Who better to speak to then former tottenham manager Harry Redknapp, who started his managerial career at tottenham with a win over liverpool. So well be speaking to him about that later. A bad omen for me then. A bad omen for me then. Hope so. And of course, your hope so. And of course, your views are important to us too, so please get in touch. Join in with the conversation. Email us at gb views. Gbnews. Com with whatever you want to talk about today too. But before we get into all of that, heres the News Headlines with the very wonderful tamzin. Lovely intro. Wonderful tamzin. Lovely intro. Thanks very much , phil, and thanks very much, phil, and good morning to you from the gb newsroom. Its 10 02. Good morning to you from the gb newsroom. Its10 02. Dozens good morning to you from the gb newsroom. Its 10 02. Dozens of conservative mps have signed a pledge to never again vote for an increase in overall taxes. Former Prime Minister liz truss and former Party Leader Sir Iain duncan smith are among those to have signed up along with seven former cabinet ministers the promise means they wont vote for the chancellors autumn statement if it contains tax rises. Putting pressure on rishi sunak ahead of the conservative Party Conference. Jeremy hunt has told the times he wants to stop the vicious circle of ever rising taxes, but ruled out tax cuts in the short term. Former cuts in the short term. Former Party Chairman sir jake cuts in the short term. Former Party Chairman sirjake berry , Party Chairman sir jake berry, who has organised the pledge, says it holds the chancellor to his word all too often we have seen these promises and pledges made by mps across the political divide that havent materialised. That is why this tax pledge is different. It isnt connected to the conservative party. It is to the conservative party. It is a direct pledge from me to my constituents in rossendale and dannen and to the british people that i will not vote to put taxes up. Its for keeps. It is a pledge that i will stick to as long as i am a member of parliament. The Prime Minister says hes slamming the brakes on the war on motorists. Rishi sunak, whos expected to address the issue this week, told the sun that harebrained schemes like low traffic neighbourhoods and 20 mile per hour zones were being forced on drivers. The department for transport says guidance will be reviewed to prevent their blanket use in england. Local councils in england. Local councils in england also face a clampdown on using traffic offences to boost their budgets. The driver of a their budgets. The driver of a school bus who died after it crashed on the m 53 yesterday has been named online by his family. Stephen shrimptons family. Stephen shrimptons family. Stephen shrimptons family says the father of two suffered medical issues at the wheel of the coach. 15 year old Jessica Baker also died in the crash. Four other children were taken to hospital , including a taken to hospital, including a 14 year old boy whose injuries are said to be life changing. Are said to be life changing. The pupils were on their way to Calday Grange and west kirby grammar schools on the wirral when their bus overturned after colliding with a car. Rail passengers are again facing travel chaos with train drivers going on strike today. Travel chaos with train drivers going on strike today. Aslef going on strike today. Aslef members at 16 operators in england have walked out in a long running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions in many parts of the country will have no services. And those that do run will start later and finish earlier than usual. Transport secretary mark harper says the current offer on the table is reasonable. Reasonable. The strike thats taking place today, its clearly a political strike timed to coincide with the conservative Party Conference. You dont have to think very carefully to see thats the case. But look, theres a fair offer on the table. Train drivers get paid an average salary of £60,000 for a full day, 35 hour week. The pay rise thats on the table that they wont put to their members would take that average salary to £65,000 a year. Now, look, i think most of your viewers will will look at that and think that is actually quite fair and reasonable. Reasonable. Well, aslefs general secretary mick whelan accused the secretary of not the transport secretary of not negotiating. Well, its not political. Its industrial. Mr harper and his cronies for the last 16 months have been accusing us of attacking all sorts of events on strike days, which we havent done because we havent seen mr harper. We decided to make a point wheres wally . Point today. Wheres wally . Wheres see us. Wheres mark . Come and see us. We are striking today to get the attention tory party and attention of the tory party and the to resolve this the government to resolve this dispute. Dispute. Two people have been injured after a crash involving the flying scotsman. The train was flying scotsman. The train was involved in a slow speed collision with another heritage train just hours before visitors were due to board it at aviemore station. The National Railway museum says a shunting incident happened whilst a steam train was being coupled with the royal scotsman train carriages. This scotsman train carriages. This is gb news across the uk on tv, in your car on Digital Radio and on your Smart Speaker by saying play gb news now though, its back to esther and phil. Back to esther and phil. Thanks, thomson. Now welcome back to saturday morning with esther and phil and like i said, its going to be a feisty show today. Well, its time now for a look at the biggest stories of the day with broadcaster and journalist Michael Crick and radio mike parry. Radio presenter mike parry. Where start . Mike . Do where shall we start . Mike . Do you the batting . You want to open the batting . Yes, i will. Lets well, yes, i will. Lets lets move on in the news agenda. Covered lots of agenda. Weve covered lots of big station this big stories on the station this morning, got a headline morning, but ive got a headline here why kids grow up and rule if dad isnt home for dinner. Now its a great report. This. Its america, but it its done in america, but it says as 5 or 6 says that as young as 5 or 6 years of children are years of age, if children are aware that their fathers not at the dinner table, it can affect their behaviour. They become more unruly and that can stick with them for life. So but the with them for life. So but the other side to this report, fascinating report , is that some fascinating report, is that some fathers dont appear at the dinner table if they dont feel theyve been doing it right for their families. Do you see what their families. Do you see what i mean . If they havent earned enough money, if they dont have enough money, if they dont have enough self respect in their job, to avoid the job, they tend to avoid the dinner table because they dont feel in front of feel comfortable in front of their , their children. Their children, their children. They think judge them, but they are, as people might see, the head family the time head of the family at the time to get together to talk about things. Things. So that discipline, the saying around the family saying happens around the family table. Do you think its important to have time important to have that time together for a family, get together for a family, to get the family together . Yes, of course. I mean, i think a lot of this report is a statement of the obvious, frankly. But i think that though, the more more that though, the more the more that though, the more the more that around and that parents are around and the more are more that both parents are around, if there are two parents and they can both be around, the better be at the dinner table better be it at the dinner table or be it at the weekends or whatever. And if a child is brought up by a single parent andits brought up by a single parent and its generally a mother and the mother is having to go out to work to make a living for the family and is not at home a lot, and theyre being after and theyre being looked after by people. That is by other people. That is obviously i think, obviously detrimental, i think, to them inculcating to them and to inculcating values and discipline and so its you know, its one of these reports that doesnt i dont think. Tell us much. Yes , but but but the point yes, but but but the point the second point, though, mike, i which is very interesting about how men who have not been earning, you know, are unemployed or not doing earning money, avoid the dinner table. Thats right. Thats right. But but i just say, mike, i should declare an interest here. I mean i mean, because ive got ive got two kids. My second son was born two weeks after i got elected to parliament. I was i was i was never around. No. Missed out any of his growing up. Yeah, but did you not put time aside once a week to say the family eat together . Thats what my dad used to do. You know, used to say sunday lunch. All getting together. Well, i was always and the thing is, when youre an mp, even when at home, youre even when youre at home, youre not at home. Not always at home. And i think yeah, and i think. I think the children members of the children are members of parliament are suffer a lot and they need their, you know, there are tragic cases of are some tragic cases of children members children of members of parliament ended parliament who have ended up committing parliament who have ended up comrdont; parliament who have ended up comrdont think you dont think i dont think you dont think reports like in any way reports like this in any way stigmatise parent . Stigmatise single parent . Well i dont they stigmatise dont think they stigmatise single parents. But michael the issue but michael raised the issue that going to get on to that i was going to get on to that i was going to get on to that more concerned that im much more concerned about sort of 12, 13, 14 year old children having their old children not having their father dinner table father at the dinner table because thats they start because thats when they start to what i would call to develop what i would call antisocial attitudes to life. And thats when you need the presence of a father around, because single parent families, where mother is the only adult weve seen it time and time again in studies, children tend to go more off the rails if theres only one person of influence in that house. And wasnt the report last week also which said that the absence of male teachers now in junior schools mean that the children are getting a different view of how to discipline themselves. I think its got to be time where you are together because ive seen people having dinner time together and everybodys on a mobile phone was no a mobile phone there was no well, shouldnt be allowed. Well, they shouldnt be allowed. Thats why i say its about discipline. Its about the conversation. On conversation. Its not being on thei mean, we ban we ban mobile i mean, we ban we ban mobile phones at our table. But but, but but thats like it. A but but thats like it. Thats a small always breaking small and im always breaking the im afraid. But but the rule, im afraid. But but the. No, thats a small but the interesting thing is what do we do to improve this situation. What do we do to help families stick together . Well, dont we incentivise them with tax breaks and dont dont we try and encourage more general stick together . Yes, of course it does. Yes. Family together . Yes, of course it would. Because yes, it would be an indication of society of, you we can improve you know, the way we can improve behaviour , the way we can behaviour, the way we can improve the coming together of society is not to let families break up. So we cant stand each other anymore. But ill tell what, anymore. But ill tell you what, because getting because were getting a tax break. They shouldnt break. No no, they shouldnt have married. Have got married. You end with rowing you end up with rowing parents and that is not going to have a elon musk hear his have a very elon musk hear his father. Now, this is somebody. Right. A relationship a rather unusual relationship with. I was just with his father. I was just a little quote. Im going to go from. Yeah, he did have dinner with his son, but he said id pick him up from the office. Hed his uniform. Hed be in his school uniform. All friends were free, all of his friends were free, thinking. Free this, that. The other libertarians and other extreme libertarians and theyd meal he said theyd after a meal, he said sometimes it did feel uncomfortable theyd uncomfortable because theyd all throw and throw a towel at each other and say, get your clothes off. So this most unusual, all this was most unusual, all upbringing. Is that elon upbringing. Is that why elon musk off the rails in some musk went off the rails in some way . What strange. Way . What a strange. Amazing, isnt it . By way . What a strange. Way, mazing, isnt it . By way . What a strange. Way, weveg, isnt it . By way . What a strange. Way, weve beent it . By way . What a strange. Way, weve been having this the way, weve been having this conversation. All conversation. Were all northerners and we keep talking about table. And yet about the dinner table. And yet really mean tea table, about the dinner table. And yet reallywe . Mean tea table, about the dinner table. And yet reallywe . Anyway, tea table, about the dinner table. And yet reallywe . Anyway, michael le, about the dinner table. And yet reallywe . Anyway, michael , dont we . Anyway, michael, whats your whats what story do you to have a bash out . You want to have a bash out . Well, i thought one of the interesting stories week interesting stories of the week was actually James Cracknell being chosen as a conservative candidate you know, the olympic oarsman who won gold medals in 22,000 and 2004. I think hes been chosen as your partys candidate for colchester. But the bad for news both of you is that James Cracknell is a the bad for news both of you is thatJames Cracknell is a big that James Cracknell is a big remainer. In fact, he said that he would like to see us in a generations time go back into the eu. Now the interesting thing is here, because i study all this, that actually quite all of this, that actually quite all of this, that actually quite a lot of remainers are being chosen as conservative candidates. I wonder , i candidates. And i wonder, i mean, obviously youll youll try deny this, but i wonder try and deny this, but i wonder whether the centre of gravity in the conservative moving the conservative party is moving back centre, to the back to the centre, to the centre and that its Centre Ground and that its i mean there was a assumption why has there been a remain of a Centre Ground opinion . Well, because centrists like me and people on the people, people on the left, lefties like you. Well, i dont think i think dont a of my friends dont think a lot of my friends would call me a lefty. But. But no, but im making a serious point here that i think that i think the point can see think the point and i can see where, know, i think, look, where, you know, i think, look, brexit is done. We are global nation and we are a global nation and weve to be getting our weve got to be getting our trade deals everywhere else. But what is relations what you do have is relations with nearest countries as with your nearest countries as well. So youll getting free well. So youll be getting free trade so there is a trade agreements. So there is a we move weve had brexit. We move on. Weve had brexit. Yeah is no back. Yeah but there is no going back. There like keir starmer or there is no like keir starmer or lets go back into the eu through back door anymore. Through a back door anymore. But michaels made a very no, but michaels made a very good point about the party. Why would more would you keep bringing in more remainers . Its remainers . Because is its because thats what the Party Members for. Members have voted for. Its all very well to say brexit is done and all that, but we the more remainers we know that the more remainers you in the party, the more you have in the party, the more trouble theyre going to make in trying implement should trying to implement what should have brexit, which was have been brexit, which was never and theyll never implemented. And theyll continue, continue, continue, theyll continue, you know. Im to talking know. No, no, im to talking the, the ground, the, you know, on the ground, the, you know, on the ground, the tories on the who the tories on the ground who select candidates. Dont select their candidates. I dont know select know why theyd select a remainer. Think theyre remainer. I think theyre mad because another because its just another stumblingmaybe they felt in this well, maybe they felt in this case because hes you know, hes a star. Hes hes hes gold dust and star you know, hes and star dust. You know, hes somebody that the public of somebody that the public some of the will have of the public will have heard of that help that would help me. Never seen rowing boat ive never seen a rowing boat go the house of commons. Go through the house of commons. So theyre interested in so theyre not interested in fighting the last war. Interested in they were interested in fighting next ones. And fighting the next ones. And arent parties arent Political Parties supposed broad churches . Supposed to be broad churches . I just they are indeed. But i just think its an interesting development. Know, theres development. You know, theres this the this assumption everywhere. The conservative moving conservative party is moving to the suella the right. Given what Suella Braverman this braverman has been saying this week on. Indeed, even the week and so on. Indeed, even the Prime Minister, and yet its a its a more complicated picture than that. And im saying, maybe it and what im saying, maybe it was to with him and the was more to do with him and the other achieved than other things hed achieved than it remain then. Other things hed achieved than it i remain then. Other things hed achieved than it i mean, remain then. Other things hed achieved than it i mean, itemain then. Other things hed achieved than it i mean, it shows