Well be discussing the tory party. Is it the end . As we know it . And if you are a fan of married at first sight, you will not want to miss star florist rosalind darlington, also known as ros. But before we get started, lets get your latest. News. Very good afternoon to you. Its just gone 3 00. And the top story this afternoon. Afternoon. Labour sources say they are confident that sadiq khan has won the mayoral contest in london. Thats despite the battle with conservative challenger susan hall being said to be closer than previously expected. Well, the count is well underway and so far mayor khan has won the five of six london boroughs due to declare susan hall has won just one of those officials have asked candidates to arrive at city hall for 430 this afternoon. So we can expect to have a declaration soon after that. We will bring that to you here on gb news. In total, seven contests are being announced today, with labour already retaining Liverpool City Region and south yorkshire. A narrow and south yorkshire. A narrow contest is also expected for conservative mayor andy street in the West Midlands, and well also hear from eight of ten other contests for police and crime commissioner sir keir starmer says the conservatives dont deserve to be in power for a moment longer following the local elections. Thats after local elections. Thats after rishi sunak lost hundreds of councillors in the elections over this week. 106 of 107 councils, we understand, have now declared so far, with labour making major gains. Now declared so far, with labour making major gains. Well, making major gains. Well, celebrating a victory in the east midlands, the labour leader said the conservatives time is up. I think the message here is very, very clear and i think across the east midlands theres been a sending of that message to the government, which is were fed up with your division, with your chaos , with your with your chaos, with your failure 14 years and im sorry , failure 14 years and im sorry, i dont care which Political Party you support. If you leave your country in a worse state than when you found it 14 years later, you do not deserve to be in government for a moment longer. Longer. Andrew griffith is minister for science, innovation and technology, and he told us earlier that the public doesnt want labours policies. Want labours policies. Look, its a difficult set of results. I think that was what was expected going in. Theres going to be a very, very simple choice at the next election. Who walks through number 10 downing street . Is it rishi sunak with his plan thats starting to work now . Or is it starting to work now . Or is it keir with with no plan or where they do have plans that dont really go with the grain of what the british people want . Boris johnson has thanked polling staff who refused to let him vote without id. The former him vote without id. The former Prime Minister was turned away from a polling station on thursday after he forgot valid identification, writing in the daily mail, mrjohnson said three villagers were right to stick to the rules. The requirement to provide photo id was introduced when Boris Johnson himself occupied number 10. In other news, a burst water main has left around 31,000 properties without water in east sussex , causing a drastic impact sussex, causing a drastic impact on businesses. Southern water says the disruption in parts of hastings will continue into sunday. The issue was first reported on thursday , forcing reported on thursday, forcing the company to open water bottle stations, schools , a leisure stations, schools, a Leisure Centre and a theatre in the area have all been forced to close. Dozens of migrants in two small boats have crossed the channel today from france, drone footage showed a French Navy Vessel following them until they reached english waters. Their largely male passengers on board those boats were taken by British Border force vessels off to the coast of dover. More than 8000 people have so far arrived this year. Thats a new record for that period. Three people for that period. Three people have been charged after protesters blocked a coach that was taking Asylum Seekers from london to the bibby stockholm barge in dorset, the metropolitan Police Arrested 45 people after officers were called on thursday morning to peckham, south east of the caphal peckham, south east of the capital. The demonstrators could be heard chanting no borders , no be heard chanting no borders, no naļ¬ons be heard chanting no borders, no nations stop deportations. Three have now been charged with obstruction of the highway , and obstruction of the highway, and motorists are being warned to expect heavy traffic this bank houday expect heavy traffic this bank holiday weekend, according to the rac , around 3 million the rac, around 3 million vehicles will take to the roads today alone. An increase in day today alone. An increase in day trips and short breaks could mean local routes are congested. Also, train strikes between tuesday and the following saturday could lead to most roads being busier. And finally, some royal news. The king is set to become the patron of the Royal British legion. That was a role the late queen held for more than 70 years. It follows a major review of more than a thousand royal patronages following the death of Queen Elizabeth the second. The decision comes as the Armed Forces Charity prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the second world war. D day landings. On june the 6th. Those are the headlines. More to come with nana throughout the next houn with nana throughout the next hour. Until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan up to gb news alerts. Just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Thank you. Sam, if youve just joined us, its just coming up to seven minutes after 3 00. Im nana akua some breaking news from manchester. Labours andy burnham has been re elected as a Greater Manchester mayor, so if that was, i think that was a result that everyone expected. So its probably no surprise. But we will keep you up to date with all of the proceedings coming up, especially with the Mayoral Elections. But now its time to mock the week and what a busy one its been now. I won the bet because last week i said that humza would be out on monday and well, i was right. Spending the weekend reflecting on what is best for my for party the government and for the country i lead. Ive concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else. At the helm. At the helm. I have therefore informed the snps National Secretary of my intention to stand down as party leader. Leader. So that was. And then do you remember back in 2020 when he had a dig at multiculturalism , had a dig at multiculturalism, my portfolio alone , the lord my portfolio alone, the lord president white, the lord justice clerk , white, every high justice clerk, white, every High Court Judge white, the lord advocate white, the solicitor general, white, the chief constable white, every deputy chief constable white, every assistant chief constable white, the head of the law society. White in a 95 white country. White in a 95 white country. Hamza, you did a great job. Thank you. And the king returned thank you. And the king returned to duty. It seems the doctors are incredibly happy with his progress and whilst he has been diagnosed with cancer last week he did announce two engagements, one of which was visiting a Cancer Diagnostic Centre which he visited then a good on charles is completely selfless in his service, unlike prince harry, who returns to the uk next week to celebrate ten years of invictus. Although if rumours of invictus. Although if rumours are to be believed, invictus want to get rid of him and then a beautiful and very, very sad news. A beautiful young boy called daniel was killed in a sword attack. A senseless waste of a promising life. And of course this keeps happening. Course this keeps happening. Others were injured as well. Well be talking about knife crime in our round table discussion. How can we stop the scourge . And then rwanda became a reality this week as one migrant, one migrant agreed to be sent there voluntarily , and be sent there voluntarily, and others were rounded up in an immigration raid and in the meantime , the republic of meantime, the republic of ireland, who declared the uk an unsafe country because of rwanda, found themselves in a bind as migrants from Northern Ireland crossed the border to avoid a possible rwanda draft and as the republic have declared the uk unsafe , theyre declared the uk unsafe, theyre now unable to give the migrants back. You couldnt make it up. And then in big news this week, weve had a by election in blackpool in scott bentons old seat. 107 council elections, 11 mayoral contestants and loads of different local elections, 37 police and crime commissioner elections across england and wales. Boris turned up to vote. He showed up without any id , he showed up without any id, police, this is quite hilarious, really, because he was actually his policy, about id so thats interesting. He didnt show up interesting. He didnt show up with it. And the tories have seen a drubbing at local level, but managed to keep hold of a few mayors. Labour has seen huge gains all around, and itll be interesting to see what evolves. The big one. Of course, this afternoon it is evolving as we speak. Sadiq khan, can he keep hold of london . He may well just have. Its been a mucky old week. So coming up, bruce devlin will be making light of the weeks top stories in mock the week. Then, at 320, ive got this weeks hot topic in our roundtable discussion, the rise of knife crime in the uk. Ill have three brilliant guests joining me in the studio to discuss , one of those being ken discuss, one of those being ken haines. You wont want to miss that. Then at 335 gb news correspondent olivia utley will be live from london city hall, giving us the latest on the london Mayoral Election results. Then joining me to shine a light in the political hot seat today is lee anderson mp. Hell be here at 345 giving me the latest on his thoughts on all things elections. Thats coming up in the next hour as ever. Tell me what you think and everything were discussing go to gbnews. Com yoursay. Right. So gbnews. Com yoursay. Right. So joining me now is comedian bruce devlin. Bruce, welcome. Thank you. How are you . Thank you. How are you . Im good. Thank you. Well, humza yousaf. Yes. Now he has obviously hes left. Hes given. Given up the ghost. Given his notice. Given his notice. He has given. What are your thoughts . Because youre scottish. Scottish. Thats true. Thats one of the many things that i am a scottish , i think i think even scottish, i think i think even did you watch the resignation speech . Because i did, yeah. So i watched that and i think he kind of is of the opinion that he dealt with the greens inappropriately, or that was a bad decision. And a lot of people are saying that it was also as well, though there was a big feeling in scotland that they were angry that the greens were unelected because the snp, when there was the you know, we had lays, we had boris, we had whoever and they were like general election and it was like i was watching question time there on thursday and they were saying , yeah, put it back to the saying, yeah, put it back to the people. So i think some people will be sad hes gone. Some will be sad hes gone. Some people will be delighted hes gone. And i dont know how patrick and lorna are feeling now because theyve had a week off, havent they . Because she was very angry. Off, havent they . Because she was very angry. I off, havent they . Because she was very angry. I dont think was very angry. I dont think she had to cuddle her own hair. I think that was all just stress and anger. She could have saved energy with all that, that nervous rage. And you put like a solar panel. She could have powdered on electricity. That would have been interesting, wouldnt it . The sun, the sun powering her. She goes along now. Its very nice to see the king back in action. Yes, yes, he went to he went to his first engagement as a councillor. Charity. Yeah. Yeah. Which i think i think the whether youre a monarchist or not, i think the good thing about it is hes shining a light, particularly on male cancen light, particularly on male cancer. Im not saying that one isnt more important than the other, but a lot of men leave it to the last minute for diagnosis and self checks and whatever. And, you know, not going to the doctor, and im completely different. Ill go to the doctor any time sort of thing. Its not that im a hypochondriac. I was going to say, yeah , you i was going to say, yeah, you know, thats what i was thinking. But no, i think and good on him and camilla and Queen Camilla, shes really picked up. I think its interesting. I was watching something the other day and they said , goodness, could and they said, goodness, could you have imagined 20 years ago we would have been having a conversation that we have Queen Camilla and how well liked she seems to be now. She seems to. The other woman title seems to be way, way in the past. So no, i think good on both of them. And obviously shes going around being the face. Shell be worried about her man and all that kind of stuff. But he does seem to be on the road to recovery. So thats another good thing. Yes. Nice to see, isnt it . Yeah. Now this whole thing with rwanda, because they declared us the republic of ireland, declared the United Kingdom as unsafe because we accepted we have the rwanda bill. And before that, they said that rwanda is not a safe country. So therefore youre unsafe. So were not youre unsafe. So were not going to be part of you. And now, obviously, the migrants have seen rwanda start to happen, and some of them have decided that they want to be in the catchment area. No. So theyre going to ireland now. And its the case that ireland cant put them anywhere. Well, they cant bring them them to us because theyve declared us as an unsafe country. Yes, because of rwanda. But one person did opt to go to rwanda. Yes, they did volunteer. Rwanda. Yes, they did volunteer. Right, okay. Right, okay. And that is a scheme thats been open to a lot of, you know, its open and you get three grand. Its a resettlement scheme and lots of people do take up those sort of offers. Take up those sort of offers. But i take it that that guy didnt go on a plane on his own or the woman, whoever it was, i dont know their gender, but because the planes are costing, i dont know the figure, but apparently the planes that havent taken out. So is this just one person . One person is gone. Theyve accepted a voluntary sort of scheme, which theyve been given a ticket. But of course, the rwanda scheme is now i mean, i dont know whether you saw it. The police all sort of rounding up a around a property and then getting a load of migrants from that property and bundling them into the police van very politely. Obviously, it wasnt aggressive or anything, but they are going to be potentially sent to rwanda, some of those people. So the police might think it was done aggressively or no, i dont think it was no, no, no, ho. [10. No. But im just saying its that is that the right thing to do . Well, i think its all right to say you guys are potentially for rwanda. They failed Asylum Seekers. All right. Okay. Well you know right. Okay would you want to go to rwanda . I have you been its a beautiful place. Ive not been. No, but i know of it. I mean, its got lower crime and literally every level in this country. So if theyre saying that rwanda is unsafe, then i dont know where theyd put us. Well, thats the thing. Because again, going back to question time for the there was an american economist that said, you know, you can baulk at the problems we have with guns in america. You have the same with knife crime in the uk. They dont have that in rwanda. See, that sort of issue is not there in rwanda. And they get gb news in rwanda. Well, they can do if they go online to gbnews. Com. Okay. Of course they can. You can get that. You get oh download the app. I think you can watch us globally. And of can watch us globally. And of course now weve got the Mayoral Election. So weve got all the elections going on. But the big ones are obviously around the country. I think there are 11 country. I think there are 11 Mayoral Elections and we have a lot of them have suddenly, you know, we know a lot of the results. We i think its sadiq khanis results. We i think its sadiq khan is a dead cert in london pretty much. Yeah. But well, its funny because obviously i dont stay here all the time and some people absolutely love him and some people absolutely loathe him , i think its all the ugly him, i think its all the ugly stuff that seems to upset people. Do you think hell get in . Oh, in . Oh, no, in . Oh, no, i think i think its a dead cert now that with the numbers the way they are, sadly, i dont think that theres any chance that hell be unseated. So a third term of sadiq khan. And youre happy about this or this thing . Listen, its not down to me. Im not a londoner. I dont live in london, so its not directly affecting me. But the ulez was affecting me. But the ulez was very unpopular and obviously london has a massive knife crime problem and the police in london, as well as an issue with the metropolitan police as well, he sort of at the top of a lot of these things. Yes , but they are. But yes, but they are. But theyve got ulez in glasgow now , theyve got ulez in glasgow now, although i live in edinburgh, but in glasgow, but apparently i think when it was due to begin, the councils own vans didnt meet the emissions grade. So theyve had to. Yeah, theyve had to get some new, transport, some new wheels. Some new wheels. Yes well, listen, bruce devlin, when are you back on . Are you on headliners . What are you on . Funnily enough, im on headliners tonight and im on no mood elevator. Mood elevator. Im not on anything else. Im high on life. Lovely. All right, well, lovely. All right, well, listen, thank you so much. Thank you. Nana tune in to headliners tonight at 11 00. Thank you so much. Right some breaking news. Labours tracy brabin has been re elected as mayor of West Yorkshire with 275,430 votes. Stay with me. Youre with me. Im nana akua. This is gb news. Its just coming up to 17 minutes after 3 00. Went live on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Coming up, a jubilee news correspondent olivia utley will be joining us from city hall to give us an update on the london Mayoral Elections with next. Its time for this weeks hot topic in our roundtable discussion. And joining me are three brilliant guests. We will be talking about the rise in knife crime in the uk. This is gb news. Good afternoon. Its just coming up to 21 minutes after 3 00. This is a gb news. We are the peoples channel. Were live on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua. And its time for this weeks hot topic and my roundtable discussion. And were talking knife crime. Its on the rise in britain and data released by the office for National Statistics last week showed that knife crime has increased by 81 in the past decade. Now the rise in knife crime has been linked to Police Budget cuts, therefore causing a fall in officer numbers and a decrease in youth services. But how do we stop all of these unnecessary deaths . Theres literally one every day, if not more. So joining me now is anti knife crime campaigner ken haynes, former metropolitan Police Detective chief inspector peter kirkham, and also managing director, Public Safety foundation oliver lawrence. All foundation oliver lawrence. All right, ken, im going to start with you because we have seen over the last few days, theres already been lots of different knife crime incidents. What do knife crime incidents. What do you think is causing this . Because i mean, people are getting hold of these weapons as though theyre just as though theyre sweets. Yeah, but i think personally, i think its attributed to a lot of low self esteem. Of low self esteem. I find that if youve got low confidence and you dont really and you really have got no self belief or very little self belief, you will look for that elsewhere and youll look for that through what theyre called families. But youve got to be careful. They have to be careful who you refer to as family. And all too often youll find that the Single Parents are not always Single Parents, but in that household , what is in that household, what is absolutely missing is having that generally father figure, the fatherly figure that can have influence on the male, the male child, all too often what you find, if its if its a single parent, you find that if its a male child, he, he feels he has to step up and be the man in the house, but hes got no reference. What that man in the house has to do to, to encompass , safeguarding the family. And all too often you have risky behaviour. Risky behaviour is when other people see the vulnerability in these youngsters, they can then groom them into doing their bidding and i am a person who are working with these young people through their consequences to try to change their mindset, to bnng try to change their mindset, to bring them back into place. So so they dont make the mistakes that i made in my early teens. And so its so important. So apportioning blame and just look and see what we can do to bring about real change. But this is like if you just assume that it was just young men doing this, but but now it just feels, peter, that this is extending to all sorts of people carrying weapons that just seem to be. It seems so random now , to be. It seems so random now, whereas before there was a real problem focused on the black community, you can see it is everywhere. It depends how you define knife crime. Knife crime. Theres always been knife crime in a variety of different forms. Forms. There have been knives used in Serious Acquisitive Crime , in Serious Acquisitive Crime, like robbery, that theres a big overlap with young people on the streets, theres been knives used in domestic incidents with people of all ages, from 0 to 90, sort of thing, and so theres a range of different areas, and i dont think its particularly useful to deal with it all as one block, because the answers are different, and the things that can be done are different in each of those categories , but the big problem , categories, but the big problem, the problem that has exploded over the last few years is definitely involving young black males, especially in inner city areas. Its nothing to do with their ethnicity. Its a lot to their ethnicity. Its a lot to do with their circumstances. I do with their circumstances. I suspect kens mentioned a couple of things there, theres education attainment, exclusion from school use of drugs and alcohol. Theres any number of Different Things that will impact and the answers are certainly not with the police. The answers are with the community, with the youth services, with the community groups, with the parents, with the schools and teachers. The schools and teachers. But, but but if i look at this, oliver, so i was watching on the news, mikey rhiannon there was one another one and hes not black. He wasnt, you know, killed by somebody whos black, theres been so many. And yet whilst i do accept that, yes, it was a real problem within the black community, it just feels as though its. It feels like its just something that people. Theres another one here. Another one, another childs being killed. Another one, another one. Just. Its a systemic issue right across the uk, theres no doubt about that. And we often talk about that. And we often talk about powers and how can we prevent this. I think theres more than enough powers. Theres more than enough capabilities for the police to deal with this issue. But it isnt a sole issue of the police. It has to be a joint function between both the community and Law Enforcement. And theres two sides to this, really. Weve got to give the confidence back to policing to be able to carry out their duļ¬es be able to carry out their duties like execute, stop and search. Well targeted, directed, intelligence led. But then weve also got to understand about the root causes of knife crime, why youngsters carrying knives. You know, ive interviewed young men who have been stabbed on the streets of london. And theres an element of fear there. Theres an element of concern. When they go out, theyre going to be portrayed as somebody from a particular postcode that theyre not from. So weve really got to get into the root cause of that. But understand that the one biggest deterrent we have out there is our Law Enforcement colleagues that are on the front line that stop and search is the significant deterrent in hopefully providing youngsters who make that erroneous decision to carry a knife that if they get stopped and searched, that knife is found, that theyll be arrested and theyll go through that court process. But equally, thats not the cure. You know, weve got to be able to get into our communities, build that trust and confidence back up again so we can share information with fantastic people like ken and understand how we can eliminate the fear that seems to exist not just in london amongst black communities, but right across the uk. What about the punishment though, when youre caught, when someone is caught having committed a crime with knife, is are the punishments harsh enough because it doesnt feel like the young people are deterred by them . But personally i dont see police being a deterrent because its simple fact is, back in my days id be if i had to go and walk with a knife , itd be a walk with a knife, itd be a flick knife or a lock knife. Something that i can hide and, you know, disguise. But now people walk with rainbows and swords and things of that nature quite blatantly. And but yet when i look at the stop and search figures, less than 1 of the stop and search is leading to an arrest. The stop and search is leading to an arrest. So i feel at the stop and search is leading to an arrest. So i feel at the to an arrest. So i feel at the end of the day, if were going to talk, lets have a transparency. If stop and search transparency. If stop and search is the is the solution , lets is the is the solution, lets have the figures out there. Lets say or part of it. Lets see what it does affect the effectiveness. But lets get back to the actual to the actual thing, the point that you raise its a simple fact is, is that young people also got the influence of social media, social media has played a big part into how young people think theyve got to step their game up. And theyve got to step their game up. And when we see pictures like this, what you have on there with a sort of knives that people say that theyve taken off of young people from the street, young people looking at say, wow , what . Look what im say, wow, what . Look what im walking with. Ive got to step my game up so its not really getting to the to the issues that need to be done. If we want that need to be done. If we want to change the energy in that space, youve got to have People Like Us street, street fathers, we actually go into those areas, angell town, we go to these particular spots where there is trouble, where theres problems. But when they see us, they know that they feel safe. They say, when we see you, big man, we know that were good. I dont have to look over my shoulders. I dont have to watch and see what car is stopped and whos in the car, because we know that you guys are going to step in and de escalate whatever it is and de escalate whatever it is and keeping us safe. But where are the parents in all of this . Because you know, im not blaming them. But, you know, ken mentioned a lot of single mothers and things. Where are the parents . Well most often are the parents . Well most often are are absent because theyre theyre under incredible pressure to be working. One, two, three, four, five jobs every hour god sends to try and keep the family together and roof over their head and food on the table , theyre feeling a bit the table, theyre feeling a bit out of depth in terms of this being something theyre not familiar with themselves from their own childhoods, and they theres a very , very significant theres a very, very significant number of young people who havent got parents in the traditional sense. Theyre were their parents. Theyre were their parents. Theyre were their parents. The state is their parents. The state is their parents. Theyre in care of one sort or another. And thats a major issue. And and thats a major issue. And so we cant blame the parents. We need to get messages to the parents and they need to share with their kids at a young age. With their kids at a young age. And im talking sort of 11 upwards minimum, maybe even earlier, that carrying a knife is not going to make you safer. In fact, the statistics bear out. Youre more likely to end up. Youre more likely to end up getting stabbed if youre carrying a knife than if you dont. And i take kens point about scaring young people with the knives being shown from seizures. You know, i have spoken with colleagues whove worked previously in Violence Reduction units across the country, and i take kens point. I think it is an important one in terms of we want the public to understand what the police are discovering when theyre entering these stops and searches, because it justifies that capability. And i think sometimes the optics and the imagery shows people what is out there. But equally, i think theres also a fear element when you see that in an image on social media, you think to yourself, as ken quite rightly pointed out, ive got to carry something far bigger than what ive just seen. So i think theres an element here. Weve got to be cautious of what we do, show out to the community. But equally we want to support our police. We want to be able to demonstrate to the community that its effective. Its finding really significant weapons out on the street. But there is a very fine line between education and then increasing the fear which exists increasing the fear which exists in our communities like so much else. Its a fine balance for the police. So if you can change their defending, weve got about a minute. Theyve got weve got about 30s. If you could change one thing, what would you do . What would that one thing be . More officers so that theres proper community policing. Yeah. Better Community Police engagement , better Community Police engagement, more grassroot funded supported Resource Groups like like ourselves to be in those spaces, to be that interlock between the police and the young people who they have confidence. They have confidence with people like yourself, because some of us have got history no different to their history. But but what we can do, we cant. We can. We can actually have a an effect on their future , but we effect on their future, but we cant stop them. And thats got to be with the police officers. The police cant do it on their own. Well, listen, peter, ken and oliver, thank you very much for joining me. Thank you so much. So what are your thoughts . Get in touch gbnews. Com forward slash your say this is gb news went live on tv online and on Digital Radio coming up nana nigel whats wrong with rwanda . Lee anderson is also on the way. Lee anderson is also on the way. But first lets get your latest news with sam francis. News with sam francis. Nana, thank you very much and good afternoon to you from the gb newsroom. Gb newsroom. Its just after a 3 30. Sir keir starmer says the conservatives dont deserve to be in power for a moment longer following the local elections this week. It comes as labour has just claimed two more victories in the Mayoral Elections in england, and yet another blow for the tories. Tracy brabins won the contest in West Yorkshire, while andy burnham has been re elected in the last few minutes as the mayor of Greater Manchester. He picked up 63 of that vote and says hell always give his all to that job. Results are also expected in london a little bit later this afternoon. In other later this afternoon. In other news, more than 30,000 people in east sussex are still without water due to a burst main. Southern water says the disruption in Saint Leonards on sea and in parts of hastings will continue into tomorrow. Bottled drinks are being provided to some of those affected, while schools, a Leisure Centre and a theatre in the area have all been forced to close. Three people have been close. Three people have been charged after protests. Towers charged after protests. Towers blocked a coach taking Asylum Seekers to the bibby stockholm barge. The metropolitan Police Arrested 45 people after officers were called on thursday morning to peckham, in south east london. The demonstrators could be heard chanting no borders, no nations stop deportations. Three have now been charged with obstruction of the highway. Obstruction of the highway. Thats the latest from the newsroom. More at 4 00. Until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com slash alerts. Slash alerts. Thank you. Sam. Coming up, joining me to shine a light in the political hot seat. Lee anderson mp but next gb news correspondent olivia utley will be joining us from city hall to give us an update on the london Mayoral Elections. Do not go welcome back. Its just fast approaching. 37 minutes after approaching. 37 minutes after 3 00. If youve just tuned in. Welcome. Im nana akua. This is gb news. We are the peoples channel now. Sadiq khan appears to be pulling ahead in the initial results in the london mayoral race, and it was thought that the result could be closer than expected. But hopes are now fading that suzanne hall could pull off a shock victory. So joining me now is Political Correspondent olivia utley. Olivia, thank you for joining me. So youre there at city hall. Whats been happening . Whats the energy like and what are people suspecting now 98. Well, it does very much look as though sadiq khan has won the london mayoral race. Hes now 160,000 votes ahead with eight. Almost nine constituencies declared in a couple of areas. Susan hall has won, but the swing to the conservatives in those areas is tiny. If not, not existent. Even in harrow, one of those constituencies which has been really, really badly affected by ulez , although susan affected by ulez, although susan hall managed to win, she didnt actually get a swing towards the conservatives. She got a 0 swing. Exactly the same, in other words, as shaun bailey achieved in 2021, it looks as though sadiq khan is going to win by about ten points. That is a little bit tighter than some of the polls were predicting. I think it is worth saying that obviously in the country, labour is up in the polls by about 26 points. So how good is it really for sadiq khan . Yes, labour will be congratulating themselves on a victory, but the fact that that sadiq khan is actually trailing compared to labour in the rest of the country , i think the rest of the country, i think will leave some labour activists asking themselves whether sadiq khan was the right candidate for this election. The same can be said, of course, of the conservative leaves, as the result was a little bit closer than expected. There will be than expected. There will be conservatives saying hang on a minute, why did we go with susan hall . She wasnt really the strongest candidate, and her campaign was pretty gaffe prone. If theyd gone for someone else, perhaps one of the many cabinet ministers who are set to lose their seats at the next general election, could the conservatives have done a bit better and maybe even pull off a win . I think after this election, there are going to be questions for both parties. But certainly this afternoon sadiq khan and his team will be feeling pretty chipper, because it does feel that ulez. I mean, i think a lot of people would have expected that to have a much larger impact on the numbers. So im quite surprised that it hasnt. What are you heanng that it hasnt. What are you hearing from people . Was the reason is there any reason why people are all stayed with sadiq khan . Has anyone talking about why that that is the case . Well, i think one of the reasons which sadiq khans team were were factoring in was that by the time ulez has actually been implemented, which it was a few months ago, people in london would realise that it doesnt impact quite as many people as was assumed. I remember before the ulez charge came in, about nearly half of londoners thought that it was going to affect them, and actually only 1 that it was going to affect them, and actually only1 in that it was going to affect them, and actually only 1 in 10 people were affected. So it looks as though whats happened is the 1 in 10 people who have been affected by ulez have upgraded their their cars now, and that was sort of six months ago. And so the effect is beginning to kind of drain away. Were not really seeing the sort of anger about ulez as we saw a year ago before it came in, the few people who have been affected have got used to it. And all of the people who thought they were going to be affected have realised that actually, its not so bad. It actually, its not so bad. It doesnt affect them at all, and i think, didnt he retract the pay per i think, didnt he retract the pay per mile idea because people were concerned that actually once everybodys got a car that is ulez compliant, hes not going to get any more money, isnt it . That that seems to have dissipated after he sort of announced that he wasnt going to do that . To do that . Well, absolutely. And i think that has worked in sadiq khans favour. What were also not factoring in here is the fact that the green vote, which has been pretty high in the local elections around the country, seems to have completely collapsed in london. Why is that . Well, it could be that green voters in london are voting for sadiq khan because they are in favour of ulez, and because this the system this time is different from previous Mayoral Elections. Sadiq khan Mayoral Elections. Sadiq khan will be getting their only vote previously , green voters would previously, green voters would have put the green candidate first and sadiq khan in second place. Now it looks like theyve simply been pushing sadiq khan as their one and only vote. So actually it could be that ulez has lost sadiq khan votes, but in other places its actually gained him some votes. Yes, because it may also be attributed to the change in the electoral system because its first past the post. Now was before or after 50. Then you know they had to get 50 and so on and so forth. But now do you think this is actually helped sadiq khan . Because a lot of people would have seen it as a negative thing. Negative thing. I think perhaps it has helped sadiq khan because there are more parties that swing vaguely towards the left than swing towards the left than swing towards the left than swing towards the right. The lib dems and the greens to name the most important two. Now in london it is always been a two horse race between labour and the conservative. And it looks like whats happened is lib dem voters and green voters, instead of voting for the candidate of their own party, has just have just thrown their weight behind sadiq khan as their one and only vote. So it could be that in a situation like this, in a two horse race in a system where most parties swing towards the left, the labour candidate has actually been helped by the first past the post introduction. Interesting. Olivia utley, interesting. Olivia utley, thank you so much. Really good to talk to you. Well, that was olivia utley shoes there in city hall. Well hopefully continue to bring you the full results of the Mayoral Elections there. And obviously across the country, but next. Lee anderson mp will be in the political hot seat to shine a light on the latest on the migration row and Mayoral Elections. Thats on the way welcome. If youre just tuned in. Where have you been . Sorry. In. Where have you been . Sorry. Its fine. This is gb news. Were live on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua. Its coming up to 46 minutes after 3 00. And its time for this weeks political spotlight. So joining me to shine a light is lee anderson mp. Now last week lee was in blackpool, a favourite holiday destination for many british families for over 100 years, but also an area thatis over 100 years, but also an area that is reportedly more recently also been the home to many Asylum Seekers. He videoed what Asylum Seekers. He videoed what he saw. Take a look. Have a listen. Listen. I actually a member of parliament for ashfield reform, member of parliament ashlee good in blackpool campaigning. I want to take you down this alley. To take you down this alley. Now, bear in mind this street here would have probably been 50 or 60 years ago, probably full of, you know, traditional british families who would probably be kids would be playing in this alley. There would be washing strung from house to house, would have been clean, you know, sort of poor housing. But people, very working class people, very respectful of the area that live in now, this area has been flooded with migrants living in, houses of multiple occupancy. Houses of multiple occupancy. Just look at the state of it as we walk down. Can you see theres nappies, theres food is well , all theres nappies, theres food is well, all sorts of filth. Theres nappies, theres food is well , all sorts of filth. Its, well, all sorts of filth. Its, absolutely disgraceful. And i absolutely disgraceful. And i think the, i mean, i feel sorry for the council. Theyve got a, for the council. Theyve got a, you know, an ongoing job. Its a dead pigeon down there. Thats thats delightful. Thats delightful. Wow, wow. Well, listen, im joined now by reform uk mp lee anderson. Lee, thank you so much for joining me. Anderson. Lee, thank you so much for joining me. And tell me what for joining me. And tell me what you saw. Tell me what you saw. You saw. Tell me what you saw. Well, it was, ill tell you what i did see. Nana is a big change from the last time at winter black boy. I used to go to blackpool for my weekends away to see the lights , the illuminations. Lights, the illuminations. Lovely place went as a child. Lots of happy memories. But, you know, on this last occasion, i went. We went door knocking, we went. We went door knocking, we went. We went door knocking, we went canvassing and the filth we could see behind these terraced houses was incredible. It was like going to a third world country. And shortly after that clip, what happened then . Well, obviously the following day i put it on twitter, put it on facebook, and it got other views from the, from labour supporters in blackpool. But hey supporters in blackpool. But hey presto, nana just a couple of days about 48 hours. The council had been out and cleaned it up. If im going to be honest, its not the councils job to do that really. I know they should keep the streets clean, but this is film thrown out from the houses of these hmos. These hmos. I mean, if that had been my council leader, id have been lobbing that rubbish back to their garden and telling them to clean it up and put it in the dustbin and save some taxpayers money. Absolutely disgusted. And ironically, this was, of course, in blackpool , which course, in blackpool, which reform did pretty well in blackpool. Blackpool. Yeah, it did really well actually. We got, you know, i was on gb news. Id be happy with 15 of the vote. We got nearly 17. It was, you know, it wasnt a high turnout , but it wasnt a high turnout, but it just shows you now that the, you know, the word is spreading. People are getting fed up with mainstream politics and were growing. Were a new party, relatively new. And more and more people are contacting us, you know, in general election with a much higher turnout , im with a much higher turnout, im sure would fare much better and get at least second place. Well it was a very good performance by reform and it shows that there is a potential for them now. And im glad to see that, that that area was cleaned up. You know its just its just the state of things. These days. And of course we were just going through the Mayoral Elections now. And wes streeting put up a tweet which i thought was totally unacceptable. A win for totally unacceptable. A win for susan hall and the conservatives is a win for racists, White Supremacists and islamophobes the world over. Susan halls campaign has been fought from the gutter with dangerous and diverse, divisive politics. London. We cannot let her win the vote, sadiq. I mean, lee, the vote, sadiq. I mean, lee, seriously, what you said, i think was less bad than this. You got into so much trouble for this. He seems to have just rolled away with this. Rolled away with this. Well, i mean, i mean, his nickname in parliament is weasel wes. Wes streeting. This is a man, by the way. Wes. Wes streeting. This is a man, by the way. Nana that just. I think it was a couple of years ago. He threatened to. Or he put ago. He threatened to. Or he put a tweet out to threaten to throw journalists under a train. Now hes talking this nonsense, calling people White Supremacists and racists. Its quite clear to me and anybody watching this now that this chap needs some anger management courses, he needs some therapy and he gets it, the better. It is dangerous. Well, obviously hes not here to defend himself, but, you know, putting out comments like that to me, if youre going to be leading potentially , as weve be leading potentially, as weve seen, that labour have done incredibly well in the elections and the local elections and even the Mayoral Elections, im concerned about that sort of language. And somebody whos, just talking in that way. What do you think about with regard to the tories now . Because they are theyre up that creek without a paddle, by the looks of things. Well, its just a shame. And you know, a lot of these councillors gnaana that lost the seats over the past couple of days, these are people ive met in person. These are people ive campaigned with. Ive been to many, probably over 100 associations over the past 2 or 3 years and spoke to these people and raised money for them, some good, hard working people and there is in all parties at local level, i think at local level you get involved in politics because you want your area to be a better place. But the problem with that is when the main party, the mps, mess it up. Normally the party in government, mess it up. Normally the party in government , theyre making in government, theyre making a big hash of things. Its the foot soldiers , the real people, foot soldiers, the real people, the volunteers, the councillors that you know that bear the brunt of all the mistakes. And unfortunately theyve lost their jobs. Meanwhile while the conservative party carry on, i said it three years ago, theyre like the band on the titanic. Like the band on the titanic. You see whats coming, but they know all about it. And theyre going down with the ship. Well, do. What are your well, do. What are your thoughts about the fact that you left the party . Are you pleased with that move . In your view . Was that the right thing to do . Was that the right thing to do . I didnt actually leave nana. I didnt actually leave nana. Well, you know what i mean. Well, you know what i mean. Well, you know what i mean. Yeah. You had to go, didnt you . I you . I was yeah, i was kicked out. I was yeah, i was kicked out. Ive been polite , yeah, i was ive been polite, yeah, i was thrown out of the party, hes. You know, hes not nice being sacked on the opposite benches. Team mates a lot of them in, in that corner, are still my friends. And bear in mind, im sat with, like, George Galloway and jeremy corbyn. Now i have to pinch myself sometimes and think ive woke up in a in a different world. But hey, it is what it is at least the reform party are appealing to the sort of voters that i want to get on board in ashfield. These are people that love their country. These are love their country. These are people thats tough on law and order. These are people that want to secure our borders, you know, and live that traditional british way of life and be respectful and be welcoming to people from other countries that get that come here through the legal route, illegal routes. Well , well, it looks like well, well, it looks like weve definitely got a labour mayor whats your thoughts on that, well , ive got to be that, well, ive got to be careful, what i say about the labour mayor. I dont want to give him too much of a hard time, but its absolutely useless. Its been a disaster for this country. Its been a disaster for london. And it needs belting out at the next Mayoral Election in four years time. Its an absolute disaster for our capital city. And youll see over the next four years what he does to that city. Rob the motorist. Blind knife crime will go up, Violent Crime will go up. And it is sneering away in his ivory tower. And i will keep calling him out. Well, you know, obviously he would say that he, you know, people must want him in london. They have voted for him repeatedly. Hes democratically elected, even though despite the record doesnt look that great. But he would say those things and he would be right in saying that the people have voted for him to continue. Yeah they voted for four more years of increase in knife crime, four more years of poverty, four more years of the motorist getting robbed and four more years of misery for the people of london. This is a problem with devolve with devolvement in this country. Now it doesnt work. Weve now got another layer of mayors up and down the country in the east midlands it does not work. All it does is hand power to power crazed individuals who are intent on just pushing their own agenda forward. Its dangerous and its not good for this country. Get dangerous and its not good for this country. Get rid of them. Wow. Interesting. Lee anderson, thank you so much for joining me. Really good to talk to you. Appreciate your time this afternoon. That is lee this afternoon. That is lee anderson mp for reform uk. This anderson mp for reform uk. This is a gb news pat cullen for 54 minutes after 3 00 im nana akua coming up. Ill be joined by my amazing panel broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy and also former labour Party Adviser matthew lazar. Next up nana nigel, what is wrong with rwanda now though . Lets pick up your latest weather. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. News. Hello there welcome to your latest for weather gb news. Its a mixed outlook, largely cloudy over the next 24 hours, particularly across the north of the uk. Best of the sunshine in the uk. Best of the sunshine in the south. Why . Well, generally low pressure dominates the weather pattern, this system bringing some heavier rain through bank holiday monday. Showers elsewhere and through the rest of the day. Weve got this area of cloud across Northern Ireland, Northern England into scotland, giving some showery outbreaks of rain. This heavy at times clearing skies overnight. Elsewhere with light winds, well see some mist and fog patches forming later on. This weather system starts to increase the cloud and bring some rain across the far south west under the clear skies, temperatures in single figures, so a chilly start to sunday morning. Some mist and fog patches quickly clearing, then plenty of sunshine through this central swathe of the uk. This central swathe of the uk. It remains generally cloudy across Northern Ireland, Northern England and scotland through the day. Some patchy rain possible here. Some heavier showers later and this weather system slowly pushes northeastwards inland a little further, bringing cloud and rain to some southern parts of england and wales and the best of the sunshine. Temperatures approaching 19 or 20 celsius under the cloud, still feeling quite chilly and a misty, murky start to bank holiday monday. But again, this central part of the uk seeing the best of the sunshine as that morning mist and murk disappears. And then over the next few days well see High Pressure starting to build in. It will settle down. Well see more in the way of sunny spells and temperatures begin to rise. Rise. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good afternoon. Youre watching and listening to gb news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. More to come in the next hour, including my nigel nana nigel, whats wrong with the rwanda . Way. Hello. Good 7 way. Hello. Good afternoon, and way. Hello. Good afternoon, and welcome to gb news. On tv, onune welcome to gb news. On tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua. And for the next few hours, me and my panel will be taking on some of those big topics that are hitting the headunes topics that are hitting the headlines right now. This show headlines right now. This show is all about opinion. Its mine. Its theirs, and of course its yours. Well be debating, discussing and at times we will disagree, but no one will be cancelled. So joining me today cancelled. So joining me today is broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy and also former labour Party Adviser matthew lazan labour Party Adviser matthew lazar. Coming up, nanas niggle. Whats wrong with rwanda . All the bibby stockholm for that matter. Or in fact any accommodation we see fit to give people when they come here in search of asylum from the safety of france, then for the Great British debate this hour, im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . My difficult conversation now, very exciting, because ill be joined in the studio by married at first sight, star and florist rosalind darlington, also known as roz. And then my mini debate. As roz. And then my mini debate. Boļ¬s as roz. And then my mini debate. Boris johnson had a mishap with trying to vote in the local elections. Well find out more later. But first, lets get your latest news with sam francis. Latest news with sam francis. Nana, thank you very much. And good afternoon to you. It is exactly 4 00, and the top story this hour. Labour has claimed two more victories in the local elections in england. In another blow to the conservatives, andy burnham won the contest in Greater Manchester, while tracy brabin has been named as the mayor of West Yorkshire. Ben hawkins win yesterday for the conservatives in teesside was a rare bright spot for rishi sunak. However, overall the conservatives have suffered huge losses, with hundreds of seats going to opposition parties. Sir keir starmer claims labours results in the local elections are a direct message to the Prime Minister as he renewed demands for him to call a general election. General election. I think the message here is very, very clear and i think across the east midlands theres been a sending of that message to the government, which is were fed up with your division , were fed up with your division, with your chaos, with your failure. 14 years and im sorry, i dont care which Political Party you support if you leave your country in a worse state than when you found it 14 years later, you do not deserve to be in government for a moment longer. Longer. Well, speaking to us earlier, andrew griffith, the minister for science, innovation and technology, said that the public dont want labours policies. Dont want labours policies. Look, its a difficult set of results. I think that was what was expected going in. Theres going to be a very, very simple choice at the next election. Who walks through election. Who walks through number 10 downing street . Is it rishi sunak with his plan thats starting to work now, or is it keir with with no plan or where they do have plans that dont really go with the grain of what the british people want . The british people want . Well, lets take a quick look at the current standings of those results across england this afternoon. If youre watching on television , you can watching on television, you can see here those results as they stand at this stage. Labour now gaining control of eight councils up to a total of 50 and a headline figure from the liberal democrats. They have now liberal democrats. They have now won four Council Seats overall than the conservatives and were still waiting for mayoral results in london and the West Midlands this afternoon, which we will bring to you here throughout this afternoon. Boris johnson has thanked polling staff who refused to let him vote without id. The former Prime Minister was turned away from a polling station on thursday after he forgot his valid identification. Writing valid identification. Writing for the daily mail, mrjohnson said that three villagers were right to stick to the rules. The requirement to provide photo id was introduced by Boris Johnson when he occupied number 10. In other news, the family of a 14 year old boy who was killed in a Samurai Sword attack have said they are devastated by his death. Daniel anderson was stabbed to death as he walked to school on tuesday morning. This week, four other people, including two police officers, were also injured. Marcus monzo , were also injured. Marcus monzo, a spanish brazilian dual national, was charged with murdering the teenager and appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on thursday. Magistrates court on thursday. More than 30,000 people in east sussex are still without water this afternoon. Thats due to a burst main southern walker water says the disruption in Saint Leonards on sea and parts of hastings will continue into tomorrow. Bottled drinks are being provided to some of those affected, while schools, a Leisure Centre and a theatre in the area have all been forced to close. Dozens of migrants in two small boats have crossed the engush small boats have crossed the English Channel today from france, drone footage showed a french naval vessel following them until they reached english waters. There largely male passengers were taken aboard a British Border force vessel off the coast of dover. More than 8000 people have so far arrived this year in a new record for that period. Three people have that period. Three people have been charged after protesters. Been charged after protesters. Blocked a coach taking Asylum Seekers to dorset to the bibby stockholm barge. The metropolitan Police Arrested 45 people yesterday after officers were called on thursday morning to peckham, in south east london. The demonstrators could be heard chanting no borders, no naļ¬ons be heard chanting no borders, no nations stop deportations. Three have now been charged with obstruction of the highway , and obstruction of the highway, and motorists are being warned to expect heavy traffic this bank houday expect heavy traffic this bank holiday weekend, according to the rac. Around 3 million vehicles will take to the roads today alone. An increase in day today alone. An increase in day trips and short breaks could mean that local routes are congested and train strikes between tuesday and the following saturday could also lead to most roads being much busier. For lead to most roads being much busier. For the lead to most roads being much busier. For the latest stories, busier. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the qr code on your screen or go to our website gb news. Com alerts. Thank you sam. Right. Well, if you just join me, welcome. If you just join me, welcome. Its just coming up to six minutes after 4 00. This is gb news. Im nana akua. We are the peoples channel. And dont forget, you can download the gb news app. Well, whats wrong news app. Well, whats wrong with rwanda or the bibby stockholm . Or in fact, any accommodation we see fit to give people when they come here in search of asylum from the safety of france. After all, they could legitimately have been given a tent like in greece. In fact , it tent like in greece. In fact, it would seem that many on the left, and in particular those who do not have to deal with the fallout directly are dead set against anything short of high end accommodation for people who have travelled to this country legally, here are a bunch of students who clearly have Nothing Better to do with their day. Trying to Nothing Better to do with their day. Trying to stop a load of migrants getting on to a coach bound for the bibby stockholm. No sign of any people of colour, despite this being in the heart of peckham, by the way, which is full of people of colour. But full of people of colour. But here are a group of mainly white and im going to assume middle class individuals trying to hold up a coach bound for the zigi bibby stockholm. And im assuming that they are middle class because the migrants are Getting Better treatment than most of the People Living in poverty in this country, and im sure many of them would be thankful for fully paid up accommodation, food safety, warmth and money, which is also what rwanda is offering. The repubuc what rwanda is offering. The republic of ireland was so po faced about our rwanda policy that they declared the United Kingdom an unsafe country because of it. Bear in mind that the policy is targeted at failed Asylum Seekers who have crossed the channel via dinghy and who will need to be sent to a third country if they fail asylum. So a third country will always be needed unless we intend to keep every failed Asylum Seeker. Now, since the new rwanda bill, the government of the republic disclosed that migrants are fleeing Northern Ireland for the repubuc fleeing Northern Ireland for the republic , so theres no chance republic, so theres no chance of them being caught in the rwanda draft. The republic want rwanda draft. The republic want to now declare the uk a safe country so that we can take them back. Rishi invited the republic to join the scheme, but they turned him down. But whats wrong with rwanda . Rwanda has lower knife crime, lower murder rates, lower burglaries than here in the uk. Rwanda has a 61 female parliament and by all counts, and is one of the safest places for women that can hardly be said about here. In fact, you could argue that the accommodation provided in rwanda is far superior to anything that we can provide here. Theyre not happy with the bibi. Sir keir happy with the bibi. Sir Keir Starmers party has said that they will stop the rwanda policy, even if it is working well. Id like to see him try. Whats the alternative . All these so called do gooders are ultimately perpetuating a trade in people with no viable alternative. But some breaking alternative. But some breaking news labours sadiq khan has secured a third term as mayor of london, beating conservative candidate susan hall. The formal announcement will be made at city hall shortly and well bnng city hall shortly and well bring you that live on gb news as it happens well before we get stuck into the debates, heres what else is coming up today for the Great British debate this houn the Great British debate this hour. Im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . The conservatives have suffered heavy losses in local elections across the country, losing hundreds of seats to the opposition party. So for the Great British debate this hour, im asking , is this the end of im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Then at 450, its royal roundup time. Royal biographer angela levin will be here to give us the latest. From behind the palace walls on the menu. Palace walls on the menu. Princess charlottes birthday this week. Prince harry returning to the uk next week. But will he see his father and the king returns to public duties . Then, at five, its this weeks difficult conversation. Ill be joined by married at first sight star rosalind darlington. What is it like to marry a complete and utter stranger . Well i suppose that usually happens in most cases. Anyway, we learn who they are later. Well, thats coming up in later. Well, thats coming up in the next hour. Tell me what you think on everything were discussing. Get in touch. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Right. Lets gbnews. Com yoursay. Right. Lets get started. Lets welcome again to my panel, broadcaster and columnist lizzie cundy , and also columnist lizzie cundy, and also former adviser to the labour party, matthew lazor. May former adviser to the labour party, matthew lazor. May i say, lizzie, you do look lovely today. I do look very summery. Thank you. Thank you. It feels like summer is on its way. Its way. Yes, yes. Yes, yes. And ive had another birthday. I might come in my shorts next week. We wont see them. We wont see them. So maybe my birthday was the same day as the, the local elections. But i made sure i voted very good. And as we your id with you, i did a Boris Johnson. I forgot my id. I forgot my id. No. Oh and then i tried to get around it because the lady in my village hall had no knows me for 20 years. And i said, you know , its and i said, you know, its me, but i had to go back home. And then she really studied my passport. Like she didnt believe me. I was like, its me. Believe me. I was like, its me. She couldnt believe that was your age. You were 21. Exactly. Thats it. Exactly. Thats it. Do you know, i once went out with a guy and he showed me his passport, but it was like a picture of him, like ten years younger. It was the passport before that i said, that aint you . I before that i said, that aint you . I will say yes. Exactly so i did a boris. So i did a boris. Well, so what do you think of the news, though . Sadiq khan, mayor of london. Yes, im pleased with the news. I think all they said it was going to be a close fight have been proved, proved wrong. And its looking a little bit closer than expected in the West Midlands. So well see what happens there later in the afternoon. But yeah, therell afternoon. But yeah, therell be, you know, for all the things weve heard about sadiq, hes been re elected and hes done better than he did last time against shaun bailey, who i sit next to on a thursday night with patrick. So its shaun did better than susan hall. So who, yeah. But i think that, you know, whatever criticisms of city car, its a clear sign that people in london just dont trust the tories. I totally disagree with you in every shape and form, matthew. I dont think hes popular. I dont think hes popular. I dont think hes popular. I think the reason he got in, i dont think the tories had a good candidate. I agree with that is a is a lovely lady, but shes not Strong Enough, not got the charisma and she didnt have the backing of the tories. Im sorry have helped her though. I mean , theyre not popular. Well, theyre not popular, but no one gave her the support. And i think she was the wrong person to go up against khan. But im afraid everyone i speak to cant bear. Cant the ulez, which is just a con, to be honest , taxing the poorest of honest, taxing the poorest of the working class, the Hospitality Business is going down under, and i dont feel safe in my city. Knife crime. Knife crime. Knife crime. Look knife crime. Look whats happened. Sadly this week with that poor boy. You know, the knife crime is out of control. I feel very unsafe as a woman in london, and i think its a crying shame hes got back in again, and briefly, rwanda, whats going wrong with them . Whats going wrong with them . And why is everyone so against rwanda and trying to demonise it . Well, no, i was just about to say you wrote a wonderful piece, nanain say you wrote a wonderful piece, nana in the, in the daily mail saying there is a whiff of racism with this because rwanda is a beautiful, beautiful country, has so much to offer, and they have, you know, theyre very strong on crime, which we were like that in this country, and they even have a day where the citizens go and clear all the citizens go and clear all the rubbish, making it so clean and beautiful. And i dont and beautiful. And i dont understand why people are saying its not safe. Do look at the its not safe. Do look at the facts. The capital of rwanda is safer than our city of london. In every area. I think it might be a good objection to the rwandan scheme isnt to rwanda. Its to the its to the fact that the scheme is going to cost a fortune. So it involves safety, people actually going there, and not and not deliver value for the british taxpayer. British taxpayer. Its not about rwanda, its about the scheme and the way that what about the lives lost of people crossing the channel, though, because thats what thats what its trying to do. And you cant put a price on life. No absolutely. And i think we need no, no. And i think we need no, no. And i think we need, we need to we need to need to stop the boats. We need to stop people ever getting on the boats. Rather than getting getting on the boats. Thats thats part of the thats the idea. Thats the idea. But i really dont think its going to work. As far as bibby stockholm, i agree with you about the protesters in peckham. Im totally i mean, i live i live down the road from peckham and it doesnt reflect what peckham really is. Its not a local people. Its not a local people. Its not a local people. Its like you arent from here. Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, about ten metres away. Its one of the most, you know, one of the most vibrant streets in london, absolute heart of londons afro caribbean community. So, look, i mean, people slashing tires of the bus to stop people going to the bibby stockholm was outrageous , right . Its ridiculous. Troublemakers. And, i cant believe theyre all wearing face masks as well. Why werent the police doing . They shouldnt be allowed to do that. If youre going to protest, at least show your face. I think that should be the simple rule that should be the simple rule that if youre going to be on the streets, i agree you need to show who you are. But then what about ireland, though . Northern ireland or sorry, the republic of ireland . Yeah. Yeah. Well its become i mean, you know, in some ways its funny, but its also tragic because, you know, ireland has always sort of tried to hold the moral high ground over us. And yet as soon as reasonable numbers of Asylum Seekers end up there , Asylum Seekers end up there, theyre panicking. And actually, you said about people putting in tents, thats actually what is being offered to people in the repubuc being offered to people in the republic of ireland. They were sleeping outside the main Processing Office in the centre of dublin, theyve now moved of dublin, and theyve now moved them, but theyve moved them basically to tents and a and an Army Barracks in the, in the south of dublin. So, look, you know, we need to have a concerted approach across europe to stop people ever getting on those boats because it puts their lives at risk. And we shouldnt have people arriving here illegally. Why should we listen to ireland saying to take the migrants . I mean, what have france done . Were not giving back to france. All of those have come over to us. And dont forget, we gave them half a billion. Half a billion. What the french done well , i think it the french done well, i think it it to me, i think actually the money in this respect in a way is slightly no object because once you stop it, is slightly no object because once you stop it , then you save money. So you need to do what you can. But, but lets cross alive now to olivia utley. Lets return to our breaking news. Labour seat mayor sadiq khan officially secured enough votes for a third term as mayor of london, beating conservative susan hall. Joining me now from city hall is gb news Political Correspondent. Olivia utley. Well, olivia, we were suspecting that this would be the case for our. Oui. Our. Absolutely. Absolutely. Sadiq has won an historic third term in london. Hes won with a lead of about 200,000 votes. And it looks like theres actually been a swing of about 3 to labour from the conservatives, up from 2021. So all of that chatter over the last couple of days, all of those rumours that susan hall might win , it might just about might win, it might just about clinch. It might snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, or even that it was going to be much closer than was being predicted, have turned out to be wrong. Have turned out to be wrong. That said, i mean sadiq khan has won with about ten points, about 33 to 43. And i suppose it is true to say that labour is about 26 points ahead in the rest of the country. So critics of sadiq the country. So critics of sadiq khan could argue that perhaps labour should have gone with another candidate to get an Even Stronger lead in london. That said, the ulez factor seems to have played, weirdly enough in sadiq khans favour. It was thought that given what happened in uxbridge last year, one of those areas of the doughnut of london, the outside of london, where the conservative Party Managed to hold on to the seat in a shock by election victory. It was thought that something similar might play out in these local elections. Actually, whats happened is, yes, the conservatives have won some of those outer london areas, but there hasnt been a swing to the conservatives. Or if there has, its been very, very small indeed. And it could be argued that the that ulez has helped sadiq khan in that the green vote in london seems to have completely collapsed, perhaps because Green Party Voters have voted for sadiq khan instead of their own candidate. One way or another, it is a pretty good day yet again for labour and it will be fascinating to see what happensin be fascinating to see what happens in the Wider Conservative Party over the next few days. Yesterday, it was said that the plotters had given up were going home. Yes, the conservatives were doing badly , conservatives were doing badly, but not badly enough for them to move against sunak. Now sadiq khan has won, london with a with a pretty impressive margin and it looked just possible that labour could win the West Midlands , unseating andy street. Midlands, unseating andy street. Might those plotters start whispering again . And could we see those letters of no confidence in rishi sunak start to come in as early as next week . God, lets hope not. For gods sake, olivia utley , thank gods sake, olivia utley, thank you so much. Really good to talk to you. That is our Political Correspondent, olivia utley there, breaking those results in there, breaking those results in the Mayoral Elections just brazier to my panel. Yes. Thats it. Sadiq khan i think thats a really good point that evie was making about the about the green vote, because it previously it was a preferential system where people could transfer. So people think we could vote green on the first round and then transfer to sadiq on the second round. And it seems that voters have clocked the electoral system had changed. If you wanted to, do you need to vote for him . And secondly, i think with green voters who are clearly in favour of ulez and sort of they almost saw themselves as protecting sadiq against the tories because of ulez , rightly or wrongly. Ulez, rightly or wrongly. So thats a oh, this is such a sad day for our city. I mean, a sad day for our city. I mean, a city thrives when its moving and this citys come to a halt. We cant go over 20 miles an houn we cant go over 20 miles an hour. We have ulez. Its hurting people. They cant see their families and disabled. You know, the working class man, taxi drivers. It goes on and on and on. I think its. Its a real shame. I think youre right that the tories should have put a stronger candidate up. Yes they should. Yes they should. Susan hall is not a candidate with mass recognition. I think you should have limited time. So you could only be a mayor say twice, like i think he needs to stop at three. Certainly. Certainly. I dont think you should be allowed to carry on like that because its just it becomes almost like a dictatorship. It is. It is indeed. It is indeed. And i think you two should stand as a job. Share the bad idea. Ill stand as a job. Share the bad idea. Ill make the stand as a job. Share the bad idea. Ill make the hospitality idea. Ill make the Hospitality Business go up again. Yeah, and ill deal with the knives. Yes. Knives. Yes. I could be your deputy. I could be your deputy. All right. Fair enough. No, thank you. Thank you. Youre back now . Youre back now . Right. Well, welcome aboard. If you just tuned in, youve. This is gb news. You may not have heard the news, but, of course, sadiq khan has won a third mayoral term as the mayor of london. Well bring you the results in the midlands very shortly. But coming up, results in the midlands very shortly. But coming up , royal shortly. But coming up, royal roundup time, angela levin will be here to give us the latest from behind the palace walls. Lots of things on the menu. But next its time for the Great British debate this hour. And im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Ive got to pull up right now on x, asking you that very question. Is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Get in touch, gbnews. Com yoursay good afternoon. 23 minutes after 4 00. This is gb news. We are the peoples channel. Dont forget as well. You can stream the show live on youtube. Im nana akua. Its time for the Great British debate. This hour. Im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . The conservatives have suffered heavy losses in the local elections, losing hundreds of seats to opposition parties across the country. And in a further blow, labours claimed victory in several major mayoral races today , sadiq khan has won races today, sadiq khan has won another term in london. Andy burnham won the contest in Greater Manchester, whilst tracy brabin has been named as the mayor of West Yorkshire and the results have been labelled near catastrophic. And many say it is the worst the tories the conservatives have done in local elections for decades. So for the Great British debate this houn the Great British debate this hour, im asking is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Well, joining me to discuss ukip leader Neil Hamilton, journalist kevin schofield, author and broadcaster becca reid, and former labour mp Denis Macshane. Former labour mp Denis Macshane. Right. So im going to start with you, Denis Macshane. Is this the end of them . This the end of them . Its the end of this tory party. Unless they change, if they keep going on as they have done for the last. What about ten years . Five, ten years . Yes. Theyll never get re elected. Theyll never get re elected. But the tory party keeps coming back. 200 years. They lose big and you think theyre out forever. And then normal people emerge somewhere in there. That great party. Many of your guests nana there are normal tory mps, but they just havent been cited in they just havent been cited in the last few years. The last few years. They are really. What do you think . Have they been cited . Think . Have they been cited . Right. Lets go to kevin schofield, author and a journalist , schofield, author and a journalist, no, i dont think it is the end of the conservative party. I mean, theyre not the most successful Political Party in the western world for nothing, theyve been in worse, positions in this, i would say 97 general election, they were in a terrible state, and they were wiped out in wales. Wiped out in scotland. It looked like they were dead then. And yet they did come back. It took them a while, but they did come back. So i think did come back. So i think i wouldnt write them off just yet. But theres no doubt that they do need to. I think they need a spell in opposition to decide what type of party they want to be. Regroup, re energize and then come back again. But a lot will depend as well. How quickly that happens. On how many mps they get elected at the general election come back with fewer than 150. Then i think youre looking at at least ten years in the in in opposition , rebecca reid, in opposition, rebecca reid, yes, i think. It is. But i think yes, i think. It is. But i think if you like the tory party, its probably a good thing. I think probably a good thing. I think this might have been a kind of euthanasia for this weird, divided party with all Different Levels of, factions coming out and infighting and then basically behaving like teenage girls. So i think this might be the shot across the boughs that they need. They need ten years for the shapps a new talent. Think about. For the shapps a new talent. Think about. Things properly and get on with it. And then they might actually be a decent party when they come back. Who knows, some people might say thats a bit sexist, though. You said that theyre behaving like teenage people might teenage girls. Some people might have teenage girl, like have been a teenage girl, like Neil Hamilton. It should the end of well, it should be the end of the tory party weve known it the tory party as weve known it in the last 13 years. But who knows . Because the party that survives in parliament after this election will probably still be in the image of David Cameron as a result of the candidate selection processes that he imposed, which meant that he imposed, which meant that more and more people like him became tory mps and real tories werent allowed a look in. And thats the big problem weve got. Its nothing to do, particularly with the personalities of leaders. Its all to do with the tories having quite spectacularly alienated their core supporters by failing over a whole range of policies from immigration through huge green taxes. Everybodys now got to pay through the highest tax levels that weve had since the attlee government in the 1940s, and i could go on and on and on. Theyve been governing as closet social democrats, not as real conservatives. Until that changes, the tories will not succeed in getting elected. Although you know, i think its fair to say that theres no great enthusiasm for starmer and the modern labour party and its really an ugly contest rather than a beauty contest. And its the dont knows and dont care as who will win the next election, i would guess. Look at the poll rate, the scale of the polls this time 30 polls roughly, is what 70 couldnt be bothered to go out and vote. Let me bring on Denis MacshaneDenis Macshane. Look, i think this actually is slightly more serious problem than that. And its the way that theyve changed people. So, you know , changed people. So, you know, how many how many Health Secretaries have they had . I mean, theyve had ten education secretaries. Theyve had i think its eight home secretaries. Its just been ridiculous. Its just been ridiculous. Oh, it has, but look at what happened to labour after 2015. We went and embraced jeremy corbyn, lost 2017, were absolutely crushed in 2019. We had those long years in the wilderness and then the party just did wake up parties do wake up the conservative party after 1997 when tony blair came in, thought the answer is to be anti european, and William Hague became nuttily opposed to europe. He was crushed in the 2001 election and blow me down. The tories doubled down with Iain Duncan Smith and michael howard. Nice men obsessing, banging on about europe. And then they found David Cameron and things started to look better because he was moderate. He was normal. Hes in the middle of the road. I think. Middle of the road. I think. That will happen to them again, do you think . But they might. They might decide to go right down into that right wing anti europe sort of funny little rabbit hole in that case. Starmer is good for ten years, good for ten years. Do you think kevin hes starmer is good for ten years. Well not not necessarily. Well not not necessarily. I mean you should never underestimate labours ability to shoot itself in the foot, you know. So i wouldnt say that the next election is completely, in the bag. Although all the opinion polls in the local Election Results would suggest it would take an incredible turnaround for the conservatives not to lose the next election, but no, i mean, i do agree. With with i mean, i do agree. With with dennis there that i think, there is a clearly i think what will happen after the next election, they will have to have a more a moment or more than a moment, a penod moment or more than a moment, a period of introspection. In period of introspection. In trying to decide what they want to do and the decision that they take. I to do and the decision that they take. I think , will then, take. I think, will then, influence how how long theyre influence how how long theyre in opposition, because i have no doubt that they will come back eventually. But it could be a eventually. But it could be a very long time if they decide, i think, to veer to off the right, leaving moderate voters behind because. Do you mean do you mean become conservative . I find it interesting that people call this. I find it interesting that people call them being conservative, rearing off towards the right as if its a far right position. Its just thats what conservatism is. Its more of a right wing position, and they certainly havent held that. Rebecca, rebecca, i want to ask you then, do you think that there are now at risk of becoming the third party . I dont know if its that. I think it depends whether they lean into their instinct to become socially conservative. Become socially conservative. And i think right now there is a faction of the party that wants to just go, okay, well be well be conservative in an american sense, and well be anti will be anti. Anything directly being liberal. So gay marriage, abortion, etc. Etc. And if that happens abortion, etc. Etc. And if that happens i think that will be the nail in the coffin. Because the great thing about the tories under David Cameron is that and i dont have a lot of good things to say about the tories is that, yes, they did try to be conservative, but they did bring in things like equal marriage. And i think if they turn their back social on that, on that all encompassing welcoming , more encompassing welcoming, more traditionally left wing attitude that really will be dangerous for them. Wow. Thank you so much, rebecca reid, really good to talk to you. Also, Denis MacshaneNeil Hamilton and kevin schofield. Lovely. Great to have your thoughts. What do you think this is gb news on tv online and on Digital Radio coming up, well continue with the Great British debate this hour. Im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Youll hear the thoughts of my panel, lizzie cundy and matthew lazar. Still to come, my difficult conversation. Married at first sight star ross will be here. But first, lets get your latest news with sam francis. News with sam francis. Good afternoon to you. Its just after 430. A recap of the headunes just after 430. A recap of the headlines from the newsroom. This hour. Labour has now picked up another three victories in england , with majorities in england, with majorities in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and the london local elections. Andy burnham tracy brabin. And in the last few brabin. And in the last few minutes sadiq khan have all been re elected. Mr khan secured his re elected. Mr khan secured his third term as london mayor with 44 of the vote, beating his nearest rival, conservative candidate susan hall, who was on 33 of the vote. And were still awaiting the results for the West Midlands and salford and were just hearing, in fact, regarding that result in the West Midlands, that whats known as a partial bundle recount has been ordered for that election. And papers, piles of ballot papers, in fact, have been moved back onto desks in birmingham, where counting has been taking place in preparation for the checks to take place. We will keep across that for you throughout the rest of this afternoon. In other news, the family of Daniel Anjorin say theyre devastated after he was killed walking to school in london on tuesday. The 14 year old, whos been described as loving and precious , was loving and precious, was attacked by a man with a sword. Four other people, including two police officers, were also injured. Marcus monzo, a spanish brazilian dual national, was charged with murdering the teenager and he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court earlier this week. Southern earlier this week. Southern water insists it is working flat out to restore supplies to tens of thousands of homes in east sussex. More than 30,000 people in the area are still without water this afternoon due to a burst main. Bottled drinks are now being handed out to some of those affected, with disruption expected to continue through the weekend and dozens of migrants in two small boats have crossed the channel today. Footage captured the moment a french vessel followed the boats until it reached english waters. The passengers most of the men were taken aboard a British Border force vessel off the coast of dover , and it brings the total dover, and it brings the total number of people arriving this year to more than 8300, a new record for that period. Thats record for that period. Thats the latest from the newsroom. More at 4 00. Until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. Common shirts. Now, though, its back to. Nana. To. Nana. Good afternoon. Coming up to 34 minutes after 4 00, this is gb news. Im nana akua coming up. Well round up time. Royal biographer angela levin will be live in the studio to give you the latest from behind the palace walls. Next, we continue with the Great British debate. This hour im asking is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Get in touch good afternoon. 37 minutes after 4 00. A very exciting day here on gb news. So many more results still to come. Nana akua. Were still to come. Nana akua. Were live on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Its time now for the Great British debate this houn the Great British debate this hour. And im asking, is this the end of the tory party as we know it . The conservatives have suffered heavy losses in the local elections, losing hundreds of seats to opposition parties across the country. And, of course, in a further blow, labour have claimed victory in several major mayoral races today. The results have been labelled near catastrophe and many say its the worst the conservatives have done in local elections for decades. So for the Great British debate this houn the Great British debate this hour, im asking is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Well, lets see what my panel make of that. Joining me now, broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy and also former labour Party Adviser matthew laza are. All right. Well, first of all, i think ill come to you because you are a labour man. I am. So i think its, the end of the tory party in its current incarnation. I think that incarnation. I think that theyre going to lose the next general election. I think we need the general election as soon as possible. I think weve seen from results across the country the discontent, that there is with the tory party so lets lets put them out of their misery, have the general election , let the people have election, let the people have their say. And i think theyre going have to take a long, hard look at themselves and work out what they really stand for. And also they need to find a leader that they can stick with. And we heard olivia earlier saying , heard olivia earlier saying, well, you know, the rumblings about sadiq sort of went down about sadiq sort of went down about sadiq, about about rishi went down a bit , about sadiq, about about rishi went down a bit, on friday we think there may be rumbling again. We cant have this. We need we need a party which has a leader and a sort of strategy that they can believe in, and i dont think they have that at the moment. And thats showing how the people have voted. Well, i just dont get why they are would even be talking about changing a leader at this point. Point. I mean, its pathetic. Its like having a having a losing Football Team at the bottom of the division with two matches to go and they change their manager thinking theres going to make a difference. Thats the analogy. Statistically impossible. Exactly. That is it. I mean, look, im sorry, the tories are a disaster. Its catastrophic. Disaster. Its catastrophic. Rishi is toast and the tories are over. And thats fact. And you know what . Theyve done it all to themselves. All that all to themselves. All that in house fighting. You know, if theyd kept boris , i dont theyd kept boris, i dont believe this would have happened. But they couldnt help themselves. Instead of fighting themselves. Instead of fighting each other, they should be fighting for this country and fighting for this country and fighting against the opposition. The labour party. Theyve the labour party. Theyve totally done it to themselves. Theyve become their own opposition, basically. Absolutely. The oppositions because remember the five families, i cant remember how many there are. Were they . We had don corleone, francois, francois leader. You had the northern lot, the this research group. The that research group. Oh, god. Oh, god. Oh, god. I mean, its just its just absolutely ludicrous. And look, i know from our own, you know, from our own experience in the labour party when youre fighting amongst yourselves and youre just talking amongst yourselves, youre not listening to the country. And you know, when we do that, we fail with the public, quite rightly. And when the tories have done that, are doing that now, theyre failing with the public because people think that theyre only interested in themselves and battling on whos up, whos down and not actually delivering on the peoples priorities. Yeah, and richies got to stop the spin of this disaster. He really does. I mean, hes spinning more than a ferris wheel with this. And, you know, id be a shrinking violet. I mean, even his even his suits are looking baggy. But ive got to say, you know, theres keir starmer proud as punched with his chest out. Really . Is this the guy we want as Prime Minister. And i know i always say it. Who doesnt know what a woman is i know that really, really worries me. What our future is now. Well, now we know it took him two years. Lets be honest. Lets be honest. He should have been a little bit clearer earlier on. But i think i think the thing about keir is, is that hes got that kind of quiet, strong leadership that we that we need, and hes got his party united behind him. And anybody who thought five years ago the party would be hed be able to transform, the party would have been met with scepticism. But, you know, i think that when you say transform the party, youre slightly delusional. Nothing has transformed. The tories have just simply made a mess. I think of an 80 seat majority. Labour are getting in because of the disaster of the tories and, you know, im sorry. Starmer has his speeches written by tony blair. Peter mandelson. He has one strap line. His today is turning the page and its a worry for our future. Im worried with him in charge. Well listen, this show is nothing without you and your views. Lets welcome our Great British voices, their opportunity to be on the show and tell us what they think about the topics were discussing. Where should we head to . Are oh, straight there, straight there. We went straight in for you, lee. Come in. Lee, what do you think . Lee . Is this the end of the tory party as we know it . Know it . Yes, without a doubt. The tories are in a death spiral completely of their own making. Completely of their own making. And as you know, sirjohn and as you know, sir john curtis said, theres a 99 chance that we are going to lose the next election. The next election. I think hes wrong. I think hes wrong. I think its actually 100 chance were going to get obliterated. Its a foregone conclusion. And part of me, nana thinks that they deserve it. People are fed up, me included, of being lied to, especially on things like immigration and brexit, they make promises they have no intention of keeping and people can see straight through it. I really do sense a tangible hatred for the conservatives among their voter base, and i cant blame them. All they want are real conservatives to vote for, and there arent many of those left in the country. And as lizzie in the country. And as lizzie rightly pointed out, its been a catalogue of complete , catalogue of complete, preventable errors. You know, the arrogant tory installed rishi sunak who nobody wanted. And as we know, hes about popular as a in a lift. And whats frustrating that matthew is completely wrong on this. There is clearly no love for labour at all. They are winning seats. We can see it in the statistics. Theyre winning seats in local elections and by elections with less votes than they got last time. This is going to be a story of conservative voters staying at home. The only thing ill finish on this nana the only thing that the conservatives can hope for is that the polling, the appalling by Election Results and the local Election Results is a protest vote from conservative voters. When it comes to election day, theyll hold their nose and vote conservatives, but i am not convinced they will. Im not convinced they will. Im not convinced that i will, i dont think, why would you vote to reward failure now . Well, well, i mean. I dont well, well, i mean. I dont want to lie. I slightly feel embarrassed for voting. I almost feel embarrassed for voting for them because at the time they were cohesive, sensible party. I have no idea whats happened to them. Lee harris, a pleasure. Thank you so much and so succinct and so right, right. Lee harris had Great British voice still to come. My difficult conversation. Joining me, married at first sight star ross darlington. Shell be live to tell us what its like to marry a complete and utter stranger. But next at 11 will be here to give us the latest from behind the palace walls. Lots of things on the menu in my royal roundup. Good afternoon. 47 minutes after 4 00. If youve just tuned in. Where have you been . Nana nicely where have you been . Nana nicely now. Its fine. Youre here gbnews were live on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua , and theres always akua, and theres always something going on in the royal household. And this week has been no different. And each saturday i like to give you a rundown. And who better to do so rundown. And who better to do so than royal biographer angela levin and hello, hello. Good to see you. Right, so weve got a lot going on. Yes. Where should we start . Well, you have to start with king charles. He was allowed to come out and be with people, which is what he really wants to be. And i thought there was a big change in him because he was so accessible , so easily accessible, so easily accessible. And when he went to the, the centre, the Cancer Centre , he, he was absolutely centre, he, he was absolutely involved with the people. He was involved with the people. He was talking to them. And you could see that it wasnt just, you know, have you been here long and all that . It was really deep. And when he went, he always held their hand for about 20s. And you think, you know, this is an amazing monarch, actually, who doesnt mind saying what is happening to him and who is actually really caring. And what was lovely with the protocol was that there were two children who were suffering from cancen children who were suffering from cancer, who gave each of them, him and the queen, a posy, and he gave them a bag full of presents for them. And i thought, thats a complete break of normal behaviour. The queen would never have done that. But you see, he now wants to be one of the country and to do what he can for everyone. And i thought it was absolutely marvellous because he also told them he had to rush, because he had to go for his treatment. So you could picture what hes going through and he could picture what they were going through. And it worked very well. Worked very well. Yeah. Yeah. Its lovely to see him out and about, isnt it . But hes so brave and so very strong. And i think people really respect that. He really we now understand what this duty is about. When you see people like meghan, who should have been able to handle it and should have got in there and she didnt manage it. But of course, harry is coming. Yes. Next week coming. Yes, hes coming tuesday , and yes, hes coming tuesday, and this is for Invictus Games at ten years since hes been going, which is a marvellous event. And its going to be celebration at the saint pauls cathedral or prayers for them, the big question is, will he see his father, i personally dont think so because theres a big party in the gardens which finishes as the Invictus Games finish at 6 00. And if hes had to shake hands and say hello to 100, i think theres 300 people coming. If hes going to have to do that, i think he would be very tired. And if he did see harry, it would be a very quiet, a very quick and i think that the queen would make sure that she was there to make sure that harry didnt upset him in any way. There to make sure that harry didnt upset him in any way. And didnt upset him in any way. And in any case, harry with meghan is going off to nigeria. Nigeria. The following day. So i think this rushing to see people and when you havent had a decent discussion for a long time is not actually ideal. If hes coming to come to day two days, three days and then youve got time to get through things , got time to get through things, yeah, i just see this whole thing as a quite shambolic, the relationship between the two of them. But it is crafted mainly because of the behaviour of meghan and harry. Its sad, do you think that theres a chance that they may reconcile in some way in this little meeting . And. And what about harry and his invictus . Sounds like they. You mentioned it last week and it does sound like they dont want him heading it. Well, im not too sure now. I think people have taken a step back. Think people have taken a step back. Okay, because there are back. Okay, because there are some that still want him and i think that will be this year will be the one that actually shows whether its going to carry on with him or not. And itll be in canada and the one theyre trying to get in, in the uk is 27, and its now gone between america and, birmingham. I think whether its going to be held there. But whats, whats lovely. We must talk about lovely. We must talk about charlotte a little. Its her birthday , but shes really cool birthday, but shes really cool as a young girl, you know , she as a young girl, you know, she had one arm on the tree and then she had a mini skirt on, which is so sweet. When theyre that age. And shes really smiling. Age. And shes really smiling. Shes brilliant, you know . She knows how to pose. She knows what shes doing. Shes grinning at her mother. Luckilly catherine took her photograph and shes just divine, isnt she . Shes very efficient. She she . Shes very efficient. She bosses her brother, telling him the older one, george, to tell him that when someone goes by, he has to bow, you know . She nudges him and tells him shes completely in control and shes just, a delight of a girl. Very clever, very sporty and, you know, shes going to be a huge hit for the rest of her life. Very sensible, sensible young lady. Shes learned off her mother, catherine, who is a incredible. Do we have any updates on catherine . No. Shes been no updates. I mean, she has. I think its quite a surprise for us that shes done the photographs of her and louis, a few weeks before , but shes actually before, but shes actually keeping right away. And i worry for her. I think it was such a shock. I mean, king charles said to one of the women he was talking to at the centre, you know , its a terrible shock when know, its a terrible shock when you hear it, isnt it . And i think that its a terrible shock for somebody as young as her. 42 and i think its very, very difficult. But and she wants difficult. But and she wants peace and quiet. So so well have to see. But one more thing about king charles was when he went out just before he was allowed out into the public, there was a photograph taken to celebrate his and the queens, birth anniversary in 19 anniversary, and instead of usually the, main person stares ahead and the other one, whether its man or woman, is not there, but this way he was looking longingly at camilla and she was looking ahead with a wonderful beam, and they were in a garden with lots of flowers. And i think that was really very hopeful and lovely. It is nice to see thats true love, isnt it . The two of them. It is nice to see true love. It is nice to see true love. They absolutely adore each other, dont they . We would want to stand in between that. Angela levin, such a pleasure to talk to you. Lovely to see you. The brilliant angela levin, royal biographer, prince harrys royal biographer, prince harrys royal biographer, dont you know . And also shes written camilla, a book about camilla as well. Well, if you just join me, welcome on board. This is gb news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Still to come , my Digital Radio. Still to come, my difficult conversation. Married at first sight star rosalind darlington, an opportunity which opened many doors for roles from modelling to magazine shoots to experience on camera and a huge number of hours under her belt of filming. Shell be here live. Of filming. Shell be here live. First, lets get some weather. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Good afternoon and welcome to your latest gb news weather from the met office. So High Pressure does continue to dominate, but it will be feeling a little chillier along some eastern coast. The area of High Pressure situated across the uk does bnng situated across the uk does bring a bit of a northeasterly breeze, so some chillier conditions , but plenty of dry conditions, but plenty of dry weather around due to that area of High Pressure. So some late of High Pressure. So some Late Afternoon and evening sunshine for some of us. However, some thicker cloud across parts of scotland will bring some outbreaks of patchy rain, particularly for northern parts of scotland, slowly sinking its way southwards into the early hours of the morning. Southeastern parts of england , Northern Ireland and western parts of Scotland Holding on to those clearer skies and turning quite chilly there. However, remaining frost free under that cloud and patchy rain. So for eastern parts of scotland, a bit of a cloudy and grey and damp start to the day on sunday. However , south eastern parts however, south eastern parts of england, Northern Ireland and western parts of scotland seeing the best of the sunshine through the best of the sunshine through the morning. Perhaps 1 or 2 showers bubbung perhaps 1 or 2 showers bubbling up across southeastern parts of england through the afternoon, but it should be staying dry for most places. However, that band of patchy rain slowly continues to sink its way southwards and feeling quite chilly under that cloud and rain too. However, in the Sunshine Feeling very pleasant. Highs of 1415, maybe 16 degrees across the south. Monday does start a bit of a grey day for most of us. Outbreaks of rain continue to slowly push their way southwards, but south eastern parts of england probably holding on to that sunshine and feeling quite pleasant in that sunshine to maybe 1 or 2 showers around on tuesday or wednesday. But temperatures will be slowly recovering closer to average for the time of year. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello. Good afternoon. Its just coming up to 5 00. This is gb news on tv , online and on gb news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua and for the next hour, me and my panel will be taking on some of the big topics hitting the headunes the big topics hitting the headlines right now. Coming up, my difficult conversations, ill be joined by married at first sight star ross darlington. Whats it like to marry a complete and utter stranger . I think most of us find out after weve married them. Then for the Great British debate this hour, im asking, is rwanda having a deterrent effect . Then, as boris deterrent effect . Then, as Boris Johnson attempted to go to his polling station without id, ill reveal all of what happened. But first, lets get your latest. News. Very good afternoon to you. Very good afternoon to you. Itsjust very good afternoon to you. Its just coming very good afternoon to you. Itsjust coming up very good afternoon to you. Its just coming up to 5 01 and leading the news at this hour. And leading the news at this hour. Labour and leading the news at this hour. Labour has now picked up another three victories in england , with majorities in england, with majorities in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and londons local elections. Sadiq khan secured his third term as londons mayor with 44 of that vote, beating his nearest rival, conservative candidate susan hall, on 33. In West Yorkshire , labours tracy West Yorkshire, labours tracy brabin won the contest there, while andy burnham has also been re elected as mayor of Greater Manchester. He picked up just over 63 of that vote and says hell always give his best to the job. Im overwhelmed , so have so im overwhelmed, so have so many people to prepared put their trust in me . Is overwhelming. Is overwhelming. Its humbling, and i recognise that people who vote for other parties at a general election of lent me their support and its why i will be very, very rigid in taking a place first rather than a party first approach. Seems to me that thats what the role of the mayor is all about, bringing people together, you know, get everybody pulling in the same direction for a great city region like this one. And thats what i will be doing. What i will be doing. Well, heres a quick look at the standings across england in the standings across england in the local elections so far today. Labour the local elections so far today. Labour now gaining control of eight councils up to a total of 50 and a headline figure for the liberal democrats. They have now won four Council Seats overall than the conservatives were still waiting for results in salford and recounts are currently taking place in the West Midlands. We will keep across midlands. We will keep across that for you throughout the afternoon. Well, Boris Johnson afternoon. Well, Boris Johnson has thanked staff who refused to let him vote without photo id it was his government that brought in the requirement for voting. The former Prime Minister said that three villages were right to stick to the rules , but mr to stick to the rules, but mr johnson says that he did return a few minutes later with his driving licence. In other news, the family of Daniel Anjorin say theyre devastated after he was killed walking to school in london on tuesday. The 14 year old, whos been described as loving and precious, was attacked by a man with a sword. Four other people, including two police officers, were also injured. Marcus monzo , a spanish injured. Marcus monzo, a spanish brazilian dual national, was charged with murdering the teenager and appeared in court on thursday. Southern water on thursday. Southern water insists it is working. Flat out insists it is working. Flat out to restore supplies to tens of thousands of homes in east sussex this evening. More than 30,000 people are still without water due to a burst main. Water due to a burst main. Bottled drinks are currently being handed out to some of those affected and theres been disruption to schools, theatres andifs disruption to schools, theatres and its expected to continue into tomorrow. Dozens of into tomorrow. Dozens of migrants in two small boats have crossed the English Channel today. Footage captured the moment a french vessel followed the boats until reaching english waters. The passengers, most of them men , were taken on board a them men, were taken on board a British Border force vessel off the coast of dover, and it bnngs the coast of dover, and it brings the total number of people arriving so far this year to now. More than 8300, and properly Indian Students are continuing their protests at universities across the uk. It follows similar violent demonstrations at campuses in the us, sit in camps and anti israel banners have been set up at some universities in protest against israels war with hamas. Students in bristol, leeds, manchester, newcastle and in sheffield are currently camping out in tents outside their campus buildings in protest against the war. Those are the headlines more at 5 30. Until then, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. News. Com slash alerts. Good afternoon. Its just coming up to five minutes after 5 00. This is gb news on tv, onune 5 00. This is gb news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua and for the next hour, me and my panel will be taking on some of those big topics hitting the headlines right now. This show is all about opinion. Its mine. Its theirs. And of course its yours. Well be course its yours. Well be debating, discussing and at times we will disagree. But no one will be cancelled. So joining me today is broadcast from columnist lizzie cundy and also former labour Party Adviser matthew laza. Still to come, my difficult conversation with married at first sight star and florist rosalind darlington. Florist rosalind darlington. Whats it like to marry a complete and utter stranger . We find out then, for the Great British debate this hour , im british debate this hour, im asking, is the rwanda plan having a deterrent effect . Stay having a deterrent effect . Stay tuned for my mini debate after boļ¬s tuned for my mini debate after Boris Johnson forgets to bring voter id at his local polling station, a policy which he created. What are your thoughts on that . Should voters need to use id then aslef you can get in touch gbnews. Com yoursay. Touch gbnews. Com yoursay. Sorry i cant end up laughing. I know youre laughing at home as well, but listen, its time now for this weeks difficult conversation. Now would you ever agree to marry someone having never met them before . Or you never met them before . Or you dont know anything about that person, their personality . What they look like . Nothing on my next guest made the incredibly brave move to do that. Rosalind darlington is a star of reality series married at first sight. Now, the 28 year old florist who lives close to her parents farm in crewe, married a stranger, thomas crerar. In crewe, married a stranger, thomas crerar. I think ive said that right on the show. Im sure shell correct me. When it aired shell correct me. When it aired last autumn, she rocked up to the wedding inn in a tractor, and then the newlyweds were sent packing on their honeymoon to decide if they wanted to stay married and what we all want to know is, are they still together . But before we do that , together . But before we do that, some of you might remember this scene from the show. Oh leaving you myself . Yeah. Whats that . Is it . I think i what is that . What is that . What is that . Its what you think it is. Its what you think it is. Its what you think it is. Its mr buzzer. Its mr buzzer. Oh whoa whoa. Oh whoa whoa. Oh whoa whoa. Oh whoa whoa. Oh my god. Oh my god. We took charlenes advice on board and we introduced sex toys into our sex lives. It just happened to be at the dinner party with the cheeky love egg. Party with the cheeky love egg. Yeah, were not getting in the drone tonight because i think weve got, you know, more fun things to be concerned about. Things to be concerned about. Oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, brilliant oh, yeah. Okay. Oh, brilliant. Thats really bad. Im having. Thats really bad. Im having a fun time tonight, so i dont know about everyone else. Maybe they all need worse ones. We want to watch the fabulous rosie and darlington joins me now to spill the tea. Ross welcome to the show. Its so good to see you. I thought you were cracking. I thought that was a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant show. And it was so much fun. Well, thank you for having me. And also i havent got one in now, so. In now, so. No, its all right. Yeah. No, no, we wont talk about that because its daytime now. Daytime now. So we wouldnt dare. But ross , talk to me about dare. But ross, talk to me about why did you decide to go on the show . Youre a gorgeous woman. You dont need any help finding a date. Surely not. No. So i think, like at that time in my life, it was all just a bit chaotic , like everything a bit chaotic, like everything seemed to be falling apart and i just applied thinking it take me away from reality. And then when i actually got on, i was a bit shocked. I thought, why would a girl from crewe get on . You know , like a tv show . It was a bit weird, really. Like, why , and weird, really. Like, why, and then it just went from there, you know, like obviously beforehand i did want to get married and i pose, like, when all thats taken away, i thought, yeah, lets go marry a stranger. Its what i want. But its really terrifying. Like when you get to the end of the aisle and you dont know what the guy looks like, and you have to like, theres all these cameras and you have to turn down. I was like , scared. And down. I was like, scared. And also, you dont know what they look like. You dont know their names. So yeah, its petrifying. Names. So yeah, its petrifying. What was your honest first thought when you saw him . Because i mean, you know, some people are obvious with the oh, there was one woman who was like awful when she saw him. She said, oh my god. What was your honest first thoughts . I feel like my face, obviously like when i turned down i was nervous and i think first of all, i dont know, like, he seems like a nice guy and like, i think i was so overwhelmed with the cameras. I overwhelmed with the cameras. I feel like its more getting to know someone than obviously you have to have, like the initial attraction. Were you attracted to him . Did you think he was attractive . I think from the get go, i feel like i was missing that. Like initial attraction. But i feel like these things can grow. So like, i was just, you grow. So like, i was just, you know, i just tried, but i dont know, i just tried, but i dont know, i just tried, but i dont know, i think when youre overwhelmed as well, i literally cant even remember really looking at his face properly when i was at the top of the aisle because i was like, oh my god. And when you got to meet the other couples, were there any of the guys there that you thought, oh, actually, that would have been a better one for me. And if so, who was it . Definitely not like i am 100 loyal to like thomas or any one of my partners. So like, no, there was no like, obviously i get on with everyone, but i would never have jumped ship. No. Its very slow start for no. Its very slow start for you guys as well because he was a bit, you know, he didnt really want to do any kissing or anything hugging you. I could see that you were upset. Anything hugging you. I could see that you were upset. Id be annoyed as well, actually. Id be like, oh, but then he did come around. But then what come around. But then what happenedin come around. But then what happened in the end . I know, because at first, obviously he was very like standoffish with cuddles and affection. And i was thinking like, hes obviously not into me. Like girls would be like, hes not into me, he doesnt want to cuddle me. And it was just a cuddle. Thats all it just a cuddle. Thats all it was, but then obviously it did get better and we did get like on the same page. But i feel like as soon as i came home, i remember that. Yeah, i just walked through the door and i dont i just something just freaked out. Freaked out. You couldnt see him in your life as a. Yeah , i think i think it ran yeah, i think i think it ran my family and my friends. And just being back home, its so hard because in the experiment, youre in a bubble and Everyone Wants you to work. And. And then i feel like when you get home, like you lose all that support. So it is just you two and is it going to work . Just you two. And i just thought like, i dont know if it is. Well, what have you come away with from that show . Because i have to be honest, somebody pointed out the married at first sight australia. I started watching it. I just became addicted because you can watch one after the other, after the other, after the other. And its wonderful. And i did the same with your, your one as well. Whats the one thing that you came away that you felt youd learnt from that experiment . Learnt from that experiment . But i do think ive grown as a person. Like i think im so much more confident obviously, like after watching it, you have like after watching it, you have like after watching it, you have like a level of trolling online as well, and i feel like im proud that, like ive come over and past that and like, im stronger than i ever thought i was. So i do feel like ive grown as a person. Im much more resilient. So and i think i met all these amazing people, all these amazing experiences, like so i cant fault it. And i did, you know, thomas is a great guy. Hes just unfortunately not for me. You know, he seems lovely. And if i could get him a perfect girl, id be taking her straight to him. Does he live with his mum as well . And his mums so lovely, lovely , though. Oh, shes so lovely, though. Oh, shes so nice. I think thats huge. Youve got to get on with like the parents. Yeah, yeah. Because otherwise thats just the kiss of death. They dont like you or you dont like them. It never works out, is it . I know well, touch wood. Ive not been that bad yet. No, no, but you know what i mean. It doesnt even. It doesnt even. They might just think. Not like its a huge part of you all to get on and like each other. But she is amazing as well. So thats lovely. So, have you found love, im openly. I am dating. Youre dating, i am dating. Youre dating, yeah. So whats the space . And in your. When youre not doing that , what was it like doing that, what was it like getting back into what you normally do . What do you what are you when youre not on tv doing, so yeah , im a florist doing, so yeah, im a florist and like, a british flower grower, so i feel like after filming, i just jumped straight filming, ijust jumped straight back into, like, work. Really so on the family farm, ive got, like, my flower paddock where i do all my british grown flowers and yeah, i love it. I couldnt imagine me doing anything else, really. And have you got any other projects coming up that we should be keeping our eyes open for, i dont know. I feel like for, i dont know. I feel like somethings gonna come up. We dont know. Its going to be a surprise for us. But i just feel like living life, like, every day. And like, doing exciting things and just, you know, being present with my flowers. And im just dead flowers. And im just dead lucky. Im grateful. Yeah. What a great thing. And you brought me something as well. These beautiful flowers. So you you grow these all yourself . Yeah. So theyre all home grown. And my apprentice, actually, ella did them, so i thought, how cute is that . Thats gorgeous, isnt it . Thats gorgeous, isnt it . Thank you. I know ive brought them on the train. On the tube. I know you did everything and you kept them like that. And theyre all i know on the tube. I was like, get back, stand back. So flowering florist is your business. Your love. Do you have any other loves that you do . Are you a fitness person . Are you into health and food and all that kind of thing . Id love to say that i do like running and but i just dont. And its like i am going to try and do like more exercise. I do want to obviously i did do horse riding, but my horse passed away, so then ive not, you know, theyre so expensive to get like a new and its also like, i love tango. So its also like, i love tango. So its like, will it ever compete with her . You know what i mean, so yeah, im not. I feel like im not doing anything other than just working and socialising. Has it helped you being on the show because you were on the show . Everyone got to know you. Everyone knows who you are now. Has that helped your career and do you think its something that is useful to you now . I definitely have like grown in followers in my personal and my business, and i think, you know, thats also great, like my business is all social media driven. Business is all social media dnven. So business is all social media driven. So yeah, i think its been great. Well, its been lovely to talk to you. Really good to see you. Thank talk to you. Really good to see you. Thank you so much for joining me. That is rosalind darlington. She was on married at first sight uk. It was a brilliant show. But now lets go live to city hall, where the declaration for london is taking place. So this is the official declaration of result of poll for the gla election of the mayor of london. I, mary harpley, give notice as the Greater London returning officer, that the number of votes recorded for each candidate at this election is as follows. Amin femi. Animal welfare amin femi. Animal welfare party. People, animals. Party. People, animals. Environment 29,280. Bin face count. Count binface for mayor of london 24,260. Blackie. Rob. Liberal democrat 145,184. Campbell, natalie. Denise. Independent 47,815. Cox, howard. Reform uk. London deserves reform uk. London deserves better 78,865. Gallagher, amy. Social democratic party. 34,449. Social democratic party. 34,449. Garbett, zoe. The green party. Garbett, zoe. The green party. 145,114. Gulati, tarran. Independent gulati, tarran. Independent 24,702. Hall susan mary, the conservative party candidate. Conservative party candidate. 812,397. Khan, sadiq. Labour. Party 1,088,225. Mitchley, andreas. Christoph. Mitchley, andreas. Christoph. Independent 26,121. Rose brian. Benedict. London. Real party. Transform. London 7501. Scanlon transform. London 7501. Scanlon nick. Britain first no. To immigration 20,519. That makes the total number of good votes cast on thursday. 2,484,432. I need now to take you through the number of ballot papers rejected and the reasons one rejected. For want of an official mark 314 rejected for voting for more than one candidate, 2806 for writing or marks by which the voter could be identified, 129. Unmarked or void for uncertainty. 7878. Making the total number of rejected ballot papers 11,127. So total number of ballot papers counted. On ballot papers counted. On thursday 2,495,559. Our electorate for this election. Electorate for this election. Was 6,162,428. And as you know already , we had a turnout on already, we had a turnout on thursday of 40. 5. So i therefore declare that sadiq khan has been duly elected as mayor of london. Sadiq khan i invite i invite i am, ham i invite i am, i invite sadiq khan to the lectern to speak. Khan to the lectern to speak. Thank you, thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you. London khan killed london. Khan killed london. Can you please. Can you please. Sadiq, please. Can you please. Sadiq, just pause now, please. Just pause now, please. The security will remove people who disrupt the speech. I made it very clear beforehand that that was not to happen. Thank you. Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you. London. Its the honour of my life to serve the city that i love. And im beyond humbled right now. I want to express my deep gratitude to my fellow londoners and make this pledge to you. I promise to repay the trust you have placed in me by working tirelessly to deliver the fairer, safer and greener london you deserve. Its been a difficult few months. We faced a campaign of non stop negativity, but i couldnt be more proud that we answered fear mongering with facts, hate with hope, and attempts to divide with efforts to unite. We ran a campaign that was in keeping with the spirit and values of this great city, a city that regards our diversity not as a weakness, but an almighty strength, and one that rejects right hard wing populism and looks forward, not back. And looks forward, not back. Its truly an honour to be re elected for a third term, and to do so to do so with record levels of support from londoners with an increased margin of victory. But todays not about making history. Its about shaping our future, a future where our children can be nourished with Free School Meals and breathe cleaner air, where all londoners are given the support and helping hand they need to fulfil their potential. And where our social fabric is strengthened and our Diverse Communities cherished and celebrated , my determination to celebrated, my determination to ensure london leads from the front with world leading green action remains as strong as even action remains as strong as ever. We have already made Great Strides cleaning up our air, and well continue to tackle pollution, whether its found on our streets or in our rivers. At the same time, i pledge to have a constant focus on all the other issues that londoners also care about. The rising cost of living crime on our streets, homelessness , affordable homelessness, affordable housing. For the last eight years, london has been swimming against the tide of a tory government, and now , with government, and now, with a labour party that is ready to care starmer, its time for rishi sunak to give the public a choice. A general election will just pave the path to a new direction for our country, but it will take bold action. Londoners want to see a reality. I also have a message to those londoners who didnt vote for me this week. I promise ill always be a mayor for all londoners and one who takes very seriously the duty i have to represent the interests of every community. I want to forget to say a massive thank you to my Campaign Team for their hard work and dedication. Youve all been dedication. Youve all been brilliant. I also want to thank keir and the shadow cabinet for all their support. Our Assembly Members and candidates , our members and candidates, our Council Leaders and councillors across this great city, our volunteers, our trade unionists and Labour Party Members and the returning officer and everyone here at city hall for ensuring londoners could make their voices heard. I special thank voices heard. I special thank you goes to my mum for everything shes done for me. I everything shes done for me. I love you and to my amazing wife saadia and our daughters anisa and amara for their strength and support throughout all these years. I know there have been times when this job has taken a toll on you, and thats not right or fair. Toll on you, and thats not right or fair. Some of the stuff right or fair. Some of the stuff on social media, the protest by our home, the threats is upsetting. Its frightening and its wrong. Im truly sorry for putting you through this, but i also know you share my belief as hard as it can be sometimes this work is worth doing because it means being able to give to other families the same life changing opportunities that this wonderful city has extended to ours. I love you all so much. My final thank you must go to my fellow londoners. The people who make this city not only special, but the greatest city in the world. Once again, youve proved that london is a city of progress , a city of pluralism, progress, a city of pluralism, and above all, a city of possibility, a beacon for openness , inclusion and equality openness, inclusion and equality across the world. Its londoners who inspire me every day to continue our mission of building a fairer, safer and greener london and in what i hope will be a year of great change, a future Labour Government led by keir starmer, working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much further and accomplish so much more, ensuring that for our capital and for our country, our brightest days are still ahead of us. Thank you. Thank you, thank you everybody. I will now invite everybody. I will now invite susan hall to the lectern to speak. Susan hall to the lectern to speak. Thank you. Id like to speak. Thank you. Id like to congratulate all my fellow mayoral candidates and congratulate sadiq on his victory. Spending a year victory. Spending a year campaigning for this election has been an honour and a privilege. I have loved speaking to londoners about the things that matter to them. The thing that matter to them. The thing that matters to them most, and to me is reforming the met and making london safe again. I hope sadiq makes this his top priority. He owes it to the families of those thousand people who have lost lives to knife crime. Under his mayoralty. And i hope, too, that he stops patronising people like me who care. This isnt an episode of care. This isnt an episode of the wire , this is real life on the wire, this is real life on his watch. I will continue to hold sadiq to account, to stand up for the hard working families, to motorists and to women. I love london and i urge women. I love london and i urge siddiq to try harder to make it better for all our sakes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you , to you. Thank you. Thank you, to the mayor of london for his speech. Thank you, susan, for your speech. That is the declaration event for the mayor of london. Now finished. I hope to be back on this stage at about 630, this evening. Itll still be light, with the Assembly Wide results for the 11 london Assembly Members , london london Assembly Members, london wide. That should be about 630, but otherwise , thank you very but otherwise, thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Much, everybody. Thank you. Well, sir, sadiq khan has become the mayor of london for a third term. He talked about swimming against the tide of tory government. He called for a general election. He promised general election. He promised that he will be the mayor for all londoners , even for those all londoners, even for those who didnt go and vote and represent all the interests. He thanked his team, his campaigners and every londoner and he wanted to make sure that their voices would be heard, he talked about basically a possibility for equality and a sense of equality around london. Well lets see what my panel make of that. Joining me, matthew laza and lizzie cundy. Matthew laza and lizzie cundy. Well, ive got to come to you. Matthew laza labour have won a third term mayoral term. Sadiq khanis third term mayoral term. Sadiq khan is victorious. Absolutely. And i thought it was a good speech. I thought that he was right to say that he needs to govern for all londoners, not just those who voted for him. I was a bit disappointed that susan halls speech was , i thought, a little speech was, i thought, a little bit sort of ungracious. Why because, you know, i hope sadiq will do better than this and better than that. Hes just been re elected, but hes got to look. He references the wire, though, because of the comment that he made to her when she talked about knife crime. And he said that this is not an episode of the wire. Now come on, that. Yeah, she wanted to take it seriously. Thats disgusting, i think. And he said, and susan hall has every right to say that the reason, the reason is, is that she i mean, in her campaign, she released a video which was about crime in london, which was apocalyptic pictures. And actually there were pictures from new york. But, you know, shes really crime has risen. We saw what sadly happened this week to a 14 year old boy. It is out of control. He has done absolutely nothing and he said hes done it for all londoners. Well, he crime overall has gone down. He really, you know, obviously couldnt have stopped what happened. No knife crime is what happened. No knife crime is knife crime has. And i as a as knife crime has. And|asaasa knife crime has. And i as a as a woman dont feel safe in london anymore. Well listen thats our thoughts. What are yours. Get in touch. You know gbnews. Com forward slash your say youre with me. Im nana akua. This is a gb news on tv, online and Digital Radio. Still to come, the great Great British debate im asking is rwanda having a deterrent effect . But first, deterrent effect . But first, lets get your latest news with sam francis. Sam francis. Good evening. 530 exactly. And lets get a recap on the latest news regarding those local elections in england. As weve been hearing, labour has picked up another three victories, with majorities in Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and in the last hour in london. Sadiq khan has secured his third term as londons mayor with 44 of the vote, beating his nearest rival, conservative candidate susan hall, on 33. There were also wins for labour in liverpool and in south yorkshire, as counting continues in the West Midlands and salford , the family of and salford, the family of Daniel Anjorin say they are devastated after he was killed walking to school in london on tuesday. The 14 year old, whos been described as loving and precious, was attacked by a man with a sword in hainault. Four other people, including two police officers, were also injured in that attack. Marcus injured in that attack. Marcus monzo, whos a spanish brazilian dual national, has been charged with murdering the teenager and he appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court on thursday. Magistrates court on thursday. Tens of thousands of homes in east sussex will remain without water until at least tomorrow. Thats after a pipe burst. Southern water says disruption in Saint Leonards on sea and in hastings started on thursday. It hastings started on thursday. It is now ongoing. The firm insists its working tirelessly , though, its working tirelessly, though, to get supplies back to properties, but residents there say its been disastrous and dozens of migrants in two small boats have crossed the channel today. Footage captured the moment that a french vessel followed the boats until reaching english waters. The passengers on board, most of them men, were taken to a British Border force vessel off the coast of dover, and it bnngs the coast of dover, and it brings the total number of people arriving so far on small boats to now more than 8300. For the latest stories, you can sign up to gb news alerts. Just scan the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts i good afternoon. 35 minutes after 5 00. This is gb news. Im nana akua. And its time for the Great British debate. This hour im asking, is rwanda having a deterrent effect . The government sent the first ever migrant from uk to rwanda earlier this week, with just 48 hours later, 711 Asylum Seekers crossed the engush Asylum Seekers crossed the English Channel in a record breaking day so far this year. So for the Great British debate this hour, im asking is rwanda having a deterrent effect . Joining me Simon Danczuk reem ibrahim, Stephen Pound and anna zita rees mogg. Annunziata, im going to start with you. Is it is it having a deterrent effect . Is it having a deterrent effect . I think it could have a deterrent effect. The problem is that our systems and institutions in this country seem determined to stop any flights taking off, and the people actually need to be known to be being removed from the uk before it can possibly have any serious impact, it does feel a bit like, nobodys going to allow it to happen. Simon danczuk i think it is having an effect, actually , the we had all effect, actually, the we had all the naysayers saying that the rwanda plan wouldnt work, immigration lawyers keir starmer Yvette Cooper saying it wouldnt work. But what were seeing with, ireland is that people now dont, are are fleeing their Illegal Immigrants are going to ireland. And i think thats to be welcomed , Stephen Pound, do you welcomed, Stephen Pound, do you think its having a deterrent effect . Effect . Good afternoon. I dont think it is. Its way, way, way too early to tell. Look, the problem the government has got, on the one hand that theyre saying that rwanda is a sun soaked earthly paradise. On the other hand, theyre saying its going to be so terrifying you dont want to go there. The fact that we sent one person would have been cheaper to send them in a chauffeur dnven to send them in a chauffeur driven bentley than put three grand in their back pocket. Look, whats odd about this . Look, whats odd about this . Whats really strange . You know, simon, not for the first time, has actually mentioned , time, has actually mentioned, you know, somethings quite salient here. This island business is a different aspect. What i want to know is, why are these people in the country going to belfast via liverpool and then coming down to the repubuc and then coming down to the republic of ireland . I dont think this is anything to do with rwanda. So id say at the moment rwanda is not having a deterrent effect. And if you have a look at your own gb views, look at the great boatloads of shoals of people pounng boatloads of shoals of people pouring across the calm, sunny channel today, no sign of a deterrent effect whatsoever. Well, maybe theyre heading to the republic of ireland. Reem ibrahim. Well, theyre going the wrong way. I think. Way. I think. I think stephens right. I think stephens right. I think i think that its far too early to tell whether or not its having a deterrent effect or not. Weve seen record levels of immigration, people crossing the border so far. And i think whats interesting about this is we seem to be okay with spending huge amounts of to money send these people out of the country to rwanda, but were not okay with spending that money domestically to keep them here. So weve got to think about the cost of this in the long term. If its going to cost huge amounts of money, one plane all the way to rwanda and Ā£3,000, the way to rwanda and Ā£3,000, the cost of this is huge. The cost of this is huge. And the fact of the matter is, the only person that has actually been sent to rwanda was sent on the voluntary scheme. So unless we actually get the scheme working and actually get the forced removals working , the forced removals working, unfortunately i dont see this ever acting as an illegal as a as a tariff. But isnt it our own fault though, because even when we set up something, we have all these people complaining like annunziata, youre absolutely spot on. I mean, this week we had people complaining around a coach in peckham which was going to take people to the bibby stockholm. Stockholm. Absolutely. Absolutely. And weve got Civil Servants who are taking the government to court to check whether they are allowed to do their jobs legally. I think there is a very big institutional bias against this policy happening, which is completely unfounded. And we have a democrat elected government that should be able to write and enact the laws as it sees fit. Unfortunately , we seem to unfortunately, we seem to have handed a lot of power to foreign bodies such as the echr that are determined to prevent the government governing. Simon, i know youre not well. I think the point is its proven the Irish Government have said its the rwanda plan thats encouraging people to go to their country. Theyre saying its around 80, increase of, Asylum Seekers coming into ireland. So i think its proven all the journalists that have gone over there to interview, the Illegal Immigrants , saying that Illegal Immigrants, saying that its the rwanda plan thats making them flee, britain. And so i think it is an indication that the plan is working. And i think once we do start, people, no ones been deported, no ones been deported on the non voluntary scheme. Yet. So unless until people yet. So unless until people are actually being deported to rwanda , this still sends rwanda, this still sends a signal to all of those criminal gangs and everybody that continuously comes to this country from other safe countries. Now, again, i think countries. Now, again, i think that i think the immigration is a good thing. I think that people coming to this country and working is a good thing. But at the moment weve got huge amounts of people on the Asylum Seeker backlog that are in limbo there. Its illegal for them to work. Theyre unable to work. We know all that. We know all that, though. Its more whether rwanda is having a deterrent effect. Okay, im going to ask effect. Okay, im going to ask you yes or no . Simon danczuk yes or no . Rwanda is it having a deterrent effect, yes or no . Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Reem ibrahim yes or no . No. Stephen pound yes or no . No . No. No. And Annunziata Rees mogg , yes and Annunziata Rees mogg, yes or no . It can do. If the government can getit it can do. If the government can get it working. Thank you so much for your thoughts. Really good to hear what you think. There we go, those thats what they think. What do you think . Gb news. Com forward slash youll say well lets see what my panel maker that joining me now broadcast columnist lizzie cundy was a former labour Party Adviser. Matthew laza lizzie im going to start with you. Well, its too early to say and i have to say i agree with Stephen Pound. Not very often i agree with him. But, you know, it could have been really good, but they have spent so much money, 290 million, another 100 million in the further two years. You know, the main people that have gone to the home secretaries that have cost 400,000, James Cleverly on his own, the jet cost 165,000. Whos footing the bill as the taxpayer . So to be honest, its pretty much a mess, im afraid. And they they should have left the echr and been able to get these flights off. And they havent. But we have to have a third country. I mean, even if people say, oh , we have to have a third say, oh, we have to have a third country, because otherwise matthew laza your great leader said that hes going to scrap rwanda even if its working. And rwanda even if its working. And in ireland some people are saying it is, but you will need a third country if people are. Well, i think dont meet the criteria testament to it. Not working is the fact that, as we heard, 710 people arrived in 711, 711, forgive me, arrived. And i think even more today as we were hearing in the news. So i mean , you know, i know a few i mean, you know, i know a few people in dublin are saying this, but actually the people who are arriving on the small boats, who are both arriving in the country illegally and taking their own lives at risk by going on small boats across the channel. It isnt deterring them because theyre still coming, but its one element of a larger picture. And we do need that element. I mean, otherwise i want to stop. If somebody comes here and you know, you dont know where theyve come from , they dont theyve come from, they dont tell you or they cant be sent back to where theyre going. But they failed asylum. Well need a third country. None of the only one whos gone so far was voluntary. Youve got three grand in his pocket. Thats our own fault, isnt it . Because were allowing. We are people to scupper it no matter what we do. Sadly, 14 deaths already, 8000 already up to this year, 183 million have been made by the criminals. Thats where we need to smash the gangs. Yeah, i agree, but yes , rwanda could be agree, but yes, rwanda could be the deterrent. But they, you know, the government have been too weak. But is it really the echr and made this legal channel challenges . Its the fact that we pay for everybody who wants to decide to go against their appeal. We need go against their appeal. We need to take away some of those things. I think what we need to do is smash the gangs. So we need to do things like this. Plan no. Before people get here, we can do stuff we can do now. Can do stuff we can do now. We could use Anti Terrorism legislation against the gangs, which the government refused to do, but keir starmer said hed do, but keir starmer said hed do on day one. The government hasnt been Strong Enough with this. It should have been happening a long time ago and theyve dragged their feet. Rishi hasnt been Strong Enough shown in the election polls. Hes been Strong Enough shown in the election polls. Hes hes weak and hes like a jellyfish in a prada suit. Prada suit. All right, well, a great line. Im going to im going to use that. Ive used it before. This show is nothing without you and your views. Lets welcome our Great British voices onto the show. Their opportunity to tell us what they think about the topics were discussing. Ive got three of you. Im going to start with brian duggan. But before we go to brian, who . Well go to brian , ill come well go to brian, ill come back to you. Matthew laza. You look slightly startled. You put your glasses. I put my glasses back on to look serious. Yeah. So before we go back to brian , i so before we go back to brian, i just want to ask you, though, do you think, though, if keir starmer reversed his rwanda, do you not think that would be an unpopular because its a piece of i think if they i think i mean i think keir starmer will be, breathing a sigh of relief that the, that were not further down the rwanda road because even if the election isnt until right at the end of the year, i think were going to find that , think were going to find that, that, you know, only if best a handful of people have been sent i so so| so i dont think it will be like he would be stopping a successful scheme because they wont be able to tell whatever keir starmer says. Now, you know, hes going to do a u turn later on. Courageous. Courageous. The man of principle, captain flip flop. Flip flop. Yeah he will. Yeah he will. Did you buy the flip flops with his face . I have, yeah. And ive worn them. Yeah indeed. Yeah. But im sorry. You know, thats the thing with labour, we dont actually know what they stand for. Their policies. Theyve just got on in the voting because of default from the conservatives. Weve got a very clear policy we need on smashing the gangs, which is using anti terror legislation, having anti terror legislation, having a Cross Border Police force, making sure we process claims quicker by putting a thousand more people so that we can send people home who shouldnt be in the country. Its a very clear plan. Its a very clear plan. Well, you say thats a very clear plan. It sounds like its an easy peasy lemon squeezy. I dont think so. I think, let me dont think so. I think, let me tell you, i actually think that youre slightly delusional. And youre slightly delusional. And i also think that the fact that youre delusional means that youve come up with this naive policy, which keir starmer has come up with, where he thinks hes just going to do that and its all going to work out. I think hes wrong and i and i cant wait to see what he does. And, you know, what do you know what . Hell show his true colours. Because without Peter Mandelson and tony blair writing his script, he is pretty much useless. They were part of a useless. They were part of a very successful government. But i mean, i really i, the government thinks its really easy because. All right, well listen, lets go to our braverman voice. Im going to try and brian doogan again from brian doogan. What do again from brian doogan. What do you think . I mean, is rwanda a deterrent . Youve got about 30s . Brian i dont think it is. Nana. I think its actually quite a cynical , you know, i think its actually quite a cynical, you know, just i think its actually quite a cynical , you know, just ploy. Cynical, you know, just ploy. I dont i dont see anything that it will actually fundamentally address, labour labours stance on this is, is abundantly clear. Despite you know, trying to shrouded in any kind of mystery, theyre going to tackle the problem where the root causes are. Well, they say that cynical, cynical thing that addresses things at superficial value and it has no impact whatsoever. You it has no impact whatsoever. You dont know that, brian. And as for calling it, their plan is perfectly clear. I dont even think they know what it is. Miranda richardson not the Miranda Richardson not the Miranda Richardson, our Miranda Richardson in northamptonshire. Richardson in northamptonshire. Miranda miranda, are you frozen . Mirandas frozen. Ive got a david bomb. David. Bomb . Are you frozen as well . No youre not. Frozen as well . No youre not. No youre not. Speak to me. Im very real. Very quick one. Obviously, because of time, Keir Starmers brilliant, but so far he wants to. Said hes going to send them all back to where they come from. Except theyve been told by the eu theyre not going to accept anybody, dublins been trying to shove them back to us because they dont want them. There has to be some sort of system that stops it. If rwanda just reduced it day by 10 to 15, thats at least its a start. We you know, we its a start. We you know, we dont have the capacity in this country to house the hundreds of thousands of illegal. And lets face it, thats what they are. There are illegal migrants. Exactly david, we are running out of time. People forget theyre protesting illegal. David. David. Stop talking. Weve run out of. Weve run out of time. Out of. Weve run out of time. For goodness sake, man, close your mouth. Right. Thank you so your mouth. Right. Thank you so much to my Great British bosses. Ill probably never come back. Ill probably never come back. This is tv news on tv, online and on Digital Radio. Im nana akua. Coming up, my quick fire quiz. I test the panel on some of the stories that caught good afternoon. This is gb news. We are the peoples channel. Im nana akua 51 minutes after 5 00. Its time now for the quick fire quiz. The part of the show where i test my panel on some of the stories that are hitting the headlines. Joining me, the fabulous broadcast columnist lizzie cundy. Your buzzer, please, lizzie. And also former labour Party Adviser matthew bourne, also your matthew blazer, your blazer please. I was called liza the blazer at school. Its a long story. At school. Its a long story. All right. All right. All right. Question all right. Question one please play along at home. Where did king charles make his first return to public duties since announcing his cancer . Diagnosis was a macmillan Cancer Centre in london. B wins a foodshare food bank or c in sandringham church, lizzie cundy , hey, youre lizzie cundy, hey, youre absolutely right. It was indeed the macmillan Cancer Centre in london and lovely to see you too, miss. Amazing. Yes. Too, miss. Amazing. Yes. Question two. Closest answer wins. How question two. Closest answer wins. How many days did humza yousaf last as first minister of scotland . Matthew laza. Scotland . Matthew laza. 380, lizzie cundy 381 381. 380, lizzie cundy 381 381. The answer is 397. Lizzie cundy, you have taken that. Well done. Cundy, you have taken that. Well done. Yes, it was actually 397 done. Yes, it was actually 397 days, so a little bit longer than liz truss. Right. Open question. Question three what did bonnie tyler admit to doing at the start of her singing career . Buzzers, please. Buzzer lizzie cundy, a waitress doing, mouthing to other peoples tracks. Other peoples tracks. The answer is she toned down her welsh rac total eclipse of my heart is, the heart is my karaoke piece. Oh, really . You can sing that . 7 id say 7 id say its imam . Id say its my karaoke piece. The end of the show. If weve got time. No way. No way that youre asking for it, right . A true or false question four there are plans to build an underwater tunnel between europe and africa. Lizzie cundy true or and africa. Lizzie cundy true or false . The answer is its true. False . The answer is its true. Be a long old tunnel. But itd be like boriss tunnel to Northern Ireland. Never happened to be a question five why was the Co Op Live Arena in manchester unable to open . Was it a they forgot. They forgot to order enough seats . B forgot to order enough seats . B the speakers failed to play out loud or c the air conditioning broke matthew laza c the air conditioning collapsed. Even conditioning collapsed. Even though you went in before lizzie cundyi though you went in before lizzie cundy i did. Im going to do different b b lets see. The answer is c the air conditioning broke, right . I think the scores and the doors are finally won. So yes. Think the scores and the doors are finally won. So yes. And are finally won. So yes. And happy birthday to you this week as well. Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh by the way ive got a present for you all. Its, lizzie cundy sticker, but no sticker. There you go. Thank you. I have one for you. I shall make sure i wear this. Thank you. Yes yes, thank you very much. Its some sort of you very much. Its some sort of the cult of cundy. The cult of the cult of cundy. The cult of the country cult. Okay. The country cult. Okay. Be careful where you places. Be careful where you places. Yes. You have to be careful with your words on that. Well, its an on todays show weve been asking, is rwanda having a deterrent effect . And according deterrent effect . And according to our twitter poll, 24 of you say yes , 76 of you say no. Im say yes, 76 of you say no. Im quite surprised at that. I would have thought they would go on, i thought so. Well, listen, ive got to say, i think it shows that its not working. Its not hitting home with the public. I think people have had enough of it. All right. Well, thank you so much to my panel broadcast on columnist lizzie cundy. And also to you, matthew laza. Thank you so much. And a huge thank you to you at home for your company as well. Ill be back same time, same place tomorrow. But matthew laza sing us out with totally, absolutely you have swing it away. Away. Come on. No, were going to have silence all together. Quickly. Just one note. One note. You got 10s. Maybe one. No, i cant, i cant do come on. No total eclipse of the heart. I totally clipped some matthew laza voice, even though he bragged about it in karaoke for my birthday, wincing. Well, listen, dont forget to join me tomorrow. Same time, same place. Tomorrow. Same time, same place. 3 00 the fabulous Christine Hamilton and danny kelly will be there live. Take care. Enjoy your day. I shall see you your day. I shall see you tomorrow at three. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Good afternoon and welcome to your latest gb news weather from the met office. So High Pressure does continue to dominate , but does continue to dominate, but it will be feeling a little chillier along some eastern coast. The area of High Pressure situated across the uk does bnng situated across the uk does bring a bit of a north easterly breeze, so some chillier conditions, but plenty of dry weather around due to that area of High Pressure. So some Late Afternoon and evening sunshine for some of us. However, some thicker cloud across parts of scotland will bring some outbreaks of patchy rain , outbreaks of patchy rain, particularly for northern parts of scotland, slowly sinking its way southwards into the early hours of the morning. South eastern parts of england, Northern Ireland and western parts of scotland, holding on to those clearer skies and turning quite chilly there. However, remaining frost free under that cloud and patchy rain. So for eastern parts of scotland, a bit of a cloudy and grey and damp start to the day on sunday. However south eastern parts of england, Northern Ireland and western parts of scotland seeing the best of the sunshine through the best of the sunshine through the morning, perhaps 1 or 2 showers bubbling up across southeastern parts of england through the afternoon, but it should be staying dry for most places. However, that band of patchy rain slowly continues to sink its way southwards and feeling quite chilly under that cloud and rain too. However, in the Sunshine Feeling very pleasant. Highs of 1415, maybe 16 degrees across the south. Monday does start a bit of a grey day for most of us. Outbreaks of rain continue to slowly push their way southwards, but south eastern parts of england probably holding on to that sunshine and feeling quite pleasant in that sunshine to maybe 1 or 2 showers around on tuesday or wednesday, but temperatures will be slowly recovering closer to average for the time of year. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on local Election Results. The dangers of Stella Creasys extreme abortion amendments. Tick tock terrors are turning society upside down. The unemployed should get off the sofa and scrub britain clean, and we should be afraid of muslim and christian ideologues invading our politics. Its 6 pm. And this is the saturday five. Welcome to the start of day five. Were all set for our local Election Results. Special in the red corner, basking in the glow of huge election gains for labour, its