations, that of the railways has never been publicly accepted because its failings have remained all too obvious. And then she said, those are the words of the Current Defence secretary, former transport secretary grant shapps. So, as youve said, a lot of support from labour voters, a lot of support from voters, a lot of support from voters on the whole, but also quite a lot of support across the political spectrum. But the political spectrum. But questions, of course, how it will actually work in operation if and when labour, as we expect, is likely to come to power. Thank you. Katherine forster, a first class summary as ever there from kings cross station. Now we are, of course, the peoples channel. And so we wanted to know if the Great British public agrees with labours plans. I think they should do definitely. And all other Utility Companies as well should be renationalised. Well, they certainly cant get any worse. It might be. But then can we afford it . Absolutely. Absolutely. Why do you think . Because i why do you think . Because i think it should be a standardisation and youre not always clear. Sure of the fares . Always clear. Sure of the fares . Definitely. Definitely. Should nationalise the railways and all the rest of the Utility Companies. Well, lets get more reaction to todays news and speaks now to todays news and speaks now to former transport minister norman baker. Norman. We just spoke to a Cross Section of the electorate there. Theres a feeling that things cant get any worse because we have a standard of service which many people feel is substandard. But norman, there are only two questions that really matter, and that is will fares be cheaper and will trains be more reliable if theyre nationalised . What do you think . Well, i mean, lets go back a step, martin, if i may, which is to say that theres a misunderstanding as to what the position is at the moment. The rail network is essentially nationalised now, the coalition government, i was part of Nationalised Network Rail and network rail , for better or for network rail, for better or for worse, was responsible for a great many of the cancellations which take place because the infrastructure doesnt work properly. So thats not going to change under anybodys plans , change under anybodys plans, secondly, in terms of the contract, which are set out , the contract, which are set out, the department for transport at the moment is managing all the contracts on the railway and micromanaging the private companies to a larger degree than the micromanaged british rail back in the 1980s. So and what the labour, the labour party is proposing is actually largely based on the governments paper on Great British railways , which has been british railways, which has been sitting around for 3 or 4 years, and where the labour party is right to say that nothing much has happened since 2018, notwithstanding the pandemic and theyve been the governments been doing very little to take this forward, largely because the Prime Minister doesnt like trains. And mark harper and his colleagues have been desperately trying to get movement from the Prime Minister and not succeeding. Thats the politics of it. So to come back to your questions, will the first be cheaper . I dont think they will. Labour party has said therell be a best price guarantee. How is that going to work . Because the best price guarantee will have to ensure that every ticket is equivalent to what we now know as split ticketing, where you can buy a ticket from a to b and b to c, rather than a to c, and that provides you off with a cheaper ticket. Now i dont know how theyre going to manage that. There are 55 million different Tickets Available on the network, but if they do manage to match the split ticketing fare, which is their best price guarantee , thats best price guarantee, thats going to be a reduction of income for the treasury unless the extra number of tickets sold covers that. Now i cant see the treasury under Rachel Reeves agreed to that particularly, so im not convinced it will be cheaper fares, and as far as cancellations are concerned, as i say , a lot of those now are i say, a lot of those now are down to network rail. Down to network rail. Norman. Of course, the labour party would argue that. Yeah, party would argue that. Yeah, you are dead, right. I mean, the amount of money that the taxpayer currently puts into the railways is eye watering. In fact, theres about £30 billion dunng fact, theres about £30 billion during the covid pandemic and lockdowns alone simply to keep the service ticking over. But they would argue that the profits now that go to the shareholders, go to the dividends, go to the private corporations that will go back into the system. Is it as simple as that, or is this is this plan smoke and mirrors . Well, theyre not quite as simple as that. Theyre perfectly true to say that some money goes to shareholders and to companies abroad , on the to companies abroad, on the other hand, the conservatives would argue that the privatisation had doubled the number of train passengers on the network, and therefore thats more income than would otherwise be there before. But theres a big gap in labours thinking here, which are deliberately not talking about which is the big, the big money on the railways, the huge profits and the huge dividends are going to the Rolling Stock companies, the people who lease the trains to the movement, to the trains to the movement, to the trains to the movement, to the Train Companies and will lease them, presumably in future to the government. Well, they are making an absolute fortune, an absolute packet. And labour dont intend to touch those. Dont intend to touch those. Okay, norman baker, thanks for your insight. Former transport minister, and i know a full time current day train nut, so thank you for your input. Thank you very much. Now youve thank you very much. Now youve not got long to grab your chance to win a greek cruise, travel goodies and a £10,000 tax free Cash Bank Balance boost. And Cash Bank Balance boost. And heres all the details that you need. 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Good luck i watching on demand. Good luck it never rains, but it pours for the Scottish National party and humza yousaf is now leading and humza yousaf is now leading a minority government after their coalition with the greens spectacularly collapsed. Im spectacularly collapsed. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel welcome back. The time is 321. Im Martin Daubney , and this is gb Martin Daubney, and this is gb news. Now. Huge news from scotland today. The first minister humza yousaf is facing a vote of no confidence after the snps coalition with the greens collapsed dramatically. Mr yousaf is now leading a minority government in scotland. Minority government in scotland. And heres how the first minister broke the news this morning. The bute house agreement was intended to provide stability to the Scottish Government, and it is made possible a number of achievements, but it has served its purpose. I believe that Going Forward it is in the best interests of the people of scotland to pursue a different arrangement. That is why, following a discussion with my cabinet this morning, i have formally notified Patrick Harvie and lorna slater that i am terminating the bute house agreement with immediate effect. Agreement with immediate effect. Well, lets speak to gb news scotland reporter tony maguire, whos at holyrood. Tony, welcome to the show. A torrid first year for mr yousaf and now today, a spectacular announcement. Spectacular announcement. Yes, indeed. Afternoon martin. You know, if as we got to a couple of weeks ago and humza yousaf was celebrating his anniversary as first minister, he probably thought to himself, well , this year will go better. Well, this year will go better. Indeed, the last few weeks have shown that to be anything but the case. You know, the rumour started Milling Around last night when one of the pro and the previous Pro Independence bloggers, wings over scotland, they put out a post suggesting this Cabinet Meeting was going to be pretty serious. Pretty major this morning, and then sure enough, slightly earlier than than advertised, we got the news that the bute house agreement is done and dusted. You know, a memo had gone around snp members to say that were now closer to the next Scottish Election than we are to the last election. So its time for us to look and see how much of this is working. And of course, all of working. And of course, all of those policies recently the green Energy Policy that was dropped last week and in many of the gender policies that the snp has been pushing, the greens have been a Formidable Force pushing that as well. So i came into edinburgh early today and i spoke to members of the public. Many of them actually broke the news to them and i got their sense of whether they still had faith and humza yousaf and his government. I think its a good thing for scotland. I think the greens scotland. I think the greens have not been a force for good in our country. So i frankly, i think yes, im glad. Im glad to see the bute house agreement come to an end. And you think the snp will still be okay with the minority and minority government . Well, i think itll put them under a bit of pressure. Well see. Id heard the rumours and things that are going on, but i didnt actually know thats happened today. So not as confident, not particularly , i think in a mess particularly, i think in a mess at the moment. Do you think thats been going for on a while. Do you think we need. Would you like to see an election . See an election . Probably. See an election . Probably. I think they might have to call an election. Yeah, but thats a sad event. No, i havent been for a long time, actually. But i didnt really see the news this morning. So the greens have left the snp , a minority government now, snp, a minority government now, so am i right in saying you might fancy an election . Would that clear things up . Yes, i think we should. Yes yes, i think we should. Yes now, we heard there what the people think and certainly in today first ministers questions humza yousaf. You know he quite clearly had a few responses prepared but nothing could have prepared but nothing could have prepared them for the sheer pylon that all the parties, got involved with except the greens, who, i will say, sitting quite glum. But of course the highlight of that will be douglas ross, leader of the scottish conservatives , calling scottish conservatives, calling for a vote of no confidence in the first minister, quite a spectacular day up here in edinburgh. Yeah. Tony mcguire, the storm clouds are gathering for humza yousaf, but the sun is shining on you. Thank you for joining yousaf, but the sun is shining on you. Thank you forjoining us on you. Thank you for joining us on you. Thank you for joining us on gb news. Im moving on now. Swiftly, im joined by conservative msp murdo fraser. Welcome to the show murdo. Always a pleasure. So always a pleasure. So a spectacular showdown, a collapse of the coalition. Earlier on, humza yousaf was asked if this was a sign of weakness. He said quite the opposite. It shows leadership. Whats your take . Well, its been a humiliating penod well, its been a humiliating period for humza yousaf and of course the reason why hes done this is because the greens were indicating they were about to walk out of the coalition. Its like when youre at school and your mate dumps his girlfriend and his girlfriend says , well, i dumped you first. Says, well, i dumped you first. Its a bit its a bit like that scenario because humza yousaf knew that the greens were likely to walk out of the coalition. That would have been looked terrible for him if hed lost his Junior Coalition partner at his Junior Coalition partner at his at their own instance and therefore hes, basically jumped before they pushed themselves out. Now, what that means is that the majority that the snp and greens had in the Scottish Parliament has disappeared. There has been Major Concerns over the performance of the snp government across a wide range of policy areas. The economy, the health service, education, concern about their fixation on issues like hate crime, on gender reform and of course, an independent out of step with the majority opinion in scotland. And we think its time that this was put to the people. And thats why we have today tabled a motion of no confidence in the first minister. Well, murdo gb news was out and about on the streets of edinburgh today. And what struck me, listening in is just a huge sense of weariness and fatigue that the electorate seem to have. But do you think seem to have. But do you think this vote of no confidence has any legs . Does he have any chance of landing, or will humza yousaf carry on business as usual . Well, the parliamentary arithmetic is very tight. So . So the snp currently have , 63 votes the snp currently have, 63 votes out of 128, so for the motion to succeed, we would need all the opposition parties conservative, laboun opposition parties conservative, labour, lib dems and the greens and crucially, ash regan, whos the only alba member of the Scottish Parliament, who of course was , snp. In fact, she course was, snp. In fact, she was an snp leadership contender just a year ago, defected and joined alba. It would take all four parties to combine together either to vote this through. Now our view is thats the right thing to do. Our view is that with the record of the snp government, with the collapse of this coalition, we should put it to the people to decide who forms the government of scotland. But we need the greens to agree to that. We dont know whether they will stand by the snp and we need ash regan from alba to agree to that, and we dont know what shes going to do. But at the very least it puts the Scottish Government and humza yousaf leadership under very serious pressure. But of course, the next official holyrood election is not due to take place until may 2026, so humza yousaf will no doubt just try and batten down the hatches and ignore all this. Yes, he and ignore all this. Yes, he probably will, but even if he survives the vote of no confidence, hes still got to win votes in parliament. Crucially, of course, on getting his budget through and hes relied upon the greens for the last three years to support his budget as part of the coalition. Given the rhetoric we have heard this morning from Patrick Harvie, the, the, the co leader of the greens in scotland, i think humza yousaf is going to find it very hard to get agreement from the greens. And agreement from the greens. And so we may find that even if he survives this vote of no confidence, humza yousaf is only postponing the inevitable. Okay. Postponing the inevitable. Okay. Thank you very much for joining us on the show. And thats murdo fraser, conservative live msp. Thank you for your time. Its always a pleasure. Now todays developments come after whats been a very, very tough year or so for the Scottish National party. Mr yousaf was sworn in as first minister on march the 29th. Last year , and its been 29th. Last year, and its been pretty much all downhill from there on in in june, his predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, was arrested in connection with a Police Investigation into the snps finances. She was released without charge and denies any wrongdoing. And then in october, the snp were heavily beaten by labourin the snp were heavily beaten by labour in the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election. Later that month , former snp mp lisa that month, former snp mp lisa cameron defected to the tories and she said the snp was toxic. In december, the court of session upheld the uk governments decision to block the gender recognition bill which had been introduced, of course, by Nicola Sturgeon , and course, by Nicola Sturgeon, and then the snps hate crime act, which came in at the start of this month. If you remember, on april fools day, has proved to be hugely controversial and led to lots and lots of vexatious complaints. And then last complaints. And then last thursday, the former snp chief executive, peter murrell, was charged in connection with embezzlement of party funds. And murrell, of course , is nicola murrell, of course, is Nicola Sturgeons husband and now today, humza yousaf is left leading a minority government after the snps coalition with the greens collapsed. What a year to forget now. Theres lots more still to come between now and 4 00. And ill tell you what the prince of wales has been up to in the West Midlands today and we joined him. But first, its and we joined him. But first, wsfime and we joined him. But first, its time for your latest news headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Martin thank you. The top stories this hour. The scottish conservatives are calling for a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens collapsed this morning, leaving mr yousaf in a charge of a minority government. He says hell now reach out to other parties on an issue by issue basis, but the power sharing deal had served its purpose. Scottish tory leader douglas ross said it was a coalition of chaos that had now ended in chaos that had now ended in chaos. Chaos that had now ended in chaos. A court in new york has chaos. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes. Its a Stunning Development for the former top hollywood producer, whose crimes sparked what became known as the Metoo Movement. Manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial. Theres little chance of him being released , though. Hes also released, though. Hes also serving 16 years for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel. The government says more people should be using britains trains, despite widespread dissatisfaction with services , dissatisfaction with services, labouris dissatisfaction with services, labour is promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts, ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. The government taxpayers. The government commissioned an independent review into railway in 2018, but little has changed since then. Little has changed since then. Transport secretary mark harper says the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns and the number of shoplifting offences recorded by police in england and wales is at its highest level in 20 years. More than 430,000 offences were logged by forces last year. Thats up by more than a third compared to the year before the association of Convenience Stores says the figures are just a fraction of the real problem because many crimes arent reported due to the time it takes and the lack of follow up by police. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com alerts. News. Com alerts. Cheers cheers britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. Report. Heres a quick snapshot of todays markets. The pound will buy you 1. 2473 and ,1. 1656. The price of gold is £1,860. 97 per ounce, and the ftse 100 is at 8050 points. Cheers. Cheers. Britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. 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To the general election. Continuing coverage live from thursday the 2nd of may at midnight on. Gb news. Midnight on. Gb news. Welcome back. Its 338. Im Martin Daubney and this is gb news. Now the prince of wales has been in the West Midlands today to learn more about initiatives that are helping people with their Mental Health and their wellbeing. And lets cross now to gb news royal correspondent camera walker cameron. Suicide is thought to be the biggest killer of young men in the uk and at a school here west of birmingham, Saint Michaels church of england school. A boy called freddie, back in october wrote a letter to the prince of wales inviting him to the school to see the matrix project. Its a weekly session involving boys 11 to 14 to try and tackle the stigma around Mental Health and breaking down those barriers. Their hashtag am i manly enough . One of those, initiatives to try and encourage young men, young boys, to talk about their feelings and improve Mental Health provision. Now, Prince William could not attend in october, but did tweet back a personal tweet saying hes very sorry that him and the princess could not be at the school, but wished them all the best on world Mental Health day. Well, today Prince William surprised freddie and his fellow pupils by visiting Saint Michaels school here in the in the West Midlands, and he greeted many pupils here. He also met freddie, who was incredibly surprised to see the prince of wales and Prince William joined one of those sessions where they discussed some dad jokes to try and break the ice. Prince william did not tell a dad joke, but i am told that he told a knock knock joke. But as i said, he saw freddie and this is what freddie said about Prince Williams visit. He didnt do a dad joke, but he did do a knock knock joke. Do he did do a knock knock joke. Do you want me to tell you . Yeah, go for it. Yeah, go for it. So it says, knock, knock. So it says, knock, knock. Hey, sir. Hey, sir. Interrupting cow. Interrupting cow who . Moo closely. Moo closely. He did that as soon as he was saying it, because obviously it makes sense in a way. So yeah, we found that really funny. So. We found that really funny. So. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Nice. And what was your dad joke that you told him . Why does every dad take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing in case they get a hole in one . Well, the royal foundation, the charity set up by the prince and princess of wales, has a key aim of tackling the stigma when it comes to Mental Health and trying to ensure there is enough provision for people around the country. Prince william is elsewhere in the east midlands following this school visit, meeting people at risk of homelessness and tackling the stigma of addiction in. And now to some breaking news. And the metropolitan police have confirmed a man has been arrested following a stabbing outside kilburn overground station. And gb news overground station. And gb News Reporter sophie reaper is there for us and has an update. Sophie, another stabbing . Whats sophie, another stabbing . Whats the latest on this one . Well, the met police have just released that statement letting us know that it was in fact a double stabbing. A woman in her 20s was taken to hospital. Shes in a non non life threatening condition. A man in his 50s was also taken to hospital , but hes also a man in his 50s was also taken to hospital, but hes also in a non life threatening condition. We know that he suffered a slash wound to his hand. Now police were called here around midday today. A couple of moments after midday, where they promptly closed down this road here next to me. Its now, of course , been to me. Its now, of course, been reopened, although police are still working here on the scene behind me in kilburn. We know that that 21 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of gbh and for possession of an offensive weapon, but as often in these situations, theres Little Information thus far. Piecing things together. But piecing things together. But well be bringing you all the latest as we get it. Latest as we get it. Okay. Thank you sophie reaper for that. Update two people hospitalised a double stabbing outside kilburn overground station in london. Now David Camerons been back in government for less than six months, but its fair to say that his time as foreign secretary hasnt been without its controversy. Im about to its controversy. Im about to speak to someone who knows the man now known as lord cameron of Chipping Norton very well, because he used to work for him. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, im patrick christys. Every im patrick christys. Every weeknight from nine, i bring you two hours of unmissable , two hours of unmissable, explosive debate and headline grabbing interviews. What impact has that had . We got Death Threats and the bomb threat and so on. Our job is to do whats in ourjob is to do whats in the best interest of our country. You made my argument for me one at a time. My guests and i tackle the issues that really matter with a sharp take on every story im heanng sharp take on every story im hearing up and down the country. That was a beginning, not an end. Patrick christys tonight from 9 pm. Only on gb news. Britains news channel. Britains news channel. Welcome back. Its 346. Im Martin Daubney and this is gb news. Now, you cant accuse David Cameron of not putting in the air miles in his time as foreign secretary, hes currently on one heck of a road trip. In the last few days, hes been to tajikistan , kyrgyzstan, been to tajikistan, kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan, turkmenistan and kazakhstan and is about to head to mongolia. Or youre keeping up. Hes also been in the United States and has visited israel to show the uk support for that country. Well, im joined in the studio now by David Camerons former adviser philip blonde, and the broadcaster , journalist and the broadcaster, journalist judnh and the broadcaster, journalist judith de silva. Welcome to both of you. Lets start with you, philip and mr cameron certainly knows how to grab the headlines. In fact, theres a headline today, hes under fire because he said that a returns deal with france isnt possible because of the situation were in, which everybody is interpreted to mean brexit. Hes come under fire for telling the United States how it should possibly vote in the ukrainian multi billion pound deal , criticising israel for deal, criticising israel for going rogue, worried that israel had broken international law. The big question is this quite simply, does he still think hes the Prime Minister . Well , its the Prime Minister . Well, its very hard once you youve been Prime Minister to, to stop being Prime Minister. And he has the gravitas, he has the intellect , hes probably has the intellect, hes probably head and shoulders above most , head and shoulders above most, in the cabinet, and hes taking a leadership position as foreign secretary. The concern from number 10 is probably is he upstaging the Prime Minister, to which the answer is probably yes, and i think he had , looking back when think he had, looking back when he first got the job, he had people commented he had a disastrous Foreign Policy history when he was Prime Minister anything from, libya to the rapprochement with china to the, getting brexit wrong and being failing , failing to being failing, failing to negotiate with Angela Merkel and i think hes hes been a clear success for britain in terms of influence and purchase. Influence and purchase. Everybody laughed at him when he went to see donald trump and, and saw the speaker of the house, and yet a few, days afterwards, the vote on ukraine came, came to the floor, of the house and was passed. So i think house and was passed. So i think he has a very significant foreign his first, arguably foreign his first, arguably Foreign Policy achievement. But hes also clearly going on the hoof. Hes, hes hes reversed to the foreign offices pro arabist , stance on israel and, arabist, stance on israel and, done something kind of really out of kilter , with the whole out of kilter, with the whole tradition of british and western diplomacy and, and declared that he would, recognise a palestinian state. Hes claimed israels breaking international law. So theres a sense in which hes going on his own. And the government itself is so preoccupied with micromanagement that it cant do the big issues. And i and so i think its like ballast on a ship. He the ship itself is, is essentially somewhat out of control , essentially because control, essentially because cameron is making policy as, as he sees fit. Okay. And lets bring you in at that point judith to the ship is out of control. But is cameron the right . Captain . A lot of people have been saying, you know, he legged it when he lost the brexit referendum and he, he, he he kind of threw a bit of a tantrum and a lot of people, certainly, who watched this show say this feels like a return to the old democracy. I think that this is a great, stimulus for the conversation about the politics of governance and policy versus the politics of optics, which you have to navigate both to be a successful leader in public office. When it comes to, thinking about optics , comes to, thinking about optics, i like to look at someone like trump no matter what anyone said about him. As far as how he operated, there was one united perception everybody had is that he looked president ial. When you have rishi sunak, hes kind of operating at a deficit because if he steps into a room as the as a representative of great britain, as the leader of great britain, as the leader of great britain, he doesnt have the perception of a leader, no matter how competent he actually is in practice with David Cameron, you have someone who looks the part. He also has the looks the part. He also has the experience and the acquired knowledge of making errors, especially when you think about, relationships with relations with america going into 2016, everyone thought Hillary Clinton would win. They established such links and relationships with her. When trump, the maverick, happened to steal the day, they didnt know. They didnt have those kinds of links towards him to have a very functional, beyond the strange relationship he knows now that Going Forward, no matter what happens, even if its trump 2. 0, you have to have diplomatic relations with them. So when you look at his dialogue, when you look at the execution, the way he carries himself in spaces where previously he would have been quite negative, he knows that i have to be a diplomat. And when i was just thinking about great leaders, when you think about the leitmotif that goes around the leitmotif that goes around the rhetoric about them from disraeli to David Lloyd George to tony blair to David Cameron, these were all seasoned diplomats that people can get. You can get them in a room and they will make a relationship work for the greater good, no matter what perception or opinion is about them. And i wonder, actually, philip, if thats the point. And thatis philip, if thats the point. And that is rishi sunak is under so much fire domestically. There much fire domestically. There are so many fires he has to continue to try and put out. Is having somebody else a safe pair of hands go abroad. You know, be be the interface between britain and the world. Is that actually what he probably wants at the moment . Yeah, hes certainly a powerful figure for britain. But the prevailing problem with the conservative party is nobody knows what they for. Stand the knows what they for. Stand the great problem with from David Cameron on onwards is that you have essentially vie. Cameron is a social and an economic liberal, and they tried to govern for that. But across the west, and i was arguing it at the time, the working classes were switching to the right because and what the working classes needed and what they voted for in 2019, with Boris Johnson was somebody who would save them from economic and social liberalism. And what we have is a party that cant make up its mind how it serves its new working class constituency. And in point of fact, has failed to serve. And as a result, it its got no port to land in. Its got no direction. So if theyre trying to appeal to the working classes to the brexiteers, why bring in law camrys . The opposite. Well , camrys . The opposite. Well, britain is one of the major powers of the world and we have far to decline as the narrative. So i dont object to the British Foreign secretary being powerful , influential and British Foreign secretary being powerful, influential and in a way, you could argue that camerons support for ukraine carries on from Boris Johnsons finest moment, which was flying in british anti tank weapons the night before the russian invasion. So i think thats good. But the point remains is that hes a big figure making policy on the hoof. When the government has no general direction and no general policy. Okay. Were very, very quickly, if we could do it a short lifting has hit a record high. Ons data is out today. Whats going on . Is this because basically the police are just giving up nicking people for nicking stuff from shops . I think its a compounded problem. It started during covid problem. It started during covid because you kind of had this combustion triangle of means, opportunity and motivation where you have people that are strained financially. They have to get creative about how theyre going to find a solution, and they have the opportunity to find outlets for that. And also the proliferation of this is very much fuelled by social media, because when you think about shoplifters, what weve seen the rise in is a young people operating in gangs and operating with force, and youre overwhelming any security measures that shops can have. And also the clout and the notoriety that they gain from doing that, because a lot of the time its captured on peoples camera phones. So you have people that are stimulated to do the wrong thing because the wrong thing gets them a kind of fame that they can monetise. Until you begin to battle that youre always going to have a problem. Im afraid we have to leave it there, but you are back in the next hour. Phillip, blonde and juditha da silva , thank you and juditha da silva, thank you very much. Well see you again in the next hour. Now, after a torrid first year in power, is the end in sight for the embattled snp first minister humza yousaf will have all the full analysis on that. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel, but now its your weather and its alex burkill. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb views. Hello again. Heres your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. It is going to stay rather cool as we going to stay rather cool as we go through the end of the week, and there will be some more showers to come for most of us as well, because we are still under the influence of an area of low pressure just out in the nonh of low pressure just out in the north sea, bringing a showery theme across the bulk of the country. So more showers as we go through into the evening. Perhaps something a bit more persistent. A damp end to the day across parts of the south east, but that rain will clear away as we go overnight elsewhere, and there will be some showers at times, but also some showers at times, but also some clear skies and under the clear skies temperatures are going to take a bit of a dip again. There could be a bit of frost first thing tomorrow morning, and possibly a few pockets of mist and fog too. Otherwise, as we go through friday then something a bit heavier rain wise, pushing into parts of devon and cornwall as we go through the day elsewhere. And on the whole it looks relatively similar to today. Really. Yes, therell be a scattering of showers for many of us, but some bright or sunny spells in between the showers. Despite the sunshine though, sticking with that rather cool theme. Temperatures reaching highs of around 8 or 9 celsius in the north, 13 possibly 14 celsius further south into the weekend. And there will be something a bit more unsettled still to come. Outbreaks of rain across central parts dont look particularly heavy on saturday and a few showers further north, but its on sunday when theres the chance that we could see something a bit heavier in terms of rainfall wise, but we are likely to see our temperatures picking up a little bit as we go into the new week. By that warm feeling inside. From boxt boilers , sponsors from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Hey. Very good afternoon to you. Its 4 pm. And welcome to the Martin Daubney show on gb news broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk on todays show, snp first minister humza yousaf is facing a no confidence vote after a power sharing deal with the greens went up in smoke due to net zero targets after a torrid first year in power. Is the end in sight for the embattled snp leader. And this week the Prime Minister announced a £75 billion boost to defence spending. But ill be defence spending. But ill be joined by a former army officer who thinks rishi sunaks big money plan will be torpedoed because there simply arent enough boots on the ground. He thinks theyre too woke to fight and labour are going full steam ahead to renationalise the railways. If they get into power. The shadow transport secretary claims it wont cost the taxpayer a penny, but critics claim it could cost taxpayers up to £10 billion. So is this plan just the ticket or a labour going down the wrong track . And an itv boss has track . And an itv boss has blasted the bbc for outbidding them for the Meghan Markle drama skins. The simple question is this is spending millions of pounds on a yank tv drama, a right royal waste of licence payers money and thats all coming up in your next hour. Welcome to you. Its always an absolute delight to have your company. Weve got some exciting news for you. We did a poll of the political leanings of gbp news viewers, and even i was astonished you would not believe the result and you wont want to miss out on them. Thats all coming up. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gbnews. Com yoursay. But before all of that, its time for your headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Martin. Thank you. The top stories this hour. First to some breaking news. Moroccan Asylum Seeker ahmed ali has been convicted of murdering Terrence Carney, who was 17 years old. He stabbed the pensioner six times in hartlepool in what was intended as revenge for the israel Hamas Conflict. That verdict has just come into us from Teesside Crown court just moments ago and we will of course bring you more on this story as we get it. In other news, the scottish conservative are calling for a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. Its confidence in humza yousaf. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens collapsed this morning, leaving mr yousaf in charge of a minority government. He says hell now reach out to other parties on an issue by issue basis. But the power sharing deal had served its purpose. Scottish tory leader douglas ross said it was a coalition of chaos that had now ended in chaos. A coalition of chaos that had now ended in chaos. A court in now ended in chaos. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes. Its weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes. Its a Stunning Development for the former top hollywood producer , whose crimes hollywood producer, whose crimes sparked what became known as the Metoo Movement. Manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial. Theres little chance of him being released, though hes also serving 16 years for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel. Donald trump says hills hotel. Donald trump says that us president s must be immune from the threat of prosecution. It comes as his hush money case continues today. Its the big day for the former president. In a separate case, president. In a separate case, the Us Supreme Court will hear arguments later for why he should be immune from charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Speak outside the 2020 election. Speak outside the Court Earlier today, donald trump said a president he spoke on the importance of immunity. Constitutional rights had been taken away from me. But been taken away from me. But every single expert, every legal scholar , every respected scholar scholar, every respected scholar has said this is no case. There is no case here. The argument on immunity is very important. The president has to have immunity. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has to do with a president in the future. For a hundred years from now, if you dont have immunity, youre not going to do anything. Youre going to become a ceremonial president. Youre just going to be doing nothing. Youre not going to take any of the risks , both good take any of the risks, both good and bad. And bad. The government says more people should be using britains trains. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with services, labours promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts , ensuring Rail Industry experts, ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. The government commissioned an independent review into railways in 2018, but little has changed since then. Transport secretary mark harper says the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns. Recovering from covid lockdowns. Big. The big thing were still having to deal with is the impact of the pandemic. The Rail Industry at the moment is financially not sustainable. At the moment, the only route to solving that is to use the private Sector Innovation, the stuff they demonstrated they could deliver when we privatised them, when they doubled passenger numbers, weve got to get more people using railways. Thats the only way they become financially sustainable. Theres nothing in labours plans thats going to deliver that. Quite the reverse. What you the system of grading schools with one word judgements should stay. Thats to according the department of education. The government says grades such as outstanding or inadequate provide significant benefits and give parents a succinct summary of schools. The grading system came under scrutiny following the death of headteacher ruth perry, who took her own life after a report downgraded her school. Her sister , julie school. Her sister, julie walters, says the governments response is woefully inadequate. It a stabbing at a school in wales yesterday was reportedly halted when a heroic teacher intervened, placing the attacker intervened, placing the attacker in an armlock. Intervened, placing the attacker in an armlock. A man valley in an armlock. A man Valley School was put into lockdown yesterday when a student allegedly attacked two teachers and a pupil. There injuries are non life threatening. Darrell campbell, a teacher and chairman of a local rugby club, reportedly disarmed the alleged attacker, putting her in an arm lock until Emergency Services arrived. The school will remain closed today while forensic teams investigate and the suspect remains in custody. Suspect remains in custody. Finally, the famous red windmill on the top of the moulin rouge in paris plummeted to the ground overnight. Early visitors were stunned this morning to find the landmark broken into pieces on the street. The theatre is the street. The theatre is currently investigating the cause, though its not believed to be deliberate. Since opening in 1889, its become one of the most popular destinations in paris, inspiring the 2001 film and a stage musical currently playing in london. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. Or you can go to gb news. Com alerts. Now its back to. Martin. Thank you tatiana. Now we start with todays huge news from scotland amid the and the first minister, humza yousaf is facing a vote of no confidence after the snps coalition with the greens spectacularly collapsed. Mr yousaf is now leading a minority government. And heres how the first minister broke the news this morning. Morning. The bute house agreement was intended to provide stability to the Scottish Government, and it is made possible by a number of achievements, but it has served its purpose. I believe that Going Forward it is in the best interests of the people of scotland to pursue a different arrangement, and thatis a different arrangement, and that is why, following a discussion with my cabinet this morning, i have formally notified Patrick Harvie and lorna slater that i am terminating the bute house agreement with immediate effect. Agreement with immediate effect. Well, lets speak now to gb news scotland reporter tony maguire, whos at holyrood. Tony, welcome back to the show. The sun is shining on you. There in edinburgh, but the storm clouds are gathering for the first minister. Oh, boy. I mean, i think by this point, humza yousuf should be used to what his twitter timeline looks when he wakes up in the morning. But i dont think anybody could even he could have expected this day went the way it has now. Obviously he met with his cabinet earlier this morning and they agreed to end the bute house agreement that would leave the Scottish National party with a minority government. But then then he goes into first ministers questions, as he does every thursday. And douglas ross, leader of the scottish conservatives , well, he threw conservatives, well, he threw down the gauntlet to the other opposition parties and declared his intention to initiate a vote of no confidence. Now, within about an hour or two of that, we saw anas sarwar, leader of scottish labour, put out a tweet using the precise words scottish labour has no confidence in humza yousaf and the snp government. Now, if we look a little bit at the numbers here, 129 msps, 63 of them are snp. Now, if we combine the msps from scottish conservatives , labour, scottish conservatives, labour, lib dems then that brings us round about just below the number the snp have. So a lot of attention is currently being given on the greens , but many given on the greens, but many people think that actually the green party will they have to vote with the scottish conservatives to save any kind of face . And that means ash regan, scotlands own albas only msp and effectively leader of alba party and holyrood, with all of the power now just to remind you, ash regan, she left the government and not the snp, just the government. During the consultation period of the gender recognition reform bill and subsequently it was called the member not by her name. The member until she left the party. She has since obviously joined alba and she will be having quite a lot of discussions , i quite a lot of discussions, i imagine, this evening to see where this goes. So we know that the Political Parties dont have any faith. Apparently in humza yousaf, but do the members of the public . Well, i went out today and i spoke to members of the public in edinburgh and asked them , do they still have asked them, do they still have confidence in this government . I think its a good thing for scotland. I think the greens have not been a force for good in our country. So i frankly i think country. So i frankly i think yes , im glad. Yes, im glad. Im glad to see the bute house agreement come to an end. And you think the snp will still be okay with the minority and minority government . Well, i think it will put them under a bit of pressure. Well see. Id heard the rumours and things that are going on, but i didnt actually know thats happened today. So not as confident, not particularly. I think in a massive moment. I think in a massive moment. Do you think thats been going on for a while . Do you think we need. Would you like to see an election , probably. I see an election, probably. I think they might have to call an election. Yeah, but thats a sad event. Election. Yeah, but thats a sad event. No, i havent been for event. No, i havent been for a long time, actually, but i didnt really see the news this morning. So the greens have left the snp were minority government now. Yeah, so am i right in saying you might fancy an election with that clear things 7 up. Up . Yes, i think we should. Yes yes, i think we should. Yes now, we know that humza yousaf has survived some some pretty sticky situations already in the last 13 months or so. In the last 13 months or so. But, you know, i would pay anything to be a fly on the wall of bute house tonight. Or indeed, even ash regans home to wonder about will. These conversations are, as we approach this vote of no confidence, but certainly on paper it doesnt look like the, the landslide that humza yousaf would be hoping for. Its going to be tight. Okay. Tony mcguire live in holyrood. Thank you for that update. Well im joined now by freelance columnist alistair stewart. Alistair welcome to the show. Its been a torrid year for the first minister and somehow its just got worse. Hes been accused of weakness today but he said quite the opposite. This shows leadership. Whats your take, no, i think it is very much blown up in his face. And the greens are being used as a scapegoat for mr yousaf. If you look back on the timeline of this, the greens have called or were about to call an emergency meeting. They were going to consider whether or not they themselves wanted to remain in the Scottish Government, given that the Scottish Government had failed to meet its own targets in reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions , they had emissions, they had significantly moved away from that. They themselves were going to decide and very likely going to decide and very likely going to decide, that they were going to decide, that they were going to leave. Mr yousafs move has to leave. Mr yousafs move has been to push them before they jumped. Now thats backfired significantly as the vote of no confidence and mr yousaf suggests it is now clearly demonstrating that mr yousaf has lost control of the situation and that the greens are being used by the snp or senior members of the snp as an excuse for their own failures. Theres an irony in this situation in that the greens were brought into government in 2021 to point out and say that we have a majority to push ahead with an independent strategy. This is how were going to achieve it. This is our Pro Independence majority at holyrood. The irony is that theyve spent these years focusing on policies that they disagree with, such as the gender recognition and reform bill, rather than proposals and plans for independence. So in many ways, they fallen out over domestic policy, which the snp should have been focusing on in the first place. Over the last 17 years. And anna, so the next official holyrood election is not due to take place until may 2026. Were seeing this no confidence motion go in. Do you think it has any chance of passing, considering the metrics and the bitter irony . Of course , and the bitter irony . Of course, of ash regan being a central player . Of course she was involved in that snp leadership challenge and disagrees with mr yousaf, certainly on the gender recognition topic, is there a chance of this going ahead, or do you think mr yousaf will simply batten down the hatches and beetle his brow and carry on as usual . As usual . Mr yousaf is showing himself very adept at surviving sticky situations. Certainly that that surrounding his predecessor. If you had asked me three, maybe even six months ago, i would have said this is a flirtation thats extremely unlikely. But if you look at the convergence of circumstance , the greens are of circumstance, the greens are going to be obligated to vote very strangely with the scottish conservatives who have brought this vote of no confidence. There is ash regan, as you pointed out, but theres also a great deal of dissent in the back benches of the snp itself. Back benches of the snp itself. Big party beasts like fergus ewing, who had his membership suspended , and kate forbes, who suspended, and kate forbes, who was a previous leadership front runner. There is a great deal of dissent there now. Im not trying to caveat my words, but i do think that mr yousaf is an extremely sticky situation and a lot of this started at 8 am. This morning. I think he thought he was on the front foot. Hes he was on the front foot. Hes clearly not. And the whole move with the greens has shown his position to be much more vulnerable than maybe even he realises. Realises. And alistair already the prospect of a second referendum of Scottish Independence , seem of Scottish Independence, seem to be withering. Dream now it must seem like an absolute galaxy away. Any chance of moving towards a second referendum . As the snp seemingly is lying in tatters . I think its astonishingly unlikely now. And mr yousaf, ironically, theres a lot of irony going around. His moved his party further away from that. He chose his words very carefully this morning and by ejecting the greens from his own government, he said that hes prepared to work with opposition parties. In many ways, this is deeply reminiscent of two thousand and seven, with under Alex Salmonds leadership, who worked on a case by case basis with opposition parties. Those are not the words , and thats are not the words, and thats not the move of someone whos convinced that Scottish Independence is a vehicle thats going to appear any time soon, and certainly not a material likely. Hes got bigger fish to fry at the moment, and they are very significant problems facing him and his administration. Before you even get to independence. Independence. Okay, dark days ahead. It looks like for humza yousaf. Looks like for humza yousaf. Thank you for joining looks like for humza yousaf. Thank you forjoining us. Thank you for joining us. Alistair stewart live from edinburgh. Now todays edinburgh. Now todays developments come after whats been a very torrid year also for the Scottish National party. Mr the Scottish National party. Mr yousaf was sworn in as first minister on march the 29th last year and its pretty much been downhill ever since. In june , downhill ever since. In june, his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon, was arrested in connection with the Police Investigation into the Police Investigation into the snps finances and she was released without charge and denies any wrongdoing. In october, the snp were heavily beaten by labour in the rutherglen and Hamilton West by election and later that month, former snp mp lisa cameron defected to the conservatives and she said the snp was toxic. In december , the snp was toxic. In december, the court of session upheld the uk governments decision to block the gender recognition bill, which had been introduced , of which had been introduced, of course, by Nicola Sturgeon and the snps hate crime act, which came in at the start of this month. In fact, on april fools day, has proved to be hugely controversial and led to lots of vexatious complaints. And last thursday, the former snp chief executive, peter murrell, was charged in connection with embezzlement of party funds and mr murrell, of course, is Nicola Sturgeons husband. And now sturgeons husband. And now today humza yousaf is left leading a minority government after the snps coalition with the greens has spectacularly collapsed. Now youve not got collapsed. Now youve not got long to grab your chance to win a greek cruise, travel goodies and a £10,000 tax free Cash Bank Balance boost. And heres all the details that you need to enter time is taking on your chance to win our biggest prize yet. 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Well rishi sunak defence spending pledge really put the uk Defence Industry on a war footing. Well, the Prime Minister announced this week in warsaw that the government will be increasing the budgets to 2. 5 of the national gdp, costing an astonishing £75 billion. And mr sunak said the plan would show our enemies that were resolute and determined. Were resolute and determined. But will it work . Well, joining me now in the studio is the former army officer patrick barnham crosswell. Patrick, welcome to the show. Always a pleasure to have your company. You wrote an excellent piece this morning which i caught early doors. You dont have much faith in this mega money plan. Why not . Well, first of all, wheres the money coming from. The government hasnt got any, you know, theres a 3 trillion debt and its 100 trillion debt and its1oo billion a year short. And mr sunak says its going to come from savings and reducing the number of Civil Servants. Servants. Well, no Prime Minister in living memory has ever got reduced numbers of Civil Servants, let alone by 77,000. So its pretend money. So its pretend money. So its pretend money and no doubt the labour party would reverse that immediately anyway. Well, the labour party have actually said are reasonably sensibly. Yes, we want to spend more on defence when its economically possible. But as economically possible. But as you know, anyone who looks at a Balance Sheet knows economically possible with something we havent had for 15 years. And patrick, one of the central thrusts, if you like, of your piece de was we can have all the arsenal, we can have all the equipment, we can have all the equipment, we can have all the bells and whistles in the world, but without boots on the ground, without squaddies , ground, without squaddies, without servicemen, without Navy Officers or anybody, theres a recruitment crisis. It simply recruitment crisis. It simply isnt going to work without the bodies. Well, i mean , this is the i well, i mean, this is the i mean, the shocking figure is that and theyre struggling to recruit, but for every 10 or 11 that they recruit, 16 leave. So the army or the armed forces are getting smaller anyway. But also getting smaller anyway. But also the guys that are leaving are the guys that are leaving are the experienced ones. So theyre actually getting less good. And yeah, i mean, at the moment there is Something Like 3 or 4 warships tied up alongside in various harbours for lack of a crew. The navy calls it inactive, but what it really means is rusting. Means is rusting. And meanwhile we hear of recruitment drives, which seem to favour people who cant swim , to favour people who cant swim, seems to favour people who are having using the correct gender pronouns. The recruitment process itself. Patrick seems to be an absolute chaos, it is, and it takes a ridiculously long time to get from i want to join the army or the armed forces to actually in training. I mean, its averaging Something Like two years and a lot of people fall by the wayside , i mean, grant shapps wayside, i mean, grant shapps came up with a brilliant idea of allowing people beards , but i allowing people beards, but i dont think thats, tipped , to dont think thats, tipped, to tip the balance or anything like it. I mean, the first problem is always pay, you know, there is , always pay, you know, there is, for whatever reason, demand for workers as the pay competition. The second thing, which has been a disgrace for years, is the quality of service, accommodation. Accommodation. So it really impacts on married soldiers when their wives or their families or their partners and spouses are living in substandard accommodation. In substandard accommodation. And you you have to wonder if an organisation often cant do something simple like run a housing estate. It probably explains why it cant buy itself any decent weapons either. Theres another line in your piece. Its on the conservative woman out today that caught my eye and resonated, and it asked the big question. And you say, is there something about the modern generation . Is there something about the country they dont believe in they wouldnt want to fight for . Do you think theres a problem with the patriotic mindset, the you you say in your piece, you have to be prepared to die if you sign up for the armed forces. This isnt something you take lightly. Does the modern generation have the same mindset, the same belief in king and country that you had for queen and country . I dont know. I mean, i think we talked about this last time and certainly the evidence of the vox popping was a marked lack of enthusiasm. Chasm, lack of enthusiasm. Chasm, i think the problem in all these things is its got to seem worthwhile if youre going off to do a job thats clearly adding benefit and making the world a safer and better place, as it was, you know, generations ago. Then as it was, you know, generations ago. Then thats one thing. If youre arent going to be tied up alongside playing, you know, playing games are on a warship thats going nowhere. While you worry about whether whether youre going to get accommodation , whether youre accommodation, whether youre going to be able to meet your bills or whatever, then then clearly, there may well be better offers available from, you know, mr amazon and his warehouse. And do you think that, during peacetime, we became complacent. We took our eye off the ball relative peace time until ukraine and now red sea. And suddenly if when were seeing Sky High Energy prices, were seeing wheat shortages , perhaps seeing wheat shortages, perhaps moving forward, if things cant get through the red sea suddenly. Well, where are the warships . Where is the navy . But weve weve taken our eye off the ball and let them go to seed. Oh, for sure, theres a number of reasons for that. I mean, you know, obviously at the end of the cold war, people wanted a peace dividend for 2020. Hindsight maybe that wasnt a good idea, and i think that the succession of wars and run downs and the financial crisis, you know, the defence has been cut and cut and cut and cut and cut and its taken those cuts hoping that its going to be able to build back and build back and build back. But its now a generation since the cold war, it probably doesnt know how to build back. And i think how to build back. And i think the current reorganisation is probably the straw that broke the camels back. And, you know, its going to be a hard job for anyone. I think , to turn it around. So patrick banham croswell, just to conclude , £75 billion is just to conclude, £75 billion is a heck of a lot of money. Its a heck of an undertaking. Do you think it will be enough . Think it will be enough . I dont think its going to happen. And if it does, ill buy you dinner in a few years time. Okay, well, ill take you up on that if thats the case. Patrick benham croswell always a delight to have you in the studio. And you can check out that piece on the conservative woman by patrick. Its well worth a read. Its got some excellent points in it. Thank you for sharing that with us. Now theres lots more still to come between now and 5 00. In a few minutes, ill bring you news of a surprise poll of gb news viewers that has thrown up some very , very interesting results. Very, very interesting results. Even caught me totally off guard. But first, heres your latest news headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Martin thank you. The top stories. The scottish conservatives are calling for a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens came to a surprise end. This morning, leaving mr yousaf in charge of a minority government. He says hell now reach out to other parties on an issue by issue basis. But the power sharing deal had served its purpose. Scottish tory leader douglas ross said it was a coalition of chaos that had now ended in chaos. Moroccan Asylum Seeker ahmed ali has been convicted of murdering Terrence Carney, who was 70 years old. He stabbed the pensioner six times in hartlepool in what was intended as revenge for the israel Hamas Conflict. Deputy chief constable Victoria Fuller, of cleveland police, spoke outside Court Moments ago. Allitts actions not only left a family devastated but also caused significant fear and distress amongst residents in hartlepool and beyond. While todays guilty verdict will not bnng todays guilty verdict will not bring back terence, our beloved husband , father and grandfather, husband, father and grandfather, we can take some small comfort in knowing that justice has been served. Served. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes , 2020 conviction for sex crimes, after it was decided that he hadnt after it was decided that he hadnt received a fair trial. Hadnt received a fair trial. Manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial of the former hollywood producer, whose crimes sparked the Metoo Movement. Hell remain in prison in connection to other crimes. The connection to other crimes. The government says more people should be using britains trains , despite widespread dissatisfaction with services , dissatisfaction with services, labouris dissatisfaction with services, labour is promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts, ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. Transport secretary taxpayers. Transport secretary mark harper defended the railways , saying the network is railways, saying the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns. What the latest lockdowns. What the latest stories you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to code on your screen, or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Gbnews. Com alerts. Thank you tatiana. Now, in a few minutes time , ill talk few minutes time, ill talk about a major policy announcement from the labour party. They say theyll party. They say theyll nationalise the railways if they win the next election. 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Well explore what it all means for you as we look ahead to the general election. Continuing coverage live from thursday the 2nd of may at midnight on. Gb news. Midnight on. Gb news. Welcome back. Its 437. Im Martin Daubney this is gb news now to a massively interesting poll thats told us exactly how gb news viewers are intending to vote in the next general election. Prepare yourselves for election. Prepare yourselves for a big surprise because its found out that the labour currently has an 11 point lead over the tories among you good people out there now, im surprised about this and i bet you are too. So put down your cup of tea and listen to our political editor, christopher hope, who joins me in the studio for some analysis. So just to repeat these figures , chris, repeat these figures, chris, people watching gb news, they plan to vote at the next general election in the following way 39 labour party , 28. 39 labour party, 28. Conservative party, 20. Reform party i would call that a healthy split of the electorate and im quite surprised. Yeah, many of our viewers will be. Our critics certainly would be. They see people like nigel farage on the channel lee anderson, a former tory mp, now reform mp, Jacob Rees Mogg , reform mp, Jacob Rees Mogg, doing, you know, about five, about nine hours a week by those three out of 125 hours a week. And they think that means we are a tory tv station. Were not. Were a swing station. We are were a swing station. We are the station, i think, where people are moving towards where labouris people are moving towards where labour is going, who is heading the polls. I think back in 2019 it might have been a different poll. Wed see more tory support , but i think it shows. I think that we are. I think weve got our finger on the pulse of what britain thinks about how these parties are doing. I think, you know, i think thats why more and more people are turning to us in big numbers. And i think actually this underlines a, a, an electoral promiscuity because a lot of the people that voted for the conservative party last time actually have voted for the labour party for generations. We saw the huge swing in the red wall and they said at the time, were lending our votes to the conservative party. And now it seems theyre going to take back their loan. It does. I mean, looking into those details there, there are there is some concern for sir keir starmer. The poll of 518 gb news viewers by jl partners shows a warning that many voters are sceptical about his plans to tackle illegal migration. Well, share that with rishi sunak and his rwanda plan, of course, and three quarters of the viewers said immigration was too high and the tories were more trusted on the subject than labour. But sir keir starmer has lead over rishi sunak on improving the nhs , which is a very key priority for gb news viewers. I think this will be a wake up call for those who dismiss this channel as being a kind of right, two right of centre. Its not. There we go. And all of those votes are up for grabs. Labour party mps , sir grabs. Labour party mps, sir keir starmer, are you listening . Your voters are watching this channel. Now lets get more on one of the other top stories today. And labours promised to renationalise the railways if it wins the next election. Shadow transport secretary louise haigh says that todays broken model simply doesnt work well. Chris hopeis simply doesnt work well. Chris hope is still with me and im also delighted to be joined by David Camerons former adviser philip blonde, and the broadcast journalist judite de silva. Journalist judite de silva. Thanks for squeezing in on the end there. Its nice for people in the studio. I do get lonely in the studio. I do get lonely doing my three hour stints. Chris, lets start with this, now, this was first announced actually on your show. Youre doing pmqs live a few weeks ago, and miss haye announced this. So no great surprises there. But whats surprising about it is that a lot of the electorate are receptive to this. 85 of the laboun receptive to this. 85 of the labour, but also 69 of tory voters like this idea as a regular commuter, the trains just dont seem to be working properly for people who pay the fares and our taxes. We heavily subsidised through our taxes. This idea of rail nationalisation is one of the key policies. I always thought that Jeremy Corbyn had , which that Jeremy Corbyn had, which cut through into middle england, has been picked up by the continuity labour party. The sir keir starmer team. It will be the biggest overhaul of our railways in a generation. Louise hague says. It wont cost anything , they say not a penny anything, they say not a penny in compensation costs. They in compensation costs. They think they can save money in by cutting franchise bidding costs. Cutting franchise bidding costs. By cutting franchise bidding costs. By cutting duplication. A thing called the Great British railways. A bit like what the railways. A bit like what the government is already trying to do from back in february. Automatic delaying, cancellation, refunds, digital tickets , integrated timetables, tickets, integrated timetables, tickets, integrated timetables, tickets, fares. So it goes on. Weve all heard it before , by weve all heard it before, by the way, from the tory government and it hasnt happened yet. But heres the unions are saying its a stunning vision for rail. Thats aslef Rail Partners who look after the rail operators. They say the change is required, but this is simply a political, not practical solution. So not everyone agrees. But i think everyone agrees. But i think everyone agrees. But i think everyone agrees something must be done. Okay lets bring in now philip blonde and greta de silva. Lets start with you, phil. So theres a feeling, isnt there, that everything is broken in britain, nothing works and people simply want change. Well, the state is failing , well, the state is failing, across the piece, from policing to hospitals to gps to railways to hospitals to gps to railways to the roads, theres nothing about the state that that works. And this is the tragedy. And the legacy, really, of George Osborne and David Cameron. The conservatives came in their only idea was austerity. Yeah. They didnt reform Public Services. And its been a tragedy of the subsequent conservative administrations that none of them have attempted Public Service reform. And weve got a failing state. And as your poll, youre very interesting poll showed working class people need the state to work. People are private wealth, private assets. They can get by, theyre fine. But people who rely on there being decent schools, decent hospitals and the ability to travel to work need the state to work. And one of the failings of work. And one of the failings of conservatism is they thought just by cutting the state, the state would somehow work better. State would somehow work better. And it hasnt. And there has to be in the conservative rethink to come a different economic and social model. And part of that is rethinking the role of the state, because the vast majority of british people need it, and without it, theyre in real trouble. And judita we hear all the time of the war on the motorist and so were being forced onto the trains. Oftentimes theyre broken. They dont work , theyre broken. They dont work, theyre always on strike. So theres just a feeling that we have to do something about it. Is this though the right approach . Though the right approach . In theory it should be. But i think first of all, you have to look to who youre speaking to because the everyday commuter, working class people, theyre the mentality they have now is one thats sceptical and they want to scrutinise exactly what youre offering them, because its very nice to say that nationalisation would save £22 billion a year. But then lewis hay also said that they would not is not necessarily guaranteed they would reinvest that the key to nationalising the Railway System is that you have to think about Maintenance Management and also modernisation. That means you have to have the money to invest to make it work and work for a sustainable period of time. And sustainable period of time. And if youre not going to let people kick the tires and say, okay, you , youre making this okay, you, youre making this promise, how will you fund it . Or it looks like is a certain degree of disingenuity that people are currently bashing the tories for having where you make promises you dont fulfil , promises you dont fulfil, labour will run the risk of if they get into government, youre making promises you cant fulfil. If youre going to do these things, will the taxpayer have to bear a higher cost . Be honest about it and say youre paying honest about it and say youre paying more, but this is what well spend it on. And this is how you will benefit. So there we have the states not working , chris, and we need not working, chris, and we need change. We have norman baker on earlier, of course, a former transport minister in the coalition government. He said coalition government. He said this is an old idea. Its an old engine with a new lick of paint. But nevertheless, people are so crying out for something fresh and different. Is that why this is appealing . I think it does work. People feel the banks charge through the nose. You know , many times, the nose. You know, many times, you know, several times inflation increases in the cost of tickets. It just feels really hard to stay above, above water on, on train tickets. I mean, were not even talking about buses. I were not even talking about buses. I think the point youre making. Buses are far more an issue for the people that philip issue for the people that philip is talking about. The state. I mean, i think, you know, the tories have did cut it back a lot back in austerity years, arguably it was unready to expand a lot during the covid years. And now the next plan is to cut more Civil Servants if the tories win an unprecedented fifth fifth terms in office. Whether theyll get the right answers, though, and deal with and improve services is a different matter altogether. Okay, we have to leave it there. Well reach the end of there. Well reach the end of the line. Thank you very much. Chris hope, philip, blonde and journalist broadcast journalist judhha journalist broadcast journalist juditha de silva. And apologies for my endless train puns today. Now the itv has called out the bbc for beating them to the right of the Meghan Markle show suits. Is this a good piece of business for the beeb, or have they wasted yet more taxpayers money . Is it right . Royal waste of licence payers money . Im Martin Daubney on gb news britains news channel. Welcome back. Its 449. Im Martin Daubney on gb news now. The head of itv has accused the bbc of bleating about cost cutting while it splashes out mega moolah on us tv dramas such as suits , which of course features suits, which of course features the duchess of sussex. Now its been reported that the bbc outbid itv for the series, something that itv bosses noted was funded with the licence fee money that you lot pay them. Well, joining me now is the former bbc royal correspondent , former bbc royal correspondent, the legendary michael cole. Michael, this is a story that ticks so many boxes for you. Of course you have a huge interest in royal matters and as a former bbc employee yourself, youre wearing that hat as well. The big question is quite simple should the bbc really be splashing out mega money on acquiring drama . Acquiring drama . Good afternoon martin, the licence fee is the poll tax that nobody ever voted for. And if there were a referendum tomorrow, a sizeable majority would be for its abolition. Now , the licence fee brings now, the licence fee brings in garners £3. 5 billion a year for the bbc. And its used some of that to bid against itv and against channel 4, which we should remember is owned by the government, i. E. Owned by us. So the bbc uses public money to bid against these two in order to buy suits, which is an old series. Its already been seen twice on dave and on netflix and it outbids. Itv and itv and channel 4 have been struggling in recent days for advertising to keep afloat instead of spending its largesse on new programming, which is presumably what the bbc is for, its bidding for all this old programmes. Unfortunately, the problem is this bbc is the only corporation in World History that was set up not to make money, but to spend it, and it spendsitin money, but to spend it, and it spends it in these profligate ways. Instead of investing in new talent in this country. And i think the head of itv is absolutely right. Its not in the bbcs business to do this. The problem is martin, they are the greatest Empire Builders since the emperor trajan in ad 107, when the roman empire was at its greatest extent. They cannot see anything that they cannot see anything that they cannot ignore. They have to get into it, they have to dominate. And theyve dominated local news as well. In the regions where i live. And its to the detriment of local newspapers. And that is very serious for democracy. And michael, its worth pointing out that kevin lygo, itvs managing director of media and entertainment, he complained to ofcom about bbc doing this, saying it was an unfair use of licence payers money, saying if theyre going to be bidding for things like this, then surely it should only be if theyre the lowest bidder driving up the price and spending taxpayers money. Its something you can get elsewhere. Doesnt seem right. Martin is creating a false market and thats what essentially lygo is saying instead of it being commercially decided, its decided by somebody who has a very specialist, privileged position. Its got money it doesnt earn. Thats coming in guaranteed by, i must say, a dwindling number of licence payers , because people arent payers, because people arent paying payers, because people arent paying it any more because theyre going elsewhere. And without the sanction of court action, sending, single mothers to jail, thats actually had to stop. Thank goodness, after a great deal of controversy about it , deal of controversy about it, the bbc should be acting more responsibly. Responsibly. It doesnt add anything to the bbcs offer to the world to have suits which has already been seen. It should be left to the commercial stations. Let them do what they do. Well and let the bbc try to do what it was set up to do to educate, inform and entertain. Inform and entertain. And michael, quickly, if we could. Do you think that the bbc wanted this specifically because they wanted to be seen to support Meghan Markle . Its a very interesting question. If they did, they were question. If they did, they were very misguided because her Approval Ratings have have tanked here and in the United States in recent years for good reasons, which we dont need to go over now, but we have explored in the past on your Excellent Programme on many occasions. Okay michael cole, we have to leave it there. Always an absolute delight to speak to you. Thank you, as ever for joining us on gb news is now forjoining us on gb news is now is nationalising the railways. The right way to solve britains transport problems . Well, thats labour partys big new policy. Well be discussing that next. Is it a first class idea or is it simply hitting the buffers . Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel, but now its your weather and its alex burkill. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again. Heres your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. It is going to stay rather cool as we going to stay rather cool as we go through the end of the week, and there will be some more showers to come for most of us as well, because we are still under the influence of an area of low pressure just out in the nonh of low pressure just out in the north sea, bringing a showery theme across the bulk of the country. So more showers as we go through into the evening. Go through into the evening. Perhaps something a bit more persistent. A damp end to the day across parts of the south east, but that rain will clear away as we go overnight out elsewhere, and there will be some showers at times, but also some showers at times, but also some clear skies. And under the clear skies. Temperatures are going to take a bit of a dip again. There could be a bit of frost first thing tomorrow morning, and possibly a few pockets of mist and fog too. Otherwise, as we go through friday then something a bit heavier rain wise, pushing into parts of devon and cornwall as we go through the day elsewhere and on the whole it looks relatively similar to today. Really. Yes, therell be a scattering of showers for many of us, but some bright or sunny spells in between the showers. Despite the sunshine though, sticking with that rather cool theme. Temperatures reaching highs of around 8 or 9 celsius in the north, 13 possibly 14 celsius further south into the weekend, and there will be something a bit more unsettled still to come. Outbreaks of rain still to come. Outbreaks of rain across central parts dont look particularly heavy on saturday and a few showers further north, but its on sunday when theres the chance that we could see something a bit heavier in terms of rainfall wise, but we are likely to see our temperatures picking up a little bit as we go into the new week. Bye bye. Into the new week. Bye bye. Looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Hey. Very good afternoon to you. Its 5 pm. And welcome to the Martin Daubney show on gb news. Broadcasting live from the heart of westminster all across the uk. Coming up on todays show, labour are going full steam ahead to renationalise the railways. If they get back into power. And the shadow transport secretary claims it wont cost the taxpayer a single penny. But critics claim it could cost a whopping £10 billion. Is it just the ticket or labour going down the ticket or labour going down the wrong track . Next up , the wrong track . Next up, irelands government has pointed the finger at the United Kingdom for the countrys spiralling immigration crisis, claiming that 80 of arrivals to ireland come from the uk. Well, well speak to an irish political leader wholl explain why its all irelands fault, and gb news can exclusively reveal that spies at m15 and m16 have been warned to avoid handshakes with muslims in case they offend them, and to make sure they use gender neutral toilets. What next . Pronouns are forever. Thats all coming up in your next hour. Welcome to the show. Next hour. Welcome to the show. Always an absolute delight to have your company. Now, if youre as old and long in the tooth as me, you remember the last time that the railways in britain were nationalised . British rail. Britain were nationalised . British rail. In my memory, my chilled memory is of trains that werent often turning up british rail sandwiches were the shorthand for torture for prison food. And of course, we saw food. And of course, we saw endless strife. Acas would endless strife. Acas would renationalising put the unions back in control. Goodness knows we see enough strikes at the moment, but a large number of voters seem to like this idea. 69 of conservative voters would like to renationalise the railways, and 85 of labour voters. Thats the big thing today. Do you think getting railways back into Public Ownership is a first class idea . Ownership is a first class idea . Get your ideas across your comments gbnews. Com. Forward slash your say this is your show as much as mine. But slash your say this is your show as much as mine. But now its as much as mine. But now its time for your latest news headlines. And its tatiana sanchez. Martin thank you. The top stories this hour. The martin thank you. The top stories this hour. The scottish stories this hour. The scottish conservatives are calling for a vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens collapsed this morning, leaving mr yousaf in charge of a minority government. He says minority government. He says hell now reach out to other parties on an issue by issue basis. But the power sharing deal had served its purpose. Scottish tory leader douglas ross said it was a coalition of chaos that had now ended in chaos that had now ended in chaos. Chaos that had now ended in chaos. Moroccan Asylum Seeker chaos. Moroccan Asylum Seeker ahmed ali has been convicted of murdering Terrence Carney, who was 70 years old. He stabbed the pensioner six times in hartlepool in what was intended as revenge for the israel Hamas Conflict. Deputy chief constable Victoria Fuller, of cleveland police, spoke outside court and its actions not only left a family devastated, but also caused significant fear and distress amongst residents in hartlepool and beyond. While todays guilty verdict will not bring back terence , our will not bring back terence, our beloved husband, father and grandfather, we can take some small comfort in knowing that justice has been served. Justice has been served. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes. 2020 conviction for sex crimes. Its a Stunning Development for the former top hollywood producer , whose crimes sparked producer, whose crimes sparked what became known as the Metoo Movement at manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial. Theres little chance of him being released, though he has also. Released, though he has also. Hes also serving 16 years for the rape of a woman in a Beverly Hills hotel, all donald trump says that us president s must be immune from the threat of prosecution. It comes as his hush money case continues today in a separate case, the Us Supreme Court is hearing arguments for why he should be immune from charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Mr trump spoke outside court early this morning. Court early this morning. Constitutional rights have been taken away from me , but been taken away from me, but every single expert, every legal scholar , every respected scholar scholar, every respected scholar has said this is no case. There is no case here. The argument on immunity is very important. The president has to have immunity. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has nothing to do with me. This has to do with a president in the future , for a hundred in the future, for a hundred years from now, if you dont have immunity, youre not going to do anything. Youre going to become a ceremonial president. Youre just going to be doing nothing. Youre not going to take any of the risks, both good and bad. And bad. The government says more people should be using britains trains. Despite widespread dissatisfaction with services, labours promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. The government commissioned an independent review into railways in 2018, but little has changed since then. Transport secretary mark harper says the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns. Big the big thing were still having to deal with is the impact of the pandemic. The Rail Industry at the moment is financially not sustainable. At the moment, the only route to solving that is to use the private Sector Innovation , the private Sector Innovation, the stuff they demonstrated they could deliver when we privatised them, when they doubled passenger numbers. Weve got to get more people using railways. Thats the only way they become financially sustainable. Theres nothing in labours plans thats going to deliver that. Quite the going to deliver that. Quite the reverse. What you the system of grading schools with one word judgements should stay. Thats according to the department of education. The government says grades such as outstanding or inadequate provide significant benefits and give parents a succinct summary of schools. The grading system came under scrutiny following the death of headteacher ruth perry , who took her own life perry, who took her own life after a report downgraded her school. Her sister, julie walters, says the governments response is woefully inadequate. Response is woefully inadequate. A stabbing at a school in wales yesterday was reportedly halted when a heroic teacher intervened, placing the attacker intervened, placing the attacker in an arm lock. Amman Valley School was put into lockdown yesterday when a student allegedly attacked two teachers and a pupil. Their injuries are not life threatening. Darrell campbell, a teacher and chairman of a local rugby club, reportedly disarmed the alleged attacker, putting her in the headin attacker, putting her in the head in the arm lock until Emergency Services arrived. The school will remain closed today while forensic teams investigate the suspect also remains in custody and the famous red windmill on the top of the moulin rouge in paris plummeted to the ground overnight. Early to the ground overnight. Early visitors were stunned this morning to find the landmark broken into pieces on the streets. The theatre is currently investigating the cause, though it is not believed to be deliberate since opening in 1889, it has become one of the most popular destinations in paris, inspiring the 2001 film and a stage musical currently playing in london. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Carmelites. Now its back to. Martin. Back to. Martin. Thank you very much, tatiana. Now, before we continue with the show, weve got some breaking news. Im joined in studio by our political editor, chris hope. Chnsis our political editor, chris hope. Chris is kicking off in scotland. Its been a day. A day of days in politics terms. We know , of course, terms. We know, of course, earlier that the greens left the delicate Coalition Supporting the snp led, government in scotland. Well, as things stand, its going to be voting no confidence in humza yousaf whos the first minister. The tories, the first minister. The tories, the labour party and the liberal democrats are going to vote, vote against having any confidence in him. In him, we can confirm reported by pa just now, that also seven green msps will do the same if it carries on that way. Its hard to see how yusuf carries on as first minister. They may be looking for a new one in short order. The rules are that if this vote happens tuesday or wednesday next week, he should then resign. And then you have to find a new first minister. But we were trying to work out if you can stay on. But as things stand, his job is looking very, very shaky right now. Well, we had a torrid first year and it just gets worse. Well come back to more on that story as we get the details , but story as we get the details, but lets move on to our talking point now. A major policy announcement by the labour party today, and the partys promised today, and the partys promised to renationalise the railways if it wins the next general election. Well, shadow transport secretary louise haigh says that todays broken model simply doesnt work. But under the conservatives, our railways have become a symbol of national decline of a country that no longer works and a government with no plan to fix it. Cancellations are at record highs. Fares have risen almost twice as fast as wages since 2010, and strikes are costing us £25 million a day. Todays broken model simply doesnt work i well, well, im joined in our studio by our political editor, as you just saw, chris hoban, also by Maxwell Marlow, whos the director of research at the Adam Smith Institute. Gents, welcome to the show. Lets start on this. Chris, the surprising on this. Chris, the surprising thing about this, this announcement that its very popular with all sets of voters , popular with all sets of voters, as youd expect, 84 of the red corner, like it. But 69 of conservatives are also open to the idea. Its popular, i imagine, until it starts costing taxpayers lots of money. So currently louise hague, whos the shadow transport secretary she says its the biggest overhaul in a generation. It will happen without the taxpayer paying will happen without the taxpayer paying a penny in compensation costs. Now thats a big thing to say about the railways. We are chucking loads of our tax money into these railways to keep them going, they think they can create a public body called called great Great British railways, where the Passenger Standards Authority to hold it accountable. Well, theyre accountable. Well, theyre saving money by cutting franchise bidding costs , cutting franchise bidding costs, cutting duplication, lessening friction between operators , making them between operators, making them all work Better Together for us, us users of the services, we get automatic delay cancellation refunds, digital tickets on all networks and integrated timetables , tickets and fares. Timetables, tickets and fares. Thats a big idea. I have heard it before from the tory government. It hasnt happened yet , they have got the support yet, they have got the support of unions, aslef, the train drivers who can literally shut the railway down if they want to and have done over strike action. They say its a stunning vision for rail. The rail operators are less happy. They operators are less happy. They call it a political, not a practical solution. Well, there was. Lets bring well, there was. Lets bring in Maxwell Marlow now maxwell a huge amount of public money already goes into the railways. £30 billion was shovelled. You know, the coals onto the fire dunng know, the coals onto the fire during covid alone to keep this system working, to keep it running on time as best we could. But im old enough to remember when the rail was last nationalised back in the 1970s. Endless strikes, trains not turning up, british rail sandwiches akin to torture. And lets be honest, if the rail goes back into nationalised control , all that gives the control, all that gives the unions a huge amount of power. It really does. I mean, all we need to do is not just look at our own history, but look at france, where there are massive amounts of Union Control and a lot of their infrastructure is usually ground to a halt because essentially the unions have a veto, basically play over our own infrastructure. And i dont think that is a feasible system to have a really healthy , and to have a really healthy, and really vibrant economy, which is what this infrastructure should be doing. Be doing. The Current System is broken. British rail, we saw completely broken. Broken. We need to reform the Current System, make it more integrated. Do what the shapps review, you know, instructed and make it less complicated and really, really make a free market on the rails. I think thats really, really important. Really. Maxwell i mean, a free market on the rails is the idea that john majors government had in 95, 96. It hasnt worked, has it . I mean , hasnt worked, has it . I mean, of all the things that should be state owned, probably the water, maybe , and the rail, theres no maybe, and the rail, theres no real competition. Well there is. You can get competition on the rails. I mean, what my favourite comparisons is of course with, with aeroplanes, you know, theres only so many aeroplane slots and yet, you know, you dont really struggle with, you know, bad service on airlines unless its quite a bad airline. But they seem to go out of business quite quickly, you know, when major set out the big reforms back in the 90s and the Adam Smith Institute were helping the treasury get their way through this, you know, the two big things about competition efficiency, those havent been reached. Reached. And thats a huge, huge problem. And its something, you know, that we all need to acknowledge. But thats a way of fixing the Current System, make it more efficient, allow us to have proper competition on the railways. Thats what we should be going for. But we have had that for quite a long time. People quite a long time. People continually complain about the exorbitant costs, the unreliability, the customer service, the fragmented, confusing ticketing. So at a confusing ticketing. So at a time like that, people just want change and the figures dont lie. Maxwell. The electorate seems to want this. Im not going to, you know, defend the Current System. Its defend the Current System. Its not working. But we have restricted travel on long on you know, on long haul journeys. Lets say you know where im from, from crewe, london to crewe, there are only a couple of train operators which are licensed to do that in a journey. Why has that not been opened up . Thats a huge problem. And we also have to remember that some of those more rural lines, they work quite well because theyre competitive. Those long haul journeys which you know, are the real focal point of a of the cost or of the inefficiencies, you know, theyre not competitive. So you basically have a, you know, state sanctioned private monopoly on those rails. And thats just its just not a Sustainable Way to go forward. Maxwell, do you think labours labours numbers add up . Theyre saying that it wont cost us as taxpayers a penny. They can save the money by cutting franchise bidding costs and duplication. Is that do you and duplication. Is that do you think thats credible . Weve seen this before, havent we . Especially with vat on private school fees where the moneys been. You know, alleged to be spent, you know, over 12 different times. And, you know, ive done some research into this. Ive found it may not even raise a penny. In fact, it could cost us on this case in the rail. But its indicative of a problem of essentially their modelling may not actually stack up. So i, im not too sure up. So i, im not too sure we have to. Lets see what happens in practice. Theres a lot to be said on modelling. And i think we need to see what happens in practice. But im a bit squeamish to be honest. Okay. Okay. Fair enough. Maxwell marlowe is the director of research at the Adam Smith Institute. And of the Adam Smith Institute. And of course, chris hope. Thank you very much for that lovely conversation. Moving on a moroccan Asylum Seeker who said he was inspired by revenge for the israel Hamas Conflict has been convicted of murdering a pensioner out walking in the street. Ahmed ali stabbed 70 street. Ahmed ali stabbed 70 year old Terence Carney six times in Hartlepool Town Centre early on october the 15th, eight days, of course, after hamas attacked israel. And we can cross now to gb News Reporter anna riley , who was at teesside anna riley, who was at Teesside Crown court for the verdict. She joins me now. Anna, hugely controversial , joins me now. Anna, hugely controversial, disturbing case. Whats the latest . Whats the latest . Yes, martin, it certainly is. Yes, martin, it certainly is. Well, after a two week trial here at Teesside Crown court, a jury here at Teesside Crown court, a jury found that 45 year old Moroccan National ahmed ali was guilty of the murder , as you guilty of the murder, as you say, of 70 year old Terence Carney, also , the attempted carney, also, the attempted murder of his housemate javid noor, murder of his housemate javid noor , and also the assault of noor, and also the assault of two female Police Officers who were interviewing interviewing him about these offences. We heard from the prosecution throughout the trial that these is, the murder and the attempted murder. These actions were said to be motivated by the israel hamas war. We heard that, ali broke into his housemates room. They were all sharing Asylum Seeker accommodation put on by the home office in hartlepool, that he fell out with his housemate, who had converted to christianity and started going to the local church. He believed as he was a muslim, that converting to christianity made his housemate an apostate and that he cried allah akbar , allah that he cried allah akbar, allah akban that he cried allah akbar, allah akbar, meaning god is great as he stabbed his housemate who managed to fight him off, but then he went out into the street in the early hours of the morning where he came across 70 year old Terence Carney, who he fatally stabbed. The jury finding him guilty on both these counts, i spoke to dcc Victoria Fuller earlier of cleveland police, and she said that these attacks were devastating for the community. Well, i think its perfectly reasonable and understandable , isnt it, that understandable, isnt it, that this has been really worrying for the communities of hartlepool. But i have to say they have responded incredibly calmly and they have been really supportive of the Police Investigation and we havent detected any Community Tensions within hartlepool. And i thank within hartlepool. And i thank the residents of hartlepool for supporting us and will continue to engage with them with local charities , local community charities, local Community Groups to provide whatever reassurance we possibly can. A statement was also read on behalf of terences family. They said that theyd watched the whole trial intently and whilst todays verdict wont bring back terence, our beloved husband, father and grandfather, we can take some small comfort in knowing that justice has been served and alid will be sentenced here at this court on may the 17th, and well bring further updates when that happens. Thank you, anna, for that update from Teesside Crown court. Now your time is 518 and youve not got long to grab your chance to win a greek cruise , chance to win a greek cruise, travel goodies and a £10,000 tax free Cash Bank Balance boost. Hazel. Details you need to hop on board. Time is ticking on your chance to win our biggest prize yet. 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Good luck coming up, well bring you all the latest from scotland , all the latest from scotland, after the scottish greens said that they will vote against against first minister humza yousaf in a vote of no confidence, spectacular development and also irelands government has pointed the finger at the United Kingdom for the countrys spiralling immigration crisis, saying 80 of arrivals come from the uk. Of arrivals come from the uk. And how will this news go down . In a country where tensions are already very, very high on the issue of immigration, ill speak to an irish political leader next. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains join me. Camilla tominey every sunday at 930. When ill be interviewing the key players in british politics and taking them to task in this report basically says that hes not fit to stand trial with an upcoming election looming over westminster, now is the time for clear, honest answers. I agree, and thats precisely what ill get. Is he indecisive . Incompetent thats the Camilla Tominey show at 930 every sunday on gb news, the peoples channel on gb news, the peoples channel, britains election. Channel. Welcome back. Its 524. Im Martin Daubney and this is gb news. Now lets get back to the breaking news we brought you just a few moments ago, which is that Humza Yousafs erstwhile coalition partners, the scottish greens , will vote against him in greens, will vote against him in the upcoming no confidence vote in the first minister, announced just this morning that he was terminating the so called bute house agreement following a series of disagreements with the scottish greens over policy, prompting the scottish conservatives to table the motion of no confidence. Well, a day of high drama north of the border. Lets speak now to gb news scotland. Reporter tony maguire. Tony, once again, the sun is shining on you, but the storm clouds are now getting worse and worse for humza yousaf i yes, you can imagine that the mood martin will be a rather dreich in the in the humza yousaf households tonight as he looks back at those last seven hours and wonders what went so wrong. Around half eight this morning of course, he called that emergency Cabinet Meeting quite an extraordinary event in and of itself. Thats only happened twice before , after happened twice before, after brexit, and another alex salmond when he failed to do and put through a budget. But indeed, today that then spiralled so far out of his control because at first ministers questions after midday, douglas ross told the chamber that he was lodging a motion of no confidence in humza yousaf and over the last few hours we have then seen quite pretty much all scottish parties rally to the side of the scottish conservatives on this issue. Now we saw that obviously the scottish conservatives, they have 31 msps. That vote of no confidence, that needs 25 votes in order for it to be raised in parliament next week. That is parliament next week. That is now pretty much a certainty. The scottish labour, they have also put out a message to say that they too have no confidence in humza yousaf or this government, and so they have given an idea of how they would vote this, the scottish liberal democrats. Well, they have also said in fact, Alex Cole Hamilton today said that just because two clowns have exited the clown car , the circus is still running. And indeed a video posted on eks earlier on today said that they will two will back this motion of no confidence and then of course, the greens, as weve been talking about. Well, in about four minutes time theyre due to host a press conference and they will be letting everybody know what their intentions are and how they plan to proceed with that vote. Not a good look. Unfortunately for humza yousaf. But interestingly, that puts all the power in the hands of ash, regan albers , only hands of ash, regan albers, only scottish msp and effectively the leader of the alba party here at holyrood. She very likely will have the deciding vote out of the way of any abstentions. That vote, we know, is not going to happen until next week now. But indeed, i think its safe to say that today a lot of a lot of humza yousaf plans. He started this thinking he was coming from a position of strength, that it was good for the party and good for scotland. I cant look that much of a strong move now. Tony mcguire, that will be a act of political karma itself because ash regan, of course, now could be the kingmaker in this. She of course, stood as a candidate to be a potential snp leader, and she left the party due to the stance on transgenderism, the gender recognition bill. And that could severely come back to haunt humza yousaf. Now yes, you have to wonder what the irony of the whole situation will taste if you remember, ash regan was actually part of the snp government and she took a step back out of , kind of step back out of, kind of dispute over the gender recognition reform bill, as you say, as that was going through consultation. What a lot of people maybe dont know unless you follow up with qus is she was quite often referred to as the member by Nicola Sturgeon and her government, not even using her name. Well, she found a new home in alba just last year and indeed, as you say, it looks like she is going to be potentially the kingmaker of this situation. Now you know what she would ask for in terms of that vote, its probably too early to say, but i would imagine shes probably getting quite, you know, heavily coached. You know, are advised, shall we say, by alex salmond and by neil hanvey, who will probably, you know , see this as probably, you know, see this as an opportunity to further the position of alba on issues like independence and the gender bills, etc. So, yeah, interesting times. And it feels like were only at the beginning here. Thank you. Tony mcguire. Live thank you. Tony mcguire. Live from holyrood and moving swiftly onwards, irelands premier millom simon harris has said his countrys immigration laws will need to change after it emerged that a over 80 of Asylum Seekers in ireland enter from the uk. And this comes amid ever growing tensions in ireland on the issue of immigration, with a sharp increase in migrant arrivals worsening the republics already acute housing crisis that has led to many Asylum Seekers sleeping in tents. Well, joining us now to discuss this is the president of the Irish Freedom party, herman kelly. Herman, welcome to the show. So, spiralling out of control and its the United Kingdom thats to blame. Hes kingdom thats to blame. Hes muted okay. We cant we cant hear you, herman. Can you unmute yourself, mate . Okay. We havent yourself, mate . Okay. We havent got him. All right im just going to talk about this. So going to talk about this. So ostensibly whats happened here is that the irish Justice Minister has basically tried to blame the problem of spiralling immigration on the british, on the United Kingdom, because whats happening is that people are coming to the uk and they are coming to the uk and they are going over a land border into ireland because they have a better chance of remaining in ireland than they do in the uk. And guess why . Because ireland voted against the rwanda bill. They therefore said that the United Kingdom is not a safe country because if people are sent back from ireland to United Kingdom, they could go to rwanda. So ireland, hung by its own petard, yet blaming the United Kingdom for its immigration shortfalls. Thats what herman kelly, im sure was going to say. Im afraid we have some technical issues , but lets move technical issues, but lets move on. Theres lots more still to come between now and 6 00 and a gb news exclusive story reveals how diversity plans are affecting the way the defence agencies are conducting espionage missions. Its going to be a severe case of pronouns for our spies. But first, its time for your headlines, and its tatiana sanchez. Its tatiana sanchez. Martin. Thank you. The top stories, tensions are high in edinburgh this afternoon, with the scottish greens planning to vote against first minister humza yousaf in a vote of no confidence. Its after the snps power sharing deal with the greens collapsed this morning, leaving mr yousaf in charge of a minority government. Losing the vote wouldnt automatically spell the end for mr yousaf, but it would throw serious doubt over his ability to govern. The no confidence motion was proposed by scottish conservative leader douglas ross , who branded the snp leader weak and failed to. Moroccan Asylum Seeker ahmed ali, who has been convicted of murdering Terrence Carney , who was 70 Terrence Carney, who was 70 years old. He stabbed the pensioner six times in hartlepool in what was intended as revenge for the israel Hamas Conflict. Deputy chief constable Victoria Fuller, of cleveland police, spoke outside court on behalf of terences family. Allitts actions not only left a family devastated, but also caused significant fear and distress amongst residents in hartlepool and beyond. While hartlepool and beyond. While todays guilty verdict will not bnng todays guilty verdict will not bring back terence , our beloved bring back terence, our beloved husband, father and grandfather, we can take some small comfort in knowing that justice has been served. Served. A court in new york has overturned Harvey Weinsteins 2020 conviction for sex crimes , 2020 conviction for sex crimes, after it was decided that he hadnt after it was decided that he hadnt received a fair trial. Hadnt received a fair trial. Manhattans District Attorney will now decide whether to seek a retrial of the former hollywood producer, whose crimes sparked the Metoo Movement. Hell remain in prison in connection to other crimes, the government says. More people should be using britains trains, despite widespread dissatisfaction with services, labouris dissatisfaction with services, labour is promising to establish a publicly owned network led by Rail Industry experts, ensuring efficient and accountable Services Without burdening taxpayers. Transport secretary mark harper defended the railways, saying the network is still recovering from covid lockdowns. For the latest lockdowns. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen. Or you can go to gb news. Com alerts. Go to gb news. Com alerts. Cheers cheers britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. Report. Heres a quick snapshot of todays markets. The pound will buy you 1. 2490 and ,1. 1654. The price of gold is £1,865. 81 per ounce, and the ftse 100 closed at 8078 points. Cheers, britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report. Financial report. Well, joining me now is the magnificent michelle juby, the queen of prime time political debate. Michelle, whats on your menu . Hello, martin. Menu . Hello, martin. Well, of course i want to look at the absolute mess that is going on in scotland. And i want to look at the labour trends plan as well. That goes without saying. But also, you know , the place in the uk where know, the place in the uk where more people identify as being engush more people identify as being english as a percentage. Do you know where it is . Do you know where it is . Martin . Any idea whereabouts in the uk . The highest percentage of people would say that theyre engush people would say that theyre english people. English people. I reckon its somewhere. It might be somewhere like ashfield, wales. Wales. English. Ashfield, wales. Wales. English. Theres a place in wales where apparently 38 of people would say that they are english, and as a percentage, thats the highest across the uk. So i want to look at national identity, what makes us define ourselves as this and that and the other. And also theres an interesting story, about the dwp. Do you think they should be able to access your Bank Accounts if youre a benefit claimant , you youre a benefit claimant, you know, just in case theres fraud going on or, you know, it could be something as simple, martin, as they could put an overpayment into your bank account and then say, we need to get into your bank account. Bank account. Its not you, you know, its us. Us. And then theyre in there. And then theyre in there. Breach of privacy or what . Yeah. The last thing you want is , is that lot sniffing around is, is that lot sniffing around in your Bank Accounts . Michelle dewberry dewbs co 6 or 7. A tasty menu, as ever, about to be served. Now theres a new way to get in touch with us. And heres bev turner with all the details. We are proud to be gb news the peoples channel. And as you know, we always love to hear your views. Now theres a new way of getting in touch with us at gbnews. Com yoursay by commenting , at gbnews. Com yoursay by commenting, you can be part of a live conversation and join our gb news community. You can even talk to me bev turner or any of the members of the gb news family. Simply go to gbnews. Com forward slash your say i welcome back. Its 539. Im Martin Daubney , and this is gb Martin Daubney, and this is gb news. Now weve got a gb news exclusive live for you now, because its been revealed that m15 and m16 spies are being told to copy canadian mp pms bazball and Justin Trudeau and avoid shaking hands with muslims. The shaking hands with muslims. The gb news investigates expose reveals how spies are also being told to avoid all white panels, use gender neutral bathrooms and nominate each other for 13 separate, diverse awards. Well, joining us now is the man who got that exclusive. Its gb news got that exclusive. Its gb news us correspondent steve edmondson. Steve of all the places you think will be safe from wokery or be mi6, the home of james bond, what fresh madness is this . Weve been analysing some diversity documents in m16 and m15 for the National Security agencies. And its a its a agencies. And its a its a toolkit called the Mission Critical toolkit. Critical toolkit. And its over 140 pages long. It discusses all sorts of plans and initiatives for uk spies. And among the documents, i noficed and among the documents, i noticed something very strange. There was a comment from a muslim hr lady who works in the Civil Service, who suggested that people should avoid shaking hands with muslims because it might cause offence. Now she says that she doesnt shake hands with the opposite sex because she thinks thats offensive to her religion, and she suggested that staff use Justin Trudeaus hand on heart greeting instead, to and let muslims basically take the lead as to whether they want to shake your hand or not. And as you say, the other revelation are equally shocking, last week we did a story the same story about how spies are told not to be alpha and display alpha behaviours. So again, this is very much being criticised as part of the woke takeover of our institute. And steve, this never ceases to amaze. And in fact you seem to amaze. And in fact you seem to be the man whos getting a huge amount of exclusives on this. Youve got quite a touch to you. Well, weve got more coming up and i know that many organisations across the media, across government , there are across government, there are many people who are concerned about whats going on internally. And im very, very fortunate to be able to know a lot of these people. They get in touch with me and i encourage them to do so if theyre concerned and definitely watch this space in the next week or two. Weve got some Great Stories coming up, steve, and keep them coming. Keep them coming. Fantastic exclusive, great stuff. Keep it going. Pronouns are forever. Who would have thought . Now a Cabinet Office spokesperson has said this a lot of work has been done to review equality, diversity and inclusion spending across government, particularly over the last year. It is right taxpayers have value for money and we are considering a presumption against this type of spending in the Civil Service now. Is nationalising the railways really the way to get british transport back on track . Well, well have more analysis on labours big plans next by speaking to one of the people responsible for this policy. Im Martin Daubney on gb news, britains news channel welcome back 546. Were on the final furlong and im Martin Daubney. And this is gb news now. Cambridge University College is hiring new cleaners after photos of students messy rooms were shared without their consent. And the colleges cleaners sent out a mass email containing supposedly damning photos that they claimed were an illustration of what housekeeping do not want to see on their weekly visits. However, the photos sparked fury from the students, who dubbed them a massive invasion of privacy. The poor things. Well, i speak now to the director of Higher Education policy institute, nick hillman. Nick, this is a hillman. Nick, this is a light hearted story on the heart of it. The photos were sent out of it. The photos were sent out of it. The photos were sent out of rooms that were left completely messy. They cried foul, but surely they had a point. These students are treating the cleaners like slaves as well. Im not so sure. Remember, these are the students homes. This is where they live. Theyre adults. They have a right to privacy, a little bit like the room behind me. They have a right to be a little bit messy. If they want to be. Now, clearly cleaners have a job to do and they shouldnt be expected to clean up unreasonable messes, but nor should they be expected to put that on social media or within the College Environment for everybody else to see it. It does feel to me like an invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy. But as you say, look, its not life nor death. There are much bigger things going on in the world. But its an interesting case of how we treat, actually. But its actually, i think, nick, a very important life lesson for these students. Some of the most privileged and entitled and wealthier students, no doubt in the entire world who have cleaners come to in have their beck and call. Everyone might be surprised that, in fact, they have had housekeepers their students. I use this story today , nick. I told my kids today, nick. I told my kids about it. I said, you know what . The shower room that you use, sony looks a bit untidy. The shower room that you use, sony looks a bit untidy. Im going to take a photograph and put it on social media. Unless you go and clean it now. Do you know what he did . He went and cleaned it straight away. So cleaned it straight away. So maybe, nick, these students might have learned a little life lesson. Lesson. Well well done. Well well done. Your your children are a bit more responsive than mine always are, and look, youre right, its a reminder that some students have life a lot easier than other students. Most students dont have a cleaner cleaning their room for them. Cambridge is a very well resourced institution and most of the cambridge colleges are well resourced and they look after their students very well and students do have some responsibility in, in, you know, in return for that, i think i agree they should take care of college property. They should treat the cleaners with respect, but they also have a right to privacy as well. So i think privacy as well. So i think theres a bit of right and wrong probably on both sides here. And as you say, its a fascinating case of what its like to become an adult in a collegiate environment. Youve got some expectations on you, but you have some rights as well. You know , theres all sorts of know, theres all sorts of things were not allowed to do because of Data Protection these days. And the cleaners did. Or the college slightly broke that this time around and is it correct now that these cleaners have basically been sacked off . Theyre looking for new cleaners because of this, this data violation . Well , i data violation . Well, i must say i didnt know that aspect of the story. I read the story in the newspaper, and the article i read didnt say the cleaners had been sacked. And that does seem quite draconian, to me, everyone has a right to, work. And if they may make a mistake at work, they should be probably be given a second chance. And so that does sound quite draconian to me. Cleaning is not a well paid job, and these cleaners might well have children of their own they need to look after. So i didnt know that aspect of the story. And id like to, you know, was this the final warning or was this the final warning or was this the final warning or was this the first offence . I dont know, well have to get details confirmed on that. But listen, its been a pleasure to speak to you, nick hillman, whos the director of Higher Education policy institute. I wonder what you folks think out there. Im astonished that students have housekeepers that go in and tidy up their mess after them. These are some of the most privileged , entitled the most privileged, entitled students on the planet treating people like serfs. I dont know about you. Im team cleaner on this one. Now. I ask you for your views throughout the show. Its gbnews. Com yoursay youve really got hot under the collar about the topic of the labor party renaming the railways, and it has to be said theres not a huge amount of enthusiasm for it, despite the fact 69 of conservative voters on the whole are receptive, 84 of labour voters. Jonathan says this voters. Jonathan says this nationalised railways in the 19705 nationalised railways in the 1970s were terrible, mainly due to what seemed to be total control by the unions. Mark my words, the same thing will happen again. Rebecca adds this anyone can criticise labour for wanting to re enact the railways, but something has to be done because lets face it, it cant get any worse than it is now. And paul adds to that point. He says itll be british rail all over again , run by the rail all over again, run by the unions. Happy days, goodness knows we lose enough time to strikes without it being nationalised. The trains dont run on time. We already give run on time. We already give them endless billions of pounds. I predict this will be a complete and utter disaster. Neville, however, thinks that there should be a different priority. He says this water or energy should be nationalised before the trains. Of course, before the trains. Of course, a huge amount of people are dissatisfied with sewage spills, with soaring energy costs. Why with soaring energy costs. Why cant we put nationalised money into power , maybe we should get into power, maybe we should get do away with some of the net zero stuff to help that. And we have a point here from horace. We ran some quite surprising figures earlier on about a new poll into the political leanings of gb news viewers, and i was as surprised as some of you made out, no doubt, be to learn surprised as some of you made out, no doubt , be to learn that out, no doubt, be to learn that gb news viewers at the next general election plan to vote in the following way labour party 39, conservatives 28 and the reform party 20. A healthy political spread. That to me political spread. That to me suggests that you lie out there or red wall tv and you are prepared to switch your vote. If Political Parties dont pass your muster. Horace. However, hes a bit more sceptical. He says this gb news is now labour every morning a shadow minister gets a free political broadcast. Horace. Its called political balance and in case you havent noticed, Jacob Rees Mogg has a tv show, as does lee anderson, as does nigel farage. But we have to have a balanced show. Thats what its about, particularly if the data itself shows that 39 of you are prepared to for vote the labour party. Can adds this. You have empower left wing liberal weak conservatism and left wing labour as the only serious option. In my opinion, the reform party is too weak to deliver. I see no other option than to not vote at the next general election, as none of the above parties deserve my vote. And its worth pointing out, a lot of people are saying that. In fact, in a poll last week , it in fact, in a poll last week, it was 34 of people thought that sir keir starmer would make the best Prime Minister, 19 was rishi sunak and a whopping 48 of the electorate said none of the above. It seems that there are poor offerings and in fact, in the poll that we ran, when we asked you who you felt would be the best leader of the country, perhaps no surprise coming out top was nigel farage on 45, second on 44 was sir keir starmer. Rishi sunak trading third on 37. It seems like you out there are are aching for a change. You want something to come along and that might well be a change of government. So thank you very much for all of yourinput thank you very much for all of your input this afternoon. Its been a fantastic show. Up next is dewbs co. Theres a new way is dewbs co. Theres a new way for you to get in touch. Dont forget send your views in for gbnews. Com forward slash your say get in touch tomorrow. Thats all from me for now, but dont forget to join us from 6 am. Tomorrow. Its breakfast a. M. Tomorrow. Its breakfast with stephen and anne, followed by britains newsroom at 930. And then, of course, tom and emily with good afternoon britain from midday. And ill be back tomorrow at 3 pm. Im Martin Daubney and this is gb news. But first, its your weather and its alex burkill. Weather and its alex burkill. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello again. Heres your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. It is going to stay rather cool as we going to stay rather cool as we go through the end of the week, and there will be some more showers to come for most of us as well, because we are still under the influence of an area of low pressure just out in the nonh of low pressure just out in the north sea, bringing a showery theme across the bulk of the country. So more showers as we go through into the evening. Go through into the evening. Perhaps something a bit more persistent. A damp end to the day across parts of the south east, but that rain will clear away as we go overnight elsewhere, and there will be some showers at times, but also some showers at times, but also some clear skies and under the clear skies. Temperatures are going to take a bit of a dip again. There could be a bit of frost first thing tomorrow morning, and possibly a few pockets of mist and fog too. Otherwise, as we go through friday then something a bit heavier rain wise, pushing into parts of devon and cornwall as we go through the day. Elsewhere and on the whole it looks relatively similar to today. Really. Yes, therell be a scattering of showers for many of us, but some bright or sunny spells in between the showers. Despite the sunshine though, sticking with that rather cool theme. Temperatures reaching highs of around 8 or 9 celsius in the north, 13 possibly 14 celsius further south into the weekend, and there will be something a bit more unsettled still to come. Outbreaks of rain across central parts dont look particularly heavy on saturday and a few showers further north, but its on sunday when theres the chance that we could see something a bit heavier in terms of rainfall wise, but we are likely to see our temperatures picking up a little bit as we go into the new week. Bye bye. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on a simple question what should happen next . And the labour party have made an announcement about a new policy , this time about a new policy, this time about a new policy, this time about the trends they want to bring. The Train Companies essentially into Public Ownership. Are they on the right track with this or not . Do you see what i did there . And get this everyone the place where more people identify as english than anywhere else in the uk is actually in wales. Yes, you heard that right. So lets explore national identity, shall we . Whats yours . And if you are a benefit claimant , should the a benefit claimant, should the government be able to access your bank account to make sure that you are not pulling a fast one . Is that you are not pulling a fast one . Is that overreach or common sense is. One . Is that overreach or common sense is. Ive one . Is that overreach or common sense is. 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