Desert. Were building up to a massive showdown in riyadh. Bit of a grey start in places this morning. Some mist and low cloud around, but that should clear most of us brightening up and warming up. Just watch out for i or 2 heavy showers across parts of the south. Join me later for a full weekend forecast. Good morning to you. Good morning to you. Im Ellie Costello and im anne diamond and this is breakfast on gb news. And welcome back and thank you. Its so good to see you. Thank you very much. Its lovely to be back. So good to have you back. And the viewers are so excited to see you as well, john andrews, before we even came on air, left us a message on gbnews. Com yoursay saying celebration time, come on, lets celebrate and is back with a big line of party emojis and good morning ellie as well, says john with a thumbs up and jan bs beenin with a thumbs up and jan bs been in touch a minute ago saying welcome back and so very happy again. It wasnt a world cruise that again. I always get i always what cruise are you on now. 7 what cruise are you on now . Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. It wasnt i wasnt very well basically. And ive still got the throat, but much better now. The throat, but much better now. It was, i spent most of easter weekend in a e. Oh, because i had, i tell you what, im going to one day when i get a proper diagnosis and its taken this long to even get to try and figure out what happened. But it is definitely something to do with stonkingly high Blood Pressure. Oh, and the paramedics who came to my house, insisted they took me into hospital because , they said at that sort because, they said at that sort of level of high Blood Pressure, you have to go into hospital. Thats right. So we had to find out why , and it just shows, you out why, and it just shows, you know, when ever you go to the doctors now or frankly, whenever you go into a pharmacy, theres always notices up saying if youre over 40 and youve never had your Blood Pressure taken, get it taken here now, because high Blood Pressure is one of the most Dangerous Things , ever. The most Dangerous Things, ever. And if you if you act upon it, its clearly a real problem amongst many people. And if you can act on it soon enough and keep your Blood Pressure under control, you can avoid a lot of the problems in later life. Big problems. And theres no doubt that very, very, very, very high Blood Pressure was one of the problems i had. And its taken this long to get things under control. Well, im so glad youre feeling better. Feeling much better, feeling much better. Thank goodness. And really good to have you back. And one of the other things about, i mean, going the last few weeks have just been nothing but tests, mris and pet scans and ct scans and ultrasounds and its been ridiculous. One of the its been ridiculous. One of the good sides of that is that while they were looking for what was causing the heart problem, they said , but theres one thing we said, but theres one thing we can say again and again, theres no sign of any resurgence of the cancen no sign of any resurgence of the cancer. Well thank goodness. So. Yeah, exactly. Its a sort of, a bright edge. What do they call bright edge. What do they call it . A silver edge to the cloud. Yeah, the silver lining. Yeah, the silver lining. Absolutely. So all i can say is, if you dont keep an eye on your Blood Pressure, please do. So its a really important message. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Its very serious. It really is. Its really good to have you back. And so many messages coming through jane term saying welcome back. An and Phil Reynolds says thank goodness youre back. An people will drive me crazy saying wheres an so many people were asking after you an it was going crazy on gb news com slash your say and obviously its not our business to say where you are or how you are. No so i didnt really know. So i didnt really know. And you didnt know either did you. So we wont say anything just out to out of respect, but were very happy to see you. Its lovely to be back. And thats a change. Have your say so now its. No, its no longer gb views. Gb news. Yeah. Its. Now you have to go to gp news. Com your say exactly that. There you go. Right ive been watching. Now should we go to our top story. Because the labour party are looking to introduce rent controls on private landlords. If they win power at the next general election. The shadow general election. The shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, is known to be a fan of the idea. Now, you see, that would allow councils to prevent landlords raising rents above a set amount every year. Theyve trialled it in scotland, but the trials found that it did reduce the supply of housing and it actually forced up new rents. Well joining us now is political commentator john oxley. Good to see you this morning john. What do you make of this. Its interesting. Its interesting. You can obviously see why labour are offering it. It sounds really good. Its the sort of thing people like. But rent controls are really interesting. When you look at what economists say about them. So economists never really agree on very much. So economists never really agree on very much. But so economists never really agree on very much. But there so economists never really agree on very much. But there is one thing that economists all across the profession agree on, which is rent controls arent a very goodidea is rent controls arent a very good idea because yes, theyre great if youre already in a property and youre renting it and your rent is frozen. But what they do is they take the movement out of the market, they take the incentive away for new landlords. A lot of landlords just sell up and move on. And as well, the other thing it really hits is people having money to invest back in properties. One of the big problems we have in this country is not just affordability of housing, but in the rental system, especially its quality of housing. Its houses are damp. They dont have, you know , updated boilers, have, you know, updated boilers, whatever. And so if youre capping the amount that landlords can take, youre really disincentivizing the idea that you put money back into the property and make it better for your tenants. But we do have this enormous problem with availability of affordable rented accommodation. Affordable rented accommodation. So if this isnt the answer, what is . I mean, quite bluntly, its having more houses when you look across europe, when you look with International Comparisons, we just have far fewer homes built for our population than almost anywhere else. And if you unlock that supply, one of the things is youre getting nice modern homes that meet all the standards we expect and Everything Else is just kind of playing around at the edges. Its not going to have the same dramatic impact that actually building the sort of houses, the amount of houses weve been saying we want to try to build for years and just havent been doing rent controls have remained popular, havent they . With labour grandees. And we with labour grandees. And we know that Rachel Reeves is a fan. Why is that . I think its one of those things that it it sounds good. It sounds like a good quick fix. It sounds like a good quick fix. It is popular with renters for obvious reasons. You know, it sounds like somethings on your side. And also, lets face it, landlords are not a particularly popular group. Theyre particularly not very popular among the labour party. So it sounds good. You know, if youre Old Fashioned labour or young laboun Old Fashioned labour or young labour, sticking it to the landlords is a very nice popular policy. But we live in a time where, as we were all agree, is that theres not enough housing, and i just wonder how moral it is anymore for anyone to be a landlord or to or to own more than one house. I mean, what what chance do young people have nowadays to even rent a property , let alone own a property, when clearly rents are just too hard . Theyre unaffordable. Theyre unaffordable. But thats largely driven by mismatch between supply and demand, driven by our lack of houses. I mean, one of the interesting things, again, when you look at International Comparisons , britain has comparisons, britain has actually a very low number of second home owners compared with lots of european countries, whether thats having a, you know , holiday home in the forest know, holiday home in the forest like they do in scandinavia, or whether it is people owning properties, multiple properties, its very difficult question. But ultimately, you know, it kind of depends whether you believe the government should restrict that kind of thing or if you believe in a free market. And i think if you believe in a free market, the real solution is a greater abundance of properties so that anyone can own what they want. Free market tends to result, doesnt it . In the rich getting ficher doesnt it . In the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. But what weve seen over the last 70 years is we have through the town and Country Planning act, we have an incredibly restrictive planning system, which really constrains that , which really constrains that, and that is the major driver of our current housing crisis. You our current housing crisis. You know, i think theres a think tank report that says weve built Something Like 4 million fewer homes than we need, and thatis fewer homes than we need, and that is the biggest driver. But on the other side of the coin, these comments from Rachel Reeves going to exacerbate fears amongst homeowners and landlords , that this is a further war on landlords. They say that theyre landlords. They say that theyre already victims of tax rates under the conservatives yes. And, you know, certainly over the last few years , the over the last few years, the government repeated governments have made it harder, made it less profitable to own multiple homes and to really profit from them. There are some good economic arguments around that, that sort of their money should be invested in doing more productive things. But yeah, if youre a landlord, youre not going to be a fan of these proposals. Okay. Good to see you this morning, john oxley. Thank you very much indeed. Right. Well, let us know your feelings. You already are, tony. Tony has just said there just arent enough homes and its the poor quality of some new builds. Just look at cambridge. Some new builds are being knocked down because they were so poorly built. And maybe we need more Council Houses as well. Well, yes. Talking and winding the clock back about 50 years now. I feel very Old Fashioned saying that. But maybe thats how you feel too. Do get in touch, should we catch up with the weather now . I think heres alex deakin. A brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Good morning. Welcome to your latest weather update from the met office here on gb news. A bit of a murky start to the weekend for many of us, but most of us will see some warm spells of us will see some warm spells of sunshine today. Were all going to be a few heavy showers around later on. A bit damp and drizzly in parts of the south coast , and drizzly in parts of the south coast, and say some mist and fog around in places to parts of the coast of the northeast. Sticking with that haar throughout, but most areas brightening up good spells of sunshine and then later on, the likelihood of some scattered but quite heavy showers over parts of south wales and southwest england in the sunny spells 20 degrees 21, 22, maybe 23. In a few spots it will be cooler on some north sea coast, particularly in the far north east where that mist and low cloud sticks around. And theres the threat of these showers turning quite heavy across devon, cornwall, somerset , parts of south wales as well, not everywhere seeing them, but where they do develop could drop quite a lot of rain in a short space of time. The shower is much more scattered further east, a few breaking out to over the hills and mountains of scotland. And theres that mist and low cloud that ha threatening to cling to parts of the coast of the east and the north of scotland, suppressing the temperatures. But in the sunny spells in the west of scotland, in the south, temperatures again getting over 20 c. As for this evening, well, still a few heavy showers around across the southwest , so bear across the southwest, so bear that in mind. For most of us, though, are pretty pleasant summers evening, if you will, the mist and low cloud likely to thicken up and just drift back inland over parts of eastern england. So again making for england. So again making for a fairly murky, misty start for many of us to tomorrow morning. Temperatures holding up in double digits in most towns and cities onto sunday, and again for the vast majority , its for the vast majority, its looking like a fine bright day, starting grey and murky and misty. But that mist and low cloud should disappear still 1 or 2 showers across southwest england and again over the mountains of scotland. The mist and low cloud will again cling to some eastern coasts, but for the vast majority again dry, brightening up sunny spells, developing and feeling warm in that sunshine as well. Goodbye that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on. Gb news. On. Gb news. Hello again. Its 6 12 now. Here is a news story that i think will divide opinion in a very interesting way. A secondary school maths teacher is facing a lengthy jail term because shes been convicted of having sex with two students that she brought home to her home in Salford Quays. Well, thats as the 30 year old Rebekah Jones also gave birth to one of the boys babies earlier this year. The boys in question were 15 and 16 years old. Well, were joined by social justice campaigner Winston Davis. This is an extraordinary story because weve all been, as weve all been looking at the headunes weve all been looking at the headlines and theres a degree of, well, theres a difference. Of, well, theres a difference. If it were a man convicted of having sex and then a baby with one with 15, 16 year old girls. Yeah the headlines would be would be paedophile. Would be sex pervert. Hes a rapist. Thats it. Thats literally it. We would be saying rapist. Paedophile has , saying rapist. Paedophile has, you know, sex with children and has a baby by them , you know. Has a baby by them, you know. But here were talking about, you know, softly spoken gymnast talking about maybe humanising her and the reality of it is shes a rapist. But actually in uk law, we cant say shes a rapist because rape is only available to men using their penis inside a vagina or anus or mouth without consent. So women cant. Women cant rape legally cant. Women cant rape legally by law. They cant rape a man. Yeah, so thats why they may not use the word rape inside the articles. Because legally, you cant call her a rapist. But, i mean, it just shows how unusual it is, though. I mean, thats a terrible thing to say, but it is much more usual to have a male in this situation than a female , which might than a female, which might explain why theres almost a degree of sympathy, there are headunes degree of sympathy, there are headlines that talk about her being very quiet. You know, youd never have thought feeling lonely and that shes had a baby. And is it right for her to be in prison now and away from her baby . Yeah. No. Its disgusting. Its like, look, shes shes had a baby. The babys now been, you know, living with the fathers family. She is seeing the baby a few times a week. But you know what, right . Have you got to one take away the. The childhood of this boy taking away his virginity. Taken away . You know, maybe some of his lifes aspirations. Its like, you know, she literally needs to get the book thrown at her for whatever. You know, we talk about. I talk about a lot. Look, ive been in trouble myself with the police as a youngster. I took accountability for it, and i. And i served what i had to serve. But this woman, she needs to take accountability of her actions. You know, she needs to be sent to prison. She needs to be sent to prison. She needs to be thinking about what shes done and sort her life out i and 5mm and what about the baby . I mean, i mean, innocent innocent babyi mean, i mean, innocent innocent baby i mean what i mean what story is that. Story is that. You know, ten, 15 years from now she finds out that gone. Well the papers are reporting this morning that actually the baby could spend the first few years of their life in prison with this woman. How does that make you feel . Make you feel . I think thats completely wrong. I mean, again, sounds unlikely to me if the if the babys got a family already now. So this is so this is the babys father. Do you know what . So here we are. So i, aside from i spent seven years in a family court trying to see my eldest son. So ive got a good knowledge of this area and actually, theyll set a precedent. And if the babys needs are central to this or being met by the fathers family in a safe environment, and thats the best thing for what the baby. Is it the best thing to be with the fathers family in their house, being looked after, cared for, loved for, you know, outside stimulus or to be locked up in a prison . No, dont think so. No. If the babys with the no. If the babys with the babys father, that is the best family. The best thing. But but family. The best thing. But but if you look at the woman now and again, if it were a man, i wouldnt be asking this question. But is prison the right place for her . Shes clearly sick. She belongs in prison 100. Shes broken the law. Shes raped children. Yes, but is the are there the right sort of Services Within prison to help her . So then this comes back to the conversation about rehabilitation then. Yeah, prison is the right place for her. But the emphasis should be on there on rehabilitation. And then the question is, when youve raped a child, can you be rehabilitated. Yeah. Rehabilitated. Yeah. Okay. Well, Winston Davis , okay. Well, Winston Davis, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. Do let us know what you think about that one because th