The tax burden as low as possible, he also wants to ensure that Living Standards improve. He said british people deserve to know that future generations will enjoy better opportunities , but that can only opportunities, but that can only be achieved with tangible steps. Be achieved with tangible steps. Rfa we, have said we will raise taxes, weve set out what we will raise and what well spend the money on. So what you did hear this morning is that were going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that for money the teachers we need in our state secondary schools. Well, you did hearis secondary schools. Well, you did hear is were going to get rid of the non dom status properly and use that money towards reducing, reducing waiting lists. 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The hospitals criticised in the reports following the inspections in 2022 and last yean inspections in 2022 and last year, said systems have since been improved. For the latest stories , sign up to gb news stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Nigel. To. Nigel. Good evening. Well, today a good evening. Well, today a big speech from sir keir starmer, leader of the opposition labour party. And what did he tell us today . Well, he told us that he would stick to tough spending rules in order to tough spending rules in order to give us economic stability. Hed set up Great British energy, a publicly owned Clean Power Energy company. Energy, a publicly owned Clean Power Energy company. Hed energy, a publicly owned Clean Power Energy company. Hed cut power energy company. Hed cut nhs waiting lists by providing 40,000 more appointments each week, funded apparently by tackling tax avoidance and non dom loopholes , hed launch a non dom loopholes, hed launch a Border Security command to stop the gangs arranging small boat crossings, and hed provide another 6500 Neighbourhood Police officers to reduce anti social social behaviour. And thered be new penalties for offenders. And i think whats interesting about those six pledges, there is absolutely nothing new there at all. And this idea that somehow you remove tax breaks as theyre seen for private schools and that gives you the to money recruit an extra 6500 teachers. Its all nonsense. Its all nonsense. Yet everybody in politics and the media keeps asking the question , how will asking the question, how will you asking the question, how will you pay asking the question, how will you pay for it . And you would think literally that we take tax off one thing and give it directly to another. We dont. Its all baloney. Actually. All the money, whether its tax, whatever form of tax it is, National Insurance all goes into a central pot. We dont have what is known as hypothecation of taxes in any way. You know, of taxes in any way. You know, we dont run balanced budgets ehhen we dont run balanced budgets either. So that bit of it i find insufferable. But dont worry, rishi sunak does exactly the same thing, he sat down after the speech with gb news Political Editor christopher hope, and the first question that chris asked was about tax reform. We, have said we will raise taxes. Weve set out what we will raise and what well spend the money on. So what you did hear this morning is that were going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools. We did here is were going to get rid of the non dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists. The tax burden on people is as high as its ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time. I think, chris hope asked him, well, you know, who do you support . Wheres your consistency . What do you really stand for . Your opponent . The prime your opponent . The Prime Minister said on monday that youre someone who backed Jeremy Corbyn in 2019, a left wing politician. Now youre backing natalie elphicke, a right wing politician. What do you stand for . Do you stand for anything . Are you that desperate to get into power . Youll back all these different people from different parts of the political, view . Well i would gently remind the Prime Minister that Jeremy Corbyn will not stand as a labour candidate at the next election. This is a changed labour. He backed him in 19. He he is not able to say the same about his predecessor who smashed the economy. And working people are paying economy. And working people are paying the price. If he was serious about the future, he would ensure that liz truss wasnt a candidate for the next election. But hes too weak to do that. So ive led from the front. Ive changed my party. This is a party back in the service of working people. What we are now si king humbly seeking is the opportunity to change the country and put the country back in the service of working people. And are you the heir to tony blair . Well, look, its ever since ive been rhymes. Ever since ive been rhymes. Ever since ive been rhymes. Ever since ive been labour leader, people have tried to sort of, box me to in being a previous labour leader. Tony blair was a fantastic leader. He won three elections, well, of course hes like tony blair. Hes aping tony blair in absolutely every way. It was blair back in 97 that came up with the five point pledge card. Compare and contrast the pictures of blair with starmer. Theyre starmer today Walking Around the stage very much as blair would have done. Very much as blair would have done. Do you notice the shirt, done. Do you notice the shirt, the rolled up shirt. And theres tony blair with his pledge card. So thats very, very similar and have a look at the sleeves rolled up image. Thats keir rolled up image. Thats keir starmer today. Lets go back to 1997. Oh theres tony blair. And its absolutely identical. Now look there is an argument that if you find a winning formula you keep using it. But i just put this to you folks. This is blair without the flair. This is blair. This is this is almost a charisma free zone. But crucially, does this win your vote . Farage gbnews. Com im joined by paul richards, former labour special adviser under blair and gordon brown. Ill tell you the big difference, paul tell you the big difference, paul, between tony blair and sir keir starmer. I didnt see any optimism there today. I mean, literally no optimism. I didnt see any vision. Ian blair was see any vision. Ian blair was terribly good, wasnt he, at selling a vision of where we were going to go and why the journey was worth it. None of that. Well, heres the original pledge. God hold it up for the camera. There it is. There it is. I carry it in my wallet, close to my heart. Youve kept it every day for 30 years. And if you look at the pledges, theyre very mild, you know, theyre very mild, you know, theyre very modest. And there wasnt a great vision in here. It was quite mechanistic, quite low level achievable, which is what starmer has learned. And the retail offer is there as a demonstration for a bigger purpose. But it isnt big, bold stuff. The National Minimum wage isnt even on this card. I understand your point that what blair i mean, what blair was doing there was saying vote laboun was doing there was saying vote labour. We wont put your taxes up. And labour. We wont put your taxes up. And that was that was a very Important Message to middle class indeed. But but heres the difference. Neither are starmers six pledges particularly inspiring. And hes also playing very safe. The difference is in delivery. The difference is in delivery. The difference is in energy. And blair had bags of energy. Well again youre retrofitting this a little bit. Retrofitting this a little bit. Dont you remember they called him bambi. At the time he was untested. He was supposed to be untested. He was supposed to be this weak, faun like character. You know, he was a called all kinds of rude names. And the danger line, the new labour, new dangenl danger line, the new labour, new danger. I remember it vividly. Well, that was the tory attempt. There wasnt a halo around his head, you know, back in the mid nineties, only get better people dancing. And this was all they did. And this was all they did. But, you know, it was only afterwards, afterwards, more people said they voted labour. They could possibly have actually voted labour. There was actually voted labour. There was a whole sort of post event ization. I heard him speak. I watched him turn up in the europol. So did i in the european parliament. He turned up. There was a hostile crowd and he wowed them. It was extraordinary. Yes. And he was good at that. Yes. And he was good at that. Really good at that. Really good at that. These are change times. I mean, to your point, you know, we have a terribly difficult economic situation. Theres wars raging across the globe, the climate is in a different situation than it would have been for tony. I mean, tony, it was a sort of pre digital age. It was, you know, one of his big pledges was connecting schools to the information superhighway, and that was an applause line. We all had to applaud, and we didnt know what it meant. We all had to applaud without trying to reduce their access to it in many sps. So very changed. So very changed. Okay, i completely accept that were, you know, decades on, things are different. Blair inherited a very good economy in many ways, and thats not the case. Its slightly better than it was a few weeks ago. But the looks of it. But its not great. And i understand all of that. What im talking about is, is leadership quality and to inspire people and to bring them on the journey with you. And my impression, paul richards, and maybe youre going to tell me im wrong. My impression is when the pollsters say theyre going to vote for starmers labour, theyre almost doing it because theyre almost doing it because they dont want to vote conservative as opposed to really want to vote labour. Well, even blair only got about a fifth of conservative switchers from 92 to 97 to actually vote labour. A lot of them sat on their hands. Some of them sat on their hands. Some of them voted for your predecessor parties, and so on. So it wasnt a massive the whole country suddenly became labour even in 97. Starmer is a tough leader. You you made the point there about him kicking out corbyn quite right too. He reshaped the labour well with that i agree with you. Now i think the argument then is if you can reshape the labour party and reform and modernise that, that then you have permission to be heard on whether you can do it to the country. And thats what these pledges today are all about. And some of them are quite big. I mean, a British Energy company, to bring our bills down, thats quite a big deal bills down, thats quite a big deal. A big bit of state intervention in a way. I dont think tony would have done that, by the way. That wouldnt have appeared on the cards. Theres no way that blair would have done that. But on the economy, you know, its the economy, you know, its the economy, stupid. The economy, how people feel really matters at every general election. Indeed. Its very interesting when i saw the, you know, the budget from jeremy hunt and i watched Rachel Reeves response and basically she agreed with 100 of it. There are almost no economic differences now. Well, again, none. Gordon came in in 97 pledging the same spending as the tories for three whole years. The first three years of the labour, the revolution, the new labour revolution, the new labour revolution was funded by the same funding as the tories would have had. And then, once youve earned the right to be heard, you can establish yourself, gordon said. Im a prudent chancellor then you can start spending on the National Health service and you can win another election. But labours horror is to be come into an election. Everyone says youre going to put our taxes up and to lose the election or to mismanage the economy like callaghan did , for economy like callaghan did, for example, and be booted out for incompetence. So its got to be steady as she goes. Its got to be prudent and its got to be. Maybe not exciting. No, its not a long weve got a long journey and i mean, you know, im a pessimist. I mean, labour is still an awfully long way behind anywhere near government. The majority, the tories have is still huge. Theyve got to win lots of seats. Thats true. But we didnt like basingstoke. Places like this that have never been, never been labour. But when john come on john curtis who comes on this programme and this channel sir john and hes the sort of the doyen. Yes, but hes not a soothsayer, is he. Hes. No. But when analysing data now, when somebodys seeing into the future, that is true. But with this difference, the one thing neither you or i or anybody would ever call john curtis is rash. Hes not. Hes very measured, very sensible and yes, he and he always explains that a poll is a snapshot of today. Yes, yes. Hes put his neck on the line and said its 99 certain that starmer finishes up in downing street. Hes anything 99 certain in politics. Well he was john curtis as it is. Look at all the polls that have predicted things wrongly over the last 20 years. You know, im just all im saying is that labour has a huge mountain to go, which is why the pledge card that the real one done today, you know, is just another step in that journey. And why, you may say its modest, but actually its starting to address some of those issues that people care about, like crime, anti social behaviour, like their bills. You know, this is this is the stuff, as you say, of the meat and dnnk as you say, of the meat and drink of politics. And as a campaigner, you also know you need retail offer on the doorstep, something you can say in 20s youre not going to get a philosophical debate, but you might get across a policy that lodges that may turn a vote. So thats what thats about. Do you feel, paul, that what starmer has done today is to set the parameters for the next six months, or are we going to see big to change those six big new ideas coming in . No, i mean, this is now locked down. This is it. This is the mantra. Every campaigner is now going to have to memorise and repeat for the next few months. Now in government it may be different because again, the point theyve made today is that the National Minimum wage is not on this pledge card. A big change that made a big difference to a lot of people wasnt even on the card. And yet they did it in government. So you will see in government, i think big reforms. But for now, im afraid its those six things again and again and again. I suspect, paul richards, that youre right. Thats it. For the next six months, folks, you can go to sleep and wake up for election day. November. Right, nigel, do you think in november i think october probably i, i dont i dont think theyll want the american elections are such a huge global event. We cant pretend that our elections or anything like a par with that. No, no, i think they want to get out of the way before, but i might have a bet on that. You never know, paul. Thank you very much indeed. Now, Patrick Christys has been with Suella Braverman up in cambridge, going to look at protesters. Patrick, what happened . Yes. Well, its some quite astonishing footage, actually , astonishing footage, actually, nigel, that i will be bringing to our viewers between 9 and 11 pm. This evening. Suella braverman is a former cambridge graduate herself. Theres one of the many protests that are taking place student protests, taking place student protests, taking place student protests, taking place at cambridge. We decided to present them with a woman that they hate. Really, a woman that they hate. Really, a woman that they make tiktok videos about a woman that they cant stop slugging off to each other. And publicly we decided, okay, well, here we go. Here is okay, well, here we go. Here is Suella Braverman, the former home secretary. There is a short clip, a little teaser clip for you. Im not to here get into a fight. Im not here to debate necessarily. Im coming with a sincere intention to engage. But it is quite surprising that the College Authorities have allowed this