laboun to labour. >> is the rwanda plan already working? while the pm thinks so? as he says, migrants heading to ireland show that the scheme is a deterrent, a dangerous escalation or essential to deliver aid. >> the government considers deploying british troops on the ground in gaza . ground in gaza. >> a weekend of miserable weather will be looking at how heavy rain across the country is expected to cause travel disruption in. >> good morning. it's all eyes on the north london derby today as arsenal travel to tottenham. meanwhile, liverpool face more meltdown. jurgen klopp has a bust up with mo salah. we'll hear more later this hour. >> hello, good morning. we'll see an east west split in our weather today across the uk. rain at times in the east generally a little bit brighter the further west you go. i'll have all the details later. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on .

this is breakfast on. gb news. if you are heading out and about today, do be careful. that weather is terrible and horrid. it's that weird sort of thing where it's like, it's. it's not like it's really chucking it down, but it's i don't know, it's like lots of rain. weirdly, the roads, if you're on particularly the mi was horrific. was it ? i had to i particularly the mi was horrific. was it? i had to i had to crawl down at sort of 50 miles an hour all the way. >> i was a bit worried about you because usually stephen is here for 5 am. and it got to ten past, and i was a bit worried. >> yeah, it was a real slow journey today, but that's good. >> take it slow. be be careful out on those roads today. i don't know, it was very heavy where i was was it. i don't know about you. >> it's just loads and loads, loads of surface water. i've never seen so much. yeah. motorways >> it just hasn't stopped raining, has it? >> so if you put your foot down, you're going. you're going to aquaplane, which is very dangerous. so do be careful.

>> yeah, you be careful. it woke me up. the rain did it so heavy. yeah, it was lashing it down. it didn't seem that bad, but just somehow, just absolutely covered in it. >> yeah. put drains in the motorway or something. >> it would. yeah. that's not a bad idea. actually. i don't know something. i don't know how we're already getting close to may and this weather is horrendous i know. so many people telling us it was going to be a nice april. i know, can't imagine who, but. >> and it's been horrible . i >> and it's been horrible. i know, i know. >> well hopefully that means we're destined for a really hot summer. >> summer. >> i hope so , it's about time. >> i hope so, it's about time. after last year was a washout. by after last year was a washout. by the time we had a nice summer again. >> we've got nathan row on the programme a little bit later, so i'll i'll be asking him about a nice hot summer, see what he says about. >> i hope he knows. >> i hope he knows. >> i hope i'm sure he does. i'm sure he does. we'll ask him. >> we shall find out anyway. look, shall we have a look at politics this morning? let's. because tory rebels are on the warpath. following the defection of conservative mp daniel poulter to the labour party.

>> well, according to the telegraph, a group of tory mps are working on a 100 day roadmap to turn around their election chances, which would involve a new policy blitz, and installing penny mordaunt as prime minister. >> well, it all follows the defection of the central suffolk and north ipswich mp doctor poulter yesterday. he's a former health minister who works part time as a mental health doctor, and he slammed the government over failing the nhs. >> well, we're joined now by political commentator peter spencen political commentator peter spencer. good to see you this morning, peter. and first of all, just how damaging do you think is dan porter's defection? >> it couldn't be a harder slap in the face when you consider that back in the day, some 40 years ago, the nhs is safe in our hands was a winning slogan for margaret thatcher. >> david cameron reprised it some eight years later, saying the nhs is safe in my hands and

now we've got this bloke who knows what he's talking about because , for heaven's sake, he because, for heaven's sake, he is a practising doctor and he's also, as you say, steve, a former health minister, and he says not only is the nhs not safe in tory hands, but it will be safer in labour hands. safe in tory hands, but it will be safer in labour hands . and be safer in labour hands. and so, as i say, it couldn't come much worse than this. and health really matters to all of us. i mean, lady brighton was on to something in the importance of being earnest when she said, well, health is a primary duty of life. it's not just stuff we read in the papers or see on the internet or whatever, about people sort of spending whole nights in ambulances before they even get into a&e. and indeed people, sometimes actually dying because there isn't because they don't get treatment in time. which of us does not have a story to tell about a friend, a relative , a friend of a friend,

relative, a friend of a friend, maybe who who has had a really horrific story now the government, in response to the poulter defection , say, oh, poulter defection, say, oh, well, you know, look, we're spending more on the health service and we're reducing waiting lists doesn't alter the fact that they're still record length and so for the prime minister, things could not be worse. and this, of course , is worse. and this, of course, is in days away from the local elections on thursday when it is confidently predicted that the conservatives will lose hundreds and hundreds of seats and possibly two metro mayors. so we've been hearing in recent days about how sunak has had a reset, a yet another reset, sorting out . welfare reforms and sorting out. welfare reforms and getting rwanda through and increasing defence spending. but all that will just be blown right out of the water come friday, when the sums have been

done and the tories realise just how bad, how badly the voters judged them. >> well, we shall have to wait and see on that one. peter won't we? you never know. it could go the other way . you never know the other way. you never know until people have their say look. meanwhile off the back of the defection, there's now this , the defection, there's now this, group of mps trying to, you know, have a 100 day blitz, new policies, 100 days to turn it around before the election and get penny mordaunt in as prime minister. i wonder how serious thatis minister. i wonder how serious that is and whether that will push rishi sunak to actually call an election forjuly . call an election for july. >> well, of course it's always possible that there will be some 50 or so, just over 50 tory mps who actually call for a vote of no confidence, and it could come to that, when it comes to actually a policy blitz under penny mordaunt, i've looked at these policies and they're same old, same old. there's no

getting round it, you know. and then if i were sort of just the archetypal voter, i'd be thinking, well, i don't know . thinking, well, i don't know. they promised this stuff before. they're promising it now. now they've got a different person who's pretty good at holding up swords, but so what? what difference is that supposed to make? absolutely diddly squat. and i have to say that also, you'll be looking at a situation where the voters are, again, going to be thinking, look how many leaders does it take before you take the hint? many leaders does it take before you take the hint ? and, many leaders does it take before you take the hint? and, i mean, it just what it will what it will proceed is yet more tory turbulence, which is why, of course, old hands within the party say, look, just bring him on, guys. this is just total la la la. and what do you think of penny mordaunt in all of this? >> i mean, she's distanced herself from the plotters so far, but do you think she could be the one to unite the tory party and be a game changer in all of this? >> well, i mean, she does present a more moderate face or the moderate face of the

conservative party, most certainly. and it's actually quite interesting. there's a sidebar from dan poulter. is that that he's unhappy about the way the conservative, in his judgement, has become more right wing and more nationalist. so in a sense, he is he is the silent man, silent majority finally finding its voice. and it is possible that penny mordaunt would be indicative of the personification of precisely that. but we're we're talking a few months at most before there's a general election. the chances of altering public perception of the party within a timescale like that are just zero. there's just no chance she can do it, however clever she is i >> -- >> okay, peter, good to see you this morning. thanks very much indeed. well, if you've got a view on that gbnews.com/yoursay vie, already, where is it,

william howard. morning. william's been in touch saying, well, if you defect to another party, it should automatically trigger a by—election which i think is a fair point. >> i mean, dan poulter has said he didn't want to do that to his constituents, considering there is going to be probably a general election this year and, which is fair enough, i suppose, but he says he's going to stand down either. which way isn't he at the next general election? that's what he would say. >> yeah. well, look, i mean, it's interesting . is it is it it's interesting. is it is it the death knell for the party? is it not? is this move to get penny mordaunt in as prime minister a sensible thing to do for the tories or not? love your thoughts on all of that this morning. gbnews.com/yoursay >> now british troops could be deployed on the ground in gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route . sea route. >> well, the us has said that no american forces would go ashore and an unnamed third party would drive trucks along a floating

causeway onto the beach. >> well, the uk has understood to be considering tasking british troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month. well, whitehorse sources saying no decision has been made and both the ministry of defence and both the ministry of defence and the israeli army have so far declined to comment. well, defence editor for the evening standard, robert fox, joins us live now. good to see you this morning, robert. live now. good to see you this morning, robert . and is this morning, robert. and is this something that is wise putting british troops on the ground in gaza? >> it's something british troops could do and some might say it's the sort of thing that british troops ought to do. but we have the terrible cover, as it were, of the american argument that they won't put their troops in harm's way . and in this kind of harm's way. and in this kind of operation, america has form, america held up going into kosovo in 1999 because they were worried about that force protection. there was very little opposition. it's very

strange the way the they operate, they're very well aware of force protection, by the way, in afghanistan. and yet took huge amounts of casualties when they took over a hot spot like sangin from british forces. now the wider aid operation i think is going to be a very important and always has been an important part of british forces. but i do understand the reticence of whitehall and particularly number 10, in that they want cover and guarantees. i think one, there must be a un mandate, and i think the israelis, hamas and i think the israelis, hamas and islamic jihad must be explained . and what the rules of explained. and what the rules of engagement are , there is engagement are, there is a potential from of vulnerability from either side . and but i from either side. and but i think it can be done. but i think it can be done. but i think britain would want to do it with an ally, and i would suspect that would be a scandinavian and possibly france. >> well, couldn't you i mean,

why can't it be done? and i don't know quite how these things work, robert, but under the, under the banner of, peacekeeping, i think that's exactly what it would be if they were blue helmets were only talking, i think of a few hundred drivers. >> it's quite limited , but they >> it's quite limited, but they are, as you rightly read in your in from your intro that they're going on the beach , they are going on the beach, they are potentially in harm's way . going on the beach, they are potentially in harm's way. but i'm finding this very, very difficult potentially vie that's what happens to soldiers, people in the armed services. you don't expect to be get to get killed or shot , but expect to be get to get killed or shot, but risk is inherent in it. and this is a very good thing. i think lord cameron will want this to happen because it gives britain leverage, and they really want to bring the whole gaza rafah business to a conclusion within weeks. that's when they've really got to push the israelis on that, on that, as well as hamas , because they as well as hamas, because they really want it wrapped up and who wants it most of all, joe biden, because he doesn't want

to go into a general election campaign. that is the election post the conventions for the presidency. with all this hanging around, still, he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine big time, and he's still got the houthis, but he wants this one, i think, resolved whether he'll get it . i resolved whether he'll get it. i think it's about 5050 at the moment. >> what is the situation with the aid corridors in in gaza at the aid corridors in in gaza at the moment? well and i say, well, there is limited access. >> a certain amount seems to be delivered on the periphery. and i'm not going to use fancy words because it's completely the wrong way to do it, this building, this elaborate, ingenious idea of building an offshore harbour causeway facility sounds fantastic, doesn't it? and we've seen all the grainy black and white films and documentaries and not a documentaries about world war two and the mulberry harbour after d—day , which was such after d—day, which was such a success. this absolutely isn't the way to do it. you want a

humanitarian corridor from the north and it would have to be the south, considering the bulk of the population. so many of the refugees of the palestinians have now gone to the south, up from egypt, but parties are not willing to do it. and that's what, you know, a robust un would do . you would have would do. you would have guaranteed, humanity in corridors with very robust rules of engagement . oops. think of of engagement. oops. think of getting that past the security council with china and russia having a veto, yeah. look sort of closer to home, if you like. robert, what's this about a hypersonic missile that we're planning to build in the uk ? planning to build in the uk? >> well, we're we're playing a bit of catch up there, but i hypersonics are all over the place, and there's a dreadful fear that the chinese particularly are ahead and the russians have been using. they've been quite effective in downing them. but this is why things are so tricky. it's funny , we're talking about gaza. i mean, the things are on a knife edge over the next few days and

weeks, in, in, in, in ukraine, as we see the battle of the breakout from avdiivka and bakhmut, at this mountain or high place called aslef. yeah. the problem is it's all being done by electronic warfare. it's very difficult to envisage this because somebody who had been on the front line was explaining to me, you know, you put up drones, you put up this, that and the other and you have to go through what he called was an electronic barrier hidden, which is downing a lot of the of the drones on, on, on, on both sides . this is on, on, on both sides. this is why we got the announcement in poland from the, from the prime minister is gosh , we're getting minister is gosh, we're getting into the game. we're very good on certain kinds of weaponry, but we are late on a lot of it. we are although we have global ambitions , we're not a global ambitions, we're not a global power and we need pals. and i think the reliable powers are emerging to be from the north

the nordics, the scandinavians, the nordics, the scandinavians, the baltics, which are small, and poland. >> oh, okay. robert good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. now, at 6:16, let's take a look at some other stories coming to the newsroom. >> well, two men have been arrested at a pro—palestine protest in london yesterday. police say one of the men holding a placard with a swastika. the other made a racist remark towards counter—protesters. the event, organised by the palestine solidarity campaign, was calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza. >> humza yousaf is asking leaders of rival parties to find common ground with the snp, as his leadership hangs in the balance . his spokesperson has balance. his spokesperson has ruled out any sort of electoral pact with alex salmond's alba party. a spokesperson dismissed this idea as fantasy. it comes as mr yousaf reaches out to political opponents ahead of a no confidence motion expected this week after he ejected the

greens from his government and a gold pocket watch beauty as well recovered from the body of the richest man on the titanic, has been sold at auction for a record breaking £1,175,000, as it's only been expected to fetch about 150,000. >> the previous high amount for a titanic artefact was 1.1 million. for a violin that was played as the ship sank , and the played as the ship sank, and the white house correspondents dinner in the us has wrapped up in washington, dc . in washington, dc. >> upon arrival, journalists and politicians were met by pro—palestinian protesters seeking to disrupt the event. president biden made the most of the situation and the dinner by poking fun at his predecessor and presidential opponent, donald trump. >> of course, the 2024 election is in full swing and yes, age is an issue . an issue. >> i'm a grown man running against a six year old. well,

donald has had a few tough days lately . you might call it stormy lately. you might call it stormy weather. what the hell ? weather. what the hell? >> talking stormy weather. heavy rain is set to cause disruption in london and across the country this weekend, with network rail warning of cancellations to mainline services. or. what a surprise. well yes. >> southern, gatwick express and thameslink networks could be affected from saturday afternoon when rain is set to splash the caphal when rain is set to splash the capital, and today as well. >> well , weather capital, and today as well. >> well, weather journalist nathan raw is here in the studio this morning. a lot of pressure on you nathan today. >> good morning. good morning ellie. good morning nathan. good morning. good morning . there is morning. good morning. there is there is a lot of pressure on me this morning, yes. it's going to be rainy. it is very, very wet.

it's not feeling like spring at all. >> what's going on, nathan? >> what's going on, nathan? >> yeah, well, we are, as always, at the. we're subject of the whims and fancies of the jet stream . and the jet stream is stream. and the jet stream is not treating us very well. at the morning today, as you mentioned, in the south—east and the east of the country, there is going to be more heavy rain. today is looking very rainy. in fact, there may be rain anywhere in the country, but mainly the east. then, as we go into the into the week, the rain threat is going to move to the west, but it is going to remain unsettled. it may be turning a bit milder, a bit warmer than it has been because it has been freezing literally in parts of the country . the low pressure is the country. the low pressure is going to move to the southwest of the country. that's going to bnngin of the country. that's going to bring in a southerly air flow. so we get some warmer temperatures, but it's still looking unsettled unfortunately. so if you're hoping for a scorccio, you are not going to get one. >> when are we going to get one? >> when are we going to get one? >> i have no idea. and it doesn't look imminent. oh no, i know the outlook really for the next week it's going to get milder, as i said, but that's sort of because of a warm air

flow from the southwest. and that's not a hot and sunny warm. it's sort of like a milder but still unsettled warm. and then as we go into may, it's looking average, slightly above average at times, slightly below average at times, slightly below average at times. nothing special. and then as we go further ahead, i was looking at the met office long—range forecast this morning and that goes up to june . there and that goes up to june. there is a 25% chance that the season will be warm and a 10% chance the season will be cool, which doesn't really tell us very much. oh no, no, i can't promise you anything. brilliant. >> i'm afraid, nathan, you haven't been the bearer of good news this morning. >> i know, but that's why you get me in. i mean, it's getting warmer. they had —6.6 this week in scotland, and we could get five. yeah they did. they had a touch of snow in the forecast. it's been really, really weird. >> well the rain kept me up last night. but there is going to be disruptions throughout the day today isn't there in terms of on our rails . yes. and our roads our rails. yes. and our roads i suppose, and roads. >> and there are some environment agency flood alerts

in place across the south—east. as i mentioned, low pressure is sort of dancing around the country at the moment. and today the effect of low pressure is going to bring that rain to the east and the southeast of the country. as we go through the week, it's going to move to the west a bit colder on sunday, on on monday morning, in fact, we could get some pretty chilly temperatures in the morning tomorrow. still feeling a bit like winter, i know, and then as we go through the week, as i said, that that high pressure, low pressure will anchor to the southwest and bring in some southerlies. >> i have some sympathy. >> i have some sympathy. >> do you with me for forecasters? yes. good. i hope you do, because. >> because, apparently it has been a very warm april. yes, it has, which is what people were saying , but it doesn't feel like saying, but it doesn't feel like it's been a very warm april. no. so it feels like you got it wrong. >> no, i didn't, and we'll come on to this in a minute. it's it feels like it was a very warm april. the average temperatures for april may come in slightly above average, because we had 22 degrees at the beginning of april, and that sort of bumps up the average. and the average isn't very high anyway. it's

only about eight. but now we're getting this very cold weather in the north, and we might just scrape a few high temperatures at the end. it could bring the average up. but it's been i mean, it's sort of been an average april. april does do this. in the words of the lyrical genius prince rogers nelson, sometimes it snows in april and it might do, but it may come in a bit warmer. it's going to feel not so much, though. if you get some sunshine in clear skies, that's when you'll feel the warmth. but if you're in the rain or if you're like i was this morning charging through torrential downpours into paddington, it's going to feel pretty miserable, but it improving as the week goes on. depending on where you are. okay >> okay, nathan, thank you very much indeed. don't pack away your winter coats would be the advice. >> thank you, thank you. >> thank you, thank you. >> yes, thank you very much indeed. you're welcome. very, very soon. very 500“. >> very soon. >> thanks, nathan. >> thanks, nathan. >> that was a bit critical of weather forecasters this morning. >> yes, you were, and i heard him and he did hear me. >> he heard everything. >> he heard everything. >> yeah. you know, in the green room and hear you hear you slagging me off. >> i wasn't i wasn't slagging off. i just said everyone seems to get it wrong.

>> yeah it's true. i mean, i've got a bone to pick to be fair, with jim dale because he was telling me it's going to be a lovely, hot april and here we are. >> i think he's going to be coming to clear the record on that at some point, jim. >> he's going to have to. >> he's going to have to. >> yeah. me and jim are like that. yes. i've had a chat with jim and we'll and he told me a few weekends ago it wasn't going to rain. >> it rained all weekend jim. >> it rained all weekend jim. >> so we just like to keep you on your toes, you know, not just me that's been having a moan. i'll forgive you this once. >> yeah. there you go. and i've still got words to have with, jim dale. check who can. >> who's in the hearing range when you have a whinge. >> but it's not an easy job, is it? predicting the weather to be fair, with some people, no. let's check in with somebody else who might know. marco >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar . sponsors of weather on . solar. sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east, generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year.

confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the southeast, we could see skies brightening briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy , potentially some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time. whereas towards the west and north—west are generally bright today here. but again, nofice bright today here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east, coupled with quite a strong northerly breeze. no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here. whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period , those overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the north—east, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday. elsewhere, it will turn clearer for a time , will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west. some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly. could see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as these showers come back in across the west there. as for monday , well again there. as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the

best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west, with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at times to some longer spells of rain and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of 12 or 13 celsius towards the north. up to 15 or 16 degrees in the southeast that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sperm . inside from boxt boilers sperm. >> answers of weather on gb news. >> haven't seen marco before, have you? >> yes . >> yes. >> yes. >> marco. petagna. all right. there you go . very, very exotic there you go. very, very exotic name, isn't it? >> welcome, marco . >> welcome, marco. >> welcome, marco. >> he does a good pasta. >> he does a good pasta. >> yeah, and he knows his stuff. he knows his onions. he was telling us that was going to rain today. and it is, anyway, stay with us. aidan magee is going to join us shortly with all the latest sports

news. >> aidan magee has got your sport at 628. >> good morning. good morning to you both. good to see you. >> should we talk about a bus stop? >> why not? yeah. i mean, it's not often we see bus stops on the touchline between managers and players anymore. that's something very much from a different era. just because the scrutiny and the spotlight is on the premier league like never before. and so if you can see, i don't know if there are radio listeners can see this, but in fact they definitely can't. but they can't. >> no, i don't think so . they can't. >> no, i don't think so. but they can't. >> no, i don't think so . but the >> no, i don't think so. but the best of luck to you if you try there is a there is a picture. >> you can just about make it out that most. salah has been brought on as a 79th minute substitute by jurgen klopp, they've just conceded a goal against west ham to get it back to two two. he's been dropped before the game anyway, so that's controversial in itself. and this is a guy who scored 210 goals in 346 appearances. liverpool have had a wretched few weeks and then just as he's going off, jurgen klopp said something to mo salah . klopp something to mo salah. klopp didn't reveal afterwards what he

what was said, but they had a bit of a row. no, no, there was no physical altercation or anything like that. maybe bust up his overegging it slightly. but then mo salah went through the mixed zone afterwards, which is where the journalists get to speak to players if they choose to speak, and there's a cordon between them and if a player doesn't want to speak generally, steven, they put their headphones on and they walk straight through and say, not today. mo salah didn't stop as this is my understanding anyway, from someone who was there, he didn't stop , from someone who was there, he didn't stop, but he did sort of turn round to the reporters and say, if i speak there will be fire. oh, this is a relationship which has yielded spectacular results for liverpool over the last seven years. it's a bit like when, remember geoffrey howe's final speech in the house of commons? they had this beautiful relationship , didn't, beautiful relationship, didn't, didn't, didn't it with margaret thatcher over all those years, it yielded all that success. and then he just really nails into him, nails it, nails into her. rather in that that final speech. there are echoes of that liverpool really they can win the league, but they're pretty much out of it. yes, they having drawn at west ham, tensions are high, but having announced that he was leaving back in january, this is turning into a tour bus

which is losing its wheels on its farewell tour, and it's hugely unedifying and hugely embarrassing for liverpool and who's who knows where it's going to end. i think we know well, we know klopp's going to leave. i think mo salah will leave as well. he's got a year left on his contract, but i think he's going to head to saudi. >> all right. >> all right. >> boos were heard at old trafford yesterday. >> they were. and again manchester united are becoming increasingly their fans are becoming incredulous as some of the behaviour of their manager. he says after the game yesterday. and bear in mind they were one nil up against burnley at home. burnley look as if they're getting relegated. it's a home banker and they're one nil up with about 11 minutes to go and they can see the goal in the last three minutes against against, as i say, a side who was struggling right. so this is a goal. an error by the goalkeeper andre onana . what do goalkeeper andre onana. what do you want to hear from your manager. you want to hear. look i was that was awful. we need to do better than that. 76,000 people turned up. we've had an awful season. goodness me. this is on me. this is on whoever. instead, he says we are one of the most entertaining and dynamic teams in the league at

the moment. this is comical ali stuff, isn't it? >> yeah it is. >> yeah it is. >> yeah. and so again, united are in serious danger of recording their worst premier league finish since, well, since certainly in the premier league era, definitely. and long before sir alex ferguson's time probably going back to david moyes in in 2013, david moyes didn't finish the season that year with united because they did away with him two months before the end of the season. ryan giggs took over. it looks like he's going to get to the end of the season. i cannot see him being there in the summer, i really can't, no, it's a you draw on the way out. well, i think it is, he said. look, you get two years at a big club like that, steve, and then that's more than enough time to make progress there in a worse position. now than they were this time last year. there were hopes the last season there was progress. this year, not so much. their home form has been absolutely dreadful. and for manchester united, a club of that size and stature, to be languishing miles off the champions league spaces are just it's just not acceptable. especially for not the new owners. when you've got a new bossin owners. when you've got a new boss in the building, you've got impressed, haven't you? >> should we talk about aston villa and chelsea? >> yeah. well, no, just a brief touch on this because it was more about a var controversy. really, villa were leading two nil. chelsea turned it around .

nil. chelsea turned it around. they looked as if they were going to win it in the very last minute. and var chalked off the goal minute. and var chalked off the goal. now chelsea have had a wretched week . they lost five wretched week. they lost five nil to arsenal on tuesday. you just don't know which chelsea team is going to turn up. it's like a box of chocolates in forrest gump, isn't it? you just don't know. you just don't know what you're going to get. they played really well against man city last week and again manchester, sorry chelsea might have a decision to make in the summer with, mauricio pochettino . i just want to touch on a couple of issues at the bottom as well. nottingham forest face manchester city. that has implications for the top and bottom of the table. everton secured survival yesterday by beating brentford. sheffield united got relegated with a51 defeat at at newcastle, with their manager chris wilder saying the premier league is too just powerful for us. >> we've got some bitter rivals facing off at 2:00 though, haven't we? >> huge, huge game. great season defining possibly for both of them. i think if tottenham were to lose ground here. arsenal a slight favourites but this is the this is the derby. out of all the top six derbies that you find, this is the one in the premier league era that has

delivered time and time again. there's a whole litany, a whole tapestry of wonderful matches between these two teams over the last 30 odd years and even before that, and as i say, arsenal slight favourites. 2:00 kick off ellie at white hart lane. tottenham have their own champions league ambitions. villa slipping up yesterday, opens the door for them to catch up and maybe make some inroads into that champions league spot, which would be huge progress for them. but arsenal are going for them. but arsenal are going for the league. tottenham cannot have arsenal winning the league title last. they haven't won it since 2004. their manager, mikel arteta, was in touch with arsene wenger this week. just asking for a bit. a few, few hints and handy hints and a bit of know how in terms of getting his team over the line. but win today at tottenham would be a huge boost for them. >> yeah, would be. >> yeah, would be. >> and shall we touch on the tennis? >> why not. yeah. so rafa nadal has been suffering with with abdominal injuries over the last three months. he was knocked out ten days ago of the barcelona open by alex de minaur, the australian. he took his revenge on de minaur yesterday with a straight straight sets win in madrid. now look, i'm jumping a bit far ahead here. the may the 26th at the start of the french open. that is the king of clay's

big tournament. he's won 13 times. can he be fit? can he keep himself together in time to win that you'd think he was trying to time. he's a much, much like, emma raducanu . timing much like, emma raducanu. timing a run to be peak in peak form for the grand slams in the summer. and let's see if he can do it. as i say, it's been it's been a real difficult time for him. but he said yesterday after this match, he said only if i feel capable , i have to compete. feel capable, i have to compete. will i be at the french open on may the 26th. we all hope he's there, because it looks like it's going to be his last season on the tour. >> can't believe he's 37. he is. you'd think he was older, wouldn't he, just because he's been around. >> well i saw i saw him play. i first set eyes on him in 2003. he was 17. his shorts were like trousers. in fact, i didn't even know they were like they were shorts. they were almost down to his ankles. he was just not physically filled out at all. i couldn't really see how he was going to make a top two, top three player shows. how much i know, doesn't it? because he went on to win 22 grand slams and i wouldn't rule him out of the french. if he's fit, the crowd will be behind him because they love him over there. i saw

him in a restaurant over there when i was at the french french open. he he really engages with the paris public, even though he's spanish and 14 wins at one slam. if he could do that this yean slam. if he could do that this year, that is absolutely extraordinary. but the body has to hold out. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh, well, i know that feeling . so it can be hard work. >> so just to be clear, the radio radio listeners can't see the telly, is that right? >> no, not at the minute. but you never know what cleared that up. if you focus hard, you'll be all right, aiden, thank you very much indeed. >> thank you. it is early. you can be forgiven. >> you can? yes >> and still to come, we are going to be going through the papers with stephanie takyi and andy jones. that's .

next. >> okay, let's a look at the papers this morning. and the observer has an exclusive on

conservative mp doctor dan poulter defecting to the labour party. the telegraph follows that same story, revealing some rebel tory mps are on a warpath to ditch the prime minister sunday times says tory mps under fire over cash for blood victims. >> the sunday express leads with labour leader sir keir starmer's promise to protect the pension triple lock and the sunday mirror has people smugglers hiding migrants in former nazi bunkers before loading them onto small boats to cross the channel small boats to cross the channel, well, joining us this morning to go through the papers is stephanie takyi and andy jones. good to see you both this morning, andy. let's start with the story on most of the papers this morning about, dan poulter, the tory mp who has defected to laboun >> yeah. duplicitous doctor dan. in some places they're they're not calling. that's . the that's not calling. that's. the that's my play on words. but, mp doctor dan poulter who was formerly health minister, has defected to the labour party on the eve of some polls that are coming out

this week. he says that he can no longer look his patients in the eye and his nhs colleagues in the eye because of the poor performance of the conservatives in the in terms of the nhs, there's 7.5 million people on there's 7.5 million people on the waiting list. the tipping point, well, among many different tipping points, said the mp for central suffolk and nonh the mp for central suffolk and north ipswich, was, he said that in terms of mental health, there were patients, particularly in his constituency, who were having to sort of travel hundreds of miles for treatment. they were kept in windowless rooms and sort of ignored. the government isn't serious about the nhs and isn't serious about mental health in particular. and he had reached the tipping point which had made him cross the floor. >> he's been very, very critical of the government on on health for quite some time now. >> yes, and he's it's not like this is out of the blue. no no no no absolutely not. i mean the interesting thing is why he's picked now i suppose the nhs isn't necessarily worse this week than it was sort of three months, but clearly his his patience has evaporated, he's obviously in a position to know he's a doctor on the front line. he's a psychiatrist. and also obviously was health minister. and he talks in the guardian

about how when he arrived in politics, that the labour party had done such a good job of turning the nhs around after sort of the major years and the underperformance of the conservatives, the last time they were in. and he said whilst he has conservative typically got conservative votes, he says now is the time for change and now is the time for change and now is the time for a change in government . government. >> well, he is right on that. i think, you know, almost after like 15 years under the conservatives, the nhs , the conservatives, the nhs, the quality of services that the nhs are providing is quite, you know, abysmal and quite not as good as it used to be. and to be honest, this is a man who is dedicated to health care services. so if he feels like he's lost the trust in the conservative government that hopefully a labour government will be able to get those services up and running, then, you know, all kudos to him. >> but would you trust someone who you know has campaigned and won as a conservative who then switches to the opposition? >> yeah, i would, because i

think instead there's a lot of mps who know what's happening with the conservatives. is this a sinking ship? and they're still trying to hold on to a party which is made a mockery of their nhs. so if he's actually being true with his constituents and saying, actually, it's no longer working under a conservative government, that's him being honest and he's saying what we already know about the nhs rather than selling us a pipe nhs rather than selling us a pipe dream, which a lot of these mps do . mps do. >> well, that's not you. think about that. gbnews.com/yoursay >> stephanie, let's stay with you, shall we? and we'll look at the front page of the mirror. and this is about smuggling gangs using nazi bunkers. >> it's a really interesting exclusive report by the mirror , exclusive report by the mirror, they sent a reporter near calais, and this reporter has spotted that a lot of kurdish men there actually hiding out in these, bunkers. these world war ii bunkers that were built by hitler . and basically, it's the hitler. and basically, it's the final spot where they hide before they get into the dinghies. and it seems like there's a growing number of

them. and it goes to show how dedicated and desperate these people are, because they will stay in these concrete relics for almost a day, just standing there waiting to get on these boats, and it seems to be growing in their numbers and this, this concrete relics, they're located between calais and dunkirk. and police have been watching them, but they're very limited in what they can do in trying to stop them, but it kind of begs to ask, what about the half £1 billion that rishi sunak gave to the french government to deal with these kind of things? because it seems like this money is going to waste, and it's kind of powerless in stopping these gangs from getting over the channel. if you know where they are and you just sort of watching them and you can't do anything until they actually get in a boat. >> and it seems a bit daft, isn't it? >> yeah, yeah. >> yeah, yeah. >> i mean, i've reported from, from that area and the sort of ad hoc migrant camps that have come up. but and as you say, the problem is, is you're not breaking the law until you

physically get in a boat and launch right? so you've got people milling around and they're a problem for local disorder. one of the other stories similarly in the front page of the times, also discusses how the migrant groups are launching from canals. because you can you can go further inland on a canal and then launch and then sort of just appear in the sea. and then, of course, once you've already got a head of steam in more ways than one, that you're significantly harder to intercept. and they talk about the story of a girl who was tragically drowned. i think she was seven years old, and they've got a profile of her and her story, but they're saying that they're using increasingly absurd and dangerous boats to try and get as many people across for as much money as they can. >> but you just wonder why. i mean, this case with the french, why they don't there isn't they can't apply common sense as if, you know, this is what people are aiming to do. why the laws can't be tweaked to mean you can stop them. >> well , i stop them. >> well, i think you're right, stephen. i think common sense is actually missing here. and i think it's just got to a point where i think they just don't know how to control it anymore.

i think it's gone above their heads. like this year alone, we've had 7000 people cross over the channel. and now that this rwanda bill has gone through, i can imagine it's going to increase even more because people are just desperate to get over the channel but i just think it's been a waste of half £1 billion, which could have gone into services here, well , possibly. >> i mean, the argument is that it's been you know, the numbers are down by a third or whatever. so it's having an impact, a slow impact. but yeah, not as much impact. but yeah, not as much impact as you want to see. >> i mean, the overall migration last year was three quarters of a million. wasn't it. the net migration into the uk. and the promise was to stop the boats, not limit the numbers . i mean, not limit the numbers. i mean, we can't we can't have these. sorry, sorry. we're kind of these extensive conversations about building an iron dome over britain and increasing our defence spending if and not just in terms of migrants. if you want to be hostile towards britain, you can just float across on a dinghy and attack us that way. i mean, there's a there's not just economic reasons and housing reasons and social reasons. there are issues of defence attached to this.

>> and no illegal migration is important . >> and no illegal migration is important. but do we get i mean, it's what i can't get my head around. you mentioned the net migration figures of that. a very small percentage of that is actually the illegal migration. yeah. so if we are concerned about the numbers coming here, i mean, obviously you want to stop the illegal stuff, obviously. but then why don't they just cut down? i mean, why don't we reducing the legal migration figures? i just think that the actual system is just become so overwhelmed thing. >> it's like, where do you even start to deal and tackle with all the legal ones, let alone the illegal ones as well? it's just it's completely overwhelmed andifs just it's completely overwhelmed and it's got to that point of tipping point. >> i mean, in terms of we've got this incredible population growth and then we need more people on the nhs to then look after the people that we've got. and then of course, they then are obviously going to be more migrants. and also in terms of house building, we say, oh, we need more houses because we keep inviting more people in the country, but also most building sites, certainly in london and the south, are very often more

migrants and migrant workers as well. so you're bringing more migrants in to solve the problem of having more migrants who are growing ageing population and round and round and round and round and round and round and round it goes, honestly , i round it goes, honestly, i wonder, no wonder people get annoyed about it all. >> let us know what you think of that gbnews.com/yoursay. andy let's have a look at sir keir starmer's pension promise. >> yeah . speaking of ageing >> yeah. speaking of ageing populations and growing populations, keir starmer has been. populations, keir starmer has been . sir keir starmer has been been. sir keir starmer has been under pressure to say whether or not he's going to keep the triple lock. he said he is going to keep the triple lock on pensions for at least five years. he's done quite an extensive interview or extensive statement to the express today . statement to the express today. the triple lock pension, our overall cost for pensions is currently 124 billion. and so it's a big sum. and the other politicians like lord william hague has been saying it's completely unsustainable to have the triple lock, which is obviously a triple lock, meaning if it moves pensions, state pensions up in line with inflation, average wage, or 2.5, whichever is more. we're told

it's too expensive. it's too, well, too expensive to handle. and but sir keir starmer said it's essential that we look after pensioners and we are going to keep it for five years. but who in an election year would ever say , yeah, i'm going would ever say, yeah, i'm going to get rid of the triple lock when i mean, pensioners formed such a big part of their block. well, exactly. >> they do. and he does know that he does have to connect with people who are in the retirement age or approaching retirement age or approaching retirement age. and i do hope he does stick to his promises, because my mum's always over the moon about triple lock, always talking about it. and i think it's one of those things. we do have an ageing population, so if they're not being provided for or thought of financially , then or thought of financially, then that's even going to be a bigger crisis for us in the future . so crisis for us in the future. so it is very important to honour such people with the support that they need in terms of benefits. >> but it's one of those things, isn't it, where it was, it was brought in and now you just can't back out of it, even if it becomes totally unaffordable. >> yeah. where i mean, william

hague was talking about how fiscally, financially there is no instrument to keep it alive because the more it goes up the more it has to go up. so it is a very, very difficult thing. but who is, who is going to burst the balloon? >> well, someone in the middle of a term , you know, 18 months, of a term, you know, 18 months, two years in, i mean, i'm, i'm 40 years old and i'm fairly confident that the pension when should i ever get it? >> i think i'll probably just end up working until i drop. really? i think that's sad. will barely will barely exist by the time. >> oh, yeah, that's what you say ? >> 7- >> yeah. i 7_ >> yeah. i don't ? >> yeah. i don't think it'll exist. >> no. what will exist ? >> no. what will exist? >> no. what will exist? >> well, it'll all have to be private pay. >> had to be saving ourselves. >> had to be saving ourselves. >> state pension will just is. >> state pension will just is. >> i think they'll just give a they'll give a lump sum to those who have qualified or paid for their national insurance, and then they'll just go after that. that's it. or it will diminish and dwindle down basically with and dwindle down basically with an age. >> i mean, this is why the whole it's a birthrate issue as well, isn't it? so you've got an ageing population and with fewer people being born, how do you pay people being born, how do you pay for it ? oh, i know people

pay for it? oh, i know people sort of think you you contribute and therefore you've your money is being saved in a pot for when you retire . but that's not how you retire. but that's not how it works. yeah. you pay now every month the, the, the money we pay is , is funding the we pay is, is funding the current lot of state pension. and so we need we need the youngsters to pay for ours and they won't and they won't. >> no. but you do hope that the government could factor this in as you are getting older. >> let's have a look at shirley ballas. yeah. >> should we. she's one of the hardest working women in showbiz. strictly come dancing judge. incredible dance professional. and she's opened up about her breast cancer scare. she says that she found lumpy tissue in her breast and she's undergone three biopsies. i think hopefully she is in the all clear. all clear. but she says it's been a very emotional journey, which, you know, anybody could really understand. and it it just brings this thing where women, when they do talk

about , you know, where women, when they do talk about, you know, finding lumps and stuff, it tends it's like with men, men sometimes get embarrassed talking about health scares. and it's the same with women. when it comes to their breasts either. a lot of women are not doing self checks, or most women try to ignore the call to go for a mammogram and, you know, you get you get called for a mammogram if you're age 50 to 70 every three years. but i actually think this should be lower. i think young from a young age, women should be getting into that thought of actually , you must be checking actually, you must be checking your boobs and actually you should go for a mammogram . i should go for a mammogram. i don't think breast cancer has any age. i think it can, you know, unfortunately, target anybody. i think a lot of people would welcome that. >> yeah, because cervical smears are from 25 aren't they. >> so that's very young. so why are we waiting till breast cancen are we waiting till breast cancer. it's funny that you then wait till 50. >> yeah. it's just too long. and i think, you know, as girls are growing up, they need to be aware of this. but so, so i think it's always good when celebrities open up about this. and it's really important. so her interview in the sun is all about just promoting the

importance of going for your mammogram when you're called to do so, it's difficult though, isn't it, because the it's like the nhs becoming a prevention service rather than which it wasn't ever designed. yeah. and obviously prevention is better than cure. yeah. but you know, it's how much would it cost to then extend mammograms and then you've got the smears and then , you've got the smears and then, but then what about for us we need yeah. you know, at what stage would you bring in prostate and testicular checks and all that sort of thing you'd be there for. you'd be going. there'd be all the time the door , wouldn't that? >> but is that cheaper than, than treating somebody . treating. >> yeah. i think also we create when we're guilty of this. we talk about so doom and gloom with the nhs and obviously rightfully so in lots of ways. and i think we build this climate mentally . if people go, climate mentally. if people go, no, i don't want to go to the doctor, i don't want to go because it's going to be too stressful. i'll never i'm not even going to try and get an appointment because i won't get one. but i do say, as stephanie said, you know, do check if you do find something, go. because so many of these cancers are treatable. if they're caught early. and i take your point that if we're having to go and

check all the time, it creates strain on the nhs. but obviously treating somebody and catching it early and preventative is significantly less expensive. and labour, i think saving than, you know, ignoring it and waiting till it could get worse . waiting till it could get worse. >> i do think the nhs needs to be more efficient though . i've. be more efficient though. i've. i've done an official complaint to my gp surgery. >> oh have you. >> oh have you. >> oh have you. >> oh how long is it going to take for them to deal with it then. >> well say ten days, but it's just because they did something which was like completely inefficient. and i said, you know, you've not only wasted my time, more importantly you've wasted your own. yeah. we haven't got any time or money or the rest of it. and that's what annoys me. >> and seeing wastage in the system. stupid >> anyway. anyway andy to the telegraph , anthony blunt, heck, telegraph, anthony blunt, heck, i haven't heard that name for a while . while. >> yeah. so soviet double agent anthony blunt, who had his knighthood stripped for his , knighthood stripped for his, double agent, i suppose where he was, he was very high up in m15, very high up in the military,

very high up in the military, very high up in the military, very high up in british government. and he was passing secrets to the soviets. he has been, the finger pointed him as also being a double agent for germany during the second world war. so he particularly there was a double agent that there was a double agent that there was codenamed josephine , who the was codenamed josephine, who the british government knew about but were unable to nail or or or catch the person and the passing absolute prime intelligence to the germans during the second world war, particularly around operation market garden , operation market garden, operation market garden being our big, paratroop , dump of men our big, paratroop, dump of men across, to try and win mainland europe back, which subsequently cost about 20,000 british lives. it was a disaster in many ways because the germans basically knew all about it, and they basically arrived allied soldiers to drop out of the sky and then just shot them. and these thousands of young men who had barely had opportunity to train, barely even been in the air before, were shot dead before they even landed. and it was a terrible, terrible tragedy for britain and its allies, there's an author that has named

sir anthony blunt as this person. so not only was he allegedly, not well, obviously, not only was he passing information to the soviets, apparently was also passing information to the germans. >> it doesn't it doesn't beg a belief, does it ? if he's capable belief, does it? if he's capable of doing one. you think he was capable of doing the other? >> well, yeah, i mean, we i mean, obviously relations with russia have been very hot and cold over the last century, but we were, i suppose, theoretically fighting on the same side as russia and giving russia information was one thing, although our obviously our relations with russia were very complicated during the second world. but passing information to the germans was it was something absolutely beyond the pale. and i don't think he's ever really justified. i mean, obviously he's long deceased now, but then he's long deceased now, but then he gave a really justified his actions or explained them ehhen actions or explained them either. he was part of a cambridge five group of former cambridge five group of former cambridge graduates who were passing information to various non—british non—allied, members, but , yeah, non—british non—allied, members, but, yeah, he's blamed for the failure of operation market garden by an author today,

although he obviously wouldn't be able to defend himself because he's not. >> no, it's actually this author. >> it's fascinating reading stuff, but what you can't ever do is actually get to the bottom. >> well, that's what kind of irritates me when these stories come out, because they make good reads. but then again, it feels like it's just left unanswered and the person's not around really, to give their point of view or their side of the story. >> yeah, that'd be nice if we could actually uncover some actual proper hard evidence on that one. i do find it all fascinating, especially the cold war stuff . war stuff. >> oh, it is so fascinating. >> oh, it is so fascinating. >> but you do wonder what people were thinking. >> well, you gotta wonder what's going on now. i mean , there's going on now. i mean, there's two individuals, i think, charged as part of espionage links to china. so i think this is an ever present threat for us. >> us. >> yeah. certainly is. thanks both . we'll see you a little bit both. we'll see you a little bit later on. >> let's get the weather now with marco. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar , sponsors of weather on . solar, sponsors of weather on. gb news. >> hello. here's your latest

weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east, generally a bit brighter. the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the south—east we could see skies brightening briefly , but this could set off briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time, whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today here. but again, nofice bright today here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day . around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east, coupled with quite a strong northerly breeze. no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here, whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the north—east, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday. elsewhere it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly , could will turn quite chilly, could see a local frost by monday

morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as the showers come back in. across the west. there as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at times to some longer spells of rain , and although a pretty wet rain, and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of 12 or 13 celsius towards the north, up to 15 or 16 degrees in the southeast. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sponsors of weather on

gb news. >> good morning to you. it's 7:00 sunday. the 28th of april. today, tory rebels plotting to oust the pm following dan poulter's defection to labour. >> is the rwanda plan already

working? while the prime minister thinks so? as he says, migrants heading to ireland show the scheme is a deterrent . the scheme is a deterrent. >> but in ireland, anger's brewing over the government's approach to housing asylum seekers, with protests planned today. dougie beattie has the latest . latest. >> irish police turn on the locals in order to force an immigration centre through . immigration centre through. >> a dangerous escalation or essential to deliver aid. the government considers deploying british troops on the ground in gaza, and it's been a weekend of miserable weather. >> we'll be looking at how heavy rain across the country is expected to cause travel disruption . disruption. >> good morning jurgen klopp's liverpool farewell is ending on a sour note, as he was involved in a bust up with star striker mo salah, who had been dropped for the draw at west ham, which all but ended the reds title hopes. today, though, it's all eyes on the north london derby this afternoon as tottenham host

arsenal. >> hello. good morning. we'll see an east west split in our weather today across the uk. rain at times in the east generally a little bit brighter the further west you go. i'll have all the details later . have all the details later. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on . gb news. someone breakfast on. gb news. someone called brexit failure has been in touch. i wish people would use their real names just because it is weird saying all these odd things. anyway, it says why do people assume they should get a good pension? well, if you, if there's a, there's a system isn't there for state pension and we all pay into it. >> yeah. if people have worked hard their whole lives and paid into it every month, they might feel like it would add up to a nice lump sum at the end. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh, this is an interesting one. dog says i'm resident out in dan poulter's constituency .

in dan poulter's constituency. he's the mp who's defected to laboun he's the mp who's defected to labour. the tories defected to laboun labour. the tories defected to labour. he's not liked by the locals , especially when he locals, especially when he blocked a much needed northern bypass , anyway, it goes on and bypass, anyway, it goes on and on and on, but not a fan of dan poulter , which is interesting poulter, which is interesting because obviously he's an mp who actually i mean, he also works in the health service and who has been very critical of the government for quite some time now. this isn't sort of out of the blue, it would seem . he's the blue, it would seem. he's not really, chiming with his, tory constituents anyway. >> yeah . and i wonder how the >> yeah. and i wonder how the constituents feel, considering they they voted tory and now they they voted tory and now they have a labour mp . they have a labour mp. >> yeah. do let us know what you think about that. >> if you live in ipswich or suffolk . suffolk. >> yeah, it's an interesting one. but what it has done is spur on the sort of disaffected parts of the tory party where tory rebels are annoyed it's happening . but according to the

happening. but according to the telegraph today, it's led to a whole load of backbenchers working on 100 day roadmap to turn around their election chances , which apparently chances, which apparently involve a policy blitz , and then involve a policy blitz, and then installing penny mordaunt as prime minister. well, of course , prime minister. well, of course, this all follows the defection of dan poulter yesterday . of dan poulter yesterday. >> he is a former health minister who works part time as a mental health doctor, and he has slammed the conservatives over failing the nhs , declaring over failing the nhs, declaring only labour has the will and trust to reform the nhs. >> our political correspondent olivia utley is here. i mean, whichever way you look at it, it's a heck of a blow to the prime minister. >> it is a massive blow for the prime minister and also , i mean, prime minister and also, i mean, you could argue that that dan poulter just knows what you could argue that that dan poulterjust knows what side his poulter just knows what side his bread buttered on. labour is about to win the general election big time . also, we are election big time. also, we are all assuming. but actually dan poulter has an enormous majority. he is one of very few conservative mps who would probably be safe at the next general election, which leads us to assume that he must have actually defected on principle because of the strains on the

nhs. i think there are other conservatives in the party who think that it's true that probably only labour at this point is able to save the nhs, mainly because cause every time the conservatives talk about any form of , of prioritising form of, of prioritising resources , they are told that resources, they are told that they are privatising the nhs, whereas the issue is sort of less toxic for labour, which is interesting because wes streeting , the shadow health streeting, the shadow health secretary, actually has talked about some pretty big reform. wes streeting is talking about reforms that no tory health secretary would dare to talk about because it would be so extreme and because there would be so much back chat , extreme and because there would be so much back chat, probably from labour, apart from anyone else, about privatising the nhs . else, about privatising the nhs. so i think there is probably some truth in what dan poulter is saying, although perhaps not in the way that he means it. i mean, that said, what does it mean, that said, what does it mean apart from this one defection? well, it has certainly got the rebels excited . there are a group of, i would say, about 20 conservative mps in the party who really want to see rishi sunak out before the

next general election. they think that the tories are heading for an extinction level . heading for an extinction level. that's what they call it, defeat in the next general election . in the next general election. and what they're trying to do now is get some other backbenchers on side. they need a group of 52 mps to write letters of no confidence in the prime minister to trigger a vote of no confidence, and they're trying to whip up some support for that. now they want to gather around penny mordaunt as a next potential leader . their a next potential leader. their calculation is that if they get those 52 mps to write letters of no confidence, there would be this vote. sunak would probably win it, but then they would persuade him that his position was untenable and he would have to stand down anyway. i'm not so sure. that's right. i think if he were to win a vote of no confidence, rishi sunak would stay on. he's calculated that lots of his policy plans will come to fruition later in the yean come to fruition later in the year, and that later in the yean year, and that later in the year, the conservatives will be in a better position. >> what do you think of penny mordaunt's role in all of this? because she's distanced herself from the plotters, hasn't she?

but do you think she could be that uniting figure for the tory party? >> i think it's a really interesting question. i mean, in some ways, yes, she has got, she's got the sort of gravitas, i mean, i think the sword at the, at the coronation is ridiculous as it sounds, did did lend her some, some sort of gravitas. and she does have friends, both on the right and the left of the party. that said, there are plenty of conservative mps who really don't like her and who say that she is a pretty vacuous and that actually she only has friends on the left and the right of the party because she doesn't really believe in anything herself . and believe in anything herself. and the other huge issue, of course, with penny mordaunt, which isn't her fault, but she has a very, very small majority in her portsmouth seat. and of course, it would be incredibly embarrassing for the conservatives if their leader and the prime minister were to lose her seat in the general election. >> oh, wouldn't it just wouldn't it just i mean, it also begs the question in all of this, why would anyone run like penny mordaunt, want to take take up

the mantle of prime minister when it's your party is expected to lose the general election , to lose the general election, you know, in the months beforehand because , you know, it beforehand because, you know, it tends to be that if you lose a general election as leader, you step back. >> well, exactly. and i suppose, the thing with penny mordaunt, it comes back again to this small majority in a way. she has nothing to lose . it would be nothing to lose. it would be more sensible for a leadership hopeful to wait until after a crushing defeat in the general election, and then try and raise the conservative party, phoenix like out of the ashes. but penny mordaunt perhaps doesn't really have that choice because she is likely to lose her seat. so for her, it might be worth that kind of final roll of the dice. and i think that is how a lot of conservative mps are viewing it as just one final roll of the dice, even if even if they know that the conservatives will probably lose anyway, they want to mitigate against an absolutely huge defeat because the size of the conservative defeat really, really matters. if, as some of the predictions

are suggesting, there are only sort of just over 100 mps on the conservative benches, labour will be able to get through some, you know, its most radical measures, whereas if there's a really strong opposition then it'll be a sort of fairer fight in government and there's a higher chance of a conservative government next time round. and i think lots of conservatives are now looking at the next election, not this oh , one, god, election, not this oh, one, god, i've got so many questions we want to ask you. >> just back to john paul coyte, because i'm very interested in the timing of all of this, because if he wants to step down at the next election, which could be as early as july, why would he not just hang on, is this anything to do with the local elections that we're going to be seeing this week, do you think? >> i think there's an element of that. i mean, there is going to be a lot of, the morale in the conservative party we expect will be very, very low after the local elections next week. and i think quite a lot of plotters and rebels will start showing their hand at the end of next week. it could be that dan poulter is keen to prove to his

constituents and to the general pubuc constituents and to the general public that this isn't a cynical move. if he moved next week after a disastrous conservative wave, defeat, then it would look as though he just knew what side his bread was bust on and wanted to be with the party. who was going to win the next general election by doing it now, he can sort of stave off some of those criticisms, and he has been very , very clear on his reasons for changing party. and it is all, according to him, at least about the nhs. >> okay, olivia, thank you very much indeed. >> we'll catch up with you later. i was just having sorry. >> did i steal your question? you had a question as well? >> well, it was only about. i was just talking about the likelihood of a july election. oh, yeah. >> well, i wanted to know that because i. >> well, i really hope not, because i booked my holidays. oh, well, there you have. >> well, i just think if there's enough momentum building up, wouldn't the prime minister want to sort of not risk being ousted unceremoniously? >> my, my instinct is still that he will hold off for a later in the year general election, just because there are all of these policies that he's putting into

place now which will come to fruition, he hopes later in the year.i fruition, he hopes later in the year. i mean, why would he call a general election after working so hard on the rwanda plan before flights have actually taken off to rwanda, for example? and there's interest rates to which we are expecting to go down. why call a general election while people are still in mortgage hell when they could, when he could just wait six months, when things will hopefully be on a better trajectory ? trajectory? >> okay, very good point, olivia utley. >> thank you very much indeed. >> thank you very much indeed. >> it's fascinating. you're not happy. >> it's fascinating. you're not happy . oh they're not you're not happy. oh they're not you're not happy. oh they're not you're not happy. you're not happy with lots of quite nasty things about dan poulter. >> oh , no. >> oh, no. »- >> oh, no. >> stephen emmott says dan poulter has helped rishi sunak because it's one less letter. at the 1922 committee. oh but there you go. a lot of people saying he's labour and the conservatives are too close. they're very similar at the moment , they're very similar at the moment, penny mordaunt is not the answer. she's just like the incumbent, oh, there you go. it's it just all feels like it's falling apart a little bit.

>> it does a little bit. let us know what you think about a july election as well. would you rather see an election sooner rather see an election sooner rather than later? yes. or do you think the pm should hang on to a little bit later on in the yean to a little bit later on in the year, when things he hopes start to work? >> i just sort of think, get on with it now. i'm fed up of waiting. >> well, you've been saying i thought, i thought we could have had a may election, but then obviously that was. >> yeah, that hasn't happened. >> yeah, that hasn't happened. >> but i sort of think because the pm was asked about a july election and didn't didn't rule it out . it out. >> it's true. i don't know. >> it's true. i don't know. >> it's true. i don't know. >> i just i'd like to get it out of the way. >> i just think what he's like, because you want to go on your houday because you want to go on your holiday trip , but it's like holiday trip, but it's like ripping off a plaster. >> i know you just need to get on with it now. >> i know i'm with you live. i think it'll be later on in the yeah think it'll be later on in the year. now the prime minister has said the rwanda deterrent is already working, as many asylum seekers are worried about coming here. he says yeah. >> it comes after the recent influx of migrants crossing the border from northern ireland into the republic government figures indicate there are 1758 people who sought asylum in ireland , who are without an ireland, who are without an offer of state accommodation ,

offer of state accommodation, while ireland's foreign minister, micheal martin, has connected britain's controversial rwanda policy to their failure to control migration after brexit, let's head to belfast . migration after brexit, let's head to belfast. dougie beattie is there for us this morning. i mean, clearly, i mean the concern over this in ireland is building up momentum, isn't it? >> well, stephen, i'm actually in newtown, mon county, in the repubuc in newtown, mon county, in the republic of ireland in the beautiful wicklow mountains, in behind me and it was here, dunng behind me and it was here, during this week that, that relations have really broken down local people here really objecting. and you can see, i mean, this is a rural road. and if i just look at this , this is if i just look at this, this is modern day ireland. there is barriers across this road stopping people getting on, anything at all. don't access to this road . and if we look across this road. and if we look across this road. and if we look across this way here, we will see a gaa pitch. this is normally on a

sunday. absolutely full of young people playing gaa . now there is people playing gaa. now there is an immigration centre due to open just down behind us here over the barrier. and for the last 6 or 7 weeks there have been protests here every single day. now on earlier on in the week that broke down as they tried to move, people into this area, private security firms escorted by the garda siochana, the police , the irish police the police, the irish police that's behind us. and what really did happen then was quite extraordinary. we had scenes of the riot squad, the irish police riot squad turning on irish locals in this very quiet and picturesque area in order to enforce the policy of the government . and i spoke with government. and i spoke with kevin hague , who is a local kevin hague, who is a local representative here, and this is what he had to say to me. >> and the proposal is to put 28 man tents onto the site to house

160 young men. we feel that's morally wrong . you can't just morally wrong. you can't just dump people in a field in wicklow and expect things to go well. it's a very community led protest and right from the start we've kept it very non—political. we're not interested in right wing politics, we're not interested in racism or anything like that. this is community. people saying this is wrong for our. community. >> now you can hear him saying, there they are not right wing. this is as liberal and as as beautiful a place as you get. actually ever come across. i mean, there is no right wing in ireland . ireland is one of the ireland. ireland is one of the most liberal places you will ever come to, but over the past five years, there's over a million, a million non—irish registered in ireland. and they have came here over the last years. and if that's only those that are registered, if you're here illegally, of course you're not going to register. and we've been covering this for two years now, and it is really now coming

to a head. and with local elections coming up, stephen, and the european elections, this could really change the political map of ireland . political map of ireland. >> okay. dougie beattie, good to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed . very much indeed. >> 7:15. let's have a look at some of the other stories heading into the newsroom this morning. >> and two men were arrested at a pro—palestine protest in london yesterday. police say one of the men was holding a placard with a swastika, and the other made a racist remark towards counter—protesters. the event, which was organised by the palestine solidarity campaign , palestine solidarity campaign, was calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza . ceasefire in gaza. >> humza yousaf is asking leaders of rival parties to find common ground with the snp as his leadership hangs in the balance. his spokesperson, though, has ruled out any sort of electoral pact with alex salmond's alba party . a salmond's alba party. a spokesperson is admitting that dismissing the idea as fantasy , dismissing the idea as fantasy, he said mr yousaf is reaching out to those political opponents ahead of a no confidence motion

expected this week. >> a gold pocket watch recovered from the body on the richest man on the titanic has been sold at auction for a record breaking £1,175,000. it had only been expected to fetch around 150,000, the previous highest amount paid for a titanic artefact was 1.1 million for a violin, played as the ship sank , violin, played as the ship sank, and the white house correspondents dinner has wrapped up in washington, journalists and politicians were met by palestinian protesters as they arrived. >> however, joe biden made the most of the situation, poking fun at donald trump . of course, fun at donald trump. of course, the 2024 election is in full swing, and yes , age is an issue. swing, and yes, age is an issue. >> i'm a grown man running against a six year old. but donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy

weather. what the hell ? weather. what the hell? >> i have to say, the corresponding dinner in the states is legendary because it's where the, the presidents have a lot of fun poked at them. do they ? oh, yeah. yeah, yeah. i they? oh, yeah. yeah, yeah. i mean, and they they performed a little stand up routine and all the rest of it. donald trump was the rest of it. donald trump was the only president in i don't know how long who refused to have one. oh, well, it happened he refused to turn up. oh so because it sort of organised by somebody else and they're the guest of honour. oh, i see, but donald trump would never go though he went to other people's. i think he went to obama's one of obama's, ones. and trump was in the audience , and trump was in the audience, but he wouldn't go to his own , i but he wouldn't go to his own, i think you've got to be a little bit more thick skinned than that

, i have to be prepared to have the mickey taken out of you a little bit. it's good for the soul. biden has certainly made the best of his situation or the most of it , at the best of his situation or the most of it, at least. yeah, it'd be interesting to see what people said about him in the sort of longer clips and things. yeah, because there will have been some jibes about him. >> well, absolutely. it's like a roast . roast. >> they call it a roast. yeah. >> they call it a roast. yeah. >> it's a very american thing, isn't it? yes yeah. do you keep those views coming in on anything that we're talking about today? gbnews.com/yoursay. shall we take a look at the weather now? >> oh, let's. >> oh, let's. >> here's marco. >> here's marco. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb news is . weather on gb news is. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the southeast,

we could see skies brightening briefly , but this could set off briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time, whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today, here. but again, nofice bright today, here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day . around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east, coupled with quite a strong northerly breeze, no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here. whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the northeast, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday . elsewhere, it hours of monday. elsewhere, it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly , could will turn quite chilly, could see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as the showers come back in. across the west. there as for monday, well again, an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at

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here's an interesting one from you. this morning. from bobby the builder . you. this morning. from bobby the builder. i don't you. this morning. from bobby the builder . i don't know if the builder. i don't know if that's a real name . why do we that's a real name. why do we allow our politicians to pick the date of the election? it's utter nonsense that a government can wait until it has the support it wants before it calls. one. but a lot of people would agree with you. but we had fixed term parliaments. were they brought in in 2010 and they ran for a couple of a couple of terms , and then they got rid of terms, and then they got rid of it and i can't remember why they got rid of it again, there you go. but i mean, it's the old argument, isn't it, because obviously whoever's in government is going to sort of time it to their, to their best advantage, if there is a good time for this one, for the conservatives, it doesn't look like there is. >> well, olivia utley was saying that rishi sunak may feel as though he wants to start to see things pan out well, so get those planes off to rwanda, get those planes off to rwanda, get those interest rates coming

down. >> i think people feel a bit fichen >> i think people feel a bit richer, might be a game changer. >> do you think it would be, though? >> i don't know. >> i don't know. >> i'm not, but i think i think if you were rishi sunak, you'd want to give yourself the best shot, best shot. you could see why you'd want to give it a little bit of time to see if it could i just because then at least he can say, look, the plan is there. it's working. you've just got to give us a bit more time. >> i just don't know if it's if it's going to be enough. is it to convince people? well, let us know. yeah. gb views at gp news.com on that one. but thanks bobby for getting in touch on that one this morning. >> now , british troops could be >> now, british troops could be deployed on the ground in gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route. yeah, the united states has said no american forces would go ashore , and that forces would go ashore, and that an unnamed third party would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach. >> well, the uk is understood to be considering tasking british troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month. >> whitehall sources have said no decision has been made as yet, and the mod and the israeli army have so far declined to

comment . comment. >> well, earlier we spoke with defence editor at the evening standard, robert fox. >> i the sort of thing that british troops ought to do. but we have the terrible cover , as we have the terrible cover, as it were, of the american argument that they won't put their troops in harm's way. and in this kind of operation , in this kind of operation, america has form, america held up going into kosovo in 1999 because they were worried about force protection. there was very little opposition then. it's very strange the way they they they operate, they're very well aware of force protection , by aware of force protection, by the way, in afghanistan and yet took huge amounts of casualties when they took over a hot spot like sangin from british forces. no, the wide aid operation, i think, is going to be a very important and always has been an

important and always has been an important part of british forces. but i do understand the reticence of whitehall and particularly number 10, in that they want cover and guarantees . they want cover and guarantees. i think one, there must be a un mandate and i think the israelis, hamas and islamic jihad must be explained what the rules of engagement are, there is a potential from of vulnerability from either side. and but i think it can be done. but i think britain would want to do it with an ally. and i would suspect that would be a scandinavian and possibly france. well, couldn't he, i mean, why can't it be done on and i don't know quite how these things work, robert, but under the, under the banner of, peacekeeping , i think that's peacekeeping, i think that's exactly what it would be if they were blue helmets. we're only talking, i think, of a few hundred drivers . it's quite hundred drivers. it's quite limited, but they are, as you rightly read in your in from your intro that they're going on the beach. they are potentially in harm's way. but i'm finding

this very, very difficult . this very, very difficult. potentially. that's what happens to soldiers , people in the armed to soldiers, people in the armed services. you don't expect to be get to get killed or shot, but risk is inherent in it. and this is a very good thing. i think lord cameron will want this to happen because it gives britain leverage and they really want to bnng leverage and they really want to bring the whole gaza, rafah business to a conclusion within weeks. that's when they've really got to push the israelis on that, on that, as well as hamas , because they really want hamas, because they really want it wrapped up and who wants it most of all, joe biden, because he doesn't want to go into a general election campaign. that is the election post the conventions for the presidency. with all this hanging around, still , he's with all this hanging around, still, he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine big time , and he's still ukraine big time, and he's still got the houthis, but he wants this one. i think, resolved whether he'll get it. i think it's about 5050 at the moment, robert fox there for you now,

still to come. aidan magee going to have all the latest sports use, including bus stop with mo salah

.oh . oh >> welcome back to breakfast at 733. aidan magee is with us now to talk us through all of the sport and the north london derby. today >> oh, what a huge game. 2:00 at the tottenham hotspur stadium. now, arsenal don't historically travel very well there, but they did win their two nil last season. the bookies made them slight favourites as well. now it's not just any north london derby , i should say at this derby, i should say at this point that that's the one derby in the top six calendar, which has never really disappointed in the 31 that matters. >> aidan. well, it does matter. >> aidan. well, it does matter. >> i mean, lots of them matter. you can make a case for lots of

different derbies all around the world, but this is the one that produces decent games, because what happens with other derbies is that because there's so much at stake, often the size of the players just clam up a little bit. sometimes the nerves get to the crowd as well, but with with the crowd as well, but with with the north london derby, they tend to really go at each other and we've seen some spectacular matches down the years. given what's on this one today, i'm not taking for granted that we'll get a brilliant game, but nonetheless , arsenal have huge nonetheless, arsenal have huge ambition, a huge incentive to try and stay ahead of manchester city, albeit manchester city have a game in hand . tottenham have a game in hand. tottenham have a game in hand. tottenham have their own ambitions as well. i mean, man, aston villa losing losing their lead yesterday and just getting a point against chelsea just derailed them slightly. open the door to tottenham to get that fourth place which they've been striving for all season . and striving for all season. and that's the end game for them. if they got the top four players into the champions league, that would be a huge season for ange postecoglou. and look, there's all the spice that goes into this match. mikel arteta has even been contacting arsene wenger, the last person to win a premier league title for arsenal back in 2004. to get a little bit of advice to and just get a

little bit of a know how to help arsenal over line and also to help them in this fixture because arsenal's a very good, very good, very good record in this game. >> had a request from cockney stamps. >> you have you're gonna have to do it. no. >> come on you spurs . >> come on you spurs. >> come on you spurs. >> so big game today. >> so big game today. >> come on ellie give us a come on you spurs aren't you. >> sorry. you are a bit of a spurs fan aren't you. yes >> so one at a time. i nap today. >> i should mention as well we didn't mention last hour. harry. harry kane in in germany got his 400th career goal yesterday 42. oh he's very good isn't he? the best striker in the world? bar none really. yeah. extraordinary. >> extraordinary right. let's have a look at mo salah and jurgen klopp. we've had a big falling out. >> they have i mean look bust up to me is sort of fisticuffs isn't it. we didn't see any of that. but he like cold war tension. yeah possibly. yeah. that's that's the phrase i was at. yeah. >> that's exactly what you're looking for. yeah i know for the radio listeners you can see the picture there. oh, don't go there. okay. >> we can see, see, see the picture there on screen. that's jurgen klopp. now they've suffered a bit of a tumultuous few weeks haven't they. they

looked two weeks ago when they were playing crystal palace at home, as if they were going to be part of this three way tussle for the top of the premier league. the word triumvirate was used week after week by myself and nobody else. but they fallen away. they lost at home to crystal palace. they went out of the europa league and yesterday they had one last chance to just keep on the coattails of arsenal, manchester city and they blew it quite frankly. they went two one up at west ham a fixture they tend to do quite well in and they just conceded a goal well in and they just conceded a goal. mo salah was dropped at the start of the game. i mean this is a guy who scored. i mean i've got the numbers down here, 210 goals in 346 appearances. he has every right to feel aggrieved at not being in that starting line—up, although he hasn't been playing well the last few days. and i guess jurgen klopp wanted to make a statement that nobody is above reproach when it comes to if you're performing below par, you're performing below par, you're going to sit on the bench. so he came on. jurgen klopp kind of said something to him. salah appeared to take umbrage. he went back and said something else, pointing, pointing his finger at them. and then afterwards, in the mixed zone, which is the area where the journalists get to speak to the journalists get to speak to the players, my source in the mixed zone said to me that mo salah walked past them, and

actually this has been reported quite widely now. but he turned back and said, if i speak about this, there will be fire. i mean, that's not the kind of language you hear from top players these days because the scrutiny is on these guys so much. that's a purely emotional response . they think more now response. they think more now about what they say. they have media training for that purpose , media training for that purpose, steven, because they have to be very considered about what they what they say in the media because everything because everything is blown up out of all proportion. and that was a very pointed , pointed statement. very pointed, pointed statement. we know that jurgen klopp is leaving and it's not being a very encouraging end to his to his reign, which is a shame because he's done brilliantly there in the eight and a half, nine years that he's been there. mo salah i think in the drifting into the last year of his contract is the last opportunity this summer for liverpool to get some money for him. i think we're going to see him end up in saudi. >> yeah, just to clarify, because i do not do any media training, especially not with footballers. no. so obviously klopp's on his way out. we know that. yeah, yeah. ten hag that is yesterday's sealed the deal for him do we think. >> well look yeah one one at

home to burnley. that's pretty poon home to burnley. that's pretty poor. they are meant to be going to for europe here. it's not like the season is petering out. but they've got to cling on to a european place if they possibly can. but i mean look you're not a football fan. neither of you. but there you are. >> i dare you , i love >> i dare you, i love hospitality, you love hospitality. >> i'm quite partial to a bit of hospitality, i must admit. but no. look, this is comical, ali. yesterday. i mean, you draw at home to burnley. you can see the goal home to burnley. you can see the goal. three minutes from time. what do you want your managers to say? you want him to. you want. you want someone to blame. you want to find out what he's going to do about it, what's going to do about it, what's going to do about it, what's going to happen in the next game, who's going to be dropped? instead, he says, we are one of the most dynamic and entertaining teams in the league at the moment. >> well, that doesn't matter if you're not scoring the goals. well. >> this is well, he's saying that there have been 38 goals in the last eight eight games. that's including the opposition as well. so yes, i get his point. it is entertaining. but ask anyone who's been to old trafford this season. there's not been much entertainment there. they've been very poor, very poor. >> they'd rather not be entertained but still win, wouldn't they? >> well, i don't know. it's interesting because you look at west ham for example, they win more games than they lose or they certainly get more points than they have had in various

times in their history. and they're in the top eight at the moment. but the fans are cheesed off because they don't see they think the football is boring. so yeah, you know, you know, it's pleasing these football fans. >> no there isn't there isn't . >> no there isn't there isn't. let's have a look at trump should we. >> not that one. >> not that one. >> not that one. >> no. well this is interesting because the world snooker championship is underway at the moment. ronnie o'sullivan in action against ryan day 1 pm. later on at the crucible. but judd trump has revealed a former world champion himself. of course, he revealed that he has been approached to enter into a breakaway snooker league. now what we don't know is that is whether this is some saudi, i would imagine, against anything . would imagine, against anything. my would imagine, against anything. my bottom. in fact, i'll risk my bottom dollar on it that it would be a saudi backed proposition, he said. not interested. he's done a rory mcilroy. yeah. not interested. not going there. i don't want to play not going there. i don't want to play exhibitions. i want to play world world title events and compete for the biggest prizes. now, if they come back with a bigger sum of money. >> yeah. well, yeah. >> yeah. well, yeah. >> judd trump famously said he's more interested in money than he is than he is on, in titles, which is understandable. you

know? you know why not? we makes the world go round, isn't it? this, that stuff that we can do that with our hands. >> well yeah. >> well yeah. >> yeah. well we shall see on that. it'd be interesting to see if he did change his mind. >> well, it did, i mean, look, we said last week, we know we you know, we understand that snooker are thinking of taking away the world title away from the world championships, away from the crucible, which suggests it could go round the world. and i wonder whether they said that eddie hearn, in response to learning of this development because of the players start getting tempted as they have in golf as they they have in golf and as they possibly might do in in tennis, then that blows away the whole thing and maybe eddie hearn was just second guessing what was going to happen further down the line. and maybe preventing the problem before it becomes a bigger problem for them. >> perhaps, maybe. aidan, good to see you. good to see you. thank you very much indeed. still to come. do stay with us. we're going to be looking through the papers with stephanie takyi and andy jones. that's

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going to be going through the papers now with stephanie takyi and andy jones. papers now with stephanie takyi and andy jones . very good and andy jones. very good morning to you both. and, andy, shall we start with the infected blood scandal? it's on the front page of the observer today . page of the observer today. >> yeah. i'm really pleased that this is getting a lot of momentum. this is on the front page. finally, the front page of the sunday times last week, getting dozens of mps to sign up to a proper inquiry, proper an apology, proper compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal and the observer have done another story today discussing the basis of where this blood scandal came from, and also who not, who knew what and also who not, who knew what and when. so the infected blood scandal is centred on haemophiliacs who were unknowingly given in the 70s and 80s. this blood product, derived from america, which subsequently gave them, in some cases, hiv , gave them, in some cases, hiv, hepatitis c, other stories that are lady talking to the bbc recently was saying that she went into hospital after giving birth . she was given a blood birth. she was given a blood transfusion and she basically woke up with hepatitis c and all these other illnesses and the life limiting impact on her

severe illness afterwards, the stigma of having hepatitis , stigma of having hepatitis, you've got hepatitis c and people thinking you're a drug addict or you have lots of illicit sex or something like that. the observer talk about the basis of where this story came from, where in america , came from, where in america, across several states, there were basically farming blood from convicted convicts and charging, giving them money and various other people money for the blood samples and giving lots of plasma so they could create these products for haemophiliacs. but there was no check and care as to whether or not these convicts had these awful illnesses , etc. and of awful illnesses, etc. and of course, if you take one and this is the true horror of it, if you take one blood sample from one person who's got hiv and then mix it with all of these other samples, the whole sample then has it. and then these are given to children in the uk in the 70s and 80s, usually given to patients who went in for entirely normal conditions and then left with these awful, awful cases. and they spoke to an american doctor who said as

early as 1975, he was warned in the american government and by proxy, the english, the british government, who would have known. and it was sort of we're taking blood in this way. it's been used in medicines , it's been used in medicines, it's used in transfusions in the uk. why doesn't why aren't we doing something about it? so there's going to be almost a post office style inquiry of who knew what and when. who got away with it, who made money out of it, and how many people are affected and it's impacted. people still to this day who are living with life limiting conditions. they've lost parents. they've lost loved ones. they've lost children. no answers, no apologies , no compensation. apologies, no compensation. >> horrific. >> horrific. >> i just no pun intended . it >> ijust no pun intended. it actually makes my blood boil. and it just it's quite sickening , actually. and i just think it's really shocking how this has not been brought to light or not really looked into almost, you know, 50 years later and knowing that people have now had this lifelong sentence, it's really a miscarriage of justice here. and it's just sad. i think

i've heard that itv are planning to do a series on this actually, so it will get further attention, but it's just sad that it takes it to over come on tv for these things to be really brought into the public's attention, and also just more for the victims getting the justice they deserve. >> yeah, it's just absolutely horrific . horrific. >> what's this in the telegraph, stephanie, about prince harry? >> well, he's he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. so he was presenting a military award and he wore all of his medals a set his coronation medal, which was given to him by his father for his participation, for everyone who contributed as a way of support to the king. so you can imagine the media are having a field day saying that he's snubbing his father. and i don't think that is actually the case. no, because a mountain expert has said that more than likely in america, where he is in california , he wouldn't have california, he wouldn't have been able to get the right fibbons been able to get the right ribbons to get this coronation medal mounted in time. and it

would have looked scruffy. so i don't think it was him actually snubbing. and even if you look in the picture, his one side of his blazer is all filled with medals and i don't think he he wouldn't have had space for them. >> and they can they can make them fit. the only thing i would say is coronation medals and things like that are and jubilee medals are, if you've got proper medals, as it were. yeah >> operational medals. >> operational medals. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> they're not considered proper medals. yeah. so a lot of soldiers wouldn't wear it on their. >> okay. >> okay. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> oh is he. that's good to know . but the way the media will paint it in the newspapers is that he is snubbing his father. and sometimes i think with this kind of fallout with harry and the royal family, it's just been made worse by such of these reports, you know, do we really know that harry was trying to snub his father by not wearing a medal? yeah. it's ridiculous, especially exactly what the king is going through at the moment. like these are not the kind of

stories we should be having in the papers is. >> no, it's not. it's not overly helpful. and as i say, it may be that i say because it's not operational, you might just not wear it. >> should we move swiftly on then? >> oh, should we andy? >> oh, should we andy? >> should we look at the telegraph online and columbia university. >> yeah. so columbia . university >> yeah. so columbia. university one of america's most prestigious universities. there's currently a sit in protest encampment on the grounds where which is essentially pro—palestine students setting up an encampment in protest against the war in gaza, which , you the war in gaza, which, you know, i support peaceful protest, but they're stopping jews entering the campus there. there's an issue where a jewish professor, jewish lecturer hasn't been able to enter the campus . there's a lot of campus. there's a lot of anti—semitism there. and there's been a rant where an individual in a black balaclava , they're in a black balaclava, they're always so proud of their protest, but they always cover their faces. these people always nofice their faces. these people always notice we're shouting about jews and security guards who were supposed to be guarding the entrance. were unmoved and didn't get involved. so it's,

again, a situation where people are saying horrendously anti—semitic things and the security who were supposed to be intervening in this private security in this case, rather than police , they're not doing than police, they're not doing anything about it. but one of the leaders of this protest on columbia , columbia university, columbia, columbia university, has also been apparently said, sort of anti—white things in the past. he talks about intifada, killing of zionists is absolutely fine. and it's a position where it goes far over and i support peaceful protests. i support these people having a right of protest. but it goes far over the line into sort of they're basically just attacking anyone who's jewish and it comes from a place of ignorance. there's incredible footage on this columbia university protest where they ask people, what are you protesting about . and they you protesting about. and they and they can't even explain there. so, yeah, we're just protesting because because somebody else was protesting and it's just all because of all the bad stuff happening in middle east. and it's like, well, you don't even know why you're there. no. and they're asked whether they know what intifada means. and they just have no idea. and they're shouting

intifada, intifada. and they've got no. yeah. and these are supposed to be america's youngest, brightest and best. and but this is the level of ignorance is astonishing. >> this is what happens. and i never understand with these people who then you often see on twitter, actually with these people who claim you look at their profile, they're all about love and peace and understanding, and we all need to be kinder to one another and other people who speak , getting other people who speak, getting the most bile on there. >> well, this is what goes over my head with these protests because i'm all up for peaceful protest , and because i'm all up for peaceful protest, and i think people should have the right to protest about issues they care about. but the problem is you're not protesting correctly if you're spreading hate, you're doing the exact thing which you're trying to eliminate. and it just it just doesn't make sense. and i think that's been the sad thing about this war, how it's trickled down into society and really made it against, you know, pro—palestine against, you know, pro—palestine against, you know, jewish people . and it know, jewish people. and it doesn't need to be that way. you know, you can protest but still be respectful of people's faiths. >> right. stephanie, let's have a look at something totally different because we need to have something a bit lighter this morning. yeah. and tim

peake who. our astronaut. yes. is talking about life on millions of planets across the universe. >> he believes he's quite respected astronaut. he believes that aliens do exist. he spent. up that aliens do exist. he spent. up to 185 days in space and he says there is seeds of life everywhere. e.t. life, extraterrestrial life. he says, look, there's 200 billion stars, 2 trillion galaxies. and to think that human beings are the only form of life in this whole all the different planets, he says. it's a bit preposterous in that sense, and i do kind of agree with him, i think. yes of course we always think, i think the problem here, what he says in the article is like people think of hollywood's version of aliens, where actually, no, it doesn't have to be a little green monster. aliens can exist in different forms, but it did get me thinking, you know who actually drew the first alien and came up with the concept of auen?it and came up with the concept of alien? it seems very hidden. >> yeah, yeah, well, i don't

know. i guess the issue with the issue with aliens is because they've played in dramas and things, and before cgi and all that existed, they had to be bipedal, humanoid, because that's what the actors were in. bladen. >> yes. i've been watching too much star trek. >> can't you. well not quite. and also carbon based . lifeforms. >> and it probably be less interesting if alien life forms were, as tim was saying, some sort of benign parasite that just sort of floats around. you can't really make a three hour action thriller out of that. so, yeah, i mean, again, if the if the universe is infinite, then we cannot definitively say that there is nothing else out there. no. >> well, it's basic statistics. >> well, it's basic statistics. >> do you believe in aliens , i'm >> do you believe in aliens, i'm not sure i want you. i'm not sure . i like to think there's sure. i like to think there's something else out there. yeah, there's got to . be hasn't there? there's got to. be hasn't there? >> it's got to be. >> it's got to be. >> well, they've discovered now that planet, haven't they? what's 175 light years away or something? which, the, the james

webb telescope has discovered andifs webb telescope has discovered and it's got, gases in the atmosphere, which can they say can only be emitted by life forms , by sort of metabolising forms, by sort of metabolising things. but it's probably just like plankton or something. >> aliens passing gas, who know ? >> aliens passing gas, who know? well, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> yeah, exactly. >> but that's that's a long way that planets are probably way more cooler and peaceful than our planet. no cost of living crisis, no health problems. >> imagine there's a perfect universe out there, i know, and many of our problems. >> we've got the short stick. yeah, well, very possibly. >> yeah, very possibly . all >> yeah, very possibly. all right. you two been good to see you.thank right. you two been good to see you. thank you very much indeed . you. thank you very much indeed. oh, just on that. adrian porter says why haven't aliens come to earth ? because it's a very long earth? because it's a very long way away. >> they might be en route. >> they might be en route. >> might be? who knows? very long time. why would he be here? yeah. >> all right, look, we're back in a moment, but first, here's your weather. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers , sponsors of boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on . gb news.

weather on. gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east, generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the southeast, we could see skies brightening briefly , but this could set off briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers . for even thundery showers. for a time, whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today here. but again, nofice bright today here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east. couple with quite a strong northerly breeze. no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here, whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the north—east, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday. elsewhere it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly, could

see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as the showers come back in. across the west. there as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at times to some longer spells of rain, and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of 12 or 13 celsius towards the north, up to 15 or 16 degrees in the south—east. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on

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thinks so, as he says, migrants heading to ireland shows that the scheme is a deterrent. >> but in ireland, anger brewing over the government's approach to housing asylum seekers, with protests planned for today . protests planned for today. >> i'm in the beautiful wicklow village of newtownbutler kennedy that has found itself right at the front of ireland's immigration rhi . immigration rhi. >> a dangerous escalation . or >> a dangerous escalation. or central to deliver aid, the government considers deploying british troops on the ground in gaza. >> good morning. a huge weekend of premier league action continues today as tottenham host bitter rivals arsenal this afternoon in the north london derby. we'll hear about a bust up between jurgen klopp and mo salah. everton stayed up sheffield united went down and rafa nadal rolls back the years in madrid. more later. >> hello. good morning. we'll see you in east west . split in

see you in east west. split in our weather today across the uk. rain at times in the east generally a little bit brighter the further west you go. i'll have all the details later. >> morning to you. i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on gb news. >> perhaps, alan coleman's been in touch saying moaning alan saying this isn't the question for you, but i'll do that one next, first of all, alan says auens next, first of all, alan says aliens won't come to earth because based on trip reviews, we only have one star. very good. oh oh, very good, very good, and adrian has a question. they say they have aliens in area 51 in the us. does this place still exist? and are there auens place still exist? and are there aliens , does area 51 still aliens, does area 51 still exist? i don't know , okay, that exist? i don't know, okay, that was very good. yes. don't know. it's. i think well, it's still there, but whether whether it is actually housing anything secret or not, it's still all guarded off, i think. so you can't get to it. >> it is. yes, but is it, is it

really full of all alien tech and secret stuff? and probably you can't get near it . it's all. you can't get near it. it's all. it's all barricaded off and things and warnings you will be shotif things and warnings you will be shot if you cross this line and all that sort of thing. so there's got to be something there, some mystery, something there. whether aliens, aliens definitely exist. >> well , yes, definitely exist. >> well, yes, you certainly think so. yeah, well, but they're probably very boring, like plankton. no. not all. there are very, very, very, very long way away. well, yeah, they'd have to be incredibly intelligent to be. people say, well, why aren't they here? well, because , i mean, to even well, because, i mean, to even to get to this planet we're talking about, which is 175 light years, light years. it would it would take millions of years for us to travel at the fastest speed we can do now. it would take millions of years to get there. >> so they could be en route so they could be. >> so you need you need someone who's developed a way to do, what they call ftl travel faster than light travel, which would be wormholes and things like that, which we can't create at

the moment . stably, any space the moment. stably, any space questions send them in. >> stephen, if you if i if your eyes glazed over. >> you know, i find it fascinating. do you really? yeah. but this is. you're really into this. so any questions, send them in. i'll read them out to stephen. >> it's all the sci fi thing. you know, people go on about wormholes. it's in all the sci fi stuff about wormholes. but that's real. it's real about actually getting wormholes, which connects two points of space time so you can jump vast distances in no time at all. so they are real or they are real, but what they can't do is the we can't generate enough energy to produce one. and if you do produce one. and if you do produce one, they don't think they can make it stable. >> oh well, you don't want to risk it then do you, at this stage. >> but they know it's they know it's a real thing. it is a real thing. >> yeah. there you go. every day is a school day, it's all very exciting. you know, if you get into this side of the side of stuff, john allen says aliens will take one look at this planet, and if they have any

sense, they will move on and not bother. >> kaja kallas says why would you want to come here? we are bonkers or the world is bonkers. and adrian says, great show as normal. good morning. i'm glad that you're matching well in your clothes. you look very smart. oh, excellent. >> we try our best. no, i tell you what, though, aliens wouldn't be interested in us at the moment because we're too, bafic the moment because we're too, basic to. what's the word? >> i'm not clever enough. not sophisticated enough? yes. not >> i can't think of the word i'm thinking for looking for. we're not developed enough. okay? we'd be too. >> simple. yes. >> simple. yes. >> it's so simple. i can't even think of the word i want. >> oh, you've got loads. that's what's happening. you've got loads of questions coming in. would stephen knights travel to the space station? oh, yes, stephen, how do you know we are not the aliens? >> well, we are aliens to other. we are . we are aliens to other we are. we are aliens to other to other planets out there. we are the aliens. yeah. >> so the answer to that is we are aliens. yes. yeah, keep the

space questions coming in for stephen. it's quite fun. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> there you go. i feel like we should mike you up and put you on a stage. >> tell you what, me and brian cox, he knows. >> is he your hero? >> is he your hero? >> he knows a little bit more than i do. yeah. brian cox, i think is amazing. neil degrasse tyson, who i have had the pleasure of interviewing once, who is just phenomenal, you won't know who neil degrasse tyson is. >> no, no, no. yeah. >> i've got a lot of educating to do here. >> yes you do. and she said, how is ellie keeping a straight face. i'm not. i'm failing spectacularly , as per usual. spectacularly, as per usual. anyway, shall we do some work? we should do before my voice goes entirely? >> let's talk about tory rebels. should we? who are on a warpath following the defection of tory mp dan poulter to the labour party? >> well, according to the telegraph, a group of tory mps are working on a 100 day roadmap to turn around their election chances, which involves a new policy blitz and installing penny mordaunt as prime minister. >> whether she wants it or not, it sounds like it follows the defection of the central suffolk

and north ipswich mp doctor dan poulter yesterday as a former health minister who works part time as a mental health doctor, well, joining us now live in the studio is gb news political correspondent. >> olivia utley very good to see you, olivia. and just how damaging is dan poulter's defection? well it is a pretty huge blow for the prime minister. >> dan poulter actually has a really safe conservative seat. he has a majority of something like 23,000 in ipswich and suffolk . the prime minister does suffolk. the prime minister does not want to be losing mps like that , not want to be losing mps like that, particularly one not want to be losing mps like that , particularly one with not want to be losing mps like that, particularly one with dan porter's history as a doctor and still currently as a mental health doctor. poulter has also made this more difficult for rishi sunak by writing a huge op ed in the guardian today, saying that the conservative party can't be trusted with the nhs and only labour can be trusted. and of course, apart from the blow of losing this experienced mp, he became an mp in 2010. it is also got all of the plotters

talking in the telegraph today. there's this huge piece about a group of plotters who are now saying that they have 100 days to save the country, and the conservative party and what they're doing at the moment is trying to round up backbenchers to row behind penny mordaunt, who they would like to see installed as prime minister before the next election. but it's interesting. >> i mean, i don't know if you had a chance to look at what they would like to do, but is it anything new, is it anything radical? >> well, what they want to do is massively cut taxes. that's their sort of number one pledge. i mean, i can totally see the logic in that. we do have the highest tax burden for sort of 70 years, and there are plenty of both conservative voters and conservative mps worried that, you know, the problem is that unless you have a very different offer from labour, people just won't come out and vote conservative. a way to get some clear blue water between the conservatives and labour is to massively, massively lower taxes . there are conservatives who feel like jeremy hunt's recent budgets have just been sort of tinkering around the edges, so that's what they want to do. but

of course, it's easier said than done, as we saw with liz truss disastrous mini—budget in 2022, radically , drastically and radically, drastically and suddenly cutting taxes comes with all of its own problems. so all of this feels a little bit, ideological, a bit theoretical. it's very hard to see it actually sort of coming to fruition as a plan, what do you think about penny mordaunt in all of this? do you think she'd even want to be the leader of the tory party, considering what the tory party, considering what the polls are suggesting? >> i mean, if i were in her position, i personally wouldn't want to be leader of the conservative party. but she has wanted this job for a really long time. she obviously was fought in the last leadership election. she has a group of about 70 mps who really, really want her in the job, and from the sounds of it, she's been doing the rounds of westminster , doing the rounds of westminster, you know, weekly, trying to garner up some more support. so it does sound as though she wants the job. she has a really small majority, so she's at risk of losing her seat in the next election either way. so for her,

there's not really too much to lose if she becomes leader, and then loses her seat, it would be bad for the conservative party but obviously it would be bad for her. if she's not leader and she loses her seat, this is her last chance. she thinks to try and take that mantle. so that's where she's sitting in all of this. but whether the rebels can, can make the numbers up to have a vote of no confidence, and then whether rishi sunak would actually stand down because not many people think that he would actually lose that vote of no confidence, the idea is that he would just stand down because it's the right thing to do. i'm not so convinced that he would. i think he wants to hold on until that election come what m ay. may. >> do these people have their blinkers on. i mean, in the sense that for anyone else right across the country looking at this, if there was a tory rebellion and a sort of decapitation , if you like, at decapitation, if you like, at the top, and then another prime minister inserted who again hasn't been elected, you know, he's just all thrown in just before an election. well, i mean, you would you can only

imagine actually the numbers who in the polls for, for the labour party would just go up, wouldn't they. or and reform. >> well, quite possibly the calculation from conservative party rebels at the moment is basically that things can't get any worse for the conservative party they are languishing so, so far behind in the polls that it looks as though they might only get sort of 100 seats or so. it could be a worse defeat than in 1997. so these rebels probably don't think that they're going to, you know, row into a spectacular victory with penny morden at their head. but they do think maybe it's worth that just final desperate throw of the dice to try and avoid unmitigated disaster. okay. >> olivia utley good to see you this morning. >> olivia utley good to see you this morning . thank you very this morning. thank you very much indeed. >> yeah. let us know what you think about that one. it just i mean it just seems so desperate doesn't it. but maybe, maybe they are desperate. >> could it change things though. would it be enough? rafe. let us know what you think. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> would it force you either side to reform and to the laboun side to reform and to the labour, depending on quite where

you sit on the spectrum with all that one? i mean, it's fascinating. it all just seems to be falling apart. >> it does falling apart at the seams. >> right. let's head to ireland now, where a recent influx of migrants crossing the border from northern ireland into the repubuc from northern ireland into the republic has sparked protests from the locals. yes. >> latest government figures indicate there are 1758 people who have sought asylum in ireland who are without an offer of state accommodation. >> well, ireland's foreign minister, micheal martin, has connected britain's controversial rwanda policy to their failure to control migration after brexit. >> well, let's speak to dougie beattie, who is live for us now. good to see you this morning, dougie. and anger is brewing, isn't it, in the republic of ireland over the immigration policy ? policy? >> well, good morning and welcome to newtownbutler kennedy. this is one of the most picturesque villages you will come across if you just look there behind us. it's like. it's like something out of balamory. it is an absolutely beautiful

place in the wicklow mountains. and this . is as liberal as it and this. is as liberal as it gets. i mean , we have been gets. i mean, we have been reporting this for about two years in the republic of ireland, and most of these immigrants were being pushed into working class areas now. now they have decided to put them into these areas and just about three miles away from here, there is a old convent, the boys home as it was, and the locals had asked for that boys home to be used for the for community, years and were denied it. now what's happened is they have decided to put a lot of young men, immigrants into those homes. and the surprising thing on this is, is this was the first time that the riot squad, the garda siochana public order unit , decided that they would go unit, decided that they would go in with riot shields and pepper spray and actually, put it up to the locals here that it was going to happen one way or the other. now, what that has done is actually caused real anger in

amongst those that would have formerly been liberals in ireland. and pushed them more towards the hard line that is really starting to show its teeth here now in ireland, because over the last ten years we have seen an increase in 1 million people into the republic of ireland. there are only had a population of 3.7 million. it's now over 5 million. and they are only people that are saying that they have registered to come here. those that have came here illegally, of course, don't register. and i spoke to kevin hague last night, at, at the barricades to find out what the locals thought. >> and the proposal is to put 28 man tents onto the site to house 160 young men. we feel that's morally wrong. you can't just dump people in a field in wicklow and expect things to go well. it's a very community led protest and right from the start we've kept it very non—political. we're not

interested in right wing politics, we're not interested in racism or anything like that. this is community. people saying this is wrong for our community. >> well, you can hear in that the disbelief in these people that would have been very, very liberal and very much part of the state. and they cannot understand because ireland has an opt out clause, the same as the netherlands, where they don't have to take as many migrants and they can't understand why that is happening . and most of all, they're looking at how known control , looking at how known control, welfare and education is driving these people from the uk into here. and of course , we have here. and of course, we have been saying about this for the last couple of years where the common travel area between ireland, scotland , wales and ireland, scotland, wales and england is very much in use and that may have to be looked at again to stop this happening . again to stop this happening. >> okay, dougie, thanks very much indeed . much indeed. >> now, 8:15, let's take a look

at some other stories coming into the newsroom this morning. >> two men have been arrested at a pro—palestine march in london yesterday. one of the men, according to police, was holding according to police, was holding a placard with a swastika. the other allegedly made racist remarks towards counter—protesters. the event was organised by the palestine solidarity campaign and was calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza . ceasefire in gaza. >> humza yousaf is asking leaders of rival parties to find common ground with the snp as his leadership hangs in the balance. however his spokesperson has ruled out any sort of pact with alex salmond's alba party, with a spokesperson dismissing this idea as fantasy. it comes as mr yousaf reaches out to political opponents ahead of a no confidence motion expected this week after he ejected the greens from his government at the gold pocket watch recovered from the body of the richest man on board. >> the titanic has been sold at auction for £1,175,000. now.

originally, the estimate was only 150,000. it's the highest amount paid for a titanic artefact since the violin that was being played as a ship sank, sold for 1.1 million, and the white house correspondents dinner in the us has wrapped up in washington, dc upon arrival, journalists and politicians were met by pro—palestinian protesters. >> however, president biden made the most of the situation at dinner, poking fun at his predecessor and presidential opponent donald trump . opponent donald trump. >> the 2024 election is in full swing , and >> the 2024 election is in full swing, and yes, age is an issue. i'm a grown man running against a six year old. but donald has had a few tough days lately . you had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy weather. what the hell?

>> yeah, and apparently, though, he was having a dig there. apparently lots of people were having a dig at joe biden is a roast that sort of thing. >> very american thing. >> very american thing. >> and colin jost, do you know colin jost, he's, he's on saturday night live and things. he's actually very funny. he's married to scarlett johansson. oh, yeah. >> there you go. >> there you go. >> anyway, he was apparently hosting some of it and was making comments about biden's age , and. age, and. >> wow. >> wow. >> so that was to be expected. >> so that was to be expected. >> you do go there as a president to have the mickey taken out of you a little bit. >> well, good on him in a sense for facing up to it. >> yeah. they've all done it. taking it on the chin apart from donald trump who never turned up to one. >> yeah, he's a bit thin skinned when it comes to things like that. yeah >> there you go. >> there you go. >> i think you've just got to go with the flow haven't you? >> yeah. got to try it at least. anyway, lots to be getting in touch on aliens, nigel says of course we are aliens. women come

from venus and men come from mars, after all. yeah. >> yes, ross says aliens. >> yes, ross says aliens. >> germaine greer, who wrote that ? who wrote? no, no, no. who that? who wrote? no, no, no. who wrote the book? >> oh, i don't know. is that the one that we meant the view? >> i don't know, i've got the book at home, so i should know that. >> have you? yeah. ross says auens >> have you? yeah. ross says aliens came here and then turned back after seeing the ulez cameras in london. and paul farrow says if you want to see aliens, get the night bus home at the weekend. so thank you for all of those. >> all very fair points. >> all very fair points. >> yes, do keep them coming in. gbnews.com/yoursay. right. >> let's a look at the weather with marco . with marco. >> that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east, generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty

wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the southeast we could see skies brightening briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time, whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today here. but again, nofice bright today here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day . around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east. couple with quite a strong northerly breeze. no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here, whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the north—east, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday. elsewhere it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly, could see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as the showers come back in. across the west. there as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the

best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at times to some longer spells of rain, and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of 12 or 13 celsius towards the north, up to 15 or 16 degrees in the south—east. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar sponsors of weather on . gb news. >> john grey, john grey apparently wrote men are from mars, women are from venus , mars, women are from venus, germaine greer, who messaged in about germaine greer , simon egan about germaine greer, simon egan said she wrote the female eunuch. yes of course she is. she's famous. one of those books that i've read. it >> you're on the right track, he wrote, i read it, yeah. >> anyway, right now summer is just around the corner. fingers crossed . crossed. >> well, we keep saying that, don't we? but here we are anyway. >> we want to make it really sizzle for you with an incredible £20,000 in cash up for grabs in the brand new great british giveaway. >> yes, it's our biggest cash

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>> gb news is britain's election . channel. >> welcome back to breakfast now, professional psychotherapist helen villiers and katie mckenna have become the go to experts on how to have a healthier relationship . it's a healthier relationship. it's all thanks to their smash hit podcast, insight exposing narcissism. >> yeah, the life changing advice has so far drawn a following of more than a million across social media platforms and they've been apparently inundated with clients whose mental wellbeing has been affected by previous, often toxic relationships. well, we're delighted to be us this morning because we seem to be sat so far. >> i know it's very unlike us, actually. well, i'm delighted to say that helen and katie join us now. so good to see you both. i recognise you both actually from social media, which just goes to show what a massive following you both must have , helen, let's you both must have, helen, let's start with you. this is a smash

hit podcast, 1 million followers across all your social media. why do you think it has been so popular? >> well, i think it's about the fact that so many people can relate to this, whether they are having a relationship with a parent or whether it's a relationship with a colleague or a friend that a lot of people can relate to. the idea of having toxic relationships. and so, yeah, i think the podcast is successful. and then of course, we've got the book out now, which is making it even more accessible for more people , accessible for more people, katie , let's start at the basics katie, let's start at the basics with the very bottom, with all of this, what is narcissism? we talk about it a lot. i wonder if we really understand what it is . we really understand what it is. >> i think what's really important to remember is that we all have narcissistic traits, and it just depends what's healthy versus unhealthy. so healthy versus unhealthy. so healthy narcissism is what makes us get ahead and be ambitious. achieves things. unhealthy narcissism is the complete opposite . that's where somebody

opposite. that's where somebody will walk all over you. climb all over to you to get ahead. they will use you, exploit you. they'll tell you that they have your best interests at heart. what they don't, and your feelings or will be never taken into consideration because it's always about them . it always always about them. it always centres themselves. >> and what is so interesting, helen, is you are giving people that knowledge because when you think about narcissism, you think about narcissism, you think about narcissism, you think about a romantic relationship often, don't you? you think about controlling relationships , but that's not relationships, but that's not necessarily the case. it could be in any relationship that you could see in your life. and it's about recognising those signs, i suppose. >> yeah, absolutely. you've got it completely right. it's about knowing what is and or isn't healthy , and that most people do healthy, and that most people do attribute this to the romantic relationship, but actually where we see it normally first is in the parent child relationship. so that sort of leaves the tracks for people to be vulnerable to that kind of behaviour in adulthood. because what we learn as normal in

childhood is what we appreciate as normal in adulthood. so yeah, we see it in all sorts of relationships. but typically if somebody has been exposed to it in a in an adult romantic relationship, it started in childhood. >> so yeah, but that's i mean , >> so yeah, but that's i mean, that's hugely disturbing, katie, isn't it. that's hugely disturbing, katie, isntit.theideai that's hugely disturbing, katie, isn't it. the idea i mean, the very point of parenthood is that you put your child first, and it would seem that it is from your experience, quite common almost, for parents to be focusing on themselves and not their children . children. >> yes. and it is so normalised in society it can be so insidious. children are brought up in this environment and think that this is healthy . the truth that this is healthy. the truth is, is that it is their normal, but it's not healthy. so when we think of these behaviours, this will be parents that will stonewall their children, so won't be interested in their lives. they will give the children the silent treatment. what we see with the narcissistic parent is we break them into three categories. in our book, you're not the problem

and that's the critical parent. this is the parent that's not happy with anything and they're not afraid to say it. the ignonng not afraid to say it. the ignoring parent. and that's the parent that just does . just that parent that just does. just that they ignore their child. they're not interested in what they're doing. they won't show up at big occasions. they act as if they don't exist. and there's the engulfing parent. that's the complete opposite to the ignonng complete opposite to the ignoring parent. and this parent is actually can be praised in society, but it's really unhealthy . this society, but it's really unhealthy. this is the parent that smothers their child, hovers over their child and wants to be involved in every single aspect of their life in a really unhealthy way . really unhealthy way. >> and helen, just just hearing katie describe that there. i mean, that must have such a detrimental impact on a person's well—being and mental health. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, the amount of mental health conditions that are created by growing up in this environment where basically with the three types that katie described, we see a complete oppression of somebody's autonomy, their sense

of self. they don't know who they are. and then we see lots of, of course, depression, anxiety. but self—harm, eating disorders, i mean huge, huge impact. you're absolutely right. >> dr. narcissists know they're narcissists . narcissists. >> that's one of those questions that we get asked a lot. and it's a brilliant question because there's such a level of understanding to it. it's about whether or not they're self—aware. and so what we always say is they're aware enough to know that the behaviour shouldn't be exposed in front of other people, so they know enough to hide it, so they know enough to hide it, so they know enough to hide it, so they know it's wrong, but they're not aware enough to know why they do it, what the impact or care even about the impact on other people. so there's an awareness, but not enough for them to want to change the behaviour. sadly, katie , for behaviour. sadly, katie, for people who are watching and listening this morning and they think they might be in a relationship with with a narcissist, whether that might be a boss or a parent or a romantic relationship, what advice would you give to them? >> how do they break that cycle? >> how do they break that cycle? >> that's a really good question

, anne. and one of the most important bits of advice i would give is actually to be able to recognise where this is coming from, so to recognise themselves in it. when you said they're the parent child relationship, what we would see in these family systems is a golden child and everybody would know a golden child. this is where the parent and treats the child as if they're the son. they think that they're the son. they think that they're perfect. of course they're perfect. of course they're not. but in the parents eyes, they are. we will see an invisible child again. this is the parent that just ignores that child, forgets them, acts as if they don't exist . we see as if they don't exist. we see this scapegoat in a family system like this and that is the child that is blamed for absolutely everything that goes wrong in the family. and we would also see the gilded child. this is the child that can think that they're golden. they're often very close with their parent. they're enmeshed with their parent. they have to work very hard to keep this relationship with their parent, be their best friend, and they

would have to work really hard at it. and it's only when they say no in that relationship that they can actually see the cracks where, this behaviour is really, really toxic . really toxic. >> do you know what? well, in the last four minutes, and i've got to be honest, i'm not a big podcast listener, so i, so i wasn't aware of your podcast within the last four minutes. i now want to tune in and listen because it's fascinating. it's i mean, it's a hugely fascinating area, isn't it? because even if it doesn't apply to our own private lives, you can you can apply it to work. you can apply it to people that you know . it's it to people that you know. it's absolutely fascinating. >> there it is. >> there it is. >> love it really, really is. >> love it really, really is. >> and both thanks very much. and for people that aren't interested in the podcast, we've written a book. it's you're not the problem. so for people that aren't podcast listeners, that's available now. >> and, helen, if people want to listen to the podcast , how do listen to the podcast, how do they find you? >> just go to the website

insight podcast .com and you will find all the links to everything that we do, all the resources, the book, everything else. and yeah, you can access everything there. insight podcast.com . podcast.com. >> brilliant. thank you both very much indeed. thank you. i find that absolutely fascinating. >> well, it's to good have knowledge, isn't it? because knowledge, isn't it? because knowledge is power. and i hadn't appreciated that. you can get narcissistic relationships outside of a romantic one. >> oh, right. >> oh, right. >> i hadn't appreciated that. >> i hadn't appreciated that. >> no. >> no. >> well, of course it sounds quite obvious , doesn't it? quite obvious, doesn't it? >> but yeah. well, well, it's like all these things. it sounds obvious when you discuss it. >> yes, but maybe we don't discuss it often. >> is that guide? and when they were talking about the three, katie was talking about the three different types of narcissistic parenting . and you narcissistic parenting. and you can see that i have to say, not with mine. thank heavens i've been extremely lucky. but you can see how you can see other people that you went to school with, or things whose parents have behaved in that way. >> yeah, families spring to mind, don't they? when you think about that, it's absolutely

fascinating. >> no, it was really good. >> no, it was really good. >> really good conversation. let us know what you thought about that as well. gbnews.com/yoursay say do you stay with us? aidan magee is

news. welcome back to breakfast. aiden's . welcome back to breakfast. aiden's. here with us. talk us through all the sport. morning to you, aidan. >> good morning to you both. >> good morning to you both. >> shall we talk about a big bust up? >> yeah, or cold war tension , >> yeah, or cold war tension, however you'd like to put it. >> yeah, i know again, that wasn't. i'm trying to get my head around that one. i still can't see it myself, but there was certainly two fronts, confronting each other on the sideline at the london stadium yesterday, and it's all quite unedifying. in all seriousness, ellie, because these are two players, two, two people rather at liverpool. who one's the manager, one is the star player

and they've enjoyed a wonderful relationship over a period of six, seven years. in fact, you could argue that jurgen klopp rescued mo salah's career. he was drifting at chelsea. he was. he found some form at basel, but there was no guarantee he was ever going to come back to top level sport. you see a lot of players fall by the wayside, so i think the numbers speak for themselves. 210 goals in 346 appearances. now you've got dropped yesterday because he wasn't playing well. but you always know with mo salah form is temporary. classes forever. you know he's going to score goals. and i think that he was certainly irked by the fact that he was dropped when klopp brought him on in the 79th minute. they just conceded an equaliser against west ham so tensions were were higher. they can probably hear fans behind them chanting all kinds of, obscenities, not not labelling that on west ham specifically. that's just what kind of kind of happens. but there was there was some finger, finger jabbing. klopp certainly said something and it didn't play out very well. and it's a shame because there's only a couple of games left in this, in this season and i don't i hope they can mend things before the end of the season because it would be awful if they went out that way. salah

went through the mixed zone afterwards and said that if i spoke about what went on, there would be fire, which is mo salah is not given to hyperbole. and so you sense that something is seriously wrong. klopp, for his part, said oh, it's all done and dusted, but that's what you'd expect a manager to say, so i hope, i hope they find a truce because they've been a joy to watch in the premier league over a number of years, and we just hopeit a number of years, and we just hope it doesn't end this way. >> it's ten hag done and dusted after that draw yesterday. i don't think the draw is necessarily done for him, steven, but it doesn't help. >> i mean, you're at home to burnley, who are in the bottom three staring at relegation. they come away from old trafford just down the road with a point because your goalkeeper, who you spent a load of money on last summer, made, made a mistake that led to the penalty. and then erik ten hag, who has suffered all season trying to find consistency. some of these players need shifting on. quite frankly, it's not easy to shift them on because when they're on great contracts at a place like manchester united, they're not exactly going to take a pay cut and go somewhere else if they don't have to. so anyway, at the end of the match yesterday, he comes out and says this is the

most entertaining side we've seen. they've got the actual direct quote here, he said we are one of the most dynamic and entertaining teams in the league at the moment. i mean, you could have fooled me. i've been there a few times this season. they've been involved in some great games. but you want more from manchester united? they are the biggest club in the world and you expect them to see that, to see them, at least in the champions league places and they are way off it at the moment. i think he'll go this summer. >> well, talking about dynamic games, should we talk about the nonh games, should we talk about the north london derby? >> well, it never disappoints. it rarely disappoints ellie and we hope it doesn't. this afternoon. 2:00 there's plenty riding on this. tottenham have their own ambitions of getting into the champions league, with aston villa having dropped points yesterday. later on against chelsea. that opens the door with them slightly for them, tottenham, this them, slightly tottenham, this is. have games is. but they do have three games in hand so they've got a lot of work to do. arsenal bearing down hopefully from their point of view on a first premier league title since 2004, 20 years this summer, arsene wenger was in charge. they were the invincibles in a lot of those years. since then they've been the invisibles. so this time around they are technically trailing manchester city because city have a game in hand. and we all know that city tend to win their games in hand, but there's a huge incentive going to north london today or going across the three miles across from, from

finsbury park over to the tottenham high road to see if they can get a result. but it promises to be explosive . and as promises to be explosive. and as i say, it's one of those derbies. a lot of these derbies get very tense and we see we see the players play within themselves and it affects the crowd as well. this one doesn't seem to be like that, really go at each other and hopefully , at each other and hopefully, hopefully it'll produce some fireworks this afternoon because it will have a bearing on the premier league title race and a little bit below that in the champions league race as well. >> i'm sure it will be interesting what's going on with rafa because he's i mean, he's sort of doing all right, isn't he, the minute. but he's he's got this injury. >> yeah. it's an abdominal injury. he's had lots of injuries. it's mainly the knees because he's so proficient on clay and on hard courts. it does do damage to your joints. so since the 2022 australian open victory, when he beat daniil medvedev coming from two sets down, he's not really been at it. he said that he's had major injuries. he said that this season will be his last on the toun season will be his last on the tour, but yesterday he beat alex de minaur, the australian, at the madrid open, having been beaten by the same player in barcelona ten years or ten, ten years ago. probably feels like i'm not informed of that, am i?

goodness me. ten, ten days ago. sorry. and so he's he's gearing up for the french open. you would think that starts on may 26th. there's a little bit of lead time there now, whatever shape rafa nadal is in, you don't want to be facing him in paris because he's an outstanding player in that tournament. he's been an outstanding player everywhere, but he's won that tournament 13 times and he's looking to make it a 14th. and i think, are there anyone else who has designs on that tournament? they don't want to see him in the draw, but even if it's to be his last tournament or one of his last tournament or one of his last tournaments, it'd be great to see him at a really big event one last time, wouldn't it? he's been brilliant. he's been brilliant for his sport. he's a wonderful individual. i've met him a few times. i've been lucky enough to interview him. >> he seems like a nice fella. >> he seems like a nice fella. >> oh he is, yeah. without doubt. i mean, that group all are. i mean, djokovic rubs people up the wrong way, but he's still a decent guy as well. he just has a certain view on certain things. and one thing about these individual sports is that they do have to be self—centred. they do have to look after themselves. they do have to do right by them, by themselves, and they have to manage their bodies. and so that those three particularly include. and murray, i would add to that list as well, i'm talking about federer, nadal,

djokovic. let's enjoy them while at least two of them are still around because they're not their tennis is going to change when they go completely starting to change already, and we are going to miss them like crazy. >> yeah, that we will. >> yeah, that we will. >> aidan, thank you very much indeed. >> see you this weekend, guys. >> see you this weekend, guys. >> and you, you too. >> and you, you too. >> right . >> and you, you too. >> right. don't go >> and you, you too. >> right . don't go anywhere >> right. don't go anywhere because we've got stephanie takyi and andy jones taking us through the papers in just a moment.

all right. let's see what's in the papers for you this morning. stephanie takyi and andy jones are here. morning. you two, let's kick off. let's kick off with a bit of, potholes. andy and the times online. >> yeah, i was going to say this is if you go door to door, out on the streets and speaking to the public, potholes , potholes, the public, potholes, potholes, potholes comes up all the time. it's never talked about by government . costs us 16 billion government. costs us 16 billion a year. well blackpool, who is one of the most economically depnved one of the most economically deprived parts of the country,

apparently they've they've cracked the pothole problem. and i know people in blackpool who are watching this show will go, i saw a pothole on the way to sainsbury's yesterday, but they rather than previously blackpool, had a position where you would report a pothole. they would go out and measure the pothole and go should we treat it or should we not? and then there'd be a whole sort of administrative process . now administrative process. now they're actually doing a proactive process where they've got people going out looking for potholes and filling the holes, which i thought was common sense. and apparently it's they were spending 1.3 million a year in compensation to drivers who'd hit potholes . and now there's hit potholes. and now there's been an absolutely zero. and they claim, says the times , that they claim, says the times, that they claim, says the times, that they had to around 2700 potholes. and now they've got rid of nearly all of them. >> right. well, let's yeah, take our lead from blackpool. >> yeah. this is from a guy will britton, who's worked for blackpool council in the potholes department for 43 years. and he finally rolled up his sleeves and said i've had enough of this, this administrative process. we're just going to go out and just treat them at source. that's

what they're doing. and instead of spending , i know, £75 on each of spending, i know, £75 on each pothole, then they're spending £4.50 a hole. >> oh really? wow >> oh really? wow >> is that because they're doing some money. just the costs coming down. yeah. so what normally happens. >> sorry. this is very, very, very false. what happens is you go you normally report the pothole . they go out and measure pothole. they go out and measure it, see if it's worth filling, see what they're doing. whole process. now they're just saying oh look there's almost a hole there. let's fill it. let's deal with it. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> which is why it was quite a sensible thing to do anyway. >> yeah. and blackpool, very sensible. >> i see stephanie, this one caught my eye this morning and it shines a light really, doesn't it. >> on the wealth divide at oxford university. tell us a bit more about this really does i think really inspiring story from a student there called chloe pomfret, she comes from manchester where she lived in supported accommodation with her grandfather, and she's luckily found a way out of poverty now at oxford. but . she's found a way out of poverty now at oxford. but. she's finding she's finding it hard to survive

there because obviously she's not being funded by the bank of mum and dad. so to survive there, she's been taking cleaning jobs where she's been cleaning jobs where she's been cleaning students rooms, serving dinners . so instead of calling dinners. so instead of calling them servants, they call them scouts. but, you know, her fellow students have been calling her council estate. chloe. and, you know, you just think in this day and age where working class people want to aspire or send their children to places like oxford, this is the kind of experiences they are having. and i think it's a shame that , you know, rather than having. and i think it's a shame that, you know, rather than her spending, spending time on studying , she's having to spending, spending time on studying, she's having to think, how do i survive in oxford? and then being looked down by her peers. >> so yeah, i mean, it in some respects. it's like the fact she's having to work and is no different to any other student. yeah. elsewhere across the country . but of course she's country. but of course she's mixing with people who've yeah, got a lot of money and she's done really well because basically she's campaigned within the university to allow her to work during . term time her to work during. term time because that wasn't allowed. >> and of course, that wouldn't have been a problem for other

students. but it's just a shame . students. but it's just a shame. like, you know, even to go to the college ball is £446, which you know, it's nothing to students who come from wealthy backgrounds, but someone like chloe. it's quite hard and there are several times a term as well. >> yeah they are. >> yeah they are. >> it'sjust >> yeah they are. >> it's just an >> yeah they are. >> it'sjust an annual thing. >> it's just an annual thing. they are . but it's a big expense they are. but it's a big expense actually, to go to these things, of course. >> and it creates a divide of those who can go and those who can't. and also obviously these students at oxford, these, these ones who are calling their council estate, chloe, will be our future ceos, our future politicians, our future leaders. and they never meet people from council estates and they see them, treats them almost as wildlife. you know, this unusual creatures. and you see in the way we govern as a country where we have people in power who have noidea we have people in power who have no idea what the rest of britain is like. the reality is of people in different parts of the country, and this is this manifestation of it. you see, in this story of this student is exactly what we then see in government. and public life.

>> and if i was a boss, i would hire chloe because absolutely, again, it's showing determination. she's getting all these skills of tenacity, which probably other students who don't have to work as hard, don't have to work as hard, don't have to work as hard, don't have because they're being fed everything on a plate. >> and also they should not be calling a council estate. chloe, there should be extra nice to her because if she's cleaning their dorms, she knows all their secrets. >> secrets she fair point. >> secrets she fair point. >> that is the future leaders. she'll have all of the goss. probably will have the goss. >> oh, good on you, chloe. though for working so hard, let's. we've not got much time left. let's look at bridget jones, should we? because and, there's going to be no weight shaming . shaming. >> well, you know, we've been on this journey with bridget and the previous three films where and she's always, you know, struggling with her weight , struggling with her weight, which most women do, but sources from the new film, which is going to be called mad about the boy saying that they won't be focused on bridget's weight obsession because they're trying to reflect where society is at the moment in terms of different body types, and they think it would be a bad influence to portray bridget going through her weight struggles. but this is what women like about bridget, because she's real. you know, we all go through weight

struggles and to see it . know, we all go through weight struggles and to see it. in a movie where obviously it's not being toxic about eating disorders . or anything. being toxic about eating disorders. or anything. i think it's taken a bit too far. just let bridget be a bit fat and complain about it. >> yeah, see, i never got that with . bridget jones in the films with. bridget jones in the films because she was only nine stone or something. yeah when she got on the scales and then she'd moan about being fat and never so that's what that's what people are saying is a wrong portrayal. >> but i think in terms of women complaining about their weight, that's what most women do. >> yeah, i think they should be worried about her weight. i think they should be worried about storylines. i mean, the third film was absolutely terrible. i've got no idea what this woman can possibly do with herself now, but we end up with this thing with films broadly where they no longer reflect pubuc where they no longer reflect public life because we're policing what goes on. so obviously women, you know, certainly lots of women i know are worried about their weight, but we can't now talk about what people are actually talking

about because it's not reflective of this sort of pubuc reflective of this sort of public agenda of body positivity and mental health and whatever, and mental health and whatever, and that someone might see this and that someone might see this and it might trigger something. but then, you know, films should reflect the good and bad of real life. >> and if you are going to be triggered, then don't watch it. well, yeah, it's simple as like a film. be a narrative that it's supposed to be, or eventually we're going to be watching films which are going to be completely watered down because they have to cater to so many people. >> yeah, you don't want everything to be sanitised. if you've got an aversion to big knickers, don't watch bridget jones. >> that's good advice. >> that's good advice. >> i think if you're triggered watching bridget jones, i think your problems are significantly broader than a film. >> oh, i think i've seen the first one. >> i don't know if you've seen any others. >> no, i think i'm the same as you. >> i think i've only seen maybe the first two, but, stephanie a&e, great to see you this morning. thank you very much indeed. stephen. one question for you. stargate, star trek or star wars? where is your allegiance? says lorna robson. >> oh, i like all in different ways. i'd say star trek probably, yeah. >> stargate. >> stargate. >> brilliant though. >> brilliant though. >> have you got any of the outfits? no he doesn't. >> let's go to the weather. >> let's go to the weather. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers. sponsors of weather on gb news news.

>> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office . for gb news. we'll see office. for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england. towards the south—east we could see skies brightening briefly , but this could set off briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time, whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today, here. but again, nofice bright today, here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day . around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east, coupled with quite a strong northerly breeze, no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here. whereas in the best of the sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the northeast, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday . elsewhere, it hours of monday. elsewhere, it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge

to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly, could see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as these showers come back in across the west there. as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging . at those showers again merging. at times to some longer spells of rain. and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of

morning to you. it's 9:00 on sunday, the 28th of april. today tory rebels plotting to oust the pm followed , showing dan pm followed, showing dan poulter's defection to labour.

>> is the rwanda plan already working? while the prime minister thinks so? as he says, migrants heading to ireland shows the scheme is a deterrent. >> but in ireland, anger's brewing over the government's approach to housing asylum seekers, with protests planned for today . for today. >> aim at newtownmountkennedy thatis >> aim at newtownmountkennedy that is now at the very front of ireland's immigration rhi a dangerous escalation or essential to deliver aid. >> the government considers deploying british troops on the ground in gaza . ground in gaza. >> hello. good morning. we'll see you in east west split in our weather today across the uk. rain at times in the east, generally a little bit brighter the further west you go. i'll have all the details later . have all the details later. >> morning to you. >> morning to you. >> i'm stephen dixon and i'm ellie costello and this is breakfast on .

breakfast on. gb news. the opinionated engineer has beenin the opinionated engineer has been in touch over potholes. oh, yeah? says it's a case of systemic mismanagement from all parties that has resulted in shoddy repairs and poor quality control , it's probably a very control, it's probably a very fair point, to be honest. it's one of those. they are just getting so bad. >> they are so bad, and yet no one seems to get on top of them. they're so dangerous as well, aren't they? >> there's some at the bottom of the m1. it's on a blooming motorway and you peel off at the bottom and it is, it is terrible. you, you could really crash your car on it. >> yeah. i mean it's just so dangerous . and they are dangerous. and they are everywhere at the moment. mark sharrock says these pothole repairs tend to be short term repairs. most roads are looking like a patchwork quilt. that's very true . very true. >> and someone got in touch before to say and i don't i don't quite know what point you were trying to make. oh here you go. it's sean newry who says blackpool council is now labour run after a recent a few recent years of tory control isn't it.

don't know i don't know and really i don't care who runs the council. but if they're doing a great job with the potholes. brilliant. let's export that idea across the country. >> on potholes and techniques, to fix them. jackie . phoenix to fix them. jackie. phoenix says proper packing of the soil while building the road will prevent potholes. too bad successive governments have been cutting corners for far too long, okay. >> because. yeah it's all well, anyway. i mean, it all falls under local government control , under local government control, doesn't it, on most highways anyway. but it's got to be sorted out. it is just ridiculous. if blackpool has managed to sort it out, i'm sure the rest of the councils could. >> perhaps we should follow their lead. >> i think we should look what they're doing. >> do keep those views coming in. gbnews.com/yoursay. >> all right, let's talk about tory rebels. should we, who are on a warpath following the defection of the conservative mp daniel poulter to the labour party yesterday? >> well, according to the telegraph, a group of tory mps

are working on a 100 day roadmap to turn around their election chances, which involves a new policy blitz and installing penny mordaunt as prime minister. >> well, of course, it all follows on from that defection of dan poulter yesterday. let's talk to camilla tominey, who's going to be here at 930 with her own politics show. i mean, in in a sense, camilla, as far as the rebels are concerned, i mean, this defection is just what they needed to sort of light the blue touch paper for them, isn't it ? touch paper for them, isn't it? >> absolutely. but the timing of it's really intriguing because actually rishi sunak had quite a good week. he's had a good week with the rwanda bill passing through the commons at last, and he's had a good week with the increase in defence spending, which many on the right had been calling to for, raise that amount to 2.5% of gdp. so all in all, it was quite good and going quite well until, of course, the observer has got this expose about dan poulter having been in conversation with labour for quite some time. so this has

been a kind of long, long planned, calculated manoeuvre for poulter to defect to labour. he's a doctor and it is damning. he's a doctor and it is damning. he's saying that he can't look his patients in the eye because of the state of the nhs. i mean, on the other hand, you could perhaps point to labour's management of the nhs in wales and say that it's the jury remains out on whether labour will do a betterjob with the will do a better job with the health service than the tories. and that's, of course, one of the attack lines coming out of conservative central office this morning. and when it comes to this rebellion , i mean, we've this rebellion, i mean, we've heard from these people before, haven't we? there are many caucuses within the tory party on the right that seem to be squabbling over who they want to succeed rishi sunak. you've got others who think even the merest idea of trying to replace the prime minister now again, is complete folly. and this is all intermingled with suggestions that the prime minister might go for an earlier election in june or july, for an earlier election in june orjuly, rather than autumn as we thought had been planned. but then there are arguments for and against that. i'm going to be asking my guests on the show all

about this. so chris philp, the policing minister, is coming on. i don't know if you guys saw it, but he had a little bit of a muddle, earlier in the week when he appeared on television and seemed to confuse rwanda and the democratic republic of congo. so i'll be asking mr philp whether he does know the difference between those two countries. i'll also be speaking to wes streeting. i'd like to know what personal conversations he had with dan poulter ahead of this defection, because, of course, wes streeting is the man hoping to be the next health secretary >> yeah, well, as far as chris philp goes, i mean that that was a mess. i'm a bit surprised he's back on the screen so quickly in a way, but it be interesting to see what he says. and wes streeting is going to be an interesting one though. we were talking about it in the papers earlier on camilla, the idea with everything that is going wrong in the health service, as dan poulter will, will testify to, from from his perspective, wes streeting is the only man out there, isn't he, who could actually, enforce some real reform within the nhs because

the labour party is capable of doing more than the tories ever could on that, aren't they ? could on that, aren't they? >> yeah, as long as he can win the argument. i mean , it's quite the argument. i mean, it's quite interesting to see wes streeting slightly out on a limb on some of these issues when it comes to at least the harder left caucus of his own party because he has talked in the past about sort of quasi privatised ation and talked about contracting operations and procedures out more to private hospitals to get those waiting lists down. i mean, that suggestion is often anathema to the left, but he's going ahead with it. it's been quite reasonable as well. on the junior doctors strike, saying that that 35% pay claim was unreasoning, which again, is set in more in the right of the party when it comes to the handung party when it comes to the handling of the nhs. but i mean, at the end of the day, just as the labour party might be inheriting a difficult economic legacy, they're still going to be inheriting, you know, 8 or 9 million strong waiting lists. so what's his solution to that? i'm

also going to be asking him about the rwanda plan. there's been some interesting coverage in the mail on sunday today suggesting that ursula von der euanne suggesting that ursula von der elianne and others in the eu are wanting to ape this scheme. what i can't quite work out is labour says that as soon as it comes to power, it's going to scrap the rwanda scheme. and i want to ask mr streeting what really , even mr streeting what really, even if it does prove to be a deterrent, even if it's a success, because we saw labour have a similar outcry in australia when tony abbott introduced these measures back in, i think, 2014. and now the labour prime minister, anthony albanese , has stuck with them albanese, has stuck with them because he knows it works. so there's a lot to go out this morning, guys. >> patch program camilla, thank you very much. we'll see you at 930. >> yeah. going to be fascinating. that one. now, talk about rwanda as we were there. let's look at the situation in ireland because there's been a recent influx of migrants crossing the border from northern ireland into the republic, and that's sort of being linked to the rwanda plan already being a deterrent, apparently. >> well, latest government

figures indicate there are 1758 people who have sought asylum in ireland who, without an offer of state accommodation . state accommodation. >> ireland's foreign minister, micheal martin, has connected britain's rwanda policy to their failure to control migration after brexit. >> well, let's cross over to dougie beattie , who is live for dougie beattie, who is live for us this morning. good to see you this morning, dougie. and there are simmering tensions, aren't there, in the republic over migration ? migration? >> yes. good morning and welcome to newtown , mount kennedy. this to newtown, mount kennedy. this is one of the most picturesque places, the most, liberal places in on the island of ireland. it is an absolutely stunning place. the wicklow mountains just in behind us. there and this is a houday behind us. there and this is a holiday destination . it is a holiday destination. it is a beautiful place. but of course, you can see here stephen and ellie. there is no barriers on the main road. the garda siochana standing in behind there . and if we just walk this

there. and if we just walk this way here, you can see that there is a gaa pitch. now are really, really the heart of any community in ireland. it is a big social gathering place. it's also a place where a lot of sport takes place and the people now cannot enter this pitch because just beyond these gardens behind us over here is an old convent school, and it was not back to the community. in fact, it has now been taken to house 160 immigrant men now currently in dublin, sleeping in tents . and the problem that is tents. and the problem that is of course, the locals here. this would be like you putting this into surrey. you know these people pay thousands in rates. they want to be here because it's beautiful. the prices of houses here are so much and they are now getting this type of thing coming into them. and i spoke to kevin hague late last night to find out exactly what the community were thinking. and the community were thinking. and the proposal is to put 28 man

tents onto the site to house 160 young men. >> we feel that's morally wrong . >> we feel that's morally wrong. you can't just dump people in a field in wicklow and expect things to go well. it's a very community led protest and right from the start we've kept it very non—political. we're not interested in right wing politics, we're not interested in racism or anything like that. this is community. people saying this is wrong for our community. >> well, unfortunately for this community here, the public order unit of the garda siochana decided to enforce the law on them in a very physical way just a few nights ago. and that has really brought tensions up. and that community has now lost faith in these garda siochana i spoke to a lady here just a few moments ago who was brought up in this community. she was brought up to respect the police and she says no, she has none. she's heartbroken and was in tears. okay dougie, for now.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> now british troops could be deployed on the ground in gaza to help deliver aid via a new sea route. >> the us has said that no american forces would go ashore and they said an unnamed third party would drive trucks along a floating causeway onto the beach. >> well, the uk is understood to be considering tasking british troops with this when the aid corridor opens next month. >> whitehall sources said no decision had been made and both the mod and the israeli army have declined to comment. >> while earlier we spoke with defence editor at the evening standard, robert fox, british troops could do and some might say it's the sort of thing that british troops ought to do , but british troops ought to do, but we have the terrible cover, as it were, of the american argument that they won't put their troops in harm's way. >> and in this kind of operation, america has form, america held up, going into

kosovo in 1999 because they were worried about force protection. there was very little opposition. it's very strange the way they they operate, they're very well aware of force protection, by the way, in afghanistan and yet took huge amounts of casualties when they took over a hot spot like sangin from british forces . now, the from british forces. now, the wider aid operation , i think is wider aid operation, i think is going to be a very important and always has been an important part of british forces . but i do part of british forces. but i do understand the reticence of whitehall and particularly number 10, in that they want cover and guarantees. i think one, there must be a un mandate . one, there must be a un mandate. and i think the israelis, hamas and islamic jihad must be explained what the rules of engagement are, there is a potential from of vulnerability from either side. and but i

think it can be done . but from either side. and but i think it can be done. but i think it can be done. but i think britain would want to do it with an ally. and i would suspect that would be a scandinavian and possibly france. well, couldn't you i mean, why can't it be done on and i don't know quite how these things work, robert, but under the, under the banner of, peacekeeping, i think that's exactly what it would be if they were blue helmets were only talking, i think of a few hundred drivers . it's quite hundred drivers. it's quite limited, but they are, as you rightly read in your in from your intro that they're going on the beach. they are potentially in harm's way. but i'm finding this very, very difficult . this very, very difficult. potentially. that's what happens to soldiers , people in the armed to soldiers, people in the armed services. you don't expect to be get to get killed or shot, but risk is inherent in it. and this is a very good thing. i think lord cameron will want this to happen because it gives britain leverage and they really want to bnng leverage and they really want to bring the whole gaza, rafah business to a conclusion within

weeks. that's when they've really got to push the israelis on that, on that, as well as hamas, because they really want it wrapped up. and who wants it most of all, joe biden, because he doesn't want to go into a general election campaign. that is the election post the conventions for the presidency with all this hanging around, still, he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine and he's going to have ukraine big time, and he's still got the houthis , but he wants got the houthis, but he wants this one, i think, resolved whether he'll get it. i think it's about 5050 at the moment. >> what is the situation with the aid corridors in gaza at the moment, by land and by sea? well, there is limited access. >> a certain amount seems to be delivered on the periphery, and i'm not going to use fancy words because it's completely the wrong way to do it , this wrong way to do it, this building, this elaborate, ingenious idea of building an offshore harbour causeway facility sounds fantastic, doesn't it? and we've seen all

the grainy black and white films and documentaries and lots of documentaries about world war ii and the mulberry harbour after d—day, which was such a success. this absolutely isn't the way to do it . you want a humanitarian do it. you want a humanitarian corridor from the north, and it would have to be the south, considering the bulk of the population. so many of the refugees of the palestinians have now gone to the south, up from egypt, but parties are not willing to do it. and that's what, you know, a robust un would do. you would have guaranteed, humanitarian corridors with very robust rules of engagement. oops. think of getting that past the security council with china and russia having a veto, yeah . look sort having a veto, yeah. look sort of closer to home, if you like. robert, what's this about a hyper sonic missile that we're planning to build in the uk? >> well, we're we're playing a bit of catch up there, but i hypersonics are all over the place , and there's a dreadful place, and there's a dreadful fear that the chinese

particularly are ahead and the russians have been using. they've been quite effective in downing them. but this is why things are so tricky . it's things are so tricky. it's funny, we're talking about gaza. i mean, the things are on a knife edge over the next few days and weeks, in, in, in, in ukraine, as we see the battle of the breakout from avdiivka and bakhmut, at this moment in or high place called charles rae. yeah the problem is it's all being done by electronic warfare . it's very difficult to envisage this because somebody who had been on the front line was explaining to me, you know, you put up drones, you put up this, that and the other and you have to go through what he called was an electronic barrier hidden, which is downing a lot of the of the drones , on, on, of the of the drones, on, on, on, on both sides. this is why we got the announcement in poland from the, from the prime minister is, gosh, we're getting into the game. we're very good on certain kinds of weaponry ,

on certain kinds of weaponry, but we are late on a lot of it. we are although we have global ambitions, we're not a global power. and we need pals. and i think the reliable powers are emerging to be from the north. the nordics, the scandinavians, the baltics, which are small and poland. >> oh, okay. robert, good to see you. this it's robert fox speaking to us a little bit earlier on. >> now, some good news for you this morning. it's our biggest cash prize to date, a massive £20,000 in tax free cash. it could all be yours in our latest great british giveaway . that's great british giveaway. that's enough cash to spend this summer in style. we think this is how it could all be yours. >> you really could be our next big winner with an incredible £20,000 in tax free cash to play with this summer. what would you spend that on? well, whilst you're thinking about it, listen to some of our previous winners getting that winning phone call from us. >> you're the winner of the great british giveaway i great british giveaway! >> lipnik. oh dear. >> lipnik. oh dear. >> oh my god, are you joking? you're joking. >> really? seriously? it's not a

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5mm >> now the x factor winner. sam bailey has spoken movingly about her son's autism diagnosis , and her son's autism diagnosis, and admitted that getting the right level of help can be incredibly difficult. i'm very pleased to say that sam joins us now this morning. good to see you this morning, sam. and we know your face. we know your voice. so well. from your winning the x factor back in 2013, you've actually had quite a difficult time, haven't you, with your son tommy. and getting the right support for him at school. tell us a bit more , yeah. so i, i us a bit more, yeah. so i, i knew the transition from primary school to secondary school was going to be difficult for him, and i think as parents, we were kind of in denial that there was anything untoward that was different or anything. and we were told that he would really struggle and to get a diagnosis , struggle and to get a diagnosis, i actually went private to get his diagnosis and, by doing that, it was a quicker process,

but it was the after after that diagnosis was the hard part because, you have to you have to kind of prove that he can't be in a mainstream school, he would bang his head against the wall. he really, really struggled at school, he he didn't go for a year and a half, he really, really struggled. and we there was no way for him. he didn't have an education. no one. he just festered at home. he put on weight. he was threatening to take his life, so we had a really, really tough time. and i went to the doctors on my own and said to the doctors, i'm really concerned about my son. hello. i said, i'm really concerned about my son, because of how he's being. i was like , of how he's being. i was like, you know, he's saying some stuff. and they said that we can't deal with this. that needs to be autism outreach. i'm like, i'm going to a doctors because my son and they turn me away. i've got a letter to say that the gp turned my son away

because he was feeling low and told him, told to us go to the national autistic society. i think it was , which i was like think it was, which i was like baffled by, absolutely baffled . baffled by, absolutely baffled. >> well, i mean, it's it beggars belief, sam. and i hate to say that we're really tight for time, but what does what would your advice be for any parent in the same situation, i my advice to anybody is to contact your local sends, that is a wokeist org coco gauff uk. i think it is. and that's your local cindy yu c n d i a s s is. and that's your local cindy yucndiassandtheyareon your side. they will help you fight your corner. they're an amazing, amazing bunch of people in your local area. you will have a send us. okay. i didn't know any of this. >> well no, that's why it's so important . >> well no, that's why it's so important. that >> well no, that's why it's so important . that you've been important. that you've been talking about it this morning. >> i'm so sorry we haven't had long with you. it's only because

it's the end of the programme. but it's so good to see you, sam bailey, and best of best wishes to tommy as well. >> and anyone in that situation. >> and anyone in that situation. >> that's it from us. thanks for your company. camilla tominey is here next. >> a brighter outlook with boxt solar, the sponsors of weather on gb news. >> hello. here's your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. we'll see an east west split weather wise across the uk today. rain at times towards the east, generally a bit brighter the further west you go, but temperatures still struggling for the time of year. confirmation then of a pretty wet picture across some central and many eastern parts of england towards the south—east. we could see skies brightening briefly, but this could set off some pretty heavy, potentially even thundery showers for a time. whereas towards the west and northwest are generally bright today here. but again, nofice bright today here. but again, notice a few showers dotted around as we go through the day. temperatures really struggling under the rain towards the east, coupled with quite a strong northerly breeze. no better than 9 or 10 degrees in places here, whereas in the best of the

sunshine further west was the highs of 12 or 13 celsius. as we go through the evening into the overnight period, those outbreaks of rain will push away to the northeast, affecting the northern isles into the early hours of monday. elsewhere, it will turn clearer for a time, but notice further showers gathering out towards the west, some of those starting to merge to longer spells of rain towards the morning and other clear spells out towards the east. it will turn quite chilly, could see a local frost by monday morning and 1 or 2 spots, but generally those temperatures picking back up as the showers come back in across the west there. as for monday, well again an east west split developing in the weather, but this time a reversal of fortunes with the east and southeast seeing the best of the dry and bright weather was out towards the west with plenty of showers around those showers again merging at times to some longer spells of rain. and although a pretty wet out towards the west, temperatures generally starting to pick up with highs of 12 or 13 celsius towards the north. up to 15 or 16 degrees in the southeast. that warm feeling inside from boxt boilers sperm. >>

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way. >> good morning and welcome to the camilla tominey show. another week brings another set of headaches for the government. i'll be asking the minister for policing, chris philp. does he actually know the difference between rwanda and the democratic republic of congo? i'll be asking shadow health secretary wes streeting whether his colleague, deputy leader angela rayner, is a tax avoider. former energy minister graham stuart will be joining me in the studio following his recent resignation from government . can resignation from government. can we really reach net zero by 2050? and at what cost to the taxpayer? i'll also be speaking to sir david davis as he plans to sir david davis as he plans to abstain. yes, abseil down anfield for a charity this afternoon. former defence secretary doctor liam fox will be here to share his latest book, the coming storm, which looks at why water will prompt the biggest crisis of the 21st century, and former immigration minister robert jenrick will be delving into details of his new report on legal migration . why

report on legal migration. why do we need to cap the number