spells, although more cloud the further north you are, all the details shortly. it s sunday, june 2nd. our main story. sir keir starmer has pledged to cut levels of legal migration to the uk, if labour wins the general election. in a newspaper interview he set out plans to prioritise british workers and crack down on businesses that break employment laws. the conservatives said no one believed the labour leader was serious about tackling immigration. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the latest. every year, people come to the uk to live, work or study. last year, net migration that s the difference between the number of people arriving and the number of people leaving was 685,000. sir keir starmer, who launched his election battle bus yesterday, has previously said that s too high. now he s promised to cut that number if labour wins the election, though he hasn t said by how much or by when. he told the sun on sunday newspaper read my lips, i will bring immig
and as part of the commemorations a mass parachute drop will take place over normandy. next week marks the 80th anniversary of the d day landings ahead of the event, our reporterjoe campbell went meet three generations of a family with a special connection to one of the planes involved in the liberation. and as soon as we get south towards the english channel, the clouds are going to break up and get a little higher, so we should. the weather should be improving, the further south we get. just like on d day itself, the hope was for a break in the weather. al reeves, my dad flew this plane. among the passengers for this trip, three generations of one family with a special connection to the plane. today, actually going over the beach.will bring me up. you know, he was a hero. didn t think of it very much at the time, since i knew that he died quite young, and much of this stuff i found out after he died. like many people in i guess probably almost anywhere they don t talk about it
theirfather, grandfather, great grandfather s diary for that day of days. talks about what happened onjune 6th, taking some flak, seeing some other planes go down. and it was also interesting that, when he landed, one of the things he said was, i think i m going to get drunk. it was just amazing to have his in flight notes about what was going on during the d day invasion. what were the kind of things that jumped out at you? well, one, that he wasjust a young man and that what he was about to embark on and his calm demeanour about what was about to happen it was inspiring. this iconic image showed the allied commander, general eisenhower, talking to troops about to board planes, including that s all brother, which led the airborne armada from greenham common in berkshire. front, right, plf. prepare to land. land.