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When the open comes to royal troon in the summer, theyll have the longest hole in the tournaments history very long. A lot of cloud today with a few showers around but some heavy, potentially thundery rain arrives overnight in the far south. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. Just highlighting some of the interviews that weve got lined up for you. Were going to be talking to the minister for women and equalities. Thats kerry Kemi Badenoch, who will be discussing the importance of womens only spaces. What time she on at just before 9 00. Just before 9 00. If you can hang around for that. And as always, wed love to hear from you throughout the course of the program. Get in touch via our website. It is gbnews. Com forward slash your say top story on this wednesday morning, former detective chief superintendent of the met kevin hurley has called for all officers to be armed. Yes, this comes after another high profile incident in london where a man was tasered , then arrested on was tasered, then arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 14 year old boy. Now, all of this happened almost at this time yesterday. Five people treated for injuries with dramatic footage showing the moment the attacker was stopped by Police Assistant commissioner louisa rolfe said police have found no trace of a pnor police have found no trace of a prior incident involving the suspect, while the Prime Minister says there is no place for violence like this on our streets. Well, were joined this morning by former metropolitan Police Detective Peter Bleksley. Good morning to you, peter. Good morning. Horrendous incidents like this always provoke the debate, dont they, about whether or not all police should be armed. Whats your view in that . Given the views this morning that weve heard . Well, less than 24 hours ago i was on this channel debating with kevin hurley that Police Officers should not be routinely armed. But since then , i have armed. But since then, i have questioned my standpoint and spent many hours thinking , is my spent many hours thinking, is my position correct . And ive listened to many, learned voices. Other police voices, including that of a current serving firearms officer. If we were to routinely arm all our Police Officers, our frontline uniform Police Officers , it uniform Police Officers, it would fundamentally change policing forever. And many of the officers currently serving on the frontline would not be able to carry a firearm because, of course, theyre not trained , of course, theyre not trained, but theyre not fit enough. And with carrying a firearm comes a huge amount of discipline and what do you mean fit enough . Fit enough, as in technically, to fire the guns or fit enough as in physically fit physically fit because the current physical fitness test for a Police Officer, the bar is set fairly low , whereas for set fairly low, whereas for Firearms Officers its considerably higher and rightfully so, because if we look, for example, to america, im not using it as a like for like comparison , of course. Like comparison, of course. But if we look to america tragically , many Police Officers tragically, many Police Officers every year lose their lives courtesy of their own firearms, which are taken from them by criminals and then used to shoot those Law Enforcement officers. So it is absolutely right that Police Officers carrying guns are very, very fit and of course, very disciplined. Course, very disciplined. Peter, you know, were going to hear arguments all day. Oh, itll change the force and we shouldnt have this. And goodness me , youve got a whole goodness me, youve got a whole police force, a whole police force in Northern Ireland where everyone is armed. Right . All the officers are armed. Do we the officers are armed. Do we nofice the officers are armed. Do we notice a darn bit of difference in our policing . No, we do not. No. Although, of course, some would argue the background to officers being armed in Northern Ireland is a very, very different one to mainland uk. I different one to mainland uk. I understand the arguments of those who want to push for this, but it would be such a seismic change. I can honestly say to you, i can honestly say to you that officers on patrol, officers standing in front of you in the petrol station, whatever. I dont see anybody recoiling at the fact that they have guns. No, i agree , and when no, i agree, and when i travel abroad, sometimes if im in an airport or whether im just out and about in a city in europe, i am somewhat reassured when im standing close to a Police Officer that i see is fit, is trim , is armed. I find fit, is trim, is armed. I find that reassuring. But to do it in the uk where we have no history, but you are doing it in the uk, youre doing it in Northern Ireland. Thats the uk. I beg your pardon. Yeah. Can we just talk about the moment of arrest yesterday of this particular guy because, well, a lot of people will have seen this doorbell footage. You should have just been shot through the head that seconds after hes tasered, the armed police arrive. It would have been a matter of seconds if the police had waited for the Firearms Officers to arrive. Would it have made any difference if theyd have shot him with a gun rather than a taser . You still probably need to have the same sort of range in order for accuracy, especially as youre given that there are members of the public in the area and other officers. I mean, would the outcome yesterday have been different if all of those officers that got there first had been armed instead of the ones that got there seconds later . Well, were hypothesising, of course, but many of us will have seen the footage of that female officer as she discharges her taser. Had that taser been a firearm, then i suspect the circumstances would have been identical in that a firearm would have been discharged. I wonder what peter, the story is behind this guy. We dont we dont know yet. And they say that his taser injuries have left him immobile, that he that he cant talk back to an interview at the moment with all of this. But what on earth was was behind this guy and why he did what he did, and the fact that this young lad, this 14 year old lad, was walking to school and this guy seemingly just attacks him out of the blue for me , you raise arguably the for me, you raise arguably the most important point about the Police Investigation that is currently ongoing. Lets just rewind less than 11 months to the tragic events of Nottingham Valdo Calocane and his murderous spree that he went on, resulting in the loss of three lives barnaby, grace and ian, and the attempted murder of three others. That man went to court and pleaded guilty to manslaughter through diminished responsibility, and that caused, quite rightfully , an outrage. I quite rightfully, an outrage. I sincerely hope that the Police Investigation into the background of the man arrested yesterday is very thorough in that it explores any potential illegal drug use. I have no evidence to suggest that that man has gone down that route in the past, but i am strongly suggesting that that investigation must look at that investigation must look at that in great thoroughness. Because in great thoroughness. Because if this man and these are if buts and maybes, i accept that if this man is to later claim diminished responsibility through a mental illness, and if there is a history of drug taking in the past, that might negate that he may not be able to enter that scene. To enter that scene. Were sitting here, were debating this, and were giving it the due attention that it deserves. But i ask our viewers and listeners today, would any of you be distressed today if he had have been shot dead, shot through the head . I reckon if he had had just been shot and it was over and done with quickly, the evidence is there. Hes got a sword in his hand. For goodness sake. He killed this, this young lad and other people are very seriously injured as well because of all of this. Who would care . Who would care . People think that he would be dirt in the ground, killing, perpetrate others, gives them an easy out. They dont have to answer for their for their actions. And sending people to jail gives them a long time to think about that. And what about knife amnesties . What about, you knife amnesties . What about, you know, better enforcement of the laws that exist around zombie knives, around samurai, because the government have done a lot to try and cut this down. Is it the role of social media in making it too easy for youngsters to get hands on these 7 youngsters to get hands on these . I mean, there have to be more questions asked about the issue of knives here in the uk, rather than necessarily just about guns for the police. I think there is a very worrying trend of copycat offending. Ive already alluded to those dreadful events in nottingham of last year, and lets look at that sydney attack in australia that happened in that shopping mall. Only a couple of short weeks ago, when a man again went on the rampage , a man again went on the rampage, killing many people armed with a bladed weapon. Is their copycat offending . Do we need more Police Officers . Were never going to live in a crime free nirvana. I know that, but do we need more Police Patrolling . Do need more Police Patrolling . Do we need more legislation . The home office have promised some of that. But yes, these big headune of that. But yes, these big headline questions need to be asked and answers need to be found. Found. The dilemma, of course, is that as soon as the firearms officer discharges their weapon, theyre put on immediate suspension. And youve got to wonder, do the people who carry firearms, are they adequately supported . And i use support in every, every sense of the word with this. But these people who buy these swords, who use these swords, who go on the rampage publicly have got to know theres only going to be one outcome, and thats a bullet through the head. And it seems to be that they they dont seem to be that they they dont seem to care. Well, im forgive me if i sound like im nitpicking here, eamonn, but Police Officers do not aim at the head. You aim at the torso because that is the area most likely to stop that person doing what theyre doing, andifs person doing what theyre doing, and its also a bigger target, so its a more effective way of discharging a gun. Yes, i quite agree. However, there is a huge question to be asked about this type of offending, which is becoming more prevalent. Maybe there needs to be some joined up thinking. We are yet to hear whether there is any history of mental illness. There certainly was without calocane in nottingham and greater steps could have been taken to stop that man or arrest him before his offending. Many, many questions remain unanswered. Questions remain unanswered. Tragically, a 14 year old boy lies dead and of course, members of the public were injured and two heroic Police Officers have had to undergo surgery. Peter, what praised those heroes . What praised those heroes . What message has the general pubuc what message has the general public has the people watching and listening to us today . What have they got to take away . What have they got to take away . What have they got to take away . What have they got to ask themselves . Weve got an election coming up this year. And what do you think the question for the general pubucis the question for the general public is to come to terms with what kind of Police Service do we want . Do we want a visible street patrolling, robust stop and searching type of Police Service . Or do we want a social service, which is what we currently have in so many regards and lots of you getting in touch already. This morning. Thank you for hopping on to our website gbnews. Com yoursay say lucky jim has said tasers are actually really easily defeated by thick clothing. Clearly doesnt think that they are a good enough safeguard. William howard saying as a retired veteran, i find it terrifying to think of all of our Police Officers being armed. Our police are poorly trained. In general. We have terrible recruitment standards and even the armed police are not well trained. He thinks. He says its a disaster waiting to happen. Let us know what you think, whether you agree with those views or not. I dont agree with those views on going. I dont agree with them at all. You know, youve got one of the Biggest Police forces in the uk, the Police Forces in the uk, the Police Service of Northern Ireland. You do not hear or read about shootings gone wrong in Northern Ireland. Its a whole situation that everybody seems to be able to come to terms with, the public operate under the guise of knowing that they could be shot by a Police Officer , and there doesnt seem officer, and there doesnt seem to be any outrage or outcry about it. So you can do it there. If a Police Officer needs trained, send them to the psni and theyll be able to do it. So thats what i think about it. Let us know what you think throughout the programme. And Peter Bleksley. Well leave it Peter Bleksley. Well leave it there. Always interested to hear from you, peter. As to you know, the way things should go when your whole feeling on this having served for so many years, thank you very much. And i would just like to thank you very much for challenging my thinking and giving me an awful lot to ponden well, we always aim to do on this channel. Thank you peter, now into other news this morning, the Scottish Government is facing a no confidence vote after the first minister, humza yousaf, said he would resign. Yousaf, said he would resign. His resignation on monday came just 13 months after he replaced Nicola Sturgeon, there. So as another leadership contest underway and the crisis in the snp gives the opportunity for the labour party to regain ground ahead of the National Election , which we are talking election, which we are talking about there. The scottish tories and lib dems have backed the motion, but without support from the greens it would be defeated. Right. So a big day north of the border. Lets get some more analysis on all of this from our political commentator this morning. Who is andy williams. Good morning to you andy. What way do you think that this is going to play out. And i suppose the big question really is where this leaves the future of the Scottish National party. Yeah. So i mean firstly on the vote itself, it does seem quite unlikely to pass. The greens have said that theyve withdrawn their support for the motion. I think they got what they wanted when humza yousaf resigned. So theyve got their scalp. Youve now got the snp in scalp. Youve now got the snp in complete disarray, but looking at the bigger picture, it leaves the snp argument for independence, which theyve been fighting for such a long time for in a really, really tricky spot. I for in a really, really tricky spot. I think it was interesting when humza yousaf gave his resignation statement. I think it was on monday and he said independence feels frustratingly close , but i dont think thats close, but i dont think thats the case. I dont think many people would agree with that. In fact, it feels further away than it has been for a very, very long. Lots of headlines the next day saying this is a great day for the united kingdom. People feeling like, you know, those threats as some perceived them to be, have gone away with this crisis for the snp . Yeah, i think thats right. Its nearly ten years since the since the referendum was in september 2014. And there was a ten point gap, when that vote happened, all of the polling suggests that it would be at least that margin, if not a bigger margin for , in favour of bigger margin for, in favour of the union now. So for the independence movement, its a really, really difficult time. And actually, if you look ahead to the general election this yean to the general election this year, the snps polling really badly because people are so unhappy, not just with the kind of chaos weve seen over the last 12 months. Lots of commentary saying that labour stands to gain from all of this mess at a general election. But where do they stand after this no confidence vote today . Will it change their vote today . Will it change their prospects from today, or is it really once we go to the polls nationally . I think looking ahead to the general election, they labour stand to pick up a lot of snp seats. So the snp currently have 43 seats in the Uk Parliament in scotland. Thats projected to go scotland. Thats projected to go down to about 19. Most of which labour would pick up. So from a uk general election perspective , uk general election perspective, great. Were still two years away from a scottish election, but anas sarwar, the labour leader , has to be in the box leader, has to be in the box seat for that as well, theyre not just losing votes over independence, of course, as well. People are looking at the snps record and lots of things , snps record and lots of things, particularly health, and they havent done well. No its a really poor record actually, across the board on public services, health, you know, waiting times, the nhs scotland, which is controlled by the snp, by the Scottish Government , is by the Scottish Government, is in disarray. Education not going well at all across the board. Actually its a pretty damning record of failure id say. And i think what it shows that is that when single issue parties come into power, its not just about making the argument for independence. Every day you have to run a functional government and a country that works, and theyve sort of failed on that score. The other thing id say is that, you know, alex salmond at the time, and then Nicola Sturgeon were uniquely in sort of scottish political history, charismatic popular politicians who people really got on board with. And youre not going to get another two of them coming along. So its really difficult if you look at the future of the snp, people i know in scotland basically believe the snp by votes , that, you know, so if you votes, that, you know, so if you want education, you Want Health Care , you want free care, you want free prescriptions. Whatever it is, they they are the party. Thats what they thats what they do. The middle classes do not feel represented by them. They feel theyre there to be taxed, to be the cash cow, to be taxed, to be the cash cow, to pay for everything else. Well, there certainly is a feeling, that sort of reflects that. What i would also say is that. What i would also say is that theres, theres two things going on when there are votes in scotland. One is its a proxy every time its a proxy vote on independence. So it reflects peoples feelings collectively on whether or not independence is something they want. For scotland, the other thing is, obviously there is historically a really significant antipathy towards the tories in scotland. So you know, theyre not sort of in the race in the same way as they are in a uk general election. Just, you know, are you talking about how unique Nicola Sturgeon, alex salmond were totally agree that theres sort of intellect is formidable. But in terms of lacking charisma, i would say Ian Blackford was a heck of a character down in westminster and certainly had a lot of entertaining back and forth with boris in his heyday when he was their spokesperson. Westminster and even stephen flynn. You know, like him or loathe him, he delivers punch lines in the commons like, i dont know if its maybe the scottish way, but i dont think theres a lack of charisma in in theres a lack of charisma in in the snp at the moment. I just think perhaps not the same intellectual clout as you know. I mean, i think thats a very fair point. And Ian Blackford did deliver some, some great moments at pmqs, obviously there in the westminster parliament. And if youre looking at the, the options for, you know, for the options for, you know, for the next leader of the snp , john the next leader of the snp, john swinney, maybe a bit of a character, but i mean, humza yousaf was was lacklustre, really, really lacklustre. And i you know, how long did he last. 13, 13 months. Longer than some people thought. Why why did you think he was lacklustre . I always thought the poor man came across as angry all the time. There was always a simmering. Yeah, he did , he just simmering. Yeah, he did, he just everything was he was like spitting everything out and i thought he he spoke like, you know, as if he was representing a paramilitary organisation. There was a threatening sort of tone to everything that he said. Yeah, i see what you mean. I think the truth is that some people, its a running a country is a difficult job. And most people, frankly, are not up to it. And he he just wasnt you know, he happened to be the person in the box seat at the time who took over from Nicola Sturgeon, difficult circumstances and, and actually made a really poor miscalculation which ended his political career. Political career. Well, next time you come back, andy, were going to be talking about this rwandan situation and how much its cost to send one person to rwanda. Thank you for the moment very much indeed. And lets look at the other stories. Making the the other stories. Making the news this morning. And as eamonn was touching on there, the latest on rwanda, the first failed Asylum Seeker has voluntarily gone to rwanda, taking a £3,000 fee from the taxpayer. Theyve left, having taxpayer. Theyve left, having been rejected by the asylum system, didnt arrive on a small boat via the channel and he has gone to the Central African nafion gone to the Central African nation. Nation. Two men have been charged with causing criminal damage following the felling of the famous sycamore gap tree. You may remember this in northumberland, the iconic tree which stood next to Hadrians Wall for 200 years, was chopped down in september last year. Why is the question . Is the question . A new Prostate Cancer Screening Initiative is being called a Pivotal Moment that could save thousands of lives. The transform project aims to reduce deaths from the disease by 40, with doctors collating data to help make treatments more effective. Prostate cancer kills 12,000 men in britain every year. Turn to blackpool again blackpool south will head the polls tomorrow after the resignation of the former mp, and that is a by election as a result. Result. It yeah often recognises, i suppose, one of the most depnved suppose, one of the most deprived areas of the country and voters in this constituency will be demanding real and meaningful change from whichever candidate is successful. Okay. Candidate is successful. Okay. Our reporter sophie reaper, who has the story , the world who has the story, the world famous blackpool promenade. Once upon a time, people flocked from all over the globe to visit this iconic seaside resort. But in recent years, the town has gained a rather different reputation in fact, the most recent government figures place eight of the ten most deprived neighbourhoods in the country. Vie here in the country. Vie here in blackpool have enjoyed the Royal Boston Hotel first opened its doors back in 1934. Since then, the promenade has completely changed and not necessarily for the better. Blackpool can be beautiful, it can be wonderful , but it also it can be wonderful, but it also can look very rundown when you drive up and down the promenade. So its it needs investment and i think theres people willing to invest, but its just unlocking that key around how we can do that and how we can actually change those buildings and that structure. And that structure. Tomorrow, the people of blackpool south will head to the polls to choose their new mp for john. The polls to choose their new mp for john. The successful candidate needs to secure the towns future by making decisions. Now a huge part of what the mp is going to need to do is, is to create that job and those opportunities and work with local businesses to create that opportunity because we see and i see a huge amount of talent leaving blackpool. Theyre the ambassadors for the town. Theyre the future of blackpool here at the heart of blackpools tourist economy. Its tower still stands , its tower still stands, its illuminations still shine. And yet now , as for its people, they yet now, as for its people, they feel its time for change, which blackpool says its about to get a new mp. What do you want them to do for blackpool to invest more money in, like the Mental Health services around blackpool . Because there isnt much to offer for young people. They need to invest more money in the people of blackpool rather than the tourist areas. Make it safer , make it a better community, especially with the cost of living crisis. So do more for blackpool residents , more for the residents, more for the homeless, which they dont actually do. The placements of hotels leave them for three months and if they dont find a place within them three months, then moved. And one of them people. I think its quite sad actually. Its very sad because, actually. Its very sad because, blackpool was like massive, a once glittering tourist trap. The blackpool of today seems to have lost some of its sparkle and for its local people , they and for its local people, they can only hope their new mp can restore the town to happier days. Sophie reaper gb news bnng days. Sophie reaper gb news bring you a full list of candidates that you will have their standing in blackpool south. They are stephen plack, whos an independent. 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Everything seems fine. And thats all. During the giveaway. All during the giveaway. Still to come. Why gardeners are being encouraged to be lazy and neglect your grass. Being encouraged to be lazy and neglect your grass. Ill find out all some good news for everybody. That dislikes mowing the lawn. Okay. Youre being encouraged to let your borders grow. And everything else. A new study says that in the last 100 years, 97 of english wildflower meadows have been lost. Okay, meadows have been lost. Okay, theres a Conservation Group called plantlife, and theyre encouraging you to not cut your grass throughout the month of may to allow wildflowers to fight back. Okay, so joining us now, senior ecological advisor of plantlife , sarah of plantlife, sarah shuttleworth. Good morning, sarah. Whats your patch look like today . Whats what what are like today . Whats what what are you standing in . Oh. Its a bit of a tricky connection there, which is a shame. Do you know what ive decided to do . Because i. Im quite a neat freak, as you know. So i like my lawn to look nice, but ive assigned an area for no mow, and its been absolutely spectacular. Weve had everything from, bluebells at the moment, and then theres a few. Theres cow parsley coming few. Theres cow parsley coming through. Weve had a few random , through. Weve had a few random, self flowering tulips and lots of daffodils. So its absolutely of daffodils. So its absolutely delightful buzzing with bees and all the rest of it, which is supposed to be really good for the planet. But i still have my neat area, so that kind of ticks both boxes, but no, mom will you be doing it . Is it laziness . Is it kind of gardening goes woke, or is it actually time to give the bees a chance . Try and replace some of those wild flowers that weve lost. Oh, i think theres room. I think theres room for both. For me, i do, you know, i do like an orderly patch, as it were. But, yes. Why does everybody think im deaf and i cant hear the audience dont know whats going on, but im just telling the audience goes on, people shouting in your ear about all sorts of things. Heres paul and, sport last night. Paul. Oh, i love a mowed lawn. I do, i love a mowed lawn. I agree with you. I agree with you. But wildflowers as well, for your buzzy bees. Its good. Yeah, i know, i know, but i like a lawn. But both do. Both you know what . Secretly between us. What ive been doing is that just down the road from me, theres all this overgrown ivy, andifs theres all this overgrown ivy, and its getting over this fence, which is now going over onto the pavement. So i take some secateurs with me. Yes. And as i take the dog for a walk, i do a bit of this and im cutting it down bit by bit. Is that good or is that bad, or is that one of those . What on earth is that man doing . But i just think maybe if somebody alone walking along and they see this man brandishing a secateurs, they might put him out in a pocket. And every time i go behind. But the thing is, im now getting obsessed. And so now every place im going, im going. No. Well, ill tell you, my husbands done that with the strimmer on the little pub to our local pub because it got really overgrown and were like, we cant get to the pub, were going to have to take the strimmer along. So he walks to the pub and he goes. Did you have to find a plug first though . No, its, you know, oh its petrol. Oh yeah. Well one of them with the headphones, the whole, the whole nine yards. Yeah. One of those. Oh, right. So it all went to between byron and, real last night all square to, to harry kane. The man is a machine. 43rd goal of the season. So hes joint top scorer with Kylian Mbappe from psg with goal scorer in all competitions. The most combined goals and assists than anybody else. I remember harry kane when he first broke through. Yeah, and he was playing at tottenham and he appeared and i was saying hes never going to make it. The kids no good. You know what. You know it does. It does show what i know. At least im honest. You know i could go on and say i knew hed make it. But there are a lot of people with there are a lot of people with the same. Its just like this tall kid playing up front. Its never going to work for him. And look what happened. And it just shows hard work. Bit of talent and just. And hes been unbelievable. So now Bayern Munich nurturing it really has what i would have given probably about 120 million to have had him at man united, you know, amazing. Absolutely incredible , amazing. Absolutely incredible, what a great season. It doesnt really matter what byron do, but he has scored, what, 40, 40, 43, 43, 43. So for him, its been a huge success. Success. And you always say that from behind the scenes. Hes a good fella as well. He is good. Hes another one. Hasnt changed. Lovely guy. Real family man. And you know, he gets a lot of stick from other teams, but thats always going to be the way when someones so good. But the perfect ambassador, the perfect england captain. So it was two two. So this is the first leg. And although Jude Bellingham interestingly tried to put harry off when he had a penalty, went over and whispered in his ear, did he what . He said, i dont know, but you know, youve got to be careful. Hes the captain of your of your england team. So harry just ignored it. Boom. I wouldnt have ignored it. Next week id have been sent off at that stage. Yeah. You know, people sort of thing, now, listen, theres a great guy who manages ipswich town, hes the ex Manchester United youth coach, and his name is Kieran Mckenna. Yes. And used to be at spurs as a young player. Was he. Was he. Yeah. So he left united to, to go and manage ipswich. And hes doing a really good job. Now we already know leicester are up. Ipswich very close there within what a point they are. They are one point away. So all they need is now a point from that last game. Theyre from that last game. Theyre playing huddersfield. Huddersfield have been struggling so that happened. So they beat coventry. By the way have you ever noticed when people say coventry instead of coventry have you never never. There are people ive known that have gone oh coventry and the, the guy that used to do the football results years ago, James Alexander james daly for example, he would have said coventry city one, ipswich town two. And i didnt know whether coventry was a third place was a thing. No, but its a thing some people still say coventry and i dont even know where that comes from. I would say coventry, you would be. Well youd coventry of course its coventry. But anyway there are some coventrys around. Interesting. But why do you say it. Yeah please. How do you say it if youre sent to coventry. Yeah. We looked that up, didnt we remember what it meant. Royal troon were the opens going to be held this year, they, they are planning the longest hole in british open golf history. How long are we talking . What do you reckon . What do you reckon . Well, itll be a par five. Well, itll be a par five. It will be a par five, for me, a par 23. Its got to be. Well, its got to be over 500 yards. Is measured in yards or metres in yards. Yards. Is measured in yards or metres in yards. 600 yards. Metres in yards. 600 yards. Six. 23. Wow its a long way. I wonder whether its anything to do with the fact that players are more powerful and clubs will go much further. Balls. Balls. Well, thats for easy you to say. No balls. No balls. I didnt think it was quite a good story will go further. I mean, the dimple, the dimples and balls. Yes very important. Very important. Thats absolutely right. But ispoke thats absolutely right. But i spoke to ian, ian woosnam about a year ago. Yeah, he could hit them, but he said that he can hit a ball further now, and hes, what, in his 60s, older , weaker. His 60s, older, weaker. Yeah. Than he could when he won the masters because of the technology of the clubs. So the balls are going further and it means that golf clubs are in golf courses are playing shorter. 623 so thats and also, you know, interesting that having the shortest hole in history actually on the same course. So weve got 623 for one hole. And then thats the sixth and then the eighth hole which is called the postage stamp will be playing 99 yards, which is for me as a putt. Really. You will agree with you. You know, you could under 100 yards. Yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So anyway its sold out. How many tickets . Drayton. Theyve sold for the open. Four days of the open at troon. 15,000 a day. So 60,000 tickets . 60,000. What do you reckon, izzy . Im going to go 70,000 250,000 tickets, quarter of a Million People will go to the open this year. And its completely sold out. Yeah, i mean hugely, hugely. Golf. If youve ever have you golf. If youve ever have you ever watched a Golf Tournament close up . Its great. You can close up . Its great. You can hear the clubs cut through the air like sabres, its absolutely incredible. But what i would not like is to be, you know, 20 rows back in, in a crowd like that, standing, watching. I mean, i can ican standing, watching. I mean, i can i can understand some tournaments where you get up close and personal, but a lot of people to see over the heads of the difference. When you see a real good player and you see them strike the ball, you know, i really hate they do that in america and you get you get some fans or patrons as they would be in the masters will stand as close as they can, and they will try and be the first one to shout the moment the ball is struck. Yes yes. So you get it in the hole. Its in the far crying out loud and they shout. The moment that the ball is struck. Not good, not good. I would not put up with that at the open. But youve been very good and well see you again. 7 20. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Ripped baseball uniforms. Ripped baseball uniforms. Well be talking in the hole in the in the hole. Right. Were going to get a check on the forecast. Whats it up to. Its a Beautiful Day here yesterday Aidan Mcgivern. Yesterday Aidan Mcgivern. Well, well it was misty and foggy today all over london on the way in. Did you not notice . I actually didnt notice. I actually didnt notice. A good start to the day, though. You see in front of you. Its so dark. When i came in i didnt know what the weather was up to. Aidan mcgivern is going to tell us whats in store. A brighter outlook with boxt solar, the sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A lots of cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight. Even some thunderstorms. Initially the thunderstorms. Initially the best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon, otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england. But away from the showery rain. Actually its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless, looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up, perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow, and those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning, some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away across south wales and the south west of england dunng and the south west of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain elsewhere , brighter skies elsewhere, brighter skies develop after a mostly dry night, plenty of sunshine for scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england. But some parts of england. But some parts of north east england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud. Thatll make things feel much cooler. Much cooler. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Now my milan, milan. Hes been having to admit out loud the police dont want them, there he is. Look a lot like him. Look a lot like him. Yeah , that is a criminal. Yeah, that is a criminal. Yeah, that is a criminal. E fit and rylan saying its not not me. Okay, find out more about at this stage, we say hello. Good morning to fraser, mars and scarlett mcguire. Good morning. Very good to have you. And you have the newspaper , and you have the newspaper, in front of you. And, obviously , in front of you. And, obviously, practically. I think all the papers today lead on yesterdays, which took place at this time yesterday , sword this time yesterday, sword attack in northeast london. And, fraser, what have you got to say . Yeah, the express is focusing on the hero Police Officer, which i think is actually a reasonable way to look at it. You know, we often criticise the met police for good reason. But, you know, sometimes people do put themselves at risk, put themselves in the line of fire to, to help the public. I mean, two officers were injured. And, two officers were injured. And, in this particular rampage, but theyre, theyre singling out theyre, theyre singling out the policewoman who fired the taser who eventually subdued can i just say on that . And Peter Bleksley pointed this out to me on that doorbell footage. Youll actually notice that he was also tasered on his lower leg before she tasered him, or possibly simultaneously. So there were two hero Police Officers. It just so happens that the footage shows her front and centre, so shes getting all the credit. Shes not far twice and clearly deserves a lot of shes not far twice. Another one. If you look at this, theres two strands of taser. One comes in at the leg on the left. I believe , yeah. Oh yeah. Left. I believe, yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. And then unless she fires twice, maybe ive got that wrong. See im doubting myself now, but Peter Bleksley said hed already been tasered in the leg, before she got him , so, leg, before she got him, so, just wanted to point that out. Well, i think everyone involved deserves some credit. The police were at the scene very quickly, it seems as if, thankfully, after this, you know, this horrific murder, he wasnt able to do much more harm , 50, wasnt able to do much more harm , so, yeah, you know, high, more brilliant. Brilliant. It would have been if they just sort of shot him dead. That would have been the end of that. Well, scarlet, you wont agree with that, will you . I mean, youre not in favour of Arming Police. I absolutely dont agree with it. I mean, i think what happened, why would you not agree with that . A man runs around with a sword, he kills dead a 14 year old kid, and he deserves to die. I mean, no, of course he deserves to die. So. So lets let lets kill all the murderers. Lets bring back hanging. In that particular case, if id have been an officer there, id have been an officer there, i would have. I would have needed some holding back, but discharging my weapon. Well, im very pleased that you that youre not never armed. Why . Why are you sticking up for him . Im not sticking up for him. Youre saying. Im thinking. Look i think i think what he did was horrendous. We do not know what what what was behind it. One is assuming its a serious Mental Health episode. I think its actually what im thinking about is, is that 14 year old boy and his parents, i mean, you know, he goes off to school, you go bye bye. And then he never comes back. But i mean, to start saying that the guy should have been shot dead. He was tasered. He that was it, right . Its oven he that was it, right . Its over. We can now find out. Actually what what really happened . I dont think killing him does any good at all, have a have a say this morning, get in touch with us, you know what to do. Do. Eamonn would like. Hes a way to get rid of all the jails. I would have killed him. Just shoot everybody who murders somebody. Well, that was just ghastly, horrendous murder. There was nothing. It was in my horrendous murder. There was nothing. It was in my mind that. And it wasnt in living. And it wasnt in living. But we havent had Death Penalty for an awfully long time. And theres nothing that warrants that guy in nottingham last year living either. It was ghastly and it was horrendous. But but actually what it showed is how effective a taser is, because the taser , a taser is, because the taser, the taser stopped it, right. You know, i think i think thats enough , lets talk about this enough, lets talk about this flight. Its not actually its very right. Theres nuance in this story. Very right. Theres nuance in this story. Its very right. Theres nuance in this story. Its front of the this story. Its front of the sun. First migrants gone to miranda, but this rwanda. But this one is a voluntary, case. So hed already failed the asylum system. He did not have a legitimate cause to stay in this country in the law. And so he said, okay, ill take three grand from the taxpayer, and i will go to rwanda. Scarlet. Yeah, i mean, absolutely, i am sure in fact, weve heard that there are there are migrants who want to leave britain because its not its not the place they thought it was. And for some reason theyre was. And for some reason theyre not being allowed to go and we could this is i mean, its a very odd it doesnt happen very often. And obviously if you say well pay you £3,000 to leave, if youre unhappy and were going to throw you out anyway , going to throw you out anyway, he goes, i mean, i mean, this sort of has nothing to do with the rwanda plan. I mean, he could almost other than the fact that his destination was rwanda. Yes. Very little to do with the rwanda scheme, which is going to be another 10 to 12 weeks before i know which which has cost us how many million, so on top of all the millions that were paying all the millions that were paying rwanda to have him. So hell be staying in a very nice place all on his own, and presumably beginning a new life. We dont know exactly where he comes from, but is this a political win for rishi sunak . I mean, he will try to spin it as one, i think, but as you say, this is not the main purpose of the rwanda scheme. The they are trying, it seems as if theyre trying to send people to or trying to gather up people who they can send to rwanda involuntarily, and people who dont want to leave the country, who are supposed to leave, and the home office is struggling to keep hold of them. People are disappearing left, right and centre because they dont want to be on on those flights. I to be on on those flights. I mean, the other thing is we have to remember rishi sunak gave himself the test, of stopping the boats. Thats the test of the boats. Thats the test of the rwanda scheme. On purely practical terms , is not will a practical terms, is not will a single flight go to rwanda if that makes sense. You know, thats putting aside all the kind of moral objections that people might have about sending people might have about sending people to rwanda. But yeah, stopping the boats is the test, not, will the courts allow us to send a single migrant and we do know that he hasnt stopped the boats. I mean, that we have more people coming over and actually, an awful lot of people who who do think the boats should be stopped and who are absolutely against all of this, are also opposed to rwanda scheme because they say, why are you spending millions on it instead of just stopping the boats . Stopping the boats . And the new argument coming from the uk government is, well, because people are now absconding to ireland. Therefore the rwanda scheme is working because they dont want to be sent to rwanda. But that also implies that, well, theyve, you know, still traversed the whole of the uk. They have still entered into the uk illegally, which is surely thats the problem here. Massive Police Operation underway in kent as police look for this man and i think i can help them with this as to who he is and, and where hes from. So lets have a look at him , it lets have a look at him, it wasnt me. Is the claim. Is that wasnt me. Is the claim. Is that rylan clark . That is the contention. If i was rylan clark , id be if i was rylan clark, id be rather insulted that people thought this was me. I think thought this was me. I think rylan clark is rather better looking, i mean , i think this looking, i mean, i think this happens quite often that, that that somebody vaguely looks like a celebrity. I mean, obviously hes got a sense of humour, dear old rylan and has said, not me, not me, before anybody goes, too many people say, we think, we think that its you, whether kent police will find their robber is another matter , whats robber is another matter, whats he accused of having done . Just a casual robbery. Yeah, yeah. Casual robbery. Attempt casual robbery in maidstone. Casual robbery in maidstone. Sorry. Sorry. An attempted robbery . Yeah. An attempted robbery . Yeah. So hes obviously a rather inefficient robber. Inefficient robber. Yeah, yeah, i saw, you know , yeah, yeah, i saw, you know, shoplifting is so bad now in in london, i saw about three different shoplifting incidents in just the past two days. Did you crazy . Did you crazy . Explain to tell us. Explain to tell us. What did you see . I saw someone actually just paddington nearby here. Someone just, you know, nick, a lot of stuff. And run away from, from, like, one of the sort of pret style shops. So someone run away and, you know, the tesco near my work, you know, and, and then, like, a much bigger confrontation. In much bigger confrontation. In another tesco. So just you just see it all the time now. So an attempted robber sympathy for what you saw. I mean did you look and you say, well theyre charging £12 for that sandwich or whatever, i dont, i dont blame this person or someone. It was a someone homeless is someone who you felt needed it. I did it, it didnt look like it to me. It didnt. Thats not the sense that i got. What i dont understand is how come the police are issuing an e fit for somebody who attempted a burglary but didnt even succeed . And yet other people report actual burglaries of huge value up to and including cars. Yeah. And nobody even attends, let alone produces an e fit. I mean, it depends how intense. How threatening. It depends how threatening that that was. Well, actually, ive, ive, i mean, ive seen a lot of stuff on tv with shopkeepers talking about being threatened that that they have video and everything and nothing happens. I mean, theyre actually shopkeepers are, i think mostly outside london. I mean, are hiring people all but because the police wont do it, i mean, it. Im with you, isabel. It seems absolutely crazy. Doesnt it . Yeah. Doesnt it . Yeah. And then the e fit just the quality of it as well is extraordinary. It doesnt look like any human, let alone riley is the general gist. I think. I think. You think with the i dont know with i now able to construct incredible beard , construct incredible beard, could kind of do the same. Am i in trouble . Please dont come for me. Well, yeah. Well, yeah. You were linked to these three. Yeah. Incidents in the paddington area. Where do you want to go next . Looking at the daily mail and the, taylor swift taylorswift. The, taylor swift taylorswift. Yeah. Taylor swift, where she. Page three. Oh, no, shes not. So what what this story is, is that the bbc because the bbc does news alerts and over 11 Million People, including me, have it on the phone. So that so that when, when theres a news alert, you have the bbc, you have the you have the, the news. So you think, oh guess what. Gb news also does that. Just so you know, you can get updates from other i guess isabel, i do get a lot of you, sorry about that. I got a thing about you. You do . And, whats his name . Galloway yesterday. Oh, sorry. So i do get you, but. No, but i also get. And i am a news junkie. I just love news. I love junkie. Ijust love news. I love breaking news. And then what . You get from the bbc, and this is, this is a complaint. Is non news. And so twice theyve a number of times theyve been pushing the taylor swift album which is not news right. And actually is. And people are actually is. And people are complaining to the to the daily mail saying you know were tired of this. And actually i think, i think we should stick to just news, you know, well get some scarlet, on news. Weve got a lot of restrictions about what we can talk about or what we cant talk about, and people say, oh, well, you cant talk about that. Thats advertising. But somehow its not deemed to be advertising. If youre talking about her record or her book or whatever. I mean, this basically puts money in her pocket, but she transcends celebrity, doesnt she . Shes quite almost a political person. They say that if she endorses a candidate, thats the election one, shes spoken out about artists not getting funding from streaming services, you know, she shes a huge feminist. So theres lots of issues that she speaks out about. Shes an ally, isnt she . Lgbt ally . She talks about that lgbt ally . She talks about that a lot. Does she move into the news sphere . I would ask more than perhaps other stuff. No, i, i absolutely agree. No, i, i absolutely agree. I mean that she is she is much more. But i still think that that that that saying that its news to review her to her album is actually pushing it. And the bbc does lots of cultural coverage of , yeah, you cultural coverage of, yeah, you know, Art Galleries and exhibitions. But its not news is its not a news alert, its not a breaking news. And when i look at the app or, you know, you get that bbc loud push button thing, you think, oh god, whos resigned . Or, you know, has there been a terror attack whos died . And then you read what the bbc arts editor thinks about taylor swifts album. Youre a bit disappointed. Yeah, yeah, well, disappointed. Yeah, yeah, well, you know, a bit surprised. And also, its just the volume of coverage is also whats been criticised as numerous articles as she was a subject of thought for the day. On this day program, people were asking me, had i ever interviewed taylor swift . And i said, no, never met her. No nothing. No, no, dont know about her. And then someone sent me an interview, a seven minute interview, sit down live interview that i did so memorable. So remember, ive sat memorable. So remember, ive sat on very beautiful looking woman. And this was maybe about ten years ago, and i have no recollection of whatsoever, but there we are. So she said she said nothing interesting during it. Well, maybe she wasnt interesting then. Maybe shes interesting then. Maybe shes interesting now, like you, to be more interesting stuff. At 7 20, i get older. At 7 20, i get older. Were going to get a check on the forecast now. Mixed bag of weather. Apparently it was a bit misty and foggy this morning. Sunny yesterday. Whats in store today . Heres Aidan Mcgivern. Today . Heres Aidan Mcgivern. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on. Solar. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A lots of cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight. Even some thunderstorms. Initially the thunderstorms. Initially the best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon, otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england. But away from the showery rain. Actually, its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless, looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up, perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow. And those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning. Some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away across south wales and the south west of england dunng and the south west of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain. Elsewhere, brighter skies develop after a mostly dry night. Plenty of sunshine for scotland , Northern Ireland into scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england, but some parts of northeast england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud. Gb news. Away. Good morning. It is 7 00. It is wednesday, the 1st of may. And you are very welcome to breakfast with eamonn and isabel. Nice to have you on board. Leading the news this morning. Two man tasered and arrested after multiple stabbings in london at this time yesterday. Remains in custody but has yet to be interviewed because of his injuries. Injuries. Its crunch day for the Scottish Government. They face a Scottish Government. They face a vote of no confidence put forward by labour, and if lost, all ministers would be forced to step down, king charles tells Cancer Patients on his return to pubuc Cancer Patients on his return to public duty that his diagnosis, kim, is a bad shock as the government launches the biggest Prostate Cancer trial of its kind to test the effectiveness of techniques treating the disease. The first failed Asylum Seeker has been sent to rwanda and given a fee to do so. Funded by the taxpayer, theyve left having been rejected by the asylum system. They didnt arrive on a small boat via the channel blackpool prepares for its by election that happens tomorrow. We gauge the mood there as rival parties aim to heap more pressure on the conservatives. With time ticking away towards a general election. Away towards a general election. And in sports news this morning, harry kane scores. Of course he does. Hes 43rd goal of the season as Bayern Munich draw two all with real madrid in the Champions League semi final first leg. Ipswich town now just one point away from being promoted to the premier league along with leicester and nike, having to redesign their pro baseball uniforms because they rip easily and they have see through pants. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that. A lot of cloud today with a few showers around , but some few showers around, but some heavy, potentially thundery rain arrives overnight in the far south. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. Up shortly. So we are talking about that horrific incident that happened yesterday, former chief superintendent of the met police, kevin hurley, has now called for all Police Officers to be armed. Yeah. Yeah. If youve got any feedback on this, anything on your side, please send them to us this morning im speaking to the production team, not you, the viewers out there. Id like to see what folk say, what they what their opinions are on all of this. This man was tasered, then arrested yesterday on suspicion of murder. After he completely slashed a 14 year old. Yeah. Five people were also treated for injuries in hospital, with dramatic footage showing the moment that he was stopped successfully by police using tasers , assistant using tasers, assistant commissioner louisa rolfe said. Police have found no trace of a pnor police have found no trace of a prior incident involving the suspect , whilst the prime suspect, whilst the Prime Minister, rishi sunak, says there is no place for violence like this on our streets. Like this on our streets. Lets get former metropolitan Police Detective Peter Bleksley and his view on all of this. You were on an hour ago, peter. You were on an hour ago, peter. You were quite you were quite strong at that stage that you thought that, arming Police Officers would change the effectiveness and the way the Police Forces around the country would be viewed. Do you still stand by that . Yes, i do, i think that suddenly arming each and every frontline uniform Police Officer who, of course, have contact with the public every day, will fundamentally change the relationship and the shape and direction of british policing. So as things stand, whilst i am open to persuasion and alternative views, im against it. However, having said that, there is a very pressing matter that needs to be addressed as a matter of absolute urgency and may come as a surprise to your viewers and listeners. And that viewers and listeners. And that is not every frontline Police Officer can carry a taser. Now if yesterdays events. What do you mean they cant . Whats preventing them carrying a taser . They are not authorised, they are not selected and they are not trained. Can they choose not to carry a taser . Yes, they can, but but however, i think the time has come now. If we set the firearms come now. If we set the firearms discussion aside for a moment to focus on tasers, i firmly believe that every frontline Police Officer should have a taser. Yesterdays events have shown how effective they can be in murderous , dangerous, deadly in murderous, dangerous, deadly circumstances and quite frankly, if we expect our frontline Police Officers to carry a tourniquet so that they can deal with the effects of knife crime, then at the very least, we should expect and allow and give them a taser. Somebody messaged us in earlier to say that thick clothing can prevent tasers from working. Is that true . Working. Is that true . Well, some people have been resisting to tasers. It is a small minority , but in the past small minority, but in the past some people have been repeatedly tasered and still pose a threat. But they are very much a minority. How many times can you discharge a taser from one taser gun . Well, just the once. Gun . Well, just the once. No, you can fire them. You can send the pulse repeatedly and for a longer period of time. And for a longer period of time. But they are things that, of course, do not have an endless capability. You cant shoot them again and again and again. Lets reflect on some of the thoughts that people have been sharing with us this morning. I just wanted to read one massively in favour of what eamonns been saying this morning. Arming the police and one quite against it, linda durham payne says absolutely arm the police, save more lives and save the taxpayer money from putting them in overcrowded prisons. Jackie says eamonn , if prisons. Jackie says eamonn, if the young man wielding this machete was your son, would you really be calling for the police to shoot them dead . Of course i would see them. Thats a really stupid argument. Get arrested and put into a Mental Health institution to get the help they need. Where would you rather visit your child in prison or tom moore . If my child carried out that sort of murder yesterday, that that we dealt with, and maybe more people might die as a result of what was going on, and the only place he should be is dead. Really. I think theres just no excuse for, you know, understanding these people. And that guy last year in nottingham and his Mental Health and forgive him because of that goodness me, valerie, we are one of the only countries in the world who do not arm their police. Jason says police should be armed asap. The country is out of control for knife crime. And jason, this, peter, this may well be a point that, this is becoming more common. Were seeing this around the world. We seeing this around the world. We see this in shopping malls. We see this in shopping malls. We see this in places that are very easy targets. And these guys believe they can get away with it. Theres no deterrent with this. Well, what what do you think should we stack up and ramp up high officers are armed. I believe in deterrence, but clearly in. Lets take nottingham. Sydney and australia, which weve alluded to murderously recently and yesterdays events. Clearly there is a growing, occasions when these kind of attacks are happening. What lies behind them is possibly for not only the Police Investigation, but for those learned people with letters after their names to explore , i suspect. I fear that explore, i suspect. I fear that there is illegal drug use behind some of these activities. We some of these activities. We know Valdo Calocane who went on that murderous rampage in nottingham used illegal drugs. Nottingham used illegal drugs. Thatis nottingham used illegal drugs. That is an indisputable fact. We have an increasing, situation with people suffering from schizophrenia and other kind of psychosis. And it is also psychosis. And it is also a known fact that frequent cannabis use very strong cannabis use very strong cannabis use. And i have nothing to suggest that yesterdays murderous person used it. But im just saying in general terms , there is increasing evidence that frequent drug use is causing some of these psychoses. Causing some of these psychoses. We need thorough investigations to establish if these people are, in fact coming from drug taking backgrounds, and whether or not how they arm themselves. Peter, as well, the fact that these weapons are available and obviously the penalties being imposed for possessing Something Like this Samurai Sword mustnt be enough. Yes, but quite possibly to allude to this armed police thing again. Yeah. Armed Police Officers would not have stopped Valdo Calocane it. The outcome might have been different. He might have been different. He might have been shot rather than arrested. Armed police wouldnt have prevented yesterdays situation occurring because he was tasered after the murderous events. Same with sydney, albeit in that case the man was shot dead after hed taken lives, so Arming Police might not prevent these events. Of course, we wont ever really know. I think peter makes people think twice. Its bound to. I mean, ill just refer. We referred to it in the last hour. Ihave referred to it in the last hour. I have to go back to that. You do have a Police Service or a police force in the uk that is fully armed. Every single officer is trained in firearms and they all carry weapons, they all carry guns and that is the Police Service of Northern Ireland. And all these doom and gloom and things we hear that will become like the wild west and shootouts. It doesnt happen in Northern Ireland. Why would it happen anywhere else . Of course, the arming of police in Northern Ireland comes from a very different historical background from scotland, england and wales and therefore we need to apply a different context. I would suggest i remain against the routine arming of all frontline cops, but i think sir mark rowley, commissioner of the metropolitan police, and every chief constable now has an absolute duty of care to ensure that all front line officers are issued and trained with tasers because his staff are not cannon fodder. Two heroic officers got injured yesterday. Both requiring surgery. If the police are struggling to recruit and retain people, which they are, then i think they need to be given the tools to protect themselves, which for now i would suggest is each and every frontline cop having a taser. What about amnestys knife . Amnestys these were big when i was growing up. We used to hear about them all the time. Huge number of people would hand in their weapons and we saw knife crime go down. Why dont we have more or any of these anymore . Were in the grip of a knife crime crisis, particularly in london, but in other places. Look at tragic events in bristol in recent weeks and months. There is a growing problem , for there is a growing problem, for some reason, people, when they leave their front doors , go. Leave their front doors, go. Phone, keys, knife. What on earth is driving that . Academics will tell you theres a variety of things like absent parenting , of things like absent parenting, children being excluded from school, drug gangs and the suchlike. Whatever it is, we need a Patrolling Police presence utilising a lot more stop and search so that perhaps that will form some part of a deterrent. Im not suggesting for a moment it would have prevented yesterdays tragic events, but in broader terms with regards to knife crime, that ugly recurring subject of stop and search needs to be enforced, needs to be done more frequently , needs to be done frequently, needs to be done politely and firmly. I would just ask people who are watching these pictures that were transmitting here. Beautiful sunny morning. This beautiful sunny morning. This was at this time yesterday morning, broad daylight. And you look at this guy and you say , look at this guy and you say, what possesses anyone to crash his car into a home to murder a 14 year old boy, to stab various Police Officers and other people around the place. And that was what was motivating that guy. At 7 am. In the morning. Absolutely incredible. And the absolutely incredible. And the other thing i find strange is two of the top rated programmes on bbc one. Hope street, and i think its called law and order. Think its called law and order. Are two Police Series based and filmed in Northern Ireland. Incredibly popular. I find it incredible that, you know, when guns are so much part of policing in Northern Ireland that they can reconstruct scenes as Something Like this or whatever, in the same scenario, and nobodys really blinking an eye at it, and they are reacting so well on Bbc Television that that belfast and donaghadee and various places are seen as, great places to film crime. Incredible. It would be remiss of me not to mention the brilliant work done by the National Crime agency and british Police Forces to keep firearms off the streets. They are pretty successful in doing that, and firearms offences are not running away anywhere near like these. Dreadful knife crime these. Dreadful knife crime offences are. So in that regard , offences are. So in that regard, Law Enforcement does a pretty good job of keeping firearms off the street. If we suddenly arm each and every cop, one of my concerns is that villains will go. If all the cops have got guns, then we all better have guns, then we all better have guns and there might be a proliferation of gun crime. Okay, lorraine says we need to get a grip of this situation with Violent Crime in this country or we are doomed. Karen. Too many innocent people now being murdered on our streets due to out of control knife and gun crime. About time, we introduced a re entry , reduced introduced a re entry, reduced Capital Punishment to the country. Peter, always country. Peter, always fascinating to hear from you. Thank you very much indeed. Youve got people talking and thinking this morning. Thank you very much. Very much. On to politics now. And the Scottish Government faces a no confidence vote later, after first minister humza yousaf said earlier this week that he was going to resign. Well, his resignation came just 13 months after he replaced Nicola Sturgeon as scotlands leader and it sparked another leadership contest in the Scottish National party. The crisis in the snp gives an opportunity for the labour party to regain ground ahead of any general election. General election. Well, lets get the thoughts this morning of our political commentator andy williams. Good morning again to you, andy. How do you see today playing out. And i suppose does anybody stand to gain in all of this other than the labour party. Its sort of clearing their path to power, isnt it. Well, i think it is a significant vote because if it were to pass, the entire Scottish Government would have to resign. All ministers would have to go. But it does look unlikely to pass because the greens have withdrawn their support for the motion, you know, the greens, labour, opposition parties in scotland got what they wanted when humza yousaf resigned on monday. So theyve got their scalp. But in terms of labour. Absolutely. You know this is a massive boon to them. If labour are going to win a big majority at the uk general election, they need to be picking up snp seats and that this just this chaos makes that increasingly likely. Also very naive, isnt it . I mean, it just strikes me this didnt have to be for yusuf. He didnt he didnt have to be in this position. Yet he chose to be or was incredibly badly advised. Badly advised. He said he was naive or naive, or maybe arrogant. I mean, i think actually to think that you can bin your Coalition Partners and say, we dont really need you, we can survive. And you know what i found incredible was, the snp were out there saying , actually, its there saying, actually, its down to opposition parties to support us. They need to get on side. Why should they . Why should they . Theyve no interest in the snp staying in power. They want to oust them. They they want to oust them. They dont want to see independence in scotland. So i think very naive, but also just an arrogant and a very politically , you and a very politically, you know, an unsound move for sure. And thats ended his career, theres Something Else i want to talk to you about this, rwanda situation. I just want to make this clear to people. If youre not getting this quite straight. So one person has been , whats so one person has been, whats the word . Exported. Deported . Yeah. Voluntary plea to rwanda. Yeah, what what do you make of this situation . The fact that this person enters the country illegally. They then said, oh , illegally. They then said, oh, little mistake there. If we give you three grand and put you on a plane, flew you to rwanda and sort of joke with the job and a future there, would you take that . And theyre saying, yeah , that . And theyre saying, yeah, of course. Yeah. Quite sweet deal, isnt it really. I mean, its not just three grand, as you say. Its five years worth of board and lodgings. So the British Government is paying the Rwandan Government to put people up for five years. Thats why this scheme is so expensive, so i think weve already made a £170 million down payment just to get this off the ground, just to get the agreement in place. If 300 migrants are deported to rwanda, it will cost £2 million per person on this. Just to be clear, this is different from the rwanda bill that it is Parliament Last week and we are expecting the first flights to take off in, what, 10 to 12 weeks . And those are people who are being deported irrespective of whether theyve had their case heard or not. Theyre just being sent because theyve come across the channel illegally. This persons had their case heard, theyve been rejected. There is no right to stay, and theyve voluntarily agreed to go. So voluntarily agreed to go. So there is a distinction in these two subjects. Well apart from the destination, there is rwanda. Theres a wide agreement on the cost that were paying for it to happen. I just put them on a plane and fly them to goodness knows where. Look, i think the antarctica i think the important thing here, i mean, your guests about 20 minutes ago said stopping the boats is the test. I disagree, stopping the boats is not the test because stopping the boats only deals with a sliver of the total number of people coming into britain every year. Last year , 1. 1 into britain every year. Last year ,1. 1 Million People were year, 1. 1 Million People were granted visas legally to come into the uk. Now, actually, the government is reporting the times this morning. The government is making progress on bringing legal migration down. I know, isabel, weve talked before about student visas, for example. Yeah, theyre clamping down on dependents , arent they . On dependents, arent they . Clamping down on dependants of students coming into the country. Those numbers are falling. Those numbers have gone down by about 25 quarter on quarter. So theres a reasonably good story to tell there. But i think the governments mistake is theyve staked everything on stopping the boats on illegal crossings, which they which they cant stop. Bear of mind that basically we were bringing in legally all these foreign students to prop up these universities that, to be honest, have been vastly overexpanded over the years, way too many of these institutions too many of these institutions to be able to sustain them all. Now were bringing in last year, nearly three quarters of a Million People to keep these institutions open. I mean, 600 institutions open. I mean, 600 something thousand foreign students. And yet were all focusing so much on this, 30,000 people, many of whom are coming in from places like afghanistan where they have a legitimate concern about their safety. I couldnt agree more. I couldnt agree more. So many , so many of these, so many, so many of these, you know, people dont stand on the shores of calais and think, oh, i quite fancy making a dangerous trip where theres a reasonable chance of me drowning. They think im desperate. I need to get somewhere safe and i think, i think the government has made a huge mistake in terms of staking , pretty much staking the general election on this. Its like their one bet. By the way, i saw your excellent interview with victoria atkins, the minister, yesterday morning, and i was shocked at how the lack of grip the government clearly have on this situation. So this was about the Asylum Seekers that they are trying to round up for these first deportation flights. And theyve lost more than half of them into the aether. They just cant find them. Yeah. Which and she just couldnt answer that. She said, dont worry, Law Enforcement will track them down. Its further expense to the taxpayer. And she didnt seem concerned by that. Its remarkable. And so i think, you know, the position this morning is one person according to the sun, has voluntarily theyve taken their three grand. Theyve taken their five years worth of board and lodgings in rwanda. And you know, presumably this is supposed to be chalked up as a success for the government. Actually, its just a record of failure. Failure. Yeah, an expensive record of failure. Very expensive. Very expensive. Very expensive. Thank you very much indeed. Lovely. Lovely listening to you, andy. Thank you very much indeed. Andy williams is a political commentator. Thank you very much. The time 20 minutes past the hour of 7 00, other stories coming into the newsroom are these two men have been charged with causing criminal damage following the felling of the famous sycamore gap tree in northumberland. The iconic tree , northumberland. The iconic tree, which stood next to Hadrians Wall for 200 years, was chopped down in september last year. The big question is why a new Prostate Cancer Screening Initiative is being called a Pivotal Moment that could save thousands of lives. The transform project aims to reduce deaths from the disease by 40, with doctors collating data to help make treatments more effective. Prostate cancer kills 12,000 men in britain every year. Every year. Britains level of immigration is falling , says the immigration is falling, says the home office. Figures show a decline in the number of Foreign Workers and students coming to the uk , visas issued to skilled the uk, visas issued to skilled workers, health and care staff and students have fallen by a quarter compared to last year. Certainly in the south east and the london area, very foggy, very misty, this morning has that dispersed . Lets go to Aidan Mcgivern and find out. Aidan mcgivern and find out. A brighter outlook with boxt solar, sponsors of weather on gb news. News. News. News. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A lots of cloud today with some showers , cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight and even some thunderstorms initially. The best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon, otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england, but away from the showery rain. Actually its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up, perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow , and the early hours of tomorrow, and those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning. Some very heavy lightning. Some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away across south wales and the southwest of england dunng and the southwest of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain. Elsewhere, brighter skies develop after. A mostly elsewhere, brighter skies develop after. A mostly dry night, plenty of sunshine for scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england, but some parts of north east england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud thatll make things feel much cooler. 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And im sure someone will put something on and they just make it up and then its, you know, you know what social media is like. People put it on for clicks. Oh, this one, theres a person i want to mention, by the way, you said hello. Who . On monday he was a fan of the show. And who watches every morning. And who watches every morning. And just to let you just to give you a clue, he was the manager of gainsborough, burton, scarborough, notts county, torquay, huddersfield, plymouth, oldham, bury, sheffield united, crystal palace, queens park rangers, leeds, rotherham, cardiff, middlesbrough, Huddersfield Town and lastly aberdeen. Is that all. Is that all. Yeah, yeah he gets it on Neil Warnock Neil Warnock good morning neil. Very very good to have neil there as a as a viewer which is very nice. Yeah. Well where do you see neil. Well it was at spurs. He was, he was doing a little managing thing for sort of it was, yeah. It was like a corporate and there was, there was neil warnock. Very nice man, you know. And he always sends his regards to you. Yeah. Yeah. Always good on. Well with neil. Yeah. Yeah thats true , can we talk about, thats true, can we talk about, were talking about, outfits and uniforms and things in baseball. Do you wanna do the baseball . Yeah so nike have made these mlb uniforms. Yeah. So whats the problem . Right. Well, mlb , major right. Well, mlb, major league baseball, london series, by the way. Thats thats coming to london again. New york mets against philadelphia phillies. Baseball itself is suffering a little bit. You know, theyre having a little trouble with with going with the times because baseball uniforms, for example, so stupid looking i know theyre pyjamas, but theyve never changed. Have a look at this. This is one from many, many years ago. This is Detroit Tigers now look if you look at that. So thats im guessing what 40 years. But the actual uniforms dont look any different today. Whereas you have football kits. Yeah. You have football kits. Yeah. You know in the 80s the shorts got crazy short and then they got long again. And then the design is different. Baseball is pretty much stayed the same. But they do have, some problems now. Nike have now taken over the making of the uniforms and they make the uniforms or the kit for every major league team. So they every major league team. So they have the contract. Its a its a billion, billion dollar contract that they have. But they what they have, theyve made these they have, theyve made these they call them nike vapour premier. Premier uniforms. They call them nike vapour premier. Premier uniforms. Would premier. Premier uniforms. Would it help mobility moisture management. Have you ever had a problem with moisture management . Well, i can see why it would be a problem. I think so, yeah. For some people its quite hot sometimes. Yes. And also fit as well. But the problem is, is that theyre so thin not only have the pants, i mean we call them trousers. Theyre see through but theyre ripping. Through but theyre ripping. Have a, have a look at this. Look. This is actual proof of whats been going on regularly. See, in baseball in the states, look, slides. Oh, look at that. Look, slides. Oh, look at that. Thats. And thats what they do. They slide. Do you remember in Charlie Browns slide, charlie brown, has this been historically a problem or is this just something with the new kit . Its with the new stuff because its so thin. And obviously when it helps the moisture management, its ripping. So, you know, people are showing far too much. So what theyre having to do now, is actually theyre going to complete, tailor options with high quality zippers and stitching standards that prevent blow outs. Im not sure what blow outs. Im not sure what that means. Eamonn. Okay, but the thing is, you know, the way here in this country, we wear football tops as leisure, like leisurewear. Leisurewear. Yeah. You go on holiday. Yeah. On holiday. Wear it on an aeroplane or whatever it happens to be. Would the yanks do it with some do, some do. And i think they look better. If you go to baseball in the states or when they do it in london, they all where they wear the gear, but they all look very, very similar, you know, because theyre all of a similar look. But yeah, its not i dont think its like when you go to Stansted Airport before you go on holiday, still dont like them. Premier league going to get more exposure. We just say congratulations to Kieran Mckenna and ipswich. Yeah well mckenna and ipswich. Yeah well theyre not congratulating yet. One point away one point Champions League last night bayern to real madrid two. But tell us about the premier league in the usa and whats going to happen there. Well nbc owned the contract for the premier league over in america. And this is a £2 billion contract. So this is the biggest contract the premier league have. And its getting very big in the states. So theres now word i mean they tried this in two thousand and seven with the 39th game. But now theyre saying that they would like two games to be played in the states every year in the premier league. You know, this is going to happen. You know its going to happen. And it worries me. And its great that its worldwide. Its great that its worldwide. Its great that everybodys paying attention to the premier league. Attention to the premier league. But i just thought its a matter of time. Nothings been said, nothings been signed, nothings been done. But im sure that there are teams. Im sure most of the premier league teams, as much as they may deny it now, will want to play over in the states. They probably forfeit a states. They probably forfeit a home game because they know theyll get support and then support over america. That means merchandise , and then it means merchandise, and then it means youre going to get people in america supporting burnley, for instance, instead of being at turf moor, theyre going to be at, you know, somewhere in new york. You know what . It could well work because a team like burnley will probably think, you know, thatd be great. Well get a bit of exposure in the states. Suddenly theres, hey, i love that burnley , you know, and then that burnley, you know, and then theyll start supporting them. And then its moneys going to start coming in. But as long as it doesnt set precedent and then we end up playing goodness knows how many games in the states. That would be awful. The wrexham documentary series on netflix i dont know what its on or prime or i dont know where it is, but, it restarts again this week. Yeah. Friday theyre going again. Are they going again . Theyre going again. And then because theyre playing games, they play games in the states before the season starts and then theyll have friendlies, so then they can see them. But i think its just going to be a matter of time whether we like it or not. There theres going to be games in the states. Hey, well there you are on nbc. Theyll be looking for presenters for that, i think. I think its very good. What do you think . Not very good, but cheap. Yeah. We could be. Yeah. Well cheap. And well have a laugh and well talk a bit about. Yeah well do the spurs Manchester United game. Absolutely. Lets go for it. Thank you my friend. Appreciate all of that. Paul coyte there with your sport and fashion news all mixed in one always, blackpool south residents heading to the polls tomorrow after the resignation of the former mp. Well find out what they want from their next mp. Lets cover this by election in blackpool south. People heading to the polls tomorrow. Thats going to be after the resignation of the former mp. Often recognised as one of the most deprived areas of the whole country. Voters in blackpool will be demanding real and meaningful change from whoever is successful. Is successful. Our north west of england reporter sophie reaper paid the area a visit to find out more. The world famous blackpool promenade. Once upon a time , promenade. Once upon a time, people flocked from all over the globe to visit this iconic seaside resort. But in recent years, the town has gained a rather different reputation. In fact, the most recent government figures place eight of the ten most deprived neighbourhoods in the country. Here in blackpool today. The Royal Boston Hotel first opened its doors back in 1934. Since then, the promenade has completely changed and not necessarily for the better. Blackpool can be beautiful , blackpool can be beautiful, it can be wonderful, but it also can look very rundown when you drive up and down the promenade. So its it needs investment and i think theres people willing to invest, but its just unlocking that key around how we can do that and how we can actually change those buildings in that structure. Tomorrow, the people of blackpool south will head to the polls to choose their new mp for john. The polls to choose their new mp for john. The successful candidate needs to secure the towns future by making decisions now. A huge part of what the mp is going to need to do is, is to create that job and those opportunities and work with local businesses to create that opportunity, because we see and i see a huge amount of talent leaving blackpool. Theyre the ambassadors for the town. Theyre the future of blackpool here at the heart of blackpools tourist economy. Its tower still stands , its its tower still stands, its illuminations still shine. And yet now for its people. They feel its time for change in blackpool. Its about to get a new mp. What do you want them to do for blackpool to invest more money in, like the Mental Health services around blackpool . Because there isnt much to offer for young people. They need to invest more money in the people of blackpool rather than the tourist areas. Make it safer, make it a better community, especially with the cost of living crisis. So do more for blackpool residents , more for the residents, more for the homeless, which they dont actually do. The placements , the actually do. The placements, the hotels leaving for three months and if they dont find a place within them, three months then moved and one of them people. I think its quite sad actually. Its very sad because, blackpool was like massive , a blackpool was like massive, a once glittering tourist trap. Once glittering tourist trap. The blackpool of today seems to have lost some of its sparkle. And for its local people , they can only hope their people, they can only hope their new mp can restore the town to happier days. Sophie reaper gb news full list of candidates standing blackpool south are steven black, independent. Mark butcher, reform andrew cregan, lib dems haaland, lord hope, official monster raving loony party, david jones, conservatives, kim knight, alliance for freedom and democracy, damon sharpe for the non poll party , ben thomas for non poll party, ben thomas for the greens and chris webb for laboun the greens and chris webb for labour. Right back after the break with all the stories making the news in goodness me. Imagine this. Lying in bed at night. Feeling the presence in the room. A buzzing going on. Something thats making you uneasy. What could it possibly be . Weve got fraser myers, and weve got Scarlett Mccgwire in the studio. Scarletts going to tell us what the buzzing was. Scarlett. Well, it wasnt just a grown up hearing the buzzing. It was a toddler who kept saying to her mum, there are monsters in my room. And the mother thought she was exaggerating and actually it was exaggerating and actually it was a beehive in the wall of her room , and when the proper people room, and when the proper people came. Because, because because the parents said why . Why have bees flying into our attic . And they were flying down into this hall and they they knocked, they knocked , a hole in it. And the knocked, a hole in it. And the bees just swarmed out. And then this honey came out. Wow. That that looked like blood because it was so dark and just, i mean, it was so dark and just, i mean, it was so dark and just, i mean, it was disgusting. A pest control allowed to get rid of that because. Arent bees supposed to be protected . 50,000 bees with a huge honey hive is probably in some way. Well, the hive wasnt for i dont think they killed the they let the bees out and i think they then destroyed the home. But i remember, sometime when i, my kids were young and they were playing football in the garden, and there was this strange thing in, the outhouse where we kept our boiler. In, the outhouse where we kept our boiler. And i called somebody and it was a wasp nest. And he said at any stage they could have kicked a ball against that and all the wasps while i was mowing my mother in laws lawn one summer, and her neighbours were keeping honey bees. Oh, i dont if theyre honey bees. Bees . They had a beehive right on the periphery fence. And obviously the sound of the lawnmower really annoyed these bees. And i got attacked and im actually allergic to bees. And i got bitten and had these huge, swollen lumps behind my ears. And we just said to the neighbours what had happened. And they took it really badly and got rid of their bees. And they dont really theyre not that friendly anymore. But what was i supposed to do, just not mention it . So its a bit awkward . So its a bit awkward . Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the lumps didnt go away. No, no, no. Away. No, no, no. And meanwhile, doing things with him and hes so polite, isnt he. Well, meanwhile, tom cruise is having trouble with pigeons. Yes. So tom cruise is filming the new Mission Impossible film. The new Mission Impossible film. Hes filming it in london, in Trafalgar Square. Theres going to be a scene with a riot, but because they dont want pigeons bothering the set, theyve, essentially hired a load of hawks and falcons to guard, and thats just made me think , what thats just made me think, what a brilliant idea. Why cant we have that for the rest of london . Surely joe public in lots of places. Theres a Shopping Centre in bristol, i cant remember. Its called cabot circus. And when they opened, it was brand, brand new fanfare about ten years ago. They brought in peregrine falcons. As residents of this beautiful Shopping Centre to stop them all the seagulls attacking and nesting in goodness. Yeah. Because i mean, its obviously, you know, terrible for people to have that fall on them. Yeah, its terrible for them. Yeah, its terrible for the buildings because its, you know, quiet and theyre little. But also i mean, yeah, why cant joe public be protected from the pigeons, not just tom cruise and celebrities. Absolutely. There are little vectors of, yes, disease. So if you might when, when, Ken Livingstone first became mayor of london and we used to have, people out there selling food for the, for the pigeons, and then youd have photos of you with pigeons all over you. And he paid them not to do it, to try and save Trafalgar Square from from pigeons, i think i think he did think about falcons. So, i mean, i think its something that we should, we should think about. But you do still see people feeding the birds, dont you . Its all very mary poppins, very mary poppins. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, they may be terrible, but, i have to say, fraser, the, the tom cruise films, the Mission Impossible films are amazing. And this is a continuation of the last one. So the last one was part one. And this is part two. Part two. Theyre doing i think its amazing for a man whos 63, 64 years of age to do his own stunts, to look as well as he looks and to have really good quality. The thing is, though, when you look at award ceremonies at the end of the yean ceremonies at the end of the year, this is what really annoys me. Nothing. Thered be nothing for Mission Impossible. No, thats true. And yeah, youre right to i think, you know, tom cruise does deserve some praise because hes just a consummate entertainer. He just he knows what the public wants. He has to be addicted. No one could make the amount of films that he makes absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. And still doing the stunts. And still doing the stunts. As you say, he must never have time off. Yeah. And you know, he doesnt. He doesnt lecture us like other celebrities do. I dont know what his political opinions are. You know, obviously hes scientology. I know what hes i know what his fraser and id like to. And his child had to be born in silence. Dont you remember that stuff to himself in his private life . He does. I mean, hes slightly strange from his children, or his children are estranged from him. We do know stuff about about tom cruise. I do think hes a consummate actor, but i have problems with footage recently of him jumping off a cliff and waiting till the very last minute until he releases the parachute and refilming it, but maybe eight times just to get it as late as possible before he pulls the plug. That takes not only a huge amount of skill, but a huge amount of skill, but a huge amount of, dare i say, cockiness. And cut to say it in any other polite way. But guts. Yes, polite way. But guts. Yes, thats a better way. Especially since he doesnt have to do it. He could get a stunt man to do those things. It, as you say, incredible. It, as you say, incredible. Hes hes hes hes obviously an adrenaline junkie and brilliant at it. Fraser im a bit confused by immigration levels of finally fallen after being at a record high after a crackdown on visas. This is front page of the times today. Yeah. So, between january and today, around 139,000 visas. I mean, thats down by 50,000 on around the same time last year. A lot of it is to do with the tightening of the rules around student visas. I mean, there was a lot of concern that people were using student visas and possibly still are as essentially as a kind of covert migration route, signing up to courses , paying a small fee, and courses, paying a small fee, and then actually going on to work in the, you know, work for deliveroo or Something Like that. I mean, it was extraordinary, actually, when, you know, the sort of post brexit rules there are huge number of students bringing over dependents and family members. You know, most of us who were students , went to university to students, went to university to get away from our families, not to bring them with us. And even if you travelled abroad to go to university, you wouldnt, bring, extraneous family members. So it extraneous family members. So it seems as if something, you know, theyve theyve clocked on to a problem. And perhaps its been, except the concern, i think most people would probably agree. Theres no necessary need for dependents to come with these students to prop up these universities. But where there might be impacts on the on the Labour Market is in the nhs, in social care , where there is now social care, where there is now this cap on not only minimum wage, but also on, on dependents and, and whether or not that might mean there are posts that just cant be filled. Oh yeah. Just cant be filled. Oh yeah. I mean, what theyre saying to carers is because you dont earn very much money, you have to come over without your family. And they think, oh yeah, so great. So well be on the minimum wage, well be living really poorly in britain and, and, and our, our children wont be there. And meanwhile we have 100,000 vacancies in the care sector. This seems a rather silly thing to do. Yeah. Im just seeing here a headune yeah. Im just seeing here a headline in the paper today we talk about this cost of living crisis. Olive oil. Olive oil now costs more than a good bottle of wine. The price is nearly doubled in two years. And this is because of a drought in. In spain. Spittlebug pests and gangs that steal whole trees. People who dig up trees out of the ground and sell them elsewhere. Its incredible. Have you anybody noticed their olive oil going up in price . Oil going up in price . I havent noticed it, i have to say, but i do Love Olive Oil and wine, so its a double whammy of lifes greatest. Im afraid. Yes, i use olive oil very liberally and absolutely love it. I try not well, i do actually. I cook something with it yesterday. People say you shouldnt cook in olive oil. I said, oh, its so lovely. I mean, they live forever in the mediterranean dont they. Oh yeah. No, its it means youre very rich if you cook with olive oil. So when i do crappy cooking, i have, i do use. Use. Oh i see you do financial reasons. Not for health reasons. Not for health reasons. So. So. But olive oil is wonderful for health. Well, it costs £8. 40 for a litre of sainsburys own brand. And it can be, theres a brand here that they mention and it costs £13. 85. Its significantly more than a bottle of decent quality wine , they say so thats quality wine, they say so thats quite apparently if you actually dnnk quite apparently if you actually drink olive oil and it detoxes your liver, its apparently very, very good for liver detoxing, do you just how do you dnnk detoxing, do you just how do you drink that . You just drink it out of glass. You couldnt pay me to a whole glass. Is it a shot glass . I dont know, id never can. You can you make. Can you mix it sort of with balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper . So maybe uniquely. That sounds lovely, yeah. That sounds lovely, yeah. No, im not sure of that. So, let us know what youre finding difficulty with. Pain at the supermarkets at the moment. Well reflect that in our next newspaper review, which will happenin newspaper review, which will happen in about 40 minutes time, so for the moment, scarlet and fraser, thank you very much indeed. Lots coming your way at 8 00. Weve got Bridget Phillipson for labour coming on, and then we have Kemi Badenoch talking about single sex spaces and wanting you to get in touch with examples of where these are not being protected. More on that in the next hour. But in the meantime, were going to get an update on your forecast with Aidan Mcgivern. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A lot of cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight. Even some thunderstorms. Initially the thunderstorms. Initially the best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon, otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england. But away from the showery rain. Actually its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland , temperatures up into scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless, looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up, perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow. And those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning. Some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away across south wales and the south west of england dunng and the south west of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain. Elsewhere, brighter skies develop after a mostly dry night. Plenty of sunshine for scotland , Northern Ireland into scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england, but some parts of northeast england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud. Thatll make things feel much cooler. Much cooler. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on who is that . Who was that . Im who is that . Who was that . Im pleading ignorance. I dont know , nothing to do with me anyway. Its may day is what we were trying to say. And you are very welcome to breakfast with eamonn and isabel. Weve got a lot for you in the next hour of the show, including former home secretary Kemi Badenoch. Were going to be Kemi Badenoch. Were going to be talking to her and the headlines today. A mans been tasered and arrested after multiple stabbings in north east london. He remains in custody but is yet to be interviewed given the extent of his injuries. Crunch day for the Scottish Government. They face a vote of government. They face a vote of no confidence put forward by laboun no confidence put forward by labour, have lost. All ministers would be forced to step down. King charles tells Cancer Patients on his return to public duty that his diagnosis came as a big shock. The government has also launched the biggest Prostate Cancer trial of its kind to test the effectiveness of techniques treating the disease. Disease. The first failed Asylum Seeker has been sent to rwanda and he gets paid for it , given a and he gets paid for it, given a fee, by the government. They fee, by the government. They have rejected the asylum system and dont arrive. And he didnt arrive on a small boat via the channel. But there you go. Channel. But there you go. The city of blackpool is preparing for its by election tomorrow. Weve been gauging the mood there as rival parties aim to heap more pressure on the conservatives. With time ticking for a general election. A lot of cloud today with a few showers around, but some heavy , potentially thundery rain heavy, potentially thundery rain arrives overnight in the far south. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. So a busy hour ahead. As ian was mentioning, were going to be speaking to the minister for women and equalities. Thats Kemi Badenoch. Shes going to be discussing the importance of womens only spaces. Thats just womens only spaces. Thats just before nine. And weve also got Bridget Phillipson for on laboun Bridget Phillipson for on labour. Shes the shadow education secretary. Now we want to do this with your views. Things that you have to say. Gb news. Com forward slash your say please do that okay. Were going to focus on the horrific scenes yesterday in north east london. A former detective chief and superintendent of the metropolitan police , kevin metropolitan police, kevin hurley, has come out calling for Police Officers to be armed. All of them. It comes after another high profile incident where a man was tasered, then arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a 14 year old lad. Well, five people have been treated for injuries in hospital with dramatic footage showing the moment that the perpetrator was successful. Stopped by was successful. Stopped by Police Assistant commissioner louisa rolfe said. Police have found no trace of a prior incident involving the suspect, whilst the Prime Minister has said there is no place for violence like this on our streets authorised, they are not selected and they are not trained. Trained. Can they choose not to carry a taser . Yes, they can. But however, i think the time has come now. If think the time has come now. If we set the firearms discussion aside for a moment to focus on tasers, i firmly believe that every frontline Police Officer should have a taser. Yesterdays events have shown how effective they can be in murderous , they can be in murderous, dangerous, deadly circumstances and quite frankly , if we expect and quite frankly, if we expect our frontline Police Officers to carry a tourniquet so that they can deal with the effects of knife crime, then at the very least we should expect and allow and give them a taser. Whats your view on that one . Well, meanwhile, the Scottish Government faces a no confidence vote after the first minister said he is resigning his resignation on monday came just 13 months after he replaced Nicola Sturgeon and sparks another leadership contest in the snp. The snp. The crisis in the party is giving an opportunity for the uk Opposition Labour Party to regain ground ahead of the National Election, which is expected later this year. The scottish tories and the lib dems have backed the motion, but without support from the greens, its likely to be defeated. Lets get the analysis this morning of our Political Correspondent olivia utley, who joins us from westminster. Good morning to you. So whats going to happen north of the border today . Today . Well, essentially this is just going to heap yet more embarrassment onto the snp. There is going to be this vote of no confidence in the entire snp government tabled by anas sarwar of scottish labour. And as you said there, we are expecting the lib dems and the conservatives to back it. As you might expect. But the green might expect. But the green party have said that they will support the snp government in this, as we know they stepped away from that coalition. They, when they were when they were forced away from that coalition, they turned on humza yousaf and in the end he had to resign. Now that he has gone, they are saying that they will back the snp as a government. So its thought that the snp will hold on, that there wont be a mass resignation of ministers. But if by some chance the greens change their mind at the last minute and lets not forget, theres only two of them. So it could be it could all be pretty fickle. It could could go down to the wire and they end up voting against the snp government. Then all snp ministers will have to resign. And within 28 days the snp will have to try and form a new government. And if they fail to do that, then there would be an early election in holyrood, which is exactly what scottish labour would like to see. Okay, and olivia, explain to us the significance of this first failed Asylum Seeker taking a voluntary deal to head to rwanda, distinct from the rwanda deal that weve been talking about for so long. But the government will be trying to sell this to us as a win. Will they not . The government will definitely be trying to sell this as a win. This is the very first time that the government has sent a migrant and illegal migrant over to a third country. So although it is separate from the rwanda scheme, which we have been talking about so much, the government will very much be presenting this as a win. This man has been handed, he hasnt been named. He has been handed £3,000 of taxpayer money in order to help him resettle in rwanda. And he is of african origin. Originally so i think there will be some, eyebrows raised , perhaps over whether raised, perhaps over whether this really is a win for the british taxpayer. We can expect rishi sunak to be talking about it a lot at pmqs today, but its possible that that keir starmer decides to lead with this as an example. Actually of the government. You know, it has been five months since this emergency legislation was tabled and so far one migrant has been removed. And thats a bit different. Its a bit separate and it has to be given £3,000 of taxpayer money. So i think we can expect both leaders of each party to be using this as ammunition at pmqs today. Olivia, thank you very much indeed. With the time at 8 07 oclock still to come, the king has said hes feeling much better as hes returned to pubuc better as hes returned to public duties for the First Time Since his cancer diagnosis. Well, well be speaking to royal commentator jennie well, well be speaking to royal commentatorjennie bond about that and lots more royal stories right after this. 2024 a battleground year. 2024 a battleground year. The year the nation decides. The year the nation decides. As the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. Who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives . Who will rise and who will fall . Lets find out together. For every moment the highs, the lows, the twists and turns. Well be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. Gb news is britains election. Channel. Big day today for the governments legacy act, the legacy act today and historical inquests and the transferring of troubles era cases to a new body. Yeah, its a controversial act. It has been opposed by victims groups and all the main Political Parties in Northern Ireland. Well, here to explain what it is all about, lets go to our Northern Ireland reporter Dougie Beattie for us all on this one. This explains explain to people why this is so controversial. Dudley well, this is about victims of the troubles in Northern Ireland. And of course, 25 years ago, a quarter of a century ago, we ended the troubles in Northern Ireland. The good friday agreement came to pass. And of course, from that time there has been endless cases coming through the courts here behind us. And they have had very little results because , as very little results because, as ikeep very little results because, as i keep on saying, and there some people say, why do you keep referring to it . And it is those letters of comfort and queens pardons and mercy that were given to paramilitaries after the good friday agreement was signed, that have really stopped any further investigations in their tracks because we had the canova report that was looking at Security Force and paramilitary collusion and running of state agents just a couple of months ago. And it did say, well, there was an awful large amount of that sort of thing going on. And of course , thing going on. And of course, they did not want to be named to all these cases will get so far. And then they stop there is a block put on them or the information is outside dna. Its been contaminated or or any legal wranglings around this. And what happened was theres been about 2. 5 billion spent over 25 years. And many, many bodies set up and new results for, any of the victims involved in this. Lets lets remember in this. Lets lets remember many of these victims were innocents here. So the government has said, look, enoughs enough. Weve had 25 enoughs enough. Weve had 25 years of this, and were going to set up the independent commission for reconciliation and information recovery. And the people at the head of this are some quite well known and very, very clever legal minds. Some ex, Police Officers , very some ex, Police Officers, very senior Police Officers who are offering a way forward to victims to find out exactly what happened to their loved ones. Now, it will not end up in any court after that, but at least the loved ones will have some idea as to what happened to their relations during the troubles , and maybe actually troubles, and maybe actually find out who was involved. Now, find out who was involved. Now, the Irish Government has had an inter governmental case against the British Government on this very issue. They have took that to europe and said, we dont like it, we dont want it. We want to make sure that we have, we know all the information. But of course , the Irish Government of course, the Irish Government werent cleaning this either. And there has been a lot of, a lot of talk from the unionist side of the community wanting more inquiries from the south. But 25 years on, many of these relations have are dead and gone and many will never, ever find out the truth. All Political Parties here are against this, and as is every single victims group. But it may be a way forward that that will help people. And really, the government are saying at this time, please give us a chance to actually prove ourselves here. Okay. Dougie, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed on that. Thank you. On that. Thank you. Just looking at the books that have been voted the most loved childrens stories of all time , number one is the hungry time, number one is the hungry caterpillar. Stop me if youve read any of these. So youve got your kids into this gruffalo number two, the tiger who came to tea . Yep is number three. Goldilocks and the three bears. Number four, going on a bear hunt. Number five. Three little pigs. Six. The tales of peter rabbit in at seven. At eight a bear called paddington. Winnie the pooh at nine. And number 10 is little Red Riding Hood. Read all of them. Winnie the pooh has to win, hands down, because it transcends children and adulthood, and it has so much good advice for kids in there. And which one has winnie there. And which one has winnie the pooh . I mean, its just incomparable to all the others. I mean, like hungry caterpillar great for like a tiny, tiny, tiny baby. But, you know, four year olds, five year olds. The stuff in winnie the pooh is its just a lot of loving words and loving words and, you know, all this idea of mindfulness that is quite a modern concept. Its all in there. You see, before it became en vogue, i was surprised , pleased that, that the Red Riding Hood and goldilocks and the three little pigs are all in there because, you know, its about a big wolf that may well eat, little Red Riding Hood or blowing a house down and all that sort of thing, but very, very nice that those books, the classics, still. Well and truly dominate and occupy all of that. Let us know your favourites. In the meantime, heres your forecast with Aidan Mcgivern. Forecast with Aidan Mcgivern. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on. Solar. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news. A lot of cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight. Even some thunderstorms initially the best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around dunng some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland, parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon, otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain , especially some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england. But central and eastern england. But away from the showery rain. Actually its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless, looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up. Perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow, and those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning. Some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away across south wales and the southwest of england dunng and the southwest of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain. Elsewhere. Brighter skies develop after a mostly dry night, plenty of sunshine for scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england, but some parts of northeast england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud thatll make things feel much cooler. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Now then, we have a £20,000 Great British giveaway up for grabs. How do they do it . Grabs. How do they do it . Well, they sort of do it like this and i hope youll end up very happy. Weve blown the budget by giving you the chance to win a totally terrific £20,000 in tax free cash to make your summer spectacular. 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Yes, he went on a visit with his wife, the queen, to Macmillan Cancer centre in london, and he held hands with Cancer Patients whilst he was there. So lets speak to royal commentator jennie so lets speak to royal commentatorjennie bond with her thoughts on all of this. I thoughts on all of this. I thought he looked quite, quite strong, all Things Considered , strong, all Things Considered, jenny, i thought so too, a little paler perhaps than usual, because he has quite a ruddy complexion , but all in all complexion, but all in all looking very well, i think isabelis looking very well, i think isabel is right to point out the hand. It was it wasnt just a handshake, it was a hand clasp. It was real, genuine, holding peoples hands, empathising with them. You could see that in all his body language and his face. And i think this is probably, you know, i think its probably quite cathartic for him and obviously for the patients he met there. But to meet people who are going through this trauma, this mental trauma, as well as physical trauma and truly empathise with them, i think must have been uplifting all round. We saw the footage of him with Prime Minister rishi sunak soon after. We all learned of his diagnosis when he said that he was overcome with emotion reading the letters that hed been receiving from members of the public and you got that sense yesterday, didnt you, that he , he really feels this that he, he really feels this deeply, not only because of his own diagnosis, but of course, as we know, because of his daughter in laws as well. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And i think he was incredibly keen to, to thank people as personal as he could. He lingered on the steps as they went in longer than usual, and there was a much bigger press party than, than, than normally would be at an occasion like that. And he knew this was a significant, important occasion. And i think that getting back to work is the best thing he can do. And the best message really, he can send out to fellow sufferers, because there was a senior oncologist i was listening to, just last week saying that just to sit around and mull over it and feel sorry for yourself. And the king is someone who can be prone to a little touch of self pity and melancholy, but to avoid that and to get back to normal, get back to work, to focus on that is actually the best thing you can do for your health. Yeah, hes got back to work with his wife, the queen by his side. I think its interesting to see them, them both together. I mean, they dont have to do various, functions as a duet, but i think it gives a very strong image. It does. And i think what a relief, actually, for camilla, shes been flying solo for the last four months and heading up the royal family, keeping the show on the road, and i think everybody , well, i know not everybody, well, i know not everybody, well, i know not everybody in the country, but most people would concede that shes done it pretty magnificently and shes appeared to thrive on it. Shes looking amazing and very energised. But amazing and very energised. But behind the scenes she must have been and is so, so concerned about her husband. And so to be out together as a dual act, i think would have been a great relief for her. And i mean for him, she just is absolutely his rock and keeps him grounded and keeps him cheerful. Keeps him cheerful. Yeah. Where are we at with his health, though . Its not the end of the road for his treatment, not necessarily out of the woods yet. Hes still being monitored by doctors, isnt he . Isnt he . Well, i mean, more than monitors. Hes been treated. In fact, he was having a treatment just yesterday afternoon. He confided in one of the patients that he was having his treatment. We dont know what treatment. We dont know what treatment that is, but he did discuss the cold cap, which is used during chemotherapy with another patient. So maybe thats what hes having. But certainly the treatment is ongoing. But he was wearing his favourite tie, his c rex tie. Its got little dinosaurs on it. And he wears that when hes feeling pretty cheerful really. What do you get insights from his. From his mood into his mood, from his title. What what mood, from his title. What what else is in his wardrobe . And what do they tell us . Im fascinated because obviously the same applies to eamonn. Well, i havent actually been in his wardrobe, but, lots of very beautiful silk ties. And he he does take special pride in wearing particular ties. Obviously, ceremonial occasions the appropriate tie, but this is a rather amusing one. Its got little dinosaurs on little t rexes, so its a play on c rex, and i think we can deduce from that he was feeling a little bit playful, certainly, upbeat. Playful, certainly, upbeat. Jenny, thank you very much indeed. Thanks for the insights. And that was from one of the grandchildren. Bound to be, grandchildren. Bound to be, isnt it . Thats one of the grandchildren he gave him that right. The time is 27 minutes past. The are still to come. We have got the shadow secretary of state for education, Bridget Phillipson, right after this and weve got Bridget Phillipson. Now, bridget is the shadow secretary of state for education. Bridget, good morning to you. Im looking at a story in the mirror and today which has got john ashworth, Jonathan Ashworth in a bingo hall and basically hes saying and it was a message he was, he was trying to get across on our program yesterday, bridget, that the conservatives are gambling with your pensions. Whats your worry . 7 im . Im really concerned 7 im really concerned that in the last budget , they opened up the last budget, they opened up a £46 billion black hole. When they set out, what they are talking about is their Long Term Plan to abolish. National plan to abolish. National insurance contributions. Now, we all know that National Insurance contributions are an important part of how Peoples Pension is calculated. And i think pensioners have every right and would and pensioners into the future should be really concerned about what the conservatives have got in store. This is an unfunded commitment. Theyve had more than 50 days now since they announced this , now since they announced this, to set out their plan for how theyre going to pay for it, and theyre going to pay for it, and they have failed to do so. And i think its just reckless and cavalier and is the very worst of what we saw under liz truss when she was Prime Minister. Im curious about how the labour party intends to honour the triple lock on pensions. This is something we tried to talk about with jonathan as well yesterday. They theres lots of yesterday. They theres lots of concerns, including from conservatives who originally, you know, introduced this legislation that this is no longer going to be sustainable. And even the institute for fiscal studies have said if you do continue with the triple lock, youre just going to have to end up eventually increasing the age at which people are able to retire because its just not affordable at the levels that were talking about today. So how will you address this issue . Will you just increase pensioners age . Pensioners age . I think its really important that pensioners have got dignity and a good standard of living when theyre in retirement. And that was the record of the last Labour Government in terms of lifting pensioners out of poverty and making sure that they had not just enough to get by, but actually to enjoy a much better quality. Are you going to sustain the triple lock . We are clear that we would. Absolutely. We are clear that we will maintain the triple lock. I mean, that is important for workers who are coming through and who will, you know, have a good pension into retirement as well as for todays pensioners too. Its within the governments baseline. So they have already accounted for this within their plans. We intend to maintain it. We think its important that pensioners have got that security, that dignity and that knowledge that they dont have to worry about the future because of course, pensioners dont have the ability to take on more hours. And we know that pensioners are often people who are particularly exposed to issues like cost of living, pressures around gas and electricity bills. You know, ive spoken to lots of people over the years as a member of parliament in my community where because pensioners might not might have ill health or will be spending more time at home, theyre often spending more of their income on things like gas and electricity. And thats why its so important that they have that certainty, that they have that certainty, that security of knowing that the pension will be maintained at a good level. Yeah. And you want you want National Insurance maintained as well. Im just interested , well. Im just interested, bridget. It does. National insurance is it actually ring fenced for things like pension, you know, the way peoples pay road tax and they think it goes to the roads and it doesnt. But is the situation any different with National Insurance . With National Insurance . I mean, thats not quite how it works , but what national it works, but what National Insurance does count towards is the years and the contributions that you make count towards the pension that you will then receive in retirement. So what the government have set out in, in these reckless and crazy plans to just abolish National Insurance, they have answered no questions as to what that would mean in terms of peoples contributions, what that means for the state pension, or frankly, how theyre going to fund it. This is £46 billion that were talking about. Are they going to ask for pensioners to pay more in taxation, for example . We just dont know because they wont answer these questions. And there is absolutely no way that i would be allowed to come on your programme this morning setting out such a big plan. Unless i was clear about how we were going to pay for it and how we were going to fund it, and thats the difference between us and the conservatives. Were clear that fiscal responsibility being serious about taxpayers money, is right at the heart of everything that well do. And we saw what the conservatives did under liz truss. You know, £45 billion bombshell there. And now weve got £46 billion in terms of National Insurance abolition. Its absolutely crazy. I want to talk to you about single sex spaces. Theres been lots of discussion about it over the last 24 hours, with the nhs constitution being updated yesterday, weve got Kemi Badenoch, the womens and equalities minister, on in a few minutes, and shes talking about this as well. Where does labour sit in all of this . Because of course, Rosie Duffield, your female colleague in the commons for the labour party, was criticised by your boss for saying that only women had a cervix. Cervix. So i believe that single sex spaces are important. I believe theyre incredibly important in theyre incredibly important in the context of the care that women will receive in hospital, when you can be very vulnerable and you want to make sure that people have got safety and privacy and dignity. The sad reality is that under the conservatives, actually, weve seen a big explosion in the number of mixed race mixed sex provision. But im asking you about sir keir starmer views. Do you keir starmer views. Do you condemn him for what he said to Rosie Duffield about, you know, he he believed that she was wrong when she said only women had a cervix. Had a cervix. You know, im clear about what biological sex is. Im a woman. Im speaking to you this morning. Im clear what being a woman was wrong to say that about. But along. No. But about. But along. No. But alongside that, i think we need to make sure that when were using language and si king to treat one another with respect. And sadly, you know much of the discussion will often drift into a rather difficult and toxic place when i think what we, all of us want to do is make sure that we do respect and maintain single sex spaces, i think thats really important. But i thats really important. But i also think we need to show some compassion and understanding and respect of people. Trans people , respect of people. Trans people, and make sure theyve got the support that they need to. I dont think it is one or the other. I think we can maintain single sex spaces. For example, in hospitals, and alongside that, making sure that all patients have the right level of support, that they need. The reality is under the conservatives, that isnt happening. So what id say to Kemi Badenoch is its all very good and well, talking about the importance of single sex wards within the nhs , but its her within the nhs, but its her government that has been responsible for a big growth in the number of mixed sex wards that that mean that women often dont have that privacy that they would like, and expect when theyre in a hospital. Bridget phillipson well leave it there. Thank you very much indeed. Bridget phillipson is the shadow secretary of state for education. Thank you very much indeed. Just a bit concerned at all those Police Sirens out there. What what whats the backdrop to london these days isnt it. Were going to go through whats making the news this morning in the company of the Deputy Editor at spiked, fraser myers, and former labour advisor Scarlett Mccgwire scala. Im going to start with you because i know that you are close with Bridget Phillipson, she didnt want to answer my question, did she . About sir keir starmer and Rosie Duffield and very keen to talk about the conservatives and all this. I think it was outrageous that he condemned what she said in 2021. No, i mean , i think no, i mean, i think condemning is, is, is, is putting it much, much too strongly. I mean, i think the thing about, about rosie is that shes very polarising and do you think she was treated well by sir keir starmer . Yeah, i actually i mean i, i think shes actually i mean i, i think shes a very polarising person and, and quite a lot of things are about Rosie Duffield rather than actually about , about whats actually about, about whats going on. And i mean, its , its going on. And i mean, its, its very interesting that theres no question that , that, that among question that, that, that among many women and men, but particularly women , they are particularly women, they are split. Theres a whole spectrum about what they feel about about about what they feel about about about trans women and where they should be. And, and a lot of people who agree with rosies analysis actually think that she made an amazing amount of fuss , made an amazing amount of fuss, about very little, really, i dont think thats right. I mean, you know, Rosie Duffield has been hounded by labour activists. Keir starmer has never spoken up in her defence. Yesterday he made this extraordinary claim that, you know, the door is open to her. She said that thats just nonsense. Hes hes not telling the truth. And to be clear, you know, keir starmer said it was wrong to say that women only have cervixes. That is a its a statement of fact. Its not even theres not even a debate about this. Labour is so lost on this trans issue and its interesting. You know, we had the cass review recently into the cass review recently into the gender Identity Services for children. Wes streeting surprisingly , welcomely has, you surprisingly, welcomely has, you know, has welcomed the findings. He said, you know, the Labour Government will implement them. But at the same time, labour is also proposing a ban on what it calls trans conversion therapy. Now that means that if parents who follow the recommendations of the cass review and dont automatically affirm their childs gender identity, they could find themselves in trouble with the law. That is whats being that is ultimately what is being that is ultimately what is being proposed by labour. The thing about the thing about conversion therapy, lets, lets lets get it straight and, and it began with gay conversion therapy is its not about having a conversation. Its about saying , no, this its about saying, no, this is impossible. You know, weve got to convert you back. I mean, what the cass report said is actually whats very important about her is she said that there is a toxic atmosphere and actually children who feel that theyre in the wrong gender, should be treated and, and, and given therapy. Well, yes. Given therapy. Well, yes. I mean, what how many years do you have to wait for therapy . Right. So, so what she didnt say is it doesnt exist. What she said was doesnt exist. What she said was is, is, is that she said theyre being treated like guinea pigs and you need to give no space. She said they were being treated like guinea pigs by being given drugs. I am not ever saying given drugs. I mean, i think those sort of drugs should never be given to young people. Youre talking about starmer. That was what, three years ago we said 21. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think the thing is though, scarlet and fraser, that the terminology and the education and all of this maybe has moved on a bit, you wonder, have you asked him the same question now . Would he have the same love to ask him that . Would love to have him on breakfast. But do you have a word for us, scarlet cant seem to persuade him. Its about time too, because theyre trying to claim theres lots of gb news viewers are going to vote laboun viewers are going to vote labour, so put your money where your mouth is, mr starmer, and come and talk to us on the programme. Well, i would recommend that he came and talked to you too, rather than anybody else. Well, well take very much. Cant guarantee that. It will be an easy ride though. Well no, not because youre an easy ride, but because youre not going to ask him completely ridiculous questions, well, look, were going to ask these two completely ridiculous questions right after the break. Please do stay with us. More paper talk. Right after this. Right after this. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. 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That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Weve got fraser morrison. Weve got Scarlett Mccgwire and they have got the newspapers in front of them. And the king came out in in force yesterday , out in in force yesterday, fraser, and visiting a Cancer Treatment centre. And we hear that the uk is leading a Prostate Cancer revolution. Tell us more. Yes. Us more. Yes. So this is potentially very good news. One of the real problems with Prostate Cancer, its a disease that kills around 12,000 people in the uk every yeah 12,000 people in the uk every year. Is that the testing . And the screening is just not very good. So that means at the moment there is you know, were not able to just do National Screening because its not reliable enough. So theres going to be these huge trials to test out this new method of screening, just over 12,000 people are being invited for the first round, but its going to encompass 300,000 people. And then hopefully we will determine whether this is a good way of screening people. You know, as screening people. You know, as with all cancers, catch it early. You can stop it. The uk has a very poor record on cancen has a very poor record on cancer. It got even worse during covid and lockdown , but covid and lockdown, but hopefully this is some good news to turn things around , to turn things around, especially on the Prostate Cancer front. Do we know what the scan would involve as it i mean, you dont need specifics, but at the moment, i believe testing for prostate can be fairly unpleasant for gentlemen. Thats a good word. Thats a good word. Thats a good word. Thats a good description. Thats a good description. Thats a good description. Have you ever have you ever had a test for it yet, fraser, no i havent. Youre too young. Youre too young. Because i do think not looking forward to it. I think if theres any way of making it less unpleasant that might also come. Well, you see, its unpleasant because mens bottoms and womens bottoms are different. I didnt know this until i was 60 years of age. I regret bringing this up now, but i didnt. I didnt realise that your bottom is different than than my bottom, and that i hadnt occurred to me. And that i have occurred to me. And that i have things in my bottom that you dont have, right . Right did you know that . I didnt know that, no, i dont i dont need to know that. No, im not sure. I mean, i see the thing about prostate cancen see the thing about Prostate Cancer. I mean, it is terrible. People should not be dying of it. Alastair darling, the former chancellor, died of prostate cancen chancellor, died of Prostate Cancer. Did not, did he . Yeah. I mean, you should be able to get and bill turnbull, who im sure you know, like i did, you know because because it was caught too late. I mean, Prostate Cancer is something that can be caught early and either cured or treated so that many, many men die with Prostate Cancer. Not of it. And so i think this is really, really important. And however unpleasant it is, i can tell you testing for Cervical Cancer isnt great either. You know , and honestly, you should know, and honestly, you should see you wouldnt be a man. You wouldnt want the things we have to go through , unlike we have to go through, unlike childbirth. Honestly, the things scarlett , the things we have to scarlett, the things we have to suffer as men. All ahead of you, fraser, get the violins out and lets talk about donald trump. Lets talk about donald trump. He is winding up this judge, isnt he . And this doesnt even feel like hes properly got involved in this trial yet. So who knows where this could go . Well, well, there are two things about it. I mean, first of all, he has been told not to inqu of all, he has been told not to insult the jurors or anybody else help himself. And he does go on and hes been hes been fined £1,000 a time with the judge saying that actually ultimately he could go to jail. It is it is criminal contempt of court. I mean, can you imagine if we did it here, if anybody did it here, it would be terrible. But the other thing thatis terrible. But the other thing that is so shocking is that sort of taken over from what actually happened during during trumps, run for the president , is that the, the editor of the national enquirer, which is, you know, a sort of scandal sheet , a trump sort of scandal sheet, a trump supporter. So he bought up stories that were anti trump and then killed them. So there was this, there was this woman, who was a playgirl who had an affair with trump. Playboy bunny. Yeah. Playboy bunny. Yeah. Playboy bunny. Yeah. Playboy bunny, a playboy bunny who who had an affair with trump , allegedly. Allegedly, trump, allegedly. Allegedly, allegedly. But she was paid 150,000 for allegedly for allegedly having the affair. And the story was killed. And thats what this guy, this this, this, this editor felt his job was , this editor felt his job was, was to, was to protect the thing that amazes me. Fraser , is who what high fraser, is who what high profile politician or person in pubuc profile politician or person in public life could survive the scandals that trump has been through, with their reputation intact . It just seems to be the intact . It just seems to be the man is immune. Hes completely waterproof. Well, i think the thing is, with these criminal trials, some of them at least, i think some are more serious than others. Are more serious than others. This trial in particular people have the sense that its political. So thats why hes kind of able to survive it. Actually, his poll rating has gone up since every new indictment has been filed against him. And certainly i against him. And certainly i think i think he has actually a point when it comes to this particular trial, there are many, many questionable aspects of it. I mean, you have to remember in america, you know, the judiciary is a lot more politicised. Its sorry, not the judiciary, but the prosecutor is a democrat. You know, they have to be elected. He said he was going to get trump as one of his campaign promises. The story is normally a misdemeanour. Its not a crime , you know, not a not a crime, you know, not a felony crime to fiddle your expenses. Felony crime to fiddle your expenses. Essentially, hes expenses. Essentially, hes being accused of saying hes being accused of saying hes being told that he should have filed paying off Stormy Daniels as an election expense, which is just ridiculous , so theres just ridiculous, so theres many, you know, quite sensible, non pro trump legal people that are saying that this is you know, this case is a stretch and thats why hes able to, you know, get people on his side and say that hes being attacked. And then that means that, you know, the more serious cases do get overlooked, unfortunately, because i think there are many things that, you know, trump has behaved disgracefully, particularly around the 2020 election, you know, possible criminal interference with the attempts to overturn some of the results. Those things are very, very serious indeed and need to be taken seriously. But this particular case heard after the election. Yes. So he could i mean, arguably he might not even have to face that. Potentially not. But i think, you know, whats interesting is that this case is happening now because of the election, this alleged crime or non crime happened seven years ago. The statute of limitations would ordinarily have run out. So, you know, on the one hand, trump must not be above the law. No one should be, but nor should he be beneath the law. You know, he is being treated in this particular instance , hes being particular instance, hes being criticised for being trump, unfortunately. But fraser , i mean, hes also but fraser, i mean, hes also saying things like if he loses there will be violence. I mean, which is disgraceful. You know, it is really, really scary what is going on in america. Yeah. Is going on in america. Yeah. And what he and what and hes, hes just going on, you know, on trump social going on saying things as though, you know that that the violence in 2020 where a policeman was killed. Right. A policeman was killed. Right. Was will be as nothing is if he loses again. I mean its it is it is absolutely disgraceful, something a little bit less controversial. George galloway controversial. George galloway we had him on the program yesterday up to his usual tricks of sort of talking in riddles and nonsense. Trying to ask him and nonsense. Trying to ask him a straight question, never straightforward, but he did announce that Monty Panesar is going to be standing for his Workers Party of britain, in the seat for ealing and southall. And there is certainly fraser. A big appeal to people who share his views on gaza and palestine. Well, whats interesting, i mean, George Galloway obviously , mean, George Galloway obviously, won the rochdale by election on the back of, you know, sort of anger over gaza. But Monty Panesar says he doesnt know anything about gaza, doesnt know anything about nato. He know anything about nato. He said he would leave the Foreign Policy stuff to george , so says policy stuff to george, so says theres none of that in his. Exactly. And Monty Panesar says he wants to be pm, so he should probably wise up on Foreign Policy if he wants to do that. But im fascinated by his by his platform, actually, because, you know, Workers Party is a Left Wing Party to the left of labour, and some of the things that monty has emphasised is he wants a referendum on net zero. He wants to scrap ulez, you know, theyre against illegal migration and actually, you know , i think you think that you know, i think you think that should be in reform. No, no, no, i actually no, no, no, i think that those are things that are that appeal to the working class voters. And i think its, you know, it says something about the way the left has gone in the past, you know, 30, 40, 50 years that those things are considered far right. Those are quite those would be entirely normal , social would be entirely normal, social democratic positions, not very long ago, you know, net zero clearly is going to lead to deindustrialisation. It is deindustrialisation. It is strange that it has been embraced by left wing parties who purport to speak for the working class. Its because were worried about Climate Change. Actually, thats because we think that coming down the road is a total and utter disaster that we need to do something about. Its not about being left wing or right wing. Its about jobs, scientists. Its youre talking about, you know, the deindustrialisation of places. And i mean, there is no doubt about it that this seems to be bad news for jobs. About it that this seems to be bad news forjobs. I mean, labour will say well create a whole new environment , planning whole new environment, planning ahead for net zero. But, you know, i think if you if you essentially fundamentally, if you increase the price of energy, if you make it more difficult to, you know, create and manufacture things , if you, and manufacture things, if you, if you impose all kinds of, rules on, on, on what can be made and cant be made here, then you are going to industry is going to suffer and there will be some therell be some other industries, there will be some Green Industries in, you know, renewables and things like that. But i think the net effect is going to be bad for british industry. And i think that, you know, we need to wise up to that. That doesnt mean you dont take Climate Change seriously. It just means maybe the strategy needs to be rethought. But maybe what you do is you take Climate Change seriously and you become a world leader in renewables. Thats what we could have done, right. Is, is, is, you know, we could be making wind farms. We could be we could wind farms. We could be we could have a tidal in, in, near swansea. We could we could be looking at all those things and actually, we could be, we could, we could be using that to make more jobs rather than saying, oh, no, why are you turned then on on that plan . He hasnt u turned. Hes u turned on the money right. For the first year. Right. For the first year. Yeah, hes what he said. Is it wont it wont be 28 billion because, you know, because Interest Rates are so high. But theres no question is that theyre absolutely committed. I mean, what we need is a green revolution so that we do have green jobs. So that its exciting. Its not about de industrializing, its about doing new things. Yeah. Okay. Well let our , let us okay. Well let our, let us know your views at home on this. Im pretty sure i know where the gb news, listeners and viewers will sit on this, but its gbnews. Com yoursay a reminder , gbnews. Com yoursay a reminder, we have Kemi Badenoch shortly appearing on the channel. She wants to appeal for examples of where single sex spaces have not been honoured. And i just been honoured. And i just wondered, and i wanted to put it out to both of you, really, where you think shes going with this . I mean, she is the minister for equality and women, is she sort of jumping on the bandwagon with this, or is she , bandwagon with this, or is she, you know, onto something, think. Well, no, i think shes actually been quite consistent on this issue, to be fair to her and has. Yeah. You know, im surprised i think was the head of the Nhs Confederation said we dont want to turn this into a, into a culture war. Well i think the people who insisted that we could have self id in, in hospitals are the ones who started this culture war, not the not the women who are fighting back. I think the biggest problem for women who, like me, would like all women wards are not trans people, its men. I mean, weve had men in womens wards forever. I mean, you know that thats what weve got to deal with. I think it is a culture war. And i think, you know, what shes going for is the leadership of the conservative party, and its about headlines. But actually, itd be really nice if the conservatives took seriously all women wards so that we started having them. Yeah, but isnt she saying in code that trans gender people arent women . Yeah. I mean, i mean, what shes saying is you cant you cant change your genden cant you cant change your gender. Well, you know, i mean, what what what i really mind is shes taking a tiny, tiny minority of society who are very, very vulnerable and using them as click bait. And that thats what happens instead of actually looking at the really serious problem, which which is men in womens wards , because we men in womens wards, because we have got it. Let me ask you this. You are opening it to all men. Its not just people who might be legitimately transgender. If you say anyone can identify into this, then by definition youre allowing. Well, i can tell you, there are a lot of men who identify as men who are put in womens wards, right . Its not about self id, its not about transgender. As we say goodbye to you now. And if you were to go to the loo here, how do you feel about that . Because they are i hate it. Yeah, i really so theyre mixed. Theyre mixed sex loos and i find it incredible that gb news has one. And i come out and ineven news has one. And i come out and i never, you know, there is a man i mean, i, im very Old Fashioned about it. I like womens loos for women. Womens loos for women. Yeah, i agree, i agree and mens loos for men. I like all Scarlett Mccgwire fraser myers has been a pleasure. Come back soon. Thank you both very much indeed. And we will have Kemi Badenoch with us very shortly. Morning. Its just after 9 00. It is wednesday , the 1st of may. It is wednesday, the 1st of may. You are very welcome to breakfast with eamonn and isabel , live pictures we have for you this morning. , live pictures we have for you this morning. This is the scene this morning. This is the scene in north east london, today , 24 in north east london, today, 24 hours after yesterdays multiple stabbings and a murder. But the man who has been detained in custody has yet to be interviewed. Given his injuries, it is crunch day for the Scottish Government. They face a vote of no confidence put forward by laboun confidence put forward by labour. If lost, all ministers would be forced to step down, king charles tells Cancer Patients centres returned to pubuc patients centres returned to public duty that his diagnosis came as a bad shock as the government launches the biggest Prostate Cancer trial of its kind to test the effectiveness of treating the disease. The first failed Asylum Seeker has been sent to rwanda and given a fee to do so, funded by yours. You all the taxpayer. Theyve been, rejected by the asylum system, but they did not arrive in the country on a small boat. A lot of cloud today with a few showers around, but some heavy, potentially thundery rain arrives overnight in the far south. Ill have the full details in the forecast coming up shortly. The female officer who stopped a man wielding a sword and fired her taser directly at his chest, is i dont know what that was. It came close to losing her hand. This is according to new reports this morning from the met chief, mark rowley. This is a developing line in all of this. Shes widely been considered the hero of the hour , considered the hero of the hour, well, he hasnt been questioned yet. A 14 year old boy, though, yet. A 14 year old boy, though, has been murdered. Five people were also treated for their injuries. They had to go to hospital. And here you see the footage showing the moment that the assailant was stopped by police. Former met detective Peter Bleksley had this to say authorised. They are not selected and they are not trained. They are not trained. Can they choose not to carry a taser . Yes they can, but but however, i think the time has come now. If we set the firearms come now. If we set the firearms discussion aside for a moment to focus on tasers, i firmly believe that every frontline Police Officer should should have a taser. Yesterdays events have a taser. Yesterdays events have shown how effective they can be in murderous and dangerous, deadly circumstances, and quite frankly, if we expect our frontline Police Officers to carry a tourniquet so that they can deal with the effects of knife crime, then at the very least we should expect and allow and give them a taser. Get political reaction to this olivia utley for us in westminster, and lets deal with this one. First of all, before we talk about, scotland. Olivia yeah. I mean, this is going to be an argument in the metropolitan police and something that sadiq khan is going to have to be thinking about. Obviously weve got the london Mayoral Elections on thursday , and one thing which thursday, and one thing which has been levelled at khan over and over again is that knife crime in london has got worse since he came to power. That is something that his rival, susan hall of the conservatives, has been using as ammunition in this campaign, and i think that it is going to come under stark relief whatever happens in that london Mayoral Election on thursday, what pundits are predicting is that perhaps there could be a pretty low turnout. Sadiq might win , but it might be such a low win, but it might be such a low turnout that it undermines his authority in london. So these are the sort of questions which i think will be asked of him a lot in the coming weeks and months. Olivia, well perhaps check in with you a little bit later to talk about some of the other big stories, including scotland, but we interrupt you and cross to Kemi Badenoch this morning. The minister for women and equalities, very warm. Welcome to you. You are calling today on to you. You are calling today on members of the public to send in what youre calling real world examples of public bodies and those that advise the public, about cases that are confusing when it comes to single sex spaces. Tell us more. Spaces. Tell us more. Yes. So yesterday you would have heard the Health Secretary talk about how she was enshrining single sex spaces into the nhs constitution because theyd had a lot of issues. People using words that were inappropriate, mixed sex wards, which were also inappropriate for patients. But ive also had many people write to me with examples of Public Institutions that are not following equality law. They issue guidance thats been written likely by stonewall , and written likely by stonewall, and they issue policy that is not in keeping with the law. So what i keeping with the law. So what i said is, well, lets have a look at how big this problem is. To what extent is this an issue . If you have examples of where a pubuc you have examples of where a public institution. So something that the government can do something about is not following the law. Please send us an example and well have a look at it. And if so try and intervene where possible. Even if they are following the law, a lot of its just uncomfortable for a lot of people. Im sure you will. You will agree. Have you found any instances in your your own life which have embarrassed you or made you feel uncomfortable , not made you feel uncomfortable, not recently, certainly when i was much younger. Just aggressive men using the womens loos for reasons to just intimidate. And i think that that was not really something about single sex spaces because it was very clear that that was a single sex space. So but there will always be people who behave like that who choose to, you know, exploit areas of vulnerability. But the thing is, cammy, we shouldnt make the problem worse by creating confusion in terms of what people are or are not allowed to do. But the thing is, it has been created now. Thats now official. Men can use womens loos. Theyre not called womens. What are they called womens. What are they called now . Gender neutral, gender neutral loos, of which we have one here. And i must say, none of us feel particularly comfortable with it. But its but its quite the norm in many places. Places. So this is something that many people dont understand when it can be the norm. You know, in some private places you can do that if you if you want to, but certainly if you look at it is not just about loos, by the way, this is about womens refuges. Its about a whole swathe of things, you know, mixed sex wards are not about loos. Thats a way of sort of diminishing the issue. And many people dont understand the difference between a gender neutral loo and a unisex one. So they think theyre the same thing, but a unisex loo is like a disabled toilet. Theres privacy. You have your own washroom. Anybody of any sex can use it. A gender neutral loo is one where youve got urinals and stalls and men and women are, you know, doing intimate things in the same space. Quite often. Its actually men who complain that they dont like gender neutral loos, they dont like having , you know, to expose having, you know, to expose themselves when women are in the vicinity , weve issued guidance vicinity, weve issued guidance for schools , but if people for schools, but if people arent following the guidance, i would want to know. One of the things that was very interesting when we issued the guidance was lots of schools, you know, some unions and even some labour mps saying, oh, you dont have to follow this guidance. So if people arent following guidance, let us know so that we can take a look at it. The nhs isnt following guidance. In 2012, the nhs constitution banned mixed sex wards under conservative government, yet this breached 43,700 times last year, more than double the number reported in 2020. Wes streeting is suspicious that actually what youre doing is banging a drum. A little bit of culture wars, theres elections around the corner. Local elections corner. Local elections tomorrow. If you were serious about this, youd have done something about this in the last decade. Well well, so this is this is why the Health Secretary enshrined it. People change, people change the rules. And this is where i talk about the influence of stonewall over the last six, seven years. Rules and guidance was changed because you had people giving bad advice. So what happened in 2012 changed. Since then, weve been in government throughout this time and we are fixing it where people have been trying to undermine it. But its very interesting that you say that. Wes streeting says that, of course, hes going to say that because labour have been absolutely terrible on this issue. Were trying to fix a problem. They want it to go away and maybe even bring it back if they ever get their hands on power. I hope that that doesnt happen, but im doing my job. He doesnt like it because this is an area where the public know that the conservatives are right on this issue. Youre no stranger to rwanda and all the issues involved in it. What do you make of this guy on the plane yesterday or whatever . He paid £3,000. He gets a ticket and he gets a job in rwanda. He is a migrant. We believe hes not a boat migrant, but he got into the country illegally. Hes refused to stay here. Is this the future . Paying here. Is this the future . Paying them three grand to head off to rwanda . Three grand each. Rwanda . Three grand each. Well, i think we should remember that were spending £8 million a day on this issue. Thatis million a day on this issue. That is not something that is sustainable. We have to deal sustainable. We have to deal with it. People said the rwanda scheme wouldnt work. They tried scheme wouldnt work. They tried to say that it wasnt a safe country. If it wasnt a safe country. If it wasnt a safe country , we wouldnt have people country, we wouldnt have people volunteering to go. This shows that the scheme is working. People go to rwanda on holiday. I know someone whos gone there on a gap year. We need to actually make sure that this scheme works. And thats what the Prime Minister is focusing on, getting people on those flights and getting getting them over there. Of course it costs money, but there is no way to police our borders for free. If you have a way that we can do this without spending any money, i would love to hear it. This, i think, is one of the cheapest and most effective ways. And its not the only thing we are doing, but you know, the home secretary will tell you about all the things theyre doing on border policing. This is just one of them. We have a plan. No one of them. We have a plan. No one else has a plan. They just want to pretend that there is no problem. We do not pretend that there is no problem. And were doing everything we can to sort it out. Youll be aware. Local Council Elections and a by election taking place tomorrow, youll be braced. Im sure, as Many Councils are up and down the country for a bit of a beating to put it mildly. Do you think we could see a sort of humza yousaf turn of events for your boss, rishi sunak, in the next week . Certainly things have been looking fragile for a little while. Reports again in the weekend papers about a big tory rebellion plots to overthrow him. Will it ever end . And is he more fragile and uncertain than ever . Uncertain than ever . First of all, please can we never compare humza yousaf to rishi sunak . Rishi sunak is an extremely clever, capable, hard working person. Humza yousaf didnt know. You know, basic things. Just this week or a few things. Just this week or a few days ago, i had to explain to him the difference between the post office and royal mail. The snp have run the government of scotland into the ground. They spent , but my question was about spent, but my question was about whether or not rishi sunak might be facing a vote of no confidence, which is a realistic possibility. I dont think that thats going i dont think i dont think that that is an issue. I dont think that that is an issue. I think that people like to talk about it because its westminster gossip. This is not westminster gossip. This is not an issue. There will, of course, always under every Prime Minister, be people who complain. But he is out there. Hes campaigning. And i think that people like ben houchen and andy street have done so much that people will look at what they have achieved for their communities, and thats what they will be voting for. Kemi hes campaigning. Im just interested. What are you doing . Where are you at with you doing . Where are you at with your life and your professional career . Gb news youre on gb news. What are you doing on gb news . Well, you know, im just interested in how youre positioning yourself or what the what the future holds for you. What the future holds for you. Well, my, most critical priority is to do everything we can to get a conservative government. I think that it is conservatives that run this country best and deliver for people. So this morning, i am telling our story, and i will be going out campaigning, you know, later on. But really , what later on. But really, what i want to see is us win an election. Its very difficult election. Its very difficult after 14 years. Theres often a natural fatigue , but there is so natural fatigue, but there is so much that we have done. And i want to be able to tell that story. The last five years have been particularly difficult. Weve had several once in a generation, events like covid, the amount that we had to do to keep the country going, we have a war in europe. We now have a war in the middle east. All of those things. You know, i can tell you so much from the International Trade perspective, what were doing around supply chains to make sure that the country continues to function. So im doing my job and im working hard for the people of saffron walden, my constituency, as well as the uk. Well, maybe, maybe another day well have time to do all of that. Im not asking people to agree with you, but certainly youre always very interesting to listen. Listen to and thank you very much for your time this morning. Yeah. Kemi badenoch, minister for women and equalities pleasure. Thank you very much. Pleasure. Thank you very much. All right. Stay with us. Lots more still to come. Weve got 15 more still to come. Weve got 15 more minutes of the programme here on break. 2024 a battleground year. 2024 a battleground year. The year the nation decides. The year the nation decides. The year the nation decides. As the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election. Who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives . Who will rise and their lives . Who will rise and who will fall . Lets find out together for every moment. The highs, the lows, the twists and turns, well be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. Gb news is britains election. Channel. Britains election. Channel. Now weve got the host of the most, the Showbiz Correspondent hayley palmer, now in the studio. And hayley has come in this morning because Barbra Streisand and has been making the news. Tell us why hayley. The news. Tell us why hayley. Well, first of all, barbra is anicon well, first of all, barbra is an icon to me. However she has allegedly commented on melissa mccarthy. Shes an actress. She has said on her instagram , she has said on her instagram, she put a picture up of herself with a friend and she said, oh, say hi to your friend. Have you taken the drug ozempic, which is the fat loss, the weight loss diabetic drug, isnt it . Which leads to weight loss . Which leads to weight loss . Yeah. Thats right. So theres been a lot of, stuff in theres been a lot of, stuff in the press about this saying was that a rude comment . Since that comment has actually been deleted . But Barbra Streisand said, no, it was just, you know, a nice thing to say. I was complimenting her, but have just said, you look lovely. Exactly you look amazing. Well, but it sounded a bit like fat shaming. And i think like fat shaming. And i think thats what you dont expect from Barbra Streisand, because you dont need to do that. If youre Barbra Streisand, you know , absolutely royalty, arent know, absolutely royalty, arent you . Yeah, exactly. I mean , shes yeah, exactly. I mean, shes 82 years old. I am wondering if shes sat there on instagram making comments. But, you know, well let that one go, but yeah, i agree with you, isabel. I think that if youre going to write on someones instagram, then , yeah, wed like pick each then, yeah, wed like pick each other up. Yeah. You look amazing. Look incredible. However, there is Barbra Streisand, and i do love her songs. Do you eamonn . Are you big . I do, but except im going to tell you this. I went to see her in concert in london. Right. Okay. Maybe it was 20 years ago and she had these massive, like. Im talking massive autocues to your right, to her left and straight down the middle , where straight down the middle, where she sang every song from the odakyu. Oh, really . Oh but her own songs. Yeah. Yeah. You would have thought she might have known the words by now, but. But it was just interesting. It was just an observation. You know . Just. Yeah, i mean, i love somewhere thats my favourite Barbra Streisand song. And women in love. Shes got a range, her vocal range is absolutely incredible. I mean, what she has done over the years as well, acting, directing, producing and all the singing, shes got a lot of skills, hasnt she . But you know what . She is Barbra Streisand. She is a legend. Shes a bit like you, eamonn. She can say what she wants because shes of that status. So were going to let it go for now. But its still going on in the press now. You know, youre still like, oh no, i didnt mean it, i didnt mean it. But the thing is, if you write it on instagram, its there for everybody to see. Yeah. You know, its out there. And also sometimes things are writing can come across a little bit different, i guess. Or maybe shes just being completely honest because she has got a background of being quite direct. So so maybe thats what it is. Yeah, can i talk a sort of showbiz royalty . Taylor swift has been making the news today. I dont know if youve seen any of this in the papers this morning. Apparently bbc news consumers are getting fed up of getting push notifications when she releases a new album. And theyre saying that she is she paying them sort of marketing fees because thats not news. How is it that taylor swift has managed to make her way into sort of mainstream news in other countries . It is incredible. It is incredible. Her success. I it is incredible. Her success. I actually went to see her concert at the cinema. I dragged mark along to see it, and we didnt realise it was like three hours long. Of course, like falling asleep a little bit halfway through. But shes performing in hong kong or something. Yeah. And youre watching in hounslow. Yeah. Hounslow. Yeah. Yes. Yes. I mean, if youve really got the time to go and see it. But youre right, shes become this absolute megastar. I mean its crazy. The prices of tickets and to even get hold of a ticket, youve got to be scouts that have been. Yeah scammers that have been defrauding them havent they. Millions and millions of swifties have lost loads of money trying to get on the heiress tour here in london, or these false false ticket sales. So thats a real shame, isnt it . Yeah, but yeah, taylor swift taking over the world i think almost, you know. Do you like almost, you know. Do you like her . Isabel i love taylor swift, but i think there can be too much of a good thing. Thats it. Sometimes its completely overdone, isnt it . I mean, i like some of her songs and, you know, i, you know, if i got a ticket to the concert, id go. But i wouldnt be, like, going all out there and paying thousands of pounds. Id rather go to the maldives. Interesting point. What else have you got . Who else have you got . Well, i want to talk about tom cruise because hes shooting the new Mission Impossible film in Trafalgar Square in london, isnt it . Yes. Yes. Yeah, but apparently hes got, hes hired, hawks to keep the pigeons away, because in Trafalgar Square, theres so many pigeons there. But tom cruise is amazing, isnt he . Because he gets fully involved. Ive noticed before with his films. Hes. Hes right. He is a great talent. And just forget what this movies called. Mission impossible. The first, part of it, part one i went to see last year one of the very, very few movies i saw two movies, i think last year, one was playing with Gerard Butler and the other one was Mission Impossible. Tom cruise and the rest of the years been rubbish and it continues. A guy phoned me last night and said , do you want to night and said, do you want to go to the cinema . I said, whats on . Nothing. Its all rubbish. But Mission Impossible is not rubbish. Its really, really good. Yeah, yeah, we like a bit of that. I actually went to the cinema last night and i went to see the Amy Winehouse film. Do you think i actually really enjoyed it . Because i didnt know much about her before. So why do you want to go and be depressed for . I look at that and i think, no, that would just depressed me. I dont want actually, i found it quite endearing. Her life. Did you . Yeah, i did, and with her dad. And she was a daddys girl. She really was. And i did actually have a little cw and i did actually have a little cry because. Oh, no, i just yeah, i just, cry because. Oh, no, i just yeah, ijust, i cry because. Oh, no, i just yeah, i just, i felt it was quite emotional to watch her story, to see such talent wasted. And actually, i think theres a lot of people responsible for that, you know, exploitation. I saw her with my own eyes on stage between one year and the next, being entirely different. Yeah. Yeah. They should. No one who was representing her is entirely different. She was brilliant. Fantastic top of her game, incredible vocals, musician, lyricist, everything. One year, 12 months later, she was stumbling. She was forgetting her lyrics. Yeah, its painful to watch. Yeah and she should never have been allowed on that stage. She should have been taken straight. I think youre right. Someone should have stepped in. I mean, obviously her love life is different because you cant tell someone what to do. But with her work wise, i think she needed someone to say. Actually thats not okay. You need to be on time. You need to be here. She needed someone, but no one really stood up to her making money out of her as well. Yeah so, i know what you mean, eamonn. We like to be entertained and happy, but you could take the maltesers in with you and be happy. Very true, but Mission Impossible. Ill wait till that one comes out. Hayley, always a pleasure talking to you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you for your insight and your your comments. There the time is 9 23. Its time for us to say goodbye to you. Yes. Thanks for your company today. Its been a pleasure. And up next it is andrew and bev with britains newsroom. Have a fabulous may day. 1st of may. Enjoy a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello and welcome to the latest forecast from the met office for gb news is a lot of cloud today with some showers, but therell be more heavy rain arriving into the south overnight , but even some overnight, but even some thunderstorms initially the best of any sunshine will be across western parts and therell be some decent sunny spells around dunng some decent sunny spells around during the morning. Northwest scotland, Northern Ireland and parts of wales keep those sunny spells well into the afternoon. Spells well into the afternoon. Otherwise increasing amounts of cloud arrive from the east with some showery rain, especially for eastern scotland. Parts of for eastern scotland. Parts of central and eastern england, but away from the showery rain. Actually its going to be relatively warm, particularly where we get some sunshine through central parts Northern Ireland, western scotland, temperatures up into the high teens, perhaps even 2021 celsius. Nevertheless looking towards the south into the evening, weve got this area of heavy rain moving up, perhaps even some thunderstorms across some southern counties of england into south wales during the early hours of tomorrow and those thunderstorms could be accompanied by frequent lightning. Some very heavy lightning. Some very heavy rainfall could be a noisy night in places, but theyll be hit and miss and they will be clearing away. Across south wales and the south west of england during the morning tomorrow, leaving a legacy of low cloud and outbreaks of drizzly rain. Elsewhere, drizzly rain. Elsewhere, brighter skies develop after a mostly dry night, plenty of sunshine for scotland, Northern Ireland into much of central and eastern england, but some parts of northeast england and eastern scotland will be affected by low cloud. Thatll make things feel much cooler. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. In 24 hours on from that horrific stabbing in in hainault , which took the life of a 14 year old boy on his way to school, isnt it time all Police Officers were armed with tasers . Thats right. And monty panesan thats right. And Monty Panesar, you might know him as a cricketer. Well, hes standing in the next election for 930 on wednesday, the 1st of may. This is britains newsroom on gb news with andrew pierce. Im bev turner. So is it time to arm all Police Officers with tasers . The man tase fired and arrested after multiple stabbings in northeast london yesterday. Remains in custody. But hes yet to be interviewed , given his injuries. And is this a rwanda success or is it a bit of government spin . A failed Asylum Seeker has been relocated to rwanda after taking part in a voluntary removal scheme. Well have the latest. Latest. And the former england cricketer Monty Panesar is turning his hand to politics. Find out which party hell be standing for when he joins us later this morning. Later this morning. And the Scottish Parliament will hold a no confidence vote on the government today if it passes. All scottish ministers are required to stand down. Sounds like chaos. So its interesting, isnt it . When exports people. Yeah. It . When exports people. Yeah. Turn to politics doesnt always. Its not always a great success. Think of zebco one term mp. Think of colin moynihan, who was an olympic rower, he won a silver. He was rose to the dizzy heights of sports. Minister. The thing is, they should bnng the thing is, they should bring qualities that would be great for politics. Right determination, focus, commitment , discipline, discipline. But its very different to the sporting. Sporting. You can also think that asks people to remember glenda jackson. Oh, yes. Double oscar winner. She was she was transport minister. So im looking forward to seeing Monty Panesar. Its going to be here in the studio with us to be here in the studio with us to tell us why hes going into politics. Well be talking about the party hes going to be standing for as well. Gbnews. Com forward slash. Your say is the place to let us know your thoughts. First though. The very latest news with sophia wenzler. Bev thank you. Bev thank you. Good morning. Its 931. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your headlines the met police chief, sir mark rowley, has said a female Police Officer came close to losing her hand after a 14 year old boy was killed and four others injured in a sword attack in north east london. Video has emerged