Five. Weve waited for years. Prime ministers have come and gone. Careers have risen and fallen. But as the rain poured down on downing street and the nafion down on downing street and the nation looked on expectantly, it finally happened. Someone emailed gb news saying they agreed with benjamin butterworth. The wokeist non gender aligned person in britain is back for more, and his old sparring partner Albie Amankona has jetted back from holiday to join the fun too. But im afraid theres no ben leo this week. Theres no ben leo this week. But lovers of annoyingly overconfident young right wingers need not despair. The one and only Alex Armstrong is present and correct now, keeping a measure of order and making her debut on the show. The brilliant freelance journalist georgia gillooly. Now folks, you all know the drill. We outline our argument about a chosen topic, then we all pile in and the first starts to fly. And of course, we want your views as well. Much more important than ours. Se
Addison. Thanks, darren. Its exactly 602. Our top stories. This hour. The Prime Minister says voters and their families would be at risk under a Labour Government posting in a long thread on x, rishi sunak claimed that labour doesnt have a plan and said that would give, quote, our enemies the chance to take advantage of our weakness. The tories are trying to make security a key dividing line between themselves and sir Keir Starmers party. After pledging to raise defence spending to 2. 5 by 2030, while sir keir starmer says the voting age should be lowered to 16. Both major parties have been pitching their messages to voters on the first weekend of this Election Campaign, with the government focusing on the economy. Speaking to reporters, the labour leader said young people deserve to have a say. I want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting. They can go out and work, they can serve in our armed forces and of course, if they are out and working, forces and of course, if they are out and work
U. S. History later on, the search for a successor is over at morgan sasan stanley. It is thus, october 26th, 2023 you are watching Worldwide Exchange. Good morning im frank holland. Lets start your day as we kickoff with stock futures we show you they are in the red across the board looking at percentages nasdaq is down 1 . The dow and s p also in the red. We will talk more about what is going on in a moment this action here after a rough session for stocks yesterday with the s p fall by more than 1 also the nasdaq now in connection territory it closed down nearly 2. 5 its worst day since february the focus of that selloff is on alphabet logging the single worst session since 2020 and the largest decline in market value of 166 billion wiped out. That number equals all of amd or disney shares are lower again this morning. Down 2. 25 we are watching surging yields. 10year treasury is at 4. 95 the 2year treasury is also showing a yield above 5 as well as the long bond. We will have more
So the system is fair. Well, in the next two hours well speak to labour shadow ministers and get exclusive polling on who the public want to be the next Prime Minister. Well also hear from a spokesperson from george galloways. Galloways. Party. And of course, well hear from the man of the moment, the man himself, nigel farage. Hell be in the studio giving his first reaction since revealing he wont be contesting a seat at the general election. He may be relieved to know that im not going to stand as a candidate myself. Why. 7 six myself. Why . Six weeks isnt long enough to fight a constituency seat. But theres some more news behind that, and well get to the story. Behind the story . Thats all coming up after your News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Wenzler. Good evening. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. The wenzler in the gb newsroom. The Prime Minister says voters should back him if they want the rwanda deportation scheme to succeed , but concedes flights succeed, but concedes fli
Peace process. We want to see a two state solution based on 1967 borders, land swaps between those two countries, an agreement on jerusalem, an agreement on jerusalem, an agreement on jerusalem, an agreement on the right of return. How could you do that as a government if benjamin is a Peace Process, how could you . How could you do that if, as a government, you, you know, if you win the next election , you you win the next election, you would be supportive of calls for Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested and potentially sent to the hague if he ever stepped foot in britain. Well, the agreement, the bafis well, the agreement, the basis of any peaceful resolution to conflict, is always got to be the rule of law. So i cant ask you the question the other way round. I cant see how you could propose a long term peace settlement in the middle east if it wasnt going to be underpinned by International Law, by partners agreeing security and respect for palestinians and israelis alongside each oth