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Australia for may day and in the sport after 110 attempts, lando norris wins a grand prix in miami last night. Spurs are hammered by liverpool as the hammers are hammered by chelsea , and today hammered by chelsea, and today is the 70th anniversary of one of the most important sporting moments of all time. Good morning. Its a bit of a mixed picture out there weather wise this Bank Holiday Monday, but there is some drier and brighter weather on the way. Find out when in a little bit. Aukus morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on gb news is. I have something fun to talk about. Do you. 7 because i have something fun to talk about. Do you . Because usually you come prepared. And i thought today its my time to shine. Oh, good, i in 4. This is quite shocking. I think i in 4 young adults never answered the phone. How are you doing . How are you doing . What . What . And it gets better. And it gets better. And it gets better. Well, obviously someone. What . One quarter of people aged 18 to 30. This front page of the times, this morning, one quarter of people aged 18 to 34, which means my young person and confessed in a survey that they had never answered their mobile phone. A quarter of young people have never even picked up the phone, so they communicate purely by text and emoji. They say they google the number or they text their friends and family back rather than calling them and they would prefer a voice note rather than a traditional phone call. Which made me think of you because you would prefer a voice note. I do a lot of voice noting, but i also do a lot of video calling. Oh you do . Yes, i love a video call. Yes, you are very good at communication. Its lovely. You can keep in touch with the family. Ive got the in laws in in blackpool and my family a bit further north and some in spain, and you can just have a lovely its very techie, so you just do a video call. But yes, 70 of young people said they prefer a text to a call, 37 prefer a voice note. But yeah, a quarter of young people never even picked up the phone. What was shocking , i phone. What was shocking, i think thats really apparently theres too much pressure on a phone call to respond quickly. Do you remember the old i dont know if you remember this. Some of you will remember this when you had your telephone table and you had like, you had your telephone in the hall and we had a little telephone table with a built in seat. Oh, that with a built in seat. Oh, that sounds jazzy. So you could sit down and also a little money box. My dad put a little money box. My dad put a little money box there. So if you use the phone, you had to put a bit of money in to pay the bill. Oh, i didnt know that. Oh, i didnt know that. Yeah, i remember all of those sort of days. Oh, thats fun. Your mother was when they had the telephone table taken out. Yeah, because obviously they didnt even have a telephone there anymore because it was all hands, you know, wireless things. And she was really upset because she really liked it. Oh, she liked a little. Oh, she liked a little. I was like, what are you gonna what are we going to do . Were never going to sit in it ever again. Do you have a landline . No, no, no, no, neither do i. No, i dont no i think those days are gone. I remember being on msn after school, you know, the instant messaging right on the computer, which was underneath the stairs. And then if my parents picked up the landline, you couldnt use the landline, you couldnt use the internet. Do you remember that . Yes, that was the thing. Its all changed very quickly. Its all changed very quickly. Stephen, when you were on dial up. Dial up . Yes. And you could hear it. Yeah. Yeah. It was very, very, very, very , very slow. Very slow. Yeah. Weve come a long way very, very quickly. And now young people cant even pick up the telephone. Lazy devil. Lazy devil. Let us know what you think about that gb news. Com your say its all your generation. So frankly, im blaming you for it. All right, well, youre very techie. You do it all. You do it for all of us. I think. Yes. Right. Lets have a look at our top story before i get slated. Too much. The Prime Minister has claimed. And actually, this is quite an admission. He said the country is hurtling towards a Hung Parliament, with labour being the Biggest Party following a bitterly disappointing set of local Election Results for the tories. Well, this comes as an autumn general election is set to be on the cards, with number 10 ruling out a summer vote, reports suggest that rishi sunak is hoping to improve the economy and kerb immigration before the country goes to the polls. Country goes to the polls. Lets talk to our senior political commentator, nigel nelson. Nigel, i dont remember nelson. Nigel, i dont remember and correct me if im wrong, but i dont remember a Prime Minister heading into a general election ever saying before. Well, it looks like the other side is going to be the Biggest Party after this election. Party after this election. No, i think youre right. And rishi sunak has sort of come to accept reality now that that i cant find a single tory mp who reckons that, they can win the election and the game now is to try and stop as few tory mps losing their seats as possible. Losing their seats as possible. What rishi sunak is doing here is looking around for crumbs of comfort after a disastrous local election , and hes, hes landed election, and hes, hes landed on the projected National Vote share, now we have to be a bit cautious about these figures. What they actually show is that labour would fall around 30 short of an overall majority , short of an overall majority, but these figures are based on local elections. They dont take local elections. They dont take into account the effect of reform , there were no elections reform, there were no elections in scotland. So thats not included. So all its all they tell you is this is what would have happened if the whole country was voting in local elections. It doesnt predict national elections. And the figures go all over the place. I figures go all over the place. I ran, i ran them myself using these figures, but giving reform a very generous 17, which they won in blackpool south. And then you get labour falling short by just six mps. So as i say, lets be cautious about these figures. Nigel were hearing that the Prime Minister is now looking ahead to an autumn election. He wants to give time for the economy. Those Interest Rates to come down and to focus on immigration as well of course, those rwanda flights to take off the front page of the daily express this morning is really interesting, sam lister writing that only big tax cuts and growth can save the tories. Now, do you think thats tories. Now, do you think thats a possibility . Well, i mean , certainly well, i mean, certainly jeremy hunt is working on the idea of tax cuts. So youd expect now an autumn budget , expect now an autumn budget, there will be some tax cuts in that. We will see some flights take off to rwanda, or at least one flight anyway. Probably, and also the economy should improve slightly. Inflation is going down. And but whether or not people will feel an awful lot better come the autumn than they do now is another question that still, the cost of living crisis is the top issue for voters, and the next one down is nhs waiting list, which are still incredibly high, so it is difficult to see how the autumn makes life any really any better for the Prime Minister. But at the moment it couldnt be worse than it is now. So what it looks like hes planning is holding an election by launching the campaign on the back of the Party Conferences in october, which now puts the most likely date for one for november the 14th. Isnt that isnt that timing quite dangerous, though, because, it ties in with the president ial election. Its, you know, its within a matter of, of days, really, of the president ial election , which may president ial election, which may actually force more people to the left, out to the polling booths. If theyre unhappy with what theyre seeing in america, which you know, they are likely to be, then thats going to encourage them, isnt it, to take a stand over here . Yes. I mean, the original plan was to try and avoid this kind of date, because for that very reason that you didnt want to coincide, the British Elections with the american one, but, rishi sunak just simply run out of options. I mean, if we were going back to the end of last year, he was clearly planning for an election on the same day as local elections. So same day as local elections. So we would have had our general election last thursday. The election last thursday. The polls just didnt shift. They the two cuts in National Insurance, didnt do any good. It labour continued continuously look like theyre 20 points ahead as far as opinion polls go. So rishi sunak abandoned the idea of a may. The second election doesnt want to do it over the summer because he needs things to improve and hope something will turn up, like, labour might implode in the meantime. So hes really left with no option but to go late, as i say , october or november. As i say, october or november. November being the most likely. And what do you make of Suella Braverman speaking yesterday to our very own Camilla Tominey actually, of this parish, she said the tories will be lucky to have any mps left at the next general election or after the next general election, i should say. Do you think we are facing total wipe out of the conservative party . No, i think thats being overly pessimistic that the polls will close as the as the general election gets nearer , so general election gets nearer, so i dont think that the tories are heading for total wipe out. I mean, the local elections were really , really bad, but not really, really bad, but not a total catastrophe. Vie, the fact total catastrophe. Vie, the fact that the that the tories were able to keep ben houchen as the mayor in tees valley was really important. He won with 73 of the vote last time, went down to 53 this time. But, it still it still was a win. The fact he kept, council losses to below 600, that would have been catastrophic. That helped slightly. So no, theyre not its not the end of the road for the tories in that sense. But it is a question of how many they save. And at the moment i think were still looking at an overall labour majority. Overall labour majority. Okay, nigel, thank you very much indeed and good to see you. I dont know what to believe from anybody. Now in terms of, i mean, the fact the Prime Minister has said the conservatives are likely not to be the Biggest Party is an unbelievable admission from from a Prime Minister. You never hear that. Youre right. That. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. I cant quite get my head around him saying its a nice bit of honesty, actually. Its just its just a shock that hes said it. But just its just a shock that hes said it. But how . Just its just a shock that hes said it. But how . Theyre all, said it. But how . Theyre all, i mean, but its the games that theyre playing now. Hes doing that to motivate people. Yeah, this is whats going to happen if starmer playing things down on his side to motivate people to get out. But i think if the timing is in november , i think timing is in november, i think thats crazy because and i know a lot of you support donald trump and many of you dont, but if he if he gets into the white house, the people over here, who would be unhappy about what had happenedin would be unhappy about what had happened in washington , i would happened in washington, i would think that would increase the labour vote, but then was it Kwasi Kwarteng saying that actually donald trump out campaigning before the us president ial election and ahead of november, he will be doing a lot for nigel farage. So if hes anything to do with reform officially by that stage , how officially by that stage, how could that play into reforms hands . Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And thats something that the tories would want to avoid as well. So yeah, thats an interesting school of thought as well. Yeah, can i just say ive said the 14th of november since day dot. Remember that. No, i have im just going to claim it. And you said may until you bring out the tapes to prove that im not, ill find them. You. Ive said 14th of november from the very start, and it looks as though it could be heading that way. According to nigel nelson, if, if thats true, then i expect to see your column in the star by this time next week. Yes, that will be me. Yeah. Predicting our very , very future. Take the stars, do get in touch on any of the stories that were talking about today. Gbnews. Com yoursay now, today is exactly one year since we were set out in the cold, but having a wonderful time as we prepared for king charles being crowned and that incredible coronation that was filled with pomp and pageantry. But 12 months later, the monarch seems to have forged an even closer bond with the people of britain. Following his openness surrounding his cancer diagnosis and all of this, believe it or not, comes as and this surprises me because all the waleses children seem to be very closely. Weve had a birthday a week, havent we, prince . Prince archies this time round. Hes going to be five. Well, hes five today. Yes. Well joining us now is royal and Showbiz Reporter kinsey schofield. Good to see you. This morning kinsey. And shall we start with the king . I cannot believe its already been a year since that incredible ceremony that we saw 12 months ago. Its been the most wonderful year for the king. And also such a challenging one. Thats right. Youll remember the coronation was so carefully choreographed to display what the king called a community of communities with more diversity , communities with more diversity, acknowledging, you know, a multi faith based country. The multi faith based country. The royal rhythm and rituals are primarily safe. It feels under this king charles reign , the this king charles reign, the biggest shock hasnt been outspoken royals or political royals. Its like you said, its been the illness and potentially vulnerability. So much was made out of expectations for his majesty to modernise the monarchy, and we havent seen much of that. But i think that thats been comforting to people. The king has survived. Prince harry, Prince Andrew and even the ghost of diana. Who even the ghost of diana. Who would have ever guessed that people would be accepting of a queen . Camilla, the queens popularity based on the number of people who said they had favourable views of her. Thats increased to 43. More than half of britons surveyed believe that king charles is doing an excellent to. Job excellent to. Job yeah, but he is really becoming a man of the people , becoming a man of the people, isnt it . And he seems to be showing, even through his own struggles. This a tremendous humility, really. Humility, really. I agree with you. And i you know, it was interesting because some of the things that have become such a force today that everybody can get behind, like the environment, you know, he i think his first speech about the environment was in 1968. He was only in his 20s. That was seven years before the phrase Global Warming was utilised. He was so criticised for that , you know, criticised for that, you know, and i think today you see, you almost really admire that. He was ahead of some of these. He was ahead of some of these. He was championing some of these causes that are now the forefront of, of a lot of things that normal , regular people are, that normal, regular people are, you know, passionate about as well as cancer. Weve all been affected by cancer in our families. And to see recently families. And to see recently him at that Cancer Centre , so him at that Cancer Centre, so engaged with people, you really saw empathy and compassion and a vulnerability that we havent had much of a chance to see from him in the past. And its also a special day for the family, isnt it . Kinsey because prince archie turns five today . Thats right. I mean, im going to be honest. We dont going to be honest. We dont know a lot about prince archie. I wish i could sit here and rattle off his favourite colour and what they might the family might be doing, but that would not be sincere or authentic. We know he likes waffles because the queen at one point sent him a waffle maker for christmas. You know, harry and meghan are very protective of prince archie and princess lilibet. That is fine. They are they they are fine. They are they they are americans now. They they can do that. Americans now. They they can do that. I americans now. They they can do that. I imagine that they will be spending this birthday privately. We saw a little bit privately. We saw a little bit of that in the netflix docu series. They had the little Birthday Party with meghans mom. There and so beautiful babies. As far as weve seen. But we have very Little Information about them. Information about them. Itsjust information about them. Its just i information about them. Itsjust i mean, as i was its just i mean, as i was saying earlier on, the fact that, you know, his birthday is actually so close to two of his cousins, and yet two cousins that he doesnt know it just seems a real shame. Well, there are reports here. I dont know how much i buy them, but there are reports here that both families, the waleses and the sussexes , do feel like and the sussexes, do feel like they want a reunion at some point because they dont want there to be strain on on the relationships of the children. Relationships of the children. Oh well thats hope. Oh well thats hope. Yeah, lets hope that would be nice. Kinsey, really good to see you this morning. Its not the kids fault. You are right. Good to see you, kinsey. Thank you very much indeed. Now, in a month, british veterans will return to france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the invasion of normandy. Yes. Yes. Yes. The d day landings on the beachesin the d day landings on the beaches in northern france were considered to be the largest seaborne assault in history. Well, theyre returning alongside veterans. Veterans this year is one of the original Landing Crafts used on d day. Its been fully restored in lincolnshire. Well, we sent our east midlands reporter, will hollis, to take a look. To take a look. History in your hands. These tires rolled onto the beaches of normandy , but now new ones are normandy, but now new ones are needed before the Landing Craft can go back. Made in detroit in holbeach, lincolnshire. Harold at the anglia motel is preparing for the trip. The tires are original, so there was on the dock in 1944. On the beaches of normandy and theyre rather cracked around theyre rather cracked around the walls, but as you can see, theyre very good treads , but theyre very good treads, but its just the side walls. Its got a lot of cracks in when she gets a lot of weight and all. You can see the rims, the red, rusty through salt. He spent £70,000 refurbishing the d day vehicle known as a duck. That was key to the operation. I put all new lights on it and we put another new engine in. Shes in good nick. Shes in good nick. The americans made 20,000 of the amphibious vehicles for use by britain and the allies across the war. On d day. They were essential in bringing ammunition and supplies to the battlefield. June. The and supplies to the battlefield. June. The sixth marks 80 years since d day, the invasion in northern france was the turning point in the war. 22,000 allies died during the battles. In one died during the battles. In one month, british veterans returned to normandy. Harold says hes to normandy. Harold says hes fixed the duck for them. I think its nice to say cheerio on the 80th anniversary because all my veterans now has passed away. Before normandy, this duck needs to test the water. Stephen, an engineer, has offered to help. Offered to help. Well, it looks like its going very well. Its, going through the water very smoothly and quite quickly. Shes a welcome sight in hunstanton, norfolk. Hunstanton, norfolk. Films longest day. And saving private ryan. But its saving private ryan. But its great having a catch. A look at it, the concept of it being so symbolic going back to where it came from, the men that died going on the beaches, its just a pity that they can be here to see it. Thousands of the Landing Craft were used during the Normandy Campaign , including Normandy Campaign, including this one which harolds taking back to france for the 80th anniversary, and away she went, like she did in 1944. In the channel, harold will release thousands of poppies and red roses, remembering those who never came home. Next up, normandy for the 80th anniversary, will hollis gb news. Oh, i mean really lovely that actually its so good that some of these things have been kept and they said fantastically restored by these people with with passion actually. Yeah. And its so important, isnt it, to remember because 80 years ago, its a long time. Its a long time. Never forget. Never forget. No. So its on. It is so important to keep talking about it and to have these special, special events to commemorate what happened, lots of you getting in touch this morning. Weve been talking about phone calls because apparently, according to the front page of the times this morning, 1 in 4 young adults have never answered a phone call. Judy says she still has a landline. I have to confess. And she says we look beautiful in yellow. Oh, thank you. And debbie, big bird says, ive. Ive got a landline, but you cant call it a landline anymore because it has to go through the internet. Oh it does. Yeah. Theyve all changed it havent they, now. So it actually does. They are what they call, voip, arent they. Voice over internet. Voice over internet. Oh right. Oh right. Well, this is what i mean by youre very techie. Yeah voip. Yeah yeah. Well, its the best. Its a way forward. I mean, the phone calls have never been clearer. No, no, its very good. No, no, its very good. There you go. There you go. But i like my little video calls. Yeah. You do. Yeah. You do. Its nice, isnt it . You can do it anywhere around the world. Its amazing. Its amazing. Really. Do come a video call you. Youre in bed. Youre in bed. Shes in bed a lot because we work at silly oclock in the morning. Go for a little nap as as do you. And yeah, you love a nap. Oh, dear. Right now, as you may know, weve been nominated again for a tric award in the best news program category, so we need your help to win, because this is all down to viewers, having your say purely based on your vote. Yes. All you have to do is head to pol dietrich org. Uk. All of the details are also on gbnews. Com, so you can vote now to make it count. Please or if youve got your phone, another landline, but a smartphone , you can scan that qr smartphone, you can scan that qr code and it will take you there. Code and it will take you there. Now it is , ridiculously hot in now it is, ridiculously hot in this video. It is about 30 degrees. It is about 30 degrees. Its about 30 degrees. It is like sitting in a sauna with all your clothes on. I dont know what we might look like by the end of it. Well, yes, my makeup will be on this table. This tie and jacket may be coming off. Possibly the shirt. Oh wow. Possibly the shirt. Oh wow. But its. But its. So well go outside to cool. But the rest of us, it should hopefully feel a little bit warmer today. Yeah. Lets ask craig snell, shall we . A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week after a mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the moment for this Bank Holiday Monday morning weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here too. In between, a brighter zone but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side. But in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away , showers gradually fade in away, and also the area of rain across southeast england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many, with some clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside, so Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic the cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today in the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Now summer is just around the corner and we want to make it sizzle for you with incredible £20,000 in cash, its all up for grabs in the latest Great British giveaway. It is our biggest cash prize to date and it could all be yours. Every single penny. Heres how the next Great British giveaway winner could be you. With a massive £20,000 in you. With a massive £20,000 in tax free cash to be won. Imagine how youd react getting that winning call from us. Hi, my name is phil cox and i won the Great British giveaway. Id say why not . 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Nihal, the floor manager. Thanks. Nihal actually does make a good friend. I feel like i want to colour mine in or something. I feel like im back in school. We could decorate them throughout the program. Very slight breeze. Its all right. Oh, its quite nice. That makes all the difference. Its quite nice, isnt it . Its quite nice, isnt it . Yeah, lovely. Its ridiculous. Were basking here. Not in a good way. Its about 30 degrees anyway. Well get through it. Ill tell you where else is 30 degrees. Wheres that . Wheres that . Miami. Miami. Is it . Yeah. Is it . Yeah. And paul coyte said, tell us all about it. Arent you . I love the way you. I love the way you. Oh, that was very good. Oh, that was very good. Look at these. Its so hot. These have grown in the past couple of minutes. They are. Theyre beginning to what you. But youre probably the next time i hear theyre like this. Yeah, because ill be like that as well. Its not gonna wilt though. Theyre gonna melt, are they . Thats what they are. Theyre not real. Are you kidding me . No, i know really. Britains lando norris, lando norris, lando norris, lando norris, lando norris, lando norris, lando norris has won the miami, the miami morris wins the miami grand prix. Lando norris has won the miami grand prix, 110, grand prix. Lando norris has won the miami grand prix,110, grand prix, not grand prixs 110 grand prix, not grand prixs110 grand prix. What . Im totally confused. Im totally confused. Well , because the because the well, because the because the plural of grand prix is grand prix, right . So you win one grand prix, you win two grand prix. Yeah. You follow me. Yeah. So hes been in 110 grand prix. Hes been hes had 15 podiums in the grand prix and hes won one grand prix. So he won yesterday very good. Hes been Getting Better. Hes mclaren is Getting Better. Hes mclaren is Getting Better as well. Of course better as well. Of course everything all the talk around red bull and Max Verstappen. Red bull and Max Verstappen. Yeah. Who came in third. And i just wonder whether everything that weve seen in the background around red bull is actually affecting the team. But actually affecting the team. But mclaren its interesting. Its good for f1 fans because it looks like mclaren, because theyve made changes to the car andifs theyve made changes to the car and its suited lando norris and he won yesterday okay. He was lucky with you know with some with the safety car coming out. But its a very good result. So well done to lando norris. All these you know we had a had a lie detector in the week for a tv station. And they asked him, do you think you are going to win a grand prix . And under the lie detector he went, yes, i do. And some people are like, oh, well, well see about that. And then he won and then he won. So good. Well done. Good. Very good. Well done. Good. Very good. Lando. Now weve had an email in from john andrews who says, i dont think paul should come in. Yes with three losses on the trot for tottenham. Yeah. My brother has gone sulk because hes a tottenham fan. Four losses on the train oh four losses on the trot. Its really. How are you feeling. How are you feeling. Its really its really not very good. Whats interesting with spurs is that they had the best start that theyve ever had for 60 years to start the premier league. They were top in premier league. They were top in november and now this four on the trot is the worst run theyve had in 20. So at least theyve had in 20. So at least they keep you on your toes that side. You never know what youre going to get whats whats going on. Its i dont know. Its whether it be a mixture. I think it looked like the, the team didnt look good. The team are not on form. Whether other sides not on form. Whether other sides have worked out the way tottenham are playing were really its just. And also theyre just leaking goals. Its just not looking very good at the moment. They came back, scored a couple of goals at the end, so it was liverpool four, spurs two and i think the two probably flatter tottenham. It could have been a lot worse than that. So its not looking good. But ill tell you the really interesting thing which is going on with them is that is the title challenge is between Manchester City and arsenal. So Manchester City and arsenal. So arsenal are just about just ahead. Whereas Manchester City theyif ahead. Whereas Manchester City they if Manchester City win all their games, they win. Thats their games, they win. Thats right, theyll win the title. Whereas arsenal have got to hope that Manchester City slip up. But at Manchester City will be playing spurs and spurs. Obviously arsenal, a huge rivals, so youd be hard pressed to find a spurs fan that would want their own team to beat Manchester City because they know that that would have title to arsenal. Yeah, so. So you see what i mean. So itd be a very bizarre situation. Whereas spurs fans could be watching their own team play Manchester City and hope they lose to stop that schadenfreude, do you see . And then stop, arsenal winning the title. Oh thats do you follow me . Yes, i do follow you. Yes, i do follow you. Its very bizarre. Difficult one how its going to be, west ham were hammered at chelsea , ham were hammered at chelsea, not very good. Chelsea, who under Maurizio Pochettino and we spoke about them the other day, looked like he could be on the way out. But now theyre having this comeback and now theyre up to seventh, which is the best theyve been in the league all season. So maybe things are beginning to click for mauricio pochettino, whereas not for david moyes who looks like hes going to be on his way out and villa got beaten by brighton. They did, which also villa. What is that . Prince williams team. Yes it is. Yeah. Well done. Yeah they look they look like theyre going to they look like almost definitely theyre going to get that Champions League place. So when they dropped that point and they lost there at brighton spurs are thinking well all we got to do now is win at liverpool. And then lewitt youve got one minute. What do you want to talk about. You know what im going to save because well a very briefly the snooker. This is where we are at the snooker. Jack jones had the worst start to a snooker final. World final in 33 years. He was trailing seven months. Kyren wilson fought back to 11 six. So that continues at 1 00 this afternoon. So thats the final. The World Snooker and today is the 70th anniversary of one of the 70th anniversary of one of the most important sporting event or say, moments that theres ever been. So ill give theres ever been. So ill give you an hour to think about what it could be, and then well discuss it in and out. What was the what was the music . I was i was doing . Ill stop the music. Now. You can do a little bit of the music. It gives it. It gives it. Were you doing da da da da da da . There we are. There we are. I feel like im super. No, its not super. Or the 6 million man. No, it involves running. Okay, who was the actor who did that . It was lee majors. Lee majors, who celebrated his 85th birthday last week. By the way. Oh happy birthday. Oh happy birthday. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. 85. The fall guy, wasnt he . 85. The fall guy, wasnt he . He was the fall guy. And which theyve now got a new film of the fall guy havent they. Have they. Theyve made a film of the fall guy. But without lee majors i used to love the fall. Fall guy was great. Paul coyte. Thank you very much, ellie. Thank you very much, ellie. Ill fill you in on that one. Ill fill you in on that one. Thank you. That was that was a proper saturday night viewing before doctor who, wasnt it . They watched the fall guy, then hed watched it was a song as well. I cant remember the song when he had a song making money. There you go. Yeah thats three words of the song. We just got to work on the rest of it. Yeah, hell find it now, i think. So lets actually scary because obviously thats not been on telly for about 40 years. Paul coyte thank you very much, neal. The vinyl does still to come. Were going to be taking a look at whats making the news this morning, Christopher Biggins and susan holder. Thats next. 638. Time to see whats in the papers this morning. With the papers this morning. With Christopher Biggins and susan holder. Morning you two. Good morning. Good morning. See you on a bank holiday. I know i never know about you. I never know about bank holidays. So you didnt know how you got here . No. What i did, no, but yesterday. But i mean, i neveri never but i mean, i never i never think of it. Oh, thats bank holiday. Where am i going to go . Yeah. Do you know what i mean . Its always there. Shocks me that its arrived. Yeah. And here it is today. How lovely to be with you all. Were very happy that youre here to do is be on a motorway going anywhere anyway, because everybody else might be doing that. And youll get stuck. And youll get stuck. Oh, theres no traffic though. On a on a bank holiday. Oh there is, there will. Well there will be tonight. Well there will be tonight. Yes. But no. And last night was wonderful too. Yeah. It was no traffic. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Susan, should we take a look at the times front page and the telegraph front page . And this is all about the timing of this, the election. Well, yes. And theyre talking about the fact that rishi sunak is claiming in quite a lot of the papers that, he thinks theres going to be a Hung Parliament. My question is, is that necessarily a bad thing, yes, i think so. Do you, because we were talking earlier and we i mean, i do think when its when theres somebody too far out in front and theres too much dominance that can be quite a bad thing. And when youve got a coalition that can always just have more problems than anything else but a Hung Parliament, if things were a bit closer and you had to kind of work with each other a bit more, i do think that might be what the country needs, but hes trying to make it. I do think that everyone is getting very carried away with the whole labour are going to run away with this. I think the local elections have done certain things, but if people vote very differently in a general election, they dont. They dont vote on the same matters. They vote on the same matters. They vote overall. And i think i dont think people are convinced that labour are necessarily what we need in in government. But its the first time and i keep saying this, but i think its the i think its the most important part of the whole thing is that he said, as it as it stands now, the conservative labour will be the Biggest Party in in parliament. Who said that sunak. Well he well hes also saying that theyre going to be propped up by other parties by the greens. Yeah. The effect effectively be in my, you know, a minority but a minority government if they wanted to go that way. But to admit that your party is not going to get as many seats as the opposition is quite something. Well, we were talking earlier, though. I mean, we both feel strongly that were this country is in such problems that why dont they, rather than shout at each other, why dont they calm down and talk and try and resolve some of the problems were in . And i dont that by that. I dont want a Coalition Government, but i do want a little bit of sense, a sort of but a sort of government of national unity. Yes. But if we if we went through the pandemic and they didnt do that , oh, how are we didnt do that, oh, how are we ever going to do it . That was the moment where we should have. Youre right. They also should have brought every living Prime Minister that they ever had been round the table to advise and give their. We dont learn from experience in this country. We dont look at history and see whats happened and then not make the same mistakes again. We constantly try and reinvent the wheel in everything , constantly try and reinvent the wheel in everything, and politics is the biggest kind of example of that. And yet what we you could have very skilled people on both sides, but we never use that. Its too much about jostling for position and about jostling for position and a hung egos and egos where its a hung egos and egos where its a hung egos and egos where its a Hung Parliament. I know everyone kind of hates the thought of it, but in some ways, if you were just a bit closer, you may have to have more cooperation and understanding, and youre not kind of going to get your own way all the time. So a little bit of debate and then move forward is always the best way. So im not too scared of the Hung Parliament situation i am scared of. I still dont know who im going to vote for, and i dont think im unusual. No. And and i dont think im unusual. No. And ive never been in that situation. Were all the same, i think. Were all the same, i think. And for all, which means a low turnout, because at the end of the day, if you cant commit to it completely. And as a woman, i do feel quite strongly that i should vote, because its not been that long that ive been since we were told we couldnt. But how do you use it effectively . Its difficult to know. Do you think youll just it will literally come down to reading the manifestos and making a decision based on on what you read. But i dont believe the manifestos because i dont think at the end of the day theyll follow those through. Well, one ephesto has ever been acted on completely. Exactly. Its impossible really. Its just its kind of a its a dream list, isnt it . What about the timing of all this, chris . How do you mean . How do you mean . When were going to have this election . Well, i think in november i think itll probably be autumn. Yes. Before the weather gets too bad, which puts people coming out again. Yes. I heard somebody speculating about january. Theyre never going to have an election in january because they know the turnout will be so low, because people wont go out. Well, we were talking earlier about timing and nigel and alison was saying that theres a consensus now that will be the 14th of november. And i said, ive been saying that since day one. Stephen said, you need to find it on tape. Well, weve found it. Weve dug it out the archives. Oh heres my prediction. Youre so clever. Who knows when the election is going to be either. I still think may i still think november the 14th or may the specifically may the 2nd, i think, okay, same as local elections. Yeah. Okay yeah. Okay its that cocky look youve got at the end. Like you knew , got at the end. Like you knew, to be fair early, you can only look that smug when it is november the 14th. We dont know yet. We dont know yet. Its a fantastic point, susan. Yes . Maybe i should hold my tongue. I mean, i mean, youve still got your card in play. Yeah, but i think you havent won it. I, ive definitely beat you, sir, because the second main part. What did you say . What did you say . Second main. Second main. Yeah, yeah, its been gone. Yeah, yeah, its been gone. Its gone, its gone. Its gone, its gone. Gone. The lusty month of may. Gone. The lusty month of may. I am hugely impressed. I am hugely impressed. Thank you. Well, thats absolutely fantastic. We will be much more impressed if you if it is the 14th. Lets see. lets see. Lets see. Lets see. Lets see where we go. But very impressed with the team out there for digging that out of there for digging that out of the archives very quickly. Rapid speed. Theyve got my back stephen. Its very good. I know i dont like that, so send in your predictions. Join me in your predictions. Join me in your predictions. Join me in your predictions if you will. Gbnews. Com yoursay okay, christopher, can we have a look at gary barlow . We can. I mean, i tell you what is disgusting about this story is that the paper the sun have put his house on the front page. Dont show it. How can that be possible . I mean, you know, you cant see much of it. Oh, you cant see much of it. Oh, you can if you open the paper. Okay. Can you . Yes. I think so. Or not. This papers i think so. Or not. This papers another. Yes. Well you can, but also a lot of people im sure, know where garys house is, but, you know , it house is, but, you know, it helps the criminals, doesnt it . You know it. Suddenly everybody thinks to themselves , he has £6 thinks to themselves, he has £6 million house. There must be something in it worth stealing. Something in it worth stealing. Well, theyre not wrong. No, theyre not wrong. Why dont we go along . And hes they know what hes doing. He may be doing a concert. He may be doing the tv that he was doing on ant and dec, wasnt he. So which. Yeah but this is the problem with people tracking movements. I mean, and we do it to a certain extent on social media. I mean, ive tweeted a picture of myself coming in this morning. Exactly. Exactly. So you do that because youre promoting what youre doing and you kind of want people to watch. But it is a very dangerous situation. If youre a celebrity with a big house, it is. And i would never do it when i was like on holiday or anything like that. I put houday anything like that. I put holiday pictures up. If i put anything up, ive, ive been and gone and come back. I think you have to be very careful about that sort of thing. But i do think the press have a very great responsibility to not show, especially when they do aerial shots of famous peoples houses and they list the kind of things that they think they have and everything. What on earth are they thinking . Its terrible. Yeah, i agree, and i, you know, its a terrible situation. And i think this has happened a lot over the years. You know, people know or been told by newspapers or news items or whatever that this is a house belonging to a famous person and not they dont need to mention the fact that its got lots of lovely things in it. Well, footballers are particularly vulnerable because people know where they are at a certain point. If theyre playing in a match and people go on constantly about footballers homes and it is it is a Security Risk for that. Its i do think the press should be more responsible in that thing. Youre absolutely right. And i think its terrible. But anyway, paul, man, they havent said what they stole, but im sure it was, well, just that invasion of his music, perhaps. Well, a million love songs have probably gone absolutely. Probably gone absolutely. All right. Good. Very good, i got begin. Should we take a look at this . The story weve been talking about this morning begins. Were all in the. Were all in the. Is this the same page . Its about phonophobia. Yes. Young adults have never answered a phone call. I think its1 adults have never answered a phone call. I think its 1 in 4, isnt it . 1 in 4. I mean, its interesting. I as im getting older. Yeah. No i, i do use i do older. Yeah. No i, i do use i do use the phone. Less and less are answered less and less. I mean you think and also nowadays with a mobile you can see whos called you. Yeah. And you think oh well ill ring them back. Yeah. Oh the who are we talking about here. Yeah im not going to go into any names, but you know, its, its an interesting one and i think its interesting that young kids now, i dont think they want to be bothered by phone calls somehow, you know, and im sure a lot of parents are always saying, why dont you answer my phone call . I rang you to find out where you were. And they say, oh, you know, we cant be bothered, mum. We see an age thing that they prefer to text or kind of just use their thumbs rather than actually engage and speak. I mean, theyre saying that some people actually have a bit of a phobia. They dont actually like it. Its too much pressure to actually kind of have a conversation. Is it . Oh well, exactly. I you wouldnt struggle with that. I wouldnt, i dont funnily enough, i dont struggle with the talking. I know, but you like a voice note, dont you . I do like a voice. I send you the odd voice. I get the odd voice now, and im never quite sure about the voice notes because i worry about voice note that i wouldnt know when to stop. Oh no, i dont know what the capacity is, but yeah, but i prefer, i would prefer and they turn into podcasts very quickly. Ive been known to send ten minute voice notes. You havent been the victim of that yet. No, you did send me one the other day and said, sorry for the podcast, to be fair. So its, i think that was a three minute stream of consciousness. That would be you as well. That would be you as well. Susan, look, thank you both. Susan, look, thank you both. Were going to cut it slightly short this hour. Yes, because weve got someone far more important to talk to. Whos that exactly . Whos that exactly . Its. Its the womens minister, Maria Caulfield. Fair enough. Who joins us now . Who joins us now . Good to see you this morning. Youve upset Christopher Biggins quite intensely. Im sorry to say, i wonder if rishi sunak has upset you and your colleagues by the very fact he said. It looks like labour will be a bigger Parliamentary Party than the conservatives at the next election. Its an extraordinary thing to say. Thing to say. Well, i think what he said was that were looking the polls have been wrong, for months now. Theyve been saying that were 20 points behind labour. And actually, when you look at the results from the local elections and experts have done , elections and experts have done, the drilling down on those numbers, its between 7 to 9 points. And what were actually looking for is a potential Hung Parliament. And if labour then want to go into government, they would have to do deals with parties like the snp, the lib dems and, you know, parties like the green party as well. So thats what he said, is that the polls have had labour ahead by a big margin for a long while. But thats not actually what these elections have shown us. I mean, we heard from James Cleverly, didnt we, a couple of days ago. He said that he believes that the voters are going to come back to you in time for a general election. He thinks that the local elections isfime thinks that the local elections is time for a protest. Vote for summer, and theyll be back in time for the general election, whenever that is called. What big rabbit are you going to pull out of the hat to ensure that that can happen . The daily express saying only big tax cuts and growth can save the tories how. Now. Well, if you look at, results like blackpool south, for example, James Cleverly is right , you know, the labour numbers went down, ours went down by about 13,000. And parties like reform only went up by about 1000. So clearly our voters stayed at home. So theyre not switching parties. They do want to vote conservative, but we have to give them reasons to do that. And thats about delivering on the work that were doing. So, you know, the three big issues that were focusing as part of the pms five point plan are immigration, the nhs and the economy. Now the economy, inflation is down, significantly and people are starting to feel that in their pockets. Weve got the National Insurance cut thats coming to peoples pay packets just at the end of last month. Immigration, end of last month. Immigration, obviously, we deported 25,000 people last year. Weve got the rwanda plan and we know we need to make more progress on that. And the nhs, you know, for five months in a row now, weve seen waiting lists fall. So were getting on top of that covid backlog. So we are starting to deliver and i think its not about changing plans. Its about delivering on the promises that weve already made. The problem, i mean, with those three that you highlight, the problem is that youve got to feel the change and it may be heading in the right direction, but its gradual. It doesnt feel like youre getting an appointment any quicker on the any time youre going to the nhs, the economy. Well, we might technically have more money in our pockets. The labour party disputes that. Actually we dont feel any better off, and immigration. Well, theyre still coming. The rwanda plan isnt here yet. Well, sort of is sort of isnt. But, you know, hardly hardly anyone. One persons gone is it. So far. So i mean, the whole thing, the whole thing might be it might be going in the direction the Prime Minister wants, but were not feeling the difference. No i agree with you. And thats, thats the, the challenge we have to deliver on is, is so that people feel that difference. The rwanda plan for example, you know, weve had to have the hurdle of the house of lords, the labour party constantly voting against it, lawyers trying to challenge, any deportations that weve made, which the rwanda act of parliament will try to address. Weve had significant hurdles to do , much of these things, if you do, much of these things, if you look at the nhs, people are starting to feel the difference. We had two year waits when we came out of covid for things like scans, appointments, operations at hospitals. Thats operations at hospitals. Thats now roughly between 6 to 9 months for me. Most people, months for me. Most people, thats because were opening up new surgical hubs , new rapid new surgical hubs, new rapid diagnostic centres. So people are starting to feel the difference , in terms of health difference, in terms of health care, and in terms of the economy, yes. Were coming through some very difficult times. The through some very difficult times. The National Insurance cut is starting to make a difference. Pensioners have just got their, increase in their triple lock , and it will take triple lock, and it will take a while for people to feel that difference and feel confident about that difference, that its not just a blip for a couple of months, but actually this is real change that theyre keeping more money, more of the money that they earn, so that is absolutely, the crux of the issue. People need to feel, the benefit of the work that were doing is the tory plan now after the results of this weekend, because it doesnt seem to be very united in approach. Very united in approach. Suella braverman are suggesting that the party needs to swing to the right in order to, to garner a better results. To, to garner a better results. And mark harper suggesting yesterday that you just need to stick to the plan, stick to the status quo. But the plan isnt working, is it . Youve lost 470 councillors over the weekend. Councillors over the weekend. You only won one mayoral race of the number that there was. I mean, isnt it time to change course . Well, no, i disagree. You know, the Election Results are better than than were predicted. We won 19 out of the 33, Police Crime Commissioners , you know, crime commissioners, you know, ben houchen was re elected in, teesside where he was predicted not to andy street only lost by 0. 8, in his election in the West Midlands. And when you look at the numbers and the experts have crunched those numbers since , crunched those numbers since, thursday, actually, the polls have narrowed and the polling was widely wrong. You know, susan hall was predicted to be 20 points behind sadiq khan, and she came in 11 points behind. So the polls arent quite right and we are making progress, and some of the key areas, such as harlow, that labour really wanted to take control of at these local elections, they didnt manage to. And i think theres a consensus now that labour havent done enough if they want to, to be in government. And so what we want to do over these next few months is make sure that the things that were working on, you know, we said at the last election take control of our money, laws and borders. What . Immigration, our borders, our nhs and getting people , feeling like theyre people, feeling like theyre benefiting from going out to work and keeping more of the money that they earn. Is the pms priorities. Okay . Weve only got one minute left. Youve got to maximise seize every opportunity youve got now because it you know, you are up against the ropes really. Which is why if it looks like and it increasingly does a november election, thats the last thing thats going to work for the conservative party, isnt it . Youve got pressure from donald trump supporting nigel farage and reform, which will go a long way. Youve got people who are anti trump more likely to vote labour, and it would seem very odd timing for you. Well, you know, we had a december election in 2019 and won a big majority. Then people, you know , people are very, you know, people are very, focused when it comes to an election. Theyll have a choice to make as to who will be the next Prime Minister will either be keir starmer, and, you know, one of the announcements that weve made today is around making sure that public toilets, when theyre , theyre being when theyre, theyre being built in future will be single sex provision so that women will have protected, space for toilets, things like that. Keir starmer is very, very flaky on its only, you know, the conservatives have been quite robust on issues such as that and people have a decision to make. Do they want to stick with the plan . Were starting to get more money into their pockets. The board is starting to be controlled a lot better, the nhs improving after weve come through covid, or do they want to put that at risk and have keir starmer, which, you know, hes not really clear on what hes not really clear on what hes going to do on any of those issues and do they really want to put that at risk . That is the decision. Whenever the election comes. Okay. Maria caulfield, really good to see you this morning. Thank you. Lets go to the weather now with craig snell. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on. Solar. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week, after a mixed start to the week , it does mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the moment for this bank holiday, monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here too in between. A brighter zone. But we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side, but in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away and also the area of rain across south east england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many, with some clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside. So Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic the cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today in the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. 7 00 on monday, the 6th of may. Today, the Prime Minister says the country is heading towards a Hung Parliament. As an autumn election looks to be on the cards. Cards. Today marks the First Anniversary of king charles ascending the throne, with experts claiming his cancer diagnosis has helped him forge closer bonds with the british people. People. Israel issues a stark warning of an imminent rafa invasion if a ceasefire between israel and hamas isnt reached. With Benjamin Netanyahu now shutting down, the broadcaster, al jazeera , the 80th anniversary of jazeera, the 80th anniversary of the d day landings is fast approaching, with one veteran supporter going that extra mile to commemorate the occasion. And to commemorate the occasion. And we send one of our reporters to padstow to find out more about one of the countrys oldest surviving may day festivals. I come back every year, as i say, and ive met people even this year ive met a man from padstow whod come back from australia for may day and in sport , britains lando morris sport, britains lando morris won his first ever grand prix in miami last night. Spurs were hammered by liverpool, while the hammers are hammered by chelsea. Theres so much sport going on today but were going to look back 70 years on. One of the most important sporting occasions theres ever been. Good morning. Its a bit of good morning. Its a bit of a mixed picture out there weather wise. This Bank Holiday Monday, but there is some drier and brighter weather on the way. Find out when in a little bit. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on. Breakfast on. Gb news. And weve been talking about what theyre calling phonophobia. Yes, this morning, which is how many . 25 of all quarter of young people have never , ever young people have never, ever answered a phone call because they dont like it. They dont like the pressure of coming up with conversation. You would struggle with that, would you . No, neither would you. No, definitely not. No, simons been in touch saying texting gives you time to reflect on your reply. That is true. That is true. That is true. That is true. The other the problem, though , is have you ever had this situation where someone sent you a text to which you have taken offence , but when you actually offence, but when you actually speak to them, they didnt mean it like that at all. Yeah you just misread it, i think that is the danger of texting. Do you the danger of texting. Do you ever find that your thumbs hair when youre texting . Lots. No. No. Oh, mind you, its like a stress injury. If i, if i text too much, my thumbs start to hurt. But its why you send me great long text. Its why i then sort of go to the voice note. And i often say, dont. I cant be bothered to type this. Yes. Then i have to sit there and listen like this. And she always types back and sends a voice note back. I think its quicker to text, quicker to text, but do let us know because weve weve gone down a nostalgia lane, havent we . This morning weve been talking about dial up internet access, telephone table, telephone tables. Telephone tables. Oh, and who was it . Oh, and who was it . Who . Who . Oh. Oh. Was it about the shelves . Was it about the shelves . The shelf . The shelf . Yes, a special shelf for your very in sync for your phone book. Yeah, that was a good the we had, we had a sort of. Yes, a shelf for the phone book. Stephen says julie nichols. Yeah. Its all the things you had to do back then. Back in the day. Yeah. I dont ever remember having a wired phone. Did you ever have a. Yeah. Oh right. Yeah. Oh right. No, we had a pick one up and dee dee dee dee. Oh right. And what you didnt what you couldnt do. You know, you couldnt buy a phone. What do you mean you couldnt buy it . You had you could not buy telephones. You had to rent them off. Bt really . Yeah. Yeah. You couldnt buy one. You had to rent them and just see what they came with. You didnt get a choice. It just turned up with a oh, you wouldnt even get to pick the colour. No. No. Oh my goodness you just turned up. Weve come a long way havent we. And now everythings on our phone. You can order food. You can order taxis. You remember renting tallies . You remember renting tallies . No. No. You had to rent your telly at all. Unless you were very rich, weve come a long way. Radio rentals. Amazing for them. Theyve gone down nostalgia lane this morning. Do keep your views coming in on it. It is nice, isnt it . Maybe theres a simpler times. Well have a volleyball in the break. Oh, yes. They never went out of style for me. Gbnews. Com yoursay. All right. Now our main news this morning and the Prime Minister has said the country is hurtling towards a Hung Parliament following a bitterly disappointing set of local Election Results for the tories. Well, this comes as an autumn general election is looking more likely, with number 10 ruling out a summer vote, reports suggest that rishi sunak is hoping to improve the economy and kerb immigration before the country goes to the polls. Well , country goes to the polls. Well, earlier we spoke to minister Maria Caulfield. Minister Maria Caulfield. Clearly our voters stayed at home, so theyre not switching parties. They do want to vote conservative, but we have to give them reasons to do that. And thats about delivering on the work that were doing. So, you know, the three big issues that were focusing as part of the pms five point plan are immigration, the nhs and the economy. Economy. Well, discuss all of this with us. Is gb news host alby amankona. Good to see you this morning, alby. And really an unbelievable double admission from rishi sunak. I think its the first time that ive ever heard it from a Prime Minister that we are facing a Hung Parliament with labour being the Largest Party. Is that certainly one way that some people in the tory party are choosing to read the local Election Results that we got towards the end of last week and it all comes from this idea that if the general public voted along the same lines, that they voted in the local elections , in voted in the local elections, in the general election, there would be Something Like a 7 to 11 lead that labour would have over the conservatives, which is not enough to deliver a parliamentary majority. So were having conservatives, whether its rishi sunak in the telegraph, Maria Caulfield on gb news, saying that were headed to a Hung Parliament now. Whilst to a Hung Parliament now. Whilst that might be a nice thought, the problem with that hypothesis is, is that very rarely do people vote in local elections. Vote along exactly the same lines. In general elections. But in what way could you potentially see it swing, i mean , thats thats the big question. Now, if people are going to vote slightly differently, are they more likely to vote labour for a change or stick with the conservatives, or indeed , i conservatives, or indeed, i think the conservatives arent conservative enough and go reform , well, a no collections reform, well, a no collections people tend to vote on local issues. You tend to get a lot more independents doing a lot better in local elections than you ever would in general elections. If we look at the local Election Results , the local Election Results, the second Largest Party after the local Election Results isnt actually the conservative party. Its the liberal democrats. And its the liberal democrats. And then theres also, i think in some polls, the independents are polling at 22. Now, if we look at the National Polls, the national picture, that is not how it looks whatsoever. But you how it looks whatsoever. But you will still get conservative mps, conservatives coming out in the media saying that actually, if we just look at the local Election Results, they are very different to what the National Polls say. So actually we could be heading to a Hung Parliament. And i think the new attack line, which rishi sunak and the conservatives are using , is if conservatives are using, is if you dont vote for us, therell be a coalition of chaos with the labour party, the snp, the greens and the liberal democrats. The problem is its been a pretty chaotic five years since the conservatives took office in 2019. So what do you think is the best way for the tories to move forward now, alby, in terms of a general election . Because miriam cates writing in the telegraph today , says that the party is today, says that the party is staring into the abyss. She says part of the problem is that the party is a broad church. Its often seen as a strength. But she says its proven to be a weakness because it leads to division. And that makes sense, doesnt it . Based on what weve been hearing over the weekend, Suella Braverman saying that the party needs to swing to the right and youve got somebody like mark harper saying, nope, lets stick to the plan, stick to the status quo. Well, look, the conservative party has always been a broad church, and that has been that has been seen as a strength by many. Now, you will get a lot of tory mps, whether or not thats miriam cates or someone like andrew jenkins, who came onto the saturday over the weekend to say that the conservatives and the reform party should actually have a pact and be standing reform Party Candidates and conservative Party Candidates in the same seats fighting under the same seats fighting under the same seats fighting under the same ticket. Youll get those mps saying that the party ought to swing to the right. The issue is you will get one nation mps, perhaps people like sir robert buckland, saying, well, no, absolutely not. If we do that, i will find it very difficult to support the conservative party. So its difficult to see what the conservative party should do to try and win the next general election. I think the most prudent thing to do would be to just get behind the Prime Minister. I think changing leader at this point in time would be pretty bonkers thing to do in the eyes of many of the public, and perhaps the conservative party could claw back some of their some of their lead to the labour party if they are able to get behind the Prime Minister, the boats do start to come down over the summer because the rwanda plan starts to work and the tax cuts start to work and the tax cuts start to mean that people feel that that keeping more of their own money. But its a long shot. The conservative i was just going to say briefly, abby, the Prime Minister seems to be trading on fear here, though, a little bit. And it might be accurate, but nevertheless, the sort of fear of a Hung Parliament, he says it would be a disaster. And, you know, a lot of people would agree with that. But i just wonder if people fear theres more chance of labour getting a majority , isnt it the than the majority, isnt it the than the conservatives as it currently stands. So i wonder if people fear a Hung Parliament more than they fear, keir starmer in number 10. It could actually push people the other way , push people the other way, couldnt it . I dont know that people fear a Hung Parliament. Im with susan. Earlier on i was listening to the conversation that you were having with susan holder earlier on. I think a lot of people romanticise this idea of people romanticise this idea of what a Coalition Government means, or what a Hung Parliament means. It means all the parties. In an ideal world Work Together to try and get towards some common goal. It actually sounds perhaps quite appealing to a member of the public, rather than politicians being at each others throats all the time, they actually have to Work Together. So i dont know that the public actually fear a Hung Parliament. I think its probably the only positive reading that the government can take in the local Election Results is that actually, the National Polls might be wrong and things might be closer, and that its all still to play for the general election. They might be hoping that they could win a conservative majority, and labour will be hoping theyll be winning a labour majority. Okay, Albie Amankona good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Yeah, keep your thoughts coming through on that one. Gb news. Com slash your say gotta say of everyone getting in touch this morning, youre not impressed with the government. Ian purser didnt like what was said by Maria Caulfield. I wont quote you directly , but i mean, quote you directly, but i mean, to be fair , although youre not to be fair, although youre not sort of saying, well, wed vote laboun sort of saying, well, wed vote labour, youre sort of saying reform , really on all of this, reform, really on all of this, but thats as, thats as big a problem for the conservatives as someone voting for labour and possibly, possibly more so in some respects , but youre not some respects, but youre not impressed with what the governments doing. Youre not impressed with what the minister had to say, kenny says theyre in cloud cuckoo land. Yep. Yep. Ian says deluded , deluded ian says deluded, deluded tories, flippant remarks. I tories, flippant remarks. I mean, yeah, loads of you. Not very impressed at all. So do you keep those views coming in gbnews. Com yoursay now, today marks one year since king charles was crowned in that incredible coronation, filled with pomp and pageantry. And we were sat outside the palace, werent we . A year ago today, freezing. A year ago today, freezing. And it was wonderful, wasnt it . It was fantastic. But 12 it . It was fantastic. But 12 months later, the monarch seems to have forged an even closer bond with the people of britain. Following his openness surrounding his cancer diagnosis. It all comes as prince archie is preparing to celebrate his fifth birthday. Well, we say preparing because what are they over there . About 6 or 7 hours. Hell still be asleep. Hell still be asleep. Yes, as will lots of you, im sure, at 7 00 in the morning. Well, joining us now is royal biographer angela levin. Good to see you this morning. Hello. Good morning. Good morning. And can you believe its been 12 months . I mean, so much has happened, but it also just feels like yesterday. Yes, i think its been a long and a short year, hasnt it . Somehow but the year when it all began, when he became much more easy to be with people , was easy to be with people, was actually after the death of the late queen, and they came back to Buckingham Palace. And i know they both thought there would be nobody there, or they would be shouting at them because of the loss. Really yes, yes. And when they got there, they were about to go in and they could see hundreds, maybe thousands of people outside and they started singing god save the king. So they got out of the car. The car went in and they came round and they sort of shook hands and hugged. And it was very interesting. Good heavens, is this king charles whos making a very different image of himself . They were so happy. They couldnt really believe it. And i think from there theyve really become very, very accessible and very close. And i think the cancer has made the king even more wanting to talk to his people and caring about them. Them. I have to say there was a clip when hes resumed his pubuc clip when hes resumed his public duties on tuesday, and it will stick in my mind. And hes talking to someone else whos a cancer patient. And as he has to get up to go, its all smiles and looks very genuine. And he just grabs her hand and gives it a squeeze and that and that to me is so sort of intimate and personal and yeah , i really personal and yeah, i really thought it was a lovely thing to see. Yes, it was loving really. And also the fact that he revealed to that particular person, i think that its awful when they tell you that youve got cancer, isnt it . And he was so much understanding of what they felt and you could see the conversation was very easy. It wasnt about have you come far or, you know, all that it was really down to what its all about and how they were feeling and giving them hope. And if you look back on history, when , look back on history, when, when, kings would go and see people whod been wounded in hospital, it made a huge difference to them. And it was very interesting to see that hes also broken a few things that the queen would be quite shocked about. And one of these is that outside where there were two Young Children , six and two Young Children, six and eight, i think then theyd both had cancer , and they gave a posy had cancer, and they gave a posy to him and a posy to the queen, camilla. And he came out with a big bag of presents, and he passed it to them , and he wanted passed it to them, and he wanted to give them something in return. And that stuck with me because i thought, that is an amazing thing to do. Yeah, because they will keep that whatevers in it. I was dying to see. I thought maybe they would openit see. I thought maybe they would open it up, but they didnt. But you know what a delightful thing to do. Because you keep that forever. Oh, you will, but just not people, ordinary people. Hes actually done very, very well in france and germany. Somebody very high up the ladder told me that his visit there, which was the first two visits, was so acceptable. And they liked his manner and his attitude , argued that theyve attitude, argued that theyve stopped getting rather irritable about brexit. Theyve actually dropped all that. And its soft dropped all that. And its soft power if you think that if you look back , they havent done look back, they havent done anything complaining about us and brexit. So i mean hes made hes done an awful lot for us. You know, whether hes so ill or whether hes well, and i think the popularity is going higher and higher, which is lovely for him, except frustrating because he wants to get on and do and thats it. Thats it. We had a republican on the show yesterday who said, as a republican , i dont have a bad republican, i dont have a bad word to say about king charles. I think hes doing a good job. Didnt you . Yeah. Emma burnell. That was so angela. Really good to see you this morning. To see you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Coming thank you. Coming in thank you. Coming in now. Thank you. Coming in now. May Day Festivities have been taking place across the country over the last few days. Ancient traditions revived and people taking to the streets to welcome in the summer months. We hope. We hope. Well, its a time of morris dancing may queens and skipping around the maypole. And as our around the maypole. And as our south west of england reporter jeff moody explains, now some of these traditions go back centuries. Centuries. Even if mayday is your thing , even if mayday is your thing, chances are youve heard of padstow. Thousands flock to the small Coastal Community in cornwall each year to commemorate the time the women of the town warded off spanish invaders by parading a hobby horse through the streets , horse through the streets, pretending it was the devil. They still do it every year. Spanish invaders now replaced by a heady mix of tourists, locals and lots of real ale. I think all traditions should keep going because it is important for the kids to learn about and come up and, you know, get to know things thats happened. I mean, some people might say in 2024, these things arent relevant. They might say it, but they never stopped may day. Its a huge date in the cornish calendar here in padstow. Locals whove moved away return in their droves to catch up with friends to and welcome in the summer months. Welcome in the summer months. A part of our life is part of the history of the country, and particularly of small societies like this. Here in padstow, where i come back every year, as i say, and ive met people even this year. I met a man from padstow whod come back from australia for may day. Australia for may day. Its one of the oldest surviving festivals in the uk. Two hobby horses parade around the maypole to celebrate beltane, an ancient celtic ceremony celebrating life. The beginning of summer and fertility. Fertility of the land and of the young men and women who tend it. There are maypoles in Village Greens right across the country, and theyve been here since pagan times. The idea is that the more dancing you do around the maypole on may day , around the maypole on may day, the better the weather will be this summer and the better the crops will grow. There are crops will grow. There are ceremonies right across the uk , ceremonies right across the uk, some of them dating back to roman times, others celtic , roman times, others celtic, others catholic, some a mix of all three. And at the heart of it all, morris dancing. Theyve been around since the 15th century. Druid dances originally with painted faces. Oliver cromwell banned the dance and its fallen in and out of favour over the years. But on may day over the years. But on may day in england, there is nothing that celebrates our way of life more than a dance around a maypole, followed by a pint or two of ale. Jeff moody gb news. Say, thats fantastic, isnt it . We saw some some morris dancers, didnt we, in dartford . We did. I totally forgot about that. We did on the high street. Yeah, i love it. Morris dancer i used to do david linney , who was the dad of someone i went to school with. He was a morris dancer. Or he also. Have morris dancer. Or he also. Have you ever danced around maypole . I have not. Have you . I have not. Have you . Yeah. As kids, we would pay good money to see you do it. Because, of course, you know, you hold the ribbons and you dance in and out of each other, and it forms a pattern around the maypole. Oh. Its great. Itd be great to watch. Yeah, yeah. Primary school or whatever. All the Primary School kids used to do it really good fun, really nice. I dont think theres many young people doing it now. Yeah, maybe not, unless youre in places like padstow. Yeah, its fallen out of favour a little bit. Its a shame. Its nice to have something to celebrate. No, its great time. No, its great time. Its good to see the streets of padstow looking so busy as well, isnt it . Yeah. Yeah. Everyone coming together lovely. Right. Right. Well, hopefully summer is on the way. I hope so, it might be a bit wet. Say, well, craig snell has all your details. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week, after a mixed start to the week , it does mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the moment for this bank holiday, monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain to here in between. A brighter zone, but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side, but in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away , showers gradually fade in away, and also the area of rain across south east england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many with some clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside, so Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic the cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today. In the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar , the sponsors of weather solar, the sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Keith has been in touch. Did i tried morris dancing once, but he fell off the bonnet. Haha. He fell off the bonnet. Haha. Very good, very good. Its a car. Yeah, i got that. Yeah, i got that. Oh did you. Yeah. Oh, i didnt know because it was before your time. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No. Yeah. No i know things i never quite know with this one. Right. Summer as were heanng right. Summer as were hearing from craig, is just around the corner and we want to make it sizzle for you. 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Please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck. Yes, good luck indeed. Now israel has shut down al jazeera news operations in the country. Morning to you. It is seven over 27. Yep. And you are watching and listening to breakfast with stephen and elly. Now, israel has told hamas to accept their ceasefire terms or risk a new onslaught in the near future. It comes as israeli air attacks killed at least ten palestinians in rafah. Well, this comes as the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahus cabinet shut down the Al Jazeera Network in israel, claiming that the tv station threatens National Security. Well , yesterday, israeli well, yesterday, Israeli Police raided a Jerusalem Hotel used by al jazeera as an office. Well, Diplomatic Correspondent from israel khateeb Amichai Stein joins us now. Good to see you this morning. Amichai. What do we know so far . Know so far . So lets start with whats going on inside rafah right now. Israel has gave notice to ten neighbourhoods, about 100,000 People Living over there that they need to evacuate because israel is starting to operate in these areas now. We have been waiting for this rafah operation for a very long time. There were numerous statements by israeli officials, by the Prime Minister, by the by the defence minister, by the by the defence minister, that rafah will happen, that israel will operate in rafah in southern gaza. And in rafah in southern gaza. And right now, again, last night there were airstrikes inside rafah and a very interesting phone call between Israeli Defence minister and the us defence minister and the us defence secretary, lloyd austin. Defence secretary, lloyd austin. And Israeli Defence minister told him listen , we have no told him listen, we have no choice. They fired yesterday a mortar attack inside israel from rafah. Three Israeli Soldiers are killed and hamas is insisting on ending the war in any hostage deal. And we cant accept this , what were seeing, accept this, what were seeing, by the way, on the map right now is the humanitarian area in which gaza citizens from rafah can be evacuated to, these this humanitarian area has been, increased israeli idf has increased israeli idf has increased the area. So Israeli Defence minister told the us defence secretary, we have no choice. We need to operate. And choice. We need to operate. And the indeed, this morning the operation in rafah has started. Now its not a military phase in rafah. First you will see the humanitarian phase means asking the, people inside these neighbourhoods to evacuate and only after that will start the military phase explode. Explain to us, amichai, what is wrong with the negotiations on the table at the moment . Why is, mr netanyahu so unhappy with those . Those . So lets say theres agreement among all israeli officials that, israel cannot agree to the end of the war in any deal. Now, hamas is demanding an end, end to the war, or at least an agreement of israel to talk about the end of the war and guarantees from countries around the world, for example , like the us, that example, like the us, that indeed there will be conversation about the end of the war. Now, israel officials are saying this is a red line for us, meaning israel will not say this agreement is the end of the war and it wont agree to speak about the end of the war because we will continue fighting. We have many things, many terror targets. Hamas is still in gaza. We will continue to fight after the hostage deal. So this is the blocking point right now. You know, the egyptians, the us, the qataris tried to find try to find in recent days maybe a, phrasing or sentence which the two sides can agree on. But again , hamas is agree on. But again, hamas is insisting that it will be written that israel is agreeing to the end of the war. Israel says no , this is our red line. Says no, this is our red line. And amichai , youre close to and amichai, youre close to jerusalem now. We are hearing that a hotel there has been raided, which was being used as the office for al jazeera, and this comes as israel is looking to close al jazeeras operations in the country. Tell us a bit more about that. Yes. For the truth is, its been for several years that, israeli officials blamed al jazeera, the qatari, al jazeera , jazeera, the qatari, al jazeera, that it, first of all, incites towards israel and also sometimes isnt really following the military rules that its supposed to follow. While here, for example, showing idf forces where they are located and things like that. So yesterday, things like that. So yesterday, the Israeli Government, again, of a very long process, gave an order to close al jazeera operations inside israel. So operations inside israel. So thats the picture youre seeing. Youre seeing this whole el tel, which was raided yesterday. And israel stopped al jazeera from broadcasting. Also, israeli Cable Networks have stopped broadcasting. Al jazeera networks. Now we are saying the truth is some condemnation from European Countries about this move or from us. Now we need to remember , after russia invaded remember, after russia invaded ukraine, we saw the same thing with russia. Networks inside with russia. Networks inside europe rt sputnik , other media europe rt sputnik, other Media Outlets. So thats what israel is saying. We are fighting right is saying. We are fighting right now, an enemy , and this network now, an enemy, and this network is helping the enemy. So right is helping the enemy. So right now we need, not to allow them to operate in israel. And thats exactly what is happening, right now. How. Now. And just very briefly, amichai as an israeli journalist, do you believe thats the right decision . Do thats the right decision . Do you believe what al jazeera was doing was actually , as you know, doing was actually, as you know, being the voice of hamas . Being the voice of hamas . Yeah, most of the time, the truth, i dont think again , truth, i dont think again, lets say the question. I think its not what its broadcasting, but the question, does it follow the rules that other Media Outlets in israel and me as a journalist need to follow . Because, you know, we have a lot of military forces these days and things like that. So the question , is it following the question, is it following the rules . Is it not reporting what it doesnt need to report or what it cant report again by the israeli rules . And that, i think is not happening. The israeli rules . And that, i think is not happening. So the think is not happening. So the question is less, is it broadcasting what hamas wants it to broadcast or is it working with hamas . This is one thing. I think the big question, and thats what israel decided to do. Again, its that al jazeera isnt abiding by the israeli rules right now, operating rules here, meaning they show forces. They are talking about location of forces and things like that. And as long as this happens, i think theres a huge problem for al jazeera right now working in israel, especially during times of war. Okay Amichai Stein, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. All right. Lots still to come. Paups all right. Lots still to come. Pauls going to be back with all your sport. And then well have a look at welcome back. Welcome back. Its sports time. Its sports time. Paul coyte is with us this morning. Good morning. Good morning. Ive got a question for you. Ive got a question for you. Far away now. Far away now. Lando norris . Yes. Were his parents star wars fans . Well as in Lando Calrissian, because lando and i mean, its not a usual name, is it . No, ive thought about that before. Theres not many. Lando never went to school with orlando . No, i wonder if he was named after maybe. And also, i think ive mentioned this before that i did interview mark hamill being the only person that had never actually seen star wars. Yes, you did mention that. Yes, you did mention that. Yeah, well, not just ive also never seen star wars, have you . Not either. Not either. You dont know who Lando Calrissian is . No. Oh, right. There you go. But we should dig into that because i think thats quite interesting. Okay, if they are big fans. Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it could be. Yeah, it could be. Yeah, i did look that up once, but i cant remember it anyway. But anyway, lando has done extremely well 124 years old, 100 and attempts at winning a grand prix. Always the bridesmaid. Well, i say always the bridesmaid. Not always. But, hes now become the bride. And hes now become the bride. And he won the miami grand prix last night. It was another big showbiz affair. Everybody was there. Even donald trump was shown around mclaren , and people shown around mclaren, and people said, oh, i wonder if that helped. I doubt it, but but anyway, lando norris won a max. I dont know whether the bigger story is the fact that lando norris won the grand prix, or the fact that Max Verstappen actually lost one and came in third. But the important thing for fans of grand prix that are looking at them and just thinking, you know , its always thinking, you know, its always red bull, is that theres some changes to mclaren cars and that theyre saying is one of the reasons that lando norris came through. So it could be a little more competitive in the future. Yeah. Good for everybody. Oh good. Good for him. Yeah. Absolutely good for him. Its nice to see another brit doing well. Absolutely. Its a huge, anniversary today. Oh a huge anniversary. 70th anniversary of one of the most important sporting events thats ever happenedin sporting events thats ever happened in this country and involved a great, true great britain. So in 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary scaled everest. Yes. Huge story. And they say the next best thing after that, which was a year afterwards, which was a year afterwards, which was a year afterwards, which was 70 years ago today, was sir Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile, which was it was phenomenal. It was phenomenal. And i think we have i think we even have a little action there. So we can see now hes running alongside two legends, Chris Chataway, sir Christopher Chataway , who became Christopher Chataway, who became a very famous newsreader and then mp, and also, there we are, theres Roger Bannister. Theyre just about to cross the line. This was in, in oxford and it was iffley road track in oxford. Theyre going to celebrate that today, by the way. Theyre going today, by the way. Theyre going to have a mile run. Theyre going to have some of the great milers over the years are going to be there as well. And the other one was Chris Brasher. Now Chris Brasher, who was the only one of the three that actually won a gold medal. This is in the 3000 steeplechase race. And his son hugh, who weve had on here, the director of the London Marathon, because Chris Brasher founded the London Marathon along with john disley back in 1981. But back to the mile, the mile is the most important thing. I mean, when you the trouble is you get used to saying it because of the film and youre all sort of familiar with it. Four minute mile. I mean, its absolutely crackers. I think we can look now. And i was trying to work out how many people have run under four minutes to the minute. Were probably looking at about two and 3000 runners that have done it since then. But if you think at the time. So Roger Bannister at the time. So Roger Bannister at the time. So Roger Bannister at the time, young roger, who was a medical student at oxford, he didnt train as much as you get runners these days, but it only stood. See, this is the thing that nobody ever hears about. I mean, it was an amazing thing, but it only stood for less than six weeks because john landy and australian came along and knocked a second off. It just six weeks later. So it only stood for that long. And then there were different, marks. There were, for example. The there were, for example. The first under 350 was john walker, the new zealand back in 1975, 79 to 85. This was the days of the halcyon days of middle distance running for britons steve, steve over and there was sebastian coe, steve cram as well. So the mile record went covid covid coe , steve cram and it now stands at three 4313, which is hisham el guerrouj , which was set 25 el guerrouj, which was set 25 years ago. So it hasnt actually been broken in 25 years. A new pair of trainers that will come out and someone will be set. Absolutely. But unfortunately. So the booster train will run the mile because its an Old Fashioned event. But it was always one of the great, great events is to is to run the mile. So maybe today would be a great day or a great year to break that mile record. There you go. There you go. He set you a challenge. He set you a challenge. There you go. There you go. Go for it. Yeah. Live to the grand old age of 88. Yet though he did. He did indeed. Yeah. And get some of those super shoes and you never know. Yeah. May have no even i could do it i know i think you could i think you absolutely could as well. Paul coyte. Paul coyte. Thank you very much indeed. Do you stay with us still next. Ipm next. I dont know. Well, yes, i would begins. You. You you begins. You. You you begins. Just ask me about knickers. As we come to air, i say, oh, a perfect timing. Well, i thought theres a piece today in the paper about the fact that marks and spencer brought out a pair of knickers that emphasise the bum. Yeah, and i was just asking whether she was wearing some, you see, because shes got a gorgeous bottom. Oh, well, thank you, Christopher Biggins. Yes. The question is would you wear them. I wouldnt wear them. Would you wear them stephen i think i think we should ask everybody if were asking, im wearing mine. I bet theyre comfy though. I bet theyre comfy though. I bet theyre comfy though. You are a great big bum. You are a great big bum. Well, im. Yeah its very in fashion now, isnt it . Yeah, it is very in fashion. Yeah, it is very in fashion. Yeah, it is very in fashion. Yeah, its the kardashian. Yeah, its the kardashian. Id be happy with what youve got. Ive got enough. Thats fine. And you cant change it, can you. So and you cant change it, can you. So theres no. You cant wear those knickers. Well, you can if you change those knickers. Well im glad youre across the nick read news this morning begins. I hadnt seen that story. I always think because you get these adverts now, these sort of t shirts for men and things which pull you all in and they give you pets. Do they put a £6, do you . Do they put a £6, do you . How depressed must you be when at night you get undressed for bed and you think ive been looking great all day, and then you whip it all off and everything just goes wrong . Its that old joke, isnt it . When you take the wig off and theyre full and theres more of you on the bedside chair in the bed, thats a worry. Yes. Not for me. Yes. Not for me. Not for me either, im afraid, lets talk about the kings green passion. Christopher in the telegraph. Well, i think its great. This is because its got a the kids, the young people of today are really following the king and behind the king, which i think is wonderful news because he is a great king. And i think hes doing a marvellous job. But because of his green passion, they are all behind him. And i think thats wonderful because they have a double whammy here. They want to support the green system, which we must do and, you know, and they and they want to support they and they want to support the king as well, which i think is terrific. Its not a new thing though, is it . People are talking like this is a new revolution. And hes been very conscious of the environment and committed environmentalist since he was in his 20s. Hes all people are just now catching up to king charles, i think. But i dont think the young people realise what he was doing before. And so now hes the king. They suddenly think, oh yes, he is doing all this, it must be important. But hes not doing it to curry favour, particularly. No, no, no. Always been his passion. Absolutely. And its im pleased that the young people are seeing this and using it. Im all for being greener. Its just how we go about doing it. Yes i agree. Yeah. No, youre right. I think its his warmth. I think its his humanity that were seeing more and more of, which is helping people feel connected to him. Yeah, but i think its more to do with the fact that he is now king and able to do things in his way. Then people are giving credit to the fact that hes been ill. And i think thats unfair, actually, i think i think its not. Cancer hasnt changed his personality, but weve seen that been there. But but people are able to relate more to what hes going through and realise that hes human, but hes not. Its not made him more human. Itsjust hes not. Its not made him more human. Its just that people have clocked on to the fact hes a bit more human, and thats more, it says more about them than it does about him, actually. But also, he had a very hard job in following his mother. I mean, she was the most extraordinary monarch weve ever seen. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, in a way it could have gone totally pear shaped. Absolutely. He wasnt queen elizabeth. No, exactly. No, exactly. There was some nervousness, wasnt there, about when he became king because people were concerned he was going to be perhaps too political. Yeah. And talking too much about his green agenda. But hes been doing the most wonderful his face at the coronation, how much it meant to him and the weight of it on him. He really, really took it very, very seriously. Well, i suppose when youve wait, youve waited 70 odd years to become king. Yeah, its quite something, isnt it . I mean, but hes doing so well and i think hes doing so well and i think hes a marvellous man. It is fantastic. Talking marvellous man. Talking marvellous man. Yes. Susan. Yes times looking at bernard hill, which are, you know , its interesting, isnt know, its interesting, isnt it, that a lot of the papers and coverage have said, you know, best known for lord of the fings yes. Yes. I think and i think boys from the blackstuff i know went on your age. Titanic. Titanic. He was. Yeah. And also he was the. He was the husband in shirley valentine. Hes the range of stuff that bernard hill did. So yes, weve lost him this week. He died at 79. But yeah, i think his groundbreaking and the one that a lot of people remember him for is josie in boys from the blackstuff, where he played. He brought to the kind of published public consciousness the, the phrase gizza job because he was such that kind of thatcherite britain and that unemployment at the time, it was a real cultural sort of moment that he of what he played and currently right now in liverpool, the royal court in liverpool, the royal court in liverpool has a production of boys from the blackstuff, which is just happens to be on this week and its transferring to london, its coming to the national and then its going to the gielgud, i think, and it just, i think, i think the boys and the blacks of story at the moment is actually resonating very much with audiences as well , because that kind of difficulty and, and trying to survive Political Landscape at the moment, i mean, theres very talk about him being a rough diamond in that in which he was in that. But i remember my dad sort of saying he really the whole gizza job thing just showed the absolute desperate, desperate desperation. Yes, yes, absolutely. He and yes, yes, absolutely. He and he spoke very much about it at the time. I think he said he was filming. Everyone thinks hes a scouser, but actually he was from manchester. Hes just a very, very good actor. He was made an honorary scouser through that role, but when he was filming there, theres a story that, he actually was spoken to by a family of a 17 year old whod committed suicide because he was unemployed and just desperate. And it just kind of really brought home to him the importance of kind of the story he was telling. He also chose it was his choice to dress the character all in black, because he thought it was a character that would be very black and white. People would either love him or hate him as a character, so its a very, very interesting man and a huge loss. And he was on Television Last night in this new series. Well, not new series, a repeat, not an extension of another series which was on. And so, you know, fittingly, that he was on Television Last night. Yeah. His work will be, will be, will be watching his work for many, many. We will. Absolutely, it doesnt look good for us, does it . Christopher biggins in daily mail page five. Weekend lions keep you happy. Well im were sat here i, i know, but i do love a lion as im getting older and i keep saying that i love a lion. Theres Nothing Better than looking at the alarm clock and thinking, oh , ill have another thinking, oh, ill have another houn thinking, oh, ill have another hour, you know, its good. And im pleased to say that they now say that the reason that you should stay in bed as people who get catch up sleep are less likely to experience symptoms of depression. Thats why im not depressed. Depressed. Should you enjoy lion . Should you enjoy lion . Exactly. Exactly. Things arent looking good for us. No. Do you have a siesta, though . I love a siesta. You see . Thats why you just like to sleep. I do like to sleep. I do like to sleep. Exactly 4 00 dip, thats what if youve been up early. I think you can get to 4 00. And then if you can get to 4 00. And then if you sit down, you can close your eyes. Its all over. You cant have had a lion for a very long time either. You bet. Ellie, youve been kind of here nearly every day, havent you . It feels that way. It does. When i do get lion, which is ran out. Its so lovely. Ive got nothing to wake up. Can you do it, though . Is your body clock now . Because i can. My mind gets worrying. Thing is, susan, i can just go. It could be 11 00 before i wake up. If i just let myself sleep, ive gone. Im sleep deprived. Clearly, ive gone the other way now. Even on a day off. Really . At 6 00, youre presenting the news at breakfast, whether youre here or not. Is that whats happening . So by the time the other half had got out of bed the other day and done all the dishwasher, put two loads of laundry on and been to sainsburys and walked the dog. Oh, youre very good. Oh, youre very good. I think ive got an inner alarm clock that sets very easily because even though i only do this very occasionally, i think i wake up at 415, which is a nearly every day, but then i can go, yeah, im awake because in case i have to do it, but then i can go back to sleep. And that is that is a good moment when you realise you dont have to get up. I know that sleep is wonderful, i love it, its fantastic. I know those people then say, well, you can sleep when youre dead sort of thing. Oh rubbish life. How did they know you might have terrible times when youre dead . You might have to, you know, walk on red hot coals or something. How many . You know . Lets hope not. Lets hope not. Could be all sorts of terrible things. Im having that twitchy leg thing. What are they called . Restless legs syndrome, a lion belly . Oh, its like thats what they call it now. Is it twitchy . Leg . Leg . Is it twitchy . Leg . Leg . Can i just say some nice things about you to maggie . Maggie ps been in touch saying please can susan. And begins. Come on. Every morning they really brighten up the paper. Review and dawn victor says im loving susans rich hair colour and begins is looking really good. Thank and begins is looking really good. Thank you for cheering up my morning. Are you good . Thank you. Thank you. My hairdresser will be thrilled. Yes. Well done, you two. Well done, you two. Thats all very much. Completely natural. Well, we love a chestnut in the morning. Lets get the weather with craig. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week, after a mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the thursday. But out there at the moment for this Bank Holiday Monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here too. In between. A brighter zone but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side. But in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away, and also the area of rain across southeast england just moving off towards the continent. So that will allow a dry end to the night for many, with some clearer skies , but this central clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further breaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside. So Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic the cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today. In the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. But rishi sunak is saying there could be a Hung Parliament. Ill tell you whats going on shortly i today marks the First Anniversary of king charles ascending the throne, with experts claiming his cancer diagnosis has helped him forge closer bonds with the british people. People. Israel issues a stark warning of an imminent rafa invasion. If of an imminent rafa invasion. If a ceasefire between israel and hamas isnt reached. With hamas isnt reached. With Benjamin Netanyahu now shutting down the broadcaster al jazeera, the 80th anniversary of the d day landings is fast approaching, with one veteran supporter going that extra mile to commemorate the occasion. And we send one of our reporters to padstow to find out more about one of the countrys oldest surviving may day festivals. I come back every year, as i say, and ive met people even this year ive met a man from padstow whod come back from australia for may day. And in this sport , britains and in this sport, britains lando norris won his first ever grand prix in miami last night. The World Snooker final continues today. And how about this . The dutch team that celebrated promotion just a tad too early. Dont count your chickens. Good morning. Its a bit of a mixed picture out there weather wise. This Bank Holiday Monday , wise. This Bank Holiday Monday, but there is some drier and brighter weather on the way. Find out when in a little bit. Good morning. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on gb news. Hello. Hello. Were still struggling with the heat to the steam room. Yes this is honestly. You think you might think were overdoing it . I really think we could pass out at some point. We could . Yes. I just nipped the loo and is a different climate out there compared to in here. Anyway, we are surviving just about lots of people paying you lots of compliments. Were talking about. Yes, were talking about. Yes, were talking about. Yes, were talking about lions. And apparently they make you happier if you have a lion. We dont experience many of them, do we . But you were saying you struggled sleeping past about 6 am. Now . Yeah. It just seemed to wake up. It just seemed to wake up. And hes very proactive. Hes unstacking the dishwasher and stacking the dishwasher and walking the dog and stuff. And blue leaders been in touch saying stephen, please respectfully shut it. You are lifting the bar higher for the rest of us, but lots of smiley faces. And margot says lions , faces. And margot says lions, margot says i like to go out in the garden with my coffee, listen to the birds, and then come back inside to watch gb news. Well, if the weathers nice enough, thatd be fantastic. Wouldnt it . Isnt that lovely . Isnt that lovely . Love listening to the birds in the morning. That dawn chorus as well. You get a good dawn chorus. Where you are. Loads of country. Weve just found a whole load of, blue now nesting in the garden are lovely. Love it all. Yeah. Youre at one with nature, arent you . We are at one with nature. We are at one with nature. He likes outdoorsy walks and things like that. Oh, we. Were an outdoorsy family. Oh, nice. Lovely, lovely fiery red dragon, says steven. You can always take your jacket off. Want to see you take your jacket off. I dont know, i could do im getting im getting to that point. Yes , yes, i dont know. Yes, yes, i dont know. Youve got lots more layers on. Would that look unprofessional . I dont know, maybe you need to speak to the bosses. Speak to the bosses. I dont know, i dont know whats allowed. Whats allowed . Its. Its we stick to the to the jackets and ties, dont we . But in the meantime, we have fashion. Fantastic fashion. Fashion. Fantastic fashion. Yeah. God, its terrible though. Anyway, i bet the air con is on in downing street. I bet it is. i bet it is. Yeah, the Prime Minister making the most of it while he can. He said the country is hurtling towards a Hung Parliament following a bitterly disappointing, thats his words set of local Election Results for the tories. Well, this comes as an autumn general election is looking more likely, with number 10 ruling out a summer vote. Reports suggest that rishi sunak is hoping to improve the economy and kerb immigration before the country goes to the polls. Well, earlier we spoke to womens minister Maria Caulfield i clearly our voters stayed at home, so theyre not switching parties. They do want to vote parties. They do want to vote conservative, but we have to give them reasons to do that. And thats about delivering on the work that were doing. So, you know, the three big issues that were focusing as part of the pms five point plan are immigration, the nhs and the economy. Well, joining us now is gb news Political Correspondent katherine forster. Really good to see you this morning, catherine. An unbelievable admission, really, from the Prime Minister that we are hurtling towards a Hung Parliament with labour being the Biggest Party. Well, yes, but given they are usually 20 points behind labour in the polls, to be honest, the conservatives would be delighted to be in that situation and i think really whats going on is they are looking around for very small crumbs of comfort, given the terrible , terrible results the terrible, terrible results at the weekend, they lost nearly 500 Council Seats, they lost the mayoralty in the West Midlands and so theyve latched on to their one piece of sort of good news, which is, according to this National Equivalent Vote way of measuring it, if the whole country voted, as people did in the local elections , did in the local elections, labours lead would only be nine points over the tories, which would potentially lead to a Hung Parliament. I have to say i dont think its very likely. I think its a very dangerous game, though, isnt it . With all of this sort of saying, well, thatll muster the troops, will it . Thatll pull people away from reform effectively. But of course, what its going to do is, i mean, the big problem for labouris is, i mean, the big problem for labour is complacency. Well, its going to make sure that doesnt happen. Yes. I mean, its sort of works for both parties to play to this narrative in a way, because on the conservative side, you can see that obviously a lot of normal conservative voters are very cross with the party. Theyre sitting at home, theyre either not voting or theyre either not voting or theyre voting largely for reform. So if you can convince some of those that they maybe still is a chance, you might make them come out to vote or think twice about voting reform. Similarly, with labour, therell be some labour voters. We saw at the weekend, didnt we, they lost quite a few votes in areas with heavily muslim constituencies over the gaza issue. Now sir keir starmer will be hoping everyone will be hoping therell be a meaningful ceasefire before an election, maybe november the 14th or 21st, but if that doesnt happen, labour will be very keen to get some of those voters back. So it sort of works for both sides. But what i would say is, people do not vote in local elections in the same way as they vote in general elections. In local elections, people feel perfectly free to vote for the greens or the lib dems or reform or whoever, because its not going to be who ends up in government. And it tends to focus minds in a general election. You do see the votes for the smaller parties tend to get squeezed, and a bigger vote for the two main parties, so who knows . I mean, its bleak for the conservatives, but labour didnt pick up all of those seats by any means. A lot of those seats went to other parties. The went to other parties. The greens had a very good night. The lib dems had a good night. The lib dems had a good night. The lib dems picked up more Council Seats than the conservatives, which is great for them. But in a general election, very different matter. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Catherine thank you. Okay. Catherine thank you. Thank you very much indeed. Well, today marks the one Year Anniversary since king charles was crowned in a memorable coronation that was filled with pmp coronation that was filled with pomp and pageantry. Pomp and pageantry. But 12 months later, the monarch seems to have forged an even closer bond with us. Following his openness surrounding his cancer. Well, all of this comes as prince archie celebrates his fifth birthday today. Lets talk to royal commentator jennie lets talk to royal commentatorjennie bond, who commentator jennie bond, who joins us now. Morning, jenny. Good to see you. It i mean, it really does seem on this anniversary , mary, that the anniversary, mary, that the king, despite all the problems hes had, is someone who is just becoming more and more loved by his country , i think. His country, i think. So, i also think we shouldnt exaggerate it. The figures out in the latest poll are good, 60 of people want to keep the monarchy. It want to keep the monarchy. It would seem those questions 28, think it should be a republic. He himself has a 56 rating on whether hes doing a good job or not. And that certainly is a set of figures that any politician would absolutely die for. I mean, if you think rishi sunaks popularity rating is said to be at 18 one 8 and the king 56, yes, he can sit there and think, well, im doing pretty nicely, but its nothing like the figures we have for the late queen, who had the advantage of longevity. But her popularity ratings were higher all that said and done, yes, i think its been a very, very good first year for the king in terms of what he has tried to and has achieved. Obviously, the great setback has been the cancer diagnosis for himself and for catherine, and that has stopped him in his tracks and, as we heard yesterday, he was quoted as saying someone was quoted as saying that he is like a caged lion. So eager to get back out. And shortly we will be seeing him back on the road to a greater extent than before. Anyway, jenny, what do you make of some experts suggesting that hes forged an even closer bond with the british people through his Cancer Treatment . Because he has worked so hard, hasnt he, to raise awareness for cancer . And were just seeing some images on the screen just then of him visiting that Cancer Centre on tuesday and holding the hand of a patient there, we are really seeing such a human side to king charles in all of this. Yeah, i think thats absolutely true. I think almost from the moment actually, that he greeted the crowds after his mothers death and a lady in the crowd outside Buckingham Palace said, can i give you a hug now . No one really would have said that to the late queen. But he said, yeah, of course. But i do think that, Cancer Centre, you saw the it wasnt so much a king visiting people suffering from cancen visiting people suffering from cancer. It was fellow cancer sufferer , really communing with sufferer, really communing with them and sympathising with them, as you say, the hand. It wasnt as you say, the hand. It wasnt a handshake. It was a hand hold. I think weve seen whats something that those of us whove been quite close or got to know the king over the years, something weve always known that he is a very, very deep feeling man. Hes a very sentimental man, and hes passionate about the causes that he takes up, such as, at the moment, cancer. But also his campaign to stop waste food and of course, the environment. Of course, the environment. Renee, thanks very much indeed. Now, at 8 11, lets take a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. A woman has been arrested after a baby went into cardiac arrest at Legoland Windsor on thursday. Thames Valley Police say the five months old was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Shes been the woman condition. Shes been the woman involved, has been bailed until the 26th of july. Detectives say theyre not looking for anybody else in connection with the incident. The child still in hospital. Hospital. Four men have been arrested after £40 million worth of cocaine was found in east yorkshire. Around 500 kilos of yorkshire. Around 500 kilos of the drug was discovered in the back of a van in a pub car park. Officers believe the haul had been brought ashore in a boat transporting it from a larger vessel off the hull coast, and the veteran snp Party Activist Graeme Mccormick has pulled out of the race to become leader of the snp. It leaves john swinney as the only official candidate to succeed humza yousaf , after the succeed humza yousaf, after the former leader announced he was stepping down. Mr mccormick says hell back mr swinneys nomination for the role. Nomination for the role. Now to the middle east and the Israeli Defence force is encouraging people in rafah, in southern gaza, to move towards an expanded humanitarian zone ahead of an expected offensive. Of an expected offensive. Well, it comes as israel has told hamas to accept their ceasefire terms or risk a new onslaught in the near future. Onslaught in the near future. Well, Benjamin Netanyahus cabinet has also shut down the Al Jazeera Network in israel, claiming the station threatens National Security. Well, yesterday , israeli well, yesterday, Israeli Police raided a Jerusalem Hotel used by al jazeera as a de facto office. Okay, weve got a man who really knows his stuff with this, the. Oh beg your pardon . Theyve theyve theyve just, got rid of his title. Marc. La grande. La grande. Just pull it up here. Mark lyall grant. Indeed. Who is our former representative to the United Nations , which is United Nations, which is obviously a hugely important role. Good. Good to see you once again this morning. Role. Good. Good to see you once again this morning. And, look, again this morning. And, look, can i ask you first and foremost about this ceasefire agreement that hamas, is furious and netanyahu is rejected and the reason behind it saying that it wont end the war. And netanyahu doesnt want this ceasefire agreement to be able to end the war. And it seems difficult for us who arent dealing with with these sort of levels of diplomacy to actually to understand that position. I think. Think. Yes, youre right. I mean, the talks have been going on in cairo, but theyre essentially breaking down at the moment on this one issue about how long the ceasefire would be. Now, there was a suggestion that it should be 40 days in exchange for that, there would be hostages released, not clear exactly how many, but a substantial number of hostages and then palestinian Prisoners Released by israel. On the other side. But hamas is saying that this 40 day truce needs to lead to a permanent cessation of hostilities and therefore an end to the Israeli Military action. Now, netanyahu has said, look, even if there is a temporary pause for 40 days, we are still going to continue the military operation after that because the job is not done of destroying hamas. And this is the point on which the talks appear to have broken down. So, mark, weve been talking about an operation in rafah for about an operation in rafah for a long time now. Weve been expecting it to take place. We are just hearing now that the idf are warning people in rafah to leave. It does look like this is now imminent. Yes. Although theyve made it clear that asking a sort of 100,000 people to leave and that a lot of people. But theyre actually sort of 1. 2 million palestinians living in rafah at the moment or sheltering in rafah, and they are saying that this is a temporary, evacuation because theyre going to do a limited operation, limited military operation in the eastern part of rafah, the part nearest to the israeli border. Now, whether that is the preliminary to a full scale invasion. Of rafah, we dont yet invasion. Of rafah, we dont yet know. But what is clear is that netanyahu and his cabinet are determined to try and root out hamas leadership , who they hamas leadership, who they believe is in rafah, and also to completely destroy, hamas militarily so that it cant pose a future threat to israel. So i fear that this conflict is not likely to end soon. Right. And a lot of people would look at that and go, they understand the israeli position. However, it makes a mockery of any ceasefire negotiations, doesnt it . Doesnt it . Well, a ceasefire gives some benefit to both sides because it would mean, hostages release, which obviously netanyahu is under pressure domestically to get more hostages released. There havent been any hostages released for several months now. But also it gives hamas some breathing space. It allows more humanitarian aid into gaza. And it would secure the release of some hamas prisoners that are being held in israel. So, you know, there is a limited benefit to both sides , but hamas thinks to both sides, but hamas thinks that they would lose their main leverage on israel, which is the hostages, and wouldnt secure an end to the conflict. And that is what i think they will continue to insist on. You wonder, what do you think . How do you think the International Community will respond to this . Respond to this . Well, i think the International Community has been putting pressure on both sides. Really. Theyre saying to hamas, look , here is an opportunity to look, here is an opportunity to get some of your Prisoners Released and improve the humanitarian situation. You should take it. But equally, theyre saying to israel, look, we want this 40 day truce to be a springboard. If you like, into a springboard. If you like, into a more permanent ceasefire, because without a permanent ceasefire, there is going to be a continuing humanitarian crisis in gaza. So the International Community is both trying to be an honest broker , if you like, an honest broker, if you like, but also putting pressure on both sides to accept some form of deal, because the International Community is desperate to get a rapid end to the suffering and the killing of civilians in gaza. Civilians in gaza. I wanted to ask you what you made of israel. Moving to close, made of israel. Moving to close, al jazeeras al jazeeras operations in the country. Were heanng operations in the country. Were hearing that a hotel in jerusalem that was being used as their de facto office has been raided. Raided. Yes. Yes. I mean, al jazeera is a quite a well respected news channel now, particularly based in the region, but it does come at events from an arab perspective. And i think its fair to say the Israeli Government has never been very sympathetic or supportive of al jazeera, but particularly during the conflict with hamas , they feel that al with hamas, they feel that al jazeeras reporting , direct jazeeras reporting, direct reporting of the civilian casualties of the suffering in gazais casualties of the suffering in gaza is actually damaging israels international reputation. Now, the knesset did pass a law just last month saying that in this particular conflict, the government has the right to ban a news outlet, foreign news outlet that is deemed to be a threat to National Security. And its that law which israel is using to close down al jazeera. I think its the first time theyve ever closed down a foreign news outlet. And obviously it is an attack on freedom of the press. But equally, it is a very sensitive time when israel is effectively at war. Theres i mean, theres a substantial difference , isnt substantial difference, isnt there, between, affecting National Security or threatening National Security or threatening National Security or threatening National Security and damaging the reputation of the country, isnt there . Yes. Yes. Yes. I dont buy the argument that its threatening israels National Security, theyre using that as an excuse. I think , to, that as an excuse. I think, to, make it more difficult for people to report on what is actually happening in gaza. But actually happening in gaza. But theres no doubt that al jazeeras very effective reporting is damaging israels international, reputation. And thats why theyve taken this Fairly Extreme step. So, mark, really good to see you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Now, as many of you know, we have been nominated for a tric award in the best news program category. So we could really do category. So we could really do and wed be so grateful as well for your help in order to win for your help in order to win for a second year in a row. Yes that would be nice. All you have to do is we can scan the qr code, which were going to pop up on your screen. That well, you cant miss it, can you . Its huge, if you dont want to do that, you just have to type in pole dash trick without a k. Org. Uk and all the details are there. You can also go to gb news for. Com. And i know quite a few of you have been messaging in this morning, talking about how its taking a long time to be able to cast your vote. Apparently the website is quite slow, this time last year we kept crashing the website. Yes we did. I remember that germ with that. Yeah, a lot of people saying we cant get on. Its because so many people were voting for gb news. Every time you mentioned it that it crashed the website. Well, we really do appreciate you going on to do it. So thank you. Hopefully the same thing is happening again this year. That would be nice wouldnt it . Wouldnt it . And tell you what else would be nice. Whats that . Some sunshine. Craig snell has got all the details for us how. Now. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week after a mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the thursday. But out there at the moment for this Bank Holiday Monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here too. In between. A brighter zone but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side, but in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away and also the area of rain across south east england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many with some clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside. So Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic. The cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today. In the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Hes stripping off, arent you this morning . To be fair, all all of the viewers are being very encouraging. Oh, stephen, youll never be seen as unprofessional if you take your jacket off. Oh what if the shirt comes off as well . Well, that might be a little bit far. Oh, directors just said as long as you keep the tie on, you just keep the tie on. Yeah. Thats all. Yeah. Thats all. Well, its only because you need somewhere to hang the microphone. Oh well thats true. Yeah. So do keep that on summer. 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Hello she says stephen and ellie, i voted for you on the first day that the poll opened the tric awards. By the way, the tric awards. By the way, tric i dont know the address. I dont know why im trying. Trick poll , dash trick or dont know why im trying. Trick poll, dash trick or. Uk trick with no k or go to the gb news website. There you go. That gets you out of that one. And heres. Oh, look, we could do one better for you. This is the qr code. If you scan your phone or scan this qr code with your phone, there you go. Youll be able to go to the tric awards website and pop your vote in for us, please. It would be amazing to win. Itll be the second year in a row that breakfast have won best news program and wed be very, very grateful if you could do that for us because it makes us very happy. Doesnt it . Yes, and also lynn p says stephen, the shirt looks great. At least it proves that you iron your sleeves. Yes, im allergic to ironing, so all power to you. Im also allergic to ironing. Maybe its a female thing. I cant admit to saying ive actually ironed this shirt myself, but Shelley Kennedy , myself, but Shelley Kennedy, thanks very much indeed. Was that your other half . Was that your other half . Was that your other half . No, shelley isnt my other half. No, she. She does all my ironing. Thanks, shelley. Ironing. Thanks, shelley. And i know that shelley isnt your other half. I dont know why. I dont know , harriet. I dont know, harriet. I think a secret relationship with shelley. Heat. Its youve gone mad like mad dogs and englishmen in the midday sun. Also, somebody has made a suggestion that , that suggestion that, that Christopher Biggins is, is doing a lot better than us because hes in a jumper and he was complaining about the heat. So well ask him how hes coping. Theyre only in here for two minutes. Its true. Imagine doing four hours of this. Oh, its something else, isnt it . Entirely. At least ill be half a stone lighter by the time we get out. Its not all bad news that sitting in a sauna, isnt it . Really is. Yeah right. Lets tell you about may Day Festivities that have been taking place across the country over the last few days. Ancient traditions revived, people taking to the streets to welcome in the summer months. Yes, its the time of maurice dancing may queens and skipping around the maypole, which is what you used to do. I did as a child. Yes. Our south west of england reporter, jeff moody now explains. Some of these traditions go back centuries. If mayday is your thing, chances are youve heard of padstow. Thousands flock to the small Coastal Community in cornwall. Each year to commemorate the time the women of the town warded off spanish invaders by parading a hobby horse through the streets, pretending it was the devil. Pretending it was the devil. They still do it. Every year, spanish invaders now replaced by a heady mix of tourists, locals and lots of real ale. I think all traditions should keep going because it is important for the kids to learn about and come up and, you know, get to know things thats happened. I mean, some people might say in 2024, these things arent relevant. They might say it, but they never stopped my day. Its a huge date in the cornish calendar. Here in padstow, locals whove moved away return in their droves to catch up with friends and to welcome in the summer months. Welcome in the summer months. A part of our life is part of the history of the country, and particularly of small societies like this. Here in padstow , like this. Here in padstow, where i come back every year. As i say , and ive met people, even i say, and ive met people, even this year i met a man from padstow whod come back from australia for may day. Its one of the oldest surviving festivals in the uk. Two hobby horses parade around the maypole to celebrate beltane, an ancient celtic ceremony celebrating life. The beginning of summer and fertility. Fertility of the land and of the young men and women who tend it. There are maypoles in Village Greens right across the country, and theyve been here since pagan times. The idea is that the more dancing you do around the maypole on may day , around the maypole on may day, the better the weather will be this summer and the better the crops will grow. There are crops will grow. There are ceremonies right across the uk , ceremonies right across the uk, some of them dating back to roman times, others celtic , roman times, others celtic, others catholic, some a mix of all three. And at the heart of it all, morris dancing. Theyve been around since the 15th century. Druid dances originally with painted faces. Oliver cromwell banned the dance and its fallen in and out of favour over the years. But on may day over the years. But on may day in england, there is nothing that celebrates our way of life more than a dance around a maypole, followed by a pint or two of ale. Jeff moody gb news. Are we could be there banging our sticks. That could be you. That could be you. And all the ribbons on the maypole. Ribbons on the maypole. It was. I used to really like that. As long as you didnt get it wrong. But you could do this. Theres lots of different dances to create different patterns. I didnt know that. Yeah. Its great. Id pay good money to see you do it. Well, i was only about eight at the time. Oh, its nice that you. Youre doing that, though. Part of the may day celebration. Yeah, we did all of that. Yeah, we did all of that. I dont know if children are a part of it now. Are they really . Are they really . I dont know, but we had the morris dancers out and david linney was there and a few others that we knew. Morris dancing. And then you had your maypole dancing. We had like a big thing in the sort of car park and square outside the church. And did you wear the outfit . And did you wear the outfit . No no, no. Oh no no no no no. Everyone just got everyone just got together and it was like, well a bit like pat. Weve just seen there and padstow, which is a beautiful part of the world. I dont suppose they do it now in dalton. I dont know if anyones watching in dalton in furness. Let us know if youre doing any may day stuff or have done this welcome back. It is sports time , welcome back. It is sports time, and paul coyte is here with us. Morning to you and our foreman, a e. Foreman, a e. Oh, blimey. Oh, blimey. Its a little hot. Its a little hot. Its a little hot. Its a little hot. Its broken, by the way. Weve got. Weve got a message saying. Why are you all moaning . Saying. Why are you all moaning . Just put the air con on. Just put the air con on. We cant. We cant. If only it was that easy. If only it was that easy. Did you know that the last, the last little sports piece that i did for you was almost exactly the same amount of time as it took Roger Bannister to break the world record. Exactly 70 years ago today. I realised. So 70 years ago is the anniversary. Roger bannister former. Can we see that again . Can we do . Oh, yes , because ive can we do . Oh, yes, because ive got it. Hopefully weve got it because i know its a huge anniversary and theyre digging around. Oh yeah. Here we go. Oh yeah. Here we go. You have to go to the archives. There he is. Roger bannister there in the middle. Hes being paced by Chris Chataway and Chris Brasher and then came through to break the world record. It was this day back in 1954, three minutes, 59 seconds point four. And it was the first time that anybody had run the mile in under four minutes. And it was 70 years ago today stood for only just about a month until john landy of australia knocked a second of it. And so 350 9. 4 and the world record today is well, what do you reckon the works if. 350 9. 4 70 years ago, what do you reckon the world record for the mile is today . Although it stood for 2044, 343 343. 13. So really you are both i would say correct. I would say, but what what makes people more able to do it now . Is it training . Is it stuff like the footwear . No, i dont think footwear because its 25 years since it was broken and we dont have as many mile runs as we used to. There were things like the emsley carr mile, which was a famous mile run, and also athletics was a lot more. You athletics was a lot more. You get that on tv and on on a friday night. Sometimes you get the world mile record when cohen ovett went for it, and then steve cram , still the fastest steve cram, still the fastest briton ever to run it or was actually thats not this actually thats not this actually is true. He is he still i think hes about the eighth fastest mile ever. So steve cram did it. But it is its training. Because if you think of Roger Bannisters day, he was a medical student so didnt really have time, never won a gold medal in the olympics. But that was what he was training for and did that in oxford. And theyre going to celebrate that in oxford, by the way. Theyre going to have a mile run through the city and people like stoke, steve cram and el guerrouj, who holds the world record now, is going to be there as well. Fabulous. Are you doing all of this to avoid talking about tottenham . Yes, i am, so ive made it too long. Ill go home. Its actually not 70 years. Ive just made all that up nice. It is, yeah. Spurs lost yesterday , or should i just say yesterday, or should i just say that liverpool won four two against tottenham hotspur. So a good result for them. Theyre safe and theyre going into the Champions League. Spurs not quite so cut and dried as far as theyre concerned. Chelsea beat west ham five nil. Huge result for them. And brighton beat for them. And brighton beat aston villa one nil. It looked like this is going to be wobbly for aston villa. Getting into the Champions League. But then spurs almost handed it on a plate afterwards. Weve got time for a little bit of dutch stuff. Well yes we have because we like a bit of heartbreak and ecstasy at the same time. Right. Rogerjc, who are in the second tier of the dutch league, the eredivisie , which is league, the eredivisie, which is the premier league, which actually means Honorary Division oh era divisie. So roda were had a huge game and they needed to win. And if they beat cambuur, which it looked like they were going to, they would then be promoted into the eredivisie. So they did. They won the game two nil, but it depended on their rivals groningen , who were rivals groningen, who were playing telstar. Now groningen were losing to this side. They made records. They do make records , but they also play records, but they also play football as well. So . So groningen were losing to telstar. Tell me, if you lose me at any point because it does get at any point because it does get a bit complicated. So groningen are losing to telstar, which means as it looks like that roda will then be promoted. So anyway, 90th minute everybody is celebrating. This is what happened on the pitch. So everybodys on their celebrating. They cant believe it. So groningen are losing to telstar. But then groningen scored four in the 95th minute. No. So theyve theyre out celebrating because theyre thinking the games over. No. The game wasnt over. Groningen score. Then youd never guess what happened. What . The announcer, whose name is wim fringe, announces to the roda fans. Weve just heard that telstar have now scored, which means everythings good. We are promoted. Telstar have scored with the final kick of the game. But then. So theyre up again. Yeah, but then it turns out that was disallowed. Oh no. Another down and then theyre up and then theyre down. And now the last game of the season roda will play groningen. What are the chances and should they win or draw they will be promoted to the eredivisie. Did that make any sense or was it true . No. Double dutch . No, that was good. It was drama filled. It was exhausting. In this heat, i wish i hadnt tried so hard. Are gonna have a cool down. Paul are gonna have a cool down. Paul. Thank you very much indeed. Ill do this for the rest. Oh thank you. Ill just be here for the. Ill just be here for the. Thank you very much. Oh thats nice actually. There we are. Still to come. Were going to be taking a look at keep going. Whats making the newspapers with Christopher Biggins and susan halder. Thats next. Thank you. There we are. Welcome back to breakfast with a very hot Stephen Dixon. Yes. Yes. Oh, im quite cool. Could we put the heating up . Oh. Begins. Whats up with you, christopher . Are you jumper on . Are you jumper on . Hes cool as a cucumber. Exactly. Cool as a cucumber in kashmir. What did you say when you came in . I dont approve of people who take clothes for off a well, i mean, honestly, you know, for a fact, showing off your tattoos is. Is. Im just. Im just. Im just. I am just melting. I am just melting. I am just melting. You look like youre about to do some washing up or something. Do some washing up or something. Im just. Im just. Im just. I mean, im only here to fan him. Thats what im here for. Until the nice ladies and gentlemen we had to do with you. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So. So. Oh, well, the way it works, weve got no secrets here. No secrets. Because you have to have your mic packs stuck on the back. Yeah, ive had to pad them out with paper because its just theyll be turning into hot mic packs against my back. Oh, well, it felt like i was sunburnt, so stevens just stuffed paper down my back, and i was worried that they were going to set on fire. And i might i might smoke just start. I know thats what i thought, but so far so good. Isnt this supposed to be talking about news . Yes we are. This is news. This is news. Should we do some news about weddings . Yes. Wedding of the century, susan. Yes, in the south of france. Devil in trying to pull it back into focus. So in the Daily Telegraph there is a big story about a big wedding, how much do you think you should spend on a wedding . 20 million. Do you . £20 million. Wedding Million Pounds . Wedding Million Pounds . £20 million in the south of france. So its the person whos famous for fast fashion. The owner of. He did have. What was owner of. He did have. What was it called . Oh, pretty little thing is the company, which is a fashion company. He started as a market trader in manchester, but now runs a big multi Million Pound company and has got married in the south of france at the weekend , she didnt wear at the weekend, she didnt wear anything from prettylittlething or boohoo. Oh, wow, get out of or boohoo. Oh, wow, get out of town. She wore a Christian Dior gown , that that took 540 hours gown, that that took 540 hours to handcraft. And now im going to handcraft. And now im going to Say Something here, please, because i know youre getting married. I am very soon. And my son is actually getting married in june. Congratulations to him. Thank you. Can i say, i dont think anyone can look £554 million better than somebody else in a way, theres a theres a point where you can look lovely , and i dont think you lovely, and i dont think you can add money to make it lovelier , either in the look or lovelier, either in the look or also a wedding. You need enough food for your guests, you need some good music , you need some some good music, you need some good vibes, and to be surrounded by the people you love. And a good bar thats it, i would say, but you might. Yes, you do need a little bit of liquid around the place, but. But thats what you need. Yeah, it doesnt matter how much money you throw at these things. You cant make it more beautiful and better. And he should also be able to look at his bride coming down the aisle in a dress from boohoo and think, shes the most beautiful woman ive ever seen, shouldnt he . But they did have mariah carey. You see, id have paid for that. Well mariah carey, Andrea Bocelli and ronan keating. Yeah, bocelli and ronan keating. Yeah, what more could you want . No, they probably dont know. But as i said to you, didnt i . The problem with splashing out on a massive wedding is, is the couple getting married. Youre the ones who dont remember it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You never get a drink. You dont get to finish the food. Yeah. And you always off taking photos so you dont actually get to experience your your band. Have you got your dress yet. Have you got your dress yet. No. No. Where near any of that. No. Id wear a lemon on the day of. How were you. Well, you could you will, but you will. Look stunning. I wont be spending however much you spent on it. You dont need to. Sure, you really dont need to. Well, from from lovely married couples to kissing strangers, christopher have you ever had to, for the sake of work, had to perform stage kisses . I have, and youre referring, of course, to the item today in the paper, the daily mail about emily blunt reveal that she has had some terrible , stars in had some terrible, stars in movies and things to kiss with terrible breath, making her want to six be sick. Now ive got extra here, chewy things. If so, if i would put those in before prepared in case im prepared. It is a kissing scene today. Demonstrate i wasnt i wasnt warned of this. Yes. Yes. Why did we do it . Lets try now. You i think shes very unprepared. Shes very brave to say this because some of the people shes starred up against are cillian murphy, matt damon, ryan gosling and, to name but a few. Why . Who would you take issue with . Who . Excuse me . Who . Excuse me . Who . Excuse me . Who do you take issue with on that list . Killian murphy, matt damon, ryan gosling i kiss them all. Would you are absolutely not new, though. Tony curtis, who starred in some like it hot with Marilyn Monroe. In interviews later on, did say that kissing Marilyn Monroe was like kissing hitler. I think he was possibly referring to the moustache that. Well, no, i dont think she had a moustache. Take that back. But a moustache. Take that back. But i think i think she behaved quite. She was quite difficult to deal with in the movie and thats what he was referring to. I dont they got on and thats what he said. So its not new that people kind of do that. But i think emily blunts got to be careful. I think shes also emily blunts got a very good sense of humour, i think. And i think shes having a joke, but shes got to hope that nobody comes around and talks about what it was like kissing her, because exactly. Shed be that pleased if somebody said, well, kissing emily blunt like Marilyn Monroe was like kissing. Kissing someone like, well, ive got my gum in. So anyone want to kiss you . So anyone want to kiss you . Shes looking at you, stephen. Yeah. Sorry. Im a married man. Sorry. Im a married man. Im a married man. Im a married man. Oh, yeah. That stops you. Yeah. Joss. Joss. Joss, actually, thank you very much indeed. Very much indeed. What is happening this morning . Six. What is happening . Six. What is happening . Theres no script with. Oh dean no. Oh, no. Im discovering. There you go i i i tell you what, chris, lets have a look at the telegraph, because, as we should do with you, we should put a bell round your neck and we should do that with cats, apparently. Well, i think its a rather good idea, because apparently the bird population is going down because of cats getting out into the garden. And killing them. I think its a they want people to put bells on to warn. To warn. Okay. Can i just say, though, what about mice and rats . Dont we want cats to keep those down . If they all have bells around their necks, will our mice and rats population then go berserk . Because we dont want that, do we . Yeah, true. Well, i hadnt thought of that. You see, your marvellous susan, the way you bring these other things in. And we dont want to lose the rats and mice. No, of course not. But birds. I think what it started off by. Who was it now . The rsvp , who was it now . The rsvp, suggested that we do this and earlier this year, amsterdam city authorities announced plans to ask cat owners to add a bell to ask cat owners to add a bell to their pets. So its good enough for amsterdam. Its good enough for amsterdam. Its good enough for amsterdam. Its good enough for us, i suppose. I dont like it. I think cats should, to me, wear a bell. No, timmy doesnt wear a bell. Hes free to roam and do what he likes. And kill is kill as much as he can. We have loads of birds in the garden. Well, people dont like them being brought in either. They dont like people bringing the cats, bringing the birds or the mice or things in. But i do worry that if you if we put bells on all cats, then the mice and rats will get that warning. I dont know though. I dont know what the hearing is like of a mouse or a rat. I think probably very sharp, i think, yes, i would. It have to be, wouldnt it . It have to be, wouldnt it . Theyve got massive ears. Theyve got massive ears. Theyre always twitching them, arent they. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that would be, that would be my point. An expert on the rodents. No, ho. 110. No. Pussy cat called by the way. Pussy cat called by the way. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Timmy. Lovely. Yeah very butch. Jemmy. Hes very cute. Very very cute. Right. Weve got one minute. What should we discuss . Minute. What should we discuss . So should we talk about single sex lavatories . Susan . Yes. Oh susan . Yes. Oh so. Yes. So the there are going to be changes , apparently, going to be changes, apparently, to building regulations that will mean that non domestic buildings, including restaurants, shopping centres, offices and public toilets will, in future, when built be, will be required to provide single sex toilets for women and men. Hooray a wont, but they wont be allowed to build single sex toys. No, they will have to provide single sex. Oh, sorry. Single sex . Yes. Oh, sorry. So totally confused. It is very confusing. It is very confusing. It is very confusing. I mean, the one thing about coming here to work is the fact. The one bad thing, i think, is we have to share the loos. Yeah i mean, i, you know, its very odd when youre sitting in there doing your business and you suddenly hear someone come and you think, can that be a woman . Can that be a man . I wonder who it is, you know, am i going to be all right . Do i make a noise or what . You know, it could be very difficult. Yeah. Youll be all right. Yeah. Youll be all right. Sorry, i think i think theyre unpopular with men and women equally. Actually, i think thats what we take from that. Christopher biggins, susan holbrook, great to see you both today. Thank you very much indeed for the gig. Thank you for the mints, by the way. Oh, ill have a kiss later. Looks like things are heating up. Boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Well, looking ahead to the new week, after a mixed start to the week , after a mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the moment for this bank holiday, monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here. Two in between, a brighter zone, but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side, but in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening, a lot of the showers gradually fade in away and also the area of rain across south east england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many with some clearer skies. But this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside, so Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic. The cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today in the sunshine. Highs today in the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Its 9 00 on monday, the 6th of may. Today, the Prime Minister claims the country is heading towards a Hung Parliament as an autumn election looks to be on the cards. Yes , an election potentially yes, an election potentially in november. The conservatives looking around for crumbs of comfort after the disastrous results this weekend. Theyre saying it could be a Hung Parliament. Ill bring you more shortly. Shortly. Today marks the First Anniversary of King Charless coronation with experts claiming his cancer diagnosis has helped him forge closer bonds with the british public. Live pictures from rafah. This morning. As the Israeli Defence force encourages palestinians in south gaza to move towards an expanded humanitarian zone ahead of an offensive. Offensive. The 80th anniversary of the d day landings is fast approaching, with one veteran supporter going that extra mile to commemorate the occasion. And we send one of our reporters to padstow to find out more about one of the countrys oldest surviving may day festivals. I come back every year, as i say, and ive met people even this year ive met a man from padstow whod come back from australia for may day. Good morning. Its a bit of a mixed picture out there weather wise, this Bank Holiday Monday, but there is some drier and brighter weather on the way. Find out when in a little bit. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im elly costello and this is breakfast on. Breakfast on. Gb news. Lucie says, you look lovely, stephen. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, Deborah Betts has said, asking what . What male actors think about emily blunts kisses. Im sure she tastes of flowers and sweetness. But there you go. But there you go. I, i never quite understand this. I know youve got a if youre an actor, then there will be some point. Youve got to kiss somebody. I couldnt , i kiss somebody. I couldnt, i couldnt, i couldnt i couldnt either bring myself to do it or bnng either bring myself to do it or bring myself to watch the other half do it. No, its horrible. But just think for emily blunt and her husband, they go to oscars parties, and between the two of them, theyve probably kissed all of hollywood. It must be very strange. Imagine. I know its their job, but it must be very, very strange. Theres lots of you getting in touch on that. Lots of you. Very pleased to see susan and begins on todays papers. That was lovely. Wasnt it . Interesting. One about cats having to wear bells to protect the bird population. Birds. Birds. Birds. David stones been in touch. And this is a really good point. Actually because this happens a lot, he said we had a rescue cat , duncan, and when we got him, he had to have his collar and bell surgically removed before we could take him in because people put them on, you know , people put them on, you know, and the cat grows and they dont take them off. They never alter them. They just arent. And left. Thats grim, isnt it . It is. Yeah. It is. Yeah. It is. Yeah. So i dont im not for it. So i dont im not for it. Youre not for it. Youre not for it. No id never id never put a collar on a cat, and michael makes the point. Michael meakin says not just cats killing birds are toy poodle has twice been found now on the lawn on top of pigeons covered in feathers. Really happy with theirself. So really happy with theirself. So maybe cats wearing collars is not the answer. No. No. No. So blooming poodles . No. I thought youve got to let nature on its course. To a degree, i think. Yes. Interfere right, lets talk about the state of politics at the moment. Should we, Anneliese Dodds from the labour party joins us now. Very good to see you this morning. What are we to make . The Prime Ministers sort of which i think is an extraordinary admission, saying that at the next general election, as it currently looks, it would be a Hung Parliament with labour the Largest Party. I cant quite believe thats come out of the mouth of a conservative Prime Minister before an election, however , before an election, however, what do you make of the idea of a Hung Parliament . Because, i mean, its not good for him. Its actually not very good for you either. Good morning. And youre absolutely right. This good morning. And youre absolutely right. This is an extraordinary thing for rishi sunak to be saying. Actually, the very clear message from last week was that people desperately want the chance to turn the page on the last 14 years. They desperately want a general election. And rather than acknowledging that and actually setting a date , rishi sunak is setting a date, rishi sunak is pontificating about what he expects may happen. Well, actually, hes even got that wrong because local elections are not a good predictor of general elections. If you just look at the overall vote share , look at the overall vote share, which is what he seems to have done, for example, very small parties tend to do far better in local elections, independent tend to do better. And if you look at the places where labour won, where labour picked up support, it was in those constituencies that labour will needin constituencies that labour will need in order to deliver a majority labour government. So im afraid rishi sunak has got this wrong. Hes tenured. He should be listening to that message that actually give people the chance for change. But if the time comes, we are facing a Hung Parliament. Would you be planning alliances with the snp or the lib dems . Lib dems . No. Absolutely not. Quite the opposite. We are aiming to opposite. We are aiming to ensure that we have a majority labour government, not in coalition with any party. We believe we have a plan and a programme that would deliver that change that people desperately need, that would get britain building again, get our nhs back on its feet, get criminals off our streets and police onto them. Labour set out those plans and as i mentioned last thursday, we saw that actually labour is winning in those areas that we would need to be winning in so that we can have a majority. Labour government seems to be clear in all of this. Labour government seems to be clear in all of this. And look, clear in all of this. And look, i mean, it was its been a great weekend for the labour party and thats undeniable. However however, you can look at it and say, well, perhaps you didnt do as well or quite as well as as you were hoping for. Well, of course, theres no room for complacency. Labour still needs to work hard. We still needs to work hard. We still needs to work hard. We still need to make sure were having that dialogue with people up and down the country. But i have to say, im really proud of our labour candidates, whether that was candidates to be councillors or to be our new metro mayors, or indeed our new labour mp in blackpool south, chris webb, because they gave people that hope that things can change. And of course, many of our labour councillors and metro mayors are already delivering that change in their communities, even in the face of a conservative government that is holding our country back. You must have been concerned, though, by the results in oldham , where you lost control of the council. There was a strong muslim vote there. Its thought they were protesting labours stance on gaza. Thats a warning shot to the labour party, isnt it, ahead of a general election . Well, of course, in any area where people have supported labour before and labours lost that support, we need to understand why we need to build back that trust and we will be of course, seeking to do that. Its very important for us as a party that actually labour can seek to represent every Different Community from lands end to john ogroats , that we end to john ogroats, that we are ultimately the party that wants to be in a position to deliver change for everyone. So that work is ongoing. That work is ongoing. We want to work for everybody. How how are you going to address some of the key issues . Because i, you know, issues . Because i, you know, i dont know what you can do in, in any sort of rapid form to, to deal with the nhs and waiting lists. I mean, that would almost be a second term job, wouldnt it . So what are you going to do about immigration in you cant turn the cost of living situation around quickly either. I mean, youre potentially in the situation of saying were going to change everything, but by the end of your first term, actually nothing much has changed. Well, of course it will take time to deliver change. Weve been very upfront about that. But to just take one of the areas that you mentioned, the nhs, we believe that actually tax dodgers have far less need for the money that theyre saving through tax dodging than our nhs has need for that money. And we would be making sure we crack down there and putting that money into far more nhs appointments. Now this is a bit of an emergency measure given that weve got such a huge nhs waiting list at the moment, almost 8 million on that nhs waiting list, we would be delivering additional overtime and weekend appointments through that 2 million more a year. Now. Thats a measure that is focused on the short term, on getting that waiting list down. But of course, in the longer term we need to make sure weve got the staff in the nhs that it requires that weve not had over the last 14 years. We need to make sure we have a focus on prevention rather than just on cure. Again. Labours set out plans around that plans on nhs dentistry for example. The biggest reason why kids are turning up in a e is because of dentistry problems. An absolute scandal. Labour would get a grip on that. So we have set out those plans. Yes, for the long term. We know we cant change things overnight, but we can do things overnight, but we can do things where theres a real emergency situation and labour would be getting a grip on it, not just ignoring it as the conservative government is doing. Can i just ask you, and i know you probably thought this had died down a little bit. Now, post the mayoral elections, but as soon as you appeared on with our new chat forum thing , its gone mad with forum thing, its gone mad with people saying, ask her about west streeting. And i do wonder if youre not going to take the whip off him. I sort of acknowledge that isnt going to happen at this stage, especially for a party that wants to be in government, but saying anyone who voted for the conservative party in the london mayoral elections was , effectively elections was, effectively saying they were an islamophobe or white supremacist. He needs or white supremacist. He needs to apologise for that, doesnt he . There needs to be some or some sort of sanction for that. And it wasnt an appropriate thing to say, was it . Well, i dont believe wes did say that at all. He wasnt talking about the electorate at all. Passions do run high during elections, of course, but i think its really clear in the election result indicates this, that in london you had a conservative candidate, susan hall, whos values were well out of step with those of londoners. Of step with those of londoners. You know, she was extremely critical of the capital, one of the best cities on earth. And she continuously criticised it, continuously talked it down. She was continuously, unfortunately, making slurs about the labour candidate that were completely inappropriate, that everyone, whatever their background , was whatever their background, was appalled by. So i think ultimately that reflection of peoples concern about susan hall was then delivered in that election result. And really the big question, i would say here is why rishi sunak allowed a situation where there was a candidate who was so manifestly out of step with londons values to actually stand to represent the conservative Party Last Week in that amazing city that is london. I think thats the big question here. Im making no comment about what the what you said, susan hall said in terms of slur slurs because frankly, i havent seen them and i, you know, so im not im not commenting on those at all. But what i would say is you dont beat a slur by using a slur, do you . Which i mean that it was an extraordinary tweet. Shouldnt the labour party, if you want to be the party of government by the end of this yean government by the end of this year, shouldnt you be taking the Higher Ground . The Higher Ground . Well, of course. And thats why labour does have high standards around these issues. But as i said before, it was very clear with this election that the conservatives had a candidate who was on the record as stating many completely unacceptable things, and londoners rejected that very, very clearly. And im very pleased that they did, because i dont believe she would have been the kind of strong leader that london needs at the moment. Okay. Anneliese dodds, chair of the labour party , thank you of the labour party, thank you very much indeed. Now do let us know what you think about that. Gbnews. Com yoursay britains newsroom is coming up at 930. Bev turner and ben leo are here to tell us all about it. Morning, you two. Morning, morning, monday morning. After all of the elections at the end of last week and all the results over the weekend. So were looking forward to dissecting what this might mean, arent we . Well, are you looking forward to that . Really looking forward to that. Really looking forward to that. Ive been on thinking about it all weekend. Of course ive not all weekend. Of course ive not been on the telly. Youve probably been on the telly all weekend because you tend to do a lot of work friday and saturday. Yeah. So, we got a lot to get stuck into. Were going to be talking to paul scully, actually, arent we . Who wanted to be susan hall, of course. And now saying that he should have been the mayoral candidate of london to find out why he thinks that she didnt win . Pretty obvious. I still have no idea who would vote for sadiq khan. Well, theres an interesting response from a lot of tories after these local elections saying that do not drift to the right, warning, warning, do not drift to the right as Suella Braverman is calling for. But its kind of like people are saying if you dont do something, you cant just stay in the Centre Ground or the alleged Centre Ground. Some might argue left of centre for the tories, you cant just keep doing what youre doing and expect different results. No, but you see the interesting its an interesting argument and someone we had on yesterday was saying the problem that the tories have got is that its swing voters that decide the election. Right. I mean the election. Right. I mean thats just how it works. And youve got theyre going to be one nation. Tories who vote tory have always voted tory. And if the party swings too far to the right, theyre just going to go. Im going to go that way rather than with you. Yeah. And thats the thats the sort of dichotomy that theyve got to deal with. It is. And i think what my feeling over the weekend is still that labour did very, very well in these Council Elections , well in these Council Elections, not necessarily because people love the labour party. Love the labour party. They just its not that groundswell of enthusiasm. Something has to change. Theres so much dissatisfaction about how much everything costs when you go to the shop that you cant travel around everywhere. Weve got more train strikes this weekend. I think you know that just general sense that people are feeling like the weight of everyday life is getting them down and they want to change something, but i dont think theyre looking at labour as the great solution to everything. One perceived lurch to the right, from rishi sunak as single sex lose, hes going to be changing the building regulations to ensure that any new buildings, non residential buildings are constructed with individual loos for each sex. And do you think thats what people really care about heading into a general election . But thats the problem, isnt it . It they the politicians think this speaks to who they are, but it isnt quite hitting the right notes. Yeah, okay. Thats all coming up at 930. Bevan ben, thank you very much indeed. Now summer is just around the corner and we want to make it sizzle for you with an incredible 20 grand in cash in our latest Great British giveaway. 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Com forward slash win please check the closing time if listening or watching on demand. Good luck now to stay with us because Tom Tom Bower rather is going to be joining us to talk about King Charless tom power. Tom power sounds good as well. Year on the throne. Its been a year since next . Welcome back. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with stephen and ellie. Yes. Yes. Now, today is one year since king charles was crowned. And that coronation, which i mean, was, was a moment of history. Most of us had never, ever seen one. And to see that moment and that pomp and that pageantry. Absolutely amazing. Oh it was just wonderful, wasnt it . But 12 months later, the monarch seems to have forged an even closer bond with the people of britain following his openness surrounding his cancer diagnosis. Diagnosis. Yeah, it has really been quite a year for the king. Ups and downs. I think thats fair to say. Lets talk to, tom bower, author of revenge meghan, harry and the war between the windsors. Good to see you this morning. Rather than talk about the sussexes, lets talk about the sussexes, lets talk about the king, should we . Because, i mean, he has had a tremendously difficult first year, with his own health. But hes , hes its own health. But hes, hes its been managed in such a way that it is just added to his strength and the way we feel about him. Well, absolutely. I mean, its been a very tough year for him. I mean, it was really going to be very hard anyway to follow the footsteps of the queen. She was so beloved and made infinitely harder by his illness. And of course , the illness. And of course, the illness. And of course, the illness of kate, and its been a real challenge. And hes stepped up to the challenge. Hes not up to the challenge. Hes not only endeared himself by his honesty , but also because of the honesty, but also because of the real struggles he and kate have had and the problems also must be said with the sussexes and Prince Andrew. He has actually endured the monarchy to the british people. I mean, the british people. I mean, the monarchy is now as popular as ever and that is very much down to his conduct. And obviously because of the queen as well. And she has contributed an enormous amount. And i think enormous amount. And i think hes become far more human for many people, vulnerable. And that has meant people have realised the importance of the monarchy. Monarchy. And, tom, whats your understanding of the kings conduct in the in the last year . Do you think hes been advised to be this open about his cancer diagnosis and to not be afraid, perhaps, of showing his vulnerability and showing his humanity . You know, were looking at pictures now of him in a Cancer Centre and, and Holding Hands with that patient, really lovely, intimate moment between the two of them. Or do you think that is charles just as a person just being himself . Well, i dont think he could have hidden his illness from the pubuc have hidden his illness from the public because he would have been invisible. And obviously if he wasnt around, if he wasnt doing his normal duties, then people would ask questions. So i dont think there was a choice but to be open. Im rather grateful that they didnt go into detail. I think theres enough detail out there at the moment, but the thing about charles is hes always been somebody who has taken huge interest in other people. One of interest in other people. One of his great weaknesses, if anything, was often too much interest, he would, become late at meetings because he was talking to people for so long. He has a natural curiosity. He has a natural ability to, associate himself with all sorts of causes and take a huge interest in what other people are doing on his behalf and what people are doing on the nations behalf. So that very much is charles. That is very much the king, and hes very much a vocal supporter, as we know, of all sorts of causes. So hes tried sorts of causes. So hes tried very hard this year to , to very hard this year to, to produce not only, continue with the queen, but most important of all, he wants there to be an era, a caroline era. He wants history to remember him as someone who contributed to britain. And that, of course, britain. And that, of course, has been somewhat frustrated by his illness. But i think hes his illness. But i think hes now going to try very hard to impose his image and his values on britain. And that can only be for the better. Just briefly, tom, what in a sense, i hope its not controversial , but in sense, i hope its not controversial, but in a sense, are we seeing the a legacy of diana a little bit because she the way she was in the royal family was was radical at the time. And he does seem to have time. And he does seem to have taken that being much more personal will being much more connectable is that is that really what she left us . I dont think hed be. Well, he wouldnt welcome that. He wouldnt know. I mean, i think charles has always been clearly he suffered under her shadow, there was no doubt that he didnt like her huge popularity , didnt like her huge popularity, which cast him as number two, but i think hes always as hes grown up and has been rid of a bad marriage and has now found happiness with the queen and camilla. I think that really has meant that he has been able to become his own person. And the thing is that the coronation, that amazing spectacle , was very that amazing spectacle, was very much created by him. He is the one who orchestrated every moment of his own, coronation of the crowning and the music and the crowning and the music and the and the guests. So, you the and the guests. So, you know, hes a man who feels that its his moment of destiny. He is a man whos waited for this job for many years and is determined not to be forgotten in history. And lets hope that he recovers and can fulfil his ambition. Ambition. Well, lets hope so. Well, lets hope so. Tom bower, really good to see you this morning. Thank you very you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Well, thats it from us. Well see you on thursday. Well see you on thursday. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on gb news. News. Good morning. Welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to the new week after a mixed start to the week, it does turn drier and brighter as we head towards wednesday and thursday. But out there at the moment for this Bank Holiday Monday morning, weve got some fairly heavy rain across parts of south east england, and it will linger here through much of the day. Also quite cloudy across parts of scotland and northern ireland, with some outbreaks of rain here too. In between, a brighter zone but we will see a few showers develop and some of these showers could potentially be on the heavy side. But in the sunshine, highs reaching around 18 or 19 degrees but feeling quite cool along some eastern seaboards of scotland and Northern England into this evening. A lot of the showers gradually fade in away , showers gradually fade in away, and also the area of rain across south east england just moving off towards the continent, so that will allow a dry end to the night for many with some clearer skies, but this central zone remaining quite cloudy with some further outbreaks of rain. But in the clearer skies a cooler night than of late could see lows falling down to about 2 to 3 degrees in the countryside. So Tuesday Morning we start off fairly sunny across parts of northern ireland, also eastern england. Watch out for a little bit of mist and fog here though elsewhere a bit of a dull start, but im optimistic the cloud will break up a little bit, especially across more southern parts of the country. But we will see again a scattering of showers, but it will be fewer and further between compared to today. In the sunshine. Highs reaching 1819, possibly even 20 degrees. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on very good morning to you. Its 9 30 on monday, the 6th of may. This is britains newsroom with me. Ben eliot in for Andrew Pierce and bev turner. Very good morning. Thank you for joining us on this bank holiday. Now, are we heading for a Hung Parliament . Well, thats what the Prime Minister thinks. He appears to be gearing up, as we know, for an autumn election, because although the middle east is, 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. Couise. Course. Former home secretary Suella Braverman there giving her advice to the Prime Minister following disappointing local Election Results. This weekend and today marks the First Anniversary of king charles ascending the throne. Can you believe thats been a year . Has he done a good job . In your opinion . Is the monarchy safe in his hands and unisex toilets facing the flush . Toilets facing the flush . New government plans require all new restaurants and offices to have single sex loos