Wenzler in the gb newsroom. Your top story this hour. The Prime Minister has admitted flights carrying migrants to rwanda will not take off before the general election in july. But he says the scheme will continue if hes re elected. It comes as Political Party leaders begin six weeks of trying to win votes after it was announced polls will open on the 4th of july, kicking off the Conservatives Campaign this morning, rishi sunak claimed labour would do absolutely nothing to stop the boats. Everyone else is starting to agree with my approach, which is bold. The one person that doesnt is keir starmer. Thats a choice at this election. He a choice at this election. He thinks that we should just offer an amnesty to Illegal Migrants to make us a soft touch of europe. It would make us a magnet for thousands of migrants coming from everywhere. So thats the choice at this election. Do you think my plan is the right one. 7 do election. Do you think my plan is the right one . Do you think im the one thats taking bold action to secure our borders and to stop the boats . Or do you think hes going to do that . And its pretty clear that on this issue, not only does he not share the countrys values, that its a problem. Hes going to do absolutely nothing about it. And starting his Election Campaign in south east england, labour leader sir keir starmer says that what the conservatives have done to this country is unforgivable, and voters dont need to put up with it. Rishi sunak clearly does not believe in his rwanda plan. I believe in his rwanda plan. I think thats been clear from this morning, because hes not going to get any flights off. I think that tells its own story. I dont think hes ever believed that plan is going to work. And so hes called an election early enough to have it not tested before the election. We have to deal with the terrible loss of control of the border under this government. We have to tackle the small boats that are coming across. Nobody, but nobody should be making that journey. Should be making that journey. Meanwhile, lib dems leader sir ed davey says the conservatives are out of touch for far too long, people across the United Kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government and this conservative government and this out of touch conservative party. But with this election, we have the chance to win the change our country so desperately needs. Desperately needs. In other news, a man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 32 years for a series of attacks in south london. Mohammed noor targeted strangers and used a makeshift blade to kill johanniter dog by slitting her throat in brixton in may last year. The 34 year old was also found guilty of three other slash attacks two days before her death , and a Record Number her death, and a Record Number of more than 68,500 people were granted Refugee Status or other types of leave to remain in the year to march Home Office Figures show. Thats the highest number for any 12 month period since records began. Meanwhile the total asylum backlog still stands at more than 100,000. And for the latest stories , sign up for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Now its to gbnews. Com alerts. Now its back to. Patrick. Back to. Patrick. Its thursday, the 23rd of may, and the Political Parties are out of the traps. Its the first day proper of the Election Campaign. Prime minister rishi sunak was looking to improve on a wet start yesterday, and the opfics a wet start yesterday, and the optics of a sky news journalist being forcibly removed from their launch event last night. And im being forcibly removed and we just simply wanted to have access tonight. As sky news. But unfortunately were told that because there are pool arrangements in place. Nice to see darren again, isnt it . Mr sunak decided to kick start the campaign trail outside what looks like a row of portaloos at a warehouse rave. Portaloos at a warehouse rave. I think after a difficult few years, im pleased that economic stability is now returning to the country. Weve just seen that inflation has returned to normal. The economy is growing at a healthy rate again, wages have been rising sustainably for several months now and although i know not everyone is feeling the full benefits of that yet, its clear that we have turned a corner. The question for the country is the choice of this election is, you know, whos got the boldest ideas, the clearest plan to provide a secure future for you and your family. Thats the choice at this election. Hes doing a whistle stop tour of all four home nations. He went to wales and appeared to forget they hadnt qualified for the euros. Looking forward to all the football. Not so much my bag. Football. Not so much my bag. Well no, but thats because you guys arent in it. Are the Scottish National party set their stall out today . Its hard to tell, though, if their new leader, john swinney, is talking about his party here or the tories. Never has a government deserved to lose more than rishi sunaks government. You want higher Living Standards and a fairer country where everyone can lead secure, happy, healthy lives. You want a national lives. You want a National Health service you can rely upon most of you think that brexit was a terrible mistake. You do was a terrible mistake. You do not think westminster works for scotland and you want scotland to have a strong voice. All of those things sum up what i am about. The liberal democrats have said that they want to target 80 tory seats. Heres their leader, sir ed davey, delivering a completely meaningless word salad of guff to a load of people. Probably dressed in socks and sandals for far too long, people across the United Kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government and this out of touch conservative party. But with this election , we but with this election, we have the chance to win the change. Our country so desperately needs. And theres a real chance in this election if people vote liberal democrat, they will get that change. But its not just a change of government. We need to transform our politics. Our policy is broken. If we can transform it, that unlocks the chance to fix our health and care system. Our health and care system. Hey, labours sir keir starmer is attacking the tory heartlands in the south east. His day began by patting a babys head. Perhaps someone had shown him a little bit more compassion, though, after he appeared to avoid applauding Craig Mckinleys heroic return to parliament after his battle with sepsis. The handshake at the end. There. There we go. But then he got his message out there, didnt he . So this election is about a choice. Two different countries, two different futures. Decline two different futures. Decline and chaos continuing under the tories or rebuilding our country under labour, the power of the vote is with you. If you want vote is with you. If you want change, you have to for vote it. And if you vote labour, its a to vote stop the chaos. Its a vote to turn the page , and its vote to turn the page, and its a vote to rebuild our country together. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Over to reform now. Richard tice. His day started badly when nigel farage issued this letter. He will not be standing as a candidate, but he will be campaigning. Its fair to candidate, but he will be campaigning. Its fairto say campaigning. Its fair to say that this has not gone down that well with everyone but mr tice copped it again, though, for this unfortunate graphic. This unfortunate graphic. Really. So i mean, he was saying there that, you know, 1066 the immigration line was was flat. I immigration line was was flat. I mean, quite famously, though, i must say there was some ilLegal Immigration from france in 1066. But anyway, he got his point out there in the end , its the there in the end, its the immigration election, apparently. So you cant trust the tories. And as we know, labour wants more mass immigration. If you want change, folks, youve got to vote for it. On july the 4th, vote for change. Vote for reform uk. Reform uk. Now the eagle eyed of you will have realised that the word change is coming up a lot at this election so far. So thats how all the major parties kick started their campaigns today. Its a mixed bag. Im just going to cross over now to our man on the street. This is barry and barry to see what he makes of what hes seen so far. Theyre all a load of prats. Theyre all a load of prats. Lets get the thoughts of my panel tonight i am joined by gb news superstar nana akua. I have got tory peer, lord shaun bailey and ex labour Party Advisor matthew laza. And look, seana , matthew laza. And look, seana, ill start with you. Sunak has got off to a damp start hasnt he. Look he definitely got soaked. Some people ive spoken soaked. Some people ive spoken to said what a trouper is that in the rain. Other people said why didnt he just go inside in the dry. What i would say to rishi is forget about it. The thing you learn about a campaign is its not one little disaster that defines your campaign. Its a general feel. Youll make some mistakes, some things wont go how you planned. But soldier on. I think whats much more important now is for rishi to learn to tell stories. Must tell stories that counteract the narrative that, Keir Starmer Labour Party trying to get going. Thats how he beats this man. Okay. All right, matthew, ill put it to you that there are two things that labour dont have an answer for at the moment. They want to make it easier to change gender. Its more men and womens changing rooms. And that Asylum Seeker amnesty, which could see 90,000 people added to the backlog. Well, theyre already in the backlog because theyre already here. So, i mean, look, i mean, just sean, ive just been sent the first word, cloud, where they do a focus group and ask people the words they associate with what theyve seen. And this is on the launches yesterday, the biggest words in the word cloud for yesterday, for this, for rishi, this this is for both labour and the tories. So for rishi the big four, the biggest four words were desperate, wet, rubbish and weak and for and for keir the first four words were confident, positive, ready and hope. I confident, positive, ready and hope. I think that says it all about the fact Alister Campbell can pilot exactly what this is. Its for more in common, its available there on the net. A Labour Party Member put that together, surely. No, no independent focus group. Matthew, what do you make of what were seeing so far . Whos got off to the best start . Oh, god. Well, i mean, rishi sunak was a cross between gonzo from the muppets and roland. Rat doesnt he . And he was like a drowned rat. Actually, if you take the a out of the sunak, it sunk. And thatis out of the sunak, it sunk. And that is kind of how he came across. That was just not good, was it . And then you had sir keir starmer, who looked like the cat that got the cream. Yeah. But then he sort of didnt know how to sort of behave because he was not expecting. It was like he didnt really expect to find himself in this position. So he was caught off guard. And then you had ed davey who, he was grinning like a cheshire cat, wasnt he, with the rest of his party. And they finally worked out that their banners are orange and not yellow, because usually the lib dems are all sort of multicoloured banners. They havent quite got it right. And of course, then you had richard tice with the reform. And so i just felt that for me, i thought they were all pretty useless. Its all pretty lacklustre and frankly, i mean, i dont know what i will do in terms i have to vote, but i just thought they were all pretty bad. Lets have a little look now at some of the resignations that have come in thick and fast so far. Weve got sir michael ellis, mp for North Hampton north, hugh merriman, a transport minister and mp for bexhill and battle. James grundy , mp for lee. Dame ellen a lang, a Deputy Speaker of the commons and mp for epping forest. Jo and mp for epping forest. Jo churchill, the employment minister and the mp for Bury Saint Edmunds sean, your mps, even cabinet ministers dont want it. Look, i think one of the things that rishi could have gotten better is not to surprise people. If youre a general and youre and youre about to enter a battle, the people you should inform is, are people going to fight that battle. And i think that hasnt hasnt played out too well with some of the mps ive spoken to. But this is natural. You do get a number of mps who will stand down, but if you surprise them when they stand down quickly, it looks like has something to do with the Prime Minister and not a plan. They had beforehand. So he now will have to carry this because he didnt inform them. But nobodys on his side. So thats, you know, he doesnt know whos on his side. So even if he had told people he was going to do then that would have leaked out because theyre so disunited that they just wouldnt have. But youre you might well be correct, but its still you have to because the few who are on your side and the ones who are in the middle, if you dont involve them, theyll join the group. But but matthew, apparently rishi sunak has challenged now. Well, he has challenged sir keir starmer to a weekly televised debate. Starmer doesnt want it. Why is he running . Bring it on. I dont think theres any evidence that starmer doesnt want it. I know from speaking to people in labour hq theyre up for it. I was in 2015, i was one of those negotiating debates with the tories when David Cameron wouldnt debate, take his opponents. So as long as the rules are fair, which im sure agreement can be reached, you know, bring it on and i look forward to it. I mean, lets remember, as you say, sean, all these mps are leaving because this has just been sprung on this. Were having a general election on july the 4th, when, remember when its insulting to scotland because the scottish schools are on holiday. Were having it. Why is that insulting . Why is that insulting . Because its always. Its always. You never have elections dunng always. You never have elections during school holidays. Why . Because theyre independent. Because theyre independent. Because theyre not independent. Well, they certainly werent. Well, no majority voted to stay in including campaigned for by your party. And of course, all this is about is because rishi sunak knows hes going to lose and he wants to have his kids starting in school in california in august. Hes hes smelling them. Hes smelling the salt of the beach in malibu. Hes checking out. But you see, you see you see what matthews just done and said that is whats wrong with this campaign, particularly by the labour party. But not only and whats wrong with this country . The reason everybodys apathetic about politics is because of the way people in politics speak about politics, and personal attacks like that are necessary. Its absolutely true. Its absolutely true. You literally named the man and said, lets ask the Prime Minister, then i want a Prime Minister, then i want a Prime Minister in this country who didnt have a green card, who wasnt have a green card of another country and he deserves it because of his one at a time, because of his record. Sean. Sean. Sean, sean. Sean, sean. Hes ready, hes ready. He doesnt care about his country. All of you, stop it this is getting weird. Just finish the point, sean. Finish thats sean. Finish the point. The bottom line is right. No matter. No matter who wins or loses. We have to emerge from this as a country that has some chance of sticking together. And we wont if those things continue. Oh, come off it, sean. The Prime Ministers spent the whole day attacking keir starmer. And its perfectly legitimate to attack rishi sunak, who doesnt know who will be, who will be in malibu before christmas. Theyre leaving because they know theyre going to lose. Frankly thats the only reason theyre going totally. But you shouldnt really be talking about personal attacks. Let me just remind you, Angela Rayner misogynistic, homophobic, banana republic, eton racist scum that came from your party. Wes streeting. Yeah, anybody whos streeting. Yeah, anybody whos voted for susan hall is a white supremacist or hey, it wasnt quite what he said. He would give succour to. He would give succour to. No, no, but he said that those that is a win for those who are White Supremacists and which implies that those who are voting for him. Well, it implies seans the wise, the premises and me too. So. So did you vote for it . I dont think that the labour party can talk about throwing out insults. Their throwing out insults. Their insults are the worst. All right. Okay, right off to a good start. And yeah, may i very politely. We love a spirited debate here. But we do have people listening on radio. And it is a little bit tricky when everyones shouting over each other. I ourselves however i absolutely love it. So still to come, i am joined by one of the most important figures in the most important figures in the tory Election Campaign the party chairman, an mp Richard Holden. Plus legal migration remains absolutely sky high. 685,000. Where are these migrants coming from . Though for me thats the biggest story actually. Where in the world are they coming from and why is the government still failing to do that much about it . Youll never guess the answer, though, to this question, but you want to do. If youre not an mp, what do you want to do if youre not an mp . Strap yourselves in for that one. But up next, this is, i think, really the other big story of the day. So nigel farage sent shockwaves through