During the UK heatwave on May 23rd, 2024, small boat migrant arrivals increased significantly, with 400 arrivals recorded the previous day and two packed dinghies departing from Belgium that morning. Border Force vessels intercepted migrants in the English Channel, with up to 100 people per boat. The heatwave created favorable conditions for people smugglers, who adapted their routes from France to Belgium. Despite government claims of reduced crossings (down 44% compared to last year), experts noted that weather, supply of boats, and EU cooperation were key factors. The UK government had paid £600 million to France for border security, but smugglers continued to find alternative routes.
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Update from the Metal Office for GB News. 30 Celsius today. And believe it or not, today is the coolest day of the bank holiday weekend. Some patchy cloud first thing, but increasingly sunny and increasingly hot. Perhaps the odd shower during the next few hours across East Angler in the southeast as this area of cloud moves out of the way. And then still some showers tickling parts of the northwest of Scotland through the day.
Generally light and fleeting, cloudier for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Northern England. Temperatures not particularly exceptional here. high teens, low 20s. But come further south, those temperatures are rocketing. We're looking at widely low to mid 20s and high 20s up to 30 Celsius towards East Anglia and the southeast. High UV. Make sure you are uh bearing that in mind if you're spending time outdoors. But for Scotland, the cloud cover fairly continuous into the afternoon, breaking up a little by evening, showers tending to fade. And for many parts of the UK, yeah, it's cooler and cloudier in the north, but it's a fine start to the long weekend for the vast majority. Settled with high pressure in charge and despite some high level cloud across central parts of the UK, plenty of bright skies to end the afternoon, go into the evening. Clear spells then continue overnight. We will see a weak weather front bring some shower rain once again into the northwest of Scotland and thicker cloud overnight for Northern Ireland as well as Scotland. highly variable temperatures overnight. Some cool spots where we've got shelter from the breeze, but yeah, in some places like London, for example, temperatures staying up at 18 or 19 Celsius. So, a head start on Sunday as far as the temperatures are concerned. And widespread sunny skies, certainly a sunnier morning compared with this morning. England and Wales, southern Scotland, blue skies and temperatures really rising quickly. We're looking at high 20s widely up to 32 Celsius in the south. Always cloudier and cooler the north of Scotland.
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>> Well, GB News can confirm that two packed migrant dingies are on route amid Britain's heatwave. With 400 illegal arrivals yesterday, just how many can we expect to cross over this bank holiday weekend?
>> Well, the first of those small boats just crossing into British waters. Now, border force vessels, they're ready to collect those small boat migrants with more expected today as people smugglers take advantage of this warm weather. We >> promised to grow the economy and we have. We promised to cut inflation and we have and we promised to cut the cost of living and we are.
>> Well, families could soon face tourist taxes of up to $300 on British stations as councils across England look to cash in on summer holidays. Or Chancellor Rachel Reeves promised this week that she's on a mission to grow the economy.
And the new leader of Bradford City Council has written to the chair of the independent inquiry into grooming gangs to ask the entire area to be included in the inquiry, promising an independent inquiry if the district isn't included.
And the future of another British overseas territory could be at risk.
First, it was Chaos. Now we're looking at Cyprus because uh there is a warning that it must not become a target amid the Iran war. Well, in an exclusive report for GB News, Greeks and Turks have raised deep concerns about Britain's runings of its sovereign territories, including RAF Acrati and it's a big issue in the elections this weekend over there. And as Prince William was spotted crying in the crowds at a football match this week, one writer has claimed that football is still the only way for men to express their emotions. Is that right? We'll be gearing up to another busy day of footballing action.
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>> And I'm Charlie Peters. Your weekend starts here.
I think there's been so much football chat this week as the season culminates in Scotland last week and this week. So, I hope you'll forgive me talking about it again very briefly. But I'm looking forward to discussing that uh male emotion.
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>> Oh, yeah. Plenty. Mostly for good reasons, but quite a few for not so. And there's a chap who sits in front of me at Tottenham. I'm not going to say his name, but he does get extremely wound up and has been known to I've seen the full range of human expression through this man and that in a way that I think he probably goes home and he's probably super relaxed and very >> get it all out of your system in one go.
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>> I'm a fair weather football enthusiast.
I love a World Cup and when I get when I watch the World Cup and England goes out, I feel so crushed and so upset. I think how do men cope with this level of emotional roller coaster all the time?
It must be difficult.
>> Well, it's glad to have someone in fighting on our corner. It's it's extremely tough and it is rem I mean I had a bit of a strop in the office on Thursday because I came into work and Arsenal had won the league and I wasn't particularly keen on everyone could tell he's actually he's he's a boy having a Charlie today.
>> Yeah, it's quite distressing really.
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Thank you both. Good morning. Your top stories from the GB Newsroom at 4 minutes past 10. GB News understands two small boats carrying migrants have set off from Belgium headed to the UK this morning with many more expected to make that journey this weekend. It's after 400 migrants were recorded crossing the English Channel yesterday. The surge in crossings comes as a heat wave hits parts of the UK. Well, temperatures could be higher than the seells today with highs of 30° expected in the south of England following the hottest day of the year so far yesterday. Britain is also forecast to see its hottest Mayday on record on Monday with temperatures reaching 33 degrees across the South and the Midlands. But the UK health security agency has issued amber heat health alerts for the Midlands, the east and southeast of England, and the capital until Wednesday evening with those aged 65 and over at risk and an increased demand on health and social care services. Meanwhile, the hotter weather could impact travel with tens of thousands planning to get away this bank holiday weekend. The port of Dova is warning drivers to expect long cues and delays amid new EU border checks.
In other news, at least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a mine in Shangshi province with officials warning that number is expected to rise. Chinese state media reports 247 workers were on site when the gas explosion occurred.
President Xi Jinping has urged authorities to spare no effort in treating the injured and in the search and rescue mission and has ordered an investigation into the cause. Executives of the company responsible for the mine have been detained.
It's reported the UK government has pitched the creation of a single market for goods with the European Union.
According to the Guardian, the cabinet office minister Michael Ellum presented the idea to deepen the UK's economic relationship to the EU during recent visits to Brussels. But the paper claims EU officials have rejected that idea and instead suggested a customs union. That would be impossible though under Sakir Stormer's red lines after he said he wouldn't rejoin the EU or customs union in his lifetime. Both sides will hold a summit in July.
The UK is facing an economic catastrophe unless it adapts to younger generations who've grown up in a digital world.
That's according to the former minister Alan Milbour, who's due to publish an interim report next week that examines why almost 1 million 16 to 24 year olds are not in employment, education, or training. It's expected to say that a rising tide of anxiety, depression, and neurodeiversity is a big factor in the economic inactivity with smartphone use causing poorer sleep and lower levels of concentration.
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>> Thank you, Bethany. And welcome back to Saturday Morning Live with Charlie Peters and me, Olivia Utley. Well, GB News can reveal this morning that two dinghys have set off from Belgium as the UK is hit with a heat wave.
>> Yes, it follows the illegal arrival of almost 400 small boat migrants yesterday. This is the second of at least four days of good weather where UK authorities are bracing for channel crossings.
>> Well, our national reporter Will Godley joins us now live from Dover. Good morning to you, Will. I suppose while so many people are enjoying the hot weather uh in Britain, this is also an opportunity for the people smugglers and those who want to cross illegally into the United Kingdom.
>> Absolutely. Charlie, Olivia, good morning to you. It's beautifully sunny here in Dover. No doubt not just me taking advantage of the heat today, but the people smugglers over in Europe as well. as you say, two small boats in the water at the moment. The first, uh, our producer Chris here tells me just crossing into British waters and it's being intercepted there by a British border force vessel called Ranger, where those small boat migrants will be collected and put onto that boat for a safe travel here into the port of Dover.
Now, that boat set off from the beach of Graalines just after 8:00 this morning.
Our producer Chris here tells me he thinks it's likely the boat will have been uh inflated in Graalines Beach, brought over the dunes there and taken into the water there. Now, a second boat also in the water. Now, this boat set off from Belgium, our producer Chris says, traveled down the coastline before uh getting into the shallow areas in the Dunkirk area before picking up some more migrants who then boarded the boat and made its journey towards Britain. Now that boat around 40 minutes away from UK waters where again those migrants will be picked up by British border force uh vessels and then they'll be making its journey here to the British uh port here in do for processing and it has been rather quiet in the channel for the last two weeks or so. There haven't been any crossings and since the 9th of May that was up until yesterday. Official figures just released in the last 10 minutes or so show that there were 394 arrivals on six small boats yesterday.
Now, I'm being told border force aren't expecting quite as many today, but they are still braced for hundreds potentially arrivals arriving today.
Each boat of course can carry up to about 100 people on each of these ones.
Our producer expecting between 80 and 90 people on board. So potentially uh up to 200 or so people in the water traveling towards do at the moment. But up until this weekend, the number of people uh arriving on small boats was down drastically compared to this time last year, down 44%.
And compared to 2024, it was down 23%.
Now, the government will say that shows their strategy, their plan, their deals with France are working, but experts say it could be down to multiple different factors like the weather, the supply of small boat parts, and also the number of migrants coming to Europe. One thing's for sure though, if you're in the home office this bank holiday, you won't be really enjoying the hot weather because these migrants coming here will be bringing you the full story throughout the day.
Well, thank you very much, Will, for that report from Dover. It is fascinating, isn't it? And quite worrying the influx of migrants coming over from Belgium. Last year, no migrants came here from Belgium. What seems to be happening is our our policy in France is beginning to work. And so, the migrants are shifting their strategy of moving over to Belgium.
>> I was speaking to Mark White about this yesterday, and isn't it interesting?
We've we've paying, you know, the best part of a billion a quid towards the French to police their own sovereign territory. By the way, we're paying them to do their job. And it seems while that uplift is having an effect in terms of them slashing the boats, preventing them from getting into the sea, the smugglers are adapting and going further upstream.
Now, I wonder perhaps Belgium might turn around and say, "Well, you spent600 million pounds in France. Could you, your lovely taxpayers, spare a few bob for us in Brussels, so we can uh provide the same service." And then Olivia, perhaps they'll be launching from the Netherlands, eventually Norway.
>> Exactly. I mean, these people smugglers are just so so professional. They are career criminals. They know exactly what they're doing. And depressingly, they're always about four steps ahead of our government, which always has to act through the courts, through the parliament, etc., etc. These guys can move so quickly.
>> The Home Office say they're taking action. They talk about the speeding up of deportation. They talk about how they have an increased range of approaches to deal with this. They're speaking about of course the effectiveness of that 600 million pound spending in France. What we are seeing Olivia is the adaptability of his organized criminal gangs and the fact that many critics say the pull factors still exist.
>> Well, exactly. In other news, while the chancellor announced a range of great British summer savings this week, it seems a fresh tax grab could be hitting families as the sunny weather arrives too. as families could be facing a300 pound holiday tax on stations in a bid to lift up struggling councils.
>> Around 10 regional mayors in England are considering the overnight visitor levies which could be devastating for families already dealing with rising bills.
>> Elsewhere, a landmark report has warned the economic ruin awaits unless we adapt to the anxious generation who have been rewired by smartphones.
>> Yeah. Job Zar Alan Milbour claims greater flexibility and mental health support should be offered to get young people back to work.
>> Well, let's speak now with the former Labour Defense Secretary Jeff Hoon who joins us now. Jeff, thank you very much for your time this morning. So much to go through there, but can we just start with what Alan Milbour is talking about because it's quite a bold intervention from the former health secretary talking about how we are risking losing an entire generation due to anxiety and you know so-called the neat experience and that smartphones have changed their approach to work.
Well, good morning first of all and and certainly this is an important contribution to a debate about something which frankly I've always had difficulty in understanding. The Labor government that I was part of uh spent enormous amounts of money on equipping all schools and all colleges in my constituency with non-academic courses with courses in car maintenance, brick laying, a whole range of activities that should have appealed to those very young people who currently are without work.
And in those circumstances, I never really understood why it was that they were not successful because a lot of money and a lot of effort was put into trying to get people into work.
Sadly, it was not successful. And we've seen the statistics. Nearly a million young people without jobs, education, or training. And they are a wasted generation if we don't take action to deal with it.
I mean, Alan Milbour's theory is that the reason these young people won't uh get into work despite the measures that your government and successive governments put in is because they've been rewired by smartphones and are now simply too anxious to get into uh the world the world of work essentially.
Now, is the solution to that, do you think, more mental health support for young people, or is it getting young people off smartphones policy which has been floated around for a long time, but nothing actually ever seems to quite be done about it?
>> Well, Olivia, I frankly don't know the answer. I've confessed already that I thought the measures that not only the Labor government took but also successive Conservative governments took to try and get those young people into work. I would have thought that the opportunity for training that was provided would have been sufficiently attractive for any young person to to get into work. It clearly has not been the case. And therefore, if this is the explanation that Alan Melbourne is giving us as to why nearly a million young people are without jobs, training or education, then it's something we have to look at. I haven't studied this in the kind of depth and detail that Allan has. Um, we're awaiting his final report, which I assume will also contain some recommendations as to what we do about this problem. But there is a problem and we need to address it. What's interesting, Jeff, is how much this has spiked since the pandemic. Of course, that's created a tremendous legacy of crises across society. But it does seem to me that one of the main problems here is perhaps not so much about smartphones, but just a a wider lack of economic growth. than that with and also combined with mass immigration those opening jobs that were previously done by young people such as you know pulling a pint or waiting a table that's gone down now those opportunities are becoming less available as we have a surge in foreign workforce and also uh with fewer businesses being able to hire due to business rates going up national insurance as well it's like a perfect storm for worklessness perhaps less about smartphones I think there is a good deal of truth in what you're saying and I'm not going to argue with your analysis.
However, the real shortage is for skilled labor is for people with the kinds of skills that we all need in our everyday lives. Plumbers, uh, electricians, people who can do practical jobs to a high level of skill.
And I think what Alan Milbour appears to be saying is that that million people who are currently not in jobs, education or training could actually be that workforce. They could be the people who if they acquire the relevant skills could then earn significant sums of money in these highly skilled shortage occupations.
Well, former Labour Defense Secretary Jeff Hoon, thank you so much for joining us on Saturday Morning Live and telling us what your government did to try and fix this problem 20 years ago. Shame it didn't work.
>> Indeed. What do you make of this holiday tax that they're proposing at the moment, Olivia? This idea of a station levies.
>> Well, it seems a bit of a shame, doesn't it? Because stations are already I love a station. It's already so expensive.
Trains around the UK are so expensive.
It's often more expensive to stay for a couple of nights in Cornwall than to go to KFU, say. But obviously it keeps money in the British economy if people are doing stations. So you'd think that regional mayors and the government too will want to keep people here.
>> Well, the government has said that the the levy would give mayors more power and it would also allow them to invest in their priorities, holiday destinations, growing the local economy, put more money in people's pockets. They also say that the final design isn't there. But I do worry, is it a bit of a strange plan to have for British people as well for them to have uh paying paying basically a tourist tax is what it really is. A tourist tax in your own country seems a bit curious. I know it's very common on the continent whenever you turn up in a foreign hotel, particularly in Netherlands, France, you always pay a little tax, but to do it in your own country.
>> Yeah, I don't like the idea of that. It just it roughs me out the wrong way.
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>> Um I think we can start with this really, really interesting story in the Times. Alan Milbour, the job zar, a former Labour minister saying that Britain's facing an economic catastrophe as young adults rewired by smartphones are trapped in worklessness. Now, I'm going to start with you, Matthew.
Obviously, we know that there is a huge worklessness problem um among young people. Do you think smartphones can really be to blame or is there quite a lot more going on here?
>> I think that the world has completely changed. I'm going to feel like an old man here by saying since I was a lead, but I have to say it was a long time ago. Um and I I I think that smartphones and the wider impact of technology uh not just social media, but how technology is is hardwired into all of our lives have had an impact. But the key point about this is Alan Milbbert is not ringing his hands in dispay. He used to be held secretary uh under Tony Blair oversaw Tony Blair's 2005 uh election victory. And what he's saying is yes, young people are being are being w their brains are being wired differently. The way they operate is different to how it was uh for my generation. But that doesn't mean that we should despair. It means we should make changes because we can't condemn a whole generation to worklessness which is which is a potential option. But we are in a sense condemning a whole generation to work because government policy at the moment has made it much more expensive to hire young people to hire anyone really because of the rises in national insurance. Business rates taxes in all over the shop are causing issues and also we've endured the best part of a decade of mass immigration which has meant that cheap labor has come in. Is it it's a bit of a copout really, isn't it, to blame social media and smartphones when actually there are these structural problems that successive governments have created.
>> Yeah, I think it's multiffactorial. I think to say it's just social media would would be a bit of a copout. But I do think social media plays a big part and is ruining children's brains uh significantly. But you're right about the cost. We've had the national uh national living wage going up. We've had the national insurance going up and we've got um it's in the news today that Morrisons are now closing 100 convenience stores. It's those retail jobs and the hospitality jobs that get young people into the habit of working.
I do also think it's partly parenting. I think parents need to force their children say, "You need to do your bit.
You need to chip in. You need to get a paper round. You need to get a job at the cafe on the weekend." But I think a lot of parents have got this soft parenting where they say, "We're going to make sure we pay for everything for you until you're you're you're an adult and you're past university." A lot of people don't even get a job at all until they've finished a degree, which I think is bonkers.
>> Another >> Well, actually, that's what happened in my generation. who didn't work their way through degrees. We had grants, these things that young people have never even heard of.
>> I was quite alarmed by a line in that Times report saying that in the focus group that Alan Bman conducted, every single child at 12 said that they were going to bed between midnight and 3:00 a.m. because they were sitting there scrolling on their phones. What are their parents doing allowing them telephones in their bedrooms? Of course, they're going to >> Absolutely. I've never had a TV in my bedroom cuz I'm the generation where you don't have TV in your bedroom and it's kind of stuck. It's the same. It's exactly It's exactly the same thing. I mean, I think I think you you know, you're both right. You're all right uh in that the sense that this has been a challenge that uh the Labor Party has ducked uh under this government. It tried to do welfare reform. It didn't do it. It did it in a rather cack-handed way, so it lost the support of its backbenches. But for all of those aspiring to the Labor leadership uh who like to give us lots of vibes, it's I don't want vibes. I want details on how you're going to pick up on stuff like this and actually tackle the welfare to work necessity that we have to have.
Chloe, Alan Milbour is talking about the anxious generation. He's talking about the smartphone addicted, nerve adult kids who then can't go out into the real world.
>> I I think this this branding of young people has been created in part because the state and the welfare system currently rewards people who say that they are too anxious to go out and do work and the reform to that system hasn't happened. And of course the backbenches sort of push the government and they bottle changing that. And so we are rewarding young people who say they are too anxious to work. And actually, you know, because of how bad the structural issues in the economy are, >> kids have to go through seven rounds of interviews for entry- level jobs that a decade ago Olivia and I would have been looking at and it would have been one or two. So we are creating anxious situations and rewarding them financially for saying they're anxious.
>> Yeah. So I do think it is good with things like anxiety, ADHD, etc. to have better systems to diagnose people, but I think that when you diagnose them, you need to uh you give them a a road map to say this isn't something that's going to define you. This isn't going to ruin your life. This doesn't mean you have to spend your life on benefits. This is what we can do to help you sort out these issues and get you uh back into work. I don't think it is simply a case of overdiagnosis. I do think that the smartphones make people more anxious because the way you process emotions is that you have breaks where you have stillness. If you need if you need to, you know, actually just go in your room and cry for half an hour, you're not going to process emotions if you just sit there and scroll on your phone.
>> And I think that's key actually because one of the things he says in the report which takes us away from culture wars is he says yes that young people are facing these challenges. Yes, we need to do something about it. But no, we shouldn't brand people snowflakes. Social media has an impact frankly that older generations like mine don't quite get uh as Kobe was saying and something to do about it. I think the best uh line from Alan Melbourne today is welfare reform is not an optional extra it's a necessity and it certainly is that is the message that has to go to anybody who wants to be labor leader >> if only cabinet ministers heard that and stuck with it but >> absolutely I agree >> yes well if only >> we'll come a point where just financially they have no option but to do it >> you say that there's always more tax to be raised right let's move on to another story it's actually from Sky News because the red arrows we're being told will fly with just seven aircraft rather than nine for the majority of their displays until 2030 because the engines are so old. The Red Arrows haven't been sufficiently upgraded. Chloe Dobs, your view.
>> I think it's really sad because I when I was a kid, I watched the Red Arrows every single year and uh they already they used to in in the valley where I live, they would dip in and out of the valley and it was amazing. And then because of health and safety reasons, they decided they have to do it out at seaf far in the distance where you can barely see it anymore. And then to hear that now they've got to cut down the number that are flying because they simply couldn't get the repairs done in time. It's quite sad really.
>> What a more visual display of Britain.
>> Absolutely. And of course they're big. I mean obviously people say oh you know why why are we paying for the red hours?
Well of course they're a massive recruitment tool not just for the RAF but for all the services to get people uh the kind of peak interest in young people in a potential military career.
One of the problems is that the government does want to replace them but the people that the only people who can who can make the new planes have just gone bankrupt. So they're going to reduce from from 9 to seven so they cannibalize the parts of the other two to keep them going while they try and get them the new fleet built. Well, good. Let's hope they get that built soon. 2030. That seems a little bit defeish, doesn't it? Three years away.
Surely, four years away. Surely they can do something a bit quicker.
>> We wouldn't have won the Battle of Britain if we'd waited three years for a new aircraft, would we?
>> Exactly. Thank you very much to Chloe Dobs and Matthew Laza. Still to come, the new leader of Bradford City Council has written to the chair of the independent inquiry into grooming gangs to ask the entire area to be included in the inquiry. We'll get the latest, >> but first, let's cross over now to Bethany Elsie, who's got all the latest news. Headlines.
>> Good morning. The headlines from the GB Newsroom at 32 minutes past 10. GB News understands two small boats carrying migrants have set off from Belgium headed to the UK this morning with many more expected to make the journey this weekend. It's after 400 migrants were recorded crossing the English Channel yesterday.
A heat wave is set to bring temperatures higher than the seells today with 30° expected in the south of England following the hottest day of the year so far yesterday.
At least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a mine in the Xi Jang Province in China with officials warning that number is expected to rise. Chinese state media reports 247 workers were on site when the gas explosion occurred.
And the UK is facing an economic catastrophe unless it adapts to a generation rewired by smartphones.
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Thank you, Bethany. Right after the break, we will be crossing to Bradford because there's been a major update in the grooming gangs inquiry. The new leader of the council there has requested that the investigation comes up to Yorkshire. And we've also got a brilliant GB News exclusive. Pressure mounts on Britain as the Criates want to get rid of our air bases over there.
What could that mean for British security and how will the EU react? Find out more after the break.
Hi there. Welcome to the latest update from the Metal Vist for GB News. 30 Celsius today and believe it or not, today is the coolest day of the bank holiday weekend. Some patchy cloud first thing, but increasingly sunny and increasingly hot. Perhaps the odd shower during the next few hours across East Angler in the southeast as this area of cloud moves out of the way. And then still some showers tickling parts of the northwest of Scotland through the day.
Generally light and fleeting, cloudier for Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Northern England. Temperatures not particularly exceptional here. High teens, low 20s. But come further south, those temperatures are rocketing. We're looking at widely low to mid 20s and high 20s up to 30 Celsius towards East Anglia and the southeast. High UV. Make sure you are uh bearing that in mind if you're spending time outdoors. But for Scotland, the cloud cover fairly continuous into the afternoon, breaking up a little by evening. Showers tending to fade. And for many parts of the UK, yeah, it's cooler and cloudier in the north, but it's a fine start to the long weekend for the vast majority settled with high pressure in charge. And despite some high level cloud across central parts of the UK, plenty of bright skies to end the afternoon, go into the evening. Clear spells then continue overnight. We will see a weak weather front bring some shower rain once again into the northwest of Scotland and thicker cloud overnight for Northern Ireland as well as Scotland.
highly variable temperatures overnight.
Some cool spots where we've got shelter from the breeze, but yeah, in some places like London, for example, temperatures staying up at 18 or 19 Celsius. So, a head start on Sunday as far as the temperatures are concerned.
And widespread sunny skies, certainly a sunnier morning compared with this morning. England and Wales, Southern Scotland, blue skies and temperatures really rising quickly. We're looking at high 20s widely up to 32 Celsius in the south. Always cloudier and cooler the north of Scotland.
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The future of another British overseas territory could be at risk with Criates warning the Mediterranean island must not become a target amid the Iran war.
>> Now, in an exclusive report for GB News, Greeks and Turks have raised deep concerns about Britain's running of its sovereign territories, including RAF, Acroi, and Dalia.
>> Yes, the warning comes as Cyprus is heading to the polls this weekend for parliamentary elections. And GBNews digital reporter Marcus Donaldson joins us now. Marcus, you've written this brilliant exclusive for GB News about what is going on here. Can you just explain to us a little bit more?
Essentially, the criates are fed up with having bases that are becoming targets um in in their sovereign nation.
>> Well, exactly right. I mean, as you say, people are going to the polls just now.
And what the issue is is I think there there's a frustration. There's a lack what they feel is a lack of communication. Uh which we're trying to fix. The UK is trying to fix. But I think the issue now is is I think what is quite striking about this now is you've got the Greek separate community which is the Republic of Cyprus and you have the Turkish separate community which is separate and has been occupied by Turkey since the 1974 invasion. Um and both of them are almost on the same hem sheet here which is basically is that they're not necessarily saying the base have to go tomorrow but they're saying that they need some kind of recognition of reorganization of how they work uh because they're are fearing that the bases are are bringing a conflict to Cyprus which they're not necessarily party to. And as that perspective grows among both sides and this very divided island. Yes.
>> Is there a sense that Britain could fix this sense of uncertainty with a bit more of a defensive posture? Because I mean one drone did get through those defenses. And of course HMS Dragon took 3 weeks to get out there after the war started. But is there a sense that you're getting from those on the island that Britain could do something to quell those fears?
>> I think yes. I think I think the key is communication. I think that the there was if you cast your mind back to to that period of of confusion when uh John Hilly was on air saying that a rocket has been fired at Cypress and they were saying the emoji said well maybe not and then of course the drone service as you say with one went through. Uh I think what what the president Chris has said in Cyprus is he'd like an open and frank conversation with the UK. Now what character that conversation will have we still don't know. However, he has also described the bases as a colonial remnant. And of course they been maintained on them after separate independence in 1960. So what character those negotiations are going to have uh that really remains to be seen but the elections coming up that might give us an idea. Now the centrist parties in Cyprus are having a bit of an issue at the moment because there's all not related corruption scandals etc. But at the moment, the parties looking to secure second and third place are Elam, which is a Greek nationalist party, and EEL, which is a hard-left party. And Eel have described the bases as um a an aggressive front for attacking neighboring peoples and have also said that they need to be abolished. and the Greek nationalist Elam have said that the bases represent a threat and they wonder because what you have to remember is the bases are not the the the sovereign territories are not just the bases it's about 3% of the whole island 98 square miles so um there are Greek separate and Turkish separate communities in those and of course that is the main concern so Chrises is in power until 2028 he's not at risk of losing power at the moment because he's staying as an independent it's a presidential system and the interesting thing is the EU have said they'll support Cyprus in its conversations with the EU. Again, what character that takes, we still don't know. However, one thing that could happen, of course, is we're currently working on reproachment with the EU. And clearly, if Brussels has signal some kind of support for Cypress, could this become a caveat in those negotiations? Could make it maybe more difficult for us to renegotiate our position? Possibly.
>> I mean, it sounds pretty You'd say we don't know what what what sort of tone these conversations will take. It sounds quite threatening, doesn't it?
particularly now the EU is going to support Cyprus presumably against Britain in these conversations. Where do you see this ending up in a few months time?
>> Well, I I think that the thing to remember is these are sovereign territories. So there is no way that we can be compelled to give them up. It would require a a conversation. It would require a a kind of a bilateral agreement as we saw with Chaos. Um however, it's such a complicated situation in Cypus. It would ra it would require probably the guarantor powers of the uh the agreement in 1960 which is ourselves the UK the Greek separate republic the Turkish separates Greece and Turkey. So it would be a very complicated conversation but if the separates want it and if they vote that way today well it might just happen.
>> It's a curious situation that we're in.
I have to say Marcus looking at all your reporting and what people are saying a lot of this concern could be muted with a bit more of a robust display. I know that uh John Healey, the defense secretary, he went out there, he met with uh people on the air bases and indeed the the wider sovereign base areas also met with his criate counterparts, but there could be a further demonstration of air defenses that we have. So, we will see. Marcus Johnson, thank you very much for your report.
>> Well, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement, "The status of the sovereign base areas is not in question. Our bases in Cyprus play a crucial role in supporting the safety of British citizens and our allies in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East.
>> We have been deploying additional defensive capabilities to Cypress. They say since January, including radar systems, counter drone systems, additional fast jets, and hundreds of extra air defense personnel to protect our people and our interests.
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>> Uh I got scammed over the period of about 18 months. Uh a lot of I met uh the family. Uh I actually was met my scammer, met the family, friends, it they were all part of the scam.
>> Did you get did you get a sense, Lynn, that you were being scammed? And if you did, when did that happen?
>> Uh not until until I went to the police.
Uh it it took a long time. I I think I was g I was groomed over a period of months. So uh anything he said I believed I to explain how these people can get into your head. You know only anyone that's been scammed will ever understand you know.
>> And how helpful were police when you first went to them?
>> Police didn't really want to know if I'm honest. They they said just forget about it. I said no. I said, "I'm not forgetting about it." I said, "This is you stolen my money." Said, "I want my money back." I said, "I you know, uh I said, I I'll go and do something myself." At the time, I just said, "I I don't know what you know what I would have done." Anyway, they changed their minds and they uh we set up a sting with them over three month period.
>> Wow. How much money had this man taken from you, Lynn?
>> About £100,000.
>> Gosh.
>> Over a period of 18 months.
>> Yeah. And what would he be saying to you in order to get that money from you?
>> In fact, I offered him money eight months into it because I believed that I'd lost something. I was made to believe that I've lost something. So, I was offering him money. He refused at first and it then it just got into the, you know, I I was chasing the money back and it just one thing after another. It just led onto another.
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Now the new leader of Bradford City Council has written to the chair of the independent inquiry into grooming gangs to ask for the entire district to be included in the national inquiry.
>> Yes. Councelor Steven Place says that if Baroness Longfield didn't include the Bradford district, then the council will undertake all steps necessary to begin the process of an independent inquiry.
>> Well, this comes as the MP for Keith Lee and Ilkley, that's the Tory uh Robbie Moore and grooming gang survivor Fiona Godard and the solicitor David Greenwood urged council plays to write to Baroness Longfield. And David Greenwood joins us now. Good morning to you, Mr. Greenwood.
Thank you very much for your time this morning. First and foremost, just your reaction, please, to this request from the leader of Brford City Council.
>> Well, after years of trying to persuade the council to hold a sort of an Alexis J style inquiry, you remember the the inquiry that she held into Rotherham into Bradford. Um, finally, we we have someone in the council, someone influential who is willing to do so. Uh this has been a thing that's been refused for years. Um and I'm really relieved that um someone in authority is willing to, you know, look at the stark facts in the face and um underco uncover the stones that have been left unturned so far. So yeah, I'm really pleased about it. Thank you.
>> Why has it been refused for so long? Is is there something sort of political going on here?
I don't know what the the politics of the Bradford Council were. Uh I just know that um we've been, you know, trying to explain to the council leader that, you know, all roads lead to Bradford in terms of grooming uh in the north and at the Midlands. Um the cases that I I'm involved with tend to have some kind of connection with trafficking to and from Bradford. Um, and I just thought it was uh pretty obvious that um an inquiry needs to take place because it appears from the evidence that I've uncovered and I think that the police have uncovered in recent years in their investigations that the neither the police nor uh the council have been doing a good job for the last 20 or 30 years. So um yeah, a proper inquiry into this uh bringing the uh the awful facts and the awful failures of statutory authorities is absolutely necessary. And David, does it feel now that with all the evidence that you have been putting forward and all the concerns that have been raised by survivors, including Fiona Godard, that you're actually now being listened to because, as you say, so much evidence does point to Bradford almost as a sort of ground zero for much of the uh national grooming scandal, the the network analysis that can be done, linking trafficking routes back to Bradford. There is so much that points in that direction. It must be a great sense of reassurance to feel as though there is political leadership there now listening to you.
>> Yeah, it's very good to to know that someone is listening now. Um I'm I'm a lawyer. Um so I'm naturally cautious. Um until the thing is done, until we actually have the inquiry started into Bradford, um uh I won't be happy. Um when the inquiry does a really good job um I'm I may show signs of happiness. Um but I'll be making sure that um the thing is done properly and that um no stern stone is left unturned.
>> Good. It's very good that the survivors of those grooming gangs have uh you supporting them. Now do you think Baroness Longfield is going to accept this request? What do you make so far of how she's approached this grooming gangs inquiry?
That's a great question. Um, the idea uh that came from Baroness Casey that there should be uh individual towns and cities uh examined five or six I think was the number um is a sort of novel I suppose.
Um it suggests to me that they are going to be uh looked at in a lot of detail in minute detail. In fact, um unless we get that um it's not going to be um a a decent enough inquiry, so far as I'm concerned, I know that the national inquiry uh that will presumably be based in London with an Longfield and two other panel members will be looking at the wider picture. Uh but um the idea of five or six uh towns and cities being looked at is um inadequate I would say. Um there are lots and lots of towns and cities around the country that need a good um look and a and a good examination. Um, and I don't see why the uh inquiry shouldn't look at all the towns and cities to work out what's gone wrong and who should be held accountable in some way. Um, and another another issue for me is the fact that uh the government has has limited the amount amount of money that can be spent on this inquiry and limited the time. Well, that's not right. There'll be lots of >> David Gwood, I'm really sorry. We've got to go now. lawyer from Swatski. Thank you so much for your analysis this morning. I should say Olivia, you know, we did get an announcement this week.
Hundred million pounds being spent on looking into child sex abuse, which would include a t-fold increase in funding for investigating grooming gangs. So, there are some positive steps being taken. Well, Baroness Longfield said the Bradford case is obviously strongly made by victims and survivors over time in the Casey audit in IICSA uh in Operation Dalesway. We're well aware of the case that's been made and it's a strong case.
>> Right. There's lots more coming up on Saturday Morning Live. Today we're going to be going through all of today's top stories. We'll get more on those boat crossings amid the heatwave and is football the only way for men to express their emotions? Don't go anywhere. See you in a moment.
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>> Well, GB News can confirm that two packed migrant dingies are on route amid Britain's heatwave with 400 illegal arrivals yesterday. Just how many can we expect to cross over this bank holiday weekend?
Well, up to 100 small boat migrants currently on a border force vessel due to dock in here in Dova in the next 20 or so minutes. Another small boat in the channel at the moment as people, smuggers, smugglers take advantage of this warm weather.
>> And traffic chaos is engulfing do today.
Two drivers trying to get away for a bank holiday getaway are facing hours of delays. We >> promised to grow the economy and we have. We promised to cut inflation and we have.
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>> Well, families could soon face tourist taxes of up to £300 on UK stations as councils across England look to cash in on summer holidays. Rachel Reeves promised this week that she's on a mission to grow the economy. And as Prince William was spotted crying in the crowds of the football match this week, one writer has claimed that football is still the only way for men to express their emotions. Is that right? We'll be gearing up to another busy day of footballing action.
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Well, you can see Will Godley there in do. I mean, what a chaotic day to be in do. We've got migrants coming here in their boat loads, literally. And then we've got these traffic delays trying to get away for the bank holiday weekend, plus travel chaos. We've got train delays, too. Really, really tricky.
Quite glad to be here at work today.
>> Yes, indeed. Isn't it a treat? And we, you know, we have all this discussion, haven't we, this week about uh net migration coming down, but I think what's been missing from discussion is about how many Brits are leaving. We're seeing how tough it is to get out of the country today. People struggling to get through those cues at Do. It's very easy to get in. If you just get into UK waters, you'll be picked up by one of those Border Force vessels. At least today, Olivia, the vessel that's picking them up isn't the one called Defender, cuz I always find that slightly painful watching Border Force Defender pick people up. It's more border force taxi, but there we go.
>> Well, exactly. A really interesting point you make there about net migration. I think we, you know, it's easy for the Labor government to celebrate net migration going down. If the reason for net migration going down is that, you know, doctors and nurses are leaving the UK to go to Australia while migrants are still coming in every single day, I'm not sure if that is something to celebrate, but please do let us know what you think. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gbnews.com/you sayay.
>> Right, loads to get on with on Saturday Morning Live. But first, let's stop off with Bethany Elsie, who's got all the latest news headlines.
Charlie Olivia, thank you. Good morning.
Your top stories from the GB Newsroom at 3 minutes past 11. GB News understands two small boats carrying migrants have set off from Belgium headed to the UK this morning with many more expected to make that journey this weekend. It's after 400 migrants were recorded crossing the English Channel yesterday.
The surge in crossings comes as a heat wave is hitting parts of the UK.
Well, temperatures could be higher than the Sey Shells with highs of 30 degrees expected in the south of England following the hottest day of the year so far yesterday. Britain is also forecast to see its hottest Mayday on record on Monday with temperatures reaching 33 degrees across the South and the Midlands. The UK health security agency has issued an Amber Heat health alert for the Midlands, the east and southeast of England and London until Wednesday evening with those aged 65 and over at risk and an increased demand on health and social care services. Meanwhile, the hotter weather could impact travel with tens of thousands planning to get away this bank holiday weekend. The port of Dova is warning drivers to expect long cues and delays amid new EU border checks.
In other news, at least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a mine in the Shanhi province in China with officials warning that the number is expected to rise. Chinese state media reports 247 workers were on site when the gas explosion occurred. President Xi Jinping has urged authorities to spare no effort in treating the injured and in the search and rescue mission and has ordered an investigation into the cause.
It's reported the UK government has pitched the creation of a single market for goods with the European Union.
According to the Guardian newspaper, Cabinet Office Minister Michael Ellum presented the idea to deepen the UK's economic relationship to the EU during recent visits to Brussels. But the paper claims EU officials have rejected that idea and instead suggested a customs union. That goes beyond Sakir Storm's red lines, though, after saying he wouldn't rejoin the EU or customs union in his lifetime. Both sides will hold a summit in July.
A new report is warning the UK is facing economic catastrophe unless it adapts to a generation rewired by smartphones.
Former Minister Alan Milbour's review to be released next week examines why almost 1 million 16 to 24 year olds are not in employment, education, or training. It's expected to blame smartphones and social media for rising levels of anxiety, depression, and neurody diversity. Speaking to the Times, he rejected claims that young people are snowflakes and said the country is at risk of writing off a whole generation.
And conservationists are warning more than 70,000 man-made barriers are disrupting rivers across the UK. Wild fish claims we and dams harm wildlife, trap pollution, and block fish migration. The charity says many of the structures are old and present a huge problem for river health, but that removing them can bring fish back within hours.
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>> Thanks Bethany. Welcome back to Saturday Morning Live with me Charlie Peters and her Olivia. Well, GB News can reveal two dingies have set off from Belgium this morning as the UK is hit with a heat wave.
>> Well, this follows the illegal arrival of almost 400 small boat migrants yesterday. And this is the second of at least 4 days of good weather where British authorities are bracing for channel crossings.
>> Well, GBN national reporter Will Godley joins us now from Dover. Will, what's going on behind you? Are we getting those boatloads of migrants as we are expecting?
Well, Charlie, Olivia, good morning to you. Yeah, this is Dover where its action stations at the ready. In about 15 minutes or so, we're expecting the first UK Border Force vessel to dock here in the port behind me. At the moment, it's just a little speck in the distance. We might be able to show you it now. This is the Border Force vessel Ranger. Now, that was about an hour ago in the halfway mark between Britain and France in the channel where it intercepted a small boat. At that point, the passengers on board that little dinghy boarded this border force vessel where they are now being brought into the port here for processing. Now, that small boat set off around 8:00 this morning from Graaline's Beach in France.
These boats can be up to 10 m, 11 m long and carry up to 100 people. So if it's fully laden, this vessel you're seeing now on your screens, this border force vessel will have 100 small boat migrants who'll be coming in here in the next 15 minutes or so. And as all of that's happening, there's a second boat in the channel as well, a second small boat that is about 10 to 15 minutes away from British waters where again the same process will take place. At the moment that boat is being escorted by French Navy and that boat slightly different process to how that got to where it is at the moment because that boat took off from the Belgian beaches this morning before following along the coastline of Belgium and France before then picking up more passengers in Dunkirk before then now moving its way towards the UK where it is at the moment. And that's increasingly what's happening. Last year, there weren't any boats that took off from Belgium. And now, authorities yesterday in Belgium saying that they have intercepted more than 400 people attempting to cross the channel so far this year. But this at the moment, the last two weeks here in the channel have been rather quiet. There weren't any crossings up until yesterday. as you say, just under 400 small boat migrants arrived on six boats yesterday. Uh they are now being processed in Manston, just a few miles away from here. But the government would point out that the number of arrivals so far this year are drastically down, 44% compared to this time last year up until this bank holiday weekend and down 23% on the same point in 2024. But with this warm weather continuing, it's it's likely to cause a headache for those in the home office.
>> Oneway traffic today, there's also some issues with people trying to get out of the country. A bit of gridlock in do as people face new EU checks as families trying to get away for the bank holiday.
What can you tell us about that as well?
>> Absolutely. Yeah, I mean we were caught up in that gridlock traffic just coming from the station here in Dover to where we are now. It should be a 5-minute journey, but took nearly half an hour.
And that gridlock traffic is backing off miles and miles away from where we are now. The port of Do saying anybody coming to the port is facing 2hour delays just to get into the port. Once you are in the port, you might think, great, we've made it. But you're going to be disappointed because it's a 2 and 1 half hour processing time at the moment. as the French border force introduced this new EES system, that new EU system for people entering and leaving the EU. And it's as it's being used the first time in what is a peak travel season causing these delays of nearly 5 hours for passengers. A real headache here and gridlock traffic here in Dover. Just looking over my shoulder, I can just see it's absolutely not moving here on the streets in Dover.
>> Well, thank you very much, Will. I hope you're able to get away from Dover at the end of what I expect will be quite a long day. But in other news, well, the chancellor announced a range of great British summer savings this week. It seems a fresh tax grab could be hitting families as the sunny weather arrives, too.
>> Yes, cuz families could face a £300 holiday tax on stations in a bid to lift up struggling councils. Around 10 regional mayors in England are considering the overnight visitor levies, which could be devastating for families already dealing with rising bills.
>> Elsewhere, a landmark report has warned that economic ruin awaits unless we adapt to the anxious generation of young people who are being rewired by smartphones.
>> Yes, jobs are Alan Milbour claims greater flexibility and mental health support should be offered to get young people back to work. Now, journalist and broadcaster David Wooding joins us now to chew over all of that. David, I'm going to start with this really interesting report from Alan Milbour.
We've been talking about it a little bit this morning. Young people rewired by smartphones just aren't capable of entering the workforce and they need more mental health support. Alan Milbour seems to have diagnosed the problem. I mean, it's self-evident. Million young people out of work. But is the solution uh just more mental health support or are there other factors at play?
>> Well, obviously mental health is uh something we we we can easily scoff at because there are so many people who are claiming benefits who are suffering from mild anxiety, Olivia, and that's uh one of the problems. Um and I think it's it's probably easier for older people like me to look back because uh and say that that there's snowflakes, which was a word highlighted in this report. But the truth is the world has changed a great deal. And when I was a young kid, we used to spend most of our days off uh playing in in the in the fields, uh playing football, kicking a ball around, even on the road. Um and nowadays, kids seem to be stuck in their bedrooms doom scrolling on their mobile phone. And it's just part and parcel of the uh of modern life. People have become addicted to these mobile phones. And so they do need some kind of help to uh um to to to get them to live a more wide life.
>> Perhaps that help is the opportunity to work. It's not necessarily they need uh mental health support or interventions.
And if I could just tie this in with the other story we're covering this uh visitor levies that are potentially being applied to some areas that could see a tax rise on stations. Is it not the case that that will affect precisely the sort of businesses that young people typically work in? If we rise taxes on uh areas that will be relying on domestic tourism, that will mean fewer jobs for young people can work in pubs, work in restaurants and cafes and also local tourist attractions. It seems the diagnosis that the government is applying could be affecting that as well.
>> Well, this is the problem with with the the welfare system. uh young youngsters don't want to do these jobs. Uh they find they can get more on benefits uh than than working in some of these low-level jobs which we all started at.
Let's be honest. I worked in a supermarket unloading. I worked in clubs doing a bit of part-time work. We all had to do those jobs because we needed a bit of pocket money. Nowadays perhaps uh kids get addicted to these phones and and everything is done indoors. It's really is it really is dangerous and obviously taking kids out to holidays um would would give them a love of the great outdoors, but everybody seems to want to grab a mobile phone. You see kids as young as two and three in their pram looking at mobile phones and it's become an addictive issue. So, we really need to wean people off the >> No, you see babies younger than that.
I've seen six-month-olds with mobile phones include their faces in the supermarket. Interesting. You talk there about the the the taxes that are being raised on the exactly the kind of areas that uh people want to holiday in. It does increasingly feel as though whenever you hear a good news announcement from Rachel Reeves, oh, there's going to be a cut to uh the cost for families going to the zoo, etc. If you look at the small print elsewhere, another tax is being levied on the British public. Is this just now what we've come to expect from the Treasury?
Giving with one hand while taking away with the other.
>> Absolutely, Olivia. That was the phrase I was just about to say. There's never been a case I I've seen of giving with one hand and taking away with the other.
I mean, we've she she announced Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, announced a 1.8 billion package. Again, these are not free discounts. We're all paying for this out of our taxes. Um but in the other hand we're now first of all apart from the announced the story we've got today we've got the extra VAT on aviation which will add uh which will increase the the extra amount on a flight to about 24.
This is the charge on on planes using uh airport terminals and runways. That that's being increased to to 20%. Um and and and on top of this we now hear that they're considering these um one these travel taxes which would be about uh 12 a half% would add £345 to an average station and even if it was down to 7% if they did go for the full monty it would be 200. Now, it's interesting that 10 regional mayors, these are covering areas like Scarra, the Peak District, the Cotswwells, all these popular holiday destinations are all saying, "Yes, we're going to do this." The only three that are not doing it are Andrea.
>> David, I'm really sorry. We've just got to go now. We're getting some We've got another story we got to cross to. Just very quickly have to read out a statement from a government spokesman who said that the visitor levy will give mayors more power. They will raise money, invest it in priorities, holiday destinations, growing the local economy.
They also say the final design of the levy has not been decided. It's up to those mayors to decide whether to use it. Right, let's go back to do where our national reporter will God can speak to us now because I believe that live crossing is taking place right now and there is an arrival. Will?
Yeah, Charlie Olivia, you might just be able to see on your screens a border force vessel Ranger making its final few mo uh movements into port. We can see the water behind it getting churned up as it's doing a 180° spin as it comes into port. Now, this is a border force vessel that had been at the halfway mark in the channel this morning, and it was about an hour ago. It left there after intercepting a small boat that had been uh left uh the French beach of gravel lines this morning, just after 8:00 this morning. The French Navy were assisting the small boat in its journey through the channel to British waters. And it's when the small boat gets into British waters, then they disembark their dinghy and board this border force vessel on your screens now as it's just docking into the port here in Dover. These small boat dingies can be up to about 11 m long and can hold up to 100 passengers on them. So on this vessel here, if it's fully laden, 100 small boat migrants likely will be getting off in the next 5 to 10 minutes or so. They of course the port handlers here need to uh ensure the boat can safely dock and load a ramp and then uh the migrants will get off the boat. They will then walk to a little marquee that's just on the right hand side. And that is where they will then be processed and spend the next few hours before they then bust over uh to Manston just a few miles away from here.
And so that's what we're seeing now on your screens. This border force vessel bring in the first boatload of migrants today. up to 100 on this boat as another one will be here probably in the next hour or hour and a half 90 minutes or so as that next small boat just entering British waters at the moment.
>> You very much will and it is great although very alarming to see these pictures live of migrants coming in to Britain today. Of course the home office says that it is doing what it can to tackle the problem. Shabban Mammud has just pledged another 500 million to the French to help with security on the on the French beaches. Well, but you can see what's happening now. Those those boats are still coming in.
>> Yeah. And we'll wait to see who comes off the boat. I mean, we saw some live arrivals yesterday and the vast majority of them appeared to be men. And a trend we've consistently seen is that while we do see some uh women and girls and young children as well, boys on these small boats, they are often included deliberately by these people smugglers who are very sophisticated and making a lot of money out of this because they know that if they have children and women on the boats, which we really should stop calling small boats really.
A lot of them are quite significant in their size nowadays getting bigger and bigger.
>> Yeah. when if they have women and children on the boats, they know it will speed up the reaction from the authorities in terms of the rescue operation as it's known, but really rather the escort operation, the disembarking and then embarking onto a border force vessel where they are then taxied and brought into Dover Harbor before they are then taken to the Manston Center through processing where they are likely to be in the country for many years to come. But we do know of course that some small boat migrants have been deported recently, but you know, hundreds of thousands remain.
>> Absolutely. And stay with us throughout the day as we'll have more on this breaking story. But still to come as Prince William was spotted crying in the crowds at a football match this week.
One writer has claimed that football is still the only way for men to express their emotions. Is that right? We'll be gearing up to another busy day of footballing action.
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>> Yeah, you might just be able to see if you are watching on your screens, migrants disembarking this border force vessel Ranger. They are making their way round the front of the vessel. You can see them in these orange life vests that they have on. They then walk down the side and down a ramp. They are then taken by border force officials into a marquee just off to the side where they will then be processed. And the people on board were on a small boat just about an hour ago. That was when they disembarked that small boat and were brought onto this border force vessel at the halfway point between France and Britain in the channel. They set off on their small boat from the Graalines Beach just after 8:00 this morning. And these small boats are not really that small. They're about 11 m long. They can have up to 100 people on board. When we get our provisional figures, we'll let you know exactly how many people are disembarking at the moment. I can see them now walking across the courtyard into the marquee where that processing will then take place. And this is the first set of arrivals that we are expecting today. There's another one that we're expecting in about an hour 90 minutes or so. So, no doubt a busy morning for those inside where the processing is taking place. These people with their orange life vests on just finishing walking off the boat now onto that ramp and into the processing center.
>> Right, we're joined in the studio by the political commentator Khloe Dobs and the former Labour adviser Matthew Laza looking at these pictures. It's another bumper day of crossings. Chloe Dobs, your reaction to these live footage, these live pictures, please.
>> I think that after the next week passes, it's going to be pretty embarrassing for the government, particularly for Shabbat Mammud, who is really trying to have a stuff a tough stance on immigration.
She's, you know, talking all the talk, but can't walk any of the walk. All of her attempts to have uh deals with France that are linked to performance seem to be failing. She's got this new deal now, which uh uh isn't really tied to performance as she had hoped. I doubt it's really going to do anything. We've heard uh French police pushing back on our desires for them to get into the water more because they're concerned about the the human rights and the safety of the migrants. Um and I think that any this next week will probably prove wrong any attempt from the government to pedal a lie that any reduction in crossings in the beginning of the year has been down to their hard work. It was simply the weather.
>> Well, I mean, yeah, I mean the government was celebrating this week because there was uh broadly good news in the legal migration statistics.
number of dependents coming down, number of people from outside the EU coming down, etc. But the boats are are the bet noir of the uh you know of of successful governments, aren't they? That basically nobody knows how seems to know how to crack uh this nut. I mean, Chloe's right that the that the French are still not doing enough. The New Deal hasn't actually kicked in yet. So, you know, Siobhan and Mimmude would argue uh that that that will take some action, but if we have a a good few weeks weather, we're just going to see more and more people come. And so uh you know there has been I mean one of the key the key things that has reduced the boat is actually the fact that and fewer people are coming into the EU because of action so few people are coming in from the Mediterranean dependent on yeah absolutely and that's why cooperation I think is is really important because actually the real way to stop the small boats which I don't think any politicians will really talk about is to work with our EU partners to strengthen the southern border to make sure that people don't start their journey through Europe and end up uh in Calala and then trying to get across the channel and succeeding all too often. I mean, looking at our your say where people are writing in, lots of our viewers are furious with what they're seeing on their screens at the moment. And it does feel as though these migrants coming over here get goldplated treatment.
They're taxiing from the middle of the channel over to uh the the shores by a border force vessel, and then they'll stay here for months, possibly years, put up in perfectly nice accommodation, in some cases, fourstar hotels. The French have even said that coming to the UK is too much of a draw because we make it too easy for migrants. Is that part of the issue?
>> Oh, absolutely. It's definitely a pull factor and they get, as you say, VIP VIPO treatment before they even get to do. I mean, as Will has explained, they are taken uh by the French Navy to the middle of the channel. They're escorted and then they don't even need to make it all the way to Dover in those dingies.
They just need to make it to the center line and then border force offer a taxi service paid for by us from the middle of the channel where they take them in, they process them, and they're put in a four-star hotel. And then the chances of them ever being deported is so low that they just think that as soon as you get on a dinghy, that's it. You are set. You will be in Britain for as long as you want. You can have benefits after your asylum claim is processed. You can just live in a taxpayer funded house and not really have to do anything for your whole life.
>> Matthew, we heard Chloe earlier referring to it as as a lie from Labor.
They obviously wouldn't say that that you know there's been a reduction in the number of crossings but I think she does tap into something here which is that this is all really rather weather dependent as you say this deal with France hasn't even hasn't even come into force. The pull factors are still so generous that people are still making that journey and paying a premium with these people smugglers who are more sophisticated it seems than the authorities who are trying to stop them.
So there has been some success with um action on actually the type of on type of boats restricting the supply of boats has had some impact but yeah look absolutely I think I think the government is right to claim some credit but not all the credit clearly it is weather dependent and it's also EU dependent I think the big development is going to which might help the government over the next 18 months two years in time for the next election uh is the return hubs remember that uh some European countries like Italy wanted to have return hubs in uh in North Africa the EU is almost going to put putting the ink on a plan to do just that. And crucially, it's got rather under reportported. The uh the council in Europe, which ministers of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, has now signed a pact uh that says actually return hubs. I mean, effectively that the return hubs are should should be allowable under now. It's up to court interpretation. It's not the end of the deal, but we could crucially be seeing a way of of people who of being sent back and never reaching the borders. And that's really what's going to solve the problem.
>> But Matthew, this is the government that canled the Rwanda policy on day one. We had the opportunity there to have some offshore processing. Yes, it had at that point cost quite a lot of money, but it was nearly over the line. You at least could have tried this. How we got here?
>> I I was I was in Calala in May June before that 2024 election and I was speaking to so many migrants who were all saying we are in a waiting game now.
We are just waiting for Kama to get into power. We're waiting to see if he wins the general election. Um because we know he's going to count that moment on day one. thought at that moment they might end up Rwanda. This is about people.
This isn't about sending people to Rwanda really expensively under under Rwanda law. This is about processing people under European law before they ever get anywhere near our shores.
>> Okay, Chloe Dobs, Matthew Laza, thank you very much. Just a bit of breaking news from our reporter in Dover, Will Godley, saying that 79 small boat migrants have now arrived in Dover.
That's according to our provisional figures from our producer Chris and Will Godley down there on the coast.
>> And lots more to come on the show, but first let's get the news headlines with Bethany Elsie.
>> Good morning. The headlines from the GB newsroom. Around 100 migrants have just arrived into Dova on board a border vessel after setting off in Belgium this morning. Another boat carrying the same number of migrants is expected to arrive within the next hour. A surge in channel crossings is expected this weekend as a heat wave hits the UK.
Meanwhile, temperatures are expected to be higher than the SE shells in parts of the UK today with highs of 30° in the south of England. It follows the hottest day of the year so far yesterday.
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It's another busy day of footballing action because Celtic are going for the double at Dun Firmland Park and it's also the richest game in football as Middlesborough face Hull in the Championship playoff final at Wembley.
>> Well, one rather famous football fan made the headlines this week. Prince William was spotted getting emotional in the crowds as Aston Villa won the Europa League.
>> Well, in reaction, one writer said yesterday that football is still the only way men express emotions.
>> So, as we gear up to today's matches and indeed the World Cup campaign to come, is she right? Behavioral psychologist Joe Hemings joins us now. Well, I thought it was a really interesting piece in the Telegraph by Rowan Pelling there saying that, you know, it is good actually that men do have football as a way to express their emotions and when men talk with their friends about football, they're actually expressing so much more. What do you think about that?
>> Morning. Yeah. Yes, I agree with you. I mean, it's really important they recognize they've got those emotions in them. And I guess with football, it's very tribal. It's one communal identity with a shared purpose. and you're looking out on a match. You're not really looking at each other. So, it's a very outwards um display of something which is impacting them emotionally, but yeah, you're all together, you all want the same thing. That that shared tribalism enables them to express those emotions that well. But what I think is great is that then they can recognize they have those emotions and maybe they can lean in sometimes on those um to other things which affect them more individually. And Joe, of course, it's not just football. There are many other sports where people of of both genders get really stuck in. in in particular as an average in this country in terms of big spectator sports. Do you think that they sort of reveal uh and fulfill a role of sort of a primal instinct in a lot of men of sort of belonging to something bigger than them which would have been uh you know facilitated in generations gone by perhaps by work by soldiering by church and with the decline of these communal experiences sport now fulfills that role >> I mean that's a really good point because there aren't that many left of those big communal spaces or that kind of and I use the word tribal really in its archaic sense groups of people that are driven by one purpose and one faith and one idealism and there they all are together and their emotions are really close to service. I mean perhaps the downside slightly of sport is that if you take it really to heart, if you have a bad match and you lose or your team loses, that can kind of impact some men for days on end. You know, they kind of go into not depression exactly, but certainly into a kind of spiral down into misery. Um, so it has its downsides as well. But yeah, there were very few left. And it was amazing just looking at Prince William with all that emotion because he probably got a lot of that inside him. They can't show publicly, you know, rarely if ever. And there was this fantastic opportunity to be able to express himself and and there are a lot of men just like that who won't share their feelings publicly, but when you put them inside a football stadium on a stand, there just comes pouring out. I think it's it's really quite wonderful to see. I agree with you, Joe. I really love those photos of Prince William that you're seeing on your screens now. Can I just ask Joe, obviously over the last sort of few years, the last decade really, there have been so many drives to get women more into football. We have a fantastic uh women's football team for England now. And yet, even after so many years of work on this, you don't see women and girls flocking to football matches. You don't see them expressing those sorts of emotions that men feel.
Is it something sort of biological that is men's affiliation with sport and football in particular just innate to men? Why why won't it be women too?
>> Again, that is a really good point and there'll probably be some research that say that it might be in my view and given the huge success of the England football team, you'd really expect that to kind of come out in force. The women have other ways of letting their emotions out. They have friends they talk to. they're more likely to express themselves emotionally, whether that's happiness, sadness, or any spectrum of mood and probably don't need it in quite the same way that men need it. Um, so I think that's why you're not seeing it so much. But I do think it will grow, particularly as the profession gets more successful. I think we'll see more women going in groups, but I doubt we'll see the same outpourings of extreme emotions in the main because they have other ways of doing it. And they also know when to reg they're better emotional regulators than men are too. So they might feel it, but they won't necessarily express it in that instance.
>> So Joe, next time someone tells a bloke, um, why do you care so much? It's just a game. Do you think there's now a place for a man to reply, "Actually, this fulfills a tribal role that I am lacking in modern life, and it's giving me a sense of emotional expression that is missing elsewhere." It's much more than just a game.
>> I think that would be perfect if every man could respond exactly like that, particularly when their partner says, "But you never sort of have any feelings on the subject that I do. Look at what I do at football." That' be great. Yeah, I think that should be printed out and they can refer to it every time they go to a game.
>> Well, thanks a million Joe Hemmings, behavioral psychologist. Great to have your company this morning.
>> I look forward to you trying that line on your lovely fiance. See how that goes down work? I don't think right now she's actually, you know, she's very interested in Tottenham now. Become very dedicated to sport. Hey, if I can be uh engaged in that uh business for so long and that's so painful. I think she finds it quite reassuring. In fact, >> that is very true. Very true. Well, still to come, Jeremy Clarkson and farming's biggest stars are giving the traditional country show a modern makeover at the Great British Farm Fest.
We'll be live there next.
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>> There are 1,625 British World War II soldiers buried here. Many of them died while fighting in Operation Market Garden. A crucial fight for the bridge of Arnum just a few miles away from here. Seen as a key route into Germany and crucial for defeating the Nazis.
>> Large parts of Holland greeted the Allied troops as the army swept on.
>> The British World War II veterans are brought here by the taxi charity for military veterans. They've driven them here from England in black cabs.
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>> At the Airborne Division's own cemetery, Holland and Britain joined in a more personal tribute, visiting the resting places so long tended with loving care.
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And the UK's biggest country fair and music festival is underway in Warikshire.
>> Yes, it's the Great British Farm Fest.
includes three days of farming, livestock, and good oldfashioned countryside chaos. Got a floor manager in the back there having a great time.
>> It'll be hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Clarkson, Caleb Cooper, Lisa Hogan, and other farming stars.
>> Well, our entertainment reporter, Alex Davis, he joins us live from Warikshire.
Alex, it sounds like a wonderful day out. How's it going?
>> It's going fantastically. As you can see behind me, we got Jeremy Caleb currently taking part in the Ford Ranger Challenge here at the Grand Ring at Stonley Park in Warikshire. It's been an amazing day.
Some great food, great music, and lots and lots of livestock attractions going on. And I'm speaking to one of the main men involved in the event now, Country Files Adam Henson. Adam, if you'd like to come into shop just here. Adam, you were here yesterday. How's it been going?
>> It's been absolutely brilliant. huge crowds, a fantastic celebration of British farming. Of course, a whole lot of fun at the same time, but that connection with the consumer, the public, and farmers really bringing that all together in a fun way. For me, it's brilliant. And why is it so important now more than ever that we get behind British farming? We have events like this to celebrate it. Why now? We all need to understand where our food comes from. You eat three times a day or maybe more. and that connection with where our food comes from. It's somewhat lost, but a lot of programs on television or various social channels are trying to improve that, I think, it's absolutely essential. So, we've got an Adams Farm area over there with our Cotswwell Farm Park. So, we're engaging with the public all the time at home, but to be able to come to a big event like this on top of all the other amazing agricultural trails around the country, it's a highlight. And what can we do as viewers to really help British farmers? I think when you're choosing your food, wherever that may be, a farm shop or a supermarket, try and buy British first of all and then think really carefully where it's come from and the production systems that have gone on and you know, just try and support British farming because we do produce some of the best food in the world. And just a quick word, he's out there doing his thing at the moment. What do you think Jeremy Clarkson's done for the face of British farming?
>> Well, absolutely huge amount of course brought a new generation of people watching farming. Made an awful lot of fun. There's a huge amount of pantomime behind it, but also, you know, brought to earth, you know, some of the incredible difficulties farmers have in trying to produce good quality food and the amount of energy, effort, and money we spend trying to produce great food.
>> Yeah. Well, I mean, an event like this celebrates all of that. Thank you so much for your time, Adam. It was great to meet you. Have a great day. I really appreciate it. So, there you have it, guys. Get behind your British farmers.
And what better place when the sun is scorching. I'm getting a bit sunburnt on the top of my head, but you can see everyone here taking all of the festivities in. They've currently got a Ford Ranger doing slalams.
What exactly that? Oh, is it Jeremy in there? Yeah.
Hope he's not stalled it.
>> Wonderful for Alex.
>> That's meant to happen.
>> Fantastic. Watch this.
>> Is that Jeremy coming out? That's Kale.
That's Caleb. Caleb from Clarkson's Farm. Jeremy on the other side. Done quite a good job there with the spinning hay. Um quite quite an impressive display. I suppose he is best known for Top Gear, isn't he? Jeremy Clarkson. So, it's quite right that he combines the farming with the automobile experience.
>> Best known for Top Gear just about, but Clarkson's farm so popular. And honestly, what an amazing impression he has made on British farming. Totally changed the face of it. Really good advice there. um from Countryfile to uh buy British really good. I mean I've been eating British strawberries this week and they just are the best, aren't they?
>> Yes. I think Adam Hson had a good point there which is talking about this, you know, seasonal purchasing as well. We're quite blessed in this country, aren't we? And uh I would like to use this moment with these extraordinary life pictures of uh Jeremy Clarkson and Caleb spitting around slamming in that vehicle to say thank you to farmers markets. We need more of them. They're very good. If you have a chance to go to a farmers market this weekend, make sure you do so because it's the best way to support farmers and their communities directly.
I know plenty is done by our supermarkets in engaging with farmers and that is absolutely brilliant. And I love that by British signage and we see in stickers on produce, we go to a market, it's even better.
>> Exactly. And you know exactly where your food has come from. You know just what's going on in the supply chain. And I find that very reassuring. And it is true that we do make some of the best food in the world. Really, really good stuff.
So, do get to a farmers market if you can.
>> Well, thank you all so much for joining us on Saturday morning live today. We're back again next week. I'm actually here again tomorrow covering for Dawn Niss, >> Charlie Peters in the studio all the time. Don't go anywhere as Christopher Hope is up next for the weekend.
>> Thanks guys. Great show. and come up to the next 3 hours. We've got Will Godley in do with his telescope watching those small boats arrivals will be there every single moment we see anything happening down there. He'll turn his telescope round. Look at the cues of people s in stuck in this hot weather who can't leave the UK and other issues too. We're looking at British bases under threat.
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>> Hello there. Welcome to your latest GB News weather forecast provided by the Met Office. Certainly is shaping up to be quite the sunny weekend for many of us. All courtesy of an area of high pressure that's building in across the UK. There are a few frontal systems around at the moment to start off Saturday. We've seen some cloud clearing off the far southeast of England. And also be aware there'll be some cloud lingering around coastal areas of Wales and the southwest of England. May provide some sea fog and murky conditions in places. But much of England and Wales will hold on to bright sunny skies. And with that though, we are going to see pollen levels rising.
We are entering the grass pollen season now. So hey, for your sufferers, be aware. And UV levels are also going to be quite high. Top temperatures of today around London over towards Kent.
potential for our first 30° C of the day, but widely into the low to mid 20s for many. That other front in the northwest is bringing a touch more cloud for Northern Ireland and Scotland. Still around 20° C for parts of Abodine and eastern areas, but perhaps a few spots of rain for the Highlands and over the hills here and temperatures around 13 or 14 degrees CC, which is a touch closer towards average for the time of year.
Quite breezy in the northwest as well with that frontal system in play and the cloud will linger here throughout the night. The rain perhaps turning a bit more persistent, but for much other other areas, it is going to be a clear night to come. A few mists and fog patches forming in places, but sky should be pretty clear throughout.
Temperatures are a bit of a mix between rural and urban areas. In rural regions, we may drop down into mids single figures, but most of us in our towns and cities starting off in double digits on Sunday morning. And it's widespread blue skies for the vast majority of us into this second day of the bank holiday weekend. Plenty of fine conditions if you wanted to get outside. The exception once again being the far northwest of Scotland where that rain is going to persist right throughout the day and again hold those temperatures back. But temperatures climbing up a little further now in the southeast towards 31° C. There's plenty more sunshine on the cards throughout into bank holiday Monday and next week including now for northern Scotland and those temperatures really peing as we head into Monday.
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