Palestinian refugees . And can we trust the labour party to run the country . Thats all coming up between now and 6 pm. Watch the show. Always a delight to have your company. So the big question im asking today is this. Earlier this week, 50 mps and peers said that the uk should accept Palestinian Refugees to the country. Its called the gaza family scheme. They clearly didnt see the memo from denmark, which showed in 1992 a similar scheme ended up with 64 of those admitted to the country with criminal records and 65 taking benefits. Should we really be doing the same thing . And in the last houn same thing . And in the last hour, an incredible story has broken in my opinion. And that is this. Thanks to the palestinian football association. Yes, theyve actually got one putting pressure on fifa, just like the eurovision song contest. Now theres an emergency meeting to think about kicking israel out of World Football. What on earth of World Football. What on earth is going on low to discuss in the next hour . Get in touch with your views on both of those comments and its gbnews. Com yoursay. But lets kick off the show with your headunes. Headlines. Good afternoon. Its 3 02. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. First, a recap of the newsroom. First, a recap of the breaking news from manchester in the last hour where a teacher has been found guilty of six counts of Sexual Activity with a child. 30 year old Rebecca Jones child. 30 year old Rebecca Jones was already suspended from her job and on bail for having sex with a 15 year old when she began a sexual relationship with a second teenager aged 16, and became pregnant during her two week trial, the high court. The High School Teacher told the court she craved attention and struggled following the breakdown of a nine year relationship, but denied the allegations against her. A moroccan Asylum Seeker has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of 45 years for murdering a pensioner in an attack motivated by the conflict in gaza. Ahmed al fayed stabbed 70 year old Terence Carney six times in hartlepool , in what was intended hartlepool, in what was intended as revenge for the israel hamas conflict. But he told police the conflict. But he told police the attack, a week after the hamas attacks on israel, was for the people of gaza and he had wanted to kill more victims. A lead was also found guilty of the attempted murder of his housemate, who he had attacked before the fatal stabbing of mr carney. The chancellor, jeremy carney. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, has declined to give a cast iron guarantee of tax cuts, while insisting the tax burden would go down under a future conservative government he warns that labour will be forced to raise taxes to pay for their spending pledges, as he reiterated his own commitment to eliminating National Insurance. Speaking in london, this morning, the chancellor accused his shadow Rachel Reeves, a resorting to playground politics with her criticism of the high levels of taxation on uk households. It comes to labour policies on jobs, welfare reform and tax. The difference if they are elected , will be profound and elected, will be profound and damaging for every family in the country. Labour like to criticise recent tax rises, thinking people dont know what caused them, the furlough scheme, the Energy Price Guarantee and billions of pounds in cost of living support. But labour supported those policies, which is why it is playground politics to use those tax rises to distract debate from the biggest divide in british politics today. What happens to politics today. What happens to the tax burden next . Meanwhile, shadow financial secretary james murray says its time for change. Theres a desperate attempt to distract by jeremy hunt from the conservatives record in office. We know the tax burden is set to be the highest in 70 years. The average household is going to be £870 worse off and frankly, theyre probably trying to distract from their own £46 billion unfunded commitment to aboush billion unfunded commitment to abolish National Insurance. I abolish National Insurance. I think all this underscores is its think all this underscores is wsfime think all this underscores is its time for change and its time for general election. Now, the Uk Health Security Agency has confirmed 46 cases of cryptosporidium and over 100 others reporting symptoms in brixham and devon. It is thought a damaged air valve on a pipe in a damaged air valve on a pipe in a field containing cattle has been identified as the potential site of the outbreak. Bottled water has been handed out to residents, as people have been told to stop using tap water for drinking without boiling it first, and schools have been forced to shut. Exchequer secretary to the treasury Gareth Davies says its important to hold Water Companies to account. Its a very Troubling Development that were hearing in devon. Of course it is. Weve taken very tough action to strengthen the powers of the regulator, to allow them to hold companies to account, as the chancellor has just said. Weve seen significant investment as a result of privatisation. The result of privatisation. The only Water Company in addition to the one that the chancellor referenced, that is worse is in scotland, which is not privatised. And so this is a matter of Holding Companies to account, making sure that theyre investing in this government is focused on making sure that happens. Sure that happens. And the world number one golfer Scottie Scheffler has been detained in handcuffed outside Valhalla Golf Club , outside Valhalla Golf Club, where hes playing in the us pga championships. The incident championships. The incident occurred after a misunderstanding with police who were managing traffic flow. He was later booked into jail and louisville, Louisville Department of corrections issued a mugshot. Hes due to tee off in the second round just after 3 pm. And for the latest stories , pm. And for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now its screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now its back to screen or go to gb news. Common alerts. Now its back to. Martin. Thank you sofia. Now weve got so much to get through, so lets get cracking. And the chancellor, jeremy hunt , has chancellor, jeremy hunt, has drawn the battle lines ahead of the next general election. Hes the next general election. Hes told voters that if the conservatives stay in power, they will cut taxes, while labour will not. And were going to start with the great chris hope. The great chris hope. Chancellor, thank you for taking gb news question. You say you want to cut taxes. Youve been saying that for months, but you have cut National Insurance twice, £900 off the average average person tax bill. But youve frozen tax thresholds and the polls arent shifting. Why not . Is it you , your party . The not . Is it you, your party . The country wants change, possibly. And secondly, do you want a second budget pre election to cut taxes . Cut taxes . It is, you know, not a great insight with Great Respect to you, chris, to say that putting up taxes, as i had to do in the autumn statement in 2022, is not popular. But it was the right thing to do for the economy. And we can see today when the imf are saying that our economy will grow faster than any major european country over the next six years, that those decisions have been the right ones. Theyve paid off, and thats why we took them. But now we are in an Election Year, and if people are worried about tax , then are worried about tax, then i would just say one very simple thing. There is a choice. The thing. There is a choice. The Labour Government, the labour party does not want and a future Labour Government does not want to cut the tax burden. A future conservative government will. Thatis conservative government will. That is the big choice in british politics. And our argument is this isnt just about, family budgets. We understand how important those are when it comes to cost of living pressures. Our argument is this is about the future growth of the economy , because growth of the economy, because we can see looking around the world that more lightly taxed economies have more dynamic private sectors. They grow faster. And in the end, that is faster. And in the end, that is more money for precious Public Services like the nhs. Services like the nhs. Well, as youd expect, labour werent impressed at all with what jeremy hunt had to say. And check out will the shadow financial secretary to the treasury, james murray, had to say. Say. I think, frankly, this is a desperate attempt to distract by jeremy hunt from the conservatives record in office. You know, we know the tax burden is set to be the highest in 70 years. The average household is going to be £870 worse off. And frankly, theyre probably trying to distract from their own £46 billion unfunded commitment to aboush billion unfunded commitment to abolish National Insurance. I think all this underscores is its think all this underscores is wsfime think all this underscores is its time for change and its time for general election. Well, for a full analysis of that, now joined by the great Christopher Hogg , as endorsed by Christopher Hogg, as endorsed by the chancellor there and the former labour adviser, the great, are you going to miss out for him . The great Martin Daubney . The great Martin Daubney . Of course i had to say it. Otherwise i have got to slap the marvellous martin now. Thanks very much, guys. Now load to get stuck into. Yesterday we were saying, what are the tories going to say . How are they going to respond . Its fair to say that jeremy hunt came out guns blazing, accusing the labour party of fake news. Storm will help himself to your familys wallets, accusing him of being a pickpocket and unmitigated tragedy. Angela rayners workers rights reform and then saying it will cost every household £2,100. But the big question is, as you said, is it you . More to the point has he got a plan . The problem . Hes got jeremy, jeremy hunt and he produced this document here. Labours tax rises 19 page dossier from cchq passed around to journalists. You saw there labours tax rises behind and in front of Jeremy Jeremy hunt when he spoke. And thats quite interesting isnt it. Because normally you dont have such an obvious adopting of the opponents name. Its normally my opponent. I dont say who they are, but theyre being very clear. This is on laboun being very clear. This is on labour, labour, labour and hes saying that we will cut taxes. Labour wont. Well we do know from yesterday this my first steps. It says here, as we said yesterday on the programme, martin, that labour will keep taxes as low as possible but not cut them. The tories see cut them. The tories see a window there to say we will cut taxes and look at what weve done with National Insurance. My questionnaire was to say, well, youve done all that. Youve saved £900 off the average tax bill. Nothings happened. Nothing has changed in the polls. Will it work . And in fact, maybe people are saying, well, we know that were being dragged further into this fiscal drag. These, these thresholds because of higher inflation. We dont believe you, jeremy hunt. And thats the problem theyve got as a credibility issue here with the tory party. How do they cut through. Weve got polling out today from people polling for gb news showing the tories on 20 and labour on 47. But what was finally on on the polling, what the tories might like from this, is the fact that only 5 have a great deal of confidence that labour will deliver on these first steps. So i think theres a kind of plague on all their houses at the moment in politics. Can i just say that i feel a bit put out that yours is bigger than mine . Mine is bigger. Look, well, yours, yours is longer. Martin. Whoa wheres this conversation going . It is friday, matthew. Lets get this conversation back on. Absolutely i was going to say kyrees is bigger than tony blair. Hes got a bigger pledge card than tonys. On a serious point. Absolutely, yesterday it was very much, very much echoes of the blair regime. In fact, i remember i remember the pledge card the first time around. Nigel farage said, its blair without the flag, which is probably a bit harsh, but nevertheless, the conservative party are having to respond to what sir keir starmer is saying. And i guess my question to you, my question to the tories, my question to everybody is its okay to have a pop at the labour party, but weve had consecutive tax rises. How many times, 18 times. Theyve got the highest tax regime since world war two. Well remember on monday the Prime Minister, you dont normally get two major interventions in a week. Thats quite unusual. Theres normally one. So the Prime Minister on monday had his major relaunch speech, told us that we shouldnt look at the 14 years of record of the tory government. We should just look at his record as though he was nothing to do with the tory party. Hes like all those candidates in the local elections who refuse to put tories on the posters. All i can say about today is i had to look up the catchphrase from one of the drag race contestants the cheek, the nerve, the gall, the gumption, the audacity of saying that you are attacking anybody else on tax when youve risen, when youve, when youve, when taxes under you have hit a 70 year high. Yes, weve had covid, but other governments around the world have dealt with covid as well and not had a higher tax burden. Ordinary families on that very point, yes, covid was a big £400 billion shock to the economy, then an eight hour gap in the middle of the night. Then the war broke out in in ukraine with invasion by russia. That prompted the energy shock. So the government feels that theyre getting no credit for doing doing the, the energy price bill, the Energy Energy bill cap. Why why not give them any credit . They think its dishonest of labour to ignore that. Thats the elephant in the room. Yeah. Its not dishonest to to labour ignore it because governments around the world had both things to cope with. And taxes are not at record highs in countries around the world, including countries with Centre Left Governments from similar parties, to labour. I have to say that, you know, an election is in the offing. I have a slight feeling that these both of these events were planned when we thought we might have an early election because theyve got the whiff of what you do in an Election Campaign where you have, you know, the roar of pens we had we had the tory secret plan. When i was in labour hq in the 2015 election, all the documents like that. So i think thats why theyve come out fighting so quickly, because i think, you know, you dont do a document like that overnight or document like that overnight or do a scale, a launch on the scale we saw yesterday overnight. Can i ask you i mean, weve got six more months of it, martin. Yeah. Well, its great for us, but the nation will be burying their heads under a pillow. On a serious point, the peoples poll that we conducted has thrown some interesting points, which i think labour might need to have a good think about. Politics is about competence and trust. Isnt it all the all the party competent and can we trust them . Its quite concerned for the labour party. I would say, where only 5 of people polled. Now bearin only 5 of people polled. Now bear in mind gb news viewers arent against the labour party. The last poll, in fact, showed that over 30 of them are prepared. Absolutely. For the labour party. This is not a skew poll. Only 5 of the public have a great deal of trust in labour delivering on these pledges that came out yesterday. Is that a problem . You can talk all you like. Problem . You can talk all you uke. Can problem . You can talk all you like. Can you do the walk . I think what it is a problem for all politicians. I think chris hit the nail on the head a few moments ago, because there is such cynicism at the moment. And joking aside about the, the competing sizes of tony blair and Keir Starmers pledge card, the language actually on the front is very different because it clearly says my first steps, because its acknowledging that you cant come in and change everything overnight. You can only deliver on certain specific things. And thats what i think thats why the language, which was that phrase, would have been a focus group to death. It would have been, you know, run past the Polling Company and it will have chimed with the public, because when that i think the pubuc because when that i think the public are going to see that keir isnt promising the earth. This isnt cakeism and the boris days when you thought you could have everything and not pay for it. This is being realistic and thats why it was realistic yesterday. When hes talking to chris about the fact that he cant offer tax cuts in the early days because, you know, there simply isnt the money there simply isnt the money there to do it. So its about realism, which i think plays into his image of quiet competence. Matthew, are you content with my first steps . Not our first step. Yeah. I mean, i think all th