Concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, Natalie Elphicke. As its alleged that she lobbied a formerjustice lobbied a former justice secretary over her ex husbands sex abuse trial. Sex abuse trial. And harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria. Its a couple open up on their family life and glorious weather returns to the country today with the hottest day of the year expected. But for how long can we expect the sunshine belem . For most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. Find out where with developing. Find out where with me in a little bit. Good morning. It was a huge day at the bottom of the premier league as Nottingham Forest all but confirmed their survival at the expense of luton and burnley at the other end , manchester at the other end, Manchester City edged closer to retain their title, as did celtic north of the border with their win over rangers. Meanwhile, englands legendary bowler jemmy anderson confirms his retirement from test cricket. More later from test cricket. More later. Well, a very good morning to you. Its a delight to have your company now. Their slogan. I thought you were going to say delight to be working with nana akua. I dont need to say that. Its obvious. Its a delight to be with nana, and its a delight to have your company now. Their slogan may be united by music, but this years eurovision was anything but a scandal, and chaos engulfed the competition. Now, in the end, it was switzerlands act nemo. I watched it, actually. I mean, i was lying in my bed sort of half in and half out because i knew i had to get up early. But nemo, everyone was expecting me. He walked away with the trophy, the countrys first win since 1981, when celine dion won celine dion. I didnt know she was. She was swiss. Apparently shes not. She just adopted the country, which is quite convenient for the swiss because shes got a great voice anyway. But all eyes were on israel on eden golan, who placed sixth. In the end, her act was booed by fansin the end, her act was booed by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points. However, from the public vote, with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. Coming from uk viewers. Yeah, i voted for her. And of course the uks Olly Alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder. 18th place. I mean it was awful. Ive got to be honest, his voice, his vocals, something either had gone wrong, but actually, to be honest, there was a little clip of him on social media and it sounded just as bad. Yeah, he got he got nil points. No points from the public. Were now joined by gb News ReporterCharlie Peters, who is in malmo, the scene of the crime, as it were. Charlie, huge protests outside , but the show protests outside, but the show went on inside the arena. Went on inside the arena. Thats right. Martin and i think the european broadcasting union, the ebu , the organisers union, the ebu, the organisers of the event in a way will be pleased that it was switzerland that came out on top last night. The neutral country in a debate and a contest that has been marked by political controversy and, of course, significant discussion around the involvement of the israeli contender eden golan. She placed fifth in the end, securing very high numbers in the public vote around europe. But it was the swiss act, as you said, that came out on top with a significant jury vote. The croatian contestant lasagne baby, who was the bookies favourites to win the odds on favourites to win the odds on favourite by quite a considerable margin, coming second. But they also topped the pubuc second. But they also topped the public vote. The jury is not backing them up in the end, but while the contest went on, it wasnt devoid of more of that political discussion that we saw throughout the week. Ahead of throughout the week. Ahead of the grand final, some of the contestants used their performances as an opportunity to make brief, performances as an opportunity to make brief , political or to make brief, political or stark comments in contrast to what they were intending to deliver. It wasnt just the singing or the performance that they went to on discuss. And of course, before the actual final went ahead, it was chaos in eurovision with the finnish and the norwegian jury announces removing themselves from the competition in quite stark fashion, saying that they couldnt involve themselves with the competition, one of them saying it didnt feel right, and what is assumed to be a dig towards the israeli camp. And we also saw the dutch contestant disqualified just eight hours before the final began, which was completely unexpected and unprecedented in the history of the competition. While all that went ahead last night as the grand final kicked off, we were outside the arena where significant protests and scuffles between members of the pro palestinian demonstrations that have been here all week started to erupt, with the police force there. Both swedish and Danish Police were in place, with denmark just on the border here on the south of sweden, with copenhagen nearby , they with copenhagen nearby, they came across the bridge to support their swedish colleagues in what was a significant security and policing operation. We saw Counter Terrorism officers riot vans, helicopters buzzing overhead throughout and also armed officers on the roofs, keeping an eye on proceedings from above and throughout that demonstration we saw earlier in the day a peaceful march from the centre of the city to the west. But it was the actions later on in the evening which became slightly more sour, with some scuffles and many arrests between the police and those present and those protesters. Those protesters. Oh yeah, thank you very much for that. Thats Charlie Peters. For that. Thats Charlie Peters. Hes there in sweden. Interesting in it. But ive got to say, there are people who are saying that perhaps hes been sabotaged Olly Alexander, because he was out of tune, and where his when, where his performance was. I dont mean to be horrible to charlie because, you know, this is just simply the fact that i was listening and this is actually a song contest, not a performance about jumping in a toilet with lots of men, which is what it was the performance and dangling upside down. I mean, hed forgotten about his vocals, frankly. Well, i saw that that, comment piece that you wrote in the mail, i think. I think you nailed it. You know, it basically became a vanity project. His voice was all off. It was very lewd. It was very over the top. And the vote that matters the most to me is the pubuc matters the most to me is the public vote. Nul point. You know, nobody voted for it. I think the public spoke. You got think the public spoke. You got it right. And they echo your sentiment. Nana thank you for that. Well, i shouldnt be saying because i wanted us to win, but not with that. Not with that wasnt good enough. I was also really sort of gave me a great amount of hope that the public voted overwhelmingly for israel. Number two, in their in their vote. And i think that was a vote. And i think that was a vote for the 20 year old woman who was bullied by that mob. Greta thunberg somebody complained for her entire career about being bullied by people suddenly being the bully. Well, shes just jumping on bandwagons because shes becoming less and less relevant, isnt it . And the other thing that actually irked me a bit about this thing was people saying, oh, im not binary, im this, im that. Look, i dont care what you are. Im non binary. Something thats literally was invented about three years ago. I mean, thats the first time i heard of it. I think everybody there was non binary. Its part of the Job Description there. I mean, who cares . Nobodys interested. It was literally , oh, im another literally, oh, im another non binary. Can you sing . Can you sing . Lets move on to some politics. Yes. Thats new. Labour mp Natalie Elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in a blatant attempt to interfere in a former husbands Sexual Assault case. Then justice secretary sir Robert Buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of Charlie Elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny. Spare him public scrutiny. Well, mr elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and then jailed for two women and then jailed for two years. Well, she did sort of stand by him for a while, though, didnt she . And saying its because they were attracted to him and hes attractive. A Labour Party Spokesperson said she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting. Characterisation of the meeting. Mr elphicke defected from the conservatives to labour last week. Well, lets get the thoughts now of local government. Editor of the Conservativehome Harry Phibbs harry, welcome to the show top of the morning. So the scandal rolls on and this dramatic defection and it now appears that people briefing against miss elphicke are from within the conservative party. Of course, she completely denies these allegations, but nevertheless, its not a good look, is it . Look, is it . No. I think that the this defection has completely backfired. I mean, even even before these revelations, i mean, just to be patriotic for a moment, its one of the great things about this country that we do have an independence between the, government and the and the judiciary. And you cant just have, ministers ringing up saying, oh, sack this judge , get saying, oh, sack this judge, get a different judge for that case, arrest this person , release that arrest this person, release that that that person, change the change the date of the trial. Change the court. Its happening in, i mean, a lot of other countries, this this would be perfectly normal, but but it should be clear to most people that that that that thats an outrageous, demand to make. And outrageous, demand to make. And for a member of parliament to, just to think. Right. Shell go just to think. Right. Shell go ahead and, and do that also , ahead and, and do that also, getting getting the meeting under false pretences, saying to the chief whip, mark spencer, oh, no, its just to discuss, the judiciary generally is not to raise, my ex husbands case specifically. And then she was given the meeting on that basis with the justice secretary, Robert Buckland, and then just brazenly went in with, with these, with these outrageous demands for, special treatment and went out quite promptly with a, with a flea in her ear, whats, whats the word on the street at the moment for the conservative party . Are they pleased to have got shot of her . Really because shes not really, im sure it feels like its backfired for the labour party, for sure, but are the conservatives saying good riddance . Yes, i think its. I think its important to say that theres nothing wrong with, defection if its a, if its a genuine defection , if its, if genuine defection, if its, if its something where people, people have changed their views. I mean, back in margaret thatchers, time , some of her thatchers, time, some of her most articulate supporters were former social. There was paul johnson and woodrow wyatt, brian walden. And you talked about the talk about the zeal of the convert, dont you, that those those people were very much , those people were very much, welcome with open arms because because of their, their genuine, conversion and of course, it can can happen happen the other the other way people, people change their views. But this nobody believes was a genuine intellectual conversion, that she sort of suddenly from , from she sort of suddenly from, from a few days before was, was campaigning for the, conservative candidate and the police and crime commissioner elections and putting, putting out general the general sort of conservative party messages, you know, support rishi sunak stick to the plan. Dont trust keir starmer and then just days later, were supposed to think that she suddenly had this had this, remarkable. Able, sort of this, remarkable. Able, sort of damascene, change of heart. So, so nobody, takes takes it, i dont think on either side of the house takes this as, as a, as a, as a, as a serious, genuine exercise. And so it genuine exercise. And so it demeans everybody really. But it makes the labour party , look makes the labour party, look very cynical to have got embroiled in it. Now, the thing is, harry, a lot of people are joking that if Natalie Elphicke was any more right wing, shed be off the white cliffs of dover. And like now shes joined the labour party. And okay, i spoke to tom party. And okay, i spoke to Tom Tugendhat earlier in the week and he said , okay, the labour and he said, okay, the labour party is a broad church, but if they get any more of a broad church, theyll have to throw bar mitzvahs. And the point of bar mitzvahs. And the point of the matter is this is the party. Now that has John Macdonald and Zarah Sultana and now Natalie Elphicke. Is that a good message to send out to voters . Is that, to send out to voters . Is that, hey, if youre a conservative and you voted for brexit, you want to control immigration just like Natalie Elphicke, youre welcome to us. Or is it now just simply getting a bit absurd . Simply getting a bit absurd . Well, i think it is. She was, a member. Whether she still is, i presume shed be. She should cancel her sub to the European Research group. You know, those, those staunchest brexiteers in the in the conservative party who, when, when theresa may was , who, when, when theresa may was, was having this, phoney, version of brexit that was still have left the European Union telling us what to do. There were these, staunch brexiteers like your colleague sir Jacob Rees Mogg staunch brexiteers like your colleague sirJacob Rees Mogg in this group, the European Research group, who are the true believers in brexit. And Natalie Elphicke was a signed up member of that , so, i mean, she hasnt of that, so, i mean, she hasnt she hasnt explained why shes, why she suddenly, suddenly become a, a socialist and wanting us to have, closer , wanting us to have, closer, links with the European Union. I links with the European Union. I dont think anybody i dont even think she would have written that statement saying saying why she was joining the labour party. It was probably written written for her by some, labour party spin doctor. I know, i think its i think even, but i say even before todays, revelations of her making this terrible, misjudgement about about wanting judicial interference. It was it was it already really backfired. And now i think the a lot of the labor party people will, you know, will be deeply embarrassed by whats happened, slightly amusing, isnt it, really. I mean, shes not really i dont think shes a benefit to the party at all. And as you said, there are many extremes, harry. Really good to talk to you. Thats harry phibbs there. Thanks very much. Now it is 6 14. Lets have a look at some other stories coming into the newsroom today. A ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the Civil Service has been announced. Finally, under new plans, there would be no more jobs devoted to inclusive in whitehall, outside hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work. Writing in the sunday telegraph today, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed pubuc minister esther mcvey claimed public money was being wasted on what she described as woke hobby horses. Horses. Well done esther. Right now tens of thousands of palestinians have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of the expected israeli assault on Southern Gaza. Theyve been told to move on to so called expanded humanitarian zones on the west coast, and it prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah, despite calls for restraint from the un, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closure as a new bridge is installed. The motorway, which is britains busiest, closed in both directions between 9 and 10 on friday evening and is set to reopen at 6 am. Tomorrow morning. I can just see that people on the m25 saying, oh, forget this, i cant be other than just going on the diversion route, dont do it. If you just tuned in, its just coming up to 15 minutes after 6 00. This is gb news. Its the Breakfast Show with me, nana akua and Martin Daubney. Now an official scheme to deliver portraits of the king has been extended. It now includes hospitals, coast guard centres, job centres, universities, church of england churches and other Public Institutions. Gb news Political Correspondent olivia utley sat down with the deputy Prime Minister, Oliver Dowden, to find out more. Can you explain to gb news viewers what the scheme is and why youre expanding it . Yes. Well, following the coronation last year, we thought it would be appropriate to make sure that Public Institutions up and down the country could have and down the country could have a portrait of his majesty the king. He is after all, the ultimate Public Servant. And just as portraits of his late mother hung in buildings up and down the country, so too already are these portraits hanging in many thousands of buildings. And so today im announcing a further extension so new institutions can have a portrait of the king, whether thats hospitals , whether its the hospitals, whether its the church of england churches, coast guards and others. More pubuc coast guards and others. More Public Institutions will be able to hang a portrait of the king. Will you be expanding the scheme to include other places of worship like synagogues . Not at this stage. Weve taken the decision that because the king is the supreme governor of the church of england, he leads that institution in the way that he does many other pubuc way that he does many other Public Institutions. So its appropriate to have a portrait of him are being provided by the government. Of course, we would very much welcome other institutions having a portrait of the king. And indeed, when i attend synagogues, one of the things we do at the end of almost every service is to sing the national anthem. So i know how committed the Jewish Community is to the king. Why did it take a labour mps intervention for you to take this step in expanding the scheme . Well actually, i initiated this scheme many months ago and agreed funding with the treasury. Many thousands of institutions have taken it up, but because weve managed to run this contract so efficiently and get the cost of individual portraits down, it means theres essentially headroom in the contract to be able to open this up to further institutions. It had always been my hope that we could extend it further, but we just had to see what the take up was in the initial phase. What do you make of channel 4 . Refusing to hang a portrait of the king in their studios . Well, i find it a little disappointing and somewhat, im afraid to say, unsurprising. The king is a unifying figure for the entire nation. I hope they reconsider that. Reconsider that. Well, lets see how many other institutions refuse or cancel these portraits. Moving on. Meghan markle has opened up about her children during the second day of the duke and duchess of sussexs tour of nigeria. Now, this came after harry and meghan met with nigeria unconquered, which creates the countrys team for the invictus games. Now , the couple watched now, the couple watched a game of sitting volleyball before harry was invited and played a few rounds with the team himself. Team himself. Well, joining us now is former royal correspondent michael cole. Michael good morning. Lovely to see you this morning. Lovely to see you this morning. Hes looking very red morning. Hes looking very red i think. Have you been out in the sun . Have you been out in the sun, michael do i do i look a little bit red faced this morning . I, i did sit in the sun yesterday and my goodness you know, nice to see the sun again. Good morning nana. Good morning martin. Yes, not as sunny as it is in nigeria where the tour, the, the sunshine tour of the duke and duchess of sussex carries for on its third day. And isnt it amazing, the magic of monarchy, carries on even 61 years after, nigeria , the most years after, nigeria, the most populous country in africa, became a republic. And everybody became a republic. And everybody is there very, very keen to see the khalife , the two and indeed the khalife, the two and indeed the khalife, the two and indeed the meghan. The duchess has been the meghan. The duchess has been addressed as princess and im quite sure she enjoyed that. Shes been saying quite a lot gnaana about, the 43, nigerian , gnaana about, the 43, nigerian, heritage antecedents that she has. And im just wondering, does that mean that 57 is german . Because i think her father, thomas markle, is descended from german immigrants to the United States of america. All of this goes on there. She is speaking to women in leadership, in abuja , the leadership, in abuja, the capital of nigeria. And there they are out meeting people. Of course, this is , an not a royal course, this is, an not a royal visit. Its a visit by two private royal personages, both of them there, in their personal capacity. And, what i think this capacity. And, what i think this is very important for is netflix. Of course, this produces a lot of good new material for their netflix offerings , their, their podcasts offerings, their, their podcasts and their other programs because they have a very big contract, 100 billion with netflix to produce new material. And you cant do that if youre forever sitting within your california camelot on a hilltop at montecito. So youve got to get montecito. So youve got to get out there with the people. Yeah, its funny that, isnt it . Because i thought on her cv she put down she was caucasian. Thats what a lot of people are saying, apparently. So when she was a lot younger, searching for work, apparently she referred to herself as caucasian. So thats quite interesting. Sudden. Shes coming out as partially nigerian. Whats been really interesting about this, michael, is that prince harry, spared by name of his book. Hes looking very much like a spare part on this tour. Looking very much like a spare part on this tour. This is part on this tour. This is turning into the meghan tour. Its all about her talk about her homecoming. I feel at home here talking to nigerian schoolchildren. Say, i see myself in you. She was brought up in los angeles. Its. Its an extremely good point. She says she hopes she point. She says she hopes she will be a very good role model for them all. Im not sure whether they do. Associate themselves immediately with the hollywood actress in a in a in a soap opera called suits. But maybe they do. And, she also said that she would be she would have to dress more colourfully to fit in with the local community. What is interesting, i mean, one of the great features of nigeria, if you go there, you go to the markets and you interact with the fabulous market women who are really part of, particularly lagos , that is of, particularly lagos, that is of, particularly lagos, that is of course, the most, the biggest city. And thats the place where you go. I dont think theyre going there at all because she did. If you remember, when they went to fiji, she had a little collapse. We werent quite sure what caused it all. When she was in the market. So there are its very much, a structured tour, but its very much not a royal toun but its very much not a royal tour, i mean, theres always a lot of protocol involved in everything. No royal personage in this country ever goes outside the country without the approval and recommendation of the foreign and commonwealth office, and its all signed off by the Prime Minister, but off theyve gone, mainly to promote invictus and three cheers for invictus. That was a brilliant innovation. But of course, it was an innovation. Before meghan was an innovation. Before meghan it was all pre meghan. It was all pre meghan. Everything good that prince harry has done his two tours of duty in afghanistan with the army, setting up sentebale, the brilliant , African Charity which brilliant, African Charity which helps people in Southern Africa , helps people in Southern Africa, young people in Southern Africa and of course, invictus , ten and of course, invictus, ten years old now, that was all before he met meghan. Before he met meghan. Yeah, well, of course theres not a royal tour, but shes being referred to as princess, isnt it . Which is the best of both worlds, isnt it . Yes, im sure shes. Im sure shes rather pleased about that because i think it came as a shock to her when she married prince harry, that she wasnt naturally going to become a princess. But in this country, we dont have too many princesses. The queen, the late queen saw to that and she was a royal duchess. Well, and with hrh in front of her name, thats pretty good. Thats big medicine in royal terms. So she should have been satisfied with that. Yeah. Michael cole, lovely to talk to you this morning. Thank you so much. Thats michael cole, royal correspondent. Yeah, i mean shes i just i feel i know they need to try and make a living. You know what i mean . But this looks like a royal toun but this looks like a royal tour. Thats. They didnt want tour. Thats. They didnt want to do this. And theyre doing exactly what they said they didnt want to do. Yeah. Precisely and it just just seems they want all the baubles. They want all the treatment. They want all the vip security, you know, all this. Woe betide me. I feel your struggle. She hasnt ever struggled in her entire life. And. And the worst bit about it is she looks. Shes being compassionate and loving. Well, then, if shes that compassionate and loving, what about her dad . Who has had a stroke . Hes had a heart attack, hasnt he . And on either of those occasions, she didnt didnt go and see him. Itsjust terrible. Yeah, well, shes, busily promoting herself again. I think thats what shes best at. Jam. Not pickle. All right, well, stay with us, ladies. Well, still to come up next, its your weather 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 today, most of us seeing some further sunshine. But there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. And these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the Sunshine Feeling very warm. Highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner. Into down towards the south eastern corner. Into this evening. The showers continued to rumble on, especially across parts of Northern England and scotland. Northern england and scotland. Some torrential downpours developing here overnight elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy. But under the cloud its cloudy. But under the cloud its going to be a mild night. Temperatures for most of us staying firmly in that double figures. So for most it should be a dry start on monday. Still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. But then down towards the tad. But then down towards the southwest we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset come the afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Go enjoy that weather while it lasts , but theres still it lasts, but theres still plenty of time to win our biggest cash prize of the year so far. A whopping £20,000 tax free. Now imagine having that in your bank account this summer, but imagine no more, because heres how you could bag the lot. 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So still to come, the weather may be nice, but the met office have released yellow thunderstorm warnings and well tell you all about that next. This is breakfast on gb news with martin and. Nana. Welcome back. Its bang on 630. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. Now, have you been enjoying a hot weather or the hot weather this past weekend . But that could all be about to change because, of course, the met office have released yellow thunderstorm warnings in parts of the uk for today, and people in these areas are expected to face some disruption, especially to travel. Were now joined by meteorologist and commentator and friend of the show, jim dale. Jim, hes no friend of mine. Nice teasing you, jim. Weve started now. Jim, its britain. The sun comes out and very soon after it rains. This is normal, right . Yeah. Three days. Three fine days in a thunderstorm. Is the old saying , days in a thunderstorm. Is the old saying, isnt days in a thunderstorm. Is the old saying , isnt it . And were old saying, isnt it . And were more or less on track, not everywhere though. Look, the eastern part of the country where more or less where i am. Certainly where you are in london, there you get a decent day out of it. Another decent day, so maybe four days in a row, which is extremely unusual, but nonetheless , were there, but nonetheless, were there, i think ive just seen the forecast there, i would agree, maybe 25, 26, 27 in london. And yesterday we got a 25. 9in eastman. So down in sussex , many eastman. So down in sussex, many places saw or saw 24, 23, 24 so beautiful temperatures. But yeah youre right, beautiful temperatures. But yeah youre right , the thunderstorms youre right, the thunderstorms are not arriving yet, but they will arrive during the course of the late morning into the afternoon, primarily in Western Areas and some central areas. Later my favourite weather, by the way. Thunderstorms, i love them, and i hate them because you dont want to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course. No, no. Yeah, thats a good point there, but, jim, is this weather then, because this is these are the right sort of temperatures were expecting after all, it is may and it should be heading towards where in the summer now ish, arent we. No, were not in the summer yet. Weve got some coming to him. Yeah. Were getting well were getting there. But sometimes we do get this in. Even in april, we can sometimes get this kind of weather, so its not that unusual, but these sort of temperatures, when you get to 27, 25, 26, 27. Yeah, theyre well above the average. So when we sink back down to 17, 18, 19, 20 tomorrow, thats more more in line with the average, so, so kind of goes with the flow. And weve been short in short supply. You might have noticed, of decent weather of late. So in one shape or form, its nice to have seen it. I think people appreciate it. Theyve got out. Ive noticed im standing out here in at shirt and its, you know, its what is it, 7 00 in the morning, nearly, a couple of things about thunderstorms. I want to give you a couple of little facts and myths, if i may, before we disappear, first thing is that little warning. Lightning can strike from up to ten miles away. So if you can see a thunderstorm in the distance and youre thinking, oh, were safe, ten miles is about the stretch of it. And that is absolutely true. Second one, youve heard a sheet lightning. Yeah. Theres sheet lightning. Yeah. Theres no sheet lightning. Its thought no sheet lightning. Its thought lightning behind the cloud. Its where youre observing it from. Where youre observing it from. So theres no sheet lightning. Its fault lines. Its normal lightning if you like. So cheat sheet lightning does not exist. And the other one, lightning is not attracted to metal. Did you know that . No no. Well, jim, whats been astonishing, whats been astonishing, whats been astonishing about this weather report, jim, is that you said the weathers great. Were enjoying it. You know, and its about to change. Not mentioned. Never mentioned Climate Change. I was waiting for it. People were choking on their cornflakes. Im actually on a programme tonight. Ill mention it tonight on the andrew doyle show, are you saving us . Yeah, im going to save it because ill mention it there. Look, this this where we are. But i should say 51. 1 in mexico. So, was it yesterday or the day before . All time may, may record before . All time may, may record and to be honest with you, i look at this every single day records at about 106 countries so far in may, just in may that have either hit a monthly record or an all time record. Thats 106. Thats 50 of more than 50 of the entire country. So it of the entire country. So it might not necessarily be happening here, but damn well happening here, but damn well happening elsewhere, thats for sure. Well, where was that 51. 1 temperature taken though . Was it in the airport on the runway . Because thats what often happens, isnt it . I cant remember the place he begins with g. But, but but nonetheless, it wasnt just that mexico is absolutely baking at this moment in time. 51. 1 think about that for a second. We got 41 two years ago. 51 its a different world completely. You cant you cant work live. Its very difficult. On Climate Change guys because because it will continue. I because it will continue. I dont want to get into this conversation, but were in it. I guess we would with the dream team, there we go. Yeah. Will you make sure you dont get struck by that lightning . Jim, while talking about Climate Change . None of us would want that. Always a pleasure to speak to you, my friend. You take care an absolute delight. Now its time to go through all the latest sports news. Now shouldnt laugh. I love him to bits with broadcaster aidan magee, who joins us now in the studio. Aidan, morning to you both. To good see you. Ive got my Nottingham Forest, celebratory red tie on. Not quite. Time to get the champagne flowing. Didnt quite happen. Guaranteed survival yesterday. But theres a lot of action at the bottom of the table. The premier league, there was indeed. But i think Nottingham Forest are pretty much home and hosed, which is just as well, given the weather yesterday as jim was just describing just a few moments ago. But if we look at it, they kicked off late. Luton had to go to west ham, burnley were also in london at tottenham. Burnley had to get a win. It wasnt. It wasnt enough to get a draw there. They took the lead through larsen, bruun larsen and they were they were turned around in the end by by tottenham. That was them done and dusted. The definition of definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Its a horrible cliche, but its certainly, a apt in burnleys case because they just keep trying to play out from the back martin. And they keep getting done time and time and time again throughout the season. And you know what a lot of top clubs will be looking at Vincent Company given what he did as a manager last season. But theyre looking at him this season and say okay, hes got principles and he sticks to what he believes in. But one of the key elements of any management, in any job is that you show adaptability from time to time. They simply werent good enough and they gave away. So many goals and eventually it tells. And thats why theyve gone down with with two games to spare. Luton, meanwhile, made a really good fist of it, id say over the course of the season as well. They went one up. Yeah, six minutes. They took, they took the lead a good good performance overall at west ham actually, but at least they gave it a go and theyll come down as a stronger club. And there is still a very, very remote possibility they could they could overturn Nottingham Forest with a trip. But it needs a 12 goal goal swing. And then later in the day, as you well know, chelsea went to Nottingham Forest. You never really know what chelsea youre going to get. But they did manage to get the win at the end. But forest did very well. Quite celebratory mood, a Party Atmosphere at Nottingham Forest. And you know what . It allows them now to move on. Its been a difficult season off the pitch and it allows a clean slate for next season. As i said yesterday, the premier league is excel centre existential. Its more important often to just to be in it than it is to actually do something in it. And now, with another season behind them, with two years behind them, now they can look towards the top of the table. I will say, as a forest fan, you know, full commiserations and respect to burnley and luton and respect to burnley and luton and Sheffield United. You know, its a its a nightmare down there. It feels almost like a primaeval swamp. Yes. That battle for survival every year is so intense now. Nobody money at stake as well. The money at stake i mean that that will have i mean, you know, when you look at Vincent Company at burnley, i mean, if i was his ceo or if i was his director, id say, look, £150 million at stake here. You can have to change things around to try and get this result. But nonetheless, at least they went down fighting right quick minute man city of course they edged it yesterday. Well they thumped it. Well they thumped it. Well they thumped it. They did. They did. And theyre looking like no no no bookies favourites. Just a storm the next premier league. Yeah i mean look theyve got two games left. Tottenham is going to be tricky because although tottenham on on the 14th of march i think its tuesday. I think it is. I think theres lots of pressure on tottenham to try and get a result there. They dont want to roll over just to stop arsenal winning the league, but nonetheless, man city made inroads into the goal difference yesterday. There is a possibility that if arsenal win today at old trafford at 430, we could have a situation where city draw at tottenham. Dont city draw at tottenham. Dont forget theyve never won there in the premier league. In fact, at the new stadium, in fact, they never even got a point. So its possible they just could get a draw. And then in the final day, next weekend, next sunday, it comes down to a shootout in terms of goal difference because theyre level on points. So it could be really exciting. Were hoping thats how it plays out. Arsenal have to go to old trafford today to get a result. And i look a look at this todays Old Firm Derby as well. Martin celtic two nil up before half time celtic get a goal back and then they get a man sent off. It was just so needless and ridiculous and thats why that celtic are now six points ahead and looking at their 12th title in 13 years, alan stubbs says yesterday its all about mentality , its all all about mentality, its all about temperament. He called a man sent off before half time away from home in the old firm. Youre asking for trouble and theyre going to pay for it. Superb loads to get our teeth into the aidan magee. Thank you very much. See you next time. Cheers. I have no idea what just went on there. Just rolled my eyes back into my head. Right. Well, stay with us still to come. Well be going through the front pages with susan holder and tom slater in making the news. Thats next. This is breakfast on gb news with martin and. Nana. Welcome back. Good morning. 42 minutes after 6 00. This is gb news. Youre listening to breakfast with me. Nana akua and Martin Daubney. Lets take a look at some of the newspaper front pages this morning, starting with the sunday times. And they lead with the former justice secretary accusing Natalie Elphicke of asking him to interfere in the Sexual Assault trial of her ex husband. Yeah, its not great, is it . Now the observer leads with terrified palestinian families who are fleeing rafah as israel prepares for a military assault and the sunday people leads with repeat knife crime offenders not being jailed despite tory promises to imprison them. Hmmhmm front page of the telegraph and that leads with the Civil Service diversity roles being scrapped to crack down on woke spending. Down on woke spending. And the mirror leads with soap favourites Helen Flanagan opening up about her psychotic episode. Wow. Wow. Wow. Well, joining us to go through whats making the news is editor of spiked, tom slater, and author and journalist susan holder. Welcome to you both. Tom, lets start with you, it seems to be the most disastrous day in the history of politics. Certainly in recent times, nobody seems to want Natalie Elphicke, and shes back on the front pages again. Yeah, its hard to work out the method to the madness here. I think a lot of people on the labour side, on the tory side, have been wondering why this mp, very firmly on the right of the tory party, was welcome with open arms by labour i mean there was a political aspect to this. But then there was also her track record. Everyone knew about stories like this. So this is more detail on the mail on sunday about her efforts to try to influence. It seems the case involving her ex husband, Charlie Elphicke, who she kind of inherited the seat from. So wed already known that her and a few other tory mps had written letters to some of the judges who were presiding over this case on house of commons letter headed paper, which is an outrageous interference in the process. But now were also learning that Robert Buckland, when he was justice secretary, that she had a meeting with him and basically complained about the fact that the judge was too high profile. Therefore she was more likely to throw the book at him, etc, etc. And given the fact that keir starmer has this reputation that hes tried to build for himself as mr rules, as mr straight and narrow, also former head of the crown prosecution service. It just looks terrible. And you do wonder what was the benefit of all of this other than upsetting the left of his party, which is what he did. She said that shes not going to sit anyway, so shes going to stand down after the election anyway. So what was the point . I dont quite understand why she was just just to have the moment, wasnt it, to kind of poke rishi sunak in the eye kind of publicly. And that seems to be the kind of kind of thing, the thing i thought was the person that she was involved, that she was complaining about was called lady justice whipple, which is like something out of downton abbey, isnt it . Really . But the whole thing is just so unedifying for everybody, really, even in that speech that she did it before keir starmer spoke in dover, it was almost as though the wind was blowing through her hair and it was quaffed perfectly. The she just, shes just not a kind of a credible kind of person that i always obviously kind of fairly glad to see the back of her and most of labour dont want her either, but thought it was a good idea or somebody thought it was a good idea just to make that kind of point. That oh well, you point. That oh well , you know, you that oh well, you know, you cant even keep her sort of thing, but but actually, they dont even want her. So its shes in a very difficult position. It looks so unprincipled. It looks so unprincipled. Doesnt it, on both sides. Doesnt it, on both sides. But shes thats her stock in trade is looking unprincipled is kind of where she comes from. So. So nothing nothing surprises there. It does feel like weve got like two types of politicians. Now youve got keir starmer who doesnt have any political positions whatsoever other than i would like to be Prime Minister. And then people like Natalie Elphicke, who claim to believe very passionately in things like stopping the boats and yet will happily join a party who have no plan for that. Party who have no plan for that. Really no credible plan for that. Well, well, he did have a plan, didnt he . It was. He was it counter Border Control or whatever he called elite control . I dont forget as well. This is also the woman who was trying to interfere in the process of Sexual Assault claims against her husband. But then once he was found guilty, she left him. So, you know , well, she stuck so, you know, well, she stuck with him for about almost two years, but then she left him. Yes. Yes. I reckon the whole thing is just an attempt by her to rinse her reputation away from being with the conservative party because, you know, she was the mp for dover, literally the landing pad of thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants. Thousands of illegal immigrants. She didnt do anything to stop it. And now shes going to i think she wants to say, well, it wasnt my fault. It was rishi sunaks fault. And im going to step away from politics and still live in the area and try and reinvent my public image. Just my thoughts. All we can hopeis just my thoughts. All we can hope is that we dont see her on strictly or im a celebrity get me out of here next year. Now youve said it. Its going to. I know, sorry, im sorry, i apologise. I feel sorry for the constituents, actually. But to be fair, i dont think im the first person to think of it. I think shes ahead of me. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. Ever the self publicist. Lets move on to a more sombre story indeed. Sues front page of the observer. The ongoing situation in rafah. Yes. So. Yeah, its kind of the scenes that described on the in the front page piece of the observer are kind of biblical, really, of people. The roads leading out of rafah choked with columns of young, old, sick and healthy riding, overloaded pickup trucks, battered cars, ponies , carts, hand pulled ponies, carts, hand pulled trucks. The thought of it, people just moving en masse to somewhere that there isnt actually any, any support or anything to go to, yeah, its just its just completely terrifying, biden also, it says in the piece has decided to pause delivery of bombs that he was going to give. But now hes not going to give, because he, Benjamin Netanyahu , is not Benjamin Netanyahu, is not listening to what hes saying to kind of pull back and to hang fire slightly, yeah. I dont fire slightly, yeah. I dont know what else there is to say on this other than its just war, completely horrible. Well, tom, what do you think . What are israel to do, though, you know, because hamas are still firing rockets. They were even before october the 7th. The reason israel doesnt look like gazais reason israel doesnt look like gaza is because it has an iron dome as opposed to tunnels. And what are israel to do . Well, this is the difficult situation, isnt it . Because youre confronted with images like that and youre just reminded that war is hell. Its terrible. Theres always civilians who get caught in the crossfire. Theres always more civilians who die than actual military personnel. Thats a horrendous fact of war. But as horrible as those scenes are, you are reminded of the fact that the people who committed october 7th are held up in rafah. The head of hamas is there. Many of the hostages are there, yahya sinwar , they there, yahya sinwar, they reports reckon that hes basically surrounded himself with a human shield of hostages, and thats why this war began. It wasnt because of the fact that the idf woke up one day and decided they need to start pummelling gaza. Its the fact that this genocidal terrorist group on their border who theyd been trying to up until that point, theyd fought various skirmishes against, had demonstrated just what they were capable of if given half the chance. Capable of if given half the chance. So, you know, everyone chance. So, you know, Everyone Wants this to end as soon as possible, but i think the demand has to be not. Israel needs to buck up its ideas or more. Hamas needs to surrender and to give over the hostages. I just find over the hostages. I just find it odd that the discussion is never really in that frame. It seems so. One sided onto israel, but nobodys saying hamas should surrender and we will. We will make sure they do whilst theyre the leaders are all holed up in qatar. But of course, it all infiltrated the Eurovision Song Contest, which is what we saw. What were your thoughts on that . And did you watch any of the eurovision . I didnt watch any of it, i will admit, but i had been following some of the politics of it because it was impossible not to. It was there was so much this year, and one thing that i thought was really striking was obviously in the run up, as youve been talking about on the show this morning, the protests that you saw in malmo also just the really snide treatment of the really snide treatment of the israeli entrant , eden golan the israeli entrant, eden golan there, whos on screen at the moment, who you had people making sneering faces. The greek contestant making sneering faces while she was speaking at the press conference, there was another finnish artist who got caught kind of sharing a backstage dance with her. When this clip went out. He then issued a basically a retraction saying i didnt agree for this video to go out. Im not making a political statement and it was just deeply unpleasant to borderline anti semitic. What was going on. And so what we saw with the votes was interesting because israel came top on the uk vote. Many other ones as well , and if it was just a public vote, could have done even better than fifth place as it did last night. The whole notion of pro palestine politics seems to infiltrate literally everything. Infiltrate literally everything. Yeah, and it infiltrated this. What do you make of the scenes of Greta Thunberg , who, by the of Greta Thunberg, who, by the way, has always complained about being bullied . Her entire life, suddenly becoming one of the things . I think it was absolutely outrageous that there were more people protesting outside the israeli entrant for eurovision hotel room than there actually was. There were 9000 people in the stadium, and i did watch the whole show last night, not the voting, but i did watch all the performances and what she actually did as a performance was incredible. Yeah. She was. Was incredible. Yeah. She was. She gave a brilliantly composed performance while sections of the audience were booing her. It was it was a very good song, very well sung. Unlike ours, unlike ours. Unlike ours, unlike ours. You said it first, but i cant help but agree with you, yeah. Olly alexander unfortunately did. I mean, i thought it was a weak song. I think it was. Too much time was spent on the staging and singing a box turned out. Wasnt so good for the sound. Was it . Because we couldnt hear him very well and it got nil points . Im not surprised. Im not. Im not at all surprised. I dont know what we were thinking. Not a sausage, but no, i do think, i do think the treatment of the israeli entrance has just been absolutely outrageous. And its been called the most toxic eurovision of all time. And isnt it funny how the winner, they sort of know carp on about the fact that the code by nemo. Nemo mattila, the first ever non binary winner, wasnt everybody non binary . Well, they had conchita. Well, they had conchita. Whats her name on the birth . Yeah, yeah , i dont think its her. Is it because youre non binary . I mean , when i was non binary . I mean, when i was youngen non binary . I mean, when i was younger, that would have been an inqu younger, that would have been an insult being called it. But this is now one of the categories. Yeah. Well, yeah, some people i dont know what to call it was a great performance by the one, the one that won though. It was, it was quite a breathtaking performance actually. Yeah. They won that rotating. Yeah they won that rotating. Yeah singing on a spinning top. And he sang very well considering he was also trying to keep his balance all the way throughout. It was, it was very clever. Id like to see Olly Alexander give that a go. Just, just very quickly. Just, just very quickly. Theres a quote given by the, by nemo mettler. Yeah, and he said, this victory represents a big moment for the lgbtq community, so i cant get it out, which has for a long time treated eurovision as a safe haven. A safe haven, unless youre jewish. Yes. Yeah. I think its one one after another. We see these supposedly very inclusive spaces or institutions just make this exception where jewish people or israelis are concerned. And i think, you know, this ugliness cant be repeated. But i think its going to play out again. And again. As long as israel are still in the competition, i cant understand why these people cant see outside themselves. First of all, lgbt, q plus, plus or whatever it is that is divisive. Each letter for divisive. Each letter for different types of yes. I mean thats branding yourself and then you are excluding someone when youre all about inclusion. When youre all about inclusion. Yeah, yeah. And all of this, we include everybody all apart from you. Everybody all apart from you. But thats okay because we hold the moral high ground. I think its insipid. Its nasty. All right, so what we got next from you . King offered harry a royal residence for his visit. Well, who would have thought it apparently, yes. Apparently the king did offer harry a royal residence to stay while he was here, because he knows he does not have a uk base. They obviously took Frogmore Cottage back , after they they stepped back, after they they stepped back, after they they stepped back and went to montecito, but harry turned it down and decided to stay in a hotel, which presumably he thought was safer and more secure than a royal residence. I dont know who who can fashion through the thinking of harry. Nobody can kind of quite work it out. Quite work it out. Meanwhile, the king had a little cup of tea with david beckham. Beckham. Apparently he did. Well, i mean, that would have been in the diary and that would have. And also i mean, its another recollections may vary moment, isnt it, that people on the close to the king are saying there was no request from harry to actually particularly see him . There was no invitation from him to go to the invictus, ceremony that he was holding. Ceremony that he was holding. And harry saying, oh, it was it was a snub. I of course, i want to see him. I also think that the interview that harry did a while back where he said, where somebody said to him, oh, now you know that your father is ill, does is that going to mean that you kind of patch things up . Are you going to. Oh, well, of course, illness always brings families together, he said. Have you told your wife exactly. Did you told your wife exactly. Did you know did you know her dad had several heart attacks and youve never seen him since you married her . Its just, you know that if they dont stick by what they say. No, they dont. And he honestly. I mean, harry must be looking on at his wife and thinking , seriously, looking on at his wife and thinking, seriously, youre looking on at his wife and thinking , seriously, youre not thinking, seriously, youre not going to see your dad. I mean that thats not good, is it . Well, i just think if anyone was advising meghan and i know shes had many pr advisers and they dont seem to last very long, but the one thing you would say to her is it would actually, you know, for your own peace of mind for your dads and actually it would look really goodif actually it would look really good if you just made something. You dont have to agree with everything he does. You dont have to kind of see him every week, but just do that. And it would, i think wed all think, well, yeah, i get why youre going back to see your dad and maturity. It shows a maturity andifs maturity. It shows a maturity and its the right thing to do. You start behaving like a child. What are you any thoughts on harry and meghan . Well, its one of those things, isnt it . Where because of the fact that theyve made such a they dragged their relationship with the royal family on even on a personal basis. So into focus, that its now become a running story. So any time harry or meghan, even you know, touch, touch over in the uk, theres always going to be this discussion about is there going to be a meeting . So on. Yes, theres the human side to this, which is you just wish they could patch things up, but its also theyve made theyve put the spotlight on this relationship. So much so by making it so fractious and talking about it so openly in public, you know, now i feel a bit awkward about harry in his love beads. Oh , no, these beads are put oh, no, these beads are put around him. A little bit of cultural appropriation, perhaps. Well, actually, now you mention it. Yeah, its a good point, isnt it . Yeah. Thank you very much, tom slater. Susan, well see you, of course, in the next hour for more of the same frivolities i superb. Well, listen, if youve just joined us. Welcome on board. This is gb news. Its breakfast with nana akua and Martin Daubney. Stay tuned. But up next, its the weather with craig snell. Craig snell. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to today , most of looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. 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But then down towards the south west we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. Come the afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east looks like things are heating up boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. If youve just woken up. Welcome on board. This is gb news. Itsjust woken up. Welcome on board. This is gb news. Its just coming woken up. Welcome on board. This is gb news. Itsjust coming up is gb news. Its just coming up to 7 00 at sunday, the 12th of may. This is breakfast, of course, with nana akua that one. And Martin Daubney this one. And heres whats lead the news this morning. Now, switzerland have won the Eurovision Song Contest, a ceremony marred in chaos and scandal. Lets get the latest from Charlie Peters. Charlie peters. Well, protests and politics drowned out the partying in eurovision last night here in malmo in southern sweden. But the music was heard in the end. Thanks, charlie. More on that later. Of course. And theres also concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, Natalie Elphicke, as its alleged she lobbied a former justice secretary over her ex husbands sex abuse trial. Harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as a couple open up on their family life and a large increase in whooping cough deaths. Is that worrying doctors as they encourage parents to get their babies vaccinated . And of course, its glorious weather. Its returning today across the country with the hottest day of the year expected. But for how long can we expect the sunshine . We expect the sunshine . And then, for most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. Find out where with me in a little bit now. Very good morning to you once again with matters at the bottom of the premier league all but settled, we turn our attention to the first leg of the championship play offs today as leeds travel to norwich at midday and west ham follow them by hosting southampton this afternoon. Well also hear about afternoon. Well also hear about a 17 Year Old Girl from saint albans , who smashed a 45 year albans, who smashed a 45 year old 800 metre record in belfast. Old 800 metre record in belfast. More later. More later. A very good morning to you. A very good morning to you. Wonderful to have your company. Its wonderful to be working with you. Nana. Oh, thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much. Too long. Lets kick into the show because their slogan may be united by music, but this years eurovision was anything but a scandal and chaos engulfed the competition in. In the end, it was switzerlands act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the countrys first win since they won with celine dion. But all eyes were on israels eden golan, who placed sixth. Her act was booed, however, by fansin her act was booed, however, by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points from the public vote with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. Well done. Viewers. Well done. Well, yeah, i voted for her and the uks Olly Alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder. 18th the bottom of the ladder. 18th placed receiving no points from the public. Well, were now joined by gb News ReporterCharlie Peters, whos live on the ground in malmo. So charlie, welcome to the show. The show went on despite thousands of protesters outside. In fact, it seems to be more people outside than there were inside the arena. Were inside the arena. I think there almost certainly were as a 15,000 strong arena. And all week this week , we have seen significant week, we have seen significant protests here in malmo in southern sweden, people marching against the inclusion of israel in eurovision, in particular the singer eden golan just 20 years old. The israeli russian singer who last night placed fifth in the performance. Now the bookies had her as a potential second place finish and britain was actually one of 15 countries to give eden a maximum 12 points as they came second in the public vote, fifth overall. Now, its certainly the case that the politics and the protests definitely drowned out the event last night. Switzerland coming out on top and throughout the competition, they couldnt even keep that politics away from the inside of the arena, with some of the contestants using their grand final moment to use an opportunity to make a quick statement or a quick speech about politics, or about a potential reference towards the war in the middle east. And thats been the sort of mood here throughout the week. I mean, just now, as im stood here, theres a flag behind me, the eurovision flag saying united by music. But all around this square in central malmo, there are flags and posters and stickers about the war in gaza, about israels response to the october 7th attacks. Just by me, actually, theres even a poster of Benjamin Netanyahu, the israeli Prime Minister, being worn as a mask over a photo of adolf hitler, so extremely controversial and charged protests throughout the week. I mean, yesterday we saw members of the pflp on the march. Thats the popular front for the liberation of palestine. That groups actually banned in the European Union, the United States, japan and canada. Its a proscribed organisation for its links to terrorists. But it was seen on that march towards the arena yesterday. And many of those protesters actually migrated away from their main march through the town centre. And arrived at the arena just as the competition started. That saw a swell of Riot Police Turn up at the arena where we were covering the start of the event. Both swedish and Danish Police getting involved. Were on the getting involved. Were on the border with denmark, just over the bridge from copenhagen , and the bridge from copenhagen, and many of those protesters were arrested. We saw some being pepper sprayed, many scuffles with the police here as a helicopter and armed officers and officers on the roofs maintained observation of the situation. It was very intense situation. It was very intense and they were kettled away from the arena before new groups of protesters would arrive and recycle that process. But all of that was going on was behind us, the music was being heard and the music was being heard and the competition went ahead without. I think the organisers are very happy to say any internal scuffles . Internal scuffles . Wow. I mean, is it all peaceful there now, charlie . Now peaceful there now, charlie . Now everythings now. The concert has ended. Has ended. Well, its, 7 am. On a sunday morning, so. Yeah, its pretty cosy, but. And its pretty cosy, but. And its beautiful weather here in malmo. Beautiful weather here in malmo. Everyones having a lovely time, and i dont think anyone else is here. Oh, theres one person walking past now, but its been a very quiet morning. But i think, i think as the day goes on, we could see some reaction to what happened yesterday evening with, of course, israel placing as high up as they did those 15 countries, giving them the maximum 12. All that debate about the competition going on, so much anger directed towards israel by protesters. But it seems that across europe there is still significant support for the israeli entry. The israeli entry. Okay. Charlie peters, our man in malmo, excellent report as even in malmo, excellent report as ever. Thank you very much for joining us this morning on breakfast. Of course, not everybody. Im thinking everyones up like us, but theyre not, are they . But to be fair, this is they . But to be fair, this is the thing with these people. They come out, they protest, and they behave in such a rabid fashion. Then the next day, they just sit down and have a cup of tea, you know what i mean . And they feel they hold the moral high ground, which i even if youre protesting about Something Like this, i think, i, you know, besieging a poor young girl in a hotel room so she cant go from one place to the other booing while shes performing. Theres no theres performing. Theres no theres no positive edge to that. Youre not doing a good thing. Its supposed to be a singing contest. Yeah, when charlies like, saying theyre, you know, proscribed terrorist organisations who are banned in the European Union or outside making out. Theyre the good guys. Theyre the good guys. And its just and supposedly, i mean , queers for palestine. I mean, queers for palestine. How ridiculous is that . And you know, not that palestinians dont accept people who are gay , dont accept people who are gay, but we also know that its not very welcoming to people who are homosexual. So it seems an odd, odd thing , an odd combination. Odd thing, an odd combination. The politics is just completely got in the way of the contest this year. And lets discuss that now, because were now joined by lifelong aberfan. Vaughn davis, welcome to the show, vaughn. And no doubt show, vaughn. And no doubt youre slightly dismayed, as many of us are, that were talking about the politics and not the performances, not the actual, spectacle itself, but what was going on outside. Some people are calling this the most toxic eurovision in history. Would you agree, vaughn . Youre balling nana and martin, its the morning after the night before. You got me up the night before. You got me up early, it was, it was a great contest, actually. And because its full of the glitz and glamour that its normally associated with eurovision and. Yes, i mean, the song from switzerland , its the first time switzerland, its the first time theyve won in 36 years, and it was the bookies favourite and i was the bookies favourite and i was voting for croatia actually, and they came second. So it was and they came second. So it was a close , closely knit contest, a close, closely knit contest, some great songs in there. The politics. Well they always get in the way, somehow or another. But, you know, at the end of the day, the israeli song, weve got to say that, you know, it was a good song. It deserved to be fifth place. So its a little bit unfortunate , but when the bit unfortunate, but when the politics get into it. But hey, thats good publicity and thats what eurovision is all about. What did you think of the british entry Olly Alexander . British entry Olly Alexander . Well, you know, i started following the, the contest in about march. If we go back to 1974. I was 12 years old when abba won. And of course, the abba won. And of course, the format in those days was very much , an orchestra, a live much, an orchestra, a live orchestra, a conductor , and the orchestra, a conductor, and the most of the people in the audience, about 900 people. The guys were dressed in dinner suits and the ladies had long dresses. Move on now to a 9000 seater stadium, and its all sort of glitz and glamour. Olly alexander. Yes, it was a good song, but it had its, gay overtones. And i think some of the countries dont like that. And that was one of the reasons why it got nul points in the pubuc why it got nul points in the public voting, the fact that it came 18th out of 25, is not to be sort of sniffed at. We normally end up in the bottom. I normally end up in the bottom. I was hoping for a top ten placing for olly because it was a good performance, but i think overall when i listen to it on playback, the vocals somehow let him down and you know, youre watching the show there and youre thinking to yourself, come on, you can do it. Come on, theres only another minute to go. And thats not what, a good song is all about. So i think of the day, you know, the other countries , they fine tune their countries, they fine tune their acts , we were lucky to come acts, we were lucky to come 18th, to be honest with you. Yeah. Thats true, isnt it . Yeah. Thats true, isnt it . I was watching it going. Come on, come on, sing in. Tune im waiting for the key change. But its all like, yeah , nothing good. Very interesting, dont you think, vaughn, that, the public really rallied behind the israeli entrant. And in that sense, i think people could see what was going on outside the arena. They could see a 20 year old woman being barricaded into a hotel room, and the public spoke in solidarity. I thought that was a wonderful thing , very that was a wonderful thing, very much so. But as i say, the israeli song was a good song, so it deserved those points in the first place, you know . And i was, i was in stockholm on april the 6th for the 50th anniversary of waterloo, and i met up with benny from abba, and i asked him about the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest, and he did remain tight lipped about it, but i think they used that. Abba used that as a platform to promote the voyage show, which has already been seen by over 2 Million People in london alone , Million People in london alone, i dont think a lot of people were expecting them to turn up, but at the end of the day, if they had turned up, they would have upstaged the contest. And the main thing was about the actual contestants. The 25 contestants in the Eurovision Song Contest . Yeah. Perhaps they should yeah. Perhaps they should have shown up and then they could upstage the protest as well. Well. I wonder, i wonder, vaughn, i wonder, i wonder vaughn, what do you think . I mean, you know sweden, of course. Its the home of abba. They in many ways just define what eurovision stands for. That unity, that harmony, that cross continental coming together. What do you think abba would make of this spectacle of whats been going on in the last few days about the palestine protests, taking over this . What would they make of it . I dont know , really, to be i dont know, really, to be honest with you. They always sort of seem to keep that side of it away from them because, you know, when abba were successful in the 70s, there was a movement in sweden that really sort of undermined them. It was a movement that didnt really want to promote , pop or an want to promote, pop or an industry outside of sweden. So industry outside of sweden. So there was always an underground movement that they had to contend with, but they would have just probably ploughed on with it. And, made sure that their song was heard. So, as i say , you know, there has been say, you know, there has been a lot of politics in this particular competition. But then again, the world is not a happy place like it was when abba won 50 years ago. I guess changed, i guess changed, havent they . Yeah. You make a good point, vaughn. Lovely to talk to you. Thats vaughn davis. Hes a lifelong abba fan. Yeah, i years ago, when abba, i remember this documentary about them that followed them on this, on their journey and their private jet as they went from concert to concert. I wanted to be them. I wanted to be the blonde one. Nobody wanted to be the one with the dark hair. We all wanted. I wanted to be the blonde one. Well, i quite fancied the dark one. The dark haired one more. Did you . Did you . Yeah. I think it was like. Yeah. I think it was like. Its an overshare. Its breakfast. Sorry, but i just think they were the original sort of supergroup that we all know happy we could relate to. Whereas now you look at Olly Alexander, i mean, unless youre of a certain persuasion, you cant relate to that. Its not its not welcoming. But i think even people who are of that persuasion looked at that and thought, oh, thats a bit off. Ive spoken to many who, you know, who feel that that that wasnt a great performance. The whole toilet scene, i think, was a bit cliche. And, you know, even for , cliche. And, you know, even for, you know, i maybe its because im old. Im looking at that thinking, oh, thats a bit much, but even my daughter was thinking, oh mum, this isnt very good. So i dont really know what what they were thinking putting that forward for this country. I was embarrassed by the performance of honest the public, you know, back that up nil point. I think that sums it up. I think that sums it up. And vaughn said he was lucky to come 18th. I think he was very lucky to come 18th as well. Okay. Moving on to a bit of politics now. And new labour mp Natalie Elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in an attempt to interfere in her former husbands Sexual Assault case. Then justice secretary sir Robert Buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of Charlie Elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny. Spare him public scrutiny. Miss elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and jailed for two years. Well, a Labour Party Spokesperson said that she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting. Miss elphicke defected from the conservatives to labour last week. Lets now get the thoughts of political author owen bennett owen. Welcome to the show. Very good morning to you. This scandal rolls on. Its now been a week. Its been on the front pages practically every day. It makes you wonder if the whole thing has just been a disastrous spectacle. Its backfired. It seems that nobody really wants ownership of Natalie Elphicke , ownership of Natalie Elphicke, the tories now seemingly briefing against her. This is clearly a leak from within their ranks. In an attempt to discredit her. She clearly has rejected this. But were in the extraordinary situation, owen, of the labour party now coming to defend ed, Natalie Elphicke against what a very serious allegations. Allegations. Yes. I mean, this was to be expected there would be some kind of blowback, excuse me, against her defection from the tories. And the question is, do you go on the issue . She defected over or do you go to go on the character of the person and theyve chosen to go with the latter. And i think theres sort of two reasons for this. Number one, its to stir up a little bit in the labour party ranks. We know theres many labour mps and supporters and people within the party who are not happy that Natalie Elphicke has been allowed to join. They has been allowed to join. They see her as someone who was on the right of the tory party and therefore does not hold any views. They feel with the core labour party membership. And the other thing the tories are trying to do is scare any other defectors, saying dont you dare , because weve got the little black book of what youve been up to, and we will make these things public. So thinking of jumping ship, dont do it. Im struggling to work out what she was hoping to gain, or what she was hoping to gain, or what the gains are of her defecting in that way. What do you see as a possible benefit that the labour party might get out of having Natalie Elphicke in their party for a very short moment, because she plans to step down after the election . Yeah, thats an excellent point. You know, what does she point. You know, what does she have to gain . Its difficult to kind of work that one out, other than a degree of notoriety as to what the labour party gained. Well, it allows keir starmer this week to stand in dover and set out his plan for tackling the small boat crossing, which includes the scrapping of the rwanda scheme. The complaint rwanda scheme. The complaint against labour is being they havent got a plan to deal with the small boats. This allowed him to say, look, our plan is so good that even the mp for dover is backing it and shes shes defected over. Now, obviously the tories want to discredit that and say, no, no , no. Shes that and say, no, no, no. Shes doing it for a myriad of other reasons. But i can see that keir starmer probably started from the end of this and worked backwards. How do i the end of this and worked backwards. How do i stand in the end of this and worked backwards. How do i stand in the backwards. How do i stand in the constituency of dover and say that my plans are really have got a lot of support from the mp here . Oh, i can get the mp to defect as opposed to thinking, well, we really want, you know, Natalie Elphicke to join our party. I dont think that was ever on the to do list at the beginning of the month. I wonder if theres something a bit more obvious and self serving about all of this. And its this on friday, when Natalie Elphicke was with sir keir starmer in deal, trumpeting the plan to stop the boats if theyd looked out the window, 200 dinghies rocked up and so is this 200 people on dinghies. Beg your pardon . Is this actually Natalie Elphicke deciding at last orders to say, well, i couldnt stop the boats and im just going to say, well, it wasnt my fault. It was rishi sunaks fault. Nothing to do with me. Honest nothing to see here. Leave out the side entrance, get into another career and make out historically that she was one of the good guys. When we all know the good guys. When we all know the truth. And that is, she dramatically failed as the mp for dover. I mean, i, i totally understand the argument and i think it would hold up more if, if she was planning to stand again as a labour mp and say, look , this plan didnt work from look, this plan didnt work from rishi, i think labour will will really work. So therefore im going to put my money where my mouth is, but there may be, like you said, its just her being totally self serving. And of totally self serving. And of course what what the tory party dont want is continued discussion about the fact that their policy on small boats isnt working. So they want to keep talking up the character of Natalie Elphicke. They want to talk about that kind of stuff, because they dont want to talk about the substance of this, because, as you know, and as gb news flags up frequently , the news flags up frequently, the policy in this area just hasnt worked. It hasnt delivered what worked. It hasnt delivered what rishi sunak hasnt worked by rishi sunak hasnt worked by rishi sunaks own definition of it working rather. So i think that theyre they want to keep shifting this on to actually nasty elphicke herself as opposed to the issue she defected over an interesting thank you very much. Good to talk to you. Thats erin bennett. Yeah maybe its sort of a sort of subterfuge. Sort of a sort of subterfuge. Like a distraction. Yeah. Theyve got Natalie Elphicke. Hes announced this policy or this new Border Control and Border Security guard, which is partly what we already do anyway. Yeah, apart from maybe the involvement of m15. But i thought they would get involved if necessary. And by talking about this and then accepting Natalie Elphicke, people are now looking at all the scandal around Natalie Elphicke and not sort of dissecting sir Keir Starmers policies, which makes him a very astute politician , him a very astute politician, frankly. And somebody i wouldnt want to play chess against. Yeah, but why would she want to put herself in that position . She must have known that all this dirt will be dragged out. I mean, it had been put to bed and its all out in the open again. Shes having everything sort of gone through with the forensic comb, and i just cannot see what, what she would get out of this. Well, you could also. Well, i well, you could also. Well, i suspect because it seems as in that book , mayor of that book, mayor of casterbridge, i dont know whether you ever read it, but the lines that we were taught is character is fate, because earlier she did the same sort of thing standing by her husband who was arrested and imprisoned and said it was because he was attractive. They were attracted to him and hes attractive , to him and hes attractive, which is false. Apologise for that earlier in the week because jess phillips, labour mp, complained because shes campaigned forever about victim blaming and womens rights. You know, womens being victims. And so everything about victims. And so everything about this was guaranteed to be dragged back. And thats where we are. Well, shes attention seeking. Lets have a look at some of the other stories that have come into the news from. And a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the Civil Service has been announced and under new plans, there will be no more jobs devoted to inclusivity in whitehall outside of hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work. Diversity related work. Writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed public money was being wasted and what she described as a woke lobby hobby horses as woke hobby horses and tens of thousands of Palestinian Jews have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of an expected israeli assault on Southern Gaza and they have been told to move to a so called expanded humanitarian zone on the west coast. This prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah, despite calls for restraint from the united nations, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 , five in london are being m25, five in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closures as a new bridge is being installed now. The motorway, which is britains busiest, closed in both directions between junction nine and ten on friday evening and is set to reopen tomorrow morning. Morning. And its important to stick to those routes, those diversion routes, because if you dont, you get an ulez fine. Oh will you get an ulez fine. Oh will you. Yes, its on the ulez route. And if your satnav says, oh, get off the route and go this way. £12. 50 fine. If you dont pay it, £60 fine, £120, you can thank me later. Dont leave the diversion route you will get. Did you say £12. 50 . Fine. Correct . Yeah. Just. Yeah. Just. Yeah. Just. Just for some people might look at that and go, oh, £12. 50. Its all, thats all it is. Yeah. But if you dont pay it straight away £60 then it doubles £120. A lot of people might not know that that far out in the m25 is where the ulez goes through. It does so. Goes through. It does so. So theyre using. So that diversion is on the ulez route. So its because youre on the ulez route that youll pay £12. 50, not because youve gone on the diverted route. No. No. So the diversion route is in ulez now the ulez fine has been has been switched off for the penod has been switched off for the period of the diversion. Except period of the diversion. Except if you leave the actual designated diversion route. So if you go onto onto waze or one of your apps. Oh, that that way its quicker, youre gonna get nicked. So dont go off the route. Nonetheless, of course, your car is compliant, which apparently nine out of ten are, but i dont know whether thats quite right. Quite right. Its average save gb news viewers £12. 55. And also dont go on the diversion off the route anyway because if youre not meant to go on the other bits, then you could find yourself in a bit of trouble as well. Anyway, lets get your weather now with craig snell. A brighter outlook with boxt solar. Sponsors of weather on. Solar. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to today , most of looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. Actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. And these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the Sunshine Feeling very warm. Highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner. Into down towards the south eastern corner. Into this evening. The showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of Northern England and scotland. Some torrential downpours developing here overnight. Elsewhere, turns drier but fairly cloudy but under the cloud its going to be a mild night. Temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. So for most it should be a dry start on monday. Still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. But then down towards the southwest we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. Come the afternoon. Elsewhere, come the afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Good morning. If youre just tuned in. Welcome. This is gb news. Its breakfast with me and Martin Daubney. Its just coming up to 26 minutes after 7 00. And its up to 26 minutes after 7 00. And wsfime up to 26 minutes after 7 00. 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Well, were now joined by nhs gp doctor david lloyd. Welcome to the show doctor lloyd. Thank you for joining us. So very, very concerning statistics out this week. Five babies have died this yearin week. Five babies have died this year in the uk. The Uk Health Security Agency is saying there are now 2793 cases across england so far this year, more than three times the amount of the previous year. What do you think is driving this . Think is driving this . I well, its interesting you talked about about, deprivation and its link, i think the main dnven and its link, i think the main driver, of course, is that its a very contagious disease , so it a very contagious disease, so it spreads very rapidly, and so the measures that we use to counteract covid were also very good at keeping whooping cough levels at historically low levels, as well. So during the levels, as well. So during the covid years, we had very little whooping cough , and now that whooping cough, and now that were all mixing again, and weve got this low what we call herd immunity, then an awful lot more people are mixing and spreading the condition, which is very easy to spread , just is very easy to spread, just like it is with covid or cough, coughs and colds or measles. Its spread by droplets in the air. So its, so its not. Its not, i dont think we were not expecting such a large rise in whooping cough after the pandemic. Really . Really . Has there also been an element of the fact that people havent been going to for their vaccinations because theyre missing schedules, because of the dire state of the nhs and also a level of immigration from people who may not be protected from this disease. From this disease. So i think that one of the things that we in general practice really do concentrate on is really trying to get people into to do vaccinations. There are weve got two, two possibilities with whooping cough. We like to get our young babies are over at eight, 12 and 16 vaccinated against whooping cough. And thats part of the routine system, but weve also got a good system for vaccinating pregnant women as well, so that we give the newborn babies some extra protection, by having, a, having, by vaccinating the mother as well. And that, unfortunately, is a low level people. I think pregnant women people. I think pregnant women get slightly concerned about having vaccinations while theyre pregnant in case it may harm their baby, whereas of course its the complete opposite. Its the young babies under 12 weeks, eight weeks that are dying because they get these terrible, episodes of coughing where they actually stop breathing and they become very ill indeed. And doctor lloyd, i spoke to an nhs doctor on friday who was trying to raise an awareness project in west london. And she did say that there has been a difficulty with people whove come to the uk from other cultures , other countries that cultures, other countries that dont have that heritage of vaccination and they dont have that in their country. And an astonishing statistic that leapt out so that 51 of the cases that were talking about here today are children aged 15 and older. These arent babies now. These arent mothers whove been vaccinated to give birth to safe children. These are these are teenagers. And they many of these have come in from other countries and therefore they dont have that culture. How do we get to those people . Theyre very stubborn to reach. So if they register with a gp, which i hope they will do and we certainly will, will offer no barriers to that. The preliminary checks will do will be to check the vaccination histories of all our new patients and make sure that they are vaccinated and kept up to date because incomplete vaccination schedules, as you say, put people at greater risk. Say, put people at greater risk. Its a horrible condition to have as an adult or as a 15 year old, but its not going to kill you. But you do cough for months and months and months and retch and months and months and retch and vomit. And its not a pleasant condition to have, but getting those pregnant mums vaccinated and getting those early courses started is the key to avoiding death. Okay. Okay. And i want to ask you , and i want to ask you, doctor, what are the sort of very earliest signs of the illness and what is the treatment for it . Well, they are very a very good question because in fact, the just like measles, just like coughs and colds and viruses, it doesnt look any different in the first few days. Its really about day 14 that john begins to suspect it , but traditionally suspect it, but traditionally weve been very bad at diagnosing whooping cough early on in the condition. I was at a course the other day and he said , well, if you havent diagnosed a case of whooping cough in the last year, then youve youve missed at least one. So its the its day 14. Thats the key time. But the trouble is its day 21, that you then cant do anything about preventing the spread. We really like to get antibiotics in early to prevent the spread. It doesnt do much for the illness, but it helps prevent the spread and avoid Vulnerable People getting whooping cough as a result of that case. And the treatment for it. And the treatment for it. So theres a common antibiotic we use for treating coughs and colds, which will reduce the infectivity of people with with whooping cough. But it doesnt do an awful lot of good im afraid, for the symptom. Wow. Okay. Doctor david wow. Okay. Doctor david lloyd, thank you for sharing your expertise with us this morning on breakfast. Right. Right. Still to come, aidan magee will be here with all the latest sports news. Thats next. This is breakfast on gb news with martin nana. Good morning. Welcome back. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with nana and martin on gb news. Sounds. Go on gb news. Sounds. Go through all the latest sports news now with broadcaster aidan magee in the studio. So we covered off the premier league last time. Now its the ticket to get into the premier league. We start the championship play offs. A ticket worth a quarter of £1 billion if you make it through. Yeah, i mean thats what luton town estimated it to be worth to them last summer. Different clubs will have their own calibration of that. Theyll have a different index in terms of what its worth. It could be to do with what your Wage Structure is. All the rest of it. But i mean, i remember covering hull citys promotion at wembley in 2008. They estimated at 70 million, and we thought that was outrageous back then. Then it went to 100. And its all estimates. Of course, but with the tv money and the bloating of the of Financial Budgets and also the costs that you lose by going up, then you know, it really is it can it can make or break a club over a ten year period. I mean, i mean, if you look at luton town, for example, theyll go down. But if theyre going to build a stadium then that unlocks all sorts of financial potential going forward. Theyve been talking about building a stadium since the 1980s, and this is Game Changing for them, even though theyve gone down after one season. But today, four decent clubs involved and weve got norwich versus leeds, norwich the first out of the blocks at carrow road, 12 00 and thats third against six. Now the diff, the points differential between leeds and norwich. This is why leeds and norwich. This is why leeds will may well feel defeated, deflated even though, even though daniel farke, the former norwich manager, has said this is a new season now, forget whats gone. Thats easier said than done. When you finish 17 points ahead of the team that youre playing, the team that youre playing, the team that youre playing, the team that youre playing goes into it thinking weve got nothing to lose. But if i look at the actual form, i mean, southampton and west brom at the hawthorns is the game. Later on after that. 215 so its really going to be a feast of football today in the championship. But if you look at its always said, isnt it . I dont have forests worth going into the playoffs two years ago, but its always said that its good to have form going into playoffs at the right time. Look at this stat, if you will. Leeds, southampton, west brom, norwich in the last five games, thats 20 games between them. Only ten of those have been won, six of them, sorry , been won, six of them, sorry, ten of those have been lost. Only six have been won. The rest have been drawn. Nobodys got any real, real form here. Norwich have lost one of the last five, but theyve also drawn a couple. Leeds have lost. They capitulated at qpr four nil. They lost them to blackburn. They lost at to home southampton. West brom havent got much form either so i cant predict which way its going to go. Norwichs form since christmas has been better than anyone elses. Theyve theyve crept up on the on the back burner really and sort of sneaky. They didnt really sneak into the playoffs. They got in quite comfortably in the end. But i would tip them given given their playoff history in the last ten, 15 years or so, i think norwich would would be well placed. Theyre my tip anyway. Put it that way. Im not even a gambling man. Interesting. Because, about a month ago leeds united looked destined to sail through. They were they were just winning. They were on a roll. And then i think ipswich, who i had a few quid on to go. Yeah. They got a last minute goal i think against southampton and leeds just fell apart. Well when it mattered they, its all about, its all about timing. I mean you look at southampton their form has been quite patchy over the last couple of months. But they had a massive, i think 2223 match unbeaten run in the middle of the season. So, you know, if only the season could end there. Its all about when you time your run. Its not as easy as not as easy as it sounds certainly. And if norwich and ipswich 9, and if norwich and ipswich go, wow, well have a sort of finland spectacular. We will now finland spectacular. We will now then. Cricket. We talked we spoke yesterday about jemmy anderson retiring but now hes remaining on. Well no hes remaining remaining on in the, in in the county game. But hes leaving. Leaving the test game. Hes international level. He has confirmed that hes going to retire. He feels happy about it. He said he felt that going into the ashes next year at the age of 43, felt like a bit of a stretch , you know, he started stretch, you know, he started his england career in 2002. Martin so hes been around a long, long time. And they say youre a long time retired, but youre a long time retired, but you also have to learn when to get off the carousel at some time. Hes had a magnificent career with england. 700 wickets in 187 test matches. That puts him third behind people like Muttiah Muralitharan in the overall wicket taking. So, so, you know, an outstanding career and somebody who probably can continue coaching, perhaps if he has talks with with bas. But brendon mccullum, the england coach , if he could maybe stay on coach, if he could maybe stay on there and hopefully you can tap into that knowledge as time goes on. But what a career hes had and he deserved that coaching role and he wont have to worry so much about his body letting him down. Well, as we all do a certain age. Yeah, great stuff as ive aidan magee looking forward to the championship play offs. Top man. See you in the next hour. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Right still to come, well be going through todays top stories with suzanne holder and tom slater in making the news. Thats next. This is nana. Welcome back. 746 is your time. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. Now, before we go through the papers. Got a quick view here. We did a section on whooping cough. We had a gp on the screen. Shauna said this. Very funny. So thats what a gp looks like. I havent been able to one see in about six years because of the nhs mess created by 14 years of cuts and also lockdowns. And also lockdowns. Well, sues made a point which we both mentioned to the gp who was there. Whooping cough has everything to do with those coming to this country. They dont vaccinate against it and when they come here they dont speak our language. Not only speak our language. Not only that, they dont know the ramifications of whooping cough or the seriousness of the disease. Yeah, a lot of some of these older illnesses that we have got rid of are coming back. Things like polio as well, obviously pushed by the fact that we have a mass migration issue going on here. The gp didnt really want to talk about that, but he made him do it. Thats what were here to do. Anyhow, moving on. Joining us to go through whats making the news is the editor of spiked, tom slater, and the author and journalist susan holder. Welcome back to you both. Our favourite part of the show. Lets start with this, susan. Esther mcvey is having a p0p susan. Esther mcvey is having a pop at diversity jobs. Theyre going to be scrapped. Tell us all about it. Yes. So shes planning to make a speech in westminster tomorrow and i mean, esther was mocked, wasnt she, when she got the cupboard. New cabinet position. As the minister for common sense. I have to say, having read this piece and the piece that shes written in the telegraph, im finding it hard to find anything that shes saying. Not not common sense. It is actually a very common sense sort of point of view. So shes not talking about scrapping diversity, just to be clear, shes talking about scrapping the jobs that are solely dedicated to finding which kind of person needs to be in which kind of job because of the things that theyve got as their as their traits, rather than their talents or their experience, shes also planning to summon, theyve theyve had a review which has identified £27 million worth of spending across whitehall on this sort of thing, and she has summoned the heads of departments and quangos , of departments and quangos, which have spent the most on equality and diversity schemes, for a meeting. I would quite for a meeting. I would quite like to be a fly on the wall in that meeting because they have to defend how how their spending has benefited taxpayers. £27 million. £27 million. I know its crazy madness and obviously the argument is often made is, oh, this is a drop in the ocean. You know, if you look at the billions that the government will charge for it, charge for in respect to certain ministries. Charge for in respect to certain ministries. But at charge for in respect to certain ministries. But at the same ministries. But at the same time, given how tight things are at the moment, the idea that that 27 million couldnt be put to better use is beyond me. And also youre dealing with a lot of times you know, workplaces which are already quite diverse. What are these managers there to do . I mean, and also i think a lot of the time as well, i think this is kind of political activism masquerading as just human resources, because you look at the kind of powerpoint presentations or the sessions that they have to go through, andifs that they have to go through, and its just trying to indoctrinate them in all these weird identity politics ideas rather than actually just deaung rather than actually just dealing with. And also, if you add up all those little bits, they then make a lot of money. So you add up 27 million. And i will say though i do think we have things have moved on and we do we should kind of give credit to that. And i do think there has been a certain kind of push and we can joke about it and say its all a load of nonsense. Its not all a load of nonsense. Its not all a load of nonsense, because as a woman, i can remember looking at a lot of kind of institutions and things and thinking, well, its very kind of, you know, pale, male and stale and we should not and it shouldnt be. So i can see that you do need to see people represented. But what you people represented. But what you you also need is you want people represented who are talented and good at their jobs. Otherwise good at theirjobs. Otherwise theyre not representing you properly. So you hear this all the time. And thats the problem. I think , of where the problem. I think, of where the Diversity Office are not always getting it right. The other problem with it as well, which i found a lot, being a black woman, is that once theyve got their black person, theres no more room. So you think right, theyve got one black person. Oh, i cant have another one. Exactly so this diversity is supposed, oh, weve got the black person. Weve got a disabled person. Now weve got this, but we dont need any more. But dont you think that the diversity thing though, tom, talking as two men and we are male and i dont think were stale. No, youre not, but diversity does seem to mean less people like us. It it seems to be. There are a lot of you around already. I think we should move already. I think we should move the argument. Really i would, i would almost flip it on its head, though, because i think the diversity agenda is also a big problem for ethnic minorities within organisations , minorities within organisations, because you create this kind of mindset of like, am i here on merit . Am i here because im ticking a box . Well, you know, theres that sort of when you. Introduce that sort of when you. Introduce kind of racial or gender or other preferences into hiring, its a big problem for the workforce in general. And i think if youve got common sense schemes to make sure that youre removing barriers to anyone being able to access those jobs, thats perfect. Anything else, i think becomes fraught with peril and becomes very divisive. And i will say, what youve just said, there is exactly it. Because when i joined gb news, are you only there because youre black and this and that . No, no, no, ive had 30 years experience. Yeah. And im damn good. Right. Lets move on to labours 225 council tax bombshell , labours 225 council tax bombshell, tom. Well, this is basically bound up with this long running story about what is labours workers rights package going to be. So theres been various reports about has it been watered down. Has it been actually less than its actually been sold . And the angle here in the sunday express is that this plan to boost trade union rights would actually end up costing the average household an extra £225 a year each in council tax, presumably just because of the trickle down of all of these different measures and the impact that has on cash strapped councils. I mean, its one thing zeus having Union Members pay for a boost of union rights, but having rank and file punters, Council Tax Payers cough up, thats going to stick in the craw. Yeah, it is a difficult one though. I think Angela Rayner is kind of pushing for this, and again, at the heart of it the instinct is good isnt it. Because social care in particular is very underfunded. And this is one of the things that would be a consequence that they that social care would be, would be better paid. And no one would be better paid. And no one would disagree that that is a good thing. The problem is how to do it with any labour policy is how are you going to fund that, but actually at the moment weve got 152,000 vacancies in, in that kind of area. And and 28 turnover of people kind of constantly leaving. Something constantly leaving. Something does need to happen there. And however it happens then i do think it would be a good thing to try and look at social care and pay, but to give the unions too much power on that and then it affect taxpayers. If we dont get the benefit in the long run, thats a worry. Certainly. Look, tom, lets certainly. Look, tom, lets get back on to sinking our fangs into the Eurovision Song Contest. Can we . Because, i mean, it happened last night. The politics totally overshadowed the performances beforehand. And we heard from beforehand. And we heard from our man Charlie Peters in malmo on the ground, said there were more protesters outside than there were audience members inside. And the latest stink. You want to look at here is eurovision kicked out the netherlands fella because he kicked off . Yes. This is a gentleman called joost klein. Im probably mispronouncing his name terribly, but for the first time in eurovision history, someone who had made the final was disqualified. The reason for this . Some of the details are this . Some of the details are a little bit sketchy, but essentially he made a allegedly a threatening gesture. A female camerawoman photographer, because the fact that hed just gotten off stage, he was being filmed and he took offence to the fact that he was being filmed, doesnt seem a particularly stand up guy. Anyway, seemed ticked off about israel may day in a press conference as well. Exactly. Made this kind of snotty comment about the fact that maybe its a question for the broadcasters as to how divisive that comment wasnt. The israel comment wasnt the reason . No it was not the reason they give it was this set to with the with the photographer. But is there more controversy around this years eurovision . I cant remember one that has produced this many kind of disqualification is quite rare, but of course its not made the headunes but of course its not made the headlines as much because of all the israel controversy. But but yes, its a female member of staff who complained about the gesture that he made and found him his behaviour threatening, and thats the reason that theyre giving that they were disqualified. They were disqualified. And so and the police are involved as well. So its something which has been quite serious. Well, it will start unravelling throughout the day, i should imagine. Tom and susan, i should imagine. Tom and susan, thank you very much for the call. It the most toxic eurovision in history. Can we just get back to the singing next year . Wouldnt that be nice . That would be good. But at least i suppose in some respects we did, because our entrance got nil and i think deservedly sorry, but, lets get an update with your. Weather. With your. Weather. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. And these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places , and warnings are in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening. But in afternoon and evening. But in the Sunshine Feeling very warm. Highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner. Into down towards the south eastern corner. Into this evening. The showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of Northern England and scotland. Some torrential downpours developing here overnight. Elsewhere, turns drier but fairly cloudy but under the cloud its going to be a mild night. Temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. So for most it should be a dry start on monday. Still some showers up across scotland , but they should scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. But then down towards the southwest we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. Come the afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on demand, of course. And chaos and scandal. Lets get the latest from Charlie Peters. Hes there live. Live. Well, it was protest and politics that dominated the eurovision contest. Last night. Switzerland took the crown, but israel, which was being protests , came second place in the pubuc , came second place in the public vote. Cross beds charlie shortly. But before that concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, of course, Natalie Elphicke, as its alleged that she lobbied a formerjustice secretary over her ex husbands sex abuse trial. Yes, sir keir starmer took the calculation that it would be positive to have the dover mp on labours side. But more damaging allegations today. Labours side. But more damaging allegations today. Ill bring you the details shortly. Harry and meghan continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as a couple open up again on their family life and a large increase in whooping cough deaths is worrying doctors as they encourage to parents get their babies vaccinated. And their babies vaccinated. And glorious weather today returns wonderful. So apparently going to be the hottest day of the year , but for how long can we year, but for how long can we expect the sunshine belem. For most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. Find out where with me in a little bit. Its over to arsenal today as they travel to old trafford to face manchester united, aiming to return to the top of the premier league after rivals Manchester City edged a step closer to a fourth successive title with a win at fulham. Well also hear about the 17 Year Old Girl from saint albans, who smashed a 45 year old 800 metre record in belfast. More later. Well, it was the show. Hope youre having a very sunny sunday morning. Im delighted to be here with nana akua. Its a delight to work with you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Now moving quickly on, their slogan may be united by music, but this years eurovision was anything but a scandal and chaos engulfed the competition. Well, in the end it was switzerlands act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the countrys first win since they won with celine dion. But all eyes, of course, were on israels eden golan , who on israels eden golan, who placed sixth and her act was booed by fans in the arena, scoring a 323 points from the pubuc scoring a 323 points from the public vote, with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. Well done. And of course, the uks Olly Alexander ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder. 18th place, which some feel was generous, receiving no points from the public. Were joined now live by gb News ReporterCharlie Peters, our man in malmo. So charlie , we our man in malmo. So charlie, we spoke earlier about the fact, astonishingly, there seemed to be more people protesting outside than there were even inside the arena. And as you told us earlier, some very unsavoury characters in their midst. Midst. Yes, martin, it was quite a bizarre scenario, to be honest with you, because were spending much of the afternoon walking through malmo with the main procession from the city centre here. Just about 20 hours ago, it was a significant scene of protest as thousands started to gather in the city centre. But we saw a major protest continuing throughout the city, protesting against what theyve described as israels genocide in gaza. They also called for in gaza. They also called for many of the protesters, called for israel to be removed from the competition. The competition browning, of course, is united by music. Theres a sticker nearby me here in the city centre that says eurovision united by genocide. Of course, the claims that israel is conducting a genocide in gaza have not been found by international observers. But this is the line being pushed by pro palestinian protesters. And so there was this strange scene when we reached the arena eventually in the evening, where there were tents , geopolitical there were tents, geopolitical tensions going on and scuffles between protesters and the police, Counter Terrorism officers, armed policemen, we saw helicopters and we also saw armed Police Watching us from the roofs. While this tense discussion about israels role in the world and also its place in the world and also its place in this competition, went on, meanwhile, you speak to people who are queuing to get in to the arena dressed in flags, having a dnnk arena dressed in flags, having a drink , and they were discussing drink, and they were discussing whether or not they were looking for forward to bambie thug or lasagne baby. It was a completely strange scenario , completely strange scenario, having that mix of perspectives and worlds all clashing at once outside malmo arena. Outside malmo arena. It was all very odd. Charlie peters, thank you very much for joining us. Hes there, live in sweden. Were now joined by doctor eurovision, paul jordan. Doctor eurovision, paul jordan. Paul doctor eurovision, paul jordan. Paul, welcome. So good morning. Your take on eurovision then was it did it bring more than you expected . And the political piece of it, i mean, what were your thoughts on all of that. Your thoughts on all of that. Yeah, ive got to say it was a strange contest. You know, eurovision is meant to be joyous. Its meant to be fun. Its meant to be engaging. And last night, as the show began, i just had this horrible feeling of dread. And i almost wanted it to be over. And thats not like me. And its not like eurovision day. So, yeah, it feels feels very strange. Theres lots of things going on in the world. Eurovision is an opportunity to escape things in the world. But, yeah, i think the organisers are probably breathing a sigh of relief this morning. And paul, lets talk about Olly Alexanders. Lets face it turned out to be a complete flop. Got nil points. The worst possible endorsement from the pubuc possible endorsement from the public vote. Well, thats the tricky thing, though. We dont know what happened there because, you know, technically, you know, some songs get, you know, countries give points to ten countries. Youve got 1 to 8, ten and 12. Technically, the uk could have been 11th with everyone and still receive zero. It was a risky performance. Hes you know, hes a showman, but i imagine , you know, for some imagine, you know, for some countries it might have just been a little bit too much, a little bit too risky, i dont know. Its going to be a difficult one to, to, to look at because the uk is invested in the staging. You know, often the uk acts have been accused of not being very good on stage. You know, very bland. And, the uk pulled out all the stops this yean pulled out all the stops this year, but it might have just been a little bit too sexual for some, come on, be honest, paul, he was out of tune, he the key change was the best bit about it, hes really quiet in the mix. And the performances either side of him were far better. In fact, all of the performances , fact, all of the performances, in my view, i did listen to the whole thing, even though i was sort of in and out of sleep. But lets be honest, it was a terrible song and the vocals were awful. I thought the song was perfectly okay. Its not not amazing, but, it was perfectly okay. And the juries voted for him, so if he was out cheating, the juries wouldnt have given him any points. But youre right, you know, he was sandwiched between a couple of good numbers, its tricky, you know, hes not the worlds best singer, but hes a showman. Its a shame. A lot of pressure on him this year. A lot of pressure on all the artists. Given everything going on with israel as well, you know, wish them all the best, i think we need to regroup and think about what were doing, sam ryder really, you know, pulled out all the stops and he came second. He was amazing, we need to recreate that magic. Well he could sing. Thats true. Thats true. Thats true. And, paul, which is important i paul is. We forget, dont we . Its actually about singing. It its actually about singing. It became about the politics. Paul has been called the most toxic eurovision of all time. Not only what was going on outside and not only the disgraceful scenes of the israeli candidate being more or less barricaded into a hotel room, but the dutch contestant being disqualified. Contestant being disqualified. And as a longtime observer and superfan of the eurovision, paul superfan of the eurovision, paul, this must make your heart sink. Can we just get back to making it about the music . Making it about the music . Well, it did, you know, as i said, you know, like this yesterday morning, i was like, what on earth is going on . Its meant to be a fun day. And i had this sense of dread. But, you know, ive been to eurovision for many, many years, and in 2012 it was in azerbaijan. Thats a dictatorship. And they hosted eurovision, you know , hosted eurovision, you know, politics has come into it and its gone out of it as well. Lets hope we get back to the music next year. And, you know, i wish i wish people would remember this is a song contest. These singers are not politicians and, theyre not necessarily responsible for the actions of their governments. Well, exactly. Well, exactly. Doctor eurovision, thats paul jordan, thank you very much i good stuff. Good stuff. Now moving on to a bit of politics. And new labour mp Natalie Elphicke has been accused of lobbying ministers in an attempt to interfere in her husband, former husbands Sexual Assault case. Then justice secretary sir Robert Buckland alleges that she asked him to move the 2020 trial of Charlie Elphicke to a lower profile court, apparently to spare him public scrutiny , and spare him public scrutiny, and miss elphicke ended the marriage when her husband was convicted of sexually assaulting two women and jailed for two years. A Labour Party Spokesperson said she totally rejects the characterisation of the meeting. Miss elphicke defected from the conservatives to labour last week. Week. Lets get our thoughts now about Political Correspondent katherine forster, who joins us in the studio. Catherine, welcome to the show. Always a pleasure. Do you think the labour party might be looking back on this defection and thinking, maybe it wasnt such a goodidea . Well, theres certainly been a huge amount of criticism, not least from, you know, labour mps themselves, some of whom are absolutely horrified that sir keir starmer chose to take a very right wing conservative mp and be one who comes with a lot, and be one who comes with a lot, a lot of baggage. So this latest story front page of the sunday times, just to zoom back a little bit , her times, just to zoom back a little bit, her husband Natalie Elphickes husband Charlie Elphicke, was previously the conservative mp for dover. Elphicke, was previously the conservative mp for dover. He was charged with very serious Sexual Offences and then she replaced him, in a not very transparent process as mp and continued to support him. This latest allegation is that just before his trial and he ended up going to jail for two years for very serious Sexual Offences , very serious Sexual Offences, she went to the then justice secretary, sir Robert Buckland, and basically tried to get his. And basically tried to get his. Trial moved to a less high profile court with a less high profile court with a less high profile judge. Now, we have supposedly we should have the separation of powers in this country. You know, legislative parliament, the executive, the government, the judiciary. So she was really trying to interfere in a way that she should not. And Robert Buckland was having none of it. Now its also alleged that after he was in jail, she later tried to intervene again, complaining about conditions in the prison, basically, that his bed wasnt comfortable enough and that his pillows were not comfortable enough. Pillows were not comfortable enough. So now worth saying, enough. So now worth saying, worth saying that that has been discounted. Well, theyve saying that this is nonsense. Labour have said that Natalie Elphicke totally rejects that characterisation of events. And why didnt the conservatives raise it at the time . But certainly, you know, keir starmer has made the calculation that getting this woman who was on the front line of the small boats crisis over to labour, that all people at home are going to take is, oh my goodness, even rishi sunaks. Goodness, even rishi sunaks. Local mp thinks he cant stop the boats and keir starmer is going to do a betterjob. But my goodness, theres been a lot of a lot of fallout from this. But what is the benefit to Natalie Elphicke . Because keir starmer, hes, as you said, going to have this conservative member of parliament who is heavy on stopping the boats. Hopefully some of that will rub off on him or hopefully the rest off on him or hopefully the rest of it doesnt. So what is the benefit to Natalie Elphicke . Shes going to step down. Its honestly a bit of a mystery because we know theyve already selected their candidate for doven selected their candidate for dover, so shes not standing. Shes stepping down. Initially there was some thought that maybe labour had offered her a peerage. Theyve said her a peerage. Theyve said categorically thats not the case now. She has said shes case now. She has said shes very interested in housing. She rather than being a nimby, shes more of a yimby. She thinks that the conservatives have let the country down in not building enough homes. She feels very strongly about that. So in her sort of statement that she put out her letter, that seems to be a factor. She seems to be hoping to be able to influence and work with labour on that. But it seems like shes not going to have an official role on that ehhen have an official role on that either. So its very, very curious. I think its fair to say its just been the most calamitous defection ever. I think normally when somebody goes over to the other side, the people that theyre going to welcome them with open arms and the other side are horrified. But the conservatives largely are mystified but also think its a real misstep by laboun think its a real misstep by labour. Theres plenty of labour mps jess phillips, rosie duffield, women who are very concerned about safety of women and girls that look, how can you take this woman who stood by, Charlie Elphicke . He. Went to Charlie Elphicke . He. Went to jail, she rubbished the victim. She said that, you know, he was attractive to women, that hed had an apology earlier in the week, didnt they . Jess phillips complains so much and certainly that that they were forced to apologise. Yeah, but she stood by him for a long time and she said that, you know, hed hed had injustice heaped upon injustice, that hed been thrown to the wolves rather than thinking, hang on a minute, you know, why are these women saying these things now . Her mother says, oh, she stood by him because she was a good catholic. But certainly i think its very problematic. But for all the outrage in westminster, what are people at home going to take for this . Are they really going to register this or are they just going to see a very hardcore. Tory mp see a very hardcore. Tory mp going over to labour . I think what theyre going to see is theyre going to slightly forget Keir Starmers. What is it . Border control thing. Elite Border Control unit. Elite Border Control unit. I think its almost like subterfuge isnt it. So youre not going to focus too heavily on what hes doing. And were all talking about Natalie Elphicke okay. Katherine forster excellent as ever. Thank you forjoining as ever. Thank you for joining us in the studio. Cheers now, you may have been enjoying the hot weather this past weekend, but that of course, because its england that could all be about to change. Yes, of course. The met office have released yellow thunderstorm warnings in parts of the uk for today. People in these areas are expected to face some disruption, especially to travel well now. Joined by weather journalist nathan rao. And nathan, welcome. So were having unseasonably warm weather which is good and but now thunderstorms give us some more detail on. Yeah i think first of all we should concentrate on the fact that for the last few weeks and even months, weve been desperate for the warm weather, and it is finally here. We have the hottest day of the year yesterday, and it could be even warmer today at 27. So looking on the bright side, if you are in the sunshine today, a little bit of light relief after the horror show of the eurovision yesterday to get out in the sunshine. But yes, as you mentioned, when we get three days of very warm weather or any length of time of very warm weather, it usually does go crash, bang, wallop, and that is exactly what its going to do. Exactly what its going to do. Im not going anywhere like were surprised that we actually have any heat in this country. Its true nathan, its fair to say we had the wettest april, probably of all time. It rained, probably of all time. It rained, it seemed, every blinking day. Then we get a few days of sun and of course its going to rain again. Is the weather off kilter . Nathan, you and i talk a lot about the fact we seem to be going through dramatic periods of increased wet weather. Can we just have a heat wave now, please . Yeah well, id love to promise you a heat wave. I mean, in terms of your question of whether the weather is off kilter, what were seeing at the moment isnt really. I mean, yes, the average the temperatures are above average, 27 is pretty well above average for may, and you mentioned weve had a very, very wet period over the past few months, 11 named storms that have brought in a lot of rainfall in fact, on that note, with these thunderstorms this afternoon, which are going to be down the west side of the country, there is going to be a bit of rainfall with that, quite a lot, up to two inches of rain in parts. So with the water tables where theyve had a lot of rain over the past few weeks still very high, there may be a risk of flooding and some disruption from that. So an unusually wet and windy storm season, and now weve got a very warm period. The fact that its going to go bang with thunderstorms, thats not so unusual, but as i said, you know, where you get some good weather today do make the most of it. Because as we go into the week, im afraid to say the High Pressure which brings the lovely warm, sunny weather that were always so desperate for at this time of year is going to vanish and low pressure, which brings in the wet and windy stuff that we hate, is going to make a reappearance and that is going to stick around for the rest of the week. So temperatures down a bit from tomorrow and some more wind and rain on the way. So get out and make the most of it. But also just a note, be careful of the pollen levels because if youre anything like me, youve been sneezing and dribbling for the last day or so with the with the last day or so with the with the hay fever, you know, now youve said that its psychosomatic. Youve mentioned it. Now im going to be sneezing because youve just mentioned it, nathan. Thank you. Yeah, well, nathan always a delight to have you on the show. And its my local park fair today. Ill be down there having a few bevvies 100. Yeah, well good morning. If youre just tuned in. Welcome its just coming up to 19 minutes after 8 00. Lets have a look at some of the other stories that are coming into the newsroom. And a ban on jobs dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion in the Civil Service has been announced. And under new plans, there will be no more jobs devoted to inclusivity in whitehall, outside of hr and no more staff working solely on diversity related work. Diversity related work. Well done esther, writing in the sunday telegraph, cabinet minister esther mcvey claimed that public money was being wasted on what she described as woke hobbyhorses and tens of thousands of palestinians have been fleeing rafah in anticipation of an expected israeli assault on Southern Gaza. They have been told to move to a so called expanded humanitarian zone on the west coast. This prompted fears of a wider invasion of rafah. Despite wider invasion of rafah. Despite calls for restraint from the united nations, the uk and other allies and humanitarian organisations and drivers on the m25 in london are being urged to stick to diversion routes during the weekend closures as a new bndgeis the weekend closures as a new bridge is being installed. The motorway, which is britains busiest, closed in both directions between junctions nine and ten on friday evening and its set to reopen tomorrow morning. So you might as well just stay at your house or something. Dont get on the roads and drive. Its going to be hot and humid. And its just, be hot and humid. And its just, you know, stay at home. Dodgy m25. I think getting your garden get out and about, walk your dog or like me, get to your local park and have a few beers with the boys. Ive got a couple of views here, this one is. Oh, isabel says great to see nana and martin this morning. Thanks, isabel. And paul says if the eurovision contestants put, put as much effort into the songs as they do, virtue signalling, maybe the songs would be more memorable and less dross. Yeah. And alan adds this. And in fact, we had jay from bucks fizz on the show yesterday. I dont think ive watched Eurovision Song Contest since bucks fizz won it. Bring back the fizz. Bring back the fizz, indeed. But not just yet because its early morning. And welcome. If you just joined us, get an update with some weather. Yeah. Why not . A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. And these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places , and warnings are in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the Sunshine Feeling very warm. Highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner. Into down towards the south eastern corner. Into this evening. The showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of Northern England and scotland. Some torrential downpours developing here overnight. Elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy, but under the cloud its going to be a mild night. Temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. So for most it should be a dry start on monday. Still some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. 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This is breakfast on gb news with martin and. Nana. Welcome back. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. Now, officials are facing calls to improve vaccine rates for whooping cough over fears the cost of living crisis is contributing to low uptake and data shows that the rates of people taking the vaccines is at the lowest level in the 10. Most deprived areas in england. This comes after it was revealed the uk could be experiencing its biggest outbreak of whooping cough in almost two decades. Well, were now joined by senior clinical lecturer at the university of Exeter Medical school, doctor Bharat Pankhania. Bharat, welcome to the show. Its very good to talk to you again. Its been a long time. Havent spoken to in a while. What . Bharat, what are we putting this to . Down the fact that the. A lot of people are getting whooping cough, which is unusual. Really this is multifactorial , nana. And it has multifactorial, nana. And it has many issues , surrounding why the many issues, surrounding why the uptake is low. So there has been a growing trend of low vaccine uptake for some time. Add to this the difficulty of ready access to general practice is a big contributing factor. And remember, in deprived areas theres a lot of pressure. Also on primary care services. And then there , you know, its then there, you know, its a rhythm. Its a pattern. When you miss your first appointment, you are more likely to miss your second, and you are more likely to miss your third as well. So when i was a practising consultant, Communicable Disease control, what i used to do was work with the gp practices and say make it open access in other words, whenever a patient turns up , try and get them immunised up, try and get them immunised because they dont have that, that pattern of we can only come here between 10 and 4 pm, that sort of thing. Maybe they need to do it in schools. Would it be practicable for them to do it in schools . Because a lot of the time they do stuff like that. Dont they go to schools, get these vaccinations done. So, so this 6 in 1 vaccine that we give is a childhood vaccine given at eight weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks. So it really is in early days of life, and its very much in the hands of, you know, the little babies carers to get the baby either at the child clinic, toddler clinic or gp services. Doctor pankhania the figures are alarming. Five babies have died this year, now 2793 cases across england alone so far this yeah across england alone so far this year. Thats three times more than the previous year. And another alarming stat 51 of these cases are of people age 15 and older. This is not just solely now down to babies. Solely now down to babies. Therefore, do we have to address the fact we spoke to an nhs doctor last week who works in an outreach project in london and said often times what shes experiencing is people coming into the country from overseas territories who dont have that heritage of baby vaccination, early doors. And so were kind of picking up the pieces in the uk later on down the line. Is this an illness like measles . Like others that we thought that wed stamped out . And now, because of the changing demographics of the uk, thats no longer the case . No. Theres again, a lot of multiple factors at play here. So for example, the 15 year olds, etc, getting these infections are a function of they missed their vaccines when they missed their vaccines when they were babies. Then there is also a small minor point that can also happen , which is the can also happen, which is the vaccine efficacy. Sometimes can drop off and then you start seeing cases later on. And if that happens, theres always a Booster Campaign that we can do. But look, the Bigger Picture is this. These are serious Infectious Diseases that can make you very ill. Six of them are easily vaccine preventable. Are easily vaccine preventable. And what we ought to be doing is making ready access for Young Mothers to take their children to those clinics, or set up mobile clinics to immunise these little babies , and it protects little babies, and it protects them very much so for the rest of their life, mostly. Thank you, doctor Bharat Pankhania , really good to talk pankhania, really good to talk to you. Superb. Now still to come, aidan magee g will be here with all your latest nana. Welcome back. Its fast approaching 35 minutes after 8 00. This is gb news. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. And now lets go through all the latest sports news. And im here with broadcaster aidan magee. Always a pleasure. So premier league , all eyes on the premier league, all eyes on the bottom of the table. And of course my team Nottingham Forest yesterday. Technically all but safe but a couple of teams sadly went down. They did so burnley went to tottenham needing a win. A draw certainly wasnt good enough and neither was a defeat. They took the lead through a lot, braun larsson but it wasnt enough. Tottenham turn that one around their first half to a run of four straight defeats. And then of course luton earlier in the day went to west ham, lost three one. David moyes last game at the london stadium. Very emotional departure for him but also rob edwards, the luton manager, very emotional as well. Theyve given it a really good shot this season. They didnt spend big on players because they know that if they want to come back up next season, theyre not going to be saddling big, big wages. And as weve discussed in the last hour about what the what the promotion is, the premier league is worth £250 million is what luton estimated it at last summer. They can change their stars with this money, martin, because they can Start Building that stadium. Theyve been talking about building since, since the 1980s. What it meant though, of course, with Sheffield United already having gone down, is that Nottingham Forest, despite all the travails off the pitch this season with the points deduction, have managed to stay up. They went into the chelsea game at 530, knowing that the job was was pretty much done, but again, they made a really good fist of it. Probably should have won against chelsea actually, as you know. But, but look, theyve managed to stay in as we said, as we said yesterday, its existential. You have to stay in this division. And the more time you spend in the division, historically, the stronger you get. Yeah. And then next season, instead of looking at maybe bottom, bottom six, you can maybe look towards mid table. And thats certainly what forest will be hoping for. And the owner, marinakis, will certainly be looking towards that forest a21 up, the crowd you know, in the city ground were getting, you know, very, very excited. It ended up being three two defeat. You know thats the way it goes. Chelsea fantastic squad. Commiserations to luton and burnley, you know as as a team youre a qpr fan. We all know how tough the battle for survival. Its almost primaeval. Its like darwinian. Primaeval. Its like darwinian. Its such a scrap. It is. Its exciting though. But its also the first time that we dont know what it says about the gap between the premier league and the championship. I always felt that it was a bit overblown, actually. I mean, lots of clubs have come up from the championship and more than held their own, but this is the First Time Since 1998 it looks like now, barring a 12 goal swing, of course, against Nottingham Forest, that all three teams come up from the championship will have gone straight back down. So sad to see that, but hopefully it will just be an aberration. Okay, now lets look ahead. Now of course all eyes on man u arsenal today and the battle for the premiership title. Yeah. So man city did their job yesterday. They went to the top of the league for the first time in a few weeks by winning at fulham. They won comfortably as well. Josko gvardiol scoring as well. Josko gvardiol scoring a couple of goals for city as a winger. Even though hes a centre back. Thats how confident that Pep Guardiola is in the adaptability of his players. But arsenal go to man united today. I think theyve only won once there in the league, martin since 2006. So we talk about man citys wretched record at tottenham. They go there on tuesday. Arsenal dont travel to old trafford very well, certainly since the days of the prime day, prime years of Arsene Wengers time. So thatll be a tough one for them today. And then we could get a situation where if man city were to draw at tottenham, assuming arsenal were to win today, we could get a shootout on the final day, which comes down to goal difference. That would be tremendously exciting. I want to touch as well on the old firm in scotland, a big title race up there as well. Rangers had a real chance to bloody the noses of celtic yesterday and take the take the initiative in the title race, celtic managed to win two one and look, they blew it for themselves, alan stubbs said yesterday. Its about temper, its about focus, its about holding your own and holding a nerve. On the day they didnt manage to do that, rangers, they missed their chance very much like 9697. When we talked about early on, celtic had that brilliant form outside of the old firm matches. They just could not beat rangers. Its the same in reverse this time. Celtic needed a point now at kilmarnock on wednesday to go and win it to win their 12th league title out of 13 aidan magee. Im afraid we have to blow the final whistle there. Always a pleasure to see you in the studio. Cheers. That was a nice little link blow in the final whistle. Are you relieved with that nana . I nana . I dont know whats going on next time. Martin. Welcome back. Its 842. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with martin and nana. Right. Well, joining us now to go through whats making the news is editor of spiked, tom slater, an author and journalist, susan holder. Welcome back for now, tom, this story really leaps out from todays mail on sunday. Black markets, puberty blockers. Yes a really interesting investigation here. So as everyone will know by now, the cass review recently led to the banning of puberty blockers, in terms of the nhs, theyve actually been banned for some time already, but since then theyve also been banned in private clinics. Even north of private clinics. Even north of the border in scotland, theres a clampdown on them. And so , a clampdown on them. And so, naturally, people who are convinced that they are the wrong gender are turning to the black market, turning to the internet. So what this investigation did was that they they posed as a child trying to buy a young teenager essentially looking on places like reddit, looking on places like reddit, looking on places like reddit, looking on various Different Social Media sites, and very easily was able to buy quite large quantities of puberty blockers. Theres a gentleman here by the name of Serck Hanssen varda, who is someone who is running one of these kind of dodgy companies out of turkey, but there are all kinds of other outlets as well. So its one of those as ever, you can announce a policy in the way of banning puberty blockers. Everyone now agrees hes half sensible that that is the right route to go down. But the problem is because, you know, you do have these kids who have got this idea in their heads who have been listening to various onune have been listening to various online influencers. Often influencers are pointing them in the direction of where they can get these drugs as well, that its going to be a big game of whack a mole. Now, to make sure that kids arent accessing this stuff with even fewer safeguards than existed before her. So its no surprise that the internet steps in. And the black market, the dark web, i mean, you can get anything on the internet. Yeah, in a sense, this is a sign of the times. No surprise. It is no surprise. And toms right. You know, the fact that it can be so unregulated to go that way rather than having access to it through some sort of formal kind of way. But maybe the only thing to do, i think, to, to stop this is to talk to children more and listen to them more and more counselling in place and more kind of in the process. Before you get to the point where you think you actually kind of are needing those drugs. I mean, it is obviously like you says, any, any half sensible person would never agree that anyone under 18 should be accessing these any old garbage, but they could be. And the danger . Well, i think that will put a lot of people off. And the fact that its gone on the black market is not a good thing, but it does protect. Its a very extreme situation that youre going to be able to do that. I would, i would think, but it is very dangerous. I mean, its dangerous what the drugs do to you when theyre correct drugs and its but its even more dangerous if theyre doing something completely different, which you dont know what theyre going to be. Well, they dont know what theyre doing. And the suzanne paloma faiths dating checklist. Okay. Paloma faith. I love paloma faith, but did you know shes on a shes on a dating website for celebrities. Theres a dating website for celebrities. Thats a bit odd, isnt it . Its called raya. You have to be a celebrity to try and get a date with. Well, thats not on her list. Theyre very fussy, though. They wont let you on. Not everyone can just. You cant be a celebrity. Im going to go on there. They decide whether theyre going to have you or not, whether youre a celebrity. But on her list, if is not, you have to be another celebrity. Thats not a list you cant wear ugg boots. She doesnt want anybody tory. She doesnt want anybody tory. She doesnt want anybody tory. She doesnt want anyone. Tory. There you go. Youre out. She doesnt want anyone to take more than 25 minutes to get ready. Youre definitely out there. I mean, thats five. 11 is her minimum height requirement. And if you havent done or arent doing therapy, she doesnt want you. Oh, my god, she sounds like a nightmare. She does sound like a bit of a nightmare, i have to say, but i think lists and we all have kind of ideals of what we would and wouldnt want in general. But if i look back at what i thought i would end up with when i was young, i wouldnt have put smoker , which wouldnt have put smoker, which my husband now was then. He isnt now, but he was then. I wouldnt have put 20 years older. That wouldnt be something that youd require. I wouldnt have put, you know, lead singer over of a rock band. I didnt it wasnt on my list. My mums got a list. Shes in her 70s. She went to bring me a billionaire who looks like a horse. She doesnt care what shes got because nobody would want him. She can have him. Is the thing alone. She just. They exist. All these lists. They exist. All these lists. They exist. All these lists. All these lists dont. Dont have any kind of all of them have any kind of all of them have make any room for chemistry. And the fact you just spark with somebody and it doesnt matter whats on your list, it just wont necessarily go that way. The therapy thing was odd. The therapy thing is, i mean, does she stipulate what kind of therapy . No, therapy. Not in this piece about mental health, presumably. No, its not aromatherapy. No, its not aromatherapy. I think i could be better off with somebody who doesnt in a way, if shes looking for the perfect person, somebody who maybe doesnt need therapy, but thats the perfect. It doesnt make them. It doesnt make them. Somebody doesnt make has had therapy is not the perfect person. No. And if that if you think thats the perfect person, your standards are low there. Its like that idea now that if youre not in therapy, theres something wrong with you, which i find very, very something wrong with you in therapy. Nothing wrong to admit that, but thats quite telling. And i think theres a broader discussion here that she wouldnt date a tory voter. How ridiculous. The whole kind of. Im not. Look, the thing is, my miss is, you know, is politically very different from myself. So what . Yeah. Why do myself. So what . Yeah. Why do you have to date somebody who agrees with what you think about . Isnt that. I think thats i think that sounds kind of quite a bit about her as well, actually. Not in a mean way, but she obviously wants people who are not even a first date conversation. That is it. That is it. Who wants somebody whos going to challenge me a little bit, at least not just let me get away with blue murder. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Tom, lets move on to this one, perhaps no surprises to parents or indeed anybody who watches people walking out in the road, staring at their phones, about to get splattered by a car. Uk is the mobile phone addiction. Addiction. Capital no, exactly. This is really interesting. Actually. Theres been a survey by more in common who have found that british adults use their phones more regularly. Theyre also more likely to favour restrictions for their children then france, germany, america. Its poll of 8000 people. And whats interesting about this as well is the fact that its suggesting that, first of all, adults and children dont really use their phones any more than one another. So theres often this panic about young people using social media. And one thing you do think about that is obviously theyre getting their cues from their parents as well. So while theres often a panic about how young people are getting to onune young people are getting to online and so on, you know, staring at their staring at their instagram feed when they should be having a conversation around the family dinner table thats not come out of a vacuum. And i think thats often something thats missed, so one of the things that it puts down to why britain is particularly bad for constantly checking phones and so on is because the fact that unlike places like france, where you basically have almost legal restrictions on not being able to email people after hours at work and so on, that doesnt really exist here. But theres clearly also a cultural problem anyway, across the board with, you know, we panic about young people using mobile phones, and yet everyones, you know, guilty of this. I took my daughter off all the time, but im a total, utter hypocrite. But it is about the effect on developing minds we dont know. And that constant scrolling and the kind of that looking at a screen and not looking up and being in the world, when you see in very small children, my son is 29. When i when my son was little and we took him out and we went to the restaurants or we went, we were going out or youre travelling or youre on an aeroplane, there was not a screen i could put in front of him, and you had to have colouring books. You had to talk to him, you had to play activities. I can make you one of those Little Things like that in two seconds. You still make that . I can do it any, any way you want. Because. Because you can. You just you just have to do things to occupy them. And people now do use them as babysitting devices all the time. And really will panic if, if they dont have a screen to put in front of their child, even on a just a short tube journey. Ive seen people just standing there with phones in front of their childs faces, and you do think that screen in their face all the time . They dont always ask for it. Its just given to them and i do think that is a big worry about how thats going to affect their Attention Spans and their development as they get older. I see kids who are still in buggies, who the mums on the trains give them a phone. They do , and if the phone falls off, do, and if the phone falls off, the kids are. Exactly. Yeah. And they cant do without a phone before they can even walk. Oh my son, if youre not at that early door. And its not that you cant blame the children for this. Theyre not asking for that parents. And i do understand its, you know, having a child, its, you know, having a child, its hard work. And you do have to do an awful lot of things to keep them. But you know, the days are long, but the years are short. I hate it when people are pushing buggies on their phones and not attending to their kids. I find that a bit, but i just give my son. Hes six now. He plays with lego tv off everything, low tech on the and the lego. Do you know what they want more than anything . Human interaction. They do talk to them. Thats what they want. Love me. Talking of which, lets get on to the african penguins. We need african penguins because theyve been on the list all morning. Weve talked about african penguins all morning. We havent got to it. We cant let it be one of those stories we dont do. Tom. Tom. That is the definition of drop the dead donkey. No, the comedy show drop the dead donkey is about the story thats at the bottom of the list and never gets gets. Were doing it with the penguins. Lets not drop the african penguins. Penguins . Penguins . So there are concerned that the african penguins that weve heard so much about already on this show this morning could disappear. So theres, penguins are particularly visit a particular beach in south africa and theres worried that theyre they could basically disappear by 2035. There used to be about 100,000 of them about 100 years ago. Now theyre down to about 10,000. Naturally, theyre blaming the climate , blaming the climate, overfishing, a few other things. But, but nobody fishes for penguins. No, apparently. No, apparently. Is it directly the fish they eat . It seems like. So as ever, cause for concern. This is something that i think most people can agree is should be something that is tried to rectify. But, you know, oftentimes you see these kind of panicked headlines, but there are things that can take place. You know, every generation theres a particular species that people are particularly worried about could be humpback whales. 20, 30 years ago, they bred back. Bred back. Were all going to die out a while ago and that just hasnt happened. Yeah, theres too many of them. And even the panda that is. Isnt the panda the sign of the wwf world wildlife. And actually that actually isnt endangered anymore because but because its because of things like this. Because we talk about it. Because we talk about it. Because attention is brought to bean because attention is brought to bear. But i was very confused about where you find penguins. And because is it the arctic or the antarctic . And its the antarctic, isnt it . You youd never find a penguin next to a polar bear. Thats true, isnt it . Because the polar bears are north and theyre south. So what about the african penguins . And where are they . I didnt think they even had penguins in africa. Yeah, in south africa. Yeah, in south africa. Yeah. Thats right on the. Yeah. Thats right on the. And there in australia, anywhere Southern Hemisphere you find a lot of people bless them on this. Wonderful. Right. Lets get stuck to the eurovision. One last pop because come on. One last pop because come on. Weve been talking about all morning. We absolute calamity. The politics overtook the performances once again. But you know what the performance some of the performances were good and we havent spoken about this. And i would quite like to because it is a song contest and the one i would have voted for would have been france. So the french singer sang no fancy tricks. He was a good singer. He had a good song. I heard that, what a beautiful voice. He stood back from the mic a cappella as well, and did a cappella with no music. You could have heard a pin drop. It was. It was a real moment. It was actually like real spine chilling stuff. I thought it was beautiful. He came fourth. Yeah, he was in the top five, so i wasnt the only person to think. But there were some mad things as as eurovision always is, there was a man dancing with no pants on or the camera kind of angles covered up the fact that he was naked from the fact that he was naked from the waist down, pretty much. And then a pair of denim shorts were delivered on wires that shot fireworks out when he put them on. You see, wouldnt you . Youre looking at me like im making this up. Yeah, i couldnt make that up. Drinking. Did this happen . Did this happen . This actually happened. There was also there was also. And was also there was also. And yeah, the im now im now thinking its myself. I know it wasnt. I actually know did i see that. No. I mean he did. Was that a dream . I see it was it was finland. I see it was it was finland. Yeah. It was called no pants, no rules, no pants. You see, there was dua lipa type thing, but not dua lipa. But do you know what dua lipa i thought of dua lipa while i watched the whole show. There was a lot. There were a lot of men dancing in pants. There was one that had very big pants at the front, but when they turned around there was g strings. You see, i do think things have gone too far. Its gone a bit much. Its gone a bit much. Its gone a bit much. It has gone a bit much. But this is the beauty of eurovision. But the, the musically there were some things that were quite good. I do think the one that won, he sang, he sang a good song, you know, on a, on a spinning top. That was quite good. I quite like norways entry. It was like a sort of norway are always good, arent they . Very good. It was like a mystic kind of whoa, really high notes. Nothing that ollie, nothing that Olly Alexander could reach nil point for the uk. And maybe theres the answer that we should have less men in pants. Yes, more women in pants. Like the good old days. Just singing. No no, im going to. No, im going to fight that back. I no, im going to fight that back. I dont think we should have i dont i dont think we should have women dancing in their pants either. I dont think we need to see anybody dancing in the pants. I think we need to have good songs brilliantly sung. That would be a good song contest. And unfortunately, thats what went wrong with the uks entry, which is very tragic that Olly Alexander. Poor guy. Never mind olly, not next time, maybe next time we can get a musician who can really sing. Who can really sing. Susan tom who werent dancing in their pants have been great all morning. Although it is quite hot. Yeah, which is your weather with craig snell . Craig snell . 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 today , most of us ahead to today, most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon many western and northern parts seeing some showers. 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Elsewhere, a largely afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Good morning. Its fast approaching. 9 00. Its sunday. Its the 12th of may. And this is breakfast. Of course, with nana akua and Martin Daubney. And heres whats leading the news today. Switzerland have won the Eurovision Song Contest, a ceremony marred in chaos and scandal. Lets get the latest from Charlie Peters. Hes there. Live good morning. From sunny sweden, where last night protest and politics threatened to overshadow the music in the party. Now well cross back to charlie live for more updates. But before that, concern on labour benches over their newest recruit, Natalie Elphicke, as its alleged that she lobbied a former justice secretary over her ex husbands sex abuse trial, shes probably getting so much attention this is the most shes had for many years. Harry and meghan. Now they continue their not so royal tour of nigeria as the couple open up on their family life and glorious weather returns across the country today with the hottest day of the year expected. But for how long can we expect the sunshine to continue for them . For most of us, the fine and sunny weather will continue today, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing. Find out where with me in a little bit. Warms the show. Always. Warms the show. Always. A delight to have your company and delightful to be joined by nana akua this one. Yes. Superb. Now their slogan may be united by music, but this years Eurovision Song Contest was anything but. A scandal and chaos engulf. The competition. Chaos engulf. The competition. In the end, of course, it was switzerlands act nemo who walked away with the trophy, the countrys first win since they they won with celine dion. But all eyes were on israels eden golan, who placed fifth. In the end, her act was booed by fans in the arena, but she scored a 323 points from the pubuc scored a 323 points from the public vote with a full 12 points coming from uk viewers. Absolutely. And the uks olly absolutely. And the uks Olly Alexander . Well, he ended up finishing the night at the bottom of the ladder 18th place, which. Some say is quite which. Some say is quite generous, receiving no points from the public. And were now joined by gb News ReporterCharlie Peters, our man in malmo. So, charlie, the protests outside were so big they numbered more than the people inside the arena. And charlie, tell us about some of the unsavoury characters in their midst. Their midst. Well, it was a significant scuffle outside the arena last night as the eurovision grand final, as its known, kicked off at 9 pm. We did see several of the protesters who were part of the protesters who were part of the main demonstration in the town Centre Earlier yesterday afternoon, migrate over to the arena as the show started, and they went through a very unique and interesting strategy, i think, where they started pushing back against the police and the police, both danish and swedish, in a joint effort, would kettled them away and then wed see a fresh wave of protesters come in and take their place constantly forcing their place constantly forcing the police to move them around so that they couldnt get rid of the entire protest. In one move, there were several arrests. We saw some punches thrown, pepper spray was used by the police. We saw one man receiving treatment outside the arena after the first round of scuffles , and it first round of scuffles, and it went on for some time, and this was part of a thousand strong protest. But amid widespread condemnation of eurovision by many of the pro palestinian groups who have said that israel should not have taken part in last nights event, but it went ahead and eden golan did sing her track at the event, called hurricane. It had to be changed hurricane. It had to be changed from october rain, which the organisers, the ebu, said was too political because it referenced they thought the war that had started on october the 7th when hamas committed those atrocities in southern israel. So she changed the track, went ahead and performed. And while there were several loud demonstrations in malmo yesterday , many critics this yesterday, many critics this morning have said that the silent european majority were heard through the voting, with israel placing second in the overall public vote. Second only to croatia there, and it was the jury to croatia there, and it was the jury vote that saw eden golan finish fifth in a hotly contested competition. Last night here in southern sweden. And charlie, extraordinary scenes Greta Thunberg, whos complained for most of her life about being bullied and harangued as a woman, yet she was outside doing precisely that to eden golan inside, as you said. And charlie, you mentioned to us earlier, a proscribed terrorist group was marching yesterday. Tell us more about that. Well, the pflp was out in force yesterday. The popular front for the liberation of palestine. And this group is a marxist leninist Organisation Based predominantly in the west bank. But it has support around the world, particularly in the in the arab diaspora, in europe, where several people there were gathering with their flags here in malmo. And one man told me that several members from the west bank whod left and moved into europe were actually on the march. Now, this group is a proscribed terrorist organisation in the United States, canada, japan and throughout the European Union, which of course, sweden is a part of. So controversial to see several of those flags flying. Several of those flags flying. We also saw flags for communist representation in sweden. And at the back of the march, we also saw a group called queers for palestine, right at the back of the train of protesters as they moved through central malmo Greta Thunberg also seen yesterday and on thursday in those major demonstrations, part of a recent trend that weve observed with environmentalist groups and agitators joining up with pro palestinian demonstrations, critics of this movement have said that theyre just taking advantage of much of the attention that the pro palestinian cause is receiving at the moment, not necessarily understanding a link between the green cause and the situation in gaza and the west bank. But those who are part of this new movement, which weve seen an alignment between the greens and the pro palestinians , greens and the pro palestinians, theyve said especially on gb news, theyve said that they are fighting against two different genocides. They think theres a genocides. They think theres a genocide in gaza and a genocide being caused by the environmental crisis. Of course, both of those claims very sternly contested, are Charlie Peters. Thank you very much. Its like genocide has become the new word because before it was racist, everyone was called a racist. Now everything theyre calling things genocide. I think its very been used very liberally, without i dont think i think i dont think its the right word to be using for that at all. And an astonishing statement, switzerland, one of their people put a statement out saying that the Eurovision Song Contest has always been a safe haven for anybody from the lgbtq community, but it appears now its not a safe haven if you happen to be jewish. I know its such hypocrisy andifs i know its such hypocrisy and its incredible. They dont appear to be able to see what theyre doing as quite hypocritical, especially the whole notion of queers for palestine, which, as we know , palestine, which, as we know, theyre not so favourable towards those who are homosex , towards those who are homosex, but its one way of putting it. I mean, you probably wouldnt last five minutes in palestine in if hamas were in control. The politics totally taken over the event this year overshadowed it utterly. And lets move on now utterly. And lets move on now and get the thoughts of gb news presenter Camilla Tominey. Camilla, welcome to the show. Of course, the Camilla Tominey show 930 directly after this, the most watched politics show on a sunday morning. Fantastic viewing figures with excellent guests. Whats on your menu today . Today . Well, quite a lot as youd imagine. Well, quite a lot as youd imagine. Martin. Well, quite a lot as youd imagine. Martin. Lovely to see imagine. Martin. Lovely to see you and nana presenting breakfast. Weve had pretty busy week, havent we . The Natalie Elphicke defection continues to dominate the sunday newspapers , dominate the sunday newspapers, so im going to get the perspective from both the conservatives and indeed labour. Im going to be speaking to Deputy Foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell. Of course, we will cover all of the foreign affairs. Well talk about whats going on in the middle east. Well talk about ukraine. But i also want to ask him whether Natalie Elphicke is a loss to his party. I think the labour leader, keir starmer, might be scratching his head this morning wondering if this was a good idea. Weve now got coverage in the sunday times and the mail on sunday about Natalie Elphicke having put pressure on former justice secretary Robert Buckland after her ex husband Charlie Elphicke , was convicted Charlie Elphicke, was convicted of sexually assaulting two women, labour, we think knew this at the time and theres been some question marks raised about sue gray and whether she knew this was going on when she was looking after sort of mps ethics and propriety. So i think what seemed to be a promising story earlier in the week, this idea of a conservative, quite a right wing conservative crossing the floor to labour, is now come back to bite starmer. Ill be back to bite starmer. Ill be speaking to Jonathan Ashworth about that. Ill also want him to cost up Angela Rayners new deal for workers plan. Theres an interesting story on the front of the sunday express this morning, guys saying that that plan and she wants to give all workers a pay rise. Obviously the trade unions are all over it. How much will it actually cost . Because the policy cost . Because the policy exchange seems to think that pay rises up to a minimum of £15 an hour for Public Sector workers will cost 9 billion. And id like to know from Jonathan Ashworth , whos kind of labours ashworth, whos kind of labours resident attack dog these days , resident attack dog these days, how much thats actually going to cost the taxpayer because the policy exchange thinks its going to put £255 on Peoples Council tax bills. Yeah, camilla, we covered that story in the paper review earlier, and we were just astonished to believe this, this notion, okay. You know, paying your union dues. If youre a union member to get a result is one thing, but expecting the everyday taxpayer, the rank and file briton who might not sign up to this to cough up for the bill, its an astonishing thing to expect. Is this a taste of what the labour party might be offering us . Camilla well, who knows, and id like to know from Jonathan Ashworth. I mean, theyre often batting off my questions by saying we havent come up with the manifesto yet, but i mean, he should be able to answer the bafic should be able to answer the basic question, which is, are you going to tax people more to pay you going to tax people more to pay for these big Spending Plans . Because rachel reeves, the woman who wants to be the first female chancellor herself, has been saying in the week the economic picture is dire , for economic picture is dire, for the conservatives are gaslighting voters when it comes to the state of the economy, so theyre not going to inherit any money. Therefore one wonders how theyre going to be able to pay for some of these pledges. They for some of these pledges. They also keep on mentioning the windfall tax, which seems to have been spent in their minds about 100 times. Im also going to just test the music of how tories are feeling at the moment , but im going to be speaking to george eustice, who is the former environment secretary who has decided to stand down at the next general election and then also speak to Boris Johnson ally conor burns, whos deciding to run even though hes in quite a marginal constituency of 10,000. I just want to know, after elphicke and with everything thats being said about rishi sunaks plan not working, what they make of the state of the conservatives i note richard holden, the party chairman, has given an interview to the sunday express today saying we can still win the next general election. Weve got this great plan thats going to blow starmer out of the water. Do these two mps agree . Oh, camilla, id also be interesting to find out about labours plans to add the 20 vat onto private schools or independent schools, because it seems that lots of people now, theyve got a 2. 7 reduction already in parents applying for these schools, and theyre expecting that in september. Thatis expecting that in september. That is set to get worse. Our that is set to get worse. Our labouris that is set to get worse. Our labour is still focused on that because it seems to be a law of diminishing returns. Diminishing returns. I agree, and interestingly, i did speak to one of Keir Starmers closest aides about this fairly recently, said he is vehemently sticking to this pledge. To scrap vat relief for pledge. To scrap vat relief for private schools. But ive never been able to get an answer nana to the question of what labour will do with the children who do not go to private school this september because the parents can no longer afford the fees. So weve seen applications already down by 2. 7. That means that all of those children will now have to be accommodated into the state sector. Ive asked this of bridget phillipson, the shadow education secretary, repeatedly if, as the independent Schools Council predicts, 40,000 kids may not end up continuing with their private schooling because their parents cant afford it, where are they going to be accommodated . A labour going to put up temporary classrooms . Put up temporary classrooms . Because, lets be honest, even if theyre not in power by september, were expecting an election later than that. These parents will probably pull the kids out now, expecting there to be a labour government. Be a labour government. Literally. What happens to these kids . Camilla, just finally reflecting on the Natalie Elphicke defection, do you think its been the most disastrous defection of all time . It seems that nobody is happy about it. The voters arent happy. The the voters arent happy. The conservative party are unhappy. The labour party sure is damned. Arent happy. Is anybody happy . It seems to have been a terrible miscalculation all across the board. Board. Yeah, it does seem to have been self defeating. I mean, initially when that news broke at just before Prime Ministers questions, everyone was like, what . Because she had been associated with being quite right wing, and shed been so critical of labour that my first reaction was, well, if shes defected, it must have been to reform. Shes in dover. Clearly, immigration is a worry down there to then find out shes gone to labour, a party that she spent most of her political career attacking. Then youve career attacking. Then youve got people in dover. I mean, you have to think of the constituents. I have to think of the constituents. I mean, have to think of the constituents. I mean, this is constituents. I mean, this is sort of shows the worst of politics. Does it does she really think that the good people of dover are quite happy to wake up one morning with a tory mp and then the next labour . We had some readers writing to in the telegraph, and the day after she defected , some the day after she defected, some of them were receiving tory leaflets through their door from Natalie Elphicke, praising rishi sunak and attacking keir starmer. And now shes changed sides. Its bizarre. Yeah, camilla, it will be funny if it werent so tragic. But anyway, fantastic show coming up as ever. Camilla tominey show 930 straight after us. Make sure to stay glued for that. Us. Make sure to stay glued for that. Thanks, camilla. Always a pleasure. Right, well, it is time now for the Great British giveaway and your chance to enjoy a spectacular summer with an extra £20,000 cash in your bank. Its the biggest cash prize of the year so far. And heres how it could be yours. 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Good luck still to come, Meghan Markle in her quest for privacy, has opened up about her time as a parent on her tour of nigeria with prince harry. Well be discussing that next. This is breakfast on gb news with martin and. Nana. Good morning. If youve just tuned in. Where have you been sleeping in your bed. Yes. That makes perfect sense. Its just coming up to 19 minutes after 9 00 this morning. Youre watching and listening to breakfast with me and martin nana akua martin. Thank you very much. Now, an official scheme to deliver portraits of the king has been extended. It now includes hospitals , coast guard centres, hospitals, coast guard centres, job centres, universities, church of england churches and other Public Institutions. Well other Public Institutions. Well gb news Political Correspondent olivia utley sat down with deputy Prime MinisterOliver Dowden to find out more. Dowden to find out more. Can you explain to gb news viewers what the scheme is and why youre expanding it . Yes. Well, following the coronation last year, we thought it would be appropriate to make sure that Public Institutions up and down the country could have and down the country could have a portrait of his majesty the king. He is, after all, the ultimate Public Servant and just as portraits of his late mother hungin as portraits of his late mother hung in buildings up and down the country, so too already are these portraits hanging in many thousands of buildings. And so today im announcing a further extension. So new institutions can have a portrait of the king, whether thats hospitals, whether thats hospitals, whether its the church of england churches, coast guards and others. More more Public Institutions will be able to hang a portrait of the king. Will you be expanding the scheme to include other places of worship like synagogues . Not at this stage. Weve taken the decision that because the king is the supreme governor of the church of england , he of the church of england, he leads that institution in the way that he does many other pubuc way that he does many other Public Institutions. So its appropriate to have a portrait of him are being provided by the government. Of course, we would very much welcome other institutions having a portrait of the king. And indeed, when i attend synagogues , one of the attend synagogues, one of the things we do at the end of almost every service is to sing the national anthem. So i know how committed the Jewish Community is to the king. Why did it take a labour mps intervention for you to take this step and expanding the scheme . Well, actually, i initiated this scheme many months ago and agreed funding with the treasury. Many thousands of institutions have taken it up, but because weve managed to run this contract so efficiently and get the cost of individual portraits down, it means theres essentially headroom in the contract to be able to open this up to further institutions. It had always been my hope that we could extend it further, but we just had to see what the take up was in the initial phase. What do you make of channel 4 . Refusing to hang a portrait of the king in their studios . Well, i find it a little disappointing and somewhat, im afraid to say, unsurprising. The afraid to say, unsurprising. The king is a unifying figure for the entire nation. I hope they reconsider that. Yeah, that channel 4 refusing to put a portrait of the king in the studio. Yeah, they did that at magdalen college, i think at Oxford University in 2021. They they voted to take down a portrait of the queen, the late Queen Elizabeth the second, because they said it reminded them of our colonial past. I wonder how many institutions wont take them up on this offer for that precise reason, universities might think they have a portrait of the king. Is racing or you know what i mean . Theres this absurd. Really. Look, its the king. Hes the king of the united kingdom. This is our country. So a little bit of patriotism wouldnt go amiss. Its not racist or being. Youre not being a colonialist or whatever it is by putting that up there that he represents this country on a global scale, thats all it is. If they agree the wokeist that run these organisations now, they might find something as innocent as a royal portrait triggers them. Well, a lot of them are benefiting from so called slavery. In fact, some of us are actively participating in it by using laptops, ipads and everything else. Right. Well, staying with the royals now, Meghan Markle, of course, has opened up about her children during the second day of the duke and duchess of sussexs tour of nigeria. Now, this came after harry and meghan met with nigeria the unconquered, which creates the countrys team for the invictus games, and the couple watched a game of sitting volleyball before harry was invited and played a few rounds with the team himself. And earlier we spoke to former royal correspondent michael cole. Correspondent michael cole. Magic of monarchy, carries on evenin magic of monarchy, carries on even in 61 years after, nigeria and the most populous country in africa became a republic and everybody is there very, very keen to see the khalife , the two keen to see the khalife, the two andindeed keen to see the khalife, the two and indeed the meghan. The and indeed the meghan. The duchess has been addressed as princess and im quite sure she enjoyed that. Shes been saying quite a lot nana about, the 43, nigerian , heritage antecedents nigerian, heritage antecedents that she has. And im just that she has. And im just wondering, does that mean that 57 is german . Because i think her father, thomas markle, is descended from german immigrants to, the United States of america. All of this goes on there. She is speaking to women in leadership, in abuja, the capital of nigeria. And there they are out meeting people. Of course, this is, an not a royal visit. Its a visit by two private royal personages , both private royal personages, both of them. There in their personal capacity. And, what i think this is very important for is netflix. Of course, this produces a lot of good new material for their netflix offerings, their, their podcasts and their other programs because they have a very big contract, 100 billion with netflix to produce new material. And you cant do that if youre forever sitting within your khalife to camelot on a hilltop at montecito. Youve got to get out there with the people how. Now. Thats it from us today. Breakfast will be back tomorrow at 10 am. Im back at three, but up next is Camilla Tominey martin. Its been a pleasure. Same here. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you for your company. Stay tuned. Stay tuned. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning and welcome to your latest gb news Weather Forecast from the met office. Looking ahead to today most of us seeing some further sunshine, but there will be a scattering of thunderstorms developing actually for some northern and eastern parts. Quite a murky start this morning, but the low cloud and mist will burn away, so that leaves most of us with some sunshine. But for northern ireland, a scattering of showers developing and come the afternoon, many western and northern parts seeing some showers. And these showers will be heavy, possibly thundery in places, and warnings are in force right throughout the afternoon and evening, but in the Sunshine Feeling very warm. Highs could reach 27 degrees down towards the south eastern corner. Into down towards the south eastern corner. Into this evening. The showers continue to rumble on, especially across parts of Northern England and scotland. Some torrential downpours developing here overnight. Elsewhere turns drier but fairly cloudy but under the cloud its going to be a mild night. Temperatures for most of us, staying firmly in that double figures. So for most it should be a dry start on monday. Still some showers up across scotland , some showers up across scotland, but they should gradually ease a tad. But then down towards the south west we see this next band of rain move in some heavy rain as that moves its way towards south wales and parts of somerset and dorset. Come the afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely afternoon. Elsewhere, a largely dry picture. Best of the sunshine over towards the east. But for all of us feeling a little bit cooler, i think highs possibly reaching 20 degrees in the east. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on gb news. Away. Good morning. Welcome to the Camilla Tominey show on this beautiful sunday morning. Great to have your company as ever. Another week in westminster, another defection from the tory party to labour right wing conservative mp natalie. Natalie elphickes decision to cross the floor of the commons has sparked controversy, and ill be getting the reaction from both sides of the reaction from both sides of the house. Ill be speaking to Deputy Foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell about the governments rwanda plan, the war in gaza and whether rishi sunak can win back tory voters. Ill be joined by tory voters. Ill be joined by labours Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow paymaster general, to discuss Keir Starmers plan to stop the boats. Will