Bygones be bygones. Doctors advise that letting go of anger is good for your. Health. So what better way to start your Bank Holiday Monday morning than letting go of your anger with us here . Nice deep breath. What have you been angry about . Everything. Angry about everything. Pretty much most of the time. But, you know, weve got a lot in the show today. Weve got a lot of light and shade. Have you bacon butty . Have you a cup of coffee . And stay with us. And also let us know what youre doing on this bank holiday weekend. I was surprised you could even get here on a train today. Well, there was a train strike, but for some reason my specific route was unaffected. So thank you. The Bank Holidays got off to a great start. So yeah, happy days. Let us know your thoughts this morning. Gbnews. Com yoursay first though, the very latest News Headlines with Aaron Armstrong. Hi there. Its Aaron Armstrong here at 932 in the gb newsroom. Rishi sunak has admitted the tories may not win the next general election after their local election defeats. The Prime Minister believes the uk is on course for a Hung Parliament and, says labour could be the largest party. But voters wont want to see sir keir starmer propped up in downing street by the snp. Rishi sunak has described the local Election Results as bitterly disappointing, Election Results as bitterly disappointing , the conservatives disappointing, the conservatives lost nearly 500 Council Seats and the mayors position in the West Midlands, but womens minister Maria Caulfield has told gb news things arent as bad as the polls suggest. For months now theyve been saying that were 20 points behind labour. And actually when you look at the results from the local elections and experts have done , the drilling down on those done, the drilling down on those numbers, its between 7 to 9 points. And what were actually looking at is a potential Hung Parliament. And if labour then want to go into government, they would have to do deals with parties like the snp, the lib dems and, you know, parties like the green party as well. John swinney is likely to be confirmed as the next leader of the snp today after a potential challenger pulled out late last night. Veteran Party ActivistGraham Mccormack is now endorsed john swinney to become scotlands next first minister. It leaves. Mr swinney is the only official candidate after humza yousaf announced he was stepping down last week. Hes stepping down last week. Hes said to be the elected leader of the snp when nominations close at midday. Palestinians have been told to evacuate rafah in Southern Gaza, as the Israeli Military prepares for a ground offensive. Israels military says its told up to 100,000 residents in the east of the to city evacuate, claiming its part of a limited scope operation rather than a full scale ground assault. It comes after ceasefire talks with hamas collapsed over the weekend. Well, the idf says its encouraging palestinians to move to an expanded humanitarian zone. However, people are moved to those areas, are being told its safer. The Israeli Military has cautioned hamas is known to fire from such places. Its addedit fire from such places. Its added it was not setting a time frame for the rafah evacuation, but would make operational assessments. Thats it. You can assessments. Thats it. You can get more on all of our stories by scanning the qr code on your screen, or go to gb news. Com alerts. That is it for the moment. Ill be back with more at the top of the hour. Greg good morning. Its 934 Bank Holiday Monday. I would rather be here with you than at home. Absolutely. Having a houday home. Absolutely. Having a holiday day. So let us know what youre doing this morning. Gbnews. Com yoursay now, its been a devastating weekend. If you werent aware, for Prime Minister rishi sunak, awful local Election Results for the conservatives while labours sadiq khan has been voted in again as london mayor and former tory West Midlands mayor andy street unbelievably lost his post as well. Who votes for sadiq khan, who genuinely feels that london is a better place now than it was six years ago . I dont understand it. Well, if you thought things couldnt get much worse, listen to what the former home secretary, Suella Braverman, has subsequently had to say. Subsequently had to say. The Prime Minister is going to be leading us into the next general election, whether we like it or not. What he needs to do to salvage this dire situation is to accept the enormity of the problem. These terrible results and quickly and urgently change course. So to make sure that there are meaningful tax cuts that people can feel and benefit from, put a cap now. Rishi sunak he admits his party may not win a general election this year , claims that election this year, claims that the uk is heading for a Hung Parliament. So joining us now in the studio to dissect all of this is political commentator and founder of the Pr Firm Bell Pottinger piers pottinger and our very own political correspondent, katherine forster. Catherine, good morning. Well start with you. Is rishi sunak being a bit too optimistic here, saying that were going to get a Hung Parliament . Is he just trying to breathe a bit of life back into the redundant tories, possibly , possibly. And its quite something isnt it, when a sitting Prime Minister says that a Hung Parliament, when thats their sort of best case scenario, but i think they are scouring around after this horrendous weekend that they had and looking for very tiny crumbs of comfort. Ben very tiny crumbs of comfort. Ben houchen, surviving in tees valley was one, and another was this poll that came out which put labour only nine points ahead of the conservatives. Now, beanng ahead of the conservatives. Now, bearing in mind most of the polling puts labour 20 points ahead. This, of course, they have latched on to and theyve said, look, we might be looking at a Hung Parliament. And of course, the reason that theyre doing this is , is to send a doing this is, is to send a message that to conservative voters, its not necessarily a given that theres going to be a huge labour majority. Therefore, youll find to just sit on your hands because youre very cross with us or go and vote for a form because youre very cross with us, so i think its helpful for him to sort of paint that picture. And i think worth saying, of course, that you cant you know, the 9 is if people voted in that way in a general election and, and that is assuming that the nationalist vote in scotland, which of course, had no elections this time and wales stayed the same as 2019, now were pretty sure, arent we, that the snp are going to lose potentially quite a lot of seats to labour and also in local elections. People do flirt with smaller parties. The lib dems did well, the greens did well, reform, etc. Whereas in a general election they tend to vote a bit. I voted for the greens in the last locals because i was being a massive nimby about some development, but id never voted for them nationally. So there you go. Good example piers, youve been involved in in dozens of elections. Its quite unusual at this point to hear the sitting Prime Minister come out and say, we may not win this election. Normally, there is a positivity , normally, there is a positivity, a sort of i think actually sometimes it doesnt land with the public. But this idea that you just have to be toeing the party line, im quite. I find his honesty in this quite refreshing. Refreshing. Well, honesty, yes, maybe. I mean, he is a man of integrity and hes an intelligent man. But he seems to not have much political nous and certainly no ability to communicate any viable policies to the electorate. As these results showed. But hes also clinging showed. But hes also clinging on to the extrapolation by professor thrasher that therell be a Hung Parliament now, his figures by his own admission, dont include scotland, for example , where the snp will example, where the snp will likely get sorry. The labour likely get sorry. The labour party will wipe out the snp, who are in even more disarray, of course, than anywhere else. And course, than anywhere else. And there were crumbs of comfort actually , as Andrew Pierce actually, as Andrew Pierce pointed out, Angela Rayners constituency. Shes only got a majority of just over 4000. And with the gaza vote around her, she must be very nervous. So, and also, again, the british people tend to vote against things rather than for things. And these elections show that everyone was voting against conservative, not necessarily for starmer, whose policies are still no one knows whose what policies they are. He talks in utopia in terms about were going to make the National Health service better. Going to make the National Health service better. Were going to give every child an excellent teacher. This is all pie in the sky, and hes got no idea how hes going to pay for all this. Well, there were more than 40 councillors who won their seats playing on the gaza issue. Exactly. And thats very worrying for labour, because George Galloway is targeting Andrew Angela rayner seat, for example, and others. So it may not be plain sailing, but personally and obviously to, i think just about everyone in the country, its game over for the conservatives. Labour are going to sweep to victory. Its a question then of how long they last before the electorate wake up to the catastrophic voting theyve just done, and brought in a government who , who, whose in a government who, who, whose policies such as they are. If you look at the fine print, which you always have to do, particularly with the labour party, are really, really Dangerous Things theyre planning to do without any real idea how theyre going to pay for it. As i keep saying, hey, what do you make of these calls from one nation tories . Some might call them tory wets. Yeah. For example, mark harper. Yeah. Andy street, even in his, his announcement, his defeat, yesterday or saturday, he was saying do not lurch to the right. Warning, warning. Do not lurch to the right. Its not an election winner. Well, it is actually, because, the Centre Ground has proved not to be an election winner. And when youve got winner. And when youve got a chancellor like jeremy hunt, whos a committed remainer and doesnt give much thought to his future because hes got a safe job in the city, im sure lined up and hes not going to ever run as leader because hed never be leader. And youve got people in the centre of the conservative party who have caused this and to pretend that its a vote winner when youve just lost. I its a vote winner when youve just lost. I mean, im sorry, thatis just lost. I mean, im sorry, that is just crazy. Doesnt that just personify the conservative party of recent years . They just dont seem to get it. I say we can wake up. Theres something wrong with their heads where they just dont get it. Its obvious to everyone else youre in the most important. Theyre not listening. They are not listening to what people want and what people need to heat want and what people need to hear. But but Suella Braverman who . Im not her biggest fan by any means. But she is right. Its no good producing a raft of announcements. People need to see something tangible and theres no point forjeremy hunt to tweak at the tax around the edges. Its got to be significant. Theyve got to be real, tangible progress because after all these years in government, the conservatives do look very tired, very poor. And this is certainly not the a team. And i think after the general election , we need a general election, we need a complete clear out of the of this lot. And we need to find this lot. And we need to find someone with political vision, someone with political vision, someone whos got principles, values and some idea about how theyre going to transform the prosperity of this country. Nigel farage, he is the obvious man. He is without a doubt the most popular, genuine politician in this country and one of the few people with vision, whatever your views on him, hes got vision, he has principles. He has values and hes very good at communicating them. The tories communicating them. The tories would love him, im sure. Yeah, catherine, im fascinated as well in terms of what happened with the Mayoral Elections, not just in london but in manchester. Andy burnham sweeps the board again and listening to those descriptions, there from peers of what makes a good politician, andy burnham, actually has a lot of those qualities. He communicates very well with the people. Hes very well with the people. Hes very well liked across all the, political spectrum. In london, of course, sadiq khan won , but of course, sadiq khan won, but without the convincing victory that he thought he might get about a quarter of a million votes more than, susan hall. Votes more than, susan hall. Susan halls face on that lectern said it all, didnt it . She was clearly seething that she didnt get the support of the conservative party. And rishi sunak has pretty much admitted he didnt vote for her, did he . Did he . Yes. He voted, from his constituency home in richmond for in the Mayoral Election for york and North Yorkshire , but york and North Yorkshire, but not down here. So he chose that one. And there is a huge amount of bad blood down in london between the conservative campaign for susan hall and labour sadiq khan, and also a lot of ill feeling from susan halls team that basically they werent given the support from cchq, she was not the preferred candidate. It was a strange sort of circle of events that led to her ending up in that position. They pretty much didnt think she had much hope. They didnt put the backing behind her, so i think they feel her team feel, you know, look what we might have done if wed had a bit of support. Shes right, isnt she, pierce . Absolutely right. Yes. I mean, susan hall, i think is a perfectly nice woman, but she wasnt a stunning candidate. And there were opportunities here and just think what a fillip it would have been if wed defeated. Sorry we, most sensible people, i mean, by we defeated the dreadful sadiq khan, and he was there to be beaten. And yes, for the second time, incidentally, the last Mayoral Election , the central Mayoral Election, the Central Office did the same thing, picked a candidate who no one really knew or rated, who was a perfectly decent chap, and they gave it no support , no backing. Gave it no support, no backing. Shaun bailey. Yeah. Shaun bailey. Yeah. And it didnt work. And you know, look, boris became the mayor. He then became Prime Minister. Its a great stepping stone. The obvious candidate would have been penny mordaunt, whos going to lose her seat at the next election based on the recent one. Penny mordaunt, for example, would have could have become mayor, would have been a popular choice and i reckon could have beaten sadiq khan with the proper support. And i with the proper support. And i think susan halls team are right to feel a bit bitter about the lack of support. I mean, there was none, really. Yeah. Good point. And yeah, as bev was alluding to earlier, i just l, was alluding to earlier, i just i, ive not met anybody in london whos admitted to voting for sadiq khan. I just wonder who is voting for him. Well, i think count binface he got 24,000 votes and that says something when he didnt even come last. So when the silliest candidate does that well, it shows some things amiss. Yeah, right. Thank you both. Yeah, right. Thank you both. Keep your thoughts coming this morning. Gbnews. Com yoursay we will be looking at them during this quick break. But next. Yes. Up next single sex lose. Theyre going to be required in all new restaurants and offices under new government plans. This is rishi sunak allegedly lurching to the right. What do you think about that us. 949. Youre with ben and bev on britains newsroom. On gb news now. New government plans have confirmed single sex loos are required in all new restaurants and offices. So Kemi Badenoch, the women in women and equalities minister says these mixed sex toilet spaces deny privacy and dignity to both men and women. So is it long overdue . Political commentator piers pottinger is still with us in the studio, people in our inbox this morning, piers are saying if this is what the tories have got to win the election, then they are taking the proverbial in a way that is rather appropriate to this story. Is this all theyve got . Well i must admit, theyve got . Well i must admit, the timing of this announcement seems to me a little again, it shows how they they dont really understand when and how to make major announcements, but at least its a step in the right direction. I believe. I mean, i think i believe. I mean, i think most people thought whoever came up with this unisex lavatory idea in the first place must be mad. I think you were saying, bev. Its for more