to go. we're going to have going to go. we're going to have all the latest shortly. >> it feels like a little bit of naivety, but who knows now more tory turncoats. that's to according shadow health secretary wes streeting. he's spoken to other tory mps. that's what he said, who are considering defecting to labour, and warnings from the bank of england's chief economist, huw pill, that soaring migration is fuelling britain's housing crisis. >> well who knew? >> well who knew? >> and then there is some good news by the way, the uk is officially out of recession as the economy grew 0.6% between january and march. >> and who'd have thought nana mass, uncontrolled migration varne equals housing crisis. >> housing shortage? really >> housing shortage? really >> if you speak to the young students though, or the young gen z—ers one second, they're advocating open borders. anyone and everyone's welcome . the next

and everyone's welcome. the next day they're complaining they can't get home. well, i think it's the thing that holly valent's said, isn't it, that you start off with the very young on the left with this wonderful open idea. >> as you get older, you realise what rubbish ideas they are. well, the problem for the freezes normally i agree with that. >> normally you'd grow up and you'd have things to conserve families, children, homes. the problem for the conservatives now in the future is people don't have those things. we're not having kids , they're not not having kids, they're not buying homes. they have nothing to conserve. so are we destined for decades and decades of labour? let us know what you think, gbnews.com/yoursay. all that and plenty more to come. but first, your news headlines with sofia . with sofia. >> ben. thank you. good morning. it's 932. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . labour are set the gb newsroom. labour are set to launch plans to tackle the small boat crisis. today. sir keir starmer will unveil proposals for stronger new counter—terror powers that will effectively treat people smugglers like terrorists. his

plans will be supported by around 1000 additional officers recruited by m15 to do this. labour will spend £75 million acquainting to a year of what would have been spent on sending migrants to rwanda. shadow home secretary yvette cooper set out labour's plan go after the criminal gangs. >> they would have new counter—terror style powers and also new resources to be able to recruit many hundreds, up to 1000 new investigators, cross border police because we have to go after the criminal gangs. they are undermining border security and putting lives at risk with these dangerous boat crossings. and that's why this action is so urgently needed . action is so urgently needed. >> and the uk is no longer in recession. according to official figures, the ons has published the latest gdp statistics , which the latest gdp statistics, which show the economy grew in the first three months of the year. the economy grew better than expected by 0.6% between january

and march, to according the office for national statistics and israel. singer has insisted the eurovision song contest in sweden remains safe for everyone amid protests against her participating. eden golan qualified for the final of the eurovision song contest on saturday, despite being booed throughout the rehearsals and live events. protesters want israel banned in the same manner russia was for its involvement in a controversial conflict . and in a controversial conflict. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. com slash alerts. >> very good morning to you. 934 ben nana on britain's newsroom on gb news. so big news this morning . sir keir starmer is morning. sir keir starmer is going to be introducing his big idea to stop the boats. yes i've got my thoughts on it. it just

sounds like it's going to replace the so—called war on drugs, which obviously we all know is a massive failure because you deal with one dealer or you smash one gang. there's plenty of others who are willing to take their places. so yeah, well, let's hear about naive though, isn't it? >> but labour will sort of launch their plans, apparently to tackle the boat crisis. and this i thought what he's saying, i don't know i think rwanda's working. there's elements of it that are working. why would you get rid of it. you keep that then bring your plans and it doesn't make sense. seems foolhardy. >> so he's going to unveil sir keir starmer stronger new counter—terror powers that will effectively treat people like, sorry, people smugglers like terrorists. >> and his plans will be supported by around about 1000 additional officers. so more bureaucracy , by m15. and of bureaucracy, by m15. and of course, they'll scrap the rwanda plan , which we mentioned plan, which we mentioned altogether, which seems madness if it's working . but, you know, if it's working. but, you know, but can either party tackle the small boat crisis, the tories or labour? >> joining us now is political editor of huffpost uk, kevin schofield, and political correspondent at the spectator, james hill. good morning to you

both. kevin let's go to you first. as i was just saying to nana, it kind of feels like sir keir starmer's pending announcement will be similar to the war on drugs , where you kind the war on drugs, where you kind of ignore the people actually crossing the channel and you go after the smuggling gangs, but you crack one gang, another is just going to appear. all the meanwhile, the boats will continue crossing. >> yeah. i mean, it's a massive challenge. you know, the government has wrestled with this for a long time. and yet this for a long time. and yet this year the number of crossings is up on last year , crossings is up on last year, despite the rwanda bill being being passed. so yeah, labour have obviously made it very clear since the very beginning of the rwanda policy that they were against it. they will scrap it if they win the next election. and yeah, now they've come up with their own plan. i mean, we'll have to wait and see. i wouldn't say it's a silver bullet. i don't think a silver bullet. i don't think a silver bullet. i don't think a silver bullet in this problem actually exists, i guess it's worth a try, and if you're going to cancel rwanda altogether, then you've got to come up with something. i just wonder whether there'll be more detail in the

actual speech. what's been trailed still seems a little bit thin to me. >> james, what's your thoughts on it? do you do you think keir starmer is on the right path with his plan? >> well, i mean, you know, the labour likes to talk about smashing the criminal gangs as if the conservatives aren't also committed to that, you know, i think look, we can have a discussion around the powers and additional funding that goes towards that. i mean, that's, you know, it's difficult to argue against that. but, you know, the idea, for instance , know, the idea, for instance, that the government isn't committed to doing that. you can argue not doing enough, but they're certainly trying to tackle the people smugglers, is, you know, a fallacy. i think the interesting thing really, is the way in which keir starmer, with all these different problems, tends to come up with the idea for a sort of new body. so, for instance, he's announced this new border security commander, border security commander, new force. i mean, that's not too dissimilar to, i think, what rishi sunak announced two years ago with the small boats operational command. so i really not true to shore up other than reorder what the real substantive differences. so as kevin says, we need to see more detail , but i kevin says, we need to see more detail, but i think it's an

interesting choice of kevin, of keir starmer to always go for a kind of new body. i think in some ways he's a bit of a sort of mr blobby. he's a he's a very politician. he likes the blob in the kind of way in which he chooses to address these difficult issues. and i think that's a definite breach with the conservatives. so i'd be interested to see how that will work out. well, yes. >> so democracy, isn't it? more bureaucracy, more people, a thousand more people who saying. yeah. >> dominic cummings wrote an interesting column today about the fact that he reckons sir keir starmer would just be ordered around by the civil service. he just loves being told what to do. but kevin , sir told what to do. but kevin, sir keir, in his speech later today we're going to bring that to you live just after around 10:00. he will say that they're going to rely on closer cooperation with the european union. but we already send france half a billion a year to stop the dinghies. some great exposes by the likes of the sun newspaper have shown that in actual fact, all the work is meant to be stopping boats on the french beaches are down at the local working men's club, sinking shots, so we can't trust the french the rest of the eu, let's be frank, hate us. how is a labour government going to change that ? change that? >> well, i guess he will hope

that, european. >> oh, i think he's frozen track record. >> clearly he was against brexit. he campaigned . oh, brexit. he campaigned. oh, sorry. can you hear me now? yeah. >> you're back on carry on. we're listening . sorry, sorry. we're listening. sorry, sorry. >> yeah, so they'll look as his track record of opposing brexit, of working to try and get a second referendum. if you remember when he was shadow brexit secretary. and they will think maybe this is a guy that we can work with in a way that we can work with in a way that we can't work with a conservative government who introduced brexit with a prime minister who supported brexit. i guess we've got to hope that there will be a just a change, change a vibe really, between, europe and the uk. if there is a labour government. but again, it does put you in the hands of the eu. it's pretty much up to them whether they want to work with us. and you make a very good point there. i remember last year when rishi sunak struck this new deal with france, and yet here we are. as i said earlier, the number of crossings are going up and yet we're spending sending an awful lot of money to the french government. so yeah, you could say nothing has worked. you could say that

about the relationship with bofis about the relationship with boris johnson and macron and the french. >> but you can't really say that about rishi sunak. he's got a good relationship with the french already. i have a feeling that keir starmer is slightly deluded on this plan because it sounds to me like a lot more bureaucracy. he's talking, you're talking about cost. how much will a thousand more people cost to do this so—called job, and what is it that they're going to do? and then what about the people that are here? does that mean there's an amnesty for the people that are here because. and won't he need a third country anyway? i mean, that's to either of you, james. i mean, won't he need it? he'll need it. >> well, the danger is, of course . you know, labour likes course. you know, labour likes to say we're going to clear the asylum backlog, but of course, that obviously means are you going to accept those people if you accept them, the conservatives will say, well, thatis conservatives will say, well, that is an effective amnesty for illegal migration, for coming here illegally. and if you don't accept them, where are you going to send them? and this is the kind of big issue . with

kind of big issue. with migration, which is that it's not sort of, you know, trying to stop people before they arrive. it's once they're here, what do you actually do with them? and i think labour will have to make those difficult choices about either choosing to give an effective amnesty or choosing to where send these people. think where send these people. i think you a really you touched on a really interesting point, just slightly before is about before this, which is about europe. of course, i think europe. and of course, i think it's worth the conservatives keep making the point. europe is having this a lot worse than us. there are a lot more crossings to to italy. to the mediterranean, to italy. so why on earth so my question is why on earth would the europeans want any kind of deal that would involve, you know, them taking our people, our arrivals , but we people, our arrivals, but we don't take any of theirs. i think that they have it much worse. and i think actually, what is so striking about this is that, you know, the uk isn't sort of an outlier on this. we are acting with the same tandem as europe on this, they want to get a harsher crackdown on asylum and migration because this is a worldwide phenomenon . this is a worldwide phenomenon. so i think that, you know, it's a mistake to think, oh, we can have cooperation with europe, europe, if anything, is having it worse than us. >> yeah. quite right. and as i have said, europe and the eu, most countries hate us. they can't forgive us for leaving their gravy train club and

having independent thought of wanting to go by ourselves. you know, i just can't stress it enough. so why would they want to help us with our migration problem? i just don't get it. kevin, let me ask you about something slightly different. wes streeting this morning, the shadow health secretary, he reckons labour is in discussions with more tory mps willing to defect. of course, off the back of natalie elphicke, down in doven of natalie elphicke, down in dover, who will be with sir keir starmer at his speech later this morning. is he just calling the tories bluff? do you think there are tory mps lining up across the floor? >> i think there are. we got a story last week actually saying that there was about a handful were in discussions with labour. i was told at the time it was hush hush, so i'm quite surprised at wes streeting has just come out and revealed it. but, but yeah . i think that is but, but yeah. i think that is true. i think we've got maybe six months to the next election. i wouldn't be surprised if we get at least another one defector, i can't tell you who who it might be, but yeah, there are definitely discussions going on whether those are mps who are already standing down or whether there are mps or tory mps who are looking at their majorities

and thinking, well, unless i switch to labour, i'm not coming back again. who knows? but, but yeah, i think there's those discussions are without a doubt they are taking place. >> james, do you know who they may be? can you spill the beans? >> well, given that the last defector was a hard right eurosceptic member of the erg, i'm just glad mark francois has come out and said he's not going to be defecting. i mean, i think @gbnews you need to check with jacob rees—mogg, anyone's welcome in keir starmers labour party apart from real socialists. >> well, they were talking about nigel farage, weren't they yesterday. >> he's not going to do that. i think, nigel farage, you know, can give a good speech. >> so i'm not sure how many of those are found in the labour party, but, you know, i think i think it's one to watch. certainly a labour wants to play up this narrative. of course they do. and cause havoc with they do. and cause havoc with the enemy side. >> well, why would anybody, to be fair, wes streeting, he's the guy that called people who support suzanne hall, white supremacist. i remember his tweet many years ago about jan one of the daily mail columnist, talking about her going under, being under a train. he has apologised for that. but but this is somebody who's made comments like that. i'm i was

actually talking to somebody as i was getting ready today in the dressing room and saying the comment that he wrote about suzanne hall have any of you or would any of you ever dare tweet something like that? i don't know anyone that would. so i wouldn't take anything that wes streeting says. i'd take everything he says with a pinch of salt. i don't trust . i don't of salt. i don't trust. i don't believe a word he says. do you? would you ever tweet anything like that? >> i was a big fan of wes streeting up until about around a month or so ago, when he stood at the despatch box. kevin, i'm not sure what you make of this. he stood at the despatch box with his labour mps behind him, laughing at the fact that natcon eventin laughing at the fact that natcon event in brussels was being shut down. a total attack on free speech, which anyone from the right, if it happened to their adversaries on the left, would call out straight away. you know, i don't agree with you, but i respect and will fight for your right to say it. but wes streeting giggled like a juvenile schoolboy. and then of course he had the tweeting incident as well . incident as well. >> i just don't know what's wrong with him. >> yeah, no, i think i think that was a mistake. i have to say. yeah, you can absolutely do so. you can not agree with someone. you cannot agree with

what they say , but, you know, what they say, but, you know, sending in the police to shut them down. i think that is clearly a step too far. and it's not something that regardless of your political affiliation, it's not something that you should possibly support. james >> yeah, absolutely. i think wes streeting is very talented in lots of ways, but sometimes he's a bit, intemperate with his language . and i think he got language. and i think he got a bit carried away at the despatch box. and i think that tweet was poorly judged. >> but it's should we look deeper into it because sir keir starmer says the labour party has changed, but clearly , has changed, but clearly, clearly they haven't. i mean it's almost student gutter politics, that kind of thing. and i spoke to a couple of labour mps since and said do you backi labour mps since and said do you back i mean, jonathan jonathan ashworth earlier this week i said, do you back or condemn what wes streeting says? and he said it was just made in the heat of the moment. well, why is that acceptable ? that acceptable? >> that's not acceptable. angela rayner what was that whole spiel that angela rayner said? homophobic, misogynistic, banana republic etonian and what was it, racist scum? this is ? if it, racist scum? this is? if i use that language on my twitter feed about anyone, i would be

fired. i think i'd be fired, wouldn't you? >> you know they wouldn't be cancelled. >> yeah , they'd be talking to me >> yeah, they'd be talking to me seriously about those sort of wordings. i don't get why these labour mps in particular are just getting away with anything. i think one day. >> angela rayner sorry james, i think, i think angela rayner was severely criticised and i think was quite chastened, and she will not be repeating that again. that's for sure. i think that was very ill judged remark and i pretty sure that she deeply regrets it now, but it will obviously be be brought up again, no doubt, during the election campaign. i dare say it's not. it's not the type of language that we want to see in our political debate . our political debate. >> but that's only because they got caught out there. that's because they got caught out. this is what they're like, and some of them are prepared to say it out loud. so i'm just very concerned about some of these politicians. >> last word to you, james. >> last word to you, james. >> yeah. i think one day wes streeting is going to be standing for labour leader. so he just needs to watch some of the comments. i'd say. >> interesting. okay kevin schofield, james healy, thanks very much. now, i'm not sure if you're a fan or if you've even heard of the netflix phenomenon baby reindeer. have you seen it? >> i've heard about it because people have been talking about it, but i just can't bring

myself to watch anything so weird. >> it's all kicking off because the real life martha, who was a stalker based in the series, she has finally revealed herself. she spoke out last night and there's some very, very interesting details that she said. we're going to get stuck into that just after the break. you're with britain's newsroom on gb news. stay with

us. hello. welcome back. 950. ben and nana with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. thank you for your emails. they're flying in. let's get stuck into a couple. david, good morning to you. you said if we didn't have mass uncontrolled immigration, we wouldn't have a housing crisis. is it only now they realised it? good point. i mean same, same with. >> i've been saying it. it's quite obvious, isn't it, that that's what would happen if you have lots of people coming in and you don't have enough places to put them. that's what we keep asking. where are you going to put these people? but nobody ever appears to be able to answer the question. but lots of

these charities and all these so—called do gooders or want to help. and then alastair says capital economics reports that the indications are the economy grew robustly in april as well. if this is true, growth in quarter two will be similar than quarter two will be similar than quarter one as the benefits of the national insurance reduction and rises in state pension minimum wage and benefits will not be felt until may. adding wages rising faster than inflation. and the outlook is surprisingly rosy . that's nice. surprisingly rosy. that's nice. >> alastair and keith, you say. i sincerely hope it's not only the rwanda plan that's finally abandoned. france should receive no more money either. good point. right. let's move on to our next guest. so netflix big massive show that hit the hit the screens of course, in the last week or so. baby reindeer where's the old scroller? there we go, it's basically a show about getting to the bottom of a mystery, a stalking mystery . the mystery, a stalking mystery. the woman involved a woman called martha. she gave her first ever tv interview last night when she denied all allegations that she'd stalked this publican from london, to the extent where she sent allegedly 41,000 emails.

take a look at this. >> and, we've had no apologies from netflix or him or nothing . from netflix or him or nothing. i mean, for someone who says he feels sorry for me , i've had no feels sorry for me, i've had no apology. and i have this martha character. seems to have smashed up a bar and sexually assaulted him in a canal. been to prison , him in a canal. been to prison, there are a number of other allegations . none of that there are a number of other allegations. none of that is true. that's not true. >> wow. so she's denying it all. well, joining us now is retired scotland yard detective inspector and leading authority inspector and leading authority in stalking cases. hamish brown . in stalking cases. hamish brown. hamish, what do you make of that? she said that none of it's true . true. >> yes. good morning to you, well, both of you, for that matter. well, yes, of course i did. watch the piers morgan interview and has sort of civil writs will be flying around. i'll choose my words very carefully, netflix have gone ahead with this . they will have ahead with this. they will have their sources and information,

lady fiona. fiona harvey, she, has has denied everything. so we'll have to see where we go from here. piers was, quite clear with her to say if the information is there on the internet or social media, it will be found and she refuted that. sir, she was involved in this at all. so, we'll just have to wait and see. but i think the principle of the show, if you're just talking in general terms , just talking in general terms, is, not pointing the finger at anyone whatsoever for what it did highlight was women stalking men. that's what the programme was about. that was the issue. now the overwhelming majority of cases is men stalking women. it's less to do with celebrities. incidentally, they make the headlines. it's ordinary people in the street. and also same sex stalking. that's very important as well. and they must be taken seriously. now, the programme showed , and we don't know how showed, and we don't know how true it was, but the police not

being very helpful and not getting it that a woman could still command. so what's wrong with that type of thing? and the other thing to be taken into account in stalking is very often the acts in isolation won't be a crime at all, like following or sending presents , following or sending presents, quite inoffensive presents, but it is the total reality or the circumstances that counts. and that's when it digs in again. we saw from the programme the police saw what the police officer saw one text message and said, well, that's not very threatening. it is the totality of it. what should people do if they are being stalked? >> then what's what's what's the best thing to do? >> yes, absolutely , certainly >> yes, absolutely, certainly keep a record of what's going on, how you felt about it, who was with you if people were with you at the time? if notes or text messages or something like that are found, keep them. just put them away. you don't have to

read it all, by the way, but just save those . and if you just save those. and if you want, go and see the police, go to the police. >> mish i'm going to i'm going to have to have to cut you off, unfortunately, because we're running out of time. but save the evidence. go to the police. a fascinating interview last night , and a fascinating interview last night, and who a fascinating interview last night , and who knows who's night, and who knows who's telling the truth. in actual fact, some people think that the guy who made the series could also be a bit , guy who made the series could also be a bit, you guy who made the series could also be a bit , you know, off the also be a bit, you know, off the scale a bit. stick with us. we're going live to sir keir starmer and his new small boats plan. in just a sec. first, here's your weather. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> morning. here's your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. the fine and often sunny weather many of us have had recently will continue for a little while yet. yes, there are some mist and fog patches around first thing this morning, but these will quickly burn back because there'll be plenty of sunshine around. lots

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gb news. >> very good morning to you. it's 10 am. on friday, 10th of may. this is britain's newsroom with me. ben. leo and the lovely nana akua wright. >> well, labour's migration plans to keir starmer. he's about to set out his strategy in about to set out his strategy in a matter of moments. how he's going to tackle the small boat crossings this morning . we'll crossings this morning. we'll bnng crossings this morning. we'll bring that to you. and there'll also be a surprise appearance apparently , apparently let's say apparently, apparently let's say it now. natalie elphicke, the mp who who converted to labour. she'll be speaking for the first time. interesting to hear what she's going to have to say, moving on. more tory turncoat

shadow health secretary wes streeting claims he has spoken to other tory mps who are also considering defecting to labour. >> and of course, eurovision is on high alert. israel has made, has it made through? has it made it through to the final tomorrow 7 it through to the final tomorrow ? despite thousands of pro—palestine protests wanting them removed from the competition and warnings from the bank of england's chief economist, huw pill, who says that soaring immigration is fuelling britain's housing crisis. >> who would have thought, yeah. >> who would have thought, yeah. >> surprise, surprise. and trump on trial. won't they leave this man alone and get him, get let him get on with what he's trying to do as donald trump's third week of his hush money trial comes to a close , he blasts the comes to a close, he blasts the judge as a disgrace. we'll stay tuned to find out why. >> okay, so here it is. we're going to go live now to kent, where labour leader sir keir starmer is unveiling his small boats plan, and also labour mp natalie elphicke. she's going to

comment for the first time since defecting from the tories to laboun defecting from the tories to labour. here you go and looks to the future to build a britain of hope, optimism, opportunity and fairness. >> a britain everyone can be part of. nowhere is rishi sunak's lack of delivery clearer than on the issue of small boats. they are failing to keep our borders safe and secure. lives are being lost in the engush lives are being lost in the english channel, while small boat arrivals are once again at record levels. so far this year , record levels. so far this year, it's clear that rishi sunak has failed to keep our borders secure and cannot be trusted. a fresh approach is needed, an approach that puts at its heart approach that puts at its heart a commitment to border security, which tackles the criminal gangs behind the small boats crisis and saves lives .

behind the small boats crisis and saves lives. i'm delighted to be joined in dover today by the labour leader, keir starmer , the labour leader, keir starmer, and the shadow home secretary, yvette cooper . and with that, yvette cooper. and with that, i'll now hand over to yvette . i'll now hand over to yvette. >> thank you very much. thank you natalie. and it is significant to be here today with natalie, who as dover's mp, has seen the consequences of dangerous boat crossings and has followed government policies in this area for many years and has concluded that rishi sunaks approach is not working and is supporting labour's approach. we welcome natalie to labour and we hope that across the country, people who did not vote labour in the last election will be ready to support us this time to

deliver the change that keir is leading and that our country so desperately needs. dangerous boat crossings are undermining our border security and putting lives at risk. just a few weeks ago , a seven year old girl was ago, a seven year old girl was crushed to death in a smuggler boat. one of five people who died that day . and we've seen died that day. and we've seen the sickening images of violence on the french coast. as gangs push more and more people into these flimsy dinghies, gangs that are part of a network of organised criminals making hundreds of millions of pounds in profits . networks that in profits. networks that stretch from here in the uk , stretch from here in the uk, right across europe through kurdistan to the money markets of kabul and beyond. and those networks have taken root along our borders over the last five years. we cannot let them get away with it, and that is why we have been working with and

heanng have been working with and hearing from national security experts , border security experts experts, border security experts looking at the experiences of security, of successful security operations and approaches around terrorism in the past. why we welcome the support from former counter—terror chief neil basu for the work that we are doing and why. two we have drawn on keir's experience going after terror, gangs and networks as director of public prosecutions and in northern ireland, we cannot just stand by while our border security is undermined and lives are put at risk. and instead of the years of conservative gimmicks, it is time to get a grip. conservative gimmicks, it is time to get a grip . so before we time to get a grip. so before we hear from keir about the new proposals that keir is setting out as leader of the labour party today, let me hand over now to labour's candidate for the next election here in dover, someone who has himself worked for the national crime agency

and has deep experience on intelligence and cooperation, to go after the criminal gangs. welcome, mike. thank . welcome, mike. thank. >> thank you everybody. so my name is mike tapp and i am labour's candidate for dover deal and the villages. i'm a former soldier. i've served in afghanistan and iraq with a specialist unit at the national crime agency and then the ministry of defence, where i spent much of my time in counter—terrorism, playing my part to protect the british people. >> we'll bring keir starmer to you directly as soon as he starts speaking. but joining us now in the studio is homeland security editor mark white. listen, mark, what are we expecting from keir starmer in a few moments? >> well, the big headline announcement will of course, be the creation of this border security command, which labour

believes will give authorities the kind of power they need to go after the criminal gangs who are pushing these small boats out into the english channel. however, you know, we've already had a reorganisation announced by rishi sunak in december of 2022 when he said that he was creating a small boat operational command, bringing all of the entities together, more money, more resources. so let's not be in any doubt that the authorities are already doing all they can. the national crime agency and others, to try to pursue those criminal gangs. but they're very sophisticated in nature now, in the supply chains that they have and the way that they operate. >> okay, mark, we're just going to cross back now to sir keir starmer, who's just taken the stage in kent. thank you very much . much. >> thank you, mike, for those words . what a fantastic campaign

words. what a fantastic campaign you are running. thank you natalie , it's fantastic to be in natalie, it's fantastic to be in your constituency . welcome to your constituency. welcome to the labour party. it's so great to have you on board. and, yvette, thank you for not just your words, but all the work you've done over such a period of time on this important brief and this important challenge. and it's great to be here on a sunny day in kent. the garden of england. and i used to play football around here for years. the uncompromising , no nonsense the uncompromising, no nonsense hard knocks training school of the kent boys league. so i'm very familiar with this part of the world. but after the elections last week, i have to say it's part of the world that the tories are increasingly unfamiliar with a county, not just green and pleasant, but now also turning red. and by the way, on a day like this, i really am sorry that we're doing this indoors, but we'll be out

there before too long. but today we are here on serious business because this is a community on the front line of one of the gravest challenges we face as a nation. illegal migration is a test of seriousness for all governments and would be government, and not just here, right across the world. a symbol. as i said in my conference speech last year, of a more volatile world, an age of insecurity . it's a really hard insecurity. it's a really hard nut to crack . i'm not going to nut to crack. i'm not going to pretend otherwise. tackling organised crime is always hard, especially across borders. i know that from my work at the crown prosecution service on drug smuggling or counter—terrorism operation . and counter—terrorism operation. and let's be clear at the start , let's be clear at the start, this is a criminal enterprise that we are dealing with, a

business that pits nation against nation, that thrives in the grey areas of our rules. the cracks between our institutions where they believe they can exploit some of the most vulnerable people in the world with impunity. a vile trade that preys on the desperation and the hopeit preys on the desperation and the hope it finds in its victims. the common humanity that ultimately it seeks to extinguish. and not so long ago , extinguish. and not so long ago, back in 2016, i went for myself to visit the refugee camps on the outskirts of calais. it was winter, i think it was february . winter, i think it was february. it was absolutely freezing . the it was absolutely freezing. the ground was mud sodden with rain and human waste, and i saw children there , two in children there, two in particular in my mind, who were the same age as my children back

then. the same age as my children back then . that was age five and age then. that was age five and age seven, huddling together in a tent that offered almost nothing in the way of warmth, a desperate situation . but i went desperate situation. but i went home and said good night to my children, the same age, each in their own bedroom , with the their own bedroom, with the central heating on. and i came away from that day profoundly depressed , and i would defy depressed, and i would defy anybody to go into those camps and come away with any other reaction . that camp represented reaction. that camp represented a monumental failure across nations. people had been brutally let down by governments. of course not just in terms of the awful conditions , but also because the failure of our asylum system had encouraged a false hope, a hope that had unequivocally made those people more vulnerable to exploitation. gangs were hovering around that camp that day when i went using it as a

job centre for modern slavery. now that particular camp has gone, but the smuggling business remains. the exploitation remains. the exploitation remains the peril. as yvette said , the children dying in our said, the children dying in our waters . just three weeks ago, a waters. just three weeks ago, a seven year old girl, waters. just three weeks ago, a seven year old girl , the same seven year old girl, the same age as one of the children i saw in that camp that all remains and no matter how good anyone thinks their intentions are turning a blind eye to this business, not understanding how important a rules based asylum system is for tackling that exploitation, for removing the criminal business model, if you like. that is not progressive and compassionate position. it is the complete opposite of a progressive and compassionate position . this problem must be position. this problem must be tackled. these gangs must be stopped. our asylum system must be rebuilt. our borders must be

secured. but to do that, to finally grip this problem, we need to turn the page and move on from an unhealthy interest in gesture politics that has long defined this policy area , and which has this policy area, and which has dragged the tories as a serious party of government onto the rocks of their own delusion . let rocks of their own delusion. let me give you a few examples of what i mean by gesture politics. september 2020. the sun newspaper reports that the government is exploring the procurement of yamaha jet skis. the plan allegedly to patrol the engush the plan allegedly to patrol the english channel and tow boats containing asylum seekers back to france . october 2020. the to france. october 2020. the financial times reports that the government is undertaking a secret consultation with the maritime industry. the plan, this time considered floating

walls or maritime fencing in order to block small boats and presumably in the busiest shipping lane in the world. all other boats . december 2020. and other boats. december 2020. and if that will remember this well, chris philp, then the immigration minister at the home affairs select committee in front of yvette , refusing to front of yvette, refusing to rule out the use of wave machines to blow back the boats, a policy that had by then somehow managed to find its way into the newspapers . i could go into the newspapers. i could go on. there is plenty more material sound cannons, sonic weapons, various deployments of the royal navy against advice, with little success. the list is endless . yet here we are . over endless. yet here we are. over 8000 people have made the perilous journey across the channelin perilous journey across the channel in small boats this year , on track to surpass the record set in 2022. now i want to be

clear, i'm not impliedly criticising the reporting here. if a government source tells you that it's going to build a wall in the english channel, you better believe that is a story . better believe that is a story. but the question this record must raise is whether the latest gimmick, the prime minister's rwanda scheme, can really be taken as a serious solution to this important challenge ? i this important challenge? i don't think so . they will get don't think so. they will get flights off the ground. i don't doubt that . but i also don't doubt that. but i also don't doubt that. but i also don't doubt that. but i also don't doubt that this will not work. a policy that will see just a few hundred people removed to rwanda a year, less than 1% of the people who crossed the sea in small boats every year, less than 1% for £600 million. that is neither an effective deterrent or a good use of your money. and then you look at the rest of our border system , and rest of our border system, and honestly, it's like a sieve .

honestly, it's like a sieve. just the other day, the home office admitted its lost track of thousands of people that they think have no right to be here. and yet still the government refuses to do anything than focus all its time and energy propping up rwanda, throwing good money after bad , hoping it good money after bad, hoping it will get a few flights with what, a couple of hundred migrants off the ground because it's symbolic for party management for the election . on management for the election. on its gesture politics £600 million for a few hundred removed. that is gesture politics and britain can do better . labour will do better. better. labour will do better. we will end this farce . we will we will end this farce. we will restore serious government to our borders , tackle this problem our borders, tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently.

and today we launch our plan to do that , a new approach to small do that, a new approach to small boat crossings that will secure britain's borders, prevent the exploitation by tackling it upstream and smash the criminal smuggling gangs. and as the first step in this plan, a new manifesto commitment, we will set up a new command with new powers, new resources and a new way of doing things. border security command . now this is security command. now this is about leveraging the power and potential of dynamic government based on a counter—terrorism approach, which we know works an end to the fragmentation between policing, the border force and our intelligence agencies. a collecting of the standards so the border protection becomes an elite force, not a cinderella service , an essential frontline service, an essential frontline defence that communities like this can depend on to do all

that border security command will bring together hundreds of specialist investigators, the best of the best from the national crime agency, the border force , immigration border force, immigration enforcement, the crown prosecution service and yes, m15 , all working to a single mission. all freed from the cloying bureaucracy that so often prevents collaboration between different institutions . between different institutions. now, i've seen this first hand at the crown prosecution service many times . good ambition is many times. good ambition is never enough. on its own, but i've seen how, with determination , with leadership, determination, with leadership, with single minded focus , with single minded focus, agencies can work together and deliver results and not just within one country either. we can cooperate across borders and that's not some kind of weakness. it's an absolutely

essential. these criminals do not respect national borders. i mean , when i was at the crown mean, when i was at the crown prosecution service, we had prosecutors posted in pakistan working on counter—terrorism operations in the caribbean on smuggling in west africa, disrupting the flow of drugs coming from south america on their way to europe and ultimately to britain . and these ultimately to britain. and these operations are not easy. just think about conducting a raid. i've been through this so many times. i've seen it in real time . if you've pulled all the intelligence in one place, if you've spent weeks, months , you've spent weeks, months, years mapping out the patterns of criminal activity , bringing of criminal activity, bringing in prosecutors to help assess the vital evidence, then you cannot have your raid in london going off a single minute earlier or later than the coordinating raid in paris. so

yes, we need more cooperation on illegal migration. we need a new partnership with europol. we need access to belem intelligence sharing networks, security at which the government so casually threw away as part of its botched brexit deal . and of its botched brexit deal. and that's why i've already been to the hague with yvette to start pushing for a new security pact with our european partners. but look , it is also my firm belief, look, it is also my firm belief, based on years of experience in this area , that we also need new this area, that we also need new and stronger powers to bring these vile criminals to justice. now, in some areas of criminal activity, counter—terrorism is the most obvious. we have made the most obvious. we have made the decision that the crime justifies tougher measures , and justifies tougher measures, and that's sir keir starmer. >> speaking in dover to the people there and to us all about his plans on, net on migration.

joining us in the studio is mark white. mark, you've listened to some of the stuff he said, we need. we can cooperate, cooperate across borders , he cooperate across borders, he said. access to real time borders that we threw away over brexit. he pointed that out. he had to drop that in a new security pact. he came out with a border security command , which a border security command, which would be based on counter—terrorism plan that he said he know works an elite force, not a cinderella service. hundreds of investigators, cps , hundreds of investigators, cps, mi5, hundreds of investigators, cps, m15, border force, all on a single mission collaboration. >> well, the government would argue that they already launched argue that they already launched a small boats operational command from the existing structure. they launched that rishi sunak . structure. they launched that rishi sunak. in fact, in december of 2022, and that bnngs december of 2022, and that brings together the military civilian, the national crime agency . yes. i think, you know, agency. yes. i think, you know, this repackaging of that and calling it effectively an elite border security command sounds

good. i'm sure there will be some extra resources, but at the end of the day , is that actually end of the day, is that actually going to do what he thinks it will achieve in terms of closing down these criminal gangs ? they down these criminal gangs? they are very sophisticated in the way that they operate . they have way that they operate. they have very sophisticated supply lines. right up to the back street factories in china, who make the boats all the way along through multiple countries until they eventually get to europe, then northern france, before heading off on the beaches. it is a multi—million pound criminal enterprise that you don't just shut down, in terms of how much money do they make? well, since the beginning of this year , if the beginning of this year, if you take the fact that 9000 have already crossed, it's about £3,000 per head on the small boats , £27 million is what these boats, £27 million is what these criminal gangs have made just in the first four months of this

year , an indication of just what year, an indication of just what a lucrative business that no criminal gang will want to give up. it's like the drugs trade you hear constantly. governments around the world talking about their war on drugs . yes, they their war on drugs. yes, they have successes. they can take hundreds of millions of pounds of drugs off the street, but it's a drop in the ocean. it doesn't work. and you can. you can bet your boots , if they go can bet your boots, if they go after a criminal gang, they take them out of the picture and other will spring up. >> it's too lucrative, i think. i think it's the best comparison. the war on drugs. we all know it's failed. you get some hits and some successes here and there, but ultimately the war on drugs still goes on and on and on. >> well, you didn't mention what he's going to do with the people who are here or what he'll do with the people who failed asylum, how he's going to just one second on that. >> i know we're running out of time, but that's a very important point because he wants a process on quickly and return them to the countries. well you can't return one of the biggest groupings to afghanistan because of the taliban, the next biggest grouping, iran. you can't return them or the next biggest

grouping, syrians or the next biggest grouping iraqis and so on. there are so many you can't return. what are you going to do with them? >> you'll need a third country. he's going to i think it's a u—turn coming. >> sounds like you know the game. whack a mole where you're constantly just bashing down moles that pop up. it's just going to be like that with criminal gangs. got one, got one, got one. all the while the small boats keep coming. but anyway, we'll see i guess. up next, dominic cummings. remember him? the former adviser to boris johnson, he set to start a new political party to replace the tories . i thought we already had tories. i thought we already had that with reform uk. more of that with reform uk. more of that after the break. britain's newsroom on gb news. stick with .

us. >> if you just tuned in. welcome on board. it's 27 minutes after 10:00. this is britain's newsroom with me, nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. we're also joined by political commentator matthew stadlen and former adviser to michael gove.

the one charlie rowley. good morning to you both. very quickly , first reactions to sir quickly, first reactions to sir keir starmers speech in dover. there seemed a bit mute to me. but charlie, well, it's just a load of old bluster, wasn't it? >> and i feel sorry, actually, for natalie elphicke, who's just crossed to the floor here to try and stop the boats, to hear the leader of the labour party say that he's going to ditch the plan that she's been supporting for such a long time. >> so i think she'll be, clutching her pearls this morning. >> matthew. you are. you're getting giddy and excited in the corner there, seeing your man, sir keir. >> i was impressed by him. he's definitely not my man. and yes, he is. i'm not convinced by the adoption of natalie elphicke. however, what he's doing with thatis however, what he's doing with that is saying we are a broad tent. and if you have never voted labour before in your life, you are welcome and you've got to lead the country . you've got to lead the country. you've got to lead the country. you've got to lead the country. you've got to bring people together on this. on the specifics of this speech , i thought it was a good speech, i thought it was a good speech, i thought it was a good speech to me. he sounded prime ministerial. i'll get rid of this gesture. politics nonsense. i think all of us sitting here and probably everyone watching knows rwanda isn't going to work. it's a waste of money. >> it's cruel. it's not working on a minute. it's the irish are

saying that people are going to southern ireland or, sorry, the repubuc southern ireland or, sorry, the republic of ireland to escape that. some actually some actually we've had interviews patrick christys went out and interviewed some of the migrants, the actual migrants who themselves said they don't want to go to rwanda. i'm sure you can find some. but you didn't find somebody. you said it wasn't working. and it is. it isn't. no, it's not working. >> should i tell you why it's not working? well, rwanda has been bubbling along and more than bubbling along in the headunes than bubbling along in the headlines for, i don't know how many months, years this year at the moment is set to break the record of migrants and asylum seekers coming across the channel. it ain't working. it's one part, but now we're changing the goalposts. it's not working . the goalposts. it's not working. >> one part of the plan. i'm not changing the goalposts. working doesn't mean in its entirety the whole sunak said at the beginning of last year that he was going to sort the boats. >> he said in january last year, i'm going to stop the boats. how many months have we had since january last year? >> i'm not supporting either. i'm talking about rwanda and it's not working. richard sunak and you said it's not working, and you said it's not working, and i'm saying that it is for some. and that's part of the you say for some, all i can tell you is all i can tell you. >> you can keep saying that till

you're blue in the face. all i'm telling you is that this year is this this year is going to be a record for the number of people crossing the channel, right now. would you say that's working? we don't know. >> that's the plan. there's more to it than that though, isn't there, charlie? >> there is. i mean, we don't know the numbers until the end of the year. and the facts are that in 2022, there were about 50,000 people that crossed the channel. in 2023, it was down to about 30,000. you hope this year it will come down even more. and thatis it will come down even more. and that is part of it's going up. charlie. miranda. well, you know, we're only how can you argue with the statistics? because people i'm sure because people want to, you know , try people want to, you know, try and come into the country that's before the they can go to rwanda. 10 to 12 weeks. those flights will be off the ground. that's what the prime minister country already this year. >> then they are eligible to go to rwanda. >> it didn't stop them coming. as nana was saying, people are moving from northern ireland into the republic to avoid being. some people think they're still going to be a record. we don't know that. >> we don't know that that that's the projection. nobody's saying that's the entire solution. but a question to you, matthew. then where will he send people who cannot be sent to back to their countries that have failed asylum? they will

need to be a third country. rwanda was part of that equation where does he intend to send them, or do they all stay here? if they fail asylum, they may well end up staying here. well, that's not good enough. >> i can't answer for him. he has got storm. there's no doubt that all of this is a difficult question, both in terms of the human beings involved and the politics. starmer has to wrestle with these and that's right, because he's going to be our next prime minister. he has to make difficult decisions. >> sunak has done more than any prime minister and any charlie. it's not try and tackle. >> it's not works. >> it's not works. >> charlie. >> charlie. >> numbers . >> charlie. >> numbers. numbers are up this year compared to last year. >> what won't work is ditching the whole policy, which starmer has just announced. all the money. yes, it's been a very costly scheme, but it is a deterrent for all of the other policy won't work. other things that he's it's a sunk cost guys. and so keir starmer will ditch it on day one. the public will see that that man is not fit to deal with the issue of immigration, which so many people care about, illegal immigration, which people care about charlie, he won't he won't do. >> he won't. >> he won't. >> and the public will be up in arms. >> it's hard to see how he will do any worse than the tories and rishi sunak. i'm sorry, but also

he's actually grown up guys just quickly to say he's he's a grown up enough politician to, to level with the british public and say this isn't easy. >> he has had experience of fighting proper, of fighting serious organised crime when he ran the crown prosecution service. great that we've got a politician who actually did something before they went into politics. >> final word to you, charlie? well i just think, look, you know, the idea that the british pubuc know, the idea that the british public are fed up with illegal migration, illegal immigration, rishi sunak has done more than anyone against the keir starmer who thwarted at every attempt in the house of commons to get rid of that to , bill to disrupt the of that to, bill to disrupt the government's attempts to deal with this this issue, which is so important to many people. >> and i think the people of this country will be looking at keir starmer, thinking, you're just going to take us back to square one. square one. >> square one. >> well, it was a very emotional conversation that sir keir starmer had. he did talk a lot of emotion. we'll carry on with that. mark white will be back at the top of the hour. but thank you to charlie and matthew. sophia wenzler has your headunes. headlines. >> gnaana. thank you. it's 1032.

>> gnaana. thank you. it's1032. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. your headlines. labour has announced plans to tackle the small boat crisis if it wins the small boat crisis if it wins the next general election . sir the next general election. sir keir starmer unveiled proposals for stronger new counter—terror powers that will effectively treat people smugglers like terrorists. his plans will be supported by around 1000 additional officers recruited by mi5 to additional officers recruited by m15 to do this. labour says it will spend £75 million, equating to a year that would have been spent sending migrants to rwanda i >> britain can do better, labour will do better . we will >> britain can do better, labour will do better. we will end this farce. we will restore serious government to our borders and tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently . and today we launch permanently. and today we launch our plan to do that , a new our plan to do that, a new approach to small boat crossings that will secure britain's borders, prevent the exploitation by tackling it upstream and smash the criminal

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us. 1038 ben and anna with you on britain's newsroom on gb news. now, an internal report. the metropolitan police's ability to tackle crimes such as robbery, theft and violence is likely to worsen because of a recruitment crisis. >> now, the met says that there will be potentially severe consequences and a significant impact on its ability to police the capital if this isn't resolved. >> the met commissioner, sir mark rowley , has said, quote, mark rowley, has said, quote, policing is challenging enough without the added strain that concerns about the cost of living are placing on officers . living are placing on officers. they've seen a 16% real terms cut in pay since 12 years ago. retired met police officer graham whetton joins us now to discuss this. good morning graham, thanks for joining discuss this. good morning graham, thanks forjoining us. graham, thanks for joining us. one crucial line from this report i saw was i think it was up to a third of officers are now below the age of 20 or 21. so we've got a very, very young workforce. how can we expect them to police properly and deal

with the public when arguably maybe i'm being too harsh, but they don't really have much life experience ? experience? >> no, you're right. i think what it said was a third of officers are going to have less than four years service. so bear in mind you can join at any time 2024. so they want to be quite as young in age as that. but experience wise and, you know, levels of service wise, less than four years service. now the report says a third. but that third takes into account the whole workforce . so for your whole workforce. so for your viewers, frontline officers , the viewers, frontline officers, the officers actually responding to those calls, the robberies, the burglaries, etc. the ones in uniform in the cars, the percentage is likely to be higher because frontline teams are probably 70 to 80% under four years policing experience . four years policing experience. so when you first join police, you normally go onto a frontline team . well, the numbers on those team. well, the numbers on those teams is likely to be less than four years service. now the majority have got less than four years policing experience . your years policing experience. your experienced officers will then progress on to specialist roles like counter—terror murder teams, firearms teams, etc. so the real picture for me is actually worse than what they're

saying. it's a third of all officers under four years service, but frontline policing is even higher. >> what's happened then ? where >> what's happened then? where have the experienced officers gone? because i remember years ago it was so strict to become a police officer , you need to be police officer, you need to be a certain height. obviously you can't do that now because that's discrimination . then you needed discrimination. then you needed you know what i mean? there was a real proper , focused, a real proper, focused, disciplined approach to who could be a police officer , but could be a police officer, but now it seems a bit of a free for all. >> yeah it is. i think i've been highlighting this for ages. retention is key to retaining your experienced officers, and policing is no longer financially seen as, a good, a good profession to be in because financially they've, they've suffered significant pay cuts due to austerity, which was right at the time initially, but they are still very much playing catch up. there are private sector jobs that are far more lucrative for officers with experienced policing skills to go to. so there are many officers within policing now looking , looking outside the looking, looking outside the organisation to go that demands

the high workload, the high demand etc, having less officers around, less support staff to help you because it was just police numbers that were cut. it was our highly experienced, support staff that were also cut at the same time. they haven't been replaced . so you've got been replaced. so you've got officers doing roles that they never used to do in my career in policing. so it's a huge issue. it's going to get worse before it gets better. but retention and recruitment is a major concern for policing and should be for the public as well. >> well, of course, for the public, especially because the reports revealed that if the crisis with recruitment and retention continues, it won't only affect crimes such as robbery and theft, but also have, quote, significant impacts on rape victims and the force's ability to reduce the number of sexual offences by bringing criminals to justice. i mean, arguably rape rape victims do not get justice in this country anyway, so let alone if this worsens. >> yeah, you're right and you're right to highlight that there's a huge issue with conviction rates for serious sexual offences. so but that comes down to having, experienced

investigators working on those cases and experienced support staff. so massive issue for government. they really need to look at one the pay scales because the lowest pay scales in policing are not competitive. so you're not attracting the right people. it's not seen as a as a positive profession anymore . positive profession anymore. it's so much negativity around policing, probably more than any other profession in society with, with, you know, loads of, social media uploads of what officers are doing or trying to do on the street. it comes down to, supporting officers that joy and encouraging people to join. but having a, a, a proper pay scale that reflects the role they're carrying out in society , they're carrying out in society, there's just no sorry to interject. >> there's just no respect for the police anymore . there's no the police anymore. there's no respect there either. you know, having two tier policing of palestine protest , maybe going palestine protest, maybe going to lgbt marches or taking the knee. i mean, it's outrageous. i remember when i was a kid, i went to on my first lads holiday abroad, a couple of my friends were 17 at the time, urinated in the street, the spanish police gave them a clip round the ear,

you know, quite forcefully . they you know, quite forcefully. they never did it again. i'm not saying we should have. >> no, that they might have somewhere else, but i'm just saying there's no there's no respect. >> when i was young, the police were to be feared. they were respected and feared . if there respected and feared. if there was a cop around, you were like, okay, let's behave nowadays they're a laughing stock. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> in some respects. and some of those, some of those issues you highlighted, i think the taking the knee was just one incident. so but that's, that's the issue here. you have one negative incident. and it seems society as you've just mentioned there, that carries on forever. so there are many positive interactions. and i don't think policing should be feared as such. respected is a different word. it should be respected. but i don't think it's respected profession as it used to be when i joined in society. profession as it used to be when i joined in society . and that's i joined in society. and that's the key. i think it needs more respect and more support and more positivity around it. all we ever talk about, and you just alluded to that was the negative aspects in policing. there are far more positive interactions and actions carried out. police officers than we hear about. it's always it's always a negative thing, which i think . negative thing, which i think. and for policing, as i said,

it's almost a one profession that gets that all the time. >> i just want to very briefly ask you because we're running out of time, do you think that part of the reason why people don't want to join the police force is that if certain actions you don't get support from? so, for example, some of the if you shot someone as part of your job, then you could get in trouble because you may have it could have been a mistake or this or that that people don't feel supported. if they do try and make an arrest or do something, then all this sort of this wokery that surrounded policing, now that they can't be, they can't do their job properly anyway , i think properly anyway, i think officers and i'll speak to them regularly these days, i know many still serving. they do feel they're under the microscope , they're under the microscope, but for whatever actions they take and quite often in the right circumstances. so there is a there is a sense of almost like they are not supported, not just within policing but within society. and i think that impacts on attracting the right people to join. policing is pay is a huge issue. london weighting is a huge, huge issue within london because it's so

expensive. so across the country, pay scales need reviewing to attract more people into policing. but one the other aspect is again supporting them once they're in in the organisation and the job to do their job organisation and the job to do theirjob properly. their job properly. >> yeah. theirjob properly. >> yeah. okay. graham. yeah, you do make some good points. there are plenty of very good and capable police officers . and if capable police officers. and if you or i, we're going to get mugged in the street. the first person we'd want there is a police officer. so yeah. good point not to tar them all with the same brush. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> however, some very good officers there, and i think most people join to do good. obviously you get your bad eggs, but you know , in general people but you know, in general people do want a good job. they should be paid properly and supported. thank you so much, graham. lovely to talk to you. thanks, graham. right up next, former president donald trump this week on his hush money trial has become very lively. this week we'll fill you in with what happened. this is gb news britain's newsroom .

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50 minutes after 10:00. this is britain's newsroom on gb news, whose now former porn star stormy daniels has concluded that her testimony at donald trump's hush money trial , trump's hush money trial, fighting off all inquiries into her account of the alleged sexual encounter between her and the former president trump. >> yes. and it follows a scathing attack by the judge , scathing attack by the judge, who blames donald trump's lawyers for letting daniels describe lurid details as he denied trump a mistrial for the second time this week. it was going the reports yesterday saying that stormy daniels was going into some quite graphic detail about her sexual encounter with trump, which his team protested against. joining us now in the studio is chair of republicans overseas uk , greg republicans overseas uk, greg swenson. good morning greg. so just very briefly on yesterday's incident about stormy daniels going into too much detail, what happened exactly? what was she talking about? >> she just got in mind it's, she got in really got into stories. >> right? and i'll try not to use any language, but, really, it was designed to slander and embarrass president trump. there's no other point to it,

because it had nothing to do with the alleged crime. the alleged crime was a bookkeeping mistake or bookkeeping. bookkeeping entry. so, you know it really? they haven't mentioned that yet . i mean, in mentioned that yet. i mean, in three weeks of the trial, they have not mentioned the alleged crime, which is a misdemeanour in new york, which they're trying to elevate to a to a felony by connecting it to another crime, which is something more to do with the election. so again , this is not election. so again, this is not about nor it should be about stormy daniels and any kind of alleged affair. >> so maybe she thought she was on one of those sort of phone sex lines or something . sex lines or something. >> i don't know what she thought she was doing, but why on the wider point of this, why is it being such a big trial when, as you said, it's simply a misdemeanour? how are the americans responding to this? because surely they will be able to see through this. >> absolutely. they're seeing through it now, six months ago, i was arguing that this was going to help him in the nomination process because the trial is completely meritless, right ? it's just obscene. so it right? it's just obscene. so it really helped him in the

nomination. he got a 30 point bump when alvin bragg filed the indictment, and i was afraid that it would while it would help him in the nomination, it would have an effect, a negative effect in the general election. and i'm wrong on that. it's helping him now. he has turned this into a campaign event. and the american voters are seeing through it 66% of americans see this as a political witch hunt, 56% think joe biden is behind it. and i have to agree with that. and by by a 50, 54% think there's a double standard . only there's a double standard. only 36% do not think there's a double standard , 56% think biden double standard, 56% think biden wants to put him in jail, and only 30. 30% don't agree with that. so, you know, this is all consistent with biden's 66% disapproval rating as well. >> so greg, joe, joe biden, greg. well he's awake. joe, what do you make of the argument from trump supporters that joe biden, more than any other president, has really weaponized the department of justice and the political arms of the us government because he's gone after trump in and also the district attorneys have said new

york alvin bragg, big democrats, the other district attorney boasting about the facts that she'd find donald trump, millions of hundreds of millions of dollars. has joe biden weaponized the doj ? weaponized the doj? >> without a doubt. >> without a doubt. >> i mean, it's his justice department. he is the he is the boss. and he could and he really encouraged a lot of this. fani willis, the prosecutor, the one she was having an affair with, you know, visited the white house on several occasions for long, you know, six, eight hour meetings. so there's no doubt that biden was involved and none of this would happen without his blessing. >> let's be honest, though, biden is involved, as in the people pulling the strings of joe biden because nobody seriously thinks that joe biden is actually compos mentis and actually, honestly involved, is surely that is what people are saying. because as people talk as if, oh, joe biden, this joe biden, joe biden is asleep on most of these things, and he doesn't even know they're way off or on the stage. >> it hasn't been a good week for president biden. i mean, he had an interview with erin burnett at cnn , which is a very burnett at cnn, which is a very friendly network to the president and, and, you know,

offered his as much of a softball as possible. and he started talking about the economy. and it really demonstrated , demonstrated sort demonstrated, demonstrated sort of economic elitism for president biden. he's saying the economy is great because rich people aren't affected by inflation. >> didn't he say that? didn't he say that inflation? >> did he say that out loud, no, he didn't say it directly, but he didn't say it directly, but he he implied that everything's great when meanwhile . and then great when meanwhile. and then he of course, he also said that we inherited this horrible 9% inflation, which is completely untrue . either he's completely untrue. either he's completely either he's lying deliberately or he's just so asleep at the wheel. >> he doesn't know what he's doing. >> there's 1.4. >> there's1.4. >> there's1.4. >> and just he's getting some stick overnight because he said the us won't supply weapons for israel's incursion in rafah . israel's incursion in rafah. he's being accused, actually, of supporting hamas. yeah. >> no, he's basically supporting hamas here. i mean, you know, he's trying to play both sides . he's trying to play both sides. he's trying to, you know, support israel, at least say he's supporting israel, which by most measures he has. but at the same time, he's doing the same thing that he did in ukraine.

he's withholding weapons. these this was congressionally approved funding and he is deliberately stopped. it just like they accused trump of doing in ukraine in 2019. and they impeached him for it. okay, great, chairman of republicans overseas, greg, thanks very much. the sun is trying its hardest to peek its head out, and i am celebrating after eight, nine months of grey skies and rain, here's your weather reports . hopefully it's going to reports. hopefully it's going to continue into the weekend. here's alex. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar for sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> morning. here's your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. the fine and often sunny weather many of us have had recently will continue for a little while yet. yes, there are some mist and fog patches around first thing this morning, but these will quickly burn back because there'll be plenty of sunshine around. lots of bright blue skies on offer as we head into the afternoon, though a bit more cloud towards shetland. a little bit of rain

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gb news. >> good morning. it's 11:00 gb news. >> good morning. it's11:00 on friday, the 10th of may. this is britain's newsroom on gb news. with me , nana akua and ben leo. with me, nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you, too . labour's migration plan. sir keir starmer has set out his strategy to tackle the small boat crossings this morning, and it involves relying on closer eu cooperation, good luck with that. now more tory turncoats. shadow health secretary wes streeting claims that he has spoken to other tory mps who are considering defecting to labour and are you going to be tuning in saturday night eurovision on high alert . high alert. >> israel has made it through to the final tomorrow, despite

thousands of pro—palestinian protesters wanting them removed from the competition well and warnings from the bank of england. >> the chief economist, huw pill, that soaring immigration is fuelling britain's housing crisis. who knew? eurovision fan nana oh, it's on in the background because i feel ihave in the background because i feel i have to, but i just, i just find it just. i can't bear it. i watched it, i loved it when terry wogan used to host it. you remember when he used to do the voiceover? yeah. oh, he was hilarious. >> yeah, it was good fun. it just seems this year especially, it's always so politicised. i mean, it has been of course in recent years, but the scenes from malmo in sweden, where there's hundreds and hundreds of pro—palestinian protesters hounding the israeli entrant. and of course, if you know sweden , malmo, the demographics, sweden, malmo, the demographics, there is a very high migrant area . it's something like 60, area. it's something like 60, 70% migrants. so they've just

been weaponized, hasn't it turned into some political lgbt plus trans flag waving event that just really doesn't. i'll tell you what you can do. instead, tune into saturday five. exactly six. too late. and then i think it's mark dolan from eight onwards. so forget eurovision, stick with us, stay with us, but send us your thoughts. >> aslef gbnews.com/yoursay. but first let's get an update with your news from sophia wenzler. >> nana. thank you. good morning. it's 11:01. >> nana. thank you. good morning. it's11:01. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . the wenzler in the gb newsroom. the rwanda asylum policy will end under labour, with sir keir starmer describing the scheme as an absolute waste of money. the party leader, who's in kent, says he wants to create a border security command to tackle the small boat crisis. sir keir unveiled proposals for stronger new counter—terror powers that will effectively treat people smugglers like terrorists. his plans will be supported by around 1000 additional officers recruited by m15. labour says

it'll spend £75 million if it wins the general election. the equivalent of what would have been spent sending migrants to rwanda for a year. >> britain can do better, labour will do better. we will end this farce. we will restore serious government to our borders and tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently. and today we launch our plan to do that. a new approach to small boat crossings that will secure britain's borders, prevent the exploitation by tackling it upstream and smash the criminal smuggling gangs. >> the uk is no longer in recession. the office for national statistics has published the latest gdp figures, which show the economy grew in the first three months of the year. the figures are better than expected, estimated to have risen by 0.6% between january and march. the chancellor says it shows the government's decisions are

paying government's decisions are paying off. but labour says the tories are out of touch if they're celebrating the data as a win . dominic cummings plans to a win. dominic cummings plans to create a new party that he hopes will replace the conservatives. speaking to the i paper in his first interview since leaving downing street in 2020, boris johnson's former chief adviser said the new start up party could capitalise on the expected collapse in tory vote at the next general election . a judge next general election. a judge has denied donald trump's request for a mistrial in his hush money case, as stormy daniels concludes her testimony, the former porn star finished her second day on the stand, which saw explicit allegations of a sexual encounter between her and the former president, donald trump's lawyer unsuccessfully argued for a gag order to be changed so trump could respond to stormy daniels testimony. the judge denied the former us president a mistrial former us president a mistrial for the second time this week, and also criticised trump's

lawyer as us political analyst eric ham explains, and what the judge said was pretty striking . judge said was pretty striking. >> he says that, look, you actually brought this up when you said in your opening that donald trump did not have an affair with this woman, so therefore it was only right for her to go into detail to describe her relationship , to describe her relationship, to actually paint for the jury that in fact , this did happen. and he in fact, this did happen. and he did say that, and he admonished donald trump's lawyers that they could have actually objected to many of the things that were said by stormy daniels. i do believe that we depending on what happens with the verdict, i do believe that we perhaps will see a an appeal by donald trump's lawyers . trump's lawyers. >> boeing has suffered a third plane crash in just two days, according to reports , 190 people according to reports, 190 people were safely evacuated from an aircraft in turkey after one of the tires burst. this comes after a cargo aircraft landed on its nose in istanbul as another jet skidded off the runway and

caught fire in senegal. there is no suggestion boeing are to blame for the crashes, and they are yet to comment on the incidents . israel's singer are yet to comment on the incidents. israel's singer has insisted the eurovision song contest in sweden remains safe for everyone amid protests against her participating. eden golan qualified for the final of the eurovision song contest on saturday, despite being booed throughout the rehearsals and live event . protesters want live event. protesters want israel banned in the same way russia was for its involvement in controversial conflict. police managed to see off thousands of pro—palestinian demonstrators who were surrounding the stadium . and for surrounding the stadium. and for the latest story, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen , or go to gb code on your screen, or go to gb news. com slash alerts . now it's news. com slash alerts. now it's back to ben and . nana. back to ben and. nana. >> thank you sophia. it's fast

approaching seven minutes after 11:00. welcome to britain's newsroom on gb news with me, nana akua and ben leo. >> very good morning to you. some emails have been flying in one very quickly from john andrews , our member on andrews, our member on gbnews.com/yoursay. good morning john. you say morning, ben nana. nana. is ben taking you raving down brighton this weekend? >> why do i look like i'm going out clubbing, yeah. >> interesting . i haven't been >> interesting. i haven't been to a rave in many, many years. i'll be taking my kid to tennis and, trying to get some shut eye, and i'll actually be on air, actually . air, actually. >> so don't forget to tune into my show three till six every day. saturday sunday. and actually, tonight i'll be patrick christie . you are, patrick christie. you are, aren't you? i am patrick christie tonight. >> and i hear you've got a cracking show coming up. >> oh, we've got lots of things. >> oh, we've got lots of things. >> i'll tease you with some of that later, but, some of you being in touch and brendan says, how much of our sovereignty will sir keir starmer give up to achieve his cooperation with our european partners? that's going to cost, even if it's all achievable ? achievable? >> well, and sharon says starmer sounded like someone who's just got the results of a recent focus group and found out that immigration and secure borders are important. i've said that before about sir keir starmer.

i'm sure he's a perfectly nice chap, but he has these buzzwords that i am very certain his media team, his press team, brief him at the start of the day at the very, you know, 6 am. they'll say, right, today's word of the day is strong and secure. and you watch all throughout the day, every interview . he'll say day, every interview. he'll say it again and again and again. >> this is what i wanted to read from anthony, because he's talking about rwanda. and he said the reason rwanda is the latest, because labour, the lawyers and the echr have done everything to stop it. so starmer is partly to blame and blair completely responsible for mass migration. well, listen, in the last hour , sir keir starmer the last hour, sir keir starmer said that he'll scrapped the rwanda plan on day one and he used that money to part fund his strategy to tackle the small boats crisis. >> the labour leader claims the rwanda plan is an absolute waste of uk money, as he was setting out his own plans to crack down on illegal migration. >> well, joining us now in the studio is our home and security edhon studio is our home and security editor, mark white. so earlier keir starmer spoke. he came out with all the right kind of words. took him a lot a lot of time to get to the point what

did you make of his proposal? this sort of border security type force that he was talking about? >> well, first, on that rwanda plan, he confirmed again that the labour government, if he gets into power , would scrap the gets into power, would scrap the rwanda plan. so no third country to send these asylum seekers off to. and of course , once again to. and of course, once again you repeat repeated which is just disingenuous, actually , just disingenuous, actually, this mantra that the government is only going to send a few hundred people off to rwanda, the government has been explicit in this. there is no cap on how many they will send to rwanda. the rwandan government said that they stand ready to take thousands. it will be a few hundred to begin with. as they ramp up, they've got to make the facilities available as the flights go out there. but the government's not naive enough to think that 300 people going to rwanda would ever be a deterrent. it has to be numbers in the thousands and the other

the other issue, i think, in scrapping rwanda is then he comes up against a real roadblock in what you do with those you can't send back to the home country because , again, home country because, again, part of his policy announced today is there will be hundreds of additional caseworkers to stop people languishing in hotels at a cost of £8 million a day. lots of people agree that is just ridiculous and shouldn't be happening. but you've got a problem of those who you may then deny asylum, but they come from afghanistan. you can't send them back there, or iran or iraq or syria. you can't send them back to those countries . so what back to those countries. so what do you do with them if you don't have a third country as the conservative government have in rwanda, where do you put them? well, they just languish somewhere then, because they have to remain here in the uk. >> so. so keir starmer says that he has to scrap rwanda because it will fund the £75 million for his own plans.

>> well, well indeed he, he wants a great emphasis or a greater emphasis on going after the criminal gangs, but the government effectively relaunched the border force operation, called it the small boats operational command in december 2022 that brought together military civilian, the national crime agency, what we're getting from keir starmer is that. but of course, a bit of extra funding, some extra powers. but whether will make actually real difference in inroads into battling the criminal gangs. surely to be seen. >> it's just a seen. >> it'sjust a game seen. >> it's just a game of cat and mouse as you see on the war on drugs. the war on drugs has never ended. they've never won it. you get some successes here and there, but ultimately more gangs will pop up. it's not just some kid sending people over on a dinghy. this is a sophisticated network of criminals. if you dismantled these gangs back in 2018, when this phenomenon really started across the channel, 2018, 2019,

that time before they'd really, grown in sophistication, got their proper supply lines, over their proper supply lines, over the recent years, then you would have stood a much better chance in just dismantling them altogether. there now, as you say, very sophisticated. they operate models not dissimilar to the way in which the cocaine or the way in which the cocaine or the heroin trade operate as well. they factor into that a certain number of losses. in other words, a certain number of boats that never make it, to the uk. but those that do 9000 so far this year, they've made 27 million, at least out of those 9000 migrants doing all the things that he said. >> this new border command, security command, terrorism plan, all that. aren't we already doing this? i mean, you've alluded to the fact that what he said, but it is kind of what he said, but it is kind of what we've already got. what is extra in what he's saying? i just don't see what thing is different to what's already happening. >> well, i think he is, as ben was saying, there is going to

take some of the money diverted to put in place extra investigators there. so there will be some more people working on that. they may have some additional powers to hand, but it's a mammoth task to try to confront these criminal gangs and to dismantle them. and i think he is going to find out if he does get into government pretty quickly just what an intractable, problem , this small intractable, problem, this small boats issue is. and it is not as easy as just rebranding , your, easy as just rebranding, your, your border security command . your border security command. >> well, that'll be interesting to see what happens. well, joining us now, thank you very much to mark white, his international human rights lawyer. david. hey david, you've heard what sir keir starmer said. i'm presuming you heard what he said, is it does it have any implications legally? is he able to do this legally ? able to do this legally? >> i good morning to you both. i mean, it's, i watched all of the speech, and it's certainly something i think many of us have been waiting for, for, for quite a while to see how labour

would put down in cast iron promises as what, if anything, they're going to do, and i think there's, you know, the speech in general , there was a lot of general, there was a lot of i think you both said earlier saying the right things, and particularly words coming that a lot of people have used in the past chaos, broken asylum system, etc, and some new initiatives perhaps that he's talked about, but i don't it's not so much from a legal perspective, because i think certainly from a legal perspective, he can do the things that he set out. it's whether or not that will be effective, whether or not it is going to tackle the problem that we have and whether or not those things are kind of already in place, somewhat as they are. that's one of the issues. and one of the big gaps. that's one of the issues. and one of the big gaps . and, you one of the big gaps. and, you know, keir starmer mentioned the word cip, one of the big gaps that i thought that they would address. and i think mark white started to cover it as well, is if they've scrapped the rwanda policy, you have got an awful lot of people on these waiting lists in the uk as we speak. what are we going to do with them? where are they going to

90, them? where are they going to go, that hasn't been addressed. and that's a gaping hole. i think one of the other gaping holes that he hasn't addressed from a legal problem is that this definition that we have and as a human rights lawyer, i'll make myself unpopular with a few of my colleagues by saying this. but the definition we have of where it comes to asylum seekers coming over because they're persecuted and their lives are at risk, or they're merely being discriminated against. and until we address that on a wider international level, the numbers are generally in whichever country you look at that's suffering from these problems not going to decrease significantly . significantly. >> why, why, what's what's the reasoning for that? because obviously you know that. but why why do they need to address those particular definitions. >> yeah. many of the issues that you have at the moment. so let's take if you look at people that are lgbtq coming from , for are lgbtq coming from, for instance, a muslim country that criminalises that then and i'm not saying they're all coming to this country that on a general legal perspective, they have a right of asylum in other countries. if they can show that they are suffering

discrimination. now, obviously , discrimination. now, obviously, when the refugee convention was written back after the second world war, it was more about actual persecution and risk of life. and that's a very grown up conversation that effectively the world needs to have. and it's a very uncomfortable conversation because it's changing the systems and what but that's one of the reasons why we're seeing so many people coming here. because, of course, if you look at the number of the people that do come here across the channel and do come here for asylum , the majority of them asylum, the majority of them effectively are getting accepted anyway , speeding it up. yes, anyway, speeding it up. yes, that's going to help an awful lot. and that's one of the things that i've said needs to be done, rather than it taking 2 or 3 years for an asylum process, it should be taking two weeks and that will become a deterrent. but many other things need to be done as well. yes we need to be done as well. yes we need to be done as well. yes we need to bulk up the border forces and tackle the criminal gangs , but we also need to have gangs, but we also need to have that uncomfortable discussion about what should asylum rights look like in the future. >> david, it's been argued from the likes of reform uk that the

only way to sort this problem out, and it's not the rwanda plan , is to do what australia plan, is to do what australia did in the mid 2000. tony abbott won election on it is turn the boats back. and that doesn't mean attaching some flimsy rope to their vessels and towing them into dangerous waters. you put them into very safe and sturdy life , lifeboat style vessels, or life, lifeboat style vessels, or your own boat, or your own boat. you've got the navy like we do anyway. >> and instead of turning around , you physically turn them back. >> and in australia they stopped overnight. the gangs knew they weren't going to be making any money, and it stopped. why can't we just do that? because as far as i understand, we can do it under the united nations conventions of the laws of the sea, article 25, where you can stop the passage of a vessel into your own waters if they're deemed a threat. why can't we just do that? >> i think, but i think technically , technically, technically, technically, legally, there is a route that you could technically do that, but i think the practicalities of us going into the busiest shipping channel, you know, picking people up, putting them on a boat and shoving them back to france , what would france do?

to france, what would france do? i think that practically i don't see that happening. i think australia is very different because of the, you know, they don't have the problems that we have with with the european union, with france, with borders, with the channel being so busy . i think, you know, so busy. i think, you know, i think technically, yes, it's a nice sound bite , but would it nice sound bite, but would it work in practice? i don't see that. >> i don't see why it shouldn't. i'd love to see it working. i think if we did it, then people wouldn't do it anymore because they'd know that they wouldn't get anywhere. thank you very much, david. really good to talk to you. stay tuned though. still to you. stay tuned though. still to come, is dominic cummings planning on starting a new political party to replace the conservatives? we'll be speaking about that next. >> this is britain's newsroom on gb news. stick with .

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presence of michael gove's former adviser , charlie rowley former adviser, charlie rowley and political commentator and broadcaster matthew sadan . good broadcaster matthew sadan. good morning to you both. >> good morning. good morning. >> good morning. good morning. >> now fireworks ahead . >> now fireworks ahead. >> now fireworks ahead. >> fireworks. really? why? why fireworks? charlie rowley do you want to start us off with the migrant situation, the housing crisis? apparently it's fuelling the lack of housing. >> yeah, well , it the lack of housing. >> yeah, well, it is, and i think it's what's something that many people are worried about when you have too many people coming into the country, when you don't have the public services, when you don't have the housing, where there is a housing shortage that drives up community tensions, it drives up, the reason why we're seeing so many people worried about immigration, particularly illegal immigration. and that's why it has got to be a priority for the government . and that's for the government. and that's why, rishi sunak is getting on with it. >> but it's not been a priority, has it? your government, your party rather has allowed a city the size of birmingham every two years predicted net migration of 350 k a year. you can't stop the boats. so it's not a priority. there's no point really, of tory propaganda. >> we keep having this conversation. >> we keep going round and round on this one. benjamin and the reason that is, is because there

have been failures in the past, no doubt about it. can't get away from it. but every party seems to have failed. every government has failed. it was under the labour government that actually, increased immigration, i think back in back in the day. so rishi sunak, though you cannot fault him. whatever you think about the conservative government, you cannot fault rishi sunak for trying to get a grip of this issue. he's done more than any other prime minister any other tory leader, to get a grip of illegal immigration, and he's getting on with it. >> matthew starmer has a plan. matthew was what was that minister in saddam hussein's iraq comical ? iraq comical? >> ali. yeah. do you remember? >> ali. yeah. do you remember? >> the tanks aren't here. here we go , here we go. we go, here we go. >> it's all okay. >> it's all okay. >> so you think keir starmer's plan his plan of action this morning when he talked about a command board of security force, it's a sort of counter—terrorism effect. an elite force, not a cinderella service. hundreds of investigators, cps, m15, border force , all on a single mission. force, all on a single mission. did that convince you? >> i want to talk about housing because that's something we need to talk a lot more about. no, i'm asking you. i will answer

specifically about question. i will answer your question. as i've said already on the show, i was quite impressed by it. and one of the reasons i'm impressed by it is because he doesn't pretend it's not a big problem. he doesn't pretend it's not a serious problem. it doesn't pretend it doesn't affect real lives. really vulnerable people living in terrible conditions. he showed empathy. he also recognised is that people want to stop the boats, but he's not going to say we're going to do it overnight and he's not going to do it with gesture politics or gimmicks. well, let's go into he's going to take it seriously. but on the housing question, yes, because he didn't mention how he's going to deal with the people that are some hang on, hang on. >> you didn't mention the people that are already here or rwanda , that are already here or rwanda, which is where some people who shouldn't be here, which is all putting pressure on the housing four fs so how do you think? >> i think i think some of what charlie said earlier, there's a bit of truth in it. and i think that there undoubtedly is pressure across the board on our housing system. some of that will likely come from immigration, ian, but i want to make a few points on this. first of all, what's the big elephant in the room that we don't spend nearly enough talking about time talking about successive

governments. and i would include the former labour government. we're just not building enough houses. we have to build. we want our politicians . we want want our politicians. we want our politicians not just to see enough, not just to say that they're going to build, but actually to build. >> the second thing is, hold on. you can do the second thing first in a moment, but they'll never be enough. they want keeps me in check. like nana you don't tackle the current influx, there will never be enough. >> look, the second thing is, is we look through history. who do we look through history. who do we blame when government policies aren't working? we blame immigrants. we blame the other. but it's true. the third thing is blaming. it's the third thing is blaming. it's the third thing is blaming. it's the third thing is both the economic the tories are trying to stop the boats. they want to stop the boats. they want to stop the boats. starmer wants to stop the boats. starmer wants to stop the boats . that's not the big boats. that's not the big pressure on housing and there is a catch 22 here because there is no doubt that we need some immigration. this idea of running the matthew sorry latest gdp figures showed that the gdp per capita, which i say again and again week after week, the truest reflection of how well off individuals are contracted by nought point 7% despite mass

migration. sorry, that's a myth. >> it's a myth that migrants are good for the economy does not mean that it's contracted because of immigration. >> it might have contracted more. we've got record duration that's not gone down. there are two things that can run concurrently that aren't necessarily linked. let me make this point because it's a really important one. i'll try to be quick. richard tice, the head of reform uk, he wants to run the country like a nightclub. one in, one out. i would have the country run seriously where there is need give you a quick example 150,000 health and social care visas we gave out last year. right? without those people coming to our country, we would be absolutely in a terrible mess. >> let me put something to you then. >> let me put something to you then . how about you pay health then. how about you pay health and social care workers more money in this country and encourage the people of this country to take those jobs? love it rather love it than being drunk on cheap labour, which is what you're proposing. you're saying . you're saying 150,000 saying. you're saying 150,000 care workers on cheap labour, bringing down the current price of their their job and their work because you think the immigration we should take

immigration we should take immigration all for. >> i'm all for proper wages for people who do those sorts of jobs. >> and then you'll find that you probably need less migration because the british people will see. >> that is the question is why, after 14 years of tory rule, are care workers not being paid the sort of wages we'd all like them to be paid? >> that's a good question. but it was not that great with labour either. >> charlie dominic cummings, bons >> charlie dominic cummings, boris johnson's former infamous adviser. he has been spouting off today about the fact he wants to potentially start a new political party to deal with the quote f word pigs conservatives, has that got any chance? i thought we had reform uk to do that. >> well, good luck to dominic cummings. i feel if he does set up a new party, there'll be less people in there than the nightclub that are richard tice is running by the sounds of things because it'll be a party for one, i should imagine. look, i mean, dominic cummings and i think fell out with nigel farage and richard tice over the referendum campaign because of the trying to lead the vote leave campaign. >> crucially , cummings says >> crucially, cummings says farage wouldn't be welcome in his new party then. >> well, he's not going to have anyone. >> i don't think he's going to

have many people, but i think i think most people who look there are whatever you think about dominic cummings and he made huge mistakes, obviously in terms of what he did during lockdown , but he's a strategist. lockdown, but he's a strategist. >> he has, got some talents, everybody's got talent. but i don't think setting up a new political party, given his charisma. >> i've got a little charm to people, over . i >> i've got a little charm to people, over. i don't think that'll be a very. >> i've just created a headline. nobody's cummings to dominic's party. >> just a quick just a quick thing on the cummings party. >> i'm not quite sure what is. i'm not quite sure what his manifesto would be. he's anti—populism. he says i certainly don't think he would generate a following, though i don't think he's putting himself forward. in a way. the most interesting thing that i came out of this interview, the first newspaper interview he's given in years, i think is what he said about farage and he says in the i says, depends on what farage does. if farage unrwa retires , the tories could easily retires, the tories could easily be driven down to double digit seats and then discussions of a start up party. what he's proposing and replacing them will go for a very fringe idea to being a very mainstream idea.

it's not quite clear why he thinks his party, rather than farage's party or richard tice party, would be the party. but it is very interesting that one of the biggest political strategic thinkers who helped push brexit over the line seriously thinks that the tories could be reduced to double digit. >> i think i think you give dominic cummings he's obviously a very clever guy, you know, no doubt about it. but i think he gets too much credit for vote leave especially. they didn't even want to campaign on migration about vote leave. i've read many brexit books where they talk about cummings and vote leave and all the rest of the cohorts who were, on the opposite side of the fence on migration to farage and everyone else. i think boris johnson would tell you that he was pretty important. >> and that's why he took him straight into number 10. all i'm saying, all i'm saying, he's a serious political thinker, not a serious political thinker, not a serious the public. >> this is a very western. >> this is a very western. >> a serious political thinker thinks that the tories might be reduced to double digits. we should sit up and listen. well, my four year old kid, can i just briefly get to the eurovision ? briefly get to the eurovision? >> eurovision? because i wrote a little piece in the mail online about how seedy and woke fest it

had become, and politically motivated . motivated. >> it's demonic now. >> it's demonic now. >> demonic, isn't it? what's wrong with it? matthew stadlen, your views on that. >> i've absolutely no interest in eurovision, but i do have an interest in is that although i think what israel is doing in response to the horrors of october the 7th is a very bad thing in gaza. i'm appalled that we've had those demonstrations outside the hotel of a 20 year old israeli woman who's clearly not responsible for israel's response to october the 7th, and it's particularly sick, if you think about it, when we know that the sexual violence , the that the sexual violence, the horrific accounts of sexual violence that happened on october 7, that we now have crowds of tens of thousands of people gathering, okay, peacefully outside the hotel of a 20 year old israeli woman. it's not on charlie rowley . it's not on charlie rowley. >> i'm just looking forward to the results. and that's the only reason i tune in. really? and do you tune in? >> actually, i for the results. >> actually, i for the results. >> the nil points just keep coming and coming for the uk and i might just bring back an old eurovision tradition . just have

eurovision tradition. just have a little bucks. >> so you've got do you think of our entry olly alexander. what do you think he's a years and years frontrunner? front singer yeah. >> i mean, i'm, as you can probably tell, i'm a huge fan of his work. and, but i actually i do like his music. >> but that particular song, have you heard it? >> i haven't heard it yet. i'll reserve for. >> he said he was. what were the exact words? he said he was ashamed about the union jack and i think that's wrong. >> i mean, look, you know, i think people who . people that think people who. people that are great artists in music or in sports, whether it's gary lineker or whether it's, whatever his name is , you know, whatever his name is, you know, stick to your talents, which is sports or music, you know, need necessarily. music has a great role to play in terms of pushing the boundaries, making us think about different things , making about different things, making us feel different emotions. but i think as an artist, if you stray into politics where you might actually not know what you're talking about, i think it it didn't say it was a shame. >> it was ambivalent about it. >> it was ambivalent about it. >> well, he said it's divisive. >> well, he said it's divisive. >> yeah. by the way, it can be divisive. >> by the way, every flag is divisive. it divides which country is which. >> can it be surely referring to the fact . and it is a fact that

the fact. and it is a fact that when i used to go to football games in the mid 90s, the union jack had become a symbol of the national front. starmer is reclaiming this flag. fantastic. >> starmer. >> starmer. >> it was reclaimed long before that. >> it was reclaimed long before that . and it's a flag. and every that. and it's a flag. and every flag is divisive. it divides one country. we should be over the next. >> this point is divisive within our country. >> no, it's just a flag. it's a flag only by those who shouldn't be representing the charlie rowley. >> thanks very much, one person who unifies us all is sophia, and she's got your headlines. >> ben. thank you. it's 1131. >> ben. thank you. it's1131. i'm sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom . the rwanda asylum newsroom. the rwanda asylum policy will end under labour with sir keir starmer describing the scheme as an absolute waste of money. the party leader, who's in kent, says he wants to create a border security command to tackle the small boat crisis. sir keir unveiled proposals for stronger new counter—terror powers that will effectively treat people smugglers like terrorists. labour says it'll

spend £75 million on the plan if it wins the next general election, the equivalent of what would have been spent sending migrants to rwanda for a year. >> britain can do better, labour will do better. we will end this farce. we will restore serious government to our borders and tackle this problem at source and replace the rwanda policy permanently . and today we launch permanently. and today we launch our plan to do that , a new our plan to do that, a new approach to small boat crossings that will secure britain's borders, prevent the exploitation by tackling it upstream and smash the criminal smuggling gangs. >> the uk is no longer in recession , with the latest recession, with the latest figures showing the economy performed better than expected. the office for national statistics estimates gdp rose by 0.6% between january and march. the chancellor says it shows the government's decisions are paying government's decisions are paying off. but labour says the tories are out of touch if they're celebrating the data as

a win. and israel's eurovision song contest entrant says sweden remains safe for everyone, despite protests against her participation . eden golan participation. eden golan qualified for tomorrow's final, even though she was booed throughout the rehearsals and live event . protesters want live event. protesters want israel to be banned from the contest in the same way russia was after it invaded ukraine. and for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. comment alerts . to gb news. comment alerts. >> cheers! britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report , and here's financial report, and here's a quick snapshot of today's markets . markets. >> the pound will buy you $1.2527 and ,1.1624. the price of gold is £1,894.42 per ounce,

and the ftse 100 are 8452 points. >> cheers britannia wine club proudly sponsors the gb news financial report . financial report. >> thank you sophia. right, well up at noon. good afternoon britain, with just tom. >> just tom all by myself . >> just tom all by myself. >> just tom all by myself. >> by my lonesome today. >> by my lonesome today. >> no. >> no. >> well, i'll be back with emily on monday, but she is. >> she had enough of you. >> she had enough of you. >> she had enough of you. >> she . well, that might be part >> she. well, that might be part of the reason, but no, she's on her hen do, which is. >> so i'm. i'm sure she's having a marvellous time. or at least her friends are making sure that she has a marvellous time. but lots to come up during our air time in 12 till three today, not least our very own liam halligan has had a sit down with the prime minister and we'll be getting that interview played out in the show . getting that interview played out in the show. he'll have a lot to talk about. new growth figures out today , which of figures out today, which of course show the fastest growth in two years. but of course it does follow a mild recession at

the end of last year. we know that liam will be putting the prime minister through his paces, but there are also a lot of live events that happen in our airtime. there are going to be no less than three sentencings of various. oh, sorry, two sentencings of , some sorry, two sentencings of, some pretty well we're not allowed particularly to talk too much about the details of them until the sentencing has completed. of course , but one of them involves course, but one of them involves the pensioner from west london, who was stabbed on his mobility scooter. so we're going to be getting lots of detail about that once the judge has spoken . that once the judge has spoken. of course. >> great stuff. you on your lonesome for three hours? >> on my lonesome for three hours. but not just me, of course, because everyone will be getting involved. gbnews.com/yoursay there's going to be lots of interaction. it's going to be feeling like there's all so many of us there. good plug. >> i'm really keen to see that, interview with liam and the prime minister, rishi sunak. >> really interesting. okay all that and more to come at midday. >> for now, though, you're with

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tick. >> good morning. 39 minutes after 11:00. i'm nana akua with ben leo. this is britain's newsroom. >> very good morning to you. now, cornish mp steve double is calling on the government to pump more money into coastal communities across the united kingdom . our southwest of kingdom. our southwest of england reporterjeff moody kingdom. our southwest of england reporter jeff moody has this report . this report. >> tough the last few years, sam richardson is a singer songwriter from saint agnes in cornwall . much of his music cornwall. much of his music reflects a sense of frustration with life in a coastal town. >> we've got a lot of empty shops, you know, a lot of our town centres, which is sort of causing a lot of death on the high street. i know that's a problem everywhere, but it is particularly bad down in cornwall, i think the infrastructure as well, for me is like a really big problem

down here. our roads are just rammed all the time. >> similar problems across the border in devon. ilfracombe is the most deprived area in north devon. twice the town has appued devon. twice the town has applied for levelling up funding, twice it's been turned down something north devon mp selaine saxby says is frustrating. >> it's very complicated. it's not as straightforward as just throwing money at the problem. they're very deep issues and i think, you know, the nick whitty report highlighted some of the health inequalities that you see around the coast on top of some of the property challenges. i think, you know, stood here today in this wind. you can see just maintaining properties in areas like this is significantly harder . harder. >> for several years, the government has acknowledged that rural areas need extra help, but so far that help doesn't stretch to our coasts. the mp for saint austell and newquay is pushing the government to change all this. >> truly local people are finding it really challenging because we often have sort of low wage seasonal work, but very high house prices pull, you

know, pushed up because of, second homes and holiday lets etc, and also i think the, the disparity review that theresa may carried out when she was prime minister highlighted that working class white boys in coastal communities are some some of the most disadvantaged people in the country struggling to get on the housing ladder, struggling to find work, struggling to find work, struggling to find work, struggling to be heard. >> it's interesting that, a member of the party that's in government recognises that, which is great because it is a really important thing, but that government for the last ten years has also cut half £1 billion in youth services around the country . the country. >> so not only have you got disaffected young men searching for community vie, there isn't anywhere for them to go. they're finding these communities in dark areas of the internet. that's the only place that they're finding this. and when you're disaffected and you're disillusioned , it's so much more disillusioned, it's so much more easy to become radicalised. if you imagine if we could raise

all of our young men to be, look , life over the last, however many thousands of years has swayed towards the benefit of, you know, white guys , and we you know, white guys, and we need to make sure that we make this a more equal and progressive society. so it's your responsibility as a youth male to bring people from the lgbtq+ community into the fold and make sure that they feel safe and heard and understood, andifs safe and heard and understood, and it's your responsibility to do the same thing with women, make sure they feel safe and understood and heard in these discussions and not say there's no room for you in this conversation. we're going to speak to all of the people that it involves, which is obviously great that they have a seat, but i feel like a lot of young, white, working class lads don't feel like they have a seat at the table anymore. >> no one thinks the problem of coastal deprivation could be solved overnight. the issue of disaffected young white males even harder . jeff moody, gb even harder. jeff moody, gb news, thank you for that, jeff. i've just been looking at some of the properties in that area as well for an eight bedroom

house, £300,000 bargain. really lovely place. i don't know why. >> it's overlooking the bay, the sea, the english channel. and as a child of the seaside, i beg all governments of current and future, please do more to preserve our great british seaside. they're fantastic. and it's precisely why i refuse to live in london. because i want to stay down there. >> oh, lovely. >> oh, lovely. >> well, i'm looking at ilfracombe, actually, but let's see what lots of you have been saying at gbnews.com/yoursay, of all the topics we've been discussing, megan's talking about starmer. she says starmer has no idea about stopping the boats. border force have been active in france as far as possible, but the truth is, france is happy to take our money and make little attempt to stop the dinghies taking off. we've even seen them guiding the dinghies into british waters. >> yep, deb, you say until we get a hardline leader who's prepared to do what needs to be done, push boats back to france, limit legal migration, and ban any illegal migrants from seeking asylum. nothing will change. >> it's true. >> it's true. >> if you come here that way, you shouldn't be allowed in,

phil says. regardless of what starmer tells you about a changed labour party, it isn't . changed labour party, it isn't. with no action taken over, lindsay hoyle, angela rayner and wes streeting. besides the fact that lefties have him by the short and curlies. that's why trojan horse leader that's a good point. angela rayner has gone quiet. wes streeting some of the tweets and things he's been saying. you or i wouldn't been saying. you or i wouldn't be able to get away with that kind of nonsense. lindsay hall, that odd thing that happened that's gone on. >> i thought you were calling him an odd thing. >> you saw it. you saw it during covid with, with bill gates sir keir korma, you know , keir keir korma, you know, keir starmer with with respect to the police and everybody who investigated that, you know, they found that he didn't break covid rules, but it was clear for everybody, you know, but that police force weren't really prosecuting or giving out penalty fines for people doing that. >> so they actually had a slightly different way of deaung slightly different way of dealing with it than london. so that's another reason why he appeared to sort of get out of that. >> and then the police and crime commissioner, i think he was in durham, as far as i recall, was a massive starmer ally, a labour

police and crime commissioner who'd been hanging out with angela rayner . who'd been hanging out with angela rayner. nothing was done. >> i mean, for me, that's not to suggest that anything untoward was happening, but it does seem to speak of a great coincidence where everything was brushed under boris johnson. >> i'm no big fan of boris johnson.i >> i'm no big fan of boris johnson. i think he really lost his way. yet he was done for having crusty m&s cake in downing street. you know, arguably he messed up with chris pincher and whatever else. but you know he was pillared . he was you know he was pillared. he was he was chased by the leftist media. >> they wouldn't leave by laboun >> and angela rayner said it herself in the commons the other day she was speaking to grant shapps or whoever it was, some tory mp. i can't believe you got rid of your only election winner. you know , i mean more winner. you know, i mean more fool the tory mps for doing that. >> yeah, well, listen, if you're just tuned in, this is gp news. >> we are the people's channel. up >> we are the people's channel. up next, five babies have died with whooping cough. this year. we'll discuss why reports of the condition is on the rise. stay tuned. you're with

good morning. now, if you've just tuned in. welcome. this is britain's newsroom. it's coming up to 11 minutes to midday, now, this has been a big story on the front cover of the daily mail. five newborn babies have died in a spiralling whooping cough outbreak which has terrified parents. >> almost 3000 cases have already been recorded in 2024, triple the levels seen across the entirety of 2023, and the ever growing outbreak is on track to be the biggest in over a decade . a decade. >> it's very worrying. well, joining us now is health and social care editor of the sunday express, lucy johnston, lucy , express, lucy johnston, lucy, thank you for joining express, lucy johnston, lucy, thank you forjoining us. what thank you for joining us. what are they putting down this particular outbreak to, well, various experts have various theories and it's not entirely clear, but there are some very clear, but there are some very clear, problems that we've seen a declining in vaccination rates dunng a declining in vaccination rates during the pandemic lockdowns,

thatis during the pandemic lockdowns, that is partly due to access problems. it was difficult to get to see your gp and bring children in, you know , a number children in, you know, a number of children in to get vaccinations, there was also fear based messaging during that time. so maybe people were afraid of going out and about and going to visit their gp. people were very afraid of catching covid, and also the lockdowns themselves, created a sort of what they call an immune deficit. so people weren't mixing as much and various diseases that your immunity works on the go and if you're not picking up infections, then you're not producing immunity to it. so that is saw increases in another problem with children other respiratory problems, which i just quickly ask, do we know whether these babies were vaccinated against it ? well, vaccinated against it? well, these babies actually were too young to be vaccinated . but

young to be vaccinated. but there is a maternal vaccination programme , and the number of programme, and the number of pregnant women who. so the antibodies the immunity is passed from the pregnant women to the babies. and so there's a program for pregnant women to be vaccinated. and that's dropped from about 70% in 2017 to about 58% last year. so vaccination rates were already dropping before the covid 19 pandemic. so it's not just because of that , it's not just because of that, but what we've seen in both children and adults is a drop. you know, that drop actually drifted down further. and there was you know, less people getting vaccinated overall, which which happened with other vaccines, too. we've seen an increase in measles , recently, increase in measles, recently, haven't we, which, has taken pubuc haven't we, which, has taken public health authorities, an urgent catch up for children to be boosted with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine

because we've seen deadly measles on the rise, too. >> lucy, is it not the case that a very interesting points, by the way, saying that the vaccination rates for whooping cough were going down before covid because i had a theory and i've had first hand experience from friends of parents of young children who just refused to get their kids vaccinated with traditional childhood jabs because all trust from the health establishment has just been blown apart after covid. you know, arguably there were many lies told there were mistruths, information was spun. and it's not just covid either. we had the infected blood inquiry, finishing next week. the role of the pharmaceutical companies, their general trust, i think in pharmaceutical companies, the health establishment , the nhs, doctors, establishment, the nhs, doctors, as far as i can tell, since covid has just been completely trashed , trust in public health trashed, trust in public health is crucial. and during covid we had very confusing messages about the need to stay at home.

people were silenced , and there people were silenced, and there was a whole confusion over the covid vaccine for children. with the government's body that recommends vaccines, saying it didn't recommend covid vaccines for children, and then the chief medical officer saying that they should have it anyway. and a big push for children to have that vaccine. and as we've just seen , vaccine. and as we've just seen, the astrazeneca vaccine, covid vaccine has now been withdrawn. so public health, public health should be about education support and guidance, it should be about advice and it should, sir, thank you so much along with you. but it was about fear based messaging and a big push. and i think that has, has had an effect. thank you. >> lucy, really good to talk to you. that's lucy johnson. she's the editor of the sunday express i >> health editor, health editor, giving her a promotion there, did i, paul, a big pay rise as well. >> thank you so much forjoining us today and for all your messages. thank you. nana >> you're back tonight with patrick christys tonight, here's tom. >> well, speaking of promotions,

the economy is growing. yes, recession is over and our very own liam halligan has sat down with the prime minister to get to the bottom of if he's going to the bottom of if he's going to take credit for it. or is it the graft of everyone in britain. we've got that interview coming up, but also a solar flare, the largest in 20 years. could it affect our gps and internet? that and small boats. does labour really think it has the answer all to come on. good afternoon britain . on. good afternoon britain. >> looks like things are heating up boxt boilers sponsors of weather on . gb news morning. weather on. gb news morning. >> here's your latest gb news weather brought to you by the met office. the fine and often sunny weather many of us have had recently will continue for a little while yet. yes, there are some mist and fog patches around. first thing this morning, but these will quickly burn back because there'll be plenty of sunshine around. lots of bright blue skies on offer as we head into the afternoon.

they're a bit more cloud towards shetland . a little bit of rain shetland. a little bit of rain here and elsewhere. 1 or 2 showers possible. most places staying dry and in the sunshine. feeling even warmer than yesterday . feeling even warmer than yesterday. highs of around 24 or 25 celsius. little change as we go through this evening and overnight. it is going to stay settled. a lot of the cloud will actually clear away, so clear skies for many of us though some low cloud pushing in from the nonh low cloud pushing in from the north sea across some eastern parts and elsewhere, a few pockets of mist and fog are possible, temperatures generally dropping to high single figures or low double digits. we start saturday on a fine note for many places, though quite cloudy towards eastern parts . again, towards eastern parts. again, any mist and fog will quickly burn back and then once more , burn back and then once more, another largely fine day for many of us. just watch out for the potential for some showers to develop over high ground towards northern england, and some of these could be heavy temperatures even higher than today for some of us highs of around 25, possibly 26 celsius on sunday. there's the risk of some showery rain, which could turn heavy, possibly thundery, developing across western parts further east. however, it's

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gb news. >> good afternoon. britain it's 12:00 on friday, the 10th of may. call in the spooks . keir may. call in the spooks. keir starmer has announced he'll rope in mi5 starmer has announced he'll rope in m15 to deal with small boat crossings. speaking in dover alongside his new ex tory defector mp, the labour leader said he would ditch the rwanda plan and launch a new border security command and touching official figures show our short and shallow recession ended last yeah and shallow recession ended last year. since january, the uk economy is back in the black with the fastest growth measured

in two years. but have we really turned a corner? also this afternoon , the sentencing in the afternoon, the sentencing in the case of the stabbing of beloved accordion playing charity busker thomas o'halloran , he died after thomas o'halloran, he died after being stabbed repeatedly on his mobility scooter in west london two years ago, a 46 year old man has pleaded guilty but to only manslaughter. now we're going to be talking about labour's plan, because they do say they have a plan to stop the boats. it doesn't involve deporting anyone to any third country. it involves cracking down on people smuggling gangs. but just how practical is this , and just how practical is this, and just how different is it from what the government says they're already doing with their various organisations cracking down on these chains of people smuggling

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