The UK faces a persistent small boat migration crisis where illegal migrants continue to cross the English Channel despite government efforts to stop them. On this day, 162 migrants arrived in Dover after setting off on small dinghies, with a third boat in the channel heading toward the UK. The crisis is driven by favorable weather conditions, the business model of smuggling gangs who profit from repeated attempts, and the inability to return boats to France due to international law and diplomatic constraints. The debate centers on whether any political party can effectively fix this issue, with critics arguing that both Labour and Conservatives have failed to stop the boats despite their promises. The discussion highlights the tension between border control, humanitarian concerns, and the practical limitations of current policies.
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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 of 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 mid-s single figures, but most of us in our towns and cities are 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 want 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. Bye-bye.
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Nana, thank you very much and good afternoon. In the top stories, 162 migrants have arrived into Dover on border force vessels today after they set off on small dingies this morning.
We now know that there is a third dingy in the English Channel. It's making slow but steady progress towards the UK. The boat set off from a beach south of Bologin. A surge in channel crossings is expected this weekend as a heat wave hits the UK. 400 migrants were recorded making the journey yesterday. GBN News's national reporter Will Godley has more.
One set off from France at 8:00 this morning. The other set off from Belgium in the early hours before then arriving in Dunkirk around 6:00 in the morning.
Both boats linked up with border force vessels at the halfway point of the English Channel. Before then, Border Force officers brought them in here for processing. Our provisional figures show there were 162 people on board these two boats. But with this warm weather and calm winds continuing, no doubt people smugglers want to take advantage of the weather. More crossings could continue this bank holiday weekend.
>> French authorities have suspended the new EU border checks at the port of Dova after delays reached up to 5 hours. It comes as tens of thousands of holiday makers tried to cross the channel for the bank holiday weekend. The port is allowing anyone who missed their ferry crossing because of cues to travel on the next available slot free of charge.
Meanwhile, temperatures could be higher than the SE shells today with highs of 30° expected in the south of England.
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>> Really enjoy it. I mean, we don't get it very often, do we? So, we've got to make the most of it.
>> I won't be out and about too much. I'll be honest with you.
>> I'm not a big lover of the heat.
>> I've got water with me and I've got suntan lotion still here. I think it's fine. It probably will be too hot later.
Yes. And then we'll just have to retire to a bar and stay there for the rest of the evening.
>> Shows really. I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
It's pretty crazy. I mean, it does get a bit hot. You do not want to get into the tube. Um, but yeah, you do enjoy it. I think past 28, 29° it gets a bit unbearable, but overall, I do enjoy it.
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400 illegal migrants arrived in Britain yesterday and over 50 illegal migrants have already arrived today with a third dingy on the way. I mean, you'd think that we could actually do something about it rather than just report it to you. But of course, we'll be bringing you the latest updates on this developing story as and when. Uh then in the great British debate this hour, I'm asking, do you believe that any party can fix the small boat crisis? Labour and the Conservatives have tried and failed. It seems that no matter who is in Downing Street, the boats will keep coming. So, will Reform UK be any different? Turn the Great British Debate. This hour, I'm asking, do you believe that any party can fix the small boats crisis? Then in the next great British debate, I'm asking, is Britain addicted to migration? A shocking new study has revealed that a decade after Brexit, foreigners are more important in the workforce than ever. So, are we actually addicted to this? And there's a Trump wedding. Donald Trump Jr. tries ties the knot at a private island in the Caribbean. But will was his dad there?
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You'd have to be very quick on that one, wouldn't you? Right. So, I shouldn't be finding this amusing at all. I'm not finding it amusing to be fair because a third migrant dingy is in the English Channel in French waters now making its way slowly and sadly towards this country. 83 small boat migrants have arrived in Dover so far today. That takes the total to about 162. That's just today. That's according to a GB news provisional figure. Now GB News's national reporter Will Godley has been in do uh and here's the latest. Well, it's been a hot day here in Dover. Not only beautiful weather here, but also perfect conditions for small boats to cross the channel and two today have made the journey and 162 small boat migrants have arrived here in Dover.
According to GB News provisional figures, the first boatload of small boat migrants arrived just after 11:00 this morning. Now, they were picked up on board a Border Force vessel, the Border Force Ranger vessel just after 10:00 in the morning at the halfway mark of the English Channel halfway between France and the UK. Uh the the small boat set off just after 8:00 this morning from Graalines in France. There was 79 people on board and it took about two hours for them to make the journey from the French coastline to halfway in the English Channel between France and England. That's when they were picked up by that border force boat arriving here for processing. Now, the second boat took a much more interesting route to get here because that boat set off in the early hours of the morning from Belgium, traveling down the Belgian and French coastline before going into the shallows at a beach in Dunkirk with those wanting to board it having to wade out into the shallows and jumping on board. Now, that boat set off from there around six o'clock in the morning and took a much longer time in order to get to that halfway mark in the channel where it would be picked up by British Border Force vessels. Took just over 6 hours for that boat to make the journey.
Whether it was because the engine was less powerful, more people on board, or perhaps the winds were stronger, we don't know why, but definitely took it a lot longer escorted by the French Navy as the first boat was as well. That boat picked up in the channel just after midday before then being escorted before those migrants then picked up boarded that border force vessel before then they arrived here uh early this afternoon. 83 people on board that boat, taking the total today to 162. But of course, uh that comes after just under 400 yesterday. 394 people arrived here on six small boats yesterday. But that was after just under two weeks of no crossings whatsoever.
And up until this weekend, the numbers of small boats uh small boat migrant arrivals had fallen drastically down by 44% compared to the year before. And that's down by 23% compared to 2024. Now the government would say they and their plan is working. That deal with the French cracking down on small boats, making the journey. Experts say it could be down to the provision of small boat parts. It could be down to migration patterns in Europe and also the weather along with government policy, which is what drives the small boat numbers. But one thing's for certain, with 162 arriving today, it will cause a headache for those in the home office. But by no means we're not seeing what we see on the busiest days of uh channel crossings when the numbers are over a thousand. That hasn't been seen today. Today, 162 cross the channel according to our GB News provisional figures.
Wow. And of course, we'll keep an eye on that and keep you updated. I don't know whether any the others are covering it, but I think they should be. Uh, well, joining us now is a senior researcher, the Migration Observatory, Dr. Peter Walsh. Peter. Okay. So, what are your thoughts on on this particular situation that we find ourselves in?
>> Well, I think just looking over the numbers that have arrived in the past few days, in some senses, there's no surprise, right? I mean, we've seen a lull over the past two weeks when the weather was worse. We did have stronger winds, higher waves, and of course there are thousands of people in northern France waiting to make this journey and the smugglers just wait until the weather is good and that's when we see these big spikes in increases in crossings.
>> But why is it that it doesn't seem like we can do anything? All we can do is observe, then say how many, then accept them in, and then none of them leave.
Pretty much >> there's a few reasons. I mean, some are just the challenges of disrupting the smuggling gangs. It takes a lot of resource to arrest a low-level smuggler.
They can quite quickly be replaced. Then you have the senior figures who are operating in jurisdictions far beyond our control in countries like Iraq. The thing that France identifies is the very long stretch of coastline which does make it difficult to police. And then also France faces some of the same challenges we do. You know, they often boast about the tens of thousands of preventions, but in reality, often those individuals are not detained. They're not able to be removed because they come from countries like Afghanistan and Iran. And so, in effect, they're free to try again. The thing that evidence shows really does work, of course, is from the Australian example where what they did was physically intercepting boats in the water and returning them to countries of departure with their permission. And here, of course, we've reached an impass with the French. The French view being that it would just be too dangerous for them to intercept boats and bring them back to France.
>> So, it's too dangerous really. I mean, I I I find that this country is beginning to look even more and more pathetic. The fact that we don't appear to want to or don't seem to do anything about it. We can tell you how many people are on the boats, but we don't appear to have any power to do anything at all with that within our own waters in our own country. I think it's absolutely shocking. I don't know the answer. I know what I would be doing, but apparently I can't do that. Apparently, I can't we can't turn the boats back.
People say it's too dangerous. I mean, we they could just get on board another vessel and then just send them back the other way. It doesn't matter. We take them on a vessel and bring them this way. Let's just carry on going that way.
Uh but you're saying that we have to have the permission of the French. I just think, do we I mean, what would happen if we actually just got them, put them on the boat, and then drove them back to France?
>> It's a great question. It's a great question.
um probably we would be able to do that.
Now there are some lawyers who say that under international law that would technically be classed as an invasion of France. France wouldn't see it as that.
But of course you could imagine perhaps the diplomatic and political fallout that might result if we were to do that.
>> Really they don't like us anyway. We've given them over 600 million last year.
They've admitted that they didn't really do much with that at all and it didn't really help at all. So, I don't think we could make anything much worse by simply disintervening and saying, "Nah, enough's enough." What is what is honestly going to happen to us? What will France do? Will they will they try and invade the UK? Of course they won't.
So, if we send the boats back, turn them around, get them on there properly, done properly, professionally, carefully, and take these people back to France and said, "Tell them to get off and then we go back." What will the honestly do?
What could they do?
>> Yeah. The main the main barriers there are international law and it comes down to diplomatic relations with France.
>> So what so what a lot of people don't listen to international law or they cherry pick the bits that work for them and a lot of people would say that international law isn't actually really one thing. It's just a selection of treaties that people choose which one they're going to take and do a bit here and a bit there. What what would really honestly happen to us if we did that?
>> There's certainly some truth to that. I mean international law there's often no global police officer to enforce it.
There is another approach to this which is that proposed by reform which is actually pulling us out of these treaties pulling us out of the refugee convention and then the one challenge that they would have to meet is where to remove these individuals to if not dumping them on French shores then it would have to be a safe third country allowanda we know the challenges involved with that but that would actually be the other policy course.
>> I just think that we're being a bit pathetic. I really do. I would be tempted to do the thing where they get on the boat. You instead of them because all the migrants will get on the boat because they think they're coming to the UK. Then I would just turn it back and go straight to France. And I reckon if I did that for about a week, that would be the end of it. You see, Peter, that's what I'm saying. If you you don't need to do it forever. You just need to do it for a short enough time to disrupt the struggler's model where they realize people realize that they're not going to get in. So, they're not going to pay these people.
>> And you'll recall that was the argument that was made about Rwanda. you know, as long as we send to Rwanda a sufficiently large share of people coming to the UK, in other words, rendering their attempts, which are expensive to come to the UK uh futile, then we actually wouldn't need to sustain it for all that long on some on some account. It just has to be a sufficiently high share of individuals whose attempts to stay in the UK are foiled. And and very quickly, Peter, because I do have to go, but do you see any government for any party being able to actually stop this?
>> It is a very very difficult uh challenge to meet. There may be some headway in bringing us out of all these international treaties and the refugee convention that could send a deterrence message, but then of course we have to get really serious on removing individuals. And that's been another challenge that's bedeled successive governments, getting countries to take back their citizens. Well, if it under my rules, they wouldn't even get in because I would I would I would challenge the French and I would see what they're going to do about it and I suspect they might then eventually go perhaps we should deal with this and if we make it difficult for them even to come to France then that'll be the end of it if they worked with us but they're not going to. So, I would just get on with it. Peter Walsh, thank you very much. He is the senior research for the migration observatory. Now, I know I've made it sound really simplistic but to me I think it is. But what do you think?
qbenews.com/ you'll say we can't simply just watch and observe as every another boat comes along. Oh, there's 53 in that one. Oh, there's 90 in that one. Really?
Well, where are they going to live?
Who's going to pay for them? Guess what?
It's us, isn't it? Well, now if you thought that summer had arrived early, you're absolutely right. Of course, the dingies are here, but also Britain is set for a scorching bank holiday weekend. I'm very excited to say that I'll actually have one day off where I'll be able to enjoy it with temperatures climbing into the low30s and some experts warning that Monday could become the hottest May day ever recorded in the UK. Really. Amber heat alerts are now in place as millions prepare for a proper sun soap getaway weekend. TV News's Tara Goodsell has been asking members of the public how they're enjoying the sun.
>> Really enjoying it. Feels like I'm on me summer holidays.
>> I won't be out and about too much. I I'll be honest with you.
>> I'm not a big lover of the heat. I've got water with me and I've got suntan lotion. So, yeah, I think it's fine.
>> It probably will be too hot later. Yes.
And then we'll just have to retire to a bar and stay there for the rest of the evening.
>> Shows really. I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
It's pretty crazy. I mean, it does get a bit hot. You do not want to get into the tube. Um, but yeah, you do enjoy it. I think past 28, 29° it gets a bit unbearable, but overall, I do enjoy it.
Yeah, >> it's not hot enough. I love the heat. I do my hot yoga. It's beautiful. Right.
Well, joining me, weather journalist Nathan Rayo. Nathan, this is great, isn't it? A lot of people will say, "Oh, global warming. What's wrong if it warms up like this?" I'm quite happy with it.
>> I'm 100% with you, Nana. I can't get it hot enough. And um as you said, it's it's the first summer heat wave of the year. It's not even summer yet. It's still spring. But certainly this weekend, we're going to see temperatures in the 30s. They're talking about 33 uh tomorrow and possibly Monday, which would be a record. The record is 32.8.
So, I say get out and enjoy it. or as that lady said, spend the evening in a bars. This is perfect weather. Usually when I'm on your show um on a bank holiday and at the beginning of half term, I'm talking about storms and cold weather and we've got the best weather that we wait all year for. So a beautiful bank holiday ahead with lovely warm temperatures. So get out and enjoy it and it's just the timing is excellent because the timing is usually very very bad. But this time the timing is spot on. Now what do you say to all these public health messages? It's I think personally I feel it's a bunch of civil servants who've got nothing better to do who feel they need to be telling us things that we already know. But what do we need to know about this kind of weather?
>> How should we be keeping ourselves safe?
>> Right. First of all, I'm going to answer that in two little bites. The first thing is, as I've just mentioned, we do spend all year waiting for the warm weather to come. And when it does, it does seem that immediately everyone's warning us not to enjoy it. Um, so I can understand why people get frustrated as I've seen a lot of commentary in the last, you know, couple of days of people getting out frustrated with that. So my first point would be, you know, please do enjoy this lovely weather. We wait so long for it. Now the warnings that come out, there's a UK Health Security Agency warning and that's just been increased to amber and it's really for the elderly and vulnerable and people with health conditions that may suffer under the under sustained periods of hot weather which we're going to get for the next few days to just take extra precautions.
Um, and also the other warnings are things like if you're going to the coasts and swimming, just be aware that because we're so early in the year, the sea temperatures are still very low. So the contrast between jumping into the sea in the lovely hot weather is going to be a bit of a shock. So do take note of that if you're going in, you know, if you're you're dabbling into the sea. But otherwise, it's sensible precautions.
Um, you know, if you've got elderly and vulnerable people that suffer with the heat, make sure they don't get overheated by drawing the curtains during the hottest part of the day. Take water with you. Stay hydrated. Be careful if you're going to open bodies some water. But most importantly, please do enjoy it.
>> Absolutely. And old people aren't stupid. They know that. They've been on the planet longer than most of us. They could be listening. Do you know I think sometimes a lot of the older generation think they must be rolling their eyes thinking, "Obviously, I'm not going to stick my face out in the sun all afternoon. Of course, I'm going to take some water if I can. Of course, I'm going to shut the curtains if it's sunny." I think we don't give them enough credit. Thank you very much, Nathan Rayo. Thank you very much.
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Labor and Conservatives have tried and both have failed. I mean, the tries were a disaster, but Labour appeared to be a bit worse. Both promised to stop the boats. One said they'd smash the gangs, but illegal migrants are still arriving in the UK today due to the good weather.
I know one of the British people are so disillusioned with politicians. So in the great British debate, I'm asking, do you actually believe that any party can fix the small boat crisis? Well, joining me now is broadcaster economist Lizzie Kundi and also former Labour adviser Paul Richards. I think it's only fair to come to you, Paul Richards, cuz it's kind of Labour who are currently in power and they've been talking about smashing the gangs and we haven't seen any of that. Now they're going to nail bars and vape shops and whatever. Well, the gangs have been disrupted and there have been prosecutions and we have done what we need to do with that. It's not the numbers are slightly better than they were last year, but it's still it's no, it's still a crisis and I think no one's underestimating the scale of the crisis. I mean, legal migration of course has gone off a cliff. That's so >> that's set by the Yeah, sure. But I'm just saying by contrast. So, it is it is this illegal trade that we need to tackle. I think we need to do three things. One, we need to get more out of the French because as you were saying earlier, they're getting a lot of our money. I'd like to see more action from the French Jean Armory. Second of all, tougher penalties for the smugglers because there's not the weather, it's these criminal gangs.
>> What penalty can you give billionaire smugglers?
>> Well, you need to just make sure that it doesn't matter which end of the trade it is. Even the guys, you know, putting the motors on the boats, they need to be locked up and they need to see that as disrupted to the point where there's no point doing it.
>> Where would you put them? There's no room in the prisons. Well, we there would if there somebody had committed a crime where there were people smuggling, they'd go to jail and we would find the room. And the first the third thing I would definitely see we need to do is to get the processing faster because I'm glad we're closing down these hotels. I think that's a good thing, but I don't want to see great big camps where people are for, you know, put there for years on end. So, faster processing. People are supposed to be here get to stay.
People that aren't are out.
>> Well, we say this, but none, we've been saying this for a long time and nothing nothing has happened. And they're still coming. They're coming today.
>> They're coming thick and fast now. I mean, 400 yesterday. We've seen uh you know, thank heavens for GB News, which is telling the truth. That's why they're the number one news channel that is telling us what's really going on. Um and you know, it's it's horrific figures. Let me just give you some of them. 200,000 migrants have crossed the English Channel since 2018. Okay? And 87.3% of those are male. and approximately 1.7 million nonUK nationals receiving universal credit. No wonder we're, you know, the economy is falling off a cliff. But don't worry, Karma said he was going to smash the gangs. Well, the gangs are actually smashing him and they're smashing his credibility. I think his credibility is about as high as Lee Andrews, who's Katie Price's husband.
>> I wonder where he is.
>> Yes. We wonder. I really like Katie Price and I'm not going to laugh because I think I feel very sad for her but come on love I mean that guy where is he?
>> Well that's he's like where's Wally? Um but where you know maybe K Star should go and hide because the track record he's leaving our borders open and people have had enough. We're only a small island and we're bursting at the seams.
>> Paul, there lots of go out there, isn't there? I mean first of all prosecutions are up. I think these numbers are slightly down. Not denying the scale of the crisis. legal migration is dwindled away to virtually nothing. Yeah, the tries the tries would have killed for these kind of numbers. No would have given his right arm for these numbers.
>> Paul, I'm going to stop you there for you even mentioning it and trying to take any modicum of credit for that.
Don't because it's not down to Labour policies. It's down to what it's not it's down to what the Conservatives put in place. Now you are reaping the benefits. Now that's fine.
>> You can't have it both ways though.
What's going on is >> Exactly. You can't have it both ways.
can't blame us for what's happening now and say is down and when it's good the tries.
>> I'm not blaming you. I'm asking your question. Can any of these parties do it? And that includes the Tories.
>> Well, I think the approach we've adopted is the right one, but we need to do more of it and the things I've described. But what I would say to both of you is if there was a single simple solution to this, why doesn't any government do it of whatever stripe? Nobody nobody wants this crisis. It's to nobody's advantage either politically, economically, or socially. So if there was one thing we could do, why don't we do it?
>> But why is this government?
>> Tell us what it is.
>> This government back, >> but they're just coming because the gangs would keep coming. We know even we know when people are turned back, they just have another go, a third. Sorry.
>> Can we be Can we be honest about this government? We can all see that the French haven't even got their feet wet.
Why are we giving them more and more money? We've just done this, you know, million pound new deal with them. said was we need to give >> and we are still giving. We're not learning. This government doesn't seem to realize or read the room and know what it's doing. I'm afraid giving to the French isn't working. They didn't they there's no deterrent. Why get rid of Rwanda? There's no deterrent. They keep coming over and the and the and these are criminals. These gangs are criminals and they're one step ahead of this government every single time.
>> I would say that the Belgians are doing better than the French, which I named the French specifically. I said the French need to do more because actually I think they are sitting on their hands.
Rwanda was an expensive disaster. Cost of the taxpayer millions for zero. We weren't even allowed to try. It was a deterrent. It was a gimmick. It would be a deterrent. No, it wouldn't have done.
>> Why would it be? Sorry, Paul. Why was it a gimmick? A third country where you can send people and it could have been adapted. The Labour Party could have taken it without taking all the blame for it. Why? Now the Labour Party are actually looking for third uh countries to put people in. Why is it a gimmick?
because it was incredibly expensive.
Nobody left the country. More home secretaries went to visit Rwanda than any illegal absolute other countries now are taking that on board. And what about our home office? They've been exposed of not knowing where 53,000 um illegals have actually gone. They don't know. They've just gone gone and vanished. I mean, it is a shambolic mess. And Karma, he kept saying smash the gangs. He's not saying that anymore, is he? because he knows he hasn't got a clue what they're doing.
>> Why can't they just And I said this I put this to um the gentleman I spoke to earlier.
>> Why can't they just turn the boats back?
Well, no. No. Put them on the boat that they would normally come in and instead of turning the boat around to come back to the UK, go back to France, drop them off, and then come back to the UK. Now, I think that if we did that, what will the French actually do to us if we do that? What will they do?
>> Well, it's not the French, it's the it's the the people smuggling gangs. the their business model is they take destroyed they take the fee off the migrant right I know that and then and then they say we will try and get you to the UK by any means as many times as it takes so they'll just put them on another boat and they'll keep going and they get the fee for keeping on going as many times as it some of them do get turned back >> see that's not you see the same people twice that's with the one in one out coming back >> that's why it won't work >> or the one in one I mean the one in one out another example I mean what a merrygo round fiasco that was more money wasted. I'm afraid this government hasn't got a backbone. This government doesn't know what it's doing and smashed the gangs. He couldn't have even smashed the top of his boiled egg.
>> All right. Well, listen. Well, listen.
I'm going to say that I I don't think your answer was good enough when I said, you know, well, what are we going to what are the French going to do about it if we do that? I don't think your answer was good enough because what will they do about it? Don't say, "Oh, well, because the smugglers will just keep sending them back." No, that it'll destroy the model if the people believe they're going to be sent back. Yes, it would. And you should try it. You should try it because the Australians did and it worked.
>> Right. See, he's quiet now. You're with me. I'm Nqu. This is GV News. Still to come in my niggle, I'll be giving you my take on Labour promising more and more new taxes. But next in the second great British debate, I'm asking, is Britain addicted to migration? First, your latest news headlines with Tatiana Sanchez.
>> Nana, thank you. The top stories. 162 migrants have arrived into Dover on border force vessels today after they set off on small dingies this morning.
We now know that there's a third dingy in the English Channel. It's making slow but steady progress towards the UK. The boat set off from a beach south of Bloin.
As tens of thousands of people get away for the bank holiday weekend, French authorities have reportedly suspended new EU border checks at the port of Dova after delays reached up to 5 hours.
Traffic is now moving again.
It comes as a heat wave hits the UK with temperatures expected to be hotter than the Sey Shells today with highs of 30° in the south of England.
At least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the Shang Xi province in northern China with officials warning that number is expected to rise.
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>> Well, no, I don't think we are addicted, but I I think people are getting sick to death of it with the small boats because that's all we're hearing every day in the news, more coming over as we're seeing today, as we saw yesterday. And it it's depending on the weather. You know, if we have lovely weather, we know we're going to get hundreds more over.
And I think this is the key issue.
Whenever I'm out, it's all people talk about. I think that's why Labour did so appallingly in their bi-elections. And that's why people are voting and wanting reform to be in government because this this we you know people are sick of spending so much money of their taxpayers money and not you know and it's this problem keeps going on and on and on and people are sick of it. Nana, >> do you think we're addicted to migration? Paul Richard.
>> Well, I mean our national story is one of migration, isn't it? I mean, the whole nation is derived from whether it's Romans or Danes or Jews or Irish or people from the Commonwealth or whatever it might be. You know, we are all ultimately, you know, migrants. The question is whether you have a managed safe process of migration that's good for the economy. Um, I would argue that the Boris wave probably brought too many migrant laborers into the country. Um and it made the uh the question then of how you skill the indigenous workforce to be less of a question. So I would want more of a emphasis on apprenticeships and more training so we can do those jobs uh ourselves not necessarily bring in Polish plumbers or whatever it might be. Um and you do need a managed process but you know we are utterly reliant on it. Look at social care for example. Look at the national health service.
>> But we know why that is though don't we Paul?
>> Why do we know?
>> Well we do know don't we? Well, we pay absolutely shockingly bad wages to the people who So the reason why we can afford these things which actually should be affordable by paying a normal wage is so that we can pay low wages to people coming from other countries.
>> Well, that's why you need a national minimum wage to make sure you people can't undercut wages of course. And I'm a trade union. I don't want to see wages undercut.
>> But that's the problem, isn't it? That's why we had Brexit because we were sick and tired of having people come in undercutting wages because of the mass migration in particular from But that's illegal and none of us illegal migration from >> No, I mean it's illegal to undercut legally bound national minimum wages.
>> Well, I don't think anyone cared about that.
>> Well, you Well, that should be enforced because that is a rule that I really would support. You know, minimum wages are a good thing in the economy. But it's a balance, isn't it? like all these things it doesn't sound I don't want to sound terribly reasonable but you want you want some people to come in and do certain jobs and then you want >> and you want safe borders so >> well we haven't got what we we haven't got we've got you know we we're seeing today we've got open borders >> you're confusing two things you're talking about 1.7 million nonUK nationals receiving universal credit I mean really that that is outrageous >> they might be in work >> but so what work should pay That's why we have minimum wages.
>> Yeah. But why should you pay somebody who's come from another country enough money so they can pay live in this country and that money is topped up by the taxpayer? Why should we as taxpayers pay?
>> Ask employers that that's their fault if they're not paying enough people to live in the government. Why government why don't bring landlords into why are governments enabling this by topping up the wages so that we as the taxpayer paying for people who are foreign nationals? Because forever, you know, forever since the industrial revolution onwards probably, we've needed foreign labor to fuel our economy. Whether it's Irish people building the motorways or, you know, West Indians staffing the NHS, this is our history.
>> No, I'm afraid. Look, we are we have this government is is spending so much on welfare. This is why the economy is falling off a cliff at the minute. Oh, but don't worry, Rachel Reeves, you got a pound off going to the zoo. I mean I just don't feel this government is realizing what is going on in its own country.
>> Yeah, I think if you kind of look at it, we are addicted to for example doctors and so on from all other countries instead of investing more in the people here and giving more doctors places to the people who come here. We've got plenty of spaces for somebody from another country. uh and we seem to want this, you know, the care home system that the care system pay decent wages to the British.
>> And I think when you're looking at something like the National Health Service, you can, I think, tilt the balance back towards training more doctors here. But the problem is people want the lower waiting list. They want to see their, you know, get their hips fixed or their eyes fixed and they want to see a doctor quick. So what we do is we back fill with people from overseas, overseas.
>> Why do we have to do that? That's because of the pressure on the system.
But you know, you're lucky if you get a doctor's appointment at the minute. You go into a doctor and you if you've only you can only give one ailment now. You you know and some it's like no, you've only got one only one thing you can talk to me about. I mean what is going on with this?
>> I was in A&E the other day. It took two hours in and out.
>> You are very lucky. That's very rare. I have to say >> a lot of people have quite good experiences now because the waiting times are coming down.
>> Well I I mean we can compare. My friend had a 9h hour wait yesterday at hospital. Let's see if anyone can match Paul Richtor's A&E wait time. Listen, Paul said that he was in A&E waiting for just 2 hours and he was done and dusted.
Uh let me know gbnews.com/you say if you have been to A&E and it has taken you 2 hours or less >> and it was Eastborne Hospital genuine case. I'm not making this up in and out.
>> So if you're ill go to that won't happen again now you said that. But seriously if I'd love to hear from you if you have had a wait time. Let me know how long your wait time was at A&E because I've never heard anybody only have 2 hours.
I've never ever heard the first time I've ever heard. It's getting better. It really is getting better.
>> Is that because a lot of people are dead on the waiting list from waiting?
>> No, it's because of taxes, I'm afraid.
And that's what we're about to talk about.
>> No, it's not because of taxes because >> we're putting investment into the health.
>> No, it's because when we're streeting health secretary, he paid trusts 3 million to uh update the waiting list and a lot of people had died waiting.
Others had gone private and some people have just plain given up. There you go.
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>> Welcome back. This is GB News. We're live on TV, online, and on digital radio. Now, President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and his fianceé, Betina Anderson, reportedly due to get married actually today on a private island in the Bahamas. President Trump is not expected to attend.
Interesting. On Thursday, he said that he would try and make it but had to focus on Iran and other things really.
Well, I'm joined now by journalist and author Dafany Barack. She has the inside scoop. Dafany has interviewed some incredible people. Right. Just briefly tell us some of the people that you've interviewed.
>> Oh my gosh. Um, Michael Jackson, Yaser Arafat, uh, Amy Reinhaus, uh, uh, Britney Spears, Kids, uh, Nelson Nelson Mandela, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Glenn Maxwell, only interview in jail.
Uh, uh, so many >> so many. Now, so great to get you here on Jane News. Good to get you in the studio as well because I feel like I actually know you. Um, so talk to me about this this particular wedding cuz why is Donald Trump not going?
>> Well, I think it's actually security. I mean, as I event Don Jr. is a very close friend of Bill, my husband and I.
Actually, we matchmade him with Kimberly Dwell in 2018 and that didn't work. He left her two years ago and he told me that Betatina is the love of his life.
We are very close to Dawn. We're going to see him in few days in Europe after the wedding and we're going to interview him for GB News. That's gonna be amazing.
>> I know. So, uh, he's a lovely guy. He's he's madly in love. Um, what I'm thinking is that of course we have the Iran situation and Donald Trump is very very affected by what the media says and if suddenly we'll go to the Bahamas. Uh, when there's a, you know, a war pending in Iran, it's bad. Also, I think I know Dawn told me he wanted a small wedding and then a bigger wedding and you know bringing the president of the United States with three assassination attempts >> in the record will not be really a >> an intimate wedding. I wouldn't read anything. I've heard people saying he doesn't love his son. It's it's completely not true. He loves her and he loves he loves Betina and he's very happy for them.
>> So, what's he like? Cuz to me, Donald Trump seems like a really nice funny he he's got I think he's hilarious. I think he's got a great sense of humor and I think he's a real family guy.
>> He Donald Trump likes the idea to to like the royal family. He wants the Trumps to be like the dynasty. Like in America we had it maybe the Bush family.
We didn't have it too many time. He's definitely building it. Uh he has a fantastic sense of humor, but he also has tantrums.
>> Oh, I can imagine.
>> Yeah, he has tantrums. Yeah, exactly.
And he's a big man. I mean, you understand we you and I are tiny. When he's exploding, it's like never on me.
He's very nice to me. But when I I saw him several time exploding and it's it's a big thing. So I mean the one thing about him, he's not scripted. So what you see is what you get, >> you know. He's not fake. Yeah. And that's I think the authenticity is very attractive to the viewer and to the public because we want people who are authentic. I mean, you've seen Gastama.
We won't go into that because we'll be here for a while. But what about um now you also interviewed Gain Maxwell and at the moment Andrew Mountbatton Winsley is going through a lot at the moment isn't he? What can you tell us?
>> Well, Gileain has a big problem right now because she's trying to get pardoning uh Nana and uh um Donald Trump is going to give 250 pardoning for the US birthday and she's trying to get us this list and she's a hot potato. You understand that? Uh I I think that it's very weird that we have only one person in jail. I'm sorry. I mean, she did terrible things, but she's she's paid so uh costly. And where are the others?
It's just a question. Uh I know Donald likes her. Um whether he will pardon her among the 250, I I don't think so because it's too hot potato before November midterms. Afterwards, a different story. But uh uh again I have a big problem that we have only one person in jail and it's and it's a woman.
>> So very briefly, when is your interview then with Don Jr.?
>> Uh we're going to do it on June 4th.
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>> Right. Very romantic. Very romantic. You know, and and by the way, he's a very very different when people say he's very considering. He's very he's a good friend. People say I'm a best friend anybody could have. I had a a bad mood a few weeks ago and he just uh he was actually flying from Serbia or something. He made sure that I'm very happy and until I send him the photos that I'm happy he was like, "Well, Davie Burke, it's such a pleasure to meet you.
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For the next few hours, me and my panel will be taking on some of the big topics hitting the headlines right now. This show is all about opinion. It's mine, it's theirs, and of course, it's yours.
We'll be debating, discussing, and at times we will disagree, but no one will be cancelled. So, joining me for the next few hours, broadcaster and columnist Lizzie Kundi, and also former labor advisor Paul Richards. Coming up in my niggle, >> national insurance up, capital gains tax up, INHERITANCE TAX UP, ENERGY TAXES UP, BUSINESS RATES UP.
>> YEAH, he had a point, didn't he? Tax, tax, more tax. And that's Labour's answer to pretty much everything. Well, I'll be giving you my view in my niggle then later on in the show. here today to have a good look at my own blood, have a good look at whether there's anything there that could suggest that I could change my lifestyle or change a habit or even take some medication.
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Nana, thank you. The top stories, 162 migrants have arrived in Dova on border force vessels today after they set off on small dingies this morning. We now know that there's a third dingy in the English Channel. It's making slow but steady progress towards the UK. The boat set off from a beach south of Bologoin.
A surge in channel crossings is expected this weekend as a heat wave hits the UK.
400 migrants were recorded making the journey yesterday. JB News's national reporter Will Godley has more.
One set off from France at 8:00 this morning. The other set off from Belgium in the early hours before then arriving in Dunkirk around 6:00 in the morning.
Both boats linked up with border force vessels at the halfway point of the English Channel. Before then, Border Force officers brought them in here for processing. Our provisional figures show there were 162 people on board these two boats. But with this warm weather and calm winds continuing, no doubt people smugglers want to take advantage of the weather. More crossings could continue this bank holiday weekend.
>> French authorities have suspended the new EU border checks at the port of Dover after delays reached up to 5 hours. It comes as tens of thousands of holiday makers tried to cross the English Channel for the bank holiday weekend. The port is allowing anyone who missed their ferry crossing because of cues to travel on the next available slot free of charge.
Meanwhile, temperatures could be higher than the Sey Shells today with highs of 30° expected in the south of England.
Britain's 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 Amber Heat health alerts for the Midlands, the East and Southeast of England, and London until Wednesday evening. With those aged 65 and over at risk, GBN's Tara Goodsell spoke to people in the capital about how they're enjoying the weather.
>> Really enjoy it. I mean, we don't get it very often, do we? So, we've got to make the most of it.
>> I won't be out and about too much. I'll be honest with you.
>> I'm not a big lover of the heat.
>> I've got water with me and I've got suntan lotion still here. I think it's fine.
>> It probably will be too hot later. Yes.
And then we'll just have to retire to a bar and stay there for the rest of the evening.
>> Shows really. I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
It's pretty crazy. I mean, it does get a bit hot. You do not want to get into the tube. Um, but yeah, you do enjoy it. I think past 28, 29° it gets a bit unbearable, but overall, I do enjoy it.
Yeah.
>> A new report is warning the UK is facing an 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 and depression.
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 at least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the Shang Xi province in northern China 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 Jingping has urged authorities to spare no effort in treating the injured and in the search and rescue mission. He's ordered an investigation into the cause.
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Good afternoon. It's just coming up to 7 minutes after 4:00. I'm Nana Aqu. This is GB News. We are Britain's number one news channel. We're live on TV, online, and on digital radio. Now, if I hear the word tax again, I mean, that's all that this Labor government can think about. Rishi Sunnak warned us.
>> The problem with national insurance is that it is a tax purely on people who go to work and those who employ them. So, far from protecting working people, she is literally raising the only major tax that exclusively hits working people.
Businesses on the British high street, your taxes are going up. Businesses investing in British energy, your taxes are going up. The small business owner looking to reap the rewards of years spent growing a business and creating jobs, your taxes are going up.
>> So, over the past few days, we've had a cash grab to help badly managed councils balance the books in the form of a tourist tax. So, stations to some of the country's best loved attractions could cost us all as much as well 300 pounds or more as mayors and local leaders across the country take advantage of a new power that they can impose tourist taxes on holidays at home. This week alone, we've had Rachel Ree apparently planning to introduce a 22% charge on interest earned from cash held in a stocks and shares ISA under her new reforms next April. Remember, they announced that they would reduce your tax-free cash allowance to £12,000 for savers under 65, which was down from 20,000. Why would you do that, I hear you ask? To push you into putting the remainder of your 20,000 allowance, so £8,000, into a stocks and shares ISA, which they plan to tax. It all makes sense now. We heard of a 1 billion pound stealth tax on flights to push up the cost of your holiday. HMRC apparently drawing up plans as we speak to put 20% of VAT on the top of the fees that airports charge airlines to use their runways and their terminals. Of course, that will be passed on to us the customers in full. So, for example, at Heathrow, this could add almost a Fiverr to the current standard charge of around £24. May not sound like much, but the only way is up once they start.
potential leadership contender and former health secretary West Street, Inc. has proposed introducing a wealth tax that works as part of his labor leadership pitch by equalizing capital gains tax with income tax. But it has been suggested that his approach will kill the AI boom in its tracks and damage investment in Britain. I mean, they can't even leave our food alone as Labour are expected to impose new taxes on steak and lamb chops in an attempt to dramatically reduce the UK's emissions.
While the public could also be asked uh with cutting their consumption of dairy products by a fifth to meet net zero targets. But of course, none of this has worked. Rachel Reeves's tax rate on home bars has backfired. She lowered the threshold at which stamp duty was paid.
The threshold was raised under Liz's trust. Rachel thought that this would mean that she would get more money.
Nope. But guess what? People changed their behavior and stopped buying houses. So Rachel got even less than when the threshold was higher. The VAT raid on private schools. They thought that they'd make a killing, but all they killed off were some very good schools which closed their doors. The kids flooded the state sector. teachers lost their jobs and supporting businesses lost revenue. Less check tax for the excheer. It's going so badly that instead of perhaps removing or reducing VAT on fuel, which would have an overall beneficial effect and could in fact increase the tax take by helping businesses thrive, Rachel froze the fuel duty for longer and tried to cap supermarket food prices.
English on here. We're going to get arrested.
They have a smile on a face. You're ruing the country. Get us down. It's not English.
>> I love our I love our I love our country. I love our country.
>> I love I love I love our country. And one of the things about our country is good manners.
>> Yes. I thought I'd cut it before she did the in the camera. Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, had to warn our chancellor against capping supermarket food prices, calling it unsustainable and at risk of backfiring.
You see, it wouldn't be so bad if they could at least ensure that the tax they take wasn't spent badly or in fact incorrectly calculated so you end up paying more like when savers were wrongly ordered to pay thousands of pounds in tax after HMRC was given license to monitor bank accounts. I mean on the outside their official chatbot in their government app which launched this month with their official plain speaking AI chatbot designed to answer simple questions everyday questions like when should I get my passport renewed. It was actually caught the app was caught giving tax avoidance advice. I mean you seriously couldn't make this up. Record numbers of young Britons are fleeing turning their backs on Sakir Stalmer and Labour's tax hikes. Who can blame them?
Mrs. Thatcher was spot on. Socialism is that you surrender quite a bit of power over your own life to the state. Well, we all do that to some extent, but of course it went much further. Uh you pay very high taxes and they wish to um take even higher taxes because they think that politicians can spend money better than the people can spend it. The more you take away, the less there is for private industry. And that's where the creation of wealth comes.
>> Well, there you go. I mean, this current government haven't got a clue what it's like to live in the world we inhabit.
Insulated from their own policy decisions, like the effect of the NI hike, which they promised not to raise.
The civil service flooded with people who will never leave because of their goldplated pensions. Good luck getting that lot in the office. The Labor government are simply out of ideas. And the answer to everything is tax. It's simply not good enough.
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So, I'm joined now by political commentator Andy Williams, who I'm sure is going to tell me that I'm talking a load of dril. Andy Williams, look, I'm sick and tired of re reing another tax that they've invented. Another way of taking a couple of pennies or a couple of pounds off you. All of it meant to be, you won't notice it, but all of it adding up becoming quite substantial and affecting the very people, the working people they said that they wouldn't tax.
>> Well, I wasn't going to say dil Nana, but I was going to say incoherent ramble. I mean, you just you >> No, I mean, you know, I respect you and like you very much, but I think that was just like a load of stuff shoved into one big monologue that didn't make any strategic sense whatsoever. You might not like what Labor are doing, but at least have some kind of idea behind what you're saying is the alternative. In terms of this particular tax, this is not a labor tax. I read this article.
This is a you know the Telegraph, a once great newspaper which has turned into a ridiculous sort of social media rag um has invented a a an article that has said that um Labour has is imposing some kind of uh holiday tax on people. Every major city in the world for anybody who travels would know that if you go to a major city there will be a small charge usually about3 or four pounds per night on your hotel fee which is a city tax.
That is very normal. This is not some kind of big labor tax grab. Now what I would say and where I agree with you is that are we being taxed too much? Yes.
Should we have a wealth tax? It wasn't.
So, it wasn't all an incoherent dabble and dribble cuz that was the point of it really. And so, you agree with me.
>> No, no, I'm saying I agree with you in some aspects. I didn't say dribble.
Those were your words.
>> Well, whatever. I mean, either way, I mean, I don't mind.
>> I'm saying I'm saying I agree with you in part. So, should we have a well should we have a wealth tax? No. Should we be equalizing capital gains tax with income tax? No. We need to be incentivizing success and reward and risk in this country and that is where we've gone wrong. And I'm currently I mean I'm in London saying yeah and I'm in London today but I'm currently working in America and in America where I think they've got a lot of things wrong. One thing they have absolutely right is there is a direct link between hard work and output and risk and success and that is partly through the tax system. And I think that is where we've gone wrong. But this is not a fair or good example of that. Is Rachel Reeves getting things right from a taxation perspective? No, I don't think she is. What I would say is that you you referenced Rishy Sunnak at the top of this. Right. And I think in a different era, Rishy Sunnak potentially could have been quite a good prime minister. He was smart. He was presentable. He was all of these things. He came at the back end of a terrible government at the back end of 14 years of Tory failure and unfortunately he carried the can for that. But Richie Senak cut national insurance at a time where that was literally unaffordable and what we have to balance is what we can afford as a country in terms of tax and spend and what would be and and what and and what would be ideal and what would be ideal if we could blow everything up and start again. That is a different thing compared to what we actually have to do in the circumstances where frankly as a nation we're basically bankrupt. We have to face up to that reality. We have to balance those two things.
>> So you said that it was whatever it was rant but yet you've agreed with me in principle. I mean look Sunnak was wise.
He knew that if you cut national insurance you incentivize employment and you incentivize people to take on people and you incentivize jobs and you start to incentivize growth growth. But we could Rachel Reed agree on the other hand has increased national insurance and disincentivized employment and disincentivized growth. People don't want to take on staff. They don't want to hire people.
And she's even attacking your savings.
So now you can't save 20 grand in taxfree cash in your ISA. She's now said you can do 12 grand. So I don't know why you would do that. And the eight grand that is remaining on your £20,000 allowance. She's saying you can use stocks and shares which she'll tax you at 22%. I mean really really >> so no they were they were both wrong.
Richie Sudak was wrong because he couldn't af him and Jeremy Hunt they could not afford to cut national insurance when they did that was a political stunt. They it's in an ideal world yes you would do it but they couldn't afford it at the time. They should not have done it. That was irresponsible. On the other hand incentivized growth on doing >> well well but we couldn't afford it. On the other hand this >> well that's what I'm saying. On the other hand, Labour's decision to increase national employee national insurance has been a disaster. We have lost jobs as a result. You can see that in the numbers. That is a fact. They're both wrong. In the short term, what we needed to do is hold fire. Now, I was arguing and I think on your show before the general election in 2024, I don't think Labour should have made all of these fancy promises on tax. We should have said we're going to blow up the tax system and start again. We're going to abolish council tax. We're going to abolish stamp duty. We're going to abolish inheritance tax and and not abolish them, but replace them with other more sensible, more progressive revenue raising measures. And unfortunately, this government doesn't have the creativity to do that. But what we need is creativity.
>> I thought you were on in support of them.
>> I agree with you.
>> I I agree with you.
>> I I voted for Kisama and I still think on balance that was the right thing to do. And if there was a general election tomorrow with a heavy heart, I would do the same because I think that the Greens are a complete catastrophe. I think reform are a disaster that the country would never recover from. The Tories are a joke. The Lib Dems never mind. You know, it it would be with a heavy heart that I would vote Labor, but I'd still vote Labor. We are in no good options land, and I still do not regret it. But I'm not I'm not a Labor Party shill. I'm not a Labour Party employee. I've never been employed by the Labour Party. What I'm saying is what I'm saying is Richie Singap was wrong to cut it and Rachel Reeves was wrong to increase it. We are in a really dire and I'll let you I will let you speak Nana. We're in a dire situation economic we're in a dire situation economically and we need to face up to that reality. And I will vote for any party who does that in a >> in a in a in a way that's honest, right?
in a way that's honest about the the serious challenge we face, but also in a way that's fair.
>> Right. Well, I I would agree with you on that. I don't have any disagreement with that, but I think I made some very sient points. I don't think my monologue was a load of dribble or whatever you called it. I think you called it dribble. I said it was incoherent.
>> Oh, well, I think it was coherent and I think it's very coherent and I think you got it now and I think we agree. So, that's good. Thank you very much. A pleasure to talk to you.
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Welcome back to GB News 24 minutes after four o'clock. If you just tuned in, where have you been? Oh, right in the sun. Oh, okay. Fair enough. Yeah, I get it. I'll be out there later. I'm Nana Aqu and it's time for the Great British to bait this out. And I'm asking, is Labour overt taxing this country? Now, Labour says that it wants to give local leaders more powers to raise money. But critics warned that a new tourist tax could make British stations even more expensive. With families already feeling the squeeze, some are calling it a cash grab that could damage the hospitality industry. And that's not all. I listed a load of other taxes that Rachel Reeds at one point was even talking about taxing food and that wasn't really wasn't going to do. She was trying to limit the amount of tax or whatever it was that food companies could charge. So in the great British debate I'm asking is Labour over taxing the country. Well joining me now broadcast from columnist Lizzie Kundy also former labor adviser Paul Richards. Paul Richards labor adviser would you advise them to stop taxing? I mean it's literally everything and anything. Well, taxes are a subscription to a civilized society, aren't they? And and no one likes paying them, but they should be fair and balanced. And people feel like the money they're spending and their tax is going to something which is socially useful like the health service or education or public parks or police, all of that stuff. Now, that's what we spend taxes on. The alternative is very low taxes.
Everyone has to buy everything privately and the common good is eroded and people that are poor don't get the services.
That's the alternative. Low taxes don't necessarily mean bad public service, >> but the trickle down effect doesn't work. That's what we've proved in the 80s and 90s is if you put, you know, people said, well, if you low tax on the very rich, the money will trickle down somehow. It didn't, did it? We didn't get trickle down money coming into our so you have fair taxes for things that we all like parks and beaches.
>> Well, what about the NHS and schools?
>> What about the level of high tax but the disastrous services? So, the NHS is on its knees as we know. We pay >> recovery. No, no, no, no. Paul, stopover. Stop it because it's on its knees. Still on its knees. We pay a fortune into that. That hasn't got much better at all. Outcomes are not very good across this country. We've got the lowest health outcomes in the western world as it were. And it's true. Yes, we do. You know that, right? And we spend more per person in our health service than many of the other countries, but we don't get the similar results. So, for cancer diagnosis, for example, we are one of the worst in Europe.
>> Well, there are some people that want to abolish the NHS. Reform UK want a subscription model where you have to pay has said it and it's on the record and Google it and you'll see and there are alternative measures that you can do but I think a a universal service that that means everyone benefits it equally like the national health service is the best way for and like I say no one wants big taxes but we do have to invest in things that we all share and enjoy. There's there's such a thing as the public space.
>> Well that's another argument. I mean we want more efficiency. We definitely want more of that. That's for sure. Nobody minds paying taxes to help everybody else. I'm okay with it. But if I need everyone else to help us for ourselves as well, isn't it? You know, I enjoy the pog.
>> Nana, >> nobody minds paying taxes when the money's been spent reasonably. And we all want to have a safe and comfortable civilized society. But nobody likes me paying taxes. And then when they go for something on the NHS, there's no service. When there's no GPS, there's no this, there's no there's I'm thinking the tax burden is so high. I'm not getting anything out of it at all. She, you know, Rachel Reeves, she gives in one hand and taketh away in the other.
That's what she does. Uh, you know, Rachel Reeves, queen of the CV rewrites.
I mean, I literally when she stands up to speak, I get worried because I know something bad's going to happen. We're getting taxed and taxed and taxed. That is why our our highest you know people that earn so much money in this country and give back pay so much in tax are leaving this country. Our young entrepreneurs like my son are leaving the country went to Australia because they don't see a future here. There isn't any way out. They are taxing and taxing and taxing. They will tax the air they breathe. And now we've got this travel tax which is absolutely I think absolute disgrace which means there's going to be uh 340 pounds added to an average station which I find unbelievable of this government. I mean what what aren't they not going to tax?
They told us when they got into government they weren't going to tax the working people. That's all they've done since they got into government. You know, Andy Williams was on. If if if the government had been truthful what they were going to do, they would have not never ever got into power because no one would have voted for this. You know, how can you know she says saying this she's going to, you know, we're going to get a pound off going to the zoo when our economy is falling off a cliff. You have to agree here, Paul.
>> It wasn't just zoos, it was museums as well.
>> Oh, well, thanks. Yeah, they're really knowing what's going on in this country, aren't they, Paul?
>> On the point of rich people leaving, some rich people are leaving. Lots of rich people are arriving. Lots of Americans arriving, for example, who are millionaires and billionaires. So, there's money coming in as well as going out on the small amounts on a destination charge. That money will go to revive some of our seaside towns, our tourist destinations. I think we should all be doing more stations, less flights abroad, and more enjoyable uh holidays here in the UK. Put the money back into the local economy. I live in a struggling seaside town. We'd love to see more visitors, especially in a day like today. So that's reasonable. And then you're poo pooing Rachel saying, "Well, look, you know, times are tough.
Here's a little bit of extra help. Take the kids on a trip, have a treat." Why?
Why are you so negative about that's a perfect tax? They won't be able to do it. That's why. And you want kids to be out there off their phones. They're not going to be able to because they can't afford it. Should put another little bit of extra help for struggling families.
And your first reaction is to say, "Oh, no. What a terrible idea." It's not a terrible idea. It is a terrible idea.
>> It's a nice thing to do. Why can't you just be nice about it and welcome it?
>> It is a terrible idea. And I'm afraid Labor unfit to govern and manage our money because council where UK are driving all the local authorities into the ground resigning and being arrested and causing the council tax of our taxpayer paying money on on illegals in hotels and other things.
>> Reforming government is a disaster wherever you look whether it's staffing or anywhere else messing it up.
>> Labor in a a chaotic mess. You don't need a resignation. We don't need >> We've seen counselors saying they don't even understand the standing rules.
>> We don't need another resation. What we need is a general election.
>> That's what we need.
>> In the British constitution, we the rules of our constitution are a general election every four or five years.
>> You don't trigger a bi-election when or a general election whenever you feel like it.
>> But Kar even his own party don't want him in. And that's the truth of it. And now, you know, we could have another we could have another prime minister put up and it's just going to cause chaos. We need a general election. when people are sick are being taxed to death. Look what they're doing to the motorists. You know, >> look what they're doing in Kent. Look at Kent. Google Kent's reform and you will see there's a load of illegals coming over. They are running that local authority into the ground and they've put the council tax up when they lied and said they weren't going to and they're resigning because they don't know what the job is of being a counselor. Wherever reform get a slither of power in our county councils, it is a catastrophe. But but you have to look at why Labor did so awful in the bi-elections because people are are sick and tired of being taxed to death with this high cost of living that you know they taking the joy out of life.
>> Well, I mean a lot of people getting in touch here. Major says you can throw as much money as you like at the NHS. Money wasted. It needs a clear out from top down. Too many on the bandwagon not looking after your health. Well, see this is the problem, isn't it?
>> Well, that's true. I think I agree with that. We need to take more care of our own health so there's less of a burden on the NHS. No point going to the NHS once you're ill. You know, we should all be >> You can't get in, can you? I mean, >> we should all be taking care of ourselves. That's fair.
>> We've got to be honest. The money's going in the wrong places in the NHS, and it's a shambolic mess. It really is.
And I've got people that work in there that even say, >> "But insurance is not the answer."
>> No, nobody said it was. Now, Peter said, "No, he hasn't said that. Please, if you can find the exact quote, find the quote." But he's never said that. He No, he has not said that we'll get rid of the NHS and privatize it. Don't be silly. And now Peter says, "Uh, Nana, Singapore does very well with low taxes.
Uh, best health service and everyone is covered." Uh, cradle to gravein there. Tiny country, tiny place, nothing like the UK.
>> So, but you can take a model 70 million people.
>> You can take a model of something and see if you can mirror elements of it to make your own health service better. And it's that very attitude there, Paul, is which is why nothing is changing because you by the sounds of it, it seems to think the NHS is perfect.
>> NHS, but I think it needs to be reformed and modernized.
And citizens have to take more responsibility for their own wellbeing.
>> Yeah.
>> This is in response though to you saying that low taxes you wouldn't get good services. I'm telling you well in Singapore in Singapore they have low taxes and good services.
>> We tried it here didn't we? With austerity that to call a police offic Paul look you you've got to take critic.
The NHS isn't working. It's like this sacred cow. Use it as a political football. I'm afraid it isn't working and it needs a total rehaul. I'm afraid it does. All right, Will, what are you saying? 33 minutes after 4:00 here with me. I'm Nana Aquest. Still to come, difficult conversations. Joining me, Ukrainian politician Kira Rick. Uh, she'll be discussing the latest developments in the Ukraine war. Next, in the Great British debate, I'm asking, should Britain be on a war footing?
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Nana, thank you. The top stories this hour. 162 migrants have arrived into Dover on border force vessels today after they set off on small boat dingies this morning. We now know there's a third dingy in the channel. It's making slow but steady progress towards the UK.
The boat set off from a beach south of Bologin. As tens of thousands of people get away for the bank holiday weekend, French authorities have reportedly suspended new EU border checks at the port of Dova after delays reached up to 5 hours.
It comes as a heat wave hits the UK with temperatures expected to be hotter than the sey shells today. Highs of 30° in the south of England.
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And even into this evening, we'll continue to see some late sunny spells across particularly areas of England and Wales and generally those clear spells persisting right throughout the night. A few mist and fog patches can't be ruled out in places as we head into the back end of the night, but they'll clear off pretty quickly once dawn arrives.
Temperatures in rural areas tonight may drop down into single figures. So, a little fresh for some of us, but towns and cities generally holding up in double digit figures. So, a milder start to Sunday here. We do have this cloud draped across the far northwest of Scotland. And this is bringing some outbreaks of rain, particularly to the Highlands. And it may become a bit more persistent in places as we start off Sunday morning. A bit of a damp one here, but some sunshine emerging for eastern Scotland, parts of southern Scotland, and into eastern Northern Ireland as well really for much of England and Wales. Sunday promises almost wallto-wall blue skies. There will be some fair weather cloud bubbling up in places, but plenty of fine dry conditions if you are wanting to step outside. Remember again those UV levels will be high, but also the pollen levels are picking up for those hay fever sufferers. If you want to escape some of the heat that we are seeing, coastal areas will be a touch fresher, but sea surface temperatures at this time of the year are still relatively low. So, do be prepared for a little bit of a shock when you take a dip. But in land, temperatures peing at around 31° C in parts of the southeast. Quite rare to be seeing those sorts of values at this point in May. Things staying fine though as we head into Sunday evening. And this rain in the far north will continue to move away. So, even as we head into bank holiday Monday, it's now pretty much water to wall blue sunshine for most of us and those temperatures actually peaking on Monday, potentially one of our hottest bank holidays on record.
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This is GB News. We're live on TV, online, and on digital radar. Don't forget, download that GB News app. It is completely free and you can check out all the programs on the channel at your leisure. Now, lots of you have been getting in touch. Major says, "No, no, more taxes because Labour policies are not working. So, up go more taxes. I would let them I wouldn't let them run a bath for me." Uh, I know honestly. Um, and then he just says that Andy was talking rubbish. He changed his mind like the weather. He did, didn't he? I mean, I was going to He was meant to disagree with me. We were meant to argue, but he actually agreed with me, so I had to move on. But now in the Great British debate, I'm asking, should Britain be on a war footing? Now, with tensions rising in the Middle East and British mil military bases in Cyprus coming under renewed scrutiny, questions are growing over Britain's role on the world stage. Now, some argue that the UK must strengthen its defenses and prepare for future threats, whilst others fear escalating conflict. So, for the Great British debate, I'm actually saying, listen, what what is going on? Should we actually now be on a war footing? Well, joining me now broadcast from columnist Lizzy Kundi, also former Labor Adviser Paul Richard. Lizzy Kundi.
>> Yes, indeed, Nana. Um, you know, we are living in the most frightening times. I don't think our world has ever been so scary as it is today and we need to at least double our defense spending. Um, but this government wants to spend, you know, more on welfare than defense despite what is going on in the world.
We got delete deleted um, you know, armed forces. We can't even fill Wembley Stadium uh with our armed forces. Uh it we've become a laughingstock and the world know it. I mean look what happened with HMS Dragon, you know, >> drag on.
>> Drag on. Exactly. You know, they took need two weeks to get to Cyprus in the end. And now, did you know it's broken down with plumbing problems? They've all got to get been told to get off ship. I mean, what is going on? We we we have to do something. And I'm sorry, uh, Karma is not doing enough. He's not putting enough into defense spending. Don't forget, under defense spending is also MI5, MI6, the the the pensions, veteran pensions, so forth. So, we need to really wake up. Wake up, Prime Minister.
Wakey wakey. You know, it's a scary world.
>> I'm glad you highlighted that. That what comes under defense spending because a lot of people won't realize when they're upping the ante doesn't mean they're buying weapons and all that. It could mean just something else. Paul Richards.
>> Well, I sort of tend to agree we need to be spending a lot more on defense. I think >> should we be on a war footing?
>> Yes, absolutely. We are in effect war with Russia. I mean, they're, you know, infiltrating our cyber systems. They're bringing down infrastructure uh through cyber warfare. Um, and we know that, you know, if they could invade, they would.
Uh, certainly the Baltics and we'd have to fight them in the Estonia and all the rest of it. So, yes, um, it's 20 30 years, I suppose, of underinvestment in defense. So everyone's culpable for this really since the since the wall came down since Berlin wall came down and we won the cold war. We thought we could divert resources to other things and we were proved wrong by that. Um the government has cut the overseas aid budget to put into defense. That was an unpopular but difficult and but correct decision in my view. We now need to get defense expenditure up to the 3% and maybe beyond that uh in the future. We need to double the size of the army and get more young people into the army. We should look at things like national service again. Um, and most of all, the most important thing right now is this pipeline of defense deals that isn't being translated into actual jobs and manufacturing. So, there's a lot of money held up in the system. We need to get that released and the money needs to go into UK manufacturing, defense, guns, tanks, whatever it might be.
>> Should it come out welfare spending because this really there is an large element of waste in welfare and we know this. I think there need to be just as we did with the overseas aid budget maybe some quite tough decisions about how he's going to >> but he he won't will he because he hasn't got a backb he's scared of his backbenches he can't do it >> I well do you know I honestly think the historian will judge him as somebody who rearmed and in the European >> let's talk about now let's not talk about what what will that's his main legacy if in the future when he goes is going to be rearmment that's going to thing we remember anything he's going to he keeps saying it's not the way I mean, how many times he said, "It's not our war." Not our war. He he he actually, do you know, let he let the special relationship go. Um, if it weren't for King Charles, you know, I don't know where we'd be with America. Let me finish. And and you know, if if we don't, you know, we've got to prepare for war if we want peace. He doesn't seem to realize it or grasp it. The danger. He let down even the Gulf allies of ours. He he he he couldn't make his mind up. Should I let them use the base or not? And then he he then he had to in the end anyway. I mean he can't make a decision. He sits on the fence so much he gets splinters. You have to agree.
>> I'm glad that there aren't British forces on the ground in the Middle East because we rush to wars get into Trump's war and I think history will judge him very favorably that is where the public is too. We do not want boots on the ground in this war. Do you remember when Zippy on the mag on on the rainbow going called Zippy in school?
>> I used to be called that my mom called me that. That's like his farmer making a decision.
>> That's what he'll be remembered for. Not making a decision, being a weak leader.
That's what he'll be remembered for, I'm afraid. Most unpopular prime minister of our history.
>> All right. Well, this show is nothing without you. Let's welcome our great British voice. His opportunity to be on the show. Let's go to Watford. Speak to David Balm. David about all of this. Go on.
>> Um, how do we put this? We are at war.
We have been at war for many, many years. We have a threat from the east.
Fortunately, Ukraine has stood up to Russia. Britain gave our drones to Ukraine and now we're woefully short of drones. According to a report I read this week, we've got about a week's worth of drones if anyone attacks us. So instead yes cut the welfare budget invest in the technology cuz we today's generation who would make national service will won't want to fight they will find David >> they won't want to fight so we have to find a modern way of fighting a war which is drone technology it is a Ukraine has proved it you don't need boots on the ground to win a war you need drone technology needs and that's where the money needs to go And I David >> I agree with you David Bal. Always a pleasure. Thank you very much David Balman in Watford. Looking good. Right.
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Twothirds of young people don't even know what V day is. You know what it is.
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extremely important to remember and to continue to remember. Um uh it means obviously vic victory in Europe. Um and it was a great day because everybody was happy and you know we all lived through five years of war and it was a smashing time and I'd rather hope that people will continue to do so.
Do you think the problem now, Colin, um, is we got a younger generation who are taught badly and they're taught often to be ashamed of British history. We talk about slavery, the evils of empire.
Yeah. We don't celebrate the genuine heroism of Vday and people like yourself.
>> Yeah. It's it's a shame. You know, two years ago, we were in Korea. We were uh we went across for a revisit and I hadn't seen the place for 70 years and it was extraordinary. The place was all was built up and the people were marvelous and every child knows exactly when the war was there, what we were there for and and we were told I was told by a 9-year-old. It didn't never occur to me that look if you were if you were didn't come we wouldn't be we would be living the same as North Korea.
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>> So good afternoon. It's just coming up to 5:00 now. A few months ago, I had a series of blood tests taken by my guest, Dr. Dr. Air Khan and now the results are in. I'm pleased to say Dr. Amir Khan joins me now. So Dr. Khan, I did get a lot of people saying, "Oh, what were the results and blah blah blah blah blah."
So talk to me first of all uh about what the test was doing and then the results and what the move is next.
>> Okay. So I think you came to me with a major concern um a health concern which um would possibly increase your risks if you were to develop cancer.
And um you know there there's there are lots of people out there who are concerned about developing cancer. The whole thing about cancer is that you know I'm I'm not a cancer expert. No.
What I am though is an integrative um physician who looks after patients.
And as part of looking after patients I think diagnostics are really important.
We all know that the National Health Service is under a great deal of stress and that what we should be doing is looking after ourselves. And we do that through um finding out exactly where we stand. And if we have knowledge, if we have data, quality data, we can then take the right actions through either changing something, putting in place treatments, or screening. Because if something's going to come, if we pick it up earlier, that's the best time to pick it up. And certainly there there's been a huge movement in the treatment of cancer. And people have been looking for cures. And fortunately, there isn't a cure. Once you've got cancer, you've got it. It's an end event. And then it's all about managing it and controlling it and minimizing its effects. What the tests are now looking at are early changes happening at a cellular level which indicate the progression to cancer. So this is precancer screening and the national health service and all the health services across the world are looking at it.
>> So let's see. So just can you explain to people how cancer work? Because the way you explained it to me I suddenly understood why it is that it's not really something that you cure because your cells are making it right. Yes.
Yeah. I think from the point when we're born, you you said earlier about looking after people from cradle to grave and I think that's really important. Um not just a health service provider but for a community as well because sustainability of health is all about sustaining a community. And so when we're born then we're exposed to what we call an environment which is toxic. And that journey through that environment produces changes at a DNA level which can lead to cancer. And what happens is that when we're young, our cells are replicating. The stem cells are replicating because we need more cells to grow. So they're producing the number of cells that we need to grow and to mature. And at that time, any changes at the DNA level can result in a change that may lead to cancer. Now also at that sort of age, our immune system and our defense systems are at their peak.
So they're looking for these. They're detecting them early and our immune system and our our repair systems are sorting things out for us. But as we get older, the whole system slows down and we don't recognize those changes as effectively as we were doing when we were younger. And certainly when we enter mid-age those systems start to fail.
>> So let's get the results in then. What were the results? You can tell me. I'm all right. I'm a big girl.
>> The results for you are fine. Okay. We we look we look at the transcripttos and um what we find is that you know your disregulated transcripttos are within the low risk.
>> Well that's good news. So there's no cellular change to my DNA that will be sending cancer to each of my organs as it were. So the stem cells, the original cells and they are they are not altering and that that's that's good.
>> They haven't they haven't yet.
>> Okay.
>> So the thing to do is the thing to do is then to monitor and we know that when we get that change there's about 18 months before the cancer actually sets in.
>> All right. Well, Dr. Khan, do you have a website if people want to find out more?
Do you have a website or anywhere where people can go if they want to find out more? Yeah, there's there's um a website for the actual test um which is the HRC test. Um and if they look at that, it'll give them some information about that.
Um and um we've got our clinic which is the Harley Street longevity clinic.
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And even into this evening, we'll continue to see some late sunny spells across particularly areas of England and Wales and generally those clear spells persisting right throughout the night. A few mist and fog patches can't be ruled out in places as we head into the back end of the night, but they'll clear off pretty quickly once dawn arrives.
Temperatures in rural areas tonight may drop down into single figures. So, a little fresh for some of us, but Towns and Cities generally holding up in double digit figures. So, a milder start to Sunday here. We do have this cloud draped across the far northwest of Scotland. And this is bringing some outbreaks of rain, particularly to the Highlands. And it may become a bit more persistent in places as we start off Sunday morning. A bit of a damp one here, but some sunshine emerging for eastern Scotland, parts of southern Scotland, and into eastern Northern Ireland as well really for much of England and Wales. Sunday promises almost wallto-wall blue skies. There will be some fair weather cloud bubbling up in places, but plenty of fine dry conditions if you are wanting to step outside. Remember again those UV levels will be high, but also the pollen levels are picking up for those hay fever sufferers. If you want to escape some of the heat that we are seeing, coastal areas will be a touch fresher. But sea surface temperatures at this time of the year are still relatively low. So do be prepared for a little bit of a shock when you take a dip. But in land temperatures peaking at around 31° C in parts of the southeast. Quite rare to be seeing those sorts of values at this point in May. Things staying fine though as we head into Sunday evening. And this rain in the far north will continue to move away. So, even as we head into bank holiday Monday, it's now pretty much water to wall blue sunshine for most of us. And those temperatures actually peaking on Monday, potentially one of our hottest bank holidays on record.
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I mean, the answer to everything is tax pretty much for Labour. Well, I gave my view my nickel. If you missed it, head over to GB News's YouTube channel and you can catch it there. Now, GB News can also confirm that a third migrant dingy, yes, is on the way in the English Channel. It's heading towards this country towards Dover. We'll be bringing you the latest as and when in difficult conversations. Joining me in the studio, Kira Ruddock, who is currently serving as a people's deputy in Ukraine and is the leader of the Hollos party. Now she'll be joining us to discuss the latest news from the war and I'll be asking her what's next for the country.
Then in the Great British debate, it's been reported that UK officials suggested establishing a single market for goods trade with the EU as part of the next phase of its Brexit reset, which sounds to me like they want us to go back in. But guess what? The EU said no thank you. Well, I'll be asking if Britain's proud legacy is being betrayed. My pot is live on gbnews.com.
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Nana, thank you very much. The top stories, the third dingy is in the English Channel this afternoon. That boat set off from a beach south of Bologin. That is as 162 migrants arrived into Dova on border force vessels today after they set off on two small dinkies this morning. A surge in channel crossings is expected this weekend as a heat wave hits the UK. 400 migrants were recorded making the journey yesterday.
GBN News's national reporter Will Godley has more.
>> One set off from France at 8:00 this morning. The other set off from Belgium in the early hours before then arriving in Dunkirk around 6:00 in the morning.
Both boats linked up with border force vessels at the halfway point of the English Channel. Before then, Border Force officers brought them in here for processing. Our provisional figures show there were 162 people on board these two boats. But with this warm weather and calm winds continuing, no doubt people smugglers want to take advantage of the weather. More crossings could continue this bank holiday weekend.
French authorities have suspended the new EU border checks at the port of Dover after delays reached up to five hours. It comes as tens of thousands of holiday makers tried to cross the English Channel for the bank holiday weekend. The port is allowing anyone who missed their ferry crossing because of cues to travel on the next available free slot.
It says temperatures could be higher than the Sey Shells today with highs of 30° expected in the south of England.
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 Amber Heat health alerts for the Midlands, the East and Southeast of England, and London until Wednesday. With those aged 65 and over at risk, GB News's Tara Goodsil spoke to people in the capital about how they're enjoying the weather.
>> Really enjoy it. I mean, we don't get it very often, do we? So, we've got to make the most of it. I won't be out and about too much. I I'll be honest with you.
>> I'm not a big lover of the heat.
>> I've got water with me and I've got suntan lotion. So, yeah, I think it's fine.
>> It probably will be too hot later. Yes.
And then we'll just have to retire to a bar and stay there for the rest of the evening.
>> Shows really. I mean, yeah, it's crazy.
It's pretty crazy. I mean, it does get a bit hot. You do not want to get into the tube. Um, but yeah, you do enjoy it. I think past 28, 29 degrees it gets a bit unbearable, but overall, I do enjoy it.
Yeah.
A new report is warning the UK is facing an 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 expected to blame smartphones and social media for rising levels of anxiety, depression and neurodeiversity. 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 at least 90 people have been killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the Shang Xi province in northern China with officials warning that number could rise. Chinese state media reports 247 workers were on site when the gas explosion occurred. President Xiinping has urged authorities to spare no effort in treating the injured and in search and rescue missions and ordered an investigation into the cause.
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I'm Nana Aqu. We are live on TV, online and on digital radio. Don't forget you can download the GB News app completely free. Check out all the programs at your leisure. Coming up this hour, the sun is out and the boats are on their way. Yes, 400 illegal migrants arrived in Britain yesterday and over 50 have already arrived today with the third dingy on the way. Now, we'll be bringing you the latest updates on that story. Then, in difficult conversations, joining me in the studio, Ukrainian politician Kira Radik to discuss the conflict in Ukraine and ask what happens next. I mean, you won't want to miss that. She'll be live in the studio here at GB News. And in the Great British debate this hour, I'm asking, is Britain's legacy being betrayed? After it's been reported that UK officials suggested establishing a single market for goods trade with the EU, but the EU said, "No, thank you."
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So, breaking news, a third migrant degree is in the English Channel and has just entered British waters. 162 small boat migrants have arrived on UK shores today. That is according to GB News's provisional figures. Now, my national reporter, Will Godley, has been in do for us and has now hopforded it back to the studio to join me now. So, Will Godley, what what have you seen there?
>> Well, so far today, we saw two British border force vessels bringing in two lots of small boat migrant arrivals. The first just after 11:00 this morning, the second about 1:30 this afternoon. So far on both of those boats in total there was 162 smallboat migrants who have entered the UK today illegally but now more are on the way. A third small boat has just entered British waters and meeting that small boat there which has escorted uh to the line. That line in the Channel Tunnel, a imaginary line halfway between French uh the French side and the British side is where um the British border force vessel volunteer is meeting this small boat.
That's where the migrants on board get off their dinghy and board this border force vessel. And once they're all on board and get their life jackets on, they will then get driven in this border force vessel to the port of Dover where that processing takes place. And these boats can have as many as 100 people on.
They can be 11 meters long. So potentially another hundred small boat migrants on their way to do this afternoon.
>> So what a joke. I mean really seriously.
So what you're seeing there is just them being escorted basically uh by one of our feries and brought onshore and that's it. Nothing else. They that that's Are there any other news crews around you covering it or is it just from what you can see just GB news?
>> When we were there today there were some other news crews also people live streaming it on their say YouTube channels or whatever they were doing.
Also a number of locals coming to see what we were up to as well asking what we were doing there as well. But uh Of course, today in Dova, there was also chaos from the ports there. The city, the town was gridlocked with cues and cues of passengers, cars wanting to go on their holidays to France, people waiting up to nearly 5 hours to get onto their ferry. Um, so do as well today was pretty chaotic scenes, but the numbers of small boat migrants that have come across the channel today, obviously more are on the way, but 162 so far according to our provisional figures, is not by any way uh a stretch of the means, a huge amount compared to what we sometimes do see. Last year on the busiest days, more than a thousand small boat migrants would have made the crossing on any one day. yesterday alone the figure much higher at 394.
So some crossings today but not loads by any stretch of the means. Border force officers perhaps might think this is rather a quiet day. Although a quiet day for them probably is when there's no crossings. That's what there had been for about two weeks before yesterday.
And up until yesterday crossings for the year down 44% compared to the year before.
>> Yeah. But we've had a lot of bad weather. So now we've got the weather.
This could be the beginning. Maybe there'll be a massive influx of them tomorrow.
>> Certainly could be. And that's something that officials in the home office and border force officials will be looking out for. And obviously the home office will want to point out they've just signed this new deal in April with France, UK French deal. That crack is cracking down on the small boats from leaving French beaches. and French police often now seen slashing the boats to prevent them from getting off the way. And as a result of that, boats now leaving from Belgium. One of the boats that arrived today, one of the the passengers on board set off from Belgium in the early hours of this morning, traveled down in the sea along the coastline, escorted by a Belgian official boat uh into French waters where it then went into the shallows in a beach by Dunkirk.
People there, migrants on the beach having to wade into the shallows to jump on board before then uh making that journey. 83 people on that boat. That was the one that was then picked up by a border force vessel at the halfway mark and arrived around lunchtime into Dova.
>> Well, Will Godly, thank you very much.
Thanks for that. I mean, it's just an absolute front to the taxpayers of this country that we're expected to pay for that. Will Godly, thank you so much.
>> All right, let's speak to the director of first migration, Dean Morgan. Dean, I made a suggestion earlier that I thought that what would actually happen if we picked up people from their dingies, put them on the vessel, and then just carried on straight to France and then left them there and just turned around and came back. What What would the friends possibly do? I don't think they'd start war with us. A lot of people probably understand it. Why don't we just do that and see what happens?
we could do. But if you look at Australia, they actually came up with a solution that's still working now with with the, you know, the boat people, and that was third party offshore processing. Um, you know, just dumping someone on a freezing cold beach in France. I could see how the human rights lawyers would would have a field day with that one. But I don't understand why it can't be government policy.
>> Um, especially as we left the EU. You know, our parliament and the House of Lords is meant to be sovereign. The judiciary is meant to be sovereign.
Clearly, the majority of the British people are sick and tired of the lack of control of the illegal routes. You know, billions has been spent, trillions if not on on the military-industrial complex and and uh the intelligence services since the start of the cold war. And if you look at Edward Snowden, he said operation treasure map, they've had the ability since 2011 to track every mobile device in the world and play it back later. So with AI, how can you not smash the the organized crime gangs? I'm so confused. And you know, we're signed up to Interpol. Why aren't we exercising Interpol to extradite people here? Why isn't Parliament passing strict laws to say we're going to go Emirati style on this 25 years for people smuggling? Make the deterrent so bad there's no financial compensation.
You'd be willing to risk it. But year after year, decade after decade, it's the same narrative, isn't it? It's the same story. And it's always put down to incompetence, sadly.
>> Why do you think that they're not really prepared to tackle the problem? because when they want to, they can. So if they really want to deal with something, you've seen them find money from anywhere and just do what they need to do. But somehow there seems to be a very sort of lackluster approach in dealing with this serious problem because it I would agree that it is an invasion of our shores.
>> Well, it's a national security issue.
It's a societal issue. You know, we're seeing the UK more divided now. You know, we see crime rates increasing generally. And that's not to blame everything on migrants. That's too easy to do. But, you know, the country is pretty much bankrupt if you look at our borrowing and everything else going on.
This is just unsustainable. And I, you know, we've lived here for decades. And is it getting better or is it getting worse? But why, why is it happening? I mean, if you keep promising that you're going to reduce legal migration, I've been working within the system for two decades now. So, you know, I feel like I can speak with authority here, but you know, mass migration, it seems to have been policy for a very long period of time. And if anyone ever raised any objections to it, because look, legal migration in a globalized world is essential. We need the best skilled people coming here. People marry around the world now with social media and have the right to bring their partners here.
Our universities need students to come and pay a fortune in some ways to subsidize the British students that are there. But when you look at the sheer number of people that have come here too quickly over such a short period of time, has it made the UK a better place or has it made it a worse? And I leave that for your viewers to decide.
>> Well, I think on many levels it's actually left it I'm quite happy to answer that. I think it's left it worse.
Particular with the dingies. I mean, that's just absurd that we sit there observing it telling you how many people are on their way to this country illegally and we don't appear to be we appear to be powerless to do anything about it. I don't get it. I know governments can act if they really want to and if there's a will, there's a way, but somehow there is no will and I I don't I don't really get that. Uh Okay.
Well, very very briefly, what would you say um Dean needs to be done right now to try and really quell this because there's they're coming right now.
Oh, we've lost Dean. Oh, shame. All right. Well, that would have been a good answer, but perhaps he didn't want to answer. I don't blame him. Dean Morgan, thank you very much. He's the director of First Migration. Uh right. Well, if you thought that summer had arrived early, you'd be right because Britain is set for a scorching bank holiday weekend with temperatures climbing into the low30s and some experts warning that Monday could become the hottest May day ever recorded in the United Kingdom.
Amber heat alerts are now in place.
What? Not the red fiery maps as millions prepare for a proper sun soaked getaway weekend. Well, let's speak to meteorologist Aiden McGiffen. Aiden, it's so nice to actually speak to you rather than just have you as a sort of recorded voice. Aiden, talk to me.
>> Hello.
>> Yeah, it's great to be on and it's a glorious weekend out there. Beautiful here in Devon and you know, a lot of people will be enjoying the sunshine across England and Wales. Just a quick note on Scotland and Northern Ireland before we get into the numbers because Scotland and Northern Ireland have been much cooler and cloudier with some rain today and tomorrow. But if you are in Scotland and Northern Ireland, bear with us. It's going to turn sunny across the whole of the UK from Monday onwards.
>> Wow. So, how many days do you reckon we'll have of this lovely warm weather?
>> More or less all week. So, the rest of the month effectively until, you know, the last day of May or the first day of June. This high pressure that is bringing the fine weather. It's going to extend across the whole of the UK during the next couple of days. And, you know, this is this is unprecedented, isn't it?
An an amazing bank holiday weekend and then half term for many people. It's going to last. The sunshine's going to last throughout the week.
>> Oh, that's just so good, isn't it?
Because usually the the weekends are horrible and then when you are actually at work, then they're really really just the weather's nice if that ever happens.
Uh it never happens this way around. So, I mean, we're going to do the advice bit. What What's your advice to people when they're going out in the sunshine?
>> Yeah. Well, lots of people, me included, love this kind of weather. We can enjoy it safely and that's great. Loads of people getting out and about this weekend. The sun of course is strong.
We're not used to that this spring because it has been cool and often changeable. So, watch out for that. Get the factor 50 on. Stay hydrated. You know, common sense advice. And another thing that sadly we hear about when we get these early season hot spells is people get into into trouble when they jump into random bodies of water because the water is still cold and that can cause cold water shock. So, just watch out for that. The sea surface temperature is just 9 to 13 Celsius across the UK and inland bodies of water similar temperatures. So yeah, if you're if you're feeling hot, you want to cool off. Jumping in water that is out of your depth might cause trouble. So that's just a piece of advice based on the time of year this is happening.
>> Well, that's really good advice. Thank you very much, Aiden McGon. Really nice to talk to. Go and enjoy the sunshine.
>> Thanks.
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>> Same here. Thank you so much for having me.
>> You're like action woman. I see you.
You're really you're championing your people. that you know you really have I can see that you have a strong faith to support the people around you and the way the Ukrainians have dealt with this situation is is quite something. I mean really >> it is and thank you so much for saying this.
>> If you remember at the very beginning uh in 2022 the most intelligences of the world were not giving us more than two or three days for Putin to take Ke and look it's almost fifth year since the beginning of full scale invasion and we are still fighting. We are fighting and Russia said that they will win but they are not and we appreciate the support from all our partners. We appreciate the support from the United Kingdom the most because here this is the unique country where all the parties are supporting Ukraine and there is like no debate about that British people are supporting Ukraine. This is amazing. Every time I come here I go uh near number 10 and I check if the Ukrainian flag is still here. So for that for that I am so so grateful because there are many countries who say that they are our partners and allies but at the end they are not acting like ones. Do you think that the West kind of misunderstands the reality that the Ukrainians face every day? Because we can't imagine what you're going through because actually Ukraine was very much like London as you were all going about your business doing everything normally. Absolutely. Normal lives, everything. But then Putin invaded and everything must have changed. You think that we sort of don't understand what it's like?
>> Uh it's impossible to imagine the war unless you face it, unless you see it.
And this is why we are so grateful that there are so many members of parliament here in the UK who have come to Ukraine who have visited who have checked it and understood and so many organizations as well. Um just imagine like your real normal life that can be interrupted at any time by the air raid siren knowing that there are missiles coming your way to uh with attempt to kill you and everything you loved and cared for. You don't know where your children are. If they at school or kindergarten, you are always in fear for their safety. You try to hide in a bomb shelters. So all your schedules are done. And sometimes when you um when you go to bed at night, you have no guarantees that you you will wake up in the morning because many of Russians attacks are on civilian infrastructure, on residential area and buildings where people are killed in their beds. Can you imagine that?
>> It's absolutely horrible. I couldn't imagine it and of course the big warfare now is kind of drone warfare which actually Ukraine have now become real innovators of >> we are very proud of it and uh uh the war has changed every I think three to six months completely uh starting from artillery then to um to fighting with the bombs then to fighting with drones then to the drones that are on these special wires and right now uh the massive amount of The operations at the battlefield are being done by drone by unmanned items and for example the evacuation from the battlefield is happening with the drones uh that uh are the ground ones. The operations in the air are being done by the aerial drones.
So it is very important for us as well that our partners learn from it because believe me Russia, China, Iran and North Korea they are learning, they're exchanging the information. This is why it is so important that there is a collaboration between Ukraine and the United Kingdom, Ukraine and European countries. So this innovation that we are getting from the battlefield paying this enormous price that it helps NATO countries actually improve and go forward and be ready to the threats that authoritarian regimes pose.
>> What do you think about the UK? Because the way we are positioned at the moment, Vladimir Putin has sent warships just to hover around. He sent planes to hover around. Not dissimilar to the way he was kind of hovering around the edge of the Ukrainian border. What do you think about the UK when you look at us?
Because we don't really have much in the way of protection or even the way of an army really. Uh I think there should be more investment in defense. Even if you remove at the moment Ukraine from the picture, there are so many threats in the world. And what we have seen from the United States is there could be a time when you will call for help and there may be a delay or the help would not be the one that you expected. So you need to be able to rely on the real allies but also to rely on yourselves and we understand that after second world war there was this hope that all the wars are over. Unfortunately they are not. So whenever the country is asking what we can do differently or what we can do more, we are saying invest in your security because this is the matter of protecting your own people. Invest in the innovation of security and this is where again the collaboration between countries is so important because I keep saying that there are really two reasons why we keep standing. The first is brave men and women of Ukraine, but second is brave men and women of the democratic countries that are standing with us and supporting us and the unity and ability to um to take down an enemy that is much bigger, much stronger can only happen from a united effort. So invest in collaboration with other countries, invest in uh innovation, security and defense. What does victory look like for Ukraine?
>> To absolutely know that our children wouldn't have to fight this war again over and over. This is this is what we need to do. This is what we owe to the next generation of Ukrainians. There is very hard. It's very hard on the battlefield right now. Um we we understand that the United States would not be putting pressure on Russia as they promised. We continue fighting and we need to make sure that there would be some security guarantees. As of right now, there may not be security guarantees that would stop Putin in the future. So, we will have to provide them. So, we will have to become as strong as possible so our kids would not have to fight a war in 10 years.
>> I hear what you're saying with regard to making sure that you're sort of self-sufficient and you can look after yourself, but also the partnerships.
There was that moment though when uh Vladimir Zaninski was some people say was treated badly by President Trump and Oh, I remember.
>> Do you remember that? What what did you what was your immediate thoughts of all of that?
>> I was thinking that um at at that moment when there was a scandal in Oval Office.
Uh I it was very hard for president and uh uh I thought that he did the right thing standing up for Ukraine and for the people of Ukraine because no matter what you may think when you have a president who is representing people who are fighting for their survival, it is critically critically important to treat him or her with respect. I just on a personal level thought that at that moment when President Zilinski was standing up to President Trump that he felt that his nation is behind him because we may criticize him. We do criticize him inside the country because he was elected by Ukrainian people but when he's on the international arena he is representing our state and he needs to be treated with dignity and with respect and that did not change. though I am an oppositional party leader and there are many things that I think that president should be doing differently and that she he should be criticized for.
>> Yeah. I want to ask you about the young people of Ukraine because obviously you would have lost a lot of young people during this this war. But how how's their spirit to fight and protect their country? Are they are they determined to protect?
>> They are. They are absolutely because we have like what's the alternative? Yeah.
when uh when the United States were trying to get us into um into certain deal uh where we would agree to whatever Russia wants, we said that we did not capitulate in 2022 and we do not uh intend to capitulate right now. We know what is at stake and uh the future of not only for our children but actually our really young generation uh is at stake and uh we we are so proud of them because no matter that they are the youth of the war they are still they so ambitious they are so energetic they want to be involved in the political life and uh uh I I'm in such an admiration of them I just really hope that they would be able to see the end of the war and then be a part of rebuilding Ukraine.
>> Wow. I mean, the young people in this country are fleeing it because because of the taxes in this country. So, I don't think we'll have any left. But finally, on a personal note, for you, you must be you must be one of the most recognizable uh faces of this war. How what toll has this taken on you?
>> I learned that tomorrow may never come.
That then whatever you plan, whatever you want to say, whoever you want to hug and if you want to say I love you, you have to do it today. If you want to help somebody, you do it today. And if you if there is the right thing that you have to do, you have to do it today. And that's that the main thing.
>> Yeah. Well, Kira Rodick, thank you so much for coming in. It's a pleasure to meet you.
>> Thank you.
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Nana, thank you. The top stories, 162 migrants have arrived in Dover on board force vessels today after they set off on small dingy this morning. We now know that there's a third dingy in the English Channel. It's making slow but steady progress towards the UK. The boat set off from a beach south of Bologon.
As tens of thousands of people get away for the bank holiday weekend, French authorities have reportedly suspended new EU border checks at the port of Dober after delays reached up to 5 hours. Traffic is now moving again though.
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>> Yeah it's the huge uh Brexit betrayal. I mean, look, the Conservative government didn't execute Brexit properly at all.
And you know, we voted 17.4 million voted for this. And this government is slowly tiptoeing back to the EU. And the thing is, none of them will admit it and be honest about it.
Take Andy Bernham. he suddenly, you know, a few months ago was saying, you know, that obviously he wanted to rejoin the EU and now he's saying otherwise.
So, we've really got to look at this and I think people are are very very disappointed and this government's not being truthful about what they really want. Paul Richards, >> I mean, the referendum was 10 years ago and a lot has changed since then and I think the people have voted for Brexit.
>> What's changed, Paul?
>> Well, do we are we freer? Are we richer?
Are we more secure than all the things you were promised >> say co and all the other things that have got in the way?
>> Well, I think I it's just one of those things we were promised at the time certain things would happen and 10 years on we haven't. Well, we don't I don't think people feel more prosperous and freer.
They've got more control than they had.
I think most people think the country is going to hell in a handcuff. The analysis is always well it wasn't done properly somehow. That's the excuse.
>> But we it was done. We left the EU and we're poorer for it now. We're not going back.
>> We've got our freedom. It's called freedom.
>> You can't eat freedom, can you? Doesn't butter any parnips, does it? Freedom.
It's a concept, but go through everything.
>> What about money? What about people's, you know, cost of their shopping has gone up and all those things. So, I think the argument now has to be we're not going back into the EU, of course not. But what's the best deal we can get from our European partners in terms of trade, in terms of uh, you know, good people with expertise coming into the country, our kids being able to travel to Europe for uh, university and those sorts of things and particularly things that just, you know, help British business and and make it more frictionless for British business to do well. The one thing this government is going to be judged on, uh, I think over everything is growth in the economy. And unless we can deliver that in the next two or three years, we'll be hoed out of office quite rightly, too. So, we need more trade with our closest partners.
That's people in Europe.
>> But they've said no. The French just have said no.
>> Not for now. There's a negotiation tactic.
>> But they don't want us. They don't want us now.
>> Well, they want more trade. I mean, they're not they're not saying they don't want us. They don't want it to look like you can leave the EU and get the benefits, do they?
>> One country has vetoed. That's France.
They've said no.
>> But we'll still get more growth if we get a better deal. We've already got a good deal in place. We're not begging.
We are going and saying, Paul, >> they want our products. They want our products. And we want their markets. And that's what business is, isn't it?
>> Well, if they want our products, they can just buy them.
>> Even Mr. Statch thought that even Mrs. Thatcher believed in that. You know, that's not a radical view. What happened? Did your party just have a bit of honesty? Because our prime minister, heeded, is this what you wanted from Brexit? Are we 10 years on what you believe it would be?
>> He campaignedly against the vote. The British people voted and you are going back against our will and what we voted. That's not Democratic. They didn't vote to be poorer, which is where we've ended up.
It's costing usions million voted. I tell you what, they'll be up in arms rights in the street if we get any closer into the EU as this government is taking us.
>> We're not going back into the EU. That's >> No, they don't want us. It would cost us billions if we did. But they slowly slowly step by step. What about where is this what you wanted? I mean, it's the country the navana we were promised 10 years.
>> I wanted freedom. I didn't want have to go for any way. Are you more free now?
every we don't have to go through every single to make a decision happen and look good things have happened you know look what happened with the deal that Kisama got with India he wouldn't have got that if it weren't for Brexit there are many many beneficial things that he has traded on he wouldn't have got without Brexit he's still determined to dip toe tiptoe back in and pretend he doesn't want to >> it's a trade deal and you're right to point out the one with the America the one with India these are great and there's a new one with the thanks to Brexit.
>> These are great deals and now we need to do a similarly great deal with the EU to get trade going for British businesses and British jobs.
>> Nobody would deny that we need to do a similar deal with the EU. But what it is is when they do a deal with you, you have to forgo things. So for example, when the with the US the EU uh EU UK defense pact, they give away 12 years of fishing. I mean, do you know what I mean? So they extend >> Well, that's what a deal is, isn't it?
That is the nature.
>> We didn't get anything out of it. We didn't get anything out of it. And then there's there was apparently going to be a second meeting where they're going to discuss things. We've got nothing. We gave away 12 years of fishing. Other deals may wish us to uh jettison deals that we've made with America and India.
See, so the problem for that, you know, there's in a negotiation this two sides trying to get something each for themselves. You know, we'll come out of it with what we want. That's how a deal works. But you can't just turn your back on Europe and say, "Oh, well that was some terrible thing over there that we voted to leave." We're not turning our back on Europe. an enormous market that business needs to trade with.
>> We're not turning our back on Europe.
We're not at all. He's coing up. Don't forget we've got the the this prime minister rather be in Davos than than Westminster. He want he never wanted Brexit. That is the truth of it. And he's doing it sneakily, step by step, slowly going back to the EU. And it is a huge big British betrayal. And it's not democratic and it's not what we voted for.
>> Well, Allison says that Reeves has destroyed the economy. nothing to do with Brexit. We voted for Brexit regardless. And we put a billion a week more into the NHS. Never needed three, never mind 350 million. So that's people saying that >> and and William says, "You tell him, Lizzie, I know plenty of people who voted to remain that would now vote to leave. I'm yet to meet anyone who voted to leave that now wants to rejoin. They just don't." Well, a lot of people on the polling suggest they actually do have buyers remorse and if they voted well, but maybe they didn't ask you in the polling, but a lot of people saying actually this isn't what we signed up for. This isn't what we signed up for is what a lot of people are saying.
>> Look, and it would cost us billions.
Let's not forget that how much it would cost us if we did rejoin.
>> No one is saying we're going to rejoin, >> but he's doing it sneakily. You can see it. It's not happening. Well, but the the two the two leadership contenders would perhaps disagree with you and would like to see a rejoin in their lifetimes. We heard >> I call him one way Wes Street um is obviously said already he's going to wants to rejoin.
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>> I'm I'm not sure that we used to celebrate VE Day or even the end of the Second World War um until recent years.
And that that's a reflection of the fact that um the veterans who fought and took part in that campaign and everyone on the home front are themselves uh disappearing. Um yes, it's partly to do with education. Um there are huge political pressures on on what's in uh education uh in and and in the history package which of course isn't compulsory. When we were in Iraq and Afghanistan, there was a much higher uh understanding of what past sacrifice meant. And people of course were seen far more often uh in uniform in the streets and they were coming back from operational service and and and about to depart. And that all makes a huge difference. Now, of course, war is very distant. It's in the Gulf. Um it's in Ukraine. It's not impacting us in the same way that it was doing about 20 years ago. Matthew, let's bring you in at this stage. Do you think Gen Zed is ignorant to Britain's war heroes or do you think it's just a lack of curiosity?
>> Yeah, I don't think Gen Zed are ignorant. Um, they have they're they're just a matter of being the way they've been bought up, how they've been bought up, and when they've been bought up. you know when when this generation of uh have been coming through school there hasn't been the veterans because the veterans of the second world war and the first world war have passed away so it's not in their face as much the rhetoric that they're getting taught in schools is has been influenced a lot in in the past sort of 30 40 years with more left-wing uh and I don't mean I'm I'm not trying to drag this into a political um bias but there is more left-wing rhetoric getting out in school.
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Hey, welcome back. It is time for our quick fire quiz. The part of the show where I test my panel on some of the other stories hitting the headlines right now. Joining me uh Paul Richards.
He is a former labor adviser. Your buzzer please. Somebody's got lazy on script. And also broadcast colonist Lizzie Kundy. Your buzzer please Lizzy.
>> Excellent. Now please play along at home. Question one multiple choice. The rate of VAT on tickets to theme parks, zoos, and museums has been cut to what over the summer holidays? Is it A 7%, B 5%, or C 10%.
>> Lizzy Kundi, >> C 10%.
>> I think it's 5%.
>> I think you'll find it is 5%. You're totally wrong. The answer is B. 5% down from 20. Right. Question number two.
Open question. Green MP Cardier has announced that she will be taking several weeks off from work to recover from what?
>> Is it anti-semitism, Nana?
>> No. Paul Richard, is that your first answer?
>> Yes.
>> Okay. Very good.
She's done in overstressed. Overload.
>> You need the right word. I'll give you >> overload.
>> No.
>> Oh. Um, I know it's too late. Burnout.
Burnout.
>> Burnout. Yeah. Burnout.
>> She's been struggling. So, no points for either of you.
>> Oh, I just need >> No. No. She's been struggling with persistent health issues which she attempted to manage alongside the long hours, significant responsibility, her work. She's going to take some time off, Paul. Is that good?
>> Well, it is. If you've got mental health problems, of course it is. But if you're in that high level job, think about maybe a bi-election.
>> I I definitely another bi-election.
She's not up to it. She can't be there to get a bi-election.
>> There's all sympathy. There's all the sympathy there for you. Cara, step aside. Question three, closest answer wins. Aston Villa's 3-nil victory over Fraberg in the Europa League final in Istanbul was their first silverware for how many years >> Lizzy >> 20 Paul Riches 40 closest wins. The answer is 30.
We're both right. You went point each.
>> If you go over then you get nothing.
I've just added that rule in. Oh, I'll give you both a point. That's fair enough. They both get a point. All right. Question four. True or false? It was revealed that the HS2 project is set to cost 50 billion.
>> Lizzy C.
>> True.
>> Pressure buzzer. I can't >> I think it's true.
>> No, no, no. Just say the opposite.
>> Okay. False.
>> It's too late. I had to take your first answer.
>> It's actually false if you said that.
>> Sadly, shame.
>> He does it all the time. She makes it look like she knows what she's talking about. She doesn't.
>> Actress.
>> She doesn't.
>> I'm an actress.
>> He's very convincing. PS is actually due to the cost somewhere between 87.7 billion to 102.7 billion. Yes. I think it's more than the cost to send a rocket up to the moon.
>> Exactly. Yes. Question five. Multiple choice. What musical instrument did the king play on a visit to an a lotment in Northern Ireland? A guitar. B the drums.
You see ukulele. Lizzy Candy.
>> C ukulele.
>> Uh for the drums.
>> The drums. I think it probably be the guitar. The ukulele. Lizzy Candy. Three to you. Well done Lizzy Candy. The winner for today's quiz. Lizzy Candy.
Yay. Well done. Commiseration is Paul.
>> Well, listen. In my poll today, I've been asking, is Britain's legacy being betrayed? And according to our results, what do you think, Boris?
>> 95% believe it is.
>> 98 >> 99% of you say, "Yes, it is." And just 1% of you say no. Well, I'm agreeing with them. I think they're absolutely right.
>> That was me.
>> Useless politicians.
>> 1% was Paul.
>> They're useless politicians. They're too scared to make any proper moves because they've been used to the EU making all the decisions for them.
>> Well, listen, I've got to say a huge thank you to my brilliant panel broadcaster and columnist Lizzie Kundi.
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you very much. And also former Labor adviser Paul Richards for joining me today, Paul. Thank you very much. And a huge thank you to you at home for your company. Stay tuned. I'm not back tomorrow actually. I'm going to enjoy the super hot sunshine. Crystal Food Fest will take you through. But do not go anywhere because up next, it's time for the Saturday 5. Enjoy.
>> Thank you, Nana. Another classically decisive survey there. Well, the biggest show on Saturday night, UK TV is back.
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