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Be taking a look ahead. The kings return to royal life as he takes on around 300 new patronages, including some that were closed to his mothers heart. As prince harry prepares to return to the uk and, of course, its Bank Holiday Weekend. So were going to be talking to a retail expert about how you could bag a bargain. This may. Good morning. Its taken 22 years but ipswich are finally back in the big time as victory over huddersfield propelled them back to the premier league in the title race. Four goals for Erling Haaland helped Manchester City keep pace with arsenal as he hit back at family nemesis roy keane. More later , the mixed roy keane. More later, the mixed picture for the rest of the bank houday picture for the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend, with sunny spells for some, but also some outbreaks of rain and also some showers. Ill have all the details coming up soon. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on. Breakfast on. Gb news. Did you know or have you ever used, i should say, instant milk . Used, i should say, instant milk. 7 no. Me. 7 me . No. Because apparently, its becoming, popular amongst some users again. You know, that sort users again. You know, that sort of. What do they call creamer . Oh, yeah. Thats very american thing, isnt it . Creamer. You sort of get it in hotels sometimes, dont you . But apparently its making a comeback. Why . I dont know. Is it cheaper than just buying milk . It must be instant milk. I wouldnt even know what that looks like on the shelves. That looks like on the shelves. Its not very nice. Well, theres a brand. Oh. Is there . Oh. Is there . Theres a brand of it. Theres a brand of it. Have you tried it . Have you tried it . Oh, in years gone by. But its never very nice. Oh, i cant say. Oh right. Yeah. No, it doesnt look good. No. So im not im not a fan. So i wonder, are we going back to the 70s . Look at this. I was going to say, is that a good thing . Isnt a good thing politically . Was it a little nightmare . Yeah but, you know, some of that stuff because we were talking the other week, werent we . About you know, pineapple and cheese on sticks at parties and acas oliver laurence. Theyre all coming back. Theyre all coming back. Its all coming back. So maybe we need to buy creamer for our coffees as well. Yeah, i wouldnt be up for that personally. No. Would you . No, i dont like it. I dont like it. No, its too creamy for me. I dont really have milk in my coffee anyway. Oh, no, your oats. Milk. I have almond, almond, almond. Were discussing this morning how we say that word. Oh yeah. Almond or almond . Almond. Id almond or almond . Almond. Id say almond, yeah. So if we say nugget rather than nougat , we always got very than nougat, we always got very confused when there was an advert for a chocolate bar and no nugget filled with nougat. Like, whats that . No, no Chicken Nuggets or golden nuggets would be the only thing that is a nugget. I never thought of it like that. Yeah a nougat is something totally different. Thats what you get in a mars bar, right . Well, look, im being educated this morning. Quite right too, anyway, keep your thoughts coming through if you want to return to the 1970s. Maybe it feels. It feels like we need to at the minute. Gbnews. Com yoursay right now, is it time up for Prime Minister rishi sunak . Well, its been a miserable weekend for him so far. First of all, sadiq khan won his third term as london mayor yesterday afternoon. Afternoon. 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 more. Well, just a few hours later , well, just a few hours later, the conservative andy street lost the West Midlands mayoralty, which hed been expected to retain to labours Richard Parker by 1508 votes. Well, joining us now is the former lib dem mp mark oaten. Really good to see you this morning mark. Thank you so much for your company. Whats your assessment of what weve seen over the weekend so far , good over the weekend so far, good morning to you both. I think its probably what all the three parties expected privately, the labour party would have expected to do as well as this. They would have underplayed it before these results came out. The conservatives Worst Nightmare was theyd lose half their seats. Will they have done . And the lib dems would have hoped that they could make breakthroughs in the seats theyre targeting in the next general election, and it looks like they have done so. Probably its exactly what we expected at this time. It would have been a shock, frankly, if the conservatives could have done better than the polls predicted, and it would have been a shock also, if labour had underperformed. So its broadly where i would have expected us to be this time out of a general election. Yeah, but whats interesting , yeah, but whats interesting, i think, and because, look, we knew it was going to be bad for the conservatives and it has been, but i think its whether theres been dealt a, a killer blow in all of this. And i reckon losing andy street might be because its such a shock. Be because its such a shock. I think that was the Tipping Point of disaster for them. In many ways. That was the one hope they were going to hold to. On they were going to hold to. On by they were going to hold to. On by all accounts, street was a popular mayor and if a popular conservative gets defeated in these circumstances , that will these circumstances, that will send a shiver through many, many conservative mps up and down the country because a lot of them will think, look, i do a good job locally. People like me, i hope ive got some personal votes. What the street result shows is that a personal vote just aint going to save you in this political climate. There will be a lot of tory mps waking up very concerned this morning. I mean, does that result with andy street suggest that the challenge facing the conservative party is even greater than first thought . I think it probably does, i dont know if i was a conservative party strategist. What i do next, bluntly, and thats always frightening because in these circumstances you can think, well, i could maybe change a policy, you know, throw the electorate some tax cuts. Well, theyve tried that. That hasnt worked. They might think, well, worked. They might think, well, lets throw in a new leader. Well i think theyve done that 3 or 4 times now. That hasnt worked. And the bluntly just comes an inevitability in the electoral cycle where everything you try and do is not hitting home. And i think the conservatives have bluntly got to that point. Now, their best strategy will be to minimise the losses when it comes to the general election. General election. Is the labour Party Offering anything apart from not being conservatives . Conservatives . I think thats what starmer has done very cleverly. Hes not offered much and in doing so he shut down the opportunity for attack on policies. Now i can remember back when i won my seat in 1997 for the lib dems , there in 1997 for the lib dems, there was huge enthusiasm about tony blair. People really wanted that change. What i dont see with starmer and labour is that kind of enthusiasm , so the conclusion of enthusiasm, so the conclusion i think we draw is that, look, their best placed to get rid of this unpopular conservative party but theres no massive enthusiasm for labour either. But i think starmer will be happy for that. Hes a safe player and hell say to his party, look, you know, ive kept it calm, ive kept it quiet. Ive not exposed us to new policies. Steady as she goes. Policies. Steady as she goes. And he seems cautious. But that cautious approach at the moment seems to be paying off. Mark as you were just describing. Its difficult to see how the tories are going to move forward from this as a party. Do you think the results over the weekend may have changed the timing and rishi sunak mind of when he might call a general election . Theres been talk, hasnt there, about october, november and going as long as possible. Well, do you think he possible. Well, do you think he may now call an early general election and as you say, focus now on minimising the losses . Now on minimising the losses . Absolutely not. Its my view. I mean, when you know youre going to get wiped out, why call an election . Its the classic turkey voting for an early christmas. His best hope. And its his only hope, is that Interest Rates eventually start to fall, that the inflation comes down. And he can have a narrative with the public which says, look, its been really tough. Its been bad. Weve seen you through covid, weve seen you through covid, weve seen you through covid, weve seen you through ukraine. But look, the signs are here. The economy is recovering. I think thats is recovering. I think thats his best hope. The problem is that the Interest Rates arent coming down, and so hell want to play it long in the hope that by, i believe, Something Like mid november , the bank of mid november, the bank of england will have cut those Interest Rates. The economy might be looking stronger. And to do that he needs time. So to do that he needs time. So i believe hell go as long as he possibly can. All right. So weve got a lot to wait for in all of this, seeing as you were a lib dem. Can i ask you about what the lib dems are doing at the moment, i just dont know if its falling on deaf ears. Really. Theyre doing a lot of ed davey is doing a lot of stunts , are they paying a lot of stunts, are they paying off or not . Well, i think the results from the local elections would satisfy ed davey. I think the party would say they are doing enough. I mean, look, if you look at those results, theyve actually come second ahead of the conservatives in the seats won. And thats a, you know, won. And thats a, you know, a pretty remarkable effort. But what youre not going to see from the lib dems is this big National Campaign in a much more focused. They have their eyes on maybe 40, 50, 60 seats. The general election and they are going to be absolutely targeting those, putting resources , money, those, putting resources, money, stuffing leaflets through peoples doors in those individual seats. So it might not actually have an impact on the Global National radar, but all they care about is winning those particular target seats. And they would say the results the other night show theyre on target to do that. Target to do that. But in terms of national, i mean, in local politics, lib dems have always been strong. I wonder if in national politics, theyre focusing on a small number of seats, what are the predictions . I saw based on the local results said, well, they may get an additional eight seats and take them to 38 or whatever the number is. I mean, theyre basically acknowledging arent they, that they will be nothing more than a protest party, a protest vote, and some, like me, would argue that maybe the party needs to be a little bit more ambitious and to, to argue for stronger things nationally about what they can achieve. But they were very, very concerned by what happened when one of their previous leaders, jo swinson , said, my name is jo jo swinson, said, my name is jo swinson, im going to be Prime Minister. And it was ridiculed. Minister. And it was ridiculed. So i think theyre very cautious about making grand claims. Personally, i think theyre heading for maybe 50, 60, 70 seats. They would never say that publicly, but if you look at the individual results from constituencies up and down the country where the lib dems are second, local people know that if they want to get rid of the tories, they vote for the party whos in second place. And in many seats that is the lib dems. So i think quietly behind the scenes, theyll be confident that they can have quite a big breakthrough at the next election. Is it exciting . Is it hitting the headlines . No its not. Will it be effective come the general election . Probably yes okay. Oh interesting. Mark oaten really good to see you. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. Lots of you getting in touch this morning john andrews morning to you says morning you two. Today the tories need to be held to the fire. No more pretending they still have a chance at the next election. They lost the mayor in the West Midlands, andy street. Thats shown the tories everything. They will now lose the red wall. We need to be realistic, he says. Many tory voters will now move over to reform. If nigel comes out of retirement, thats a big if. Thats the big if, i mean, heck, hes just not saying anything at the moment, is there . Yeah, i think hell hell leave it as long as he can. I think, thats my prediction. But yeah, do keep those views coming in on what weve seen over the weekend. What are your thoughts . Gbnews. Com yoursay now, Donald Trumps hush money trial enters its third week in new york tomorrow. Yes. The former president is accused of falsifying Business Records over hush money payments made to the adult actress Stormy Daniels in order to cover up their alleged affair. Well, hes denied all wrongdoing as we know. Lets talk to professor scott lucas, professor of us politics at University College london, good to see you this morning. I have to see you this morning. I have to say, i dont really know much about whats been going on in the trial because the headlines certainly over here have all been sort of contempt of court and gag orders and all this sort of thing. Of thing. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you know, all the drama has been that trump has been fined 9,000 because he continues to insult the proceedings , insulting the the proceedings, insulting the judge, insulting the prosecutors, insult , saying the prosecutors, insult, saying the judges family, the judges clerk. But its been really important these two weeks in terms of setting up, where we go with the substance of this trial, which , of course, is trial, which, of course, is about falsifying Business Records as part of an interference in the 2016 election. And i think you just heard from mark oaten that in politics, sometimes its quite good to be quiet but effective. Good to be quiet but effective. The same is true in trials. What the prosecution has been doing , the prosecution has been doing, because this is their term in court, has been laying out the evidence, which is i think is pretty clear, that that the trump team were very worried about his , sexual encounters and about his, sexual encounters and his affair , his affair with his affair, his affair with Karen Mcdougal, his sexual encounter with the porn star Stormy Daniels, that there was motive there to try to keep Stormy Daniels quiet, that the money was paid to her in october of 2016, and the next week, theyll probably then get to the substance of. Yes, and then the Business Records were falsified, to cover up that payment where the defence is going to go when it comes their turn. I dont think they can really knock back that evidence. I think what they that evidence. I think what they do is theyll go after the witnesses, theyll go after the character of the witnesses, especially Stormy Daniels and mike, Donald Trumps former fixer, michael cohen. Fixer, michael cohen. And how do you think this is actually affecting donald trump himself . Because weve seen, havent we, scott lucas in previous trials that this actually helps him a lot in the polls is, it feeds into his narrative, doesnt it, of him versus the establishment. But actually, i think for the first time in this trial, we have seen him getting somewhat frustrated. Him getting somewhat frustrated. Do you think thats because its been such a long trial so far . Well, i think it was always a bit of a myth. More it was a spin line by the trumpists that the trials always help him. You the trials always help him. You know, they kind of say that because its like, oh, dont put him on trial or else hell win, i dont think it helped him. For example, when he was found guilty of defamation and Sexual Assault of E Jean Carroll the writer, it wont help him with women voters. In terms of this trial, whats compounded that is that trump is kind of limited in what he can say, because of course, he risked getting fined if he lashes out too much. And because practically he has to be in court rather than on the campaign trail. And for that reason, he is getting frustrated. He is getting angry in court because trump doesnt really do procedure. He doesnt do evidence. He doesnt even do. Dare i say it, the legal process. He does big speeches. He does loud and bigly. And he cant do that, while this trial goes on into a third week or fourth week and a second month. Okay, scott , good to see you okay, scott, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Well, well see what happens tomorrow when it all kicks off again. Thank you what happens tomorrow when it now at 6 16, lets take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom. The family of Daniel Anjorin say theyre devastated after he was killed walking to school in london on tuesday. The 14 year london on tuesday. The 14 year old, who had been described as loving and precious, attacked by a man with a sword in hainault. Four other people, including two police officers, were injured and marcus monzo, a spanish brazilian , was charged with brazilian, was charged with murdering the teenager and appeared in Court Earlier this week. More than 20 dogs have been seized after police raided a suspected illegal xl bully Breeding Farm in sheffield. 16 of the animals are being looked after in Police Kennels after they were discovered in what officers described as appalling conditions. Six other dogs were so unwell they had to be put to sleep. The breed was added to a banned list, but campaigners argue that the ban is unlawful and irrational. And if youve seen snakes on a plane, well, almost a reality actually. After a man tried to board a flight with two of the reptiles stored, lets just say somewhere they shouldnt have been. According to airport officers in miami, he was stopped at security, and after they discovered the snakes smuggled in his trousers , well, smuggled in his trousers, well, thats his underpants. It would seem officials posted pictures of the of the snakes on social media, and reassured followers that they were handed over to experts. Experts. Well, it gives me the heebie jeebies. Jeebies. I mean, why would you want to put a little tiny . I mean, anything could happen. You dont like it at all. Dont like seeing the pictures. I mean, its bad enough when you got ferrets down your trousers. They nibble, they do nibble. Youve got to tie the youve got to tie the bottom of your trousers. Otherwise they fall out. Oh no. Awful terrible. Oh no. Its my skin crawl. Its my skin crawl. Yeah. King charles takes on about 300 new patronages. Pat, you say that word. Patronages. Its a struggle patronages. Its a struggle with a difficult one. It is patronages, patronages. Lets patronages, patronages. Lets just say it quickly. Cant get me to my truck anyway, you know what i mean . Anyway, some of which are thought to be very close to his mothers heart. Well, thats his critics fear that a royal row is ensuing over Prince Andrews home, royal lodge in windsor, which is in desperate need of repair, with some questioning whether he should indeed be living there at all. All right, lets talk to former butler to king charles grant, harold, who joins us now from somewhere exotic, probably because you always seem to be away somewhere exotic at the moment. Grant first and foremost, youre taking on these new roles. I dont know how much you have to do within each role, but it seems at a time when im a bit surprised hes done it, at a bit surprised hes done it, at a time when his health is still obviously a little bit fragile, good morning to you both from tokyo , as you said, they have, tokyo, as you said, they have, you know, hes taken on these passages. I think its to show us all that even though hes obviously got these Health Battles that hes , obviously battles that hes, obviously fighting cancer. But at the same time, as we know, recently he started to talk about increasing his engagements. And i think taking these on is very much to show the country all of us, if not the world, that its kind of almost, almost back to business as normal. Because as ive said before , hes somebody that does before, hes somebody that does not like just to sit down and do nothing. So if anything, as soon as the doctors may have given him a bit of, obviously hope that things are going well , hes that things are going well, hes decided that he wants to increase what he already does , increase what he already does, which doesnt surprise me, because thats exactly the kind of character he is. As i said, hes not somebody that likes to just sit back and do nothing. Its a complete opposite. And i think thats why hes probably quite happy to be able to do this. And again, its things that were close to the late queen, which he is obviously, as now king, hes keen to continue a lot of her work, should we talk about Prince Andrew . Because its the front page of the sunday mirror this morning . Apparently the estate at royal lodge in windsor is in a state of disrepair, and theres questions about whether he should be living there at all, i mean, as you know, this this is a former home of the late Queen Elizabeth the queen mother. And of course, he obviously has lived there for a few years. Theres been debates in the past about whether he should have that property. Its quite a substantial sized house. I think its between eight and ten bedrooms. Obviously, it needs repairs done. I think its regardless of whos living there, the what, we still have to be done to that property because again, as one of the royal properties, its somewhere that theyve got to kind of look after and undertake its kind of care, whether thats been paid for by, lets say, the king or whether thats paid for by him, thats very much down to what the agreement is between them all. I know from a personal point of view, when i used to live in royal properties, that that was something that i would, depending on what had to be done. You know, if its something that had to be done, then it was done by the estate. If it was something i wanted done, then i would do it. So thats what it comes down to. So if these are general kind of repairs that have to be done, then technically its probably then technically its probably the estate that should when it should be covering it, can i ask you about i mean, i dont know if you if youve, youve cottoned on to this on the other side of the world, grant, as you are, but republic, who obviously are, but republic, who obviously are not a fan of the royal family and theyve declared the 5th of may national. How are they phrasing it . National repubuc they phrasing it . National republic day, first ever this year theres going to be a big eventin year theres going to be a big event in trafalgar square. Apparently what are we to make of that . I mean, its people have got a right, of course, to not like the royal family or to not like the royal family or to not like the royal family or to not like what the royal family stands for. Do you think there is a growing appetite for that sort of thing or not . Do you know, its interesting, stephen . I mean, you know , its a free country. You know, its a free country. Were allowed to protest. Were allowed to kind of speak our mind. Thats thats whats great about our country. And theres people that love the royal family. Theres people that dont, and theres also people, im actually on a on a Queen Elizabeths ship and ive been talking to a lot of the guests who ive been here, and it was interesting. Some of them were saying to me, they love the royal family, but they dont always agree with the way things are done. They dont agree with certain members of the family. So its very much, can i say a marmite situation . Sometimes but with republic, of course, you know, theyve got every right to kind of voice how they feel about it. Theres always people that do feel strongly about it. But i always think, you know, if you look at what the alternative is, you know, we are i feel personally, you know, my view is i love our royal family. It was an ambition from a youngster to get to meet the late queen and let alone work for the family, and you know, we only weve only got this one royal family and if we got rid of them, then thats it. Then we got rid of them, then thats it. Then what makes us unique . I feel that our royal family does make us quite unique and special and without going into it, you know what it costs each of us is its still very little in the big scheme of things, and, and just very briefly, because i did want to end on some happier news, which is, of course, the royal windsor horse show, which was near Windsor Castle yesterday. We saw some beautiful pictures of the duchess of edinburgh, the duke of edinburgh and their children yesterday, which was just wonderful to see. Absolutely. And again, theyve taken on other engagements again, which the late queen would have done. Im sure you remember the late queen loved to attend that. And of course, horses animals were one of her greatest passions. So its quite nice that obviously her son and as you know, the duchess of edinburgh was somewhat was very close to the late queen. Its quite nice to see them both there, continuing to enjoy this with their children. And im sure remembering, his late mother at the same time. The same time. Grant, really good to see you this morning. It grant, really good to see you this morning. It looks like this morning. It looks like youre touring the world on that lovely boat as a fitness guru. Whats going on, i have to. I have to say, if you, have you got a new Health Regime . Got a new Health Regime . Ive actually, discovered a personal trainer, so ive ended up losing a little bit of weight and having a bit of a makeover. Thats what happens when youre on a ship. You look great, grant. You look really good. Yeah, good on you. Thank you very much. Good to see you this morning. Thank you. Oh, he looks really well. Tokyo suits him. He does look really well. He does . Oh, maybe i need to get personal. No , dont be nasty to yourself. No no no, no, but, you know, room for improvement. Would you be. Would you be. I dont think i cope with the personal trainer very well. No, i wouldnt think i would really. But they boss you about. But they boss you about. I mean, hes looking great. I mean, hes looking great. He is looking great. He is looking great. Maybe thats the trick. Maybe thats the trick. Oh, dear. Ill have a think about it as we look at the weather with kathy. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on. Solar, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello and welcome to your gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudier in the north. But where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland, with some outbreaks of rain here. But in the south west we have got a weather system and thats bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast through the rest of the afternoon and evening time, cloud generally moving its way northward to parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here, cloudier conditions still remaining across Northern Ireland and parts of scotland still with some showery outbreaks of rain across eastern parts. Otherwise temperatures with a lot of cloud around, temperatures still staying a little bit up for the time of year. And then as we go through starting monday morning. 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Now this is one you need to pay now this is one you need to Pay Attention to. Yes. How to bag a bargain. This Bank Holiday Weekend. Shes spending far too much money out of her ears. Its out of your ears. Yeah. Is that what they say when youre spending out of your ears . Gbnews. Com yoursay if youve ever heard that before. But anyway, well tell you to how save some money or bag a bargain, at least in just a couple of minutes i now it is, lam now it is, of course, the Bank Holiday Weekend. And youre probably really enjoying ourselves if youre not at work like we are. Oh, we love it, though. But we do love it. And now, if youre looking to grab yourself a bargain this bank houday yourself a bargain this Bank Holiday Weekend, you may just have time to do it. Yeah, Bank Holidays are known for their sales, of course, so , for their sales, of course, so, how do you get hold of the best deal . What are the best things to look for . Well, joining us now is chief economic adviser for the centre for economic and business research, vicky pryce. To good see you this weekend vicky. And what bargains have we got to look forward to . Well, theres an awful lot going on because, of course the consumer has been very careful with their money. So some of the offers are are quite substantial. And i think in my view, whether its clothes or whether its iphones or whether its gadgets for the garden, you know, summer furniture and things like that, which of course is now coming out and, and, and being sold quite aggressively , what we finding is aggressively, what we finding is that, in fact, retailers have quite a lot of stock that they like to get rid of. And consumers have been also reluctant to buy anything for the summer because, of course, the summer because, of course, the weather hasnt been particularly good. So when there is a lot of rain, people dont go out to shop. And i was just go out to shop. And i was just listening earlier to your forecasts for this weekend. Its quite nice and bright here in southwest london right now, but tomorrow is meant to be pretty bad. So if people were intending bad. So if people were intending to go and shop, on monday, then they probably wont do it. If its very, very wet. And i think that has affected Monthly Sales as well. So here we are, the beginning of may, when people are looking forward to the summer and the retailers are saying we actually are not selling enough. If you look at some of the data for march, for example, which is an official figure. So no change at all in volumes in sales. Weve just had the cbi distributive, trade, indicators coming out which suggest a fall in april. So a lot of retailers are now putting a lot of emphasis on whats going to happen this weekend. You mentioned some initial deals, are they the ones to look for rather than your sort of ten, 15 off . Well, this is really interesting because when you look at some of the suggestions that people are making, see newspaper articles, magazines sort of suggesting whether its and also, some of the, the websites, theres a lot of 10 discounts if you spend a little bit more, you may get 15. If you spend a little bit more than that, say over £200 or even £1,000, you may get 20. Well, it becomes more interesting, of course, at that level. But in reality there is a serious concern that retailers put their pnces concern that retailers put their prices up a little bit before the sales. So you havent noficed the sales. So you havent noticed maybe that theyve been creeping up a little bit and then they are able to say, right, were reducing this now by 10. There are people who who watch this, who track prices through the year. And when the pnces through the year. And when the prices come down, like for example, this weekend, then they buy in bulk the things that they need, particularly cosmetics, is what ive been hearing people buy because theyre very expensive. And if you want to buy creams and so on, then you might as well wait for some real offer. And they last usually for the year, if thats what you want to do. But really, what you should be going for is the bigger offers, which just shows that retailers really want to get rid of something. And if it happens to be the type of thing you want, or there is a real promotion, on an electronic gadgets because they havent sold all that much, or theres something new coming on that they really want to encourage you to buy, then that is where some of the bargains might be. So 10 watch it. If its considerably bigger, nevertheless , even then go back nevertheless, even then go back and check if you can track the price and see how its moved through through the past year. And the consumers, of course, know that, you know, inflation is coming down and goods, inflation is practically zero right now. So youre doing really well if youre able to get an extra, lets say, 20 or 25 discount on what you wanted to buy. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Sounds good to me. Yeah it does, vicky, really good to see you. Thank does, vicky, really good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. And on on the topic of finances money, di reid has been in touch. Thank you. Di saying money coming out of your ears. Ellie, is the phrase. Thats what i meant to say. Not spending out of your ears. Money coming out of your ears. Money coming out of your ears. And it actually means youve got too much money if moneys coming out of your ears. So i have the opposite problem. Money is going into my ears, not out. Wish it was. I am going to enter the euromillions. Yes and its all your paintings. Im very old. I just see you going into one of those, chip and pin machines or coins being slotted into my head. I need something, so euromillions is this week. I think, so ill be entering that. Yes. Anyway, thank you for your help. Di yeah. Should we look at the sport . I think we better have, morning. Good morning to you both. Morning. Only one place to start today. Town . Town . Absolutely. I mean you in the absolutely. I mean you in the blue and white of ipswich. Royal blue and white of ipswich. Royal blue as well. Look like you to have. No. Were big fans of the occasion actually. But yeah. There you go. Sensational. Yesterday they look theyit sensational. Yesterday they look they it was in their hands. They had to beat Huddersfield Town who were all but relegated apart from barring a freak mathematical, you know, run in their favour. But they won two nil. Its not always easy. And when the pressures on, when youve not been in the premier league for 22 years as well. One of the goal scorers, george hirst, thrilled for him to get to the premier league. His father, david hirst, played for sheffield wednesday, suffered a horrific injury in his premier League Period back in the 90s and never really got back to his absolute best, so im hoping his son can do the business there. Kieran mckenna, the manager we mentioned yesterday, 37 years old, links with Manchester United. He served as number two to Jose Mourinho. He served as number two to jose to ole gunnar solskjaer. More recent, more recently he took over ipswich even when they were 12th in league one. So thats two divisions below the premier league. Theyve achieved two promotions in two years, surely . Surely, sir James Ratcliffe has surely, sirJames Ratcliffe has got to be looking at this guy, he said yesterday. Bring on man united. Ive got an association with this club. Hes not stepping away from these links with Manchester United. They need fresh blood. Man uniteds owners are the sort of people who look at young, up and coming coaches and think to themselves, actually, maybe their time with our statistical model, maybe theres time with our marginal gains model. So dont be surprised if hes linked again later in the summer. Should they decide to dispense with erik ten hag, but nonetheless should should they . Well, come on, hes gone. You think they will . Yeah. Oh, god. Yeah, i think they will as well. I have to admit, he looks rather beleaguered, isnt he . But if you look at ipswich, just. I dont want to take any, any shine away from what theyve achieved yesterday because it really is monumental. But if you think about it now, i mean, theyre going to be massive celebrations now over the next few years. Theyve got some huge pedigree. I mean, you know, this is a, this is a club thats lived in the shadow of norwich city over the last few years. Actually, norwich have beenin years. Actually, norwich have been in the premier league four times since ipswich were last in it and when ipswich were last in it and when ipswich were last in it they were really good. I mean they got relegated, but the season before that they competed in the uefa cup, had some excellent players and obviously the managers back in year decades gone by. Sir alf ramsey went on to manage england and win the 66 world cup. And of course, bobby robson, who was famous as manager of during the italia 90. The other end of the table, though, things are really heating up. Yes, they are indeed. So look, huddersfield have gone, have gone down but i just want to touch on leeds because it doesnt finish there. No, because ill tell you why. Because just because leeds have gone to the front page of the sun on sunday, today im going to hold it up to camera eight if i can, because elf will buys into leeds. Now will ferrell and i mentioned leeds because leeds missed out yesterday on account of ipswich winning. So if you take a look at that for a second, youll see that will ferrell is he has bought a stake in leeds united i see. Yes he has indeed. In leeds united i see. Yes he hasindeed. So in leeds united i see. Yes he has indeed. So hes bought a stake in 40 niners enterprises who bought leeds last last june. Leeds on account of ipswich winning promotion yesterday have to compete in. They could have gone up yesterday if it was such a one. And leeds and all these americans mind you. Well i mean old ryan, ryan reynolds, canadian but even so well it is but i mean i think that theres, theres a real cachet towards these historical Football Clubs. Not so much wrexham because theyve really made it into something there, but theyve said will ferrells spokesperson. Spokespeople have said that theres no plans to do a fly on theres no plans to do a fly on the wall documentary for netflix or anything like that, but hes wowed by the club. Hes been introduced to a few Football Clubs in the last couple of years, so you can see hes been speculating, but hes bought a stake in the Holding Company that owned leeds united. As i say, they got into into the club last june. Huge disappointment for them yesterday. They missed for them yesterday. They missed out. Theyre going into the playoffs. They lost to southampton at home. Who are also in the play offs. And leeds will play norwich next next thursday. But you know when you go into the play offs, steven you want to be in some kind of form. Leeds lost four nil at qpr last week, two one at home to southampton yesterday. You need to be in good form going in it. You need to be in a positive frame of mind. The only positives at the moment is will ferrell on the front of the sun on sunday. Oh should we talk about the title race heating up between man city and arsenal. Yeah, this is interesting because Erling Haaland scored four goals yesterday as as wolves responded to arsenals three nil win over bournemouth by beating wolves at home five one. And this is interesting because roy keane had had had been criticising haaland recently for being a league two striker when it comes to playing outside the box, theres history between the two families. Roy keane injured Erling Haalands father and ended his career back in 2001 and when he was presented with this, with with this comment yesterday by roy keane, saying, oh, he says youre a league two striker, he said he said, well thats fine. I dont care about that man. Their disdain is absolutely obvious and they want to play out in that episode because you can be sure that roy keane will respond at some point. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, shall we talk about snooker . Yes. Why not . Weve got interesting final today. Its jack jones got there having beaten Stuart Bingham and kyren wilson beat david gilbert. Now the only thing i would say was that although although the story is interesting, jack jones is a qualifier, theyre not names that were really, we really know. No but but this is the whole point, isnt it . You got a new talent. Look at luke littler. Yeah, thats true, thats true, thats true. Yeah, but hes 17. I true, thats true. Yeah, but hes17. I mean, well going going on 45 id say. But but theres no mark selby. No, no ronnie osullivan. No judd trump, no john higgins. Now just sometimes think that they had their time i think sometimes think that they had theirtime i think i sometimes think that they had their time i think i think osullivan had another one i do, but this is the thing. Maybe this is why it needs to get to saudi arabia, because they need to make stars out of these players. You remember when barry hearn had the snooker back in the back in the 80s . He was more involved in it. There were household names. You had Dennis Taylor with his glasses upside down. Yeah but there was nothing else to watch on telly. Thats the other thing. Do you reckon . Yeah, actually. Well, definitely not 1 00 in the morning when theyre the world champion. The world title in 85, watched by 22 Million People saturday afternoons or whenever it was on, there was nothing else on my nannys, my nannys to watch it with, with a cup of tea. Three channels, no. From 82 onwards we had we had four, didnt we, 82. Yeah, but it was november 80th. I remember brookside before that, but it just wasnt that much. I didnt have chance. I know theres a lot. Theres a lot more, a lot more to compete. But come on, there were more personalities then, werent they . In snooker . Well, you know, you see steve davis, steve davis was the exception because he was boring. Everyone else was interesting. You had terry griffiths, the welsh postman, you had john parrott, the or you had you had, jemmy white, jemmy white, the crafty cockney. Well it was the same name as eric bristow in darts, actually. But if you look at darts 20 years ago, it allowed itself to be commercial and it allowed itself to be razzmatazz, if you like. Snooker is just a little bit more stuffy with all their waistcoats and bow ties and stuff hasnt allowed itself to go that way, i think. I think it might have to. If it goes to saudi arabia, it needs to be more. Razzmatazz does indeed. Razzmatazz does indeed. Yeah. Yeah. Heard it here first. Heard it here first. Aidan. Forward. Aidan. Forward. Ellie, thank you very much. Ellie, thank you very much. All right. Weve got the papers heading our way in. Just a couple of minutes with andy jones welcome back to breakfast. Should we look at some of the newspaper front pages today . Better had sunday mirror leads with Chris Andrews crumbling royal lodge that he could be evicted from the mail on sunday leads with the king receiving a major boost in pubuc receiving a major boost in Public Confidence. As a new poll shows. Brits as a new poll shows. Brits think hes doing a great job. The observer has sir Keir Starmers call on rishi sunak to call an election without delay. The sunday telegraph leads with labour winning the Mayoral Elections in West Midlands and london. Sunday times has middling and boosting starmers hopes of number 10. Well, joining us now to go through the papers this morning is andy jones. And emma burnell really good to see you both this morning. And emma should we start with you and the observer front page this morning. This is sir keir starmer. Yeah. Kiss. Calling for a general election. You would expect no less after the weekend that hes had , although labour have been had, although labour have been calling for a general election for quite some time now. Right. Four and a half years. Well, yes. Yes. I mean its the oppositions job. Really. Well, yes. Really. Well, yes. Yes , and after the results of yes, and after the results of the, the mayoralties, sunak was pushing very, very hard. The line that he would retain both ben houchen in tees valley and andy street in the West Midlands. I mean, the andy street thing is i think is the biggest shock of this whole election. Absolutely. I didnt expect that. Ill be completely honest. Im wearing my partisan colours today. Im, you know, im a labour supporter. Today. Im, you know, im a labour supporter. I today. Im, you know, im a labour supporter. I always have labour supporter. I always have been, i did my leafleting for sadiq and clearly it was me. What won it, why, sadiq . Because, i mean, obviously the issue with maybe its just politics, but the issue a lot of londoners seem to have with sadiq just shows that he is a divisive character. Well people say london need more of unifier. I mean, one of the things that sadiq has done, particularly in terms of where the labour party was 4 or 5 years ago, is really reach out across faith communities. He is across faith communities. He is a devout muslim man, but he is actually very well respected in the jewish community. For example, for all the work that hes done to try to bring those communities together, and particularly in the last six months, thats been incredibly hard with everything thats going on. So people say hes a divisive character. I would say that if wed had his chief opponent, susan hall, i would say shes a considerably more divisive character and we would not have seen a bringing together of londoners under any mayoralty that she may have run. Now, there were very, very odd rumours flying around on. I think it was friday night that susan hall might have won it. In fact, sorry. Sadiq khan, increase least the percentage majority that he won by i mean that was very odd because i mean all all the briefings were it was on a knife edge. She may have just taken it. She may have just taken it. I think it suits everyone. When the, when the, the people are going out to vote and just afterwards to say its been very, very close. Labour want people to get out and vote. The conservatives lost the vote. No, no, i understand that. But they were saying it was a lot closer as as we were going through the week, it was a very strange thing, but i think it was taken from sort of 2 or 3 quotes from different people. I dont think it was a universal thing. You see a lot of this repetition in the media where someone says its close, and then that goes absolutely everywhere, and its where it takes so long to count. What what caused that was that the turnout in the outer london boroughs was was , had london boroughs was was, had gone up, and turnout in inner london boroughs had gone down. Yeah. And theres still this sense, this hangover sense in many ways that the outer london votes tory and in a london votes laboun votes tory and in a london votes labour. But actually weve seen a massive dispersal of labour votes out to the outer boroughs , votes out to the outer boroughs, out to the Home Counties. And this is why there are places that are going labour that werent traditionally labour for many, many years because the, you know, the cost of living and the cost of living in zones one, two and even three, london is so increased that people who are in traditional sort of, you know, labour positions, labour families, you see them moving down those train lines out along the tube lines out to those outer boroughs. And i think the demographics are really changing and thats something to watch. And thats something to watch. Certainly at the general election, theres a number of seats in the Home Counties in those outer boroughs. One of the ones that ive got my eye on, not least because my parents live there, is chingford and woodford green, where Ian Duncan Smith is the representative, which is really quite high on. And a lot of the conservative voters are moving out, arent they, as well. So youve got youve got sort of the younger people moving out and then the conservatives moving even further out. Yeah, i think its quite interesting, but were i thought wed have a lot more punchy quote from conservative ministers this morning, but its almost like theyve given up them as well. Its almost like nobody, nobody even wants to change the leader, because no one wants to be the leader, because no one wants the general election defeat thats coming up on their cv. Well, it was quite interesting what James Cleverly had to say, if i can find it now, but he essentially was saying, look, it was tough. Theres no point in pretending otherwise. But he says voters that have drifted away, as he describes it, will come back to us in time for the general election. So hes hes making out a lot of time for them to come back. I think i think it was really interesting that andy street lost. I mean, andy street campaigned with, without mentioning conservatives at all on any of his literature. He was broadly pretty popular in the midlands. So what happened there, do you think . I think its a push back nationally. I think andy street was was i dont know how close he was to quitting over the hs2 debacle. Thats impacted the midlands, but i think he was universally seen as i mean, the, the obviously the incoming labour mayor was very, very complimentary about him. I know they were obliged to say nice things, but he did seem genuine. He went further than you would traditionally. It was would traditionally. It was really classy on both of their parts. I think he was he was reasonably seen as a decent guy and whatever you thought of him, he was tremendously hard working. Oh yeah, but he vanquished any mention of conservatives on his on his literature, and he was still beaten. And the whole the other interesting thing as well, i think the issue of that a lot of people who were very pro palestine were supposed to be voting against labour because of, obviously, Keir Starmers more neutral stance. And i dont more neutral stance. And i dont think thats happened. Well, the people are more take i think 60,000 votes. Yeah. I mean that that is quite a lot. I dont think it was the seismic thing that we were expecting. Im talking nationally, but i think it was a seismic thing that were expecting. Sadiq khan was expected to lose a lot of votes because of keir starmer stance, and i think its important and interesting that people are still voting on british lines rather than international ones. Yeah, lets have a look at the sunday times. Andy. Headteachers are wanting a clamp down on bad behaviour, but not from pupils. No. No. Were getting and anyone who knows teachers will know that this is becoming an increasing problem. Where where parents perhaps are very, very protective of their children in a way that goes beyond what is acceptable with parents being abusive, parents being aggressive parents turning up at the schools, parents sending in in both terms of Online Communications and literature, but its almost this view that that parents now think that teachers are supposed to parent their kids for them. And they almost and kids, we hear now, you know, we hear a lot of discussion that kids are that they dont respond well to discipline, but parents wont even let you discipline their children in terms of telling them off. Why is my boy being told off . What have you said about my daughter . This is unacceptable and its become an aggressive, almost problematic thing. And the National Association of head teachers conference yesterday , conference yesterday, intimidating behaviour is almost commonplace. And they want National Action of it. Theyre going to have a sort of a movement to have a campaign about it. No abuse. Be respectful to teachers. And its becoming harder and harder to get , becoming harder and harder to get, certainly in certain types of teaching as well, in certain age groups and certain, subjects, its becoming harder and harder to get to. I mean, this is the thing if the parents doing it. Yeah. What on earth are the kids learning . Well, thats exactly it. Well, thats exactly it. I mean, when i was a kid, if you got in trouble in school, which i didnt very often, but every now and again, all the time, a bit of a detention. Yeah. Yeah. You were terrified to tell your parents because your parents were. Would take the teachers side. Yes. You shouldnt have done that. You are getting the punishment you deserve. If the parents are saying to teachers you shouldnt be punishing my kid for misbehaving in school, thats thats thats not Good Parenting. Its not Good Parenting to not instil that sense of discipline instil that sense of discipline in your children and say, this person with authority has the right to enforce that authority. Yeah, there has to be universal positive reinforcement, i think, with discipline. And the other thing is, if youre a teacher and you know that, you know, 1 or 2 bad kids in your class can, can, can ruin your life and then if you have a couple of parents as well who are waiting at the gates, theyre trying to get in to see you. Theyre theyre being offensive and aggressive. It can completely destroy your happiness at work. Respect. Youve got to have some respect. And also, theres so much literature now for parents to read that they think, oh, well, no, my childs been wronged here. Or, you know, they think theyve got an amateur psychology degree or they think they can teach better. And theres so much reinforcing literature that makes you think that youre being victimised at school. And adesso. There are school. And adesso. There are bad teachers, and parents do have to occasionally come in and have to occasionally come in and have words and stand up for their kids. But but i think were seeing this sort of there are ways of doing it. Absolutely. There are ways of doing it, emma, this links somewhat, doesnt it . Free school meals, tell us a bit more about this. So, there is an awful lot of bureaucracy apparently that parents on universal credit have to go through in to order get the Free School Meals, so what theyre calling for is for this to be automatic. If youre on universal credit, your children get Free School Meals as part of the package of support that you get on universal credit, it seems like a no brainer to me. I mean, were constantly complaining that theres too much bureaucracy, too much administration, and if you just make that automatic, that would seem like a sensible move , you seem like a sensible move, you know, these these kids are entitled to it. Its just that theyre not getting it because theyre not getting it because the applying for it is so hard , the applying for it is so hard, well, there you go. Well, if thats the case, then. No, it thats the case, then. No, it doesnt make any sense whatsoever, does it . I guess i hate to say it. There will be concern about cost. You know, i dont know who funds it. Does it have to come out of the School Budget . Does it come out of their local Education Authority budget or what . Well, most schools arent now connected to local authorities because they are academies. Oh heck yeah, i forgot about that. So yeah, its always fascinates me how obsessed we are with the national curriculum, which is not actually applicable to academies. So isnt it . No no, they lots of them do take it up, but they dont have to, so you know, we constantly go on and on about whats in or not in the national curriculum, whereas actually we need to be thinking actually we need to be thinking a lot more about whats being taughtin a lot more about whats being taught in schools that it doesnt apply to, and the same is true of Free School Meals, you know, we need to make sure that this is happening across the piece, whether its a local authority run school or whether its an academy. And thats why i think universal credit being the automatic qualifier would make sense. Make sense. If you would think so, wouldnt you . Yeah. Youd think if youve done the expansive discussion of universal credit and youve been signed off for that, that free meals would be part of that. But meals would be part of that. But the bureaucracy is very, very difficult. Obviously theres language issues and i think theres questions about, you know, whether or not people should be able to speak english and etc, but i think but also universal credit is so open to fraud, isnt it . We universal credit is so open to fraud, isnt it . We had that case in north london where that one family had taken £54 million in fraudulent universal credit. Yeah, well yeah. Well we thats, thats our responsibility or government responsibility or government responsibility to, to make sure its being dished out properly. But also. Yeah. No just stop you now andy. Oh, youre so right. Chatty cathy this morning. Thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Well see you later. Well see you later. Lets have a look at the weather with catherine. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on. Solar, sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hello, and welcome to your gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudier in the north. But where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland, with some outbreaks of rain here. But in the south west we have got a weather system and thats bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast through the rest of the afternoon and evening time cloud generally moving its way northwards parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here. Cloudier conditions still remaining across Northern Ireland and parts of scotland still with some showery outbreaks of rain across eastern parts. Otherwise temperatures with a lot of cloud around , temperatures still around, temperatures still staying a little bit up for the time of year. And then as we go through starting monday morning. Through starting monday morning. Cloudy picture for Bank Holiday Monday across southeastern england with heavy outbreaks of rain here. Some brighter spells are going to be mixed in with that, but many places are seeing outbreaks of rain or showers, but also some sunny spells. And but also some sunny spells. And where you do see the sunshine, it is going to be feeling warm with highs of 17 or 18 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. Its 7 00 on sunday, the 5th of may. Today, a crushing blow for the tories as sadiq khan secures a third term in office as london mayor. 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 more. And accomplish so much more. Well, theres more misery for rishi sunak in the West Midlands as andy street suffers a shock loss to labour in their mayoral race. Donald trump scheduled to return to Court Tomorrow for his hush money trial. Were taking a look ahead as to what to expect the kings return to royal life as he takes on around 300 new patronages, including some that were close to his mothers heart. As prince harry prepares to return to the uk and bank houday return to the uk and Bank Holiday Weekend is upon us, how do you grab a bargain this may . Do you grab a bargain this may . Good morning. Anything arsenal can do . Manchester city can do. Erling haaland hits four in citys five one win over wolves, just a few hours after the gunners beat bournemouth at the gunners beat bournemouth at the emirates in the championship. Ipswich is 22 year waits for the premier league is over as they return to the big time. Well also be looking ahead to this afternoons World Snooker championship final at the crucible. The crucible. The mixed picture for the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend, with sunny spells for some, but also some outbreaks of rain and also some showers. Ill have all the details coming up sooii. 500. Soon. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. Gb news. Loads breakfast on. Gb news. Loads to be getting in touch. This morning. Yes, i was stuart lomas looking about, badly behaved parents. The question is, says stuart, what are they annoyed about . Well, and he talks about. Well, are they annoyed at certain agendas and things . No, thats not what theyre getting annoyed about really. Its just that they if theres a fallout between a teacher and a pupil, i mean, basically a pupil being told off, its parents automatically backing up their child rather than saying, well, the teacher must have had point. Im questioning the teachers authority. Really so thats thats the problem. And thats a basic dry top of respect you should respect. The teacher is the one theyre deaung teacher is the one theyre dealing with. That situation and youre not. You cant believe a childs perspective on that necessarily. I mean, if a childs misbehaved, i didnt do anything wrong. Just what are you going to say . What theyd say. What theyd say. Yeah. So youve got to take a more rounded view, i think. And just teach children to have some respect. Yeah. Whoevers in charge. Yeah. And trusting the teacher and the job theyre doing. Because the job theyre doing. Because its a tough one, daniel has beenin its a tough one, daniel has been in touch saying morning. Been in touch saying morning. Ians love seeing you too on gb. Happy orthodox easter to those celebrating today. Of course. Celebrating today. Of course. Orthodox easter. Orthodox easter. I didnt realise it was if youre greek orthodox, you are celebrating easter today and you get the red eggs, dont you . And you do. And you do. You knock them together . You knock them together . Im not aware of that in Russian Orthodox as well on that as just greek, im going to say, i dont know. Hang on, i dont know much about the sort of orthodox church. Church. Yes it is. yes it is. Well done. Well done. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. Very good, yeah. Orthodox russians and greeks are celebrating easter this weekend, so happy easter if youre celebrating. Yes. Oh, now, janet mcgradys beenin yes. Oh, now, janet mcgradys been in touch on consumer spending. She says people arent spending. She says people arent spending. My friends and myself spending. My friends and myself are between 75 and 80. We like. Are between 75 and 80. We like. Oh, there you go. After your own heart. She likes clothes , shoes heart. She likes clothes, shoes and sandals. Yeah. We cant see anything that we like. We go out anything that we like. We go out shopping, come back with nothing. Not Everyone Wants want dresses that go out in tears as. Oh, look at the style. Yeah. What would you call that . What would you call that . A tear dress. Yeah, a tear dress or ted maxi or something. I know what you mean, janet. I dont want to encourage you, but onune dont want to encourage you, but Online Shopping is way forward. If you cant find anything on the high street, you just type in what you want and its. You can find it. But its a dangerous game. It is. Its too to easy find it. The trouble is, i never know about the quality with that sort of thing. And thats the thing you cant try on high street is best. I think. I like to feel fabncs best. I think. I like to feel fabrics and things and try on. Yeah but no, if you are struggling online is the way to go. If you want something in particular and theres also a message here from max socials and he is talking about the West Midlands results in the Mayoral Election there. Andy street perhaps the shock result of the weekend actually losing to laboun weekend actually losing to labour. He says ive met andy street , hes a sharp labour. He says ive met andy street, hes a sharp minded businessman. He ran john lewis, he knows how to balance economies with the needs for services. So economies with the needs for services. So many economies with the needs for services. So many people are services. So many people are really shocked. He was a popular figure there, wasnt he . Yeah, but the why thats such bad news for the Prime Minister is that he was a very popular figure, and it was a very close run thing and say, even though i havent seen the speech , but havent seen the speech, but even the person, the labour candidate whos beaten him was, was very, very nice to him. In his speech. But it just shows his speech. But it just shows that there is a general overwhelming, you know, feeling either towards labour against the conservatives, depending on how you view it, which shows theyre on the ascendancy and properly on the ascendancy. Properly on the ascendancy. Yeah, the same with london actually. Whereas all this talk about it being tight and then what happens . Sadiq khan what happens . Sadiq khan actually increases his majority. Actually increases his majority. Its hard for that to be ignored. Now its going to be interesting to see what number 10 actually does about it all. Yeah. And where do you move forward and how do you unite the party behind that and getting them geared up for a general election . Its going to be very difficult, very, very challenging. Jane mardell on orthodox easter that we are discussing im in crete working on a happy easter sunday. There were loads of fireworks at midnight last night. Oh, i imagine that was beautiful in crete. I hope youre having a lovely time, jane. Yeah , im actually, we could yeah, im actually, we could do with a holiday. I know, im just saying. I know, im just saying. Im just dropping. Im just dropping that in this time, though. Wasnt the weather though. Wasnt the weather lovely yesterday . And apparently going to be nice today as well . I thought someone told us recently it was going to be a really horrible Bank Holiday Weekend. Yes, that turned out and it turned out to be really lovely, though apparently maybe a bit wet tomorrow. Thats happening quite often at the moment for us. I feel like we just have to believe the opposite. Were told its going opposite. Were told its going to rain and then its lovely weekend and were also told a few weekends ago its going to be lovely and sunny and hailed for three days straight. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, well, its a tough job forecasting things. Well it is, thats true. And i didnt see any of it yesterday. I was asleep so. Yesterday. I was asleep so. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Did you see your Lovely Garden a little bit. Were going, were going to have a fire pit tonight. Or are you like the love island villa . Sit around the fire pit. Ive never seen that. Ive never seen that. Oh well. So i dont know. Oh well. So i dont know. The reference is lost on you, but it is. They have a fire pit that they sit around and you have one as well. All right. There you go, right. Lets talk politics. Because its been a miserable weekend for the Prime Minister no two ways about it. Whatever they say at number 10, its been a disaster. Sadiq khan won his third term as london mayor yesterday afternoon i oh, 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. Government led by keir starmer. Working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more. And accomplish so much more. Well, just a few hours later, conservative andy street lost the West Midlands mayoralty , the West Midlands mayoralty, which he had been expected to retain to labours Richard Parker by 1508 votes. Yeah, very tight indeed. Yeah, very tight indeed. Lets talk to former labour mp steve pound. I didnt ill be honest, i hadnt realised youd left. Stephen. Oh, stephen. What . Youve never left, have you, yeah. No, no i did. I sloped off, just after the last election. Did you really into the shadows . Really into the shadows . Oh, well, possibly. Possibly for the best. Stephen look, what do you. What do you make of it . Judy . Enough. Thats what the Prime Minister said. Do you wish you were still in now that labour seems to be on the ascendancy . No, not really, labour isnt. So im still, you know, part of the labour party. Im still quite happy to, to enjoy that. But im quite glad im not in that snake pit of the commons at the moment where people are doing things that, you know, if i had any hair, it would be curling. When i see what mps are up to at the present time. But the interesting thing about the moment is that, the results last night, which you quite rightly said were pretty brilliant for laboun said were pretty brilliant for labour, have actually caused absolute panic in labour hq, because everybody is now saying, oh my lord, its the complacency word. Were absolutely terrified that people are going to walk around saying, oh, labour are going to win. We dont have to worry about this. That and the other. And you know, the famous analogy, i think it was one of yours about, you know, at this time, you know, politicians are like people carrying a ming vase across a polished floor while theyre wearing socks. Youre just terrified youre going to drop it. You see, labour has a great tradition of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Weve done it brilliantly over so many times. And the real fear at the moment, the absolute gut wrenching panic, is that well look at those results and think job done, because the job is done. No way. Yeah of course the other. Finally, the other interesting thing about yesterdays results is no scotland. No. That would have been much, much more interesting because scotland is going to be a key Northern Ireland to a certain extent. But not nearly so much. Id love to have seen what the voting would have been like had we had votes in scotland. I think you would have. Stephen. So . So what do you think the conversations are being had . Stephen in labour hq what do you think the best stance is now for the labour party . I mean, as you say, complacency is dangerous at this stage of the game. But is their best strength right now that they are just simply not the tories . Well, theres a certain amount of that. I mean , amount of that. I mean, famously, you know, people say, you know, politicians dont win elections , the other lot lose elections, the other lot lose them. Theres a certain extent of that, which is why i think youll now see. Look, heres the conundrum, everybody says, wheres your policy . You know, lets lets see them on the table. Lets see what were table. Lets see what were going to vote for. But the reality is you dont actually say what youre going to do until pretty close to the election. However, now a days in this sort of retail politics world where people actually want to see the menu before they order the meal, the labour party is having to actually flesh out its policies, particularly the reverse, onto Public Ownership of utilities like like water, now that those are real clear blue water between us and the conservatives and i think a lot of people in the labour party would have been quite happy to say, look, well show you our policies on the evening before the election. But in reality, we cant now do that because people will say, look, you are in effect, a government in waiting. Lets see what youre going to put on the table. So thats what will be everybody will be thinking about at the moment in, labour party hq. Theyll also be thinking, you know, i wonder, wonder whether this is this issue that appeared in rochdale, in oldham and few of the other places where we seem to have lost that connection with a large body of voters. How significant is that . Will that survive . You know, will the galloway effect actually continue to inject poison into the body politic . Theres a lot the body politic . Theres a lot of questions to be asked. But and also why did why did ben houchen do so well in the tees valley , even admittedly, the valley, even admittedly, the only person on the platform not wearing a party colour rosette and distance himself a long, long way from the conservatives. But why did he do so well there . Because that is a very interesting one. The personality of politics. And is that an issue for the future . So theres a lot to mull over, but theres also a fair bit of sleep to be caught up on because believe you me, most of my colleagues havent had any kip for a few or three. Few days now. Yeah, well, ill tell you what, stephen. A lot of people who who get in touch with us here, often, often sort of raised the question about, well, its one thing to sort of say, yeah, lets vote for keir starmer. Lets vote for what we effectively see on the frontbench. But whats happening behind the scenes , whats going behind the scenes, whats going on with momentum, and that that very left wing part of the party and people are worried that, you know, if keir starmer gets into number 10, suddenly theres going to be this momentum resurgence. So in that sense, we dont really know what wed be getting from stephen, stephen, stephen, you know, so much better than that. I mean, you know, youve youve been around for a bit for one so young, you know, thats absolutely not true. If theres one thing keir has absolutely defined himself on is that he is the person who actually managed to kick momentum off the National Executive committee out of any positions of power. They are , as you know, they are are, as you know, they are leeches on the body politic. They have no policies except opposition and as sort of, you know, rather, sort of south american, nicaraguan corbyn ite, you know, cuban dream that look, every , every day, whats the every, every day, whats the remnants of momentum are putting stuff out saying, oh, this is their calling keir starmer, keith. And theyre saying hes got no policies. Hes a horrible person. Well you know, im quite happy with that because momentum actually caused huge amounts of problems to the labour party. Keir starmer is just about as anti momentum as you can get. Famously people say you know the labour party spends more time with internal fights and fighting the tories. Well i think the internal fight has been won. If you look at the composition of the leadership of the labour party now, there are no momentum figures in it. And to suggest that this is the old, remember that horrible thing about david steel and david owen , about one was in the others pocket. And, you know, as soon as the elections over, one pops up. Well, believe you me, you know, a bunch of student politicians wearing keffiyehs and waving palestinian flags arent going to suddenly emerge out of the shadows and say, you know, we are now the secret labour frontbench, stephen, that aint going to happen. Stephen, whilst weve got you, you just want to. We are running out of time. But i did want to ask you about the shock results in the West Midlands. Perhaps the most shocking result of the weekend. Actually, andy street being unseated. He was a very popular, character there, seen as the golden boy for the tories in the West Midlands. But the fact that hes been unseated. And does that suggest that the tories are facing a much greater challenge than than first thought . Youre right to concentrate on this. A couple of very interesting things about this, basically, Richard Parker was extremely gracious in his comments. I think its interesting how sadiq, in his acceptance speech, didnt actually you know, congratulate the other people who had stood which is and i think obviously hes in a hurry one thing and another. But Richard Parker recognised that a great deal of the work that andy street had done and andy street was another non politician politician. You know, he comes from john lewis, you know, hes very friendly with certain labour, with tory politicians. But, you know, he was a man who actually placed himself outside the tory party. He also did a great deal of good work. But the key thing about andy street and Richard Parker is the muslim vote in birmingham and the chaos and the crisis, the financial crisis in Birmingham City council. Most of us thought, in all honesty, it would be very , very difficult to would be very, very difficult to sell labour in the West Midlands on the doorstep. Most of us on the doorstep. Most of us thought that with the very, very high concentration of muslim voters, it was going to be pretty difficult to win. We have won, which means that the actual strength, the bedrock of labour vote, is a lot stronger than we thought it was. You know, that rather cheers me up on this gorgeous sunny sunday morning. Stephen, as always, its good to see you. And hes got his gb news mug. And hes got his gb news mug. Very good. Thanks, stephen. Very good. Thanks, stephen. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Yeah, it were interesting, interesting. And as we often say, its when you get politicians who are out of politics then and you can get a real sort of sense of what they actually think, rather than having to toe the party line. Its good. A very interesting the best analysis isnt it . Someone whos been there, done that, got the t shirt and can now look at it from the outside. Yeah. Interesting interesting whether you agree with him or not let us know. Gb news. Com slash your say now at 7 16. Lets take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. Well the family of Daniel Anjorin say theyre devastated after he was killed walking to school in london on tuesday. He was described as loving and precious. As we know he was and precious. As we know he was attacked by a man with a sword in hainault. Four other people were also injured. Were also injured. More than 20 dogs have been seized after police raided a suspected illegal xl bully Breeding Farm in sheffield. 16 of the animals are being looked after in Police Kennels after they were discovered. In what officers are describing as appalling conditions. Six other dogs were so unwell they had to be put to sleep. The breed was be put to sleep. The breed was added to the banned list, but campaigners argue that the ban is unlawful and irrational. And heres one to make you squirm. If youve seen snakes on a plane, well, it almost became a plane, well, it almost became a reality with these little ones anyway. This after a man tried to board a flight with two snakes in his underpants , he was snakes in his underpants, he was stopped, thankfully, at security in miami, and the little fellas have been handed over to experts max social says thanks to shout out stephen and ellie enjoy the Bank Holiday Im working tomorrow too. Theres no rest for the wonderful, no rest for the wonderful. I like that one. I like that one. Well, well use that again. Well, well use that again. Very good. If only it were true. All right, lets see what the weather is going to do for us today. Heres catherine. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boiler is sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello, and welcome to your gb news forecast , brought to you by news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudier in the north. But where we do see the sunshine is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland with some outbreaks of rain here but in the south west we have got a weather system and thats bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast through the rest of the afternoon and evening time. Cloud generally moving its way northward to parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here, cloudier conditions still remaining across Northern Ireland and parts of scotland still, with some showery outbreaks of rain across eastern parts. 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Com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Watching on demand. Good luck. Yes, good luck indeed. Yes, good luck indeed. Oh yes. Now still to come for you. Were looking at special needs schools apparently in crisis. Well find out more in just i 7 24. Now were being warned of a crisis in special needs education for children in england. Yes, its being blamed on shortages and funding cuts in both mainstream and special schools. Well, a survey of 1000 School Leaders by the National Association of head teachers showed that 78 said theyd cut back on support staff like teaching assistants within the last three years, 84 plan to do so by 2027. Well, bobby seagull is a teacher and broadcaster and he joins us now. Good to see you this morning, bobby. And whats going on here. Yeah. So again, what the sort of facts behind this are that per pupil funding for special Needs Children within special schools has been £10,000 since 2013. So thats about when i joined the teaching profession in 2014. And its been frozen for the last decade, but on the other side , weve seen students other side, weve seen students with something known as fhc ps. These are education, health and care plans gone up. So if youve care plans gone up. So if youve got, per pupil funding, frozen , got, per pupil funding, frozen, but, the number of students rising. So were finding actually the overall situation is becoming untenable and what the impact is, is that schools, as you said, are reducing the number of teaching assistants or theyre freezing or reducing their hours and teaching assistants. For my experience in schools, they really provide such support for these special needs students because special needs students because special needs students, again, their complex needs, these , teaching complex needs, these, teaching assistants, they understand them. They work with them really closely. And as a classroom closely. And as a classroom teacher, these people, these tas are critical to the development of these. Send students. And what it means is that schools are unable to keep children and staff safe. And what i feel is staff safe. And what i feel is theres almost a symptom of theres almost a symptom of theres under resourced services and health, social services and schools are being sort of asked to take on the burden of this. And again, i always think this is such a tragedy because these young people are the most vulnerable in our society. So i dont get why do you say you cant keep people , pupils you cant keep people, pupils and teachers safe . Whats the safety issue. Yeah, some of these students again because theyre complex needs. They sometimes again ive seen some my schools i teach at they sometimes will try and hit teachers again. Its not because theyre, you know, badly intentioned, but they they find it hard to keep their hands in the same place. So they all run around the school, and for that to be sort of kept managed and these children to be educated, you need these staff, these individual tas to keep them in place and support them. So there is a safety issue as well as a working teacher, bobby, just how vital are tas in the classroom to you . I think again, the they to you . I think again, the they are massively underrated. Again everyone talks about again as a teacher. Obviously teachers are incredibly important. We are incredibly important. We are trained to provide the education, for our students intellectually, but the teaching assistants they provide, i would say almost like a pastoral role and support because imagine ive got again, im trying to think ive got a class of 30 students and ive got a couple of students with, smd. So special Educational Needs and disabilities, if theyre in the class and were trying to keep them integrated as much as we can within the mainstream environment, these tas will sit beside the students and help monitor them. So if im teaching a lesson, lets say on pythagoras, and the rest of the class are getting on these two students, maybe because theyve got behavioural issues, they need an Additional Support to look after them and if they havent, then im spending my time looking at one the student and therefore neglecting the needs of the rest of the class. But actually, i mean, its a its a different topic, but it has been raised as a real concern that what youre seeing in a lot of mainstream schools now is teachers, jobs are ineffectively, effectively being filled by teaching assistants, which is a real concern because they dont have they might have a tremendous skill. It might be a tremendous skill. It might be a very important job in its own right. But theyre not teachers. Right. But theyre not teachers. Yes, youre completely right, stephen. And again, ive seen this even in the staff room when ispeak this even in the staff room when i speak to the teaching assistants, sometimes theyll say to me, oh, mrs. Seagull, god, they ask me to teach pythagoras and trigonometry , and pythagoras and trigonometry, and i. And theyre not maths teachers. So there is a issue where sometimes schools put the burden on these teaching assistants to deliver these lessons when thats not their specialism and sort of the wider point i think is and again, i know about funding, its tight, but politics is all about choices. And theres unlimited ones, whether theres healthcare, transport, legal, theyre all saying over the last ten, 15 years we need money. But what i feel is if and this is actually the head of the nhc, which is a the sort of, association of head teachers, the general secretary has said that schools are being treated like sidelines compared to the headune like sidelines compared to the headline grabbing issues, like whether its immigration or the polarised views on trans rights or removing the right to protest. And also theres all important. But schools are almost like, heres a little side issue, but i think parents voters are noticing that schools are being neglected. And of course, money is always , always course, money is always, always going to be tight. But i think in terms of like a bigger morality point, how society treats its most vulnerable, whether its this children , the whether its this children, the ill or elderly, i think is a measure of our humanity and i think were undermining our humanity by not looking after these most vulnerable children. Okay, bobby seagull good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you. Thank you. Thats an interesting point. I mean , schools should be a i mean, schools should be a priority. Teaching should be a sort of priority job, and parents should be looking in the papers whove been who are misbehaving , mistreating misbehaving, mistreating teachers. Teachers need to be really reprimanded. Yeah. You know, we need to start bringing that respect back into schools and respect for the people doing the job. Its a hard job. Has respect been lost for that profession . That profession . I think so maybe it has. I think so maybe it has. I think its been lost for a lot of things. Respect for the police has gone out the window. Police has gone out the window. Nurses respect for the elderly. Yeah thats true i think. I think thats all part of it as well. I mean, heck, you always used to really look up to your elders and that just seems to have seems to have gone. Maybe were just losing respect in society, losing respect in society, losing respect for each other. Thats where its going. Where its going. Its not healthy, but i dont i dont know how you get it back. No, i dont know. No, i dont know. But teachers do have it tough. They do. They have a lot tough. They do. They have a lot to deal with. Ive got friends that are teachers now, and theyre saying half their work theyre saying half their work they feel is social work. Yeah having to deal with with the issues in the classroom as well as trying to teach young minds. Its very difficult. Do get in touch with your thoughts on that story. Gbnews. Com yoursay. All right. Aidens going to be here in just a minute with all your sport. Morning, sir. Good morning. As well as all the action from the premier league and the championship, well be hearing about a hollywood superstar whos bought a stake in leeds united. More after the. Break. Welcome back to breakfast. Aidan magee is with us. Were talking about the sport and lots of other things, arent we this morning . Shall we start with the title race . A wide ranging discussion . A wide ranging discussion . Yes. Yes. Wide ranging indeed. Wide ranging indeed. Yeah. Yeah. The title race. Thats wide ranging as well. I mean. Well, not wide ranging as it was a few weeks ago. We had liverpool involved, didnt he. Now we think its going to be down to Manchester City and arsenal. There arent really any other contenders. Arsenal first out of the blocks yesterday, dispatching bournemouth at the emirates quite comfortably by three goals to nil. But then Manchester City stepped into gean Manchester City stepped into gear. Five one winners over wolverhampton wanderers. Now wolverhampton wanderers. Now declan rice, the arsenal midfielder, sort of said after that after he heard that that they need a miracle really . Oh they need a miracle really . Oh really to win it. I dont necessarily think they got a game in hand. City have got a game in hand. So although theyre second now. Erling haaland burst into form yesterday, hes not probably been as good this season as he was as he was this time last yeah was as he was this time last year. Nonetheless, hes ahead in the golden boot race. Hes scored 25 league goals, four goals yesterday. Ill tell you something that was interesting was that a few weeks ago . Roy keane is great. The great family nemesis never short of an opinion, is he . He told him the family nemesis because Erling Haalands Erling Haalands father, alf inge haaland, was signed as Nottingham Forest replacement for roy keane when he went for Manchester United. Oh, a two year. Four years later, haaland moved to lee. Haalands father had moved to leeds. Thats why Erling Haaland was born in leeds, because his father was playing there at the time. Back in the late 90s, and roy keane suffered an almost career ending injury in september 97th. In a in a tackle with alf inge haaland. I think with alf inge haaland. I think haaland stood over him and said get up and shouted a stuff at him. Yeah, stuff at him. Yeah, lets put it that way. Four years later, roy keane had had his name and his little black book and he took some horrific revenge. He revenge. He, he went revenge. He revenge. He, he went in knee high in a fixture. By this time, haaland was on playing was was playing for Manchester City. And so there has been a family feud ever since. Hes not often commented on that that regularly. Roy keane, but he said that eventually an opinion a couple of weeks ago, he said outside the box he plays like a league two player. Hes only in the box when it comes alive. I thought it was fair criticism, but one of the interviewers yesterday put that to Erling Haaland yesterday and he said, quite bluntly and quite coldly, he said thats okay. I dont care about that, man. But its a family thing. Honestly. These sort of long revenge things, family feuds and all that. Whats the point . Well, if roy keane had a four year black book, i mean, Erling Haalands black book goes back to 2001. So thats a hell of a black book, isnt it . Yeah. You know, but anyway, thats what it was about. City chasing down arsenal though. Arsenal doing their bits to stay ahead. Four goals yesterday for haaland. Theyre looking in good. Nick has to be said talking about leeds. Theres a story on the front of the sun on sunday. Really fun actually. And its true as well. Its absolutely true. True. Leeds missed out on promotion yesterday and automatic promotion because ipswich won and i could see you wearing ipswich colours today. For our viewers we have, we have all purpose. We do have a few ipswich viewers actually. None of them have contacted me this morning on social media. So hello to all of those. But they commented on your on your colours as well. We did it. We did it. We did it. We did it for you. It was intentional. Theyre known as the tractor boys. So theyll be theyll be bringing some agricultural football to the premier league next season. But leeds missed out yesterday. Now the story on the front of the sun on sunday captivated me because this is the latest in a in a flurry of hollywood interest in english Football Clubs. Will ferrell has bought into the Holding Company that owns leeds united, which means automatically gains a stake in the club. Now, leeds united has long been i mean, its been in the premier league recently, but its a very big club. Its a very big city as anybody from the north of england can attest. But theyre one of the biggest one club cities in the whole of europe, bigger than newcastle, all probably on a par with someone like marseille down in the south of france there. So i can understand from a Commercial Point of view why hes got in there. But theyre in the playoffs now, so they have a chance to get in the premier league. Still though, theyre not in Good Condition because they won, so they lost rather two one at home to southampton yesterday and four nil at qpr last week. You dont want to be going into that lottery of the play going into that lottery of the play offs in bad form. You dont. You want to be going into it on as good as fettle as possible. And they missed a big chance yesterday, even though ipswich won and it wouldnt have mattered anyway. But hes bought into it. Will ferrell hes been touring around Football Clubs recently having a look around. Hes met david beckham, hes met ryan reynolds, who you mentioned earlier for wrexham fame. Theres no plans for a fly on the wall documentary, but apparently hes now a leeds fan and hes, he would be now. Yeah, but he has no choice. Hes got a vested interest. Hes got a vested interest. Does he put in do you know . No. Hes worth 127 million, according to the Forbes Forbes most recent list. Like you similar, similar. Youre about five obe a e money. So we dont know how much hes put in. But you know what . It could be worth a lot more if leeds were to go up to the premier league, it automatically becomes worth more because a franchise in the premier league, i hate that word. Franchise is a very americanised term thats entered football in the last few years, but if the team or the club gets into the premier league, it automatically becomes worth a hell of a lot more because youve got the bloating of the tv deal, which is worth. And then youd be selling it again. Selling his stake . Possibly. Yeah possibly. We dont know. Right . Were out of time. Right . Were out of time. Im sorry. Aiden. No, but im sorry. Aiden. No, but youll be back. Well continue those wide ranging discussions. We will. We will. I dont know if we dare. I dont know if we dare. Theyre definitely not for broadcast. No. Comes outwith. Yes no. Comes outwith. Yes no. Comes outwith. Yes i mean, im shocked. I know should we go to a break . Probably for the best. When we return , aiden will be gone. We return, aiden will be gone. And well be joined by andy jones and emma burnell instead to go through the papers. See you. Soon. 743. Lets have a look at some of the newspapers for you this morning. And the sunday mirror leads with Prince Andrews crumbling royal lodge. Its the one hes desperate to stay in by the way, the king wanted to evict him, at the mail on sunday. Leads with the king receiving a major boost in pubuc receiving a major boost in Public Confidence as new poll shows that brits think hes doing a great job. The observer has Keir Starmers call on rishi sunak to hold a general election without delay. The sunday telegraph leads with labour winning the Mayoral Elections in the West Midlands and london. Sunday times has middle england boosting Keir Starmers hopes of getting the keys to number 10. Well, joining us to go through the papers this morning is emma burnell and andy jones. Good to see you both. This morning emma. Lets start with you and Boris Johnson back in the corridors of power. But not like we think. No, Boris Johnson like we think. No, borisjohnson has like we think. No, Boris Johnson has agreed to front an advert for paddy power during the euros, and paddy power are known for their slightly edgy advertising, Boris Johnson is known for being slightly edgy, so in some ways its quite a good partnership, but it just feels a little tacky to have the former Prime Minister, who, by the way, was was instrumental in trying to remove Gambling Companies from football shirts , advertising football shirts, advertising gambling during the euros. Its just, you know, you were once in charge of the country, mate. Have some dignity, raise the money. So. So. Well, this is it. But, you know, surely. I mean, he earns know, surely. I mean, he earns so much on the speaking circuit. I think there was a report the earn 1. 8 million for six speeches. He doesnt have to do this. Well , i bet this. Well, i bet you its very lucrative. Im sure it is. I lucrative. Im sure it is. I mean, shelling out. Im sure there are limits, arent there . I mean , how much arent there . I mean, how much money should it for take him to be satisfied . Yeah. James heale. The spectator friend of the show was saying that boris has earned £8 million since he left his role as Prime Minister and again, how much is money . Enough i know hes got a lot of, considerations with his Family Network and things he has to pay for. But again, anybody knows that you you dont damage your own brand. I know you might say hes got no brand left, but you have the prestige of Prime Minister on your cv. Have the prestige of Prime Minister on your cv. You at minister on your cv. You at least want to do things that have a vague level of prestige. And this paddy power advert, as much as i like a bet, its not. Its going to be a very silly, ridiculous , attention seeking ridiculous, attention seeking advert. Its not going to cast him in a particularly professional or light of integrity. And of course he wanted to ban naming rights on the fa cup. He wanted to remove, betting sponsorship from football shirts. As you were saying, this was one of his campaigning issues. And yet now hes out of office. Hes like, yeah, give me some of that money that i didnt want. Those Football Clubs, football teams to have. And there are lots of tories who are saying, bring back boris, we need boris back. And the more he does things like this, the further away he seems from someone who could be taken seriously again as a politician. Well, lets know what you think. Yeah, andy, lets have a look at the mail on sunday, shall we . The front page at the king receiving a major vote of confidence from the British Public. Yeah. I always think the term vote of confidence. I dont know if its because ive watched too much football. It sounds like a football manager is about to be sacked. But, our king is very much in, in prestige with his , much in, in prestige with his, his subjects, at 20, only 25 of the uk want want a republic. The uk want want a republic. This is a survey done by the mail on sunday to mark a year since the coronation. Obviously, hes had a very turbulent time. Obviously, the death of his mother, the queen, and also his own Health Scares and Health Scares within his family, the most popular royals were william and kate, who have topped the poll with the most popular support. And prince is still support. And prince is still incredibly 1 in 8 still support Prince Andrew. 1 in 8. I think thats incredibly high, really . Thats incredibly high, really . Yeah, i find that quite interesting because today is , interesting because today is, National Republic day. Is it . Is it . Is it . Its the First Ever National repubuc its the first ever National Republic day. Republic day. I know that, i dont know republican. I dont know that its going to take off. Look, theyre having a big rally in trafalgar square. Get yourself down there today. Im on my way. Im sort of. Therell be. Therell be least 20 or 30, at least. Yeah. No, look, i am part of that 1 in 4, but yeah. No, look, i am part of that1 in 4, but im a realistic that 1 in 4, but im a realistic part of that 1 in 4. If youre part of that 1 in 4. If youre part of that 1 in 4. If youre part of 1 in 4 and youre a democrat, you know that you aint going to win the argument yet. Look, i dont think charles has done anything wrong since hes been king, you know, he hasnt messed up in any spectacular way. There were concerns, given that he had been very outspoken whilst being prince of wales for so long that he might interfere in the politics of the nation, which is not a good thing for our , not a good thing for our, constitutional monarch. Yes, but very much a sort of decorative constitutional monarch rather than an actual political actor. But he hasnt done that to be fair. Hes been completely, you know, straight faced during things like the kings speech and hes had health issues. And i think , you know, lets face i think, you know, lets face it, the British Public are reasonably generous, reasonably nice people who arent going to kick a man when hes down. Yeah and even i as a, you know, someone who doesnt believe that we should have a constitutional monarchy, have nothing big to criticise him on. Yeah. Even even the things that he was previously outspoken about were things to do with the Natural World protecting our environment, protecting our heritage, and also protecting the union. These arent the union. These arent necessarily i know that there are people who are against the union, but i dont think he was ever particularly foaming at the mouth about anything. These were things that were general concerns for the general public, but its the second, the second least popular royal in the mail on sunday survey and of course it is a mail survey was meghan markle, i dont really think of her as being a royal andrzej duda really . Well, theyve sort of retired from being royals, havent they . They dont get royal money or any anything anymore. Theyre making jam these days. Yeah, making jam people that important humanitarian mission that they left to take up making jam and podcasts. Yeah. Well there you go. Emma, can we have a look at this . Because its always the number of politicians ive talked to recently. And you and ihave talked to recently. And you and i have to say, i know a lot of you watching and listening because you get in touch. The ones you get in touch seem to like reform a lot. And ive said like reform a lot. And ive said to a lot of reform people, isnt it the middle ground youve got to go for . And they said, no , to go for . And they said, no, its shifting, its all changing. And certainly there is a shift to the right for those people who are who are backing reform. But the sunday times, reform. But the sunday times, looking at middle england, if you like, and how that is affecting the current race for number 10. Yeah, absolutely , i number 10. Yeah, absolutely, i think labour have done something rather clever, which is redistribute where their vote sits, in 2017 when labour did better than expected and in 2019, when labour fell back considerably, they were piling up votes in safe labour seats in inner cities. So they got quite high levels of votes , but they high levels of votes, but they just werent efficiently distributed. What weve seen in these local elections is that these local elections is that the labour vote has been much more efficiently distributed across the country and across those middle england constituencies, where they need to win. And i think what youre seeing, yes , there is a reform seeing, yes, there is a reform problem for the tories because they do eat into their vote. But they do eat into their vote. But the more that the tories move towards trying to win those reform votes back, the more they move away from those middle england voters who have been traditionally soft tories happy to vote conservative when the conservatives were seeming reasonable. And the more unreasonable they seem to those voters, the more that they are losing where the public actually is. I mean, is. I mean, its is. I mean, its swing it. Its i mean, its swing it. Its the floating voters. Exactly. Those are the people who decide elections. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And far too many of these groups that they we had the mondeo man didnt we, in tesco mum and all these sort of things. Unfortunately far too many. These identities, these cliched identities are painted on huge parts of britain by focus groups and think tanks that are created in london. And then you sort of aiming at these people without ever meeting them and talking to them. And there needs to be far more unifying policies. There are many things i dont care what political parties, what part of the political spectrum you want. There are many things in this country that were in absolute agreement on that have to happen , and this government isnt seriously interested in attacking those and just segwaying into another story. Were talking about banning zombie knives, banning machetes. We have had a position where this government has been talking now for four different home secretaries about banning zombie knives, banning machetes. They still havent done it. And as Yvette Cooper points out, the Samurai Sword that killed Daniel Anjorin that was the 14 year old was killed in hainault by that. That guy that was running around the streets attacking me with the streets attacking me with the sword. That still isnt illegal. How are we . How are we . This is i mean, its the most ridiculous thing i think ive seen, labour saying its not a criticism of labour, but saying we will ban the sword that killed daniel. Why is he banned already . Why is he banned already . How is this sword not banned . How is this sword not banned . Well, youre quite right, but it isnt. What . Labour are it isnt. What . Labour are offering amendments to the criminal justice bill that would ban these types of weapons. But youre quite right, andy. Weve been going around and around the houses on this home secretary talking tough and acting weak for the secretaries. This is this is an entirely unifying policy. There isnt unifying policy. There isnt anyone out there that wouldnt say, oh, no, actually, we really need what we really need in our home is Samurai Swords. There is no there is no civic reason for any human being in our country to own a zombie knife. We had a case where a 16 year old was stabbed to death with a sword in the street in wolverhampton, in a case of mistaken identity by some yobbo that owned 25 of these blades, and he was 17 years old. He ordered them onune years old. He ordered them online and was able to go and collect them from the post office, all entirely legally. Why on earth has our government been doing four separate home secretaries the moment these Samurai Sword incident happened in london earlier on in the week, i went online and you can buy all of these weapons, illegal weapons, perfectly legally. Get them to deliver to your house kids bedrooms without parents even knowing. Zombie knives , crossbows, swords, knives, crossbows, swords, ceremonial daggers. Its ceremonial daggers. Its absolutely chaotic. Absolutely. Absolutely. And the more children that see these cases every weekend, we see these cases on friday nights and saturday nights. And the more children see these being carried, the more they carry them for their own protection. And so and so on it goes. I protection. And so and so on it goes. I can tell you something, 50,000 cases in the last year, which is a 60 increase, 50,000 cases involving Crimes Involving knives, 60 increase since 2016. Our government has done absolutely nothing about banning these blades. Its a disgrace. These blades. Its a disgrace. Anecdotally, i can tell you something very frightening. So last year i was in a play and we needed a fake knife for the play. So i went on and one of those distributional sites that you can find online, and looked up fake knife for, you know, to, to, to buy the prop that i needed. Ever since then, ive been being pushed real knives through that. Yeah through that same service. Through that same service. You might like this insane cane knife. And im like, no, thats absolutely not what i was looking for. Yeah, its actually being offered up to you. Exactly the same. Exactly the same. Im glad you brought that up since i clicked on it. Im also chased around the internet by these same knives and also offer me a stab proof vest. Yeah, so that needs to be looked at, doesnt it . I mean, i think everybody across the board, whatever your unifying policy, get it done. What are they doing . Yeah, its enforcement as well isnt it. Its all about banning something, but its enforcing that you can buy this from major retailers. I know, but weve got to weve got to leave it there. Andy, i think you made your point very well, though, andy. Emma. Thank you. Well see you a little bit later on. Thank you very much indeed. Lets take a look at the weather now, shall we, with catherine. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello and welcome to your gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudier in the north. But where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland with some outbreaks of rain here but in the south west we have got a weather system and thats bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast , but up to 20 degrees in the southeast, but through the rest of the afternoon and evening time, cloud generally moving its way northward to parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here, cloudier conditions still remaining across Northern Ireland and parts of scotland still, with some showery outbreaks of rain across eastern parts. Otherwise temperatures with a lot of cloud around, temperatures still staying a little bit up for the time of year. And then as we go through starting monday morning, cloudy picture for Bank Holiday Monday across southeastern england with heavy outbreaks of rain here. Some brighter spells are going to be mixed in with that, but many places are seeing outbreaks of rain or showers, but also some sunny spells. And where you do see the sunshine, it is going to be feeling warm with highs of 17 or 18 degrees. 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Please do join us if you can, and gary parker has been in touch saying morning, can, and gary parker has been in touch saying morning , stephen touch saying morning, stephen and ellie. I believe scotland will be key at the next general election. The implosion of the snp will see labour increased from around 2 to 25 seats. This will mean the difference between a Hung Parliament and a small labour majority. Labour majority. There you go. Is a zoologist . There you go. Is a zoologist . Yeah. Very good. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. Well its interesting, isnt it, because the collapse of the snp is not going to naturally lead votes to labour is it. To, to the tories. I beg your pardon. They are going to head. They are going to head to labour if they go anywhere. But perhaps john swinney when hes crowned, which looks like as a new first minister, maybe hell swing the snp support back up. I dont know. But its interesting dont know. But its interesting of course, because its, its that strange thing, obviously, that strange thing, obviously, that because we dont get parliamentary elections in holyrood till 2026, its just all about those westminster seats in scotland rather than the holyrood seats. It gets very confusing. Its very confusing, but as Stephen Pound was saying a little bit earlier on, it would be very interesting if scotland was part of these results this weekend, do let us know what you think. Gb news youll say, well, if youre a tory supporter and then its been a bit of a miserable weekend for you so far. Sadiq khan. Of course, yesterday won his third term as london mayor. Perhaps not surprisingly, though, the gossip had been that it was actually very, very close. Turned out that was not the case. Its londoners who inspire me every day to continue our mission of building a fairer , 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. Government led by keir starmer. Working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more. And accomplish so much more. Well, just a few hours later, conservative andy street lost the West Midlands mayoralty, which he had been expected to retain to labours Richard Parker by 1508 votes. Lets talk to our Political Correspondent. Olivia utley is time running out, olivia, for the Prime Minister to either go or call an election . Or call an election . Well, it feels hard to downplay the importance of losing andy street in the West Midlands. Andy street is an midlands. Andy street is an incredibly popular, hard working , experienced politician. Everyone who knows him thinks that hes done a very, very good job in the West Midlands and actually during his campaign, he pretty much wiped the conservative party from all of his campaign literature. He was essentially almost running as an independent, but the very name conservative managed to make him lose in the West Midlands last night, only by just over a thousand votes. It was very, very tight indeed. But that is a real, real morale blow for the conservatives. It was a miserable weekend in the local elections and the idea of hanging on to the tees valley and the West Midlands was the only thing that were keeping the conservatives going. Yes, they did manage to hang on to tees valley all with it, with a very reduced majority. But losing reduced majority. But losing andy street in the West Midlands is, is a real massive blow. How long can rishi sunak cling on . Well, that is the Million Dollar question as far as im reading it. There are a number of conservative mps who would like to see him gone, but theyre not sure if its worth moving. Just yet. We are a few months away from a general election. There from a general election. There isnt anyone who would naturally step into his shoes. The only real possibility is Penny Mordaunt, and looking at the polling at the moment, Penny Mordaunt looks quite likely to lose her seat at the next general election. And obviously it would be hugely, hugely embarrassing for the conservative party if they were to if their leader were to lose their seat of the Prime Minister, were to lose her seat at a general election. So most mps seem to be keeping their counsel for now. But it could get increasing difficult over the coming days and weeks. One aspect of these shattering local election defeats is that the conservative party is going to lose all sorts of volunteers, those all important people who go and knock on the doorsteps , go and knock on the doorsteps, go and knock on the doorsteps, go and knock on the doorsteps, go and deliver the pamphlets, etc. Quite a lot, quite a lot of them are local councillors, and a lot of those councillors have now lost their seats and are feeling pretty disillusioned with the conservative party as a whole. I think it will be also be really interesting to see what andy street does next. He was furious with rishi sunak and the conservative government in westminster for cancelling hs2, and he almost decided to step aside as a conservative candidate at that point. Last night he delivered a very gracious resignation speech. But in the days to come, it could be that he turns on the Prime Minister and the conservative government and it might be at that moment that could be the straw that broke the camels back. There are plenty of conservative mps who want rishi sunak gone, but i think theyre going to need a push in that direction, whether it whether from street or from someone else. It feels like there is a camel with a very bad back, and there just needs to be one straw to break it. And olivia, should we talk about the situation in london because you were at city hall yesterday, werent you, when sadiq khan got his third term as london mayor but we had a very strange briefing, didnt we, on kind of friday evening, saturday morning that actually that race was going to be very, very close between sadiq khan and the conservative candidate, susan hall. It turns out that that wasnt actually the case. No, i mean, it really wasnt very close at all. I sadiq khan won by ten points, which is, pretty phenomenal, really. I mean, it was closer, perhaps , mean, it was closer, perhaps, than other contests in the rest of the country. But no, there of the country. But no, there was no chance at all that susan hall was going to win. The fact that sadiq khan is a bit less popular than the labour party as a whole, and the labour party as a whole, and the labour party as a whole, and the labour party as a whole is polling about 26 points ahead as whereas khan only won with ten points, suggests to some conservatives that maybe if theyd put up a better candidate in london, it is possible that maybe they could have won or at least given sadiq khan a real run for his money. Susan halls campaign was pretty gaffe prone. Shes not a particularly experienced politician, and there are plenty of conservative activists who are now very, very annoyed that she was the one who was put up as the candidate. There are rumours that richard holden, the chairman of the conservative party might have to stand aside as oliver dowden, the former chair , did in 2022 after the chair, did in 2022 after the last set of bad local Election Results. So that rumour absolutely turned into nothing at all. Sadiq khan stormed to a pretty spectacular victory. I was there in city hall as he stood up for his victory speech and the dislike between him and susan hall was quite something to behold. There was a moment where he wouldnt even shake her hand. This was a pretty nasty campaign, very difficult campaign. And yes , sadiq khan campaign. And yes, sadiq khan has won it fair and square in the end. Okay, olivia, thanks very much indeed. Lets talk to former lib dem minister norman baker, who joins us now. Whats your assessment, norman . Well , excuse me, we expect me well, excuse me, we expect me to mention lib dems first, wouldnt you . Because the bbc certainly havent. The fact is, the lib dems came second in number of councils elected ahead of the conservatives and won 12 councils opposed to six for the conservatives and i think because labour didnt perform quite as well as they might have done, they did quite well. I think were in line for a Hung Parliament and, people ought to be concentrating on that prospect now in terms of the in terms of the other result, i mean, clearly andy street was a good mayor. He did a lot for the West Midlands, ben houchen has done quite a lot for the north east, but any any suggestion that the conservatives can take comfort from them is misplaced because they were personal votes. They won despite the conservative party label, not because of it , so you conservative party label, not because of it, so you you mentioned a Hung Parliament and look, some, some of this the sort of forecasts and sort of indicate that but it doesnt include scotland. Thats the include scotland. Thats the thats going to be the problem for the lib dems, isnt it. Who could potentially be the kingmakers . Well, i mean, certainly its a case that i think Stephen Pound said earlier on in the programme, that if the snp, collapsed, as they might do , collapsed, as they might do, then most of those seats would go to labour. But around the celtic fringes in the north, on the west, even in aberdeenshire, down in edinburgh , you know, a down in edinburgh, you know, a lot of the seats used to be lib dem seats and they could easily revert to lib dem. So its not simply a one way street. What do you make of what we saw in the West Midlands . And perhaps the biggest shock result really of the weekend and andy street, losing his mayoralty there. Well, i think its as your reporter says , i mean, andy reporter says, i mean, andy street was a very competent mayor and he did a lot for the West Midlands. And i think a lot of people would have voted for him because of his personality and his record, rather than simply because he was a conservative. I think the conservative. I think the conservative label will probably put them off and he was very angry. As has been reported over the cancellation of hs2, hes been working with andy burnham, the manchester mayor, to try to resurrect something. But i mean, the rug was pulled from under him by his own government and, i think he hell be very upset about that. And he, you know, downing street lost the lost the mayoralty for him. Thats the reality of it. Reality of it. It has to be said it it now feels like were on this unstoppable train, towards this general election and a result that most people are expecting, which is a labour victory, as you say, perhaps a perhaps a Hung Parliament. Is it ridiculous to keep saying from the labour perspective and indeed from ed daviss perspective . You know, weve got to have the election now, because as much as we might want to sort of get it out of the way and they want to get on with it, its the last thing any Prime Minister in this position would do, isnt it . Well, no, it isnt actually, stephen, because, i mean, look at the results. It was abc, anyone but conservatives at the weekend, and the reality is, if you go back to other situations in the past where the government of the day has been on the rope and theyve sought to carry on to the last bit of moment and hope something turns up, to the last bit of moment and hope something turns up , theyve hope something turns up, theyve always come off worse than they had. They gone at this point. Jim callaghan in 1979. John major 97, gordon brown 2010. He would all have done better. They would all have done better. They would still have lost, by the way, but they would all have done better had they gone earlier. I think the public at large has made up its mind. The tories have to go. They are toast to sadiq khan. I think in his speech. Was quite right about that, the Prime Minister, about that, the Prime Minister, a dead man walking, im afraid. And, the reality is that , if the and, the reality is that, if the tories have an election tomorrow, they will lose. If they have an election in october, november, theyll lose even more heavily. Even more heavily. Do you do you think that rishi sunak can hang on as leader . Because hes been quite fierce in his rhetoric. So far, from what weve heard. He said hes going to continue to put the fight to labour. And James Cleverly, writing in the telegraph today, says yes, the results have been tough. Theres no point pretending otherwise. But he says the voters that have drifted away will come back to us in time for a general election. He he appears to suggest that this has just been protest votes at local elections. Hes whistling in the wind, i think, and most conservatives you speak to will tell you that the game is up, you speak to will tell you that the game is up , that the last the game is up, that the last line of defence local councils have gone. Its the mps next have gone. Its the mps next into the threshing machine , and into the threshing machine, and theres no way back. And i think people want to keep rishi sukh sunak. Theyre not because they think hes doing a good job, but because there isnt an obvious alternative, it would look absurd to replace yet another Prime Minister within this parliament. And also, theres some tory mps who want to make sure that when the results come out, the general election, they are terrible. Rishi sunak carries the can for it, okay, norman, good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. I you very much indeed. I appreciate that analysis. I know, obviously you cant keep everyone happy all the time , everyone happy all the time, this is a democracy. You know, were all going to vote for different parties, and its just whoever gets the most. Karen, karen has been in touch. Morning, karen. She says, gb news, it seems, likes to keep reporting how well labour has done and how bad its going for the conservatives but we know the conservatives but we know the like and or dislike karen. But what what do you want us to do . Thats all going very well. So im very well for rishi sunak. Weve got to tell you whats happening. Got to give you the truth. Theres no point spinning it. You know, these are spinning it. You know, these are this is what is going on in the country, and theres no getting away from it. And what is interesting actually, is , is interesting actually, is, is James Cleverly can say what he likes in the sunday telegraph and he can say what he likes if he wants to appear on our programme, you talk to mps if you ever have the privilege of going into parliament or meeting mps out and about, you talk to them privately. These tory mps and they do say weve had it, weve lost it, we know weve lost it, they have to say they Say Something else in public, but that is what theyre saying in private, you know, so were just you know, were not cant spin you a line. Weve got to tell you the truth. Tell you the truth. I mean, i think the timing of a general election is going to be very, very interesting now because perhaps the tories are thinking today and this week, after their bank holiday is oven after their bank holiday is over, perhaps now the focus needs to be minimising the losses. Perhaps then youre better. Maybe get the flights off to rwanda as promised by rishi sunak, and then go with that summer election, go for a summer election. You can say, look, we said wed get those flights off. Theyve gone. Maybe thats the best hand that theyve got the best, the best car that they can play. I dont know, its going to be go as long as you can and hope Interest Rates come down. I remember saying ages ago that i thought the longer the longer you leave it, the more desperate you seem, because you know, its because were just waiting for things to get better. Will they get better . Just dont know. Its a heck of a gamble. It is a gamble. Yeah. It is a gamble. Yeah. And in the meantime, youre called things like a zombie parliament, arent you . And say youre squatters in number 10, thats going to continue that rhetoric. Rhetoric. Yeah. Yeah. I think were approaching a point where rishi sunak would just say, right, point where rishi sunak would just say, right , lets point where rishi sunak would just say, right, lets go. Yeah, lets get on with it. I think itll be after flights to rwanda, i think theyll have to have that because thats what hes hes made his flagship policy, hasnt he . Yeah. Yeah. Thats not what you think. We can all sit here and predict, cant we . But none of us know. Only one man in this country knows. And that is rishi sunak. This is true. This is true. Gbnews. Com yoursay. Now Donald Trumps hush money trial enters its third week in new york tomorrow. Yes, the former president is accused of falsifying Business Records over hush money payments made to the aduu hush money payments made to the adult actress Stormy Daniels to cover up their alleged affair. Well, of course, hes denied all wrongdoing. Well, earlier we all wrongdoing. Well, earlier we spoke to professor scott lucas , spoke to professor scott lucas, whos professor of us politics at ucl. At ucl. The drama has been that trump has been fined 9,000 because he continues to insult the proceedings, insulting the judge, insulting the prosecutors, insulting the judges family , the judges judges family, the judges clerk. But its been really important. These two weeks in terms of setting up, where we go with the substance of this trial, which, of course is about falsifying Business Records as part of an interference in the 2016 election. And i think you just heard from mark oaten that in politics, sometimes its quite good to be quiet but effective. The same is true in trials. What the prosecution has been doing, because this is their term in court, has been laying out the evidence, which is i think is pretty clear, that the trump team were very worried about his, sexual encounters and his affair, his affair with Karen Mcdougal, his sexual encounter with the porn star Stormy Daniels, that there was motive there to try to keep Stormy Daniels quiet, that the money was paid to her in october of 2016, and the next week , of 2016, and the next week, theyll probably then get to the substance of. Yes. And then the Business Records were falsified, to cover up that payment. Where the defence is going to go when it comes their turn. I dont think they can really knock back that evidence. I think what they do is theyll go after the witnesses. Theyll go after the character of the witnesses, especially Stormy Daniels and mike, Donald Trumps former fixer, michael cohen. And how do you think this is actually affecting donald trump himself . Because weve seen , himself . Because weve seen, havent we, scott lucas in previous trials that this actually helps him a lot in the polls , it feeds into his polls, it feeds into his narrative, doesnt it, of him versus the establishment. But actually, i think for the first time in this trial, we have seen him getting somewhat frustrated. Do you think thats because its been such a long trial so far . Been such a long trial so far . Well, i think he was always a bit of a myth. More it was a spin line by the trumpist that the trials always help him. You know, they kind of say that because its like, oh, dont put him on trial or else hell win , him on trial or else hell win, i dont think it helped him. For example, when he was found guilty of defamation and Sexual Assault of E Jean Carroll the writer, it wont help him with women voters. In terms of this trial, whats compounded that is that trump is kind of limited in what he can say, because of course, he risked getting fined if he lashes out too much, and because practically he has to be in court rather than on the campaign trail. And for that reason, he is getting frustrated. He is getting angry in court because trump doesnt really do procedure. He doesnt do evidence. He doesnt even do, dare i say it, the legal process. He does big speeches. He does loud and bigly, and he cant do that, while this trial goes on into a third week or fourth week and a second month, professor scott lucas speaking to us a little bit earlier on in the program. The program. Yeah. Yeah. Dear me, yeah, that one to watch. Sorry, im just engrossed in all your thoughts. Gb news. Com your say about politics over here. And i get it. A lot of you arent very happy, but its like, what . What do you do . Its what i mean, this is, this is the point with the democracy, isnt it, that in essence, if you break it, if you do it in very simple terms, every time theres an election, 50 of the population are unhappy, 50 are happy. You know, its , but happy. You know, its, but youve got to i guess the point is, youve got to be able to live with that and say, right, well have another go in four years. Yeah, or five years, because what else do you do if you then suddenly start saying, actually someone has commented, oh, well , its actually someone has commented, oh, well, its all its all actually someone has commented, oh, well , its all its all been oh, well, its all its all been rigged. Well, you cant go if you dont get the result you want. You cant then say, well , want. You cant then say, well, we need to do it all again. I mean, look, a lot of you would say that because thats what thatis say that because thats what that is what they try to do with brexit. You know, a massive referendum, biggest sort of pubuc referendum, biggest sort of public vote i think, in history. And people said, leave the eu. And people said, leave the eu. And then the ones who didnt want to leave said, oh, it wasnt right, lets make it best of three. Whatever it was, you know, its and you cant. And you were outraged by that and understandably so. But then we have to apply the same rules that we had with that we have to apply to this and accept whats going on, whether we like it or not, interestingly, though, see, were very diplomatic, arent we . We are. Were trying to be, cagey in cumbria, said you two are being overly diplomatic and are being overly diplomatic and a bit naive. If the country is screwed, he says , no. Says, no. Damn. Well, i hope not. Well ihope damn. Well, i hope not. Well i hope not. We hope not, Josh Fitzgerald has been in touch. Good morning to you. Saying russia should just call the election tomorrow. Just call the election tomorrow. Stop holding the country to ransom. We dont want you. You werent elected. Give us the democratic vote that we need and that it will be. And it will be called at some point this year, the second half of the year, weve been told thats all we know. So far. I wonder if the results this weekend will affect what rishi sunak thinks in terms of going to the polls. Will he play of going to the polls. Will he play the long game or will he just say lets minimise losses and hedge, hedge the polls. Yeah, i dont know. Get on with it. Yeah. Lets get on with it all right. Shall we get on with the weather shall we. With catherine. With catherine. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello and welcome to your gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudy in the north. But where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland with some outbreaks of rain here. But in the south west we have got a weather system and thats bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the south east through the rest of the afternoon and evening time cloud, generally moving its way northward to parts of northern wales and also into the south east of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here. 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Please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck watching on demand. Good luck yes, best of luck for that one. Very nice 20 grand. What can you do with £20,000 . Lots of shopping and a nice holiday. Id say. Not that ive thought about it. What about you , i dont know. Well, i know its dead boring. Its dead boring. Id do still, id invest it. Id do still, id invest it. Yeah, well, no, because. Yeah, well, no, because. Because youve got to think about retirement, because im not working till im 70. Yeah. No, i dont think thats a very good idea, i think so im going to put it away and id be boring. But then i wont be. Ill be laughing when im 60 and swanning about on yachts. Then yeah you will. Yeah you will. Hes the sensible drinking pina colada or something. Well, you dont drink. Well, you dont drink. Its like floor and nap plan. Its like floor and nap plan. But ill video call you from the caribbean. Thanks. Thanks. Thats okay. Thats okay. This is what ive done with my £20,000 ali costello. You blew it on a handbag. Well, yeah, thats true, but we cant win it. But you can. So youve got to be in it to win it. There it is. Biggest one so far. Yeah. Oh interesting one from Colin Renwick about andy street. Lost by a thousand votes. The reform candidate and i have to. I have to be honest, i havent seen the individual results. It says the reform candidate got 76,000 votes. Do the maths. Well, i mean, thats exactly the argument that, that rishi sunak has been making, as hes saying, you know, vote for reform and get labour. Yeah, of course, the reform party say , well, no, reform party say, well, no, thats not the point, is it . Youve got to vote for what you believe in. There you go. Yeah. Theyre also asking for proportional representation, which lots of you are messaging in saying thats what youd like to see as well, do keep those views coming in gbnews. Com slash your say were going to be talking about the king in just a few minutes time. So stay with us 2020 for a battleground year. The year the nation decides as the parties gear up their campaigns for the next general election, who will be left standing when the british people make one of the biggest decisions of their lives . Who will rise and who will fall . Lets find out together for every moment. The highs, the lows, the twists and turns. Well be with you for every step of this journey in 2024. Gb news is britains election channel. Loads of you getting in touch. Keith devlin got in touch and has said what scares me about labour winning power at the next general election is militant tendencies have been laying very low, so they dont rock the boat. But once labour win power, they will take over once again. Do you know what, keith . I put that very point to Stephen Pound, former labour mp, earlier on this morning. He said no, theres no sort of momentum on the National Executive anymore. He was he was very clear on his position on that, saying it would not happen. Its worth having a look at the interview earlier on. It was in the 7 00 hour top of the 7 00, i think. So have a scroll back on youtube or on the app and have a look at that and see if that changes your mind. It may not, but its a valid question to ask, because a lot of people, do wonder whether that is the case. But anyway, he says no. So you but anyway, he says no. So you make your own mind up on that gb news. Com your say. Now king charles is taking on about 300 new charities, some of which are thought to be close to his mothers heart. But thats as critics fear. A royal row is ensuing over. Prince andrews home. Thats royal lodge, which is in desperate need of repair. So should it be living there at all . Earlier, we spoke to a former royal butler, Grant Harrold , former taking on these harrold, former taking on these new roles. I dont know how much new roles. I dont know how much you have to do within each role, but it seems at a time im a bit surprised hes done it at a time when his health is still obviously a little bit fragile. Good morning to you both from tokyo, as you said, they have, you know, hes taken on these passages. I think its to show us all that even though hes obviously got these Health Battles that hes, obviously fighting cancer. But at the same time, as we know, recently he started to talk about increasing his engagements. And i think taking these on is very much to show the country, all of us, if not the world, that its kind of almost, almost back to business as normal. Because as ive said before, hes somebody that does not like just to sit down and do nothing. So if anything, as soon as the doctors may have given him a bit of, obviously hope that things are going well, hes decided that he wants to increase what he already does , increase what he already does, which doesnt surprise me, because thats exactly the kind of character he is. As i said, hes not somebody that likes to just sit back and do nothing. Its a complete opposite. And i think thats why hes probably quite happy to be able to do this. And again, its things that are close to the late queen, which he is obviously, as now king, hes keen to continue a lot of her work, should we talk about Prince Andrew because its the front page of the sunday mirror this morning . Apparently the estate at royal lodge in windsor is in a state of disrepair, and theres questions about whether he should be living there at all, i mean, as you know, this this is a former home of the late Queen Elizabeth the queen mother. And of course, he obviously has lived there for a few years. Theres been debates in the past about whether he should have that property. Its quite a substantial sized house. I think its between 8 and 10 bedrooms. Obviously, it needs repairs done. I obviously, it needs repairs done. I think its regardless of whos living there, the what, we still have to be done to that property because again, as one of the royal properties, its somewhere that theyve got to kind of look after and undertake its kind of care whether thats been paid for by, lets say, the king or whether its paid for by him, thats very much down to what the agreement is between them all. I know from a personal point of view, when i used to live in royal properties, that that was something that i would, depending on what had to be done. You know, if its something that had to be done, then it was done by the estate. If it was something i wanted done, then i would do it. So thats what it comes down to. So if these are general kind of repairs that have to be done, then technically its probably then technically its probably the estate that should when it should be covering it. Thats grant howard speaking to us a little bit earlier on in the programme. Yeah. Weve got sport heading your way in just a moment. Aidans here. Yes, indeed. Well, the tractor boys of ipswich town have ploughed their way back into the premier league after a wait of 22 years. Well hear how they did it after this. Break. Welcome back to breakfast. Its time to go through all the sport now with aidan. All. Morning, aidan. Good morning to you both. Can we start with ipswich . Given that youre wearing ipswich town . Yes, yes. Well, they had a momentous day yesterday. They had to beat Huddersfield Town or at least get a point actually to secure promotion back to the premier league. 22 years theyve waited to get back to the big time. Its so, so tough when a club, even a decent club like ipswich, one with a bit history behind it, has been without parachute payments from the premier league, from relegation in recent years to try and rebuild your club and get it over the line against these juggernaut sides like southampton, like leeds, like norwich, like leicester city, whove got promoted last week, but theyve accomplished it back to back promotions. But theyve accomplished it back to back promotions. This young lad, ipswich, aged 37 years old, has accomplished something really, really special. He was a number two to Jose Mourinho at Manchester United, number two to ole gunnar solskjaer. Hes gone to ipswich, hes kind of ploughed his own furrow. If were going to go down the tractor boys route, thats thats took me a while to come up with that one. It almost is almost as little time as it took ipswich to get back to the big time. But look dont be surprised now if you see the noise linking Kieran Mckenna with a return to Manchester United growing throughout the summer, the new owners at united need a new manager. We said we discussed it earlier on. I think erik ten hag is his goose is cooked at manchester at old trafford. I think hes going to be out on his ear this summer and i think theyll be looking for somebody young and dynamic. Yes, youll say, okay, its the biggest club in the world. Hes only managing ipswich. Can he really make that step up . But i think that hell be hell be right in the running when theyre considering those, those names, because they like his methodical approach to running a Football Club with the players respect him. Thats being 37. Thats being 37. Thats being 37. Thats a really good question. I dont think the age is a problem, but hes not managed really big players, hes managed really big players, hes managed players at league one and then championship level. Often its felt that british managers now have to earn their rights in the premier league by taking the club into it. Maybe he at least needs to give it one yearin he at least needs to give it one year in the premier league if he keeps ipswich up and plays well and performs well over the next 12 months or so, then who knows . You could go absolutely anywhere because thats going to be a tough job keeping them in the Division Next year. But you know what . If man united come calling at any time in your life, you just have to go. Its as simple as that. Yeah. Should we talk about leeds . Should we talk about leeds . Yes. Why not. Yeah. Well they were the ones who. They were the four guys yesterday. They had to beat southampton to have any chance of overhauling ipswich. But it didnt matter in the end because ipswich were obviously beat huddersfield, who got relegated and leeds didnt beat southampton. They lost two one at home. Unfortunately for them, will ferrell weve seen on the front of the sun this morning buying into leeds united. Hes bought into 40 niners enterprises. We dont know how much but we believe its a significant stake in the club. So well see how that plays out. But there is a move among hollywood stars to try and get involved with Football Clubs this year. And look, leeds are in the play offs. They can still get promoted to the premier league. Theyre not in great shape right now because theyve lost their last two games. Theyve fallen away as they tend to do, but if they get into the premier league overnight, will ferrells steak and the steak of the american owners who bought the american owners who bought the club last june goes up incrementally as of august, or even as of the week after next, if they get to the playoff final and win. Yeah good time to buy a couple of shares myself. Well get on there. Get on there now. Get on it. Yeah. Yeah. Agent, were out of time. Good to see you. Thank you. See you this weekend. See you this weekend. Thank you very much indeed. Do stay with us now. Were going to be going through the papers with andy jones next. Welcome back to breakfast. Go through the papers now, arent we . Oh, yes, we are with emma burnell and andy jones. Good to see you both this morning. Just having a look down the list to see what was sort of slightly different from all the stuff weve covered so far. Whats this in the mail on sunday . Emma about, 31,000 homes without water for a third day. Yeah, theres been a burst drain pipe down on the south coast and a number of households have had no water. Theyve had to deliver bottled water to 6000 vulnerable homes, and plenty of restaurants and pubs and a unable to open because they just havent got any water, three daysis havent got any water, three days is just far too long for this to be, to be fixed, but theres this pipe burst in dense woodland. Well, let me see. Logistically there is a problem here. Yeah, but come on, like , yeah, but come on, like, maybe i could see that in the amazon, but this is, you know, dense woodland in england is not that far from a road. No, no. No, no. No, no. And the billions of pounds in income and the billions of pounds that these companies are giving in dividends and bonuses could have been spent on, you know, a bit of projection about how we will cope with a link in a in dense woodland. I mean, the only thing dense is the people that run these companies , as far that run these companies, as far as im concerned. I mean, we dont have any control over our electric here. We dont have any control over our water. We dont have any control over our utilities. Britain is now a lodger in its own home. We are owned by foreign businesses who pretend to look after us. And again, a lot of these companies. How many reservoirs have they built . Absolutely none. Not one. 51 years. Not one. 51 years. Exactly, exactly. No exactly, exactly. No provision for this kind of thing, andy, tell us about this story in the mail online. Its about Hadrians Wall. Yes. So taxpayers are to fund a £475 a day, £500 a day. Expert to decolonise parts of Hadrians Wall. What a deal. Colonise it. What a deal. Colonise it. Well, i mean, well, decolonise you know, make us aware of its colonial history. But anyone who knows anything about Hadrians Wall will know that it was built, you know, sort of a couple of hundred ad, its significant technically, by colonising. Well, they were roman. Well, they were roman. It was. It was built before we went anywhere. And it was also built by romans who came into britain and killed around 750,000 people. A multinational army of romans from all over the world. So the idea that we need to spend 5700 for 12 days work in tyne and wear, of all places, you know, tyne and wear, theyve got some of the worst deprivations, some of the lowest wages , some of the lowest wages, some of the lowest growth. And to be spending £5,700 on 12 days work. This is the archives and Museum Association in tyne, tyne and wear, who were given 4 million grant from the arts council of england by all means let us know about history. The bloody side of it, the horrible side of it. I think its important that we learn all sides of our history, but decolonising an area of Hadrians Wall that isnt anything to do with colonialism and is in fact the absolute reverse, is completely plenty of things that you could see that have a colonial history in that area, you know, huge Industrial Areas that, you know, we know that there was aspects of colonialism and slavery as well, which not the same thing, but are connected in some areas that you could probably do quite a lot of really good historical education on. I dont know that Hadrians Wall, as you say, given that it pre exists any of our any british colonialism , it is the british colonialism, it is the place to spend that money. Yes. No. And it also is its going to its going to address our colonial past and our systemic racism. Yeah. Yeah. Well, im really not surprised that there was systemic racism in 100 ad. Or whatever. Well, yes, as i say, i mean, the people who were building that wall, i mean, it was all foreigners coming in, building them. Wall. Well, there you go , but what well, there you go, but what are they going to do for 12 days . are they going to do for 12 days . I mean, what on earth are they going to find up there . £500 a day ever done for us . Thats what i want to know. Well, as one historian in the article says, these colonisers, theyre a third rate historian on a gravy train of public money and i. Absolutely. Absolutely. Theyre making good money, arent they . Arent they . I just dont understand why you would ever want to do that. No, i just its beyond me. I dont get it. I dont get it. I dont get it. I mean, im, im usually the voice of woke on this channel, but this one i think is beyond me. Hadrians wall. That says something. Yeah, emma, lets have a look at the daily mail, shall we . Page three, this is a great story, isnt it . Its Daniel Rooney story. Its Daniel Rooney story. Daniel rooney, who was playing in a hotel bar, when word, reached , i think it was, word, reached, i think it was, Ross Kempsell at the sun. Who who, found out that olly murs had was stuck in london. Now theres a whole nother thing to be talked about in terms of our appalling transport system, causing so many problems for people trying to get to their jobs, but he couldnt make it to support take that, in their gig that they were, that they were playing, gary barlow. So Ross Kempsell heard that this had happened with olly mars, texted gary barlow, gary barlow sort of jokingly texted back, do you know anyone who could do it . He was in a hotel bar watching this lad play his, cover version. He said, well, this guys pretty good, lets get him on stage. And so he got he went from this hotel bar to playing at this massive arena in support of take that, which is just one of those lovely. Theres a film to be made about. Oh, its the stuff of dreams, isnt it. Absolutely. Wonderful story. Yeah fantastic. All right, take that. All right, take that. Apparently. Yeah. Apparently the audience loved it. Im a big, big take. That fan have been since i was 16 years old, so i. And you a bit unusual for me because im usually an indie kid, but. Yeah, they got to me. So i think its just another example of take that being lovely. Yeah. And i bet they were so behind him as well. I mean, what a great story. Just to step up to the plate like that and yeah, save the show really well, exactly. Weve had all sorts of shows called off for all sorts of reasons around the country. The disaster at the co op stage, at co op live, of course. Take that one. Take that one. Yeah, they were meant to be at the co op and they pulled it. And how they got another venue. Well, impressive to get another venue on that short notice. Obviously someone was in between acts, but thank goodness they were for the take that fans. Yeah yeah. Wow. Good on them, i think thats really nice. I hope he does really well. Id rather see that sort of thing than some of these celeb, you know, ex factory style things. Really, now emily blunt fine actress. Yes. A e. But thank heavens that youre not her leading man. Me because she will be me. Me because she will be me. I she she wouldnt brush my teeth. Im. Im perfectly good for kissing. Were talking about kissing. Were talking about kissing. Were talking about kissing emily blunt kissing some stars makes me feel sick. What a thing to admit. This is emilys london born actress, emily blunt talking on Howard Sterns radio show show. He obviously always asks the naughtiest questions, she says that sometimes she she always tries to find something attractive about the person shes kissed, kissing, and shes kissed everyone from Robert Downey jr , the rock, tom cruise, downey jr, the rock, tom cruise, matt damon, Cillian Murphy , oh. Matt damon, Cillian Murphy, oh. Actually, i think different people. But she says sometimes chemistry is a strange thing. You cant really bottle it or sell it. Its either there or its not. And sometimes she says that kissing the wrong person, she wont name who, but she says she wont name who, but she says she just cant get on board with it. And why would you want to get on board with it . Its so interesting because on most of the time when actors talk about love scenes, oh no, no, theres no you know, its no attraction there. Its just a job were just doing, you know, were faking it. Were doing our acting job. So its interesting that shes kind of revealing the behind the curtains. You have to have a little bit of chemistry there. Yes , i agree id be if i was yes, i agree id be if i was i dont know if shes married or shes married to john krasinski, whos john krasinski. Yeah. Yeah. Theyre married. Yeah. Theyre married. Yeah. Hes a good hes the one who does the jack ryan stuff on amazon, isnt he . Hes beefcake. Hes beefcake. You spend a lot of time on stage, dont you . I do. Have you ever had to kiss people in a kiss . I havent written myself a part where i get to snog the leading man. Maybe i should do this the way if youre writing the stuff, why not. But no, the only time ive actually. Mostly im behind the stage. Im a writer. But i was in my last show. But it was very much not a kissing part. Oh, i can imagine. Its really, really awkward. Its really, really awkward. Well, my first play, which i directed, had the two actors did have to kiss. Yeah. And it is very, very interesting. They. I took them out. We didnt rehearse the kiss until day three. So they knew each other. They were comfortable in each others presence by that point. Took them out for a glass of wine for lunch and then we went and rehearsed the kiss after that. So everyone was very relaxed, you have to be really conscious as a director, not to put them in too awkward a situation, but there was a kiss in the script, and they both knew that when they signed on. If youre a director actor, im surprised youre not staging 50 shades of grey, cant put that on. Put that, put that on and enjoy yourself. Ive read 50 shades of grey. You are very badly written, if youre interested. Emily blunt says shes now shes such a great actor. She can now create chemistry with anything. He now kiss anyone, even a water bottle. Theres a boat, even a water bottle. So it gives me hope, she says. You can create chemistry because shes an actress with almost anything. She can make herself believe it. And so it gives me a sign. I mean, its not that hard. Its not like any of the guys that shes kissing are, you know, mingers. I mean, theyre all bloody hollywood actors. Theyve got a little bit of something about them. Yeah, or those people i said shed kissed earlier. Theyre just listed as her friends, but i am sure she has actually kissed lots of famous and attractive. It must be so interesting as an actress turning up to Something Like the oscars, and youve kissed all the men in the room and youre there with your husband. Yeah, i know theyre actresses. Thats part of their job. I mean, ive been to parties like that, but thats a whole nother story, right . You two, thank you very much indeed. Its been good to see you. This morning. Yeah. Yeah. Really good to see you. Yep. Really good to see you. Yep. I could never do that. I could never do that. What . What . Kiss all the actors in hollywood. I just i dont think its in your job description, so its in yourjob description, so i think youre going to be all right. Should we look at the weather with catherine . Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Hello, and welcome to your. Gb news forecast, brought to you by the met office. A mixed picture on sunday. Sunny spells in the south. Cloudier in the north. But where we do see the sunshine it is going to be feeling rather warm. So the best of the sunshine is parts of northern wales, Central England and also down towards the south east of england. Cloudier skies persisting across Northern Ireland, much of scotland with some outbreaks of rain here. But in the south west we have got a weather system and this bringing some more outbreaks of showery outbreaks of rain pushing its way northwards. But where we do see the sunshine, temperatures are going to be on the rise. Were going to see highs of around 18 or possibly up to 20 degrees in the southeast through the rest of the afternoon and evening time, cloud generally moving its way northward parts of northern wales and also into the southeast of england, with some heavier outbreaks of rain pushing in here. Cloudier conditions still remaining across Northern Ireland and parts of scotland still with some showery outbreaks of rain across eastern parts. Otherwise temperatures with a lot of cloud around, temperatures still staying a little bit up for the time of year. And then as we go through starting monday morning. Cloudy picture for Bank Holiday Monday across southeastern england with heavy outbreaks of rain here. Some brighter spells are going to be mixed in with that, but many places are seeing outbreaks of rain or showers , outbreaks of rain or showers, but also some sunny spells. And where you do see the sunshine , where you do see the sunshine, it is going to be feeling warm with highs of 17 or 18 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. Its 9 00 on sunday, the 5th of may. Today, a crushing blow for the tories as sadiq khan secures the third term in office as the mayor of london. 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 more. And accomplish so much more. Well, theres more misery for rishi sunak in the West Midlands as andy street suffers a shock loss to labour in their mayoral race. Donald trump, scheduled to return to Court Tomorrow for his hush money trial. Whats likely hush money trial. Whats likely to happen in the coming week . To happen in the coming week . The kings return to royal life as he takes on around 300 new patronages, including some that were close to his mothers heart. As prince harry prepares to return to the uk and, of course, its bank holiday. Course, its bank holiday. So does this mean its a good time for you to grab a bargain on the next picture for the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend, with sunny spells for some, but also some outbreaks of rain and also some outbreaks of rain and also some outbreaks of rain and also some showers. Ill have all the details coming up soon. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello , and this is Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on. Gb news. Breakfast on. Gb news. Can i just bring something up that ive been wanting to talk about all morning . Oh, go on, all morning. Oh, go on, all morning. And it didnt come up in the papers, sadly, in front of the daily star sunday. Oh, you did want to talk about this . Yes. Gary newman, has is terrified because he was on the tube or walking down the tube platform and an old bloke walked through a wall. Oh he walked through. Is he sure . Yeah he is. You sure . He hadnt just had a few pints. He walked through a brick wall. A scruffy old bloke in 19405 wall. A scruffy old bloke in 1940s clothing vanished through a wall as the singer walked behind him. Oh, i dont want to say, considering his biggest song was here in my car. I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors. Its the only way to live in cars. You shouldnt have been on the tube gary. Well, thats a fantastic point. Yes what station was this . I dont know, piccadilly circus. Circus. I think maybe he might have just had a few drinks. Im not sure if i believe in that. Never know. Do you believe in ghosts . I dont know, i wouldnt say no , but im not convinced. No, but im not convinced. I dont know. No, im not sure either. No, im not sure either. Echoes of something. Oh, its possible he could have seen it. Well, apparently they followed after him. Followed after him. Went about six foot and there was nothing there. It and there was nothing there. It was one of those tunnels that had been blocked up. Oh ghosts living in the blocked up tunnel at piccadilly circus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is probably what they used for during the blitz. Yeah. Wasnt it because it all capped out . I mean, its a great story. I mean, its a great story. Yeah. I just dont know whether i believe in ghosts could. Well, well who knows who knows. Right. Lets crack on with the politics this morning. Its been a tough old weekend for the conservative party in particular. Of course, for the Prime Minister. Also, the top toff yesterday with a couple of big losses. The first one was big losses. The first one was sadiq khan when he won his third term as london mayor yesterday. Its londoners who inspire me every day to continue our mission of building a fairer, safer , safer and greener london. Safer, 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 starmer. Working with us in city hall will mean we can go much further and accomplish so much more. More. Well, just a few hours later, conservative andy street lost the West Midlands mayoralty, which he had been expected to retain to labours Richard Parker by 1508 votes. Well, our West Midlands reporter jack carson joins us now and it has to be said i mean, this was the real shock of this whole weekend, really. This whole weekend, really. Oh, definitely. Oh, definitely. Thats definitely right. I mean, up until, the election last thursday, labour were seeing an increasing chance of taking the West Midlands and were starting to divert more resources towards here, thinking that Richard Parker had a real chance of winning. And thats exactly what they managed to do now. During the campaign, andy street had tried to put himself and put him first rather than party. You know, he got criticised a lot during the campaign for calling for essentially being brand a e, but he was trying to put across to the people in this area just exactly what hes done as mayor over the two terms that he had in office. I mean, weve got things like the metro extension record funding into this area, billions of pounds. He was the first mayor here. So hes very much shaped the combined the way that this combined authority has become. But of course with the disgruntled old voters, particularly at the conservatives nationally , that conservatives nationally, that increase in the vote for the reform party in this region, as well as maybe some people, not particularly happy with everything that andy street has done, meant that labours Richard Parker, with his promises particularly around trans sport, copying the likes of what weve seen in manchester with that bus network and the b Network Going into Public Ownership , thats was one of the ownership, thats was one of the things that Richard Parker wants to do. Public transportation in this area is a big part of what matters to peoples everyday lives. So standing on that kind of platform has meant that voters have made that switch. But it was very , very close. I but it was very, very close. I mean, all throughout the night, on election night, it was always still too close to call. And in the end, Richard Parker winning by only 0. 3 of the vote, just 1508 votes in it. Afterwards andy street, you plainly admitted that he was devastated. Of course , to lose that of course, to lose that election. But he says given the picture of the way that people are voting against the conservatives nationally to lose by just 1500 votes was something that he still said he could be proud of last night. That he still said he could be proud of last night. After that proud of last night. After that win, keir starmer also made a quick dash to the West Midlands. Heres him speaking after the result. Result. But we havent only won for our people and the labour members and labour councillors and labour mps in this region. Weve won for all those people that have had their hopes and their livelihoods taken away and so badly damaged by this tory government and this tory mayor, and we will change it. Its time for a fresh start. Were working with the labour party. Well deliver that and we start on monday. What a way to end the local election in 2024. General election in 2024. General election year. We. We started in election year. We. We started in blackpool with a 26 swing and weve ended in the West Midlands with our new mayor, Richard Parker, as the West Midlands mayor well, of course there were so many nuances to this election as well. I mean, andy street almost quit the conservatives back at the conservative Party Conference because of course , of conference because of course, of hs2 and the plan to scrap that second leg, hed already been working on a plan with andy burnham in Greater Manchester to try and revitalise that line with private investment. What is the future of that . Were still unsure now. There were some people that told andy street after, of course, the second leg of hs2 was cancelled, that if hed run he should run as an independent, and perhaps if he had run as an independent without that conservative party behind him, he might well have retained this seat. But also the fact of course, here in birmingham, labour run birmingham, labour run Birmingham City council declared bankruptcy over the last year and really the votes here and the vote share in birmingham probably didnt switch and swing as much as maybe the conservatives thought it might do. Still, a lot of people still putting trust in labour here, but also as well. Interesting from the outcome of this election that the independent yaqoob here, particularly in birmingham, took 20 of the vote, tens of thousands of votes across the region. Still playing, trouble really for labour on that idea of gaza and israel and palestine and that issue of course, a lot of muslim communities in and around the Greater Authority that decided to take away their vote from laboun to take away their vote from labour, that still wasnt enough, which were the concerns from labour. That might be enough that taking away those votes might be enough to not give them a chance. Theyve managed to survive that battle, and Richard Parker will now be the next mayor of the West Midlands. Okay, jack, for now, thanks very much indeed. Very much indeed. Well, coming up at 930 is the Camilla Tominey show, and she joins us now. Good to see you this morning, camilla. We just heard from jack carson there, didnt we, about the shock result of the weekend. Really in the West Midlands it has been a really tough weekend for the tories. And questions now about whether rishi sunak can cling on. Im sure this is something going to be discussing in your programme. Absolutely. Well, ill be speaking to the transport secretary, mark harper, whos got the hospital passed this morning of doing a broadcast round after the worst local Election Results in 40 years. Funnily enough, people arent necessarily talking about rishi sunak standing down. I dont think there is going to be that leadership challenge. Got Suella Braverman writing in the sunday telegraph this morning that this isnt the time to replace the Prime Minister, but i think massive questions being asked of richard polden, the party chairman, who has presided over this. I think theres criticisms of the way that the conservative party have handled the mayoral race in london. We had paul scully, a tory mp, saying that basically cchq were lacklustre in their support of susan hall and thats been responsible for her defeat there. Andy street very well liked, very popular politician , obviously associated politician, obviously associated as well with his past at the helm of john lewis. I mean, helm of john lewis. I mean, thats a real blow. And it begs questions of where the party goes next. Youve got andy street sort of suggesting that they must adopt a very moderate platform and not kowtow to the sort of reform pressures placed upon them. But if you look at the reform vote and how much its eating into the conservative vote, and we know that people watching and listening to this programme are increasingly saying that theyd rather vote for reform than the tories as they currently stand. Im going to be asking mark harper what is rishi sunak actually going to do to give a positive offering to people who are thinking to themselves they cant bear voting tory or actually and weve seen this with the very low turnout. They cant even be bothered to vote at all. Yeah, it in terms of a general election, what do you think . I mean, really quickly, what do you think this does . Were getting a mixed bag of views. Camilla from people saying, look, this means he needs to wait and things could only get better sort of thing. Or the other half saying , or the other half saying, actually, lets get on with it now. It cant get any worse. Its i think it would be disastrous for them to call a general election. Now, even though when you translate whats happened in the locals to the national picture, it looks as if labour cant form a majority. They havent got enough. A majority. They havent got enough. But then that heralds in enough. But then that heralds in the prospect of doing deals with the prospect of doing deals with the lib dems, even the snp, labour will say and ive got pat mcfadden coming on the show and hes the man masterminding labours general election campaign. Hell say, well, were not counting scotland and that changes the picture entirely. I think it would be complete folly right now for rishi sunak to call general election. Id expect it to happen in october or november. Funnily enough, kwasi kwarteng, the former chancellor, made a really good point about the idea of a november election that could actually go against the conservatives because its coming at the same time as trump versus biden in america. And then theres the farage factor to consider. If trump is giving farage a load of publicity in his own campaign because of their very close relationship, that could then embolden reform even more in the face of the tories. So its very, very difficult. Id suggest that october might be the best time to go, but lets be honest. I to go, but lets be honest. I mean, the picture this morning is dire. Rishi sunak. Mean, the picture this morning is dire. Rishi sunak. Despite is dire. Rishi sunak. Despite everything and even having a quite good week last week with the whole standing off of the irish over the migrant crisis. Irish over the migrant crisis. Yes, he had quite a good week. It looks as if rwanda might be already proving to be a deterrent. And yet his five point plan hasnt moved the dial at all. So ill be asking harper. And im also speaking to Theresa Villiers and Robert Buckland, two mps on sort of different sides of the party. What must the tories do to win back the electorate . Because at back the electorate . Because at the moment theyre facing a very catastrophic defeat. Catastrophic defeat. Rac with the plan is what we keep being told. Camilla well, the plan aint working. Yeah, the plan aint working. Yeah, well there are some people may agree with you on that one. All right, camilla, well see you a little bit later on. Thank you. Little bit later on. Thank you. Oh, dear. My voice is going yeah, get the tea down. The stress of this morning. The stress of this morning. I know theres a lot to unpack, isnt there . And it looks like a really Good Programme coming up with camilla at 930. So dont miss that. Now summer is just around the corner and we want to make it sizzle for you, dont we . We do. With an incredible £20,000. Get this tea up for grabs in our latest Great British giveaway. Its our biggest cash prize to date and it could all be yours. Heres how you could be a winner. The next Great British giveaway winner could be you. With a massive £20,000 in tax free cash to won. 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Now the other side of the pond and Donald Trumps hush money trial enters its third week in new york tomorrow. Im week in new york tomorrow. Im going to sound good to him. Were back on air tomorrow morning. Oh, dear. This rate. Dear me. Hes to rest up while the former president is accused of falsifying Business Records over hush money payments made to the adult actress Stormy Daniels to cover up their alleged affair. He, of course, has denied all wrongdoing. Well earlier this morning we spoke to professor scott lucas at ucl in london. Drama has been that trump has been fined 9,000 because he continues to insult the proceedings, insulting the judge, insulting the prosecutors, insulting the judges family , the judges judges family, the judges clerk. But its been really important. These two weeks in terms of setting up where we go with the substance of this trial, which of course is about falsifying Business Records as part of an interference in the 2016 election. And i think you just heard from mark oaten that in politics, sometimes its quite good to be quiet but effective. The same is true in trials. What the prosecution has been doing, because this is their term in court , has been their term in court, has been laying out the evidence, which is i think is pretty clear, that the trump team were very worried about his, sexual encounters and his affair, his affair with Karen Mcdougal , his sexual Karen Mcdougal, his sexual encounter with the porn star Stormy Daniels, that there was motive there to try to keep Stormy Daniels quiet, that the money was paid to her in october of 2016, and the next week, theyll probably then get to the substance of. Yes. And then the Business Records were falsified, to cover up that payment where the defence is going to go when it comes their turn. I dont it comes their turn. I dont think they can really knock back that evidence. I think what they do is theyll go after the witnesses. Theyll go after the character of the witnesses, especially Stormy Daniels and mike. Donald trumps former fixer, michael cohen. Fixer, michael cohen. And how do you think this is actually affecting donald trump himself . Actually affecting donald trump himself . Because actually affecting donald trump himself . Because weve seen, himself . Because weve seen, havent we, scott lucas in previous trials that this actually helps him a lot in the polls , it feeds into his polls, it feeds into his narrative, doesnt it, of him versus the establishment. But actually, i think for the first time in this trial, we have seen him getting somewhat frustrated. Him getting somewhat frustrated. Do you think thats because its been such a long trial so far . Been such a long trial so far . Well, i think it was always a bit of a myth. More it was a spin line by the trumpists that the trials always help him. You know, they kind of say that because its like, oh, dont put him on trial, or else hell win, i dont think it helped him. For example, when he was found guilty of defamation and Sexual Assault of E Jean Carroll the writer, it wont help him with women voters in terms of this trial, whats compounded that is that trump is kind of limited in what he can say, because of course, he risked getting fined if he lashes out too much. And because practically he has to be in court rather than on the campaign trail. And for that reason, he is getting frustrated. He is getting angry in court because trump doesnt really do procedure. He doesnt do evidence he doesnt even do. Dare i say it , the legal dare i say it, the legal process. He does big speeches. He does loud and bigly. And he cant do that, while this trial goes on into a third week or fourth week and a second month. Yeah, its going to be interesting this week to see how that one develops. But its that whole argument, isnt it, that the, you know, the more controversy it is, the more actually his base does seem to improve. Just get more support feeds into that narrative, doesnt it . That its him versus the establishment, look , do you stay establishment, look, do you stay with us . Were going to be getting the latest on the Royal Household from former butler to next. Now. King charles is taking on about 300 new charities. Some of which are thought to be very close to his mothers heart. Yes. Yes. Thats his. Critics fear a royal row is ensuing over Prince Andrews home, royal lodge in windsor, which is in desperate need of repair, with some questioning whether he should actually be living there at all. But earlier we spoke to the former royal butler, Grant Harrold. Harrold. They have, you know, hes taken on these passages. I think its to show us all that even though hes obviously got these Health Battles that hes, obviously fighting cancer. But at the same time, as we know, recently he started to talk about increasing his engagements. And i think taking these on is very much to show these on is very much to show the country, all of us, if not the country, all of us, if not the world, that its kind of almost, almost back to business as normal. Because as ive said before, hes somebody that does not like just to sit down and do nothing. So if anything, as soon as the doctors may have given him a bit of, obviously hope that things are going well, hes decided that he wants to increase what he already does, which doesnt surprise me, because thats exactly the kind of character he is. As i said, hes not somebody that likes to just sit back and do nothing. Its a complete opposite and i think thats why hes probably quite happy to be able to do this. And again, its things that were close to the late queen, which he is obviously , as queen, which he is obviously, as now king, hes keen to continue a lot of her work. Should we a lot of her work. Should we talk about Prince Andrew . Because its the front page of the sunday mirror this morning. Apparently the estate at royal lodge in windsor is in a state of disrepair, and theres questions about whether he should be living there at all, i mean, as you know, this this is a former home of the late Queen Elizabeth the queen mother. And of course, he obviously has lived there for a few years. Theres been debates in the past about whether he should have that property. Its quite a substantial sized house. I think its between eight and ten bedrooms. Obviously, it needs repairs done. I think its regardless of whos living there, the what, we still have to be done to that property because again, as one of the royal properties, its somewhere that theyve got to kind of look after and undertake its kind of care, whether thats been paid for by, lets say, the king or whether thats paid for by him, thats very much down to what the agreement is between them all. I know from a personal point of view, when i used to live in royal properties, that that was something that i would, depending on what had to be done. You know, if its something that had to be done and it was done by the estate, if it was something i wanted done, then i would do it. So thats what it comes down to. So these are general kind of repairs that have to be done. Then technically its probably the estate that should when it should be covering it. Should be covering it. Thats now looking very well. Thats now looking very well. He is looking very well. He is looking very well. Lots of you commenting on that actually. Got a personal trainer apparently. Yeah. Thats what he was telling us, Stephen Browns been in touch. Morning to you. Saying he thinks theres going to be letters of no confidence in rishi sunak flying in on tuesday. He said he never should have stabbed boris in the back. Well, interesting you say that because Suella Braverman spoke to us a little bit earlier on. This is what she had to say. Theres no time to change leaders. So the Prime Minister is going to be leading us into the next general election , the next general election, whether we like it or not. What he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem, these terrible results, and quickly and urgently change course. So make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from. Put a cap on legal migration. Take us out of the European Convention on human rights so that we actually stop the boats and make sure that we reclaim our streets back from the extremists. Those are just a flavour of the things that he should be doing. But we need big, we need bold, we need strong leadership and strong communication of those policies to convince those conservative supporters that theres a reason, that theres a good reason, that theres a good reason to vote for us again , reason to vote for us again, Suella Braverman speaking to us there we are back from 6 00 tomorrow morning, arent we . Oh, yes, we are. Camilla tominey is up next. Camilla tominey is up next. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Its a mixed picture for the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend with sunny spells for some, but also some outbreaks of rain and also some outbreaks of rain and also some outbreaks of rain and also some showers. Ill have all the details coming up. Soon. The details coming up. Soon. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers. Sponsors of boxt boilers. Sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning, and welcome to the Camilla Tominey show. I hope youre having a Wonderful Bank houday youre having a wonderful Bank Holiday Weekend so far. Extra day off tomorrow. Whats not to love . What a week weve witnessed in westminster and beyond. As the tories digest their worst local Election Results in over 40 years. Ill be asking the transport minister, mark harper can the tory party win back disillusioned voters before the general election . Ill be asking general election . Ill be asking labours National Campaign coordinator, pat mcfadden , how coordinator, pat mcfadden, how costly the gaza vote has been for the labour party. Former Northern Ireland minister Theresa Villiers will be joining me in the studio. With the me in the studio. With the rwanda plan on the verge of taking off, would you believe ill be asking her for her thoughts on the new irish refugee crisis . And ill be joined by former justice secretary sir Robert Buckland following this weeks horrific attack in hainault. Ill be asking him if the government is doing enough to crack down on the influx of zombie knives and Samurai Swords on britains streets. An Award Winning writer and podcaster, julia hobsbawm, will be here to share her new book, working assumptions, which dissects the effect i will have on our working lives. Its anotherjam packed 90 minutes of pure politics which awaits, so do not even think of going anywhere. To go through this mornings newspapers , im delighted to be newspapers, im delighted to be joined now by james heale Political Correspondent at the spectator. Lovely to see you, james. For the first time on my show, i know you do other shows, but first time here, goodness me, the sunday express seems to sum up the pms woes this morning. Were