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To find out what’s happening in the heart of Westminster and why it matters to you weekdays from midday we bring you the most compelling stories from across the United Kingdom and from your doorstep to our inbox that’s right we want to hear from you GB news Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s 12:00 on Thursday the 4th of January starma comes out swinging the labor leader has promised to crush what he calls Tory politics of divide and decline as he effectively launches Labour’s 2024 election campaign but do his own sums add up Epstein files prince Andrew Bill

Clinton and Steven Hawking have been named in a release of court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein police in Gaza Scotland Yard have been CR criticized for posters appealing for Witnesses to alleged war crimes in Gaza the UK gave up its British Palestinian mandate in 1948 is

Investigating Israel an appropriate use of British police Time well there’s a question for you Tom I I I can’t keep up on one half it seems like a lot of people say Britain’s a small tiny place with no influence in the world and on the other hand people seem to be pretending that we still run all of the

Middle East and we must be investigating everything about that which is it are we a superpower or are we a tiny diminished little island and you would have thought now I would have thought and we’re going to be speaking to people who know more about this but you would have thought on

The surface there are met police when there’s knife crime rampant when there’s armed burglaries going on when there is sexual assault on our streets that perhaps the Met police might have more on their plate and there might be more appropriate and effective uses of their time than trying to appeal to Witnesses

Of alleged war crimes in Israel Palestine odd and not just their time but British taxpayer cash as well these posters at airports don’t come cheap and that’s what the Metropolitan Police have been spending cash on yes let us know what you think about this Boris Johnson has come out quite strongly actually and

Said well warned of the politicization of the Met police because of course the Met police have accused of being far too soft touch with some of the protests we’ve seen on our streets uh with those uh essentially well glorifying what tamas did on October the 7th is this an

Appropriate use of the Met police’s time let us know GB views atgb news.com but first your headlines with Tatiana Emily thank you and good afternoon this is the latest from the GB News Room prince Andrew Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are among over 150 people named in US court documents detailing connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the unsealed files were part of a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s

Associate gay Maxwell who serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for him many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing the document also includes an allegation by Johanna zober claiming the Duke of York touched her inappropriately in 2001 more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming

Days the labor leader says he’s ready for a general election promising to stand up for working people sakir Stam is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless populist gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from rishy sunak during his new year speech he also said

The character of politics will change if labor wins power and the country now faces a year of choice I didn’t expect a front row seat on this Tory performance art a song and dance for your political attention because they find performing so much easier than the hard graft of practical

Achievement no I came into politics to serve to get things done to strive each and every day to make a difference to the lives of working people NHS bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctor strike by calling them back to work more than than 20 requests

Have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressures on Services the British Medical Association has criticized the move and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety suggesting instead that NHS England is bowing to political pressure none of the requests have been granted

So far it comes as leading Medics are warning patients will suffer significant harm and Trauma in coming weeks as the service faces quote a perfect storm of pressure a man has been arrested and remains in custody after multiple gunshots were fired in Liverpool last night a 49-year-old was arrested on

Suspicion of possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life and robbery police said it received reports of shots coming from a shop and further incidents outside of Cinema and nearby property in the CI and Norris green areas of the city no one was injured in any of the

Incidents two people have been charged with Arsen over a fire at conservative MP Mike fr’s constituency office A 42-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman have been charged with intent over the fire in a shed at the office on Christmas Eve they’ve also been charged with Aron without intent over a fire at

The back of a restaurant in North London that same evening there were no injuries reported in either fire the Met police says the incident at Mr freer’s office is not being treated as a hate crime both are due to appear in court today the number of people putting their

Homes up for sale hit a record high on boxing day property website right move said just over 10,000 new properties came onto the market the biggest number of people selling since 2011 the number of buyers contacting estate agents about homes for sale also jumped and was 17% higher than on boxing day in

2022 Luke ller has maintained High Spirits despite losing in the world dance championship finals saying he’ll come back stronger 16-year-old ller lost to the new world number one Luke humph who beat him 74 last night and it is a landmark success for humph who now has won four of the last five major

Tournaments he’s pledged to donate some of his prize money to prostate cancer UK a charity close to his heart humph told GB news that his dreams have come true feels incredible um you know it’s something I’ve obviously dreamed of for many many years and uh you know to go

And do it last night in such emphatic fashion you know it’s so so pleasing for me um you know worked incredibly hard for this moment and you know to go on and win in my first world final is you know amazing amazing feat and dramatic scenes were caught on

Camera inside a courtroom in Las Vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack the judge was about to give her decision on the sentence of Debra reden when he ran up to the bench and jumped over the furniture to assault her shocking footage for those watching on television

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Snap back to Tom and Emily well the labor leader sakir starma insists he will return his party to the working class launching his campaign for the election year sakir starm urged voters to reject pointless populist gestures and promis to put service back at the heart of politics yes it comes ahead of prime minister Rishi zunac

Holding a Q&A session in the next half an hour although a Q&A session without any journalists allowed to ask questions who’s going to be asking the questions uh a group of individuals when he does these sort of uh trips around the country sort of Industries and all the

Rest of it they’ll be a hand selected group of people I I went along to one not that long ago that was full of apprentices for example but I’m sure we can find out precisely more because we’re joined from Bristol by GB news political editor Christopher hope and in Westminster our political correspondent

Olivia Arley um before we get on to uh Sun sunak who’s speaking in around half an hour’s time let’s start with starma who spoke this morning uh Christopher hope what did we learn well we’re here in Bristol with K starma this is a seat created by the changes

The boundaries system it’s a new seat fil in Bradley stoke the T have a 5 a half thousand seat majority vote majority often don’t we we view the Southwest as a as a a kind of Tory Liv Den Battleground but labor are hoping to make a lot of gains there and that is

Why sir AR has been here he’s given a speech today to about 200 supporters and people behind me at this Factory uh talking about how he wanted to create project hope credible hope and apparently Frank hope but not not not Chris hope that’s me but also about the

Party of Hope um lots of big ideas about Ballpark and and giving people a chance of to to vote for a new future to get our future back he said and to unite as a country not a lot of detail the questions from journalists try to get

More out of him he did there we asked him about tax he’s tied cutting taxes to an increase in living standard that’s the first time I’ve heard him say some red tape around when they might increase taxes if you believe the Tories they’re going to fight the election on cutting

Taxes and dealing with immigration so we’re seeing some some Blue Water red water opening up between the two main parties there also on the issue of borrowing 28 billion pounds to spend on Net Zero measures that will only happen when it falls within fiscal rules um and

Doesn’t and the country can afford it and the big issue is how can you for that will it mean more borrowing to hit this Net Zero Target um also bring on the TV debates he said there’s some speculation that starma may not want to do TV debates um also on GB news and

Other channels he’s so far ahead in the polls but he did say bring it on that sound like commitment um also just for you Tom Emily I asked him about his views on the darts last night whether he felt that the uh the the the defeat for

Luke ller but the way he behaved the way he handled himself shows some faith in our youth here’s what we had to say about the darts last night has Luke lit’s maturity and professionalism shown that 16y olds are already to have a vote the voting age should be cut from double

N to8 firstly I mean Luke ller I mean it’s been incredible watching uh the darts seeing what he has done um I’m I’m not going to claim I watch darts every day everybody knows football is my game but it has been quite an electrifying a

Couple of days um and I’m a big believer in 16-year-olds and being able to express their views um have their vote and and win darts tournaments uh I thought he did brilliantly I think everybody’s incred incredibly proud of him as a 16-year-old with real composure

Actually as well I mean um you know to do that on that stage um in that way just up the road from me and Ali P was quite phenomenal I thought well there we go a public commitment that sounded like a public commitment to introduce votes at 16 to

Lower the voting age I suppose there’s some big questions about what that uh really leads to in society given that we’re expecting that 16year olds stay in education for two more years than we used to think they would given that we are expecting that we’re going to raise

The smoking age that the drinking age is something that is pretty set in stone as well it seems fairly inconsistent but I want to know Christopher I want to know because you asked that question about the 28 billion P whether it will be borrowing or funded by taxes K starma

Said borrowing but only within subject to the fiscal rules now I read that campaigners are very worried because of this question you asked to kiss Dharma that he’s backing away from that pledge and it would seem like he is he’s upsetting those Net Zero followers within the

Party well only only that’s right I mean how will he for this he’s now wrapping red tape around the commitments he set out there so there’s 20 8 billion was going to be every year from year one of a labor government now it’s the second half of a labor government and the

Answer there must surely beg the question will he get there at all will he ever hit the 28 billion on on on spending and how to pay for it will it be through borrowing or taxation he was also asked about what new thresholds uh would would

Would you bring in because we heard from reform UK increasing the personal allowance from 12,000 125,000 to £20,000 um no Cloud on there either this the beginning I think of us trying to drill down into what these these braw Park num pledges are from the labor

Party and find out what what will really happen for GB news viewers and the people of Britain yeah it seems like he’s really sort of boxed himself into a corner there either there is this big transformational load of investment uh and and and if there is that then he has

To pay for it so taxes have to go up or he doesn’t do the 28 billion P of investment and nothing really changes um should we move to ol now though because we are expecting rishy sunak to speak in around 20 minutes time and Olivia is this really the beginning of the

Election campaign now it does very much feel like the beginning of the election campaign we had starma today I was following Ed Davey leader of the liberal Democrats in Guilford yesterday he was pulling no punches he says that the libdems of the conservatives removal unit he was driving around Guilford with a a

Delivery van we’re expecting to hear from sunak lat as you said it’s not a big press conference in front of journalists it’s a Q&A uh with a few local journalists there in Nottinghamshire has he put himself a little bit on the back foot by being the

Last out of the door out of all the leaders possibly and I think that’s made a bit worse by the fact that K stama talked about how he wants under his under a k sta government politics would tread more lightly on people’s lives and he sort of went down the Kinder gentler

Politics message the Tories are nasty they’re trying to sew division now almost anything that Rishi sunak says will look as though it’s sort of playing into exactly what K stama is accusing him of he also might be trying to keep a little bit of a low profile because yesterday was the one-year anniversary

Of his five pledges speech in Stratford in 2023 and of those five pledges only one of them has really been achieved so far inflation has been high hared but as we know the boats have not been stopped there are fewer boats coming over 30% less 2023 than 2022 but they’re very

Much still coming over the economy isn’t really growing yet and NHS waging lists certainly are not going down they’re going up because of the strikes so Rishi sunak a little bit on the back foot at the start of this year but maybe he’ll claw back some ground when we hear from

Him in the next 20 minutes or so it’s interesting Olivia that you mentioned that he’s the last to sort of appear to launch an election campaign because he was also the last to issue his Christmas message also the last to issue his new year’s message and now this so maybe

This is just what maybe he thinks this is the way to go you know keep people waiting on tender hooks maybe I don’t know Perhaps Perhaps it seems like a little bit of a strange tactic because what K St has been trying to do for the

Last year or so uh is to make himself appear as the as the state Statesman the sort of Elder Statesman he’s the one who kind of uh tries to get in there to to lead tributes to the police or whatever Public Services perform well at the beginning of pmqs um and in allowing

Himself to be second every time Rishi sunak almost looks already as though he is the leader of the opposition and is that a position that you want a prime minister to be in well Olivia thank you very much for that analysis we’ll catch up with you and indeed Chris after

You’ve been listening to what uh what the Prime Minister has to say and if he frankly has anything interesting to say at all but let’s now speak to the conservative MP for Lichfield Sir Michael fabricant and Michael thank you so much for joining us I suppose the one

Thing we can definitively comment on is what saki starma has said this morning and he’s accused your party of being divisive and declinist well he would wouldn’t he as someone famously once said in a tri to do with sex and disgrace and but anyway I always like to get

Things in like that you know on GB news at lunchtime I it’s important I said to a friend if K sta actually starts talking again about the fact that his father was a tool maker that he is working class and that he used to prosecute people as director of public

Prosecutions I would scream and I’ll tell you what be screaming around the house all morning I mean there was absolutely nothing said in the speech of any substance at all it was all about what he would do and the wicked Tories only what he would do was no detail

Whatsoever nor how he would pay for it as in fact Chris hope has already pointed out the problem is though Michael kiss SEC sta may not have uh much Charisma or indeed that much detail on his policy proposals but unfortunately for the conservative party Rishi sunag isn’t polling very well it

Doesn’t seem like the public have much trust in him as leader so what is rishy sunak going to say today that was going to suddenly Galvanize support that has been lost to secur starma I don’t know what he’s going to say today I’ll be watching like you we it’ll be

Interesting oh Michael I thought you were going to give us you know some secrets well I would like to CL that I’ve actually written this speech but you know what I haven’t but but you know back to just K STA and Richie suak you know he was talking about all the sorts

Of things that the government has done and it’s completely untrue like for example he said oh the economy crashed under the tourist we’re actually the fastest growing over the last 10 years anyway the fastest growing economy in the G7 and while at the moment we’re flatlining uh Germany is in very very

Deep recession and Europe has actually is the EU Euro Zone they’re in recession too so Michel Michael I’m afraid I’m going to have to issue a slight correction you’re correct that the UK of the last 10 years was the fastest growing major European G7 economy but the United States has grown

Faster not over the 10 years you know the terrible thing about going on GB news is dealing with Tom Harwood he is such a nerd yes we do know that Michael well it’s he’s a very Charming nerd though it it is it is slightly irritating though

Because so often we have this sort of slightly myopic view of who’s doing the best in Europe and we’re all talking about 0.3 0.4 0.6 whereas the United States of America is is is far ahead on sort of 4% 5% growth completely different League this has a lot to do

With the energy costs which are still far too high in this in this country so kiss he has this idea billions to borrow to invest in Green Tech and the like and also you know a new GB Energy company has he is he coming up with more solutions than the current government

When you started to say GB I saw Tom look at you and thinking God is GB news going to di diiz into petrol pumps or something but look you’re absolutely right by the way about the US is that they’re energy sufficient and they do fracking and all

The rest of it when we talked about fracking everyone says no we don’t want fracking um look including within your party Michael oh yes absolutely actually to be honest with you I was all for fracking you know I’ve got a sort of engineering background when you’re talking about digging deeper than Mount

Everest is high all the talk about um you know earthquak uh contaminating water level just doesn’t apply but anyway now I know I’m going to get 10,000 letters from people all saying bloody hell fabricant talking about bracking again but anyway that’s beside the point look what is the

Point is that they’re energy sufficient and I haven’t heard anything from Sarma about how he’s going to make UK energy sufficient it’s just talk talk talk and absolutely no detail at all but then I guess because he’s so many points ahead in the polls he’s think they can get

Away with it well so Michael I think I think I think Sak sta I suppose you’re both kned this is this is fun but but saki sta might say to that well we’ve got this 28 billion pound spending plan we’re going to U use all of that to make

Loads of clean green energy although I suppose that’s slightly undermined by what he just told Christopher hope in that if it doesn’t fit in the fiscal rules they won’t do it yeah not much of a plan really well I remember when Tony Blair came in in 1997

And he was styed for the first few years because he said he would stick to the same spending plans as the conservatives and that rather restricted what he did we might well see ourselves in a very similar situation after the next election but uh but for now Michael

Fabricant thank you so much for joining us here on GB news always good to talk always good to chat to Sir Michael fabrican now court documents identifying a list of high-profile names linked to the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released today we’ll be running through them after this short

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Minutes P 12 and prince Andrew is among a number of high-profile figures named in US courts documents released today detailing connections of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein galain Maxwell a known Epstein associate told her lawyers she was worried about being questioned on her relationship with prince Andrew Bill Clinton and Donald

Trump they’re also among high profile names in the Court’s documents although none of them are although neither is accused of illegality yes so our Royal correspondent Cameron Walker joins us now Cameron are these fresh alleg ations in these documents against prince Andrew in a nutshell no they’ve been widely

Reported in the past over the last six years a couple of allegations really to take you through the first of which is from A lady called Johanna scherg who accuses prince Andrew of in 2001 putting his hands on her breast while posing with a spitting image puppet of himself

In Jeffrey Epstein the disgrace financiers at New York mansion in 2001 the second as we all know uh now is to do with uh Virginia du fre who accused prince Andrew of sexually assaulting her when she was 17 years old an allegation prince Andrew who always denied he did

Settle out of court with her two years ago in a civil um sexual assault case paying out millions of pounds he has also previously claims to have never met miss you prey so it’s all very uncomfortable for prince Andrew the difference with what’s happened today or overnight is this instead of just media

Reports of previous deposition in the United States these documents uh have all these allegations in written Court testimony and that is what is particularly uncomfortable for prince Andrew because there are some very serious allegations in there including having an orgy on Jeffrey Epstein’s island with a number of underage girls

Allegations he has always denied in the past it’s uncomfortable by extension for the royal family as well because prince Andrew was pictured along side his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson the king uh the queen William and Catherine at Christmas at sanong Christmas Day they’ve also been pictured together on private family

Occasions in the past in the last couple of months um but I think that shows that it’s you know prince Andrew still very much part of the private Windsor family but in terms of him coming back into the Royal fold anytime soon and as a working member very very unlikely if you

Remember following his out of court sessment with Virginia G for Queen Elizabeth II stripped him of all his military titles he no longer uses his hrh status and of course he’s no longer a working member of the world family Cameron I suppose the big question here is even though prince

Andrew settled out of court with Virginia du Frey and and there are no more legal sort of albatrosses around his neck in the court of public opinion it’s a very different situation many people in the United Kingdom many people across the world uh believe that despite this settlement and this uh dropping of

Of charges or or or or nonp pursuing of of of anything of that sort people believe he did it well he remains the most unpopular member of the royal family in the United Kingdom according to the latest yugov poll I mean you just have to remember the car crash interview

He did with Emily matless on BBC’s news night which again kind of forced for him to step back from public duties but he has always publicly denied any allegations of wrongdoing in fact the allegation where he put put um his hand on on Johanna sher’s breast that’s something that Buckingham Palace even

Denied and and and I quote Buckingham Palace said that was categorically untrue that is when he was still a working member of the royal family now he has been cast aside as a working member Buckingham Palace does not represent the Duke of York I have contacted the Duke of York’s private

Office this morning for comments have not heard anything so far but you’re right I think in the court of public opinion it’s it’s hard to see a situation where he is going to come back anytime soon but the King has shown public support for him as a private

Member as as his own brother because we saw him at Singham didn’t we we saw Prince William driving um prince Andrew um around Bal moral from the castle to the church a couple of months ago as well although uh I have been told by a source that Prince William was not

Particularly comfortable with that and he was kind of forced into it but yes Bucking Palace not commenting on that one yes I guess Cameron just lastly as you say there were signs that he was uh being brought back into the Royal fold even rumors that there was some kind of

Rekindling between himself and uh Sarah Ferguson do you think he’ll uh after this latest publishing of these documents do you think he’ll slip back into the into the background a little more well I think it’s certainly more nor for prince Andrew uh perhaps the royal family will think twice about

Keeping him getting him out and about in public but it was a the the walk from Singham on Christmas Day is a private family moment and there are two there’s a big difference between being part of the private family and the working royal family and clearly he is not and hasn’t

Been for a long time now a working member of the royal family but we’ll have to wait and see because we are expecting more documents to be released in the coming days if there are any other brand new bomb shells but as it stands there’s nothing fundamentally new that’s going to incriminate prince

Andrew here well we know you’ll keep your eye on those and bring us more as we get it Cameron Walker for now thank you very much coming up we’ll be discussing why the former prime minister Boris Johnson is worried about the politicization of the Metropolitan Police that and much more to come after

Your headlines with Tatiana this is good afternoon Britain on GB News Tom thank you very much I’m Tatiana Sanchez in the GB Newsroom prince Andrew Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are among over 150 people named in US court documents detailing connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the unsealed files were part of a civil lawsuit against ep’s associate glay Maxwell

Who’s serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for him many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing the document also includes an allegation by Johanna zberg claiming the Duke of York touched her inappropriately in 2001 more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming

Days NHS bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctor strike by calling them back to work more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressures on Services the British Medical Association has criticized the move and in a letter said it has nothing

To do with with patient safety suggesting instead that NHS England is bowing to political pressure none of the requests made have been granted so far the labor leader says he’s ready for a general election promising to stand up for working people sakam is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless

Populous gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from rishy sunak during his new year speech he also said the character of politics will change if labor wins power and the country now fac is a year of choice and Luke ller has maintained High Spirits despite losing in the world

Dance Championship final saying he’ll come back stronger 16-year-old ller lost to the new world number one Luke humph who beat him 74 last night it’s a landmark success for humph who’s now won four of the last five major tournaments he says he’ll donate some of his prize money to prostate cancer

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Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s just gone 12:39 and we have some breaking news for you now now the Prime Minister Rishi sunak has said that his working assumption is that he will hold a general election in the second half of this year so that’s his working assumption that he will hold a general

Election in the second half of this year so this ends the speculation that we were going to have a spring election or an early election and the liberal Democrats of course next week were going to be laying some legislation in Parliament some hopeful legislation about a May thei election it looks like

That is off the cards and we’re looking at uh October or indeed November uh as the likely Landing ground for that general election now perhaps unsurprising what was it that uh Christopher hope said yesterday and his predictions did he say November the 7th he said November the 7th November the

7th so it’s looking like it could be November the 7th he could uh be right on Al Bill ramal told us that he thought it would be October the 22nd so who would right similar Landing ground that s the time of the year barely contain my excitement to find out whether it is

October the 22nd or November the 7th on neither of those dates we’ve got a long long election campaign because of course we’ve heard speeches from the Reform Party from the lib Dems from the labor party and as we’re currently talking the prime minister is speaking as well that’s where we’re getting this news

From so all four major parties are talking now about running that election campaign and it’s going to be a long old SLO I wonder if it’s going to be a vicious campaign I imagine it will be it’s the first general election campaign that we’ve had about a year run up to

The since 2015 2015 basically Parliament sort of shut down and there wasn’t anything new that happened because they were all in campaigning mode because we knew when the date of the election was but then 2017 that was a snap election 2019 that was a snap election so the

Last couple of Elections it’s all been very sort of surprising whereas this one we’ve got a long long run up to yeah Richi sunak is uh promising also for a better year ahead he says this year has been a difficult one well the past year has been a difficult one but there will

Be a better year ahead that’s what he’s got to prove isn’t it well he’s uh talking from a low base so Perhaps Perhaps and I suppose the big gamble for Rishi sunak here is that he’s his government or to whe what extent it was his government or outside factors

Inflation has been halved the cost of living is easing wage growth is starting to outpace True inflation might people start to feel a bit better off the longer he has that could be the gamble that he’s making yeah the problem is it’s so easy for people to go through

The pledges and uh you know Mark Mark his scorecard as people do when they’re thinking about who they’re going to vote for and think well actually you haven’t stopped the boats well actually NHS waiting lists are at an all-time high so can he turn those big ones around

Because we know the NHS is usually second to the cost of living in terms of top issues for people then stop the boats illegal migration third but for conservative voters I believe it is number one or at least 2019 conservative although Emily we’re on the fourth of

January today yeah have we seen a single boat come across so far 4 days no boats I think we might need start a running total on this uh on this channel that that might be quite a good thing to do on this program we can say you know day

Four zero boats when might the first boat come across because so far this year he has stopped the boats yes well I think James cleverly can probably thank storm Hank yes for that more than his own policies but let us know do you think we’re being too harsh perhaps is

It an extremely difficult thing to solve not much help from any others I would suggest but anyway shall we move on general election second half of the year that’s what richy sunak is uh suggesting it’s his assumption in other news boxing day lived up to its name last week as a

Record number of people put their homes up for sale on the 26th of December gosh Boxing Day boom over 10,000 properties come on the market on right move that’s the largest number of new sellers in any single day since 2011 this comes as HSBC has become the first major High Street

Lender to offer a mortgage deal with a rate below 4% well our Yorkshire and Humber reporter Anna Riley is in Huddersfield which reported the highest property price growth in the UK last year Anna why are properties in Huddersfield uh going up in price so sharply good afternoon to you both yes well that

Comes uh from the Halifax house price trends report house prices grew at the fastest rate in the UK in the last year despite a nationwide downturn so Huddersfield booking the trend uh nationally it’s um as homes in the West Yorkshire town here went for8 Point 7% more meaning that here in Huddersfield

The average home now costs 22,000 more than it did a year ago so the average house price has gone from 253,000 to 275,000 but no clear reasons have actually been given Emily for the rise but Halifax have said there’s a number of reasons that may account for it as to

How house prices can be swayed such as the number of homes for sale the local job market and the kinds of services that are on offer like public transport schools and universities hood has field is the UK’s largest well 11th largest town and it’s here in West Yorkshire it

Has got a university it’s known for its industrial Heritage and its art scene as well and I’ve been out speaking to people here in Huddersfield about the Boom in property prices here and what they make of it I think the union is a

Big part of it but I think I feel so F of those who who can’t get properties either cuz it mainly all uni based properties so do feel sorry for people hello um sorry about that we’re breaking into to that report because we now have the video of Rishi sunak announcing some

Moments ago that the general election will be held in the second half of this year let’s have a listen so my my working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year and in the meantime I’ve got lots that I want to

Get on with this Saturday we’ll be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people in work worth on average 450 for an average worker because we’ve hared inflation we want to keep managing the economy well and cutting people’s taxes and I want to keep tackling illegal migration and we cut the number

Of arrivals last year by over a third but we’ve got more to do and we want to get the Rwanda scheme through Parliament and up and running so look I’ve got plenty to get on with and that’s what I’m focused on doing delivering for the British people and it’s great to be

Talking to people here in the East Midlands about that progress today just to clarify you said second half of the year so you’re rolling out a May election I said look my working assumption is it will have an election in the second half of this year because

In the meantime I’ve got lots that I want to get on with and that means cutting people’s taxes this Saturday that’s a tax cut worth £450 for an average person in work we can do that because we’ve hared inflation and I want to keep going managing the economy well

And cutting people’s taxes but I also want to keep tackling illegal migration last year we got the numbers down by Third and now we need to get our Rwanda scheme through Parliament up and running so we have a full deterrent and that’s how we’re going to really solve this

Problem once and for all so look I’ve got lots to get on with and determined to keep delivering for the British people and it’s been great to be talking to people here in the East Midlands about our progress today thank you much thanks very much thank you well there we

Go from the horse’s mouth the Prime Minister saying the election in the second half of the year because he’s got a lot that he wants to do um but I suppose we should apologize to Anna Riley whom we interrupted uh with with th those words from the Prime Minister

Um but we can return to Huddersfield and we can return to that situation in a future hour yes in a future hour absolutely do we have our political correspondent for us what we’re going to do now is talk about the former prime minister Boris Johnson who’s condemned a metropolitan police investigation into

Israel Over alleged war crimes in Gaza yes uh Scotland Yard counterterrorism police have launched an appeal for Witnesses traveling through British airports to report allegations of war crimes and also crimes against humanity the investigation is being conducted by the war crimes team within the force supporting a case into Israel conducted

By the international criminal court well the former met police detective Peter Bley joins us now and Peter I think a lot of people will be raising an eyebrow as to why the Metropolitan Police is expending time money resources on war crime cases far overseas when there seem to be quite a

Lot of problems at home yes I’m sure many people will be shaking their heads as especially if they’re victims of crime in that they’ve had their car their bike their their phone stolen their house burgled or they’re a shopkeeper who suffers from rampant shoplifting or of course like so many

People they become a victim of fraud because in those instances in all reality you will not get an investigation from the Metropolitan Police in fact they’ll subcontract the investigation work back to the victims to get them to do it themselves so many people are going to be a ghast what I

Need to say is that we owe our counterterrorism police a debt because they do swart and prevent many terrorist attacks but in this regard bearing in mind that those who prow the corridors of power at Scotland Yard are so obsessed with how things will look in the newspapers and about the perception

Rather than actually the policing they’ve got this one wrong there was no need to put up those posters it’s clumsy at best and really I’m sure that in terms of policing PR this is a huge own goal yet again and Peter this isn’t about preventing Terror attacks in this

Country is it this is about alleged war crimes in Israel Gaza so this has nothing to do necessarily with keeping the British people safe and that is what most people believe our police force is there to do exactly to Patrol the streets investigate crime prevent crime

Lock up bad people it’s got nothing to do with thwarting thwarting terrorism plots on the UK Mainland so the counterterrorism police have a tiny sort of responsibility if instructed to provide evidence to the international criminal court but this is way ahead of of what they should be doing there is

Simply no need for this they are touting for work at at airports by putting up posters when there are millions of crimes that they could be getting on with and and somehow provide a service for the victims Peter I’m trying to get my head around precisely why they’ve

Decided to expend this effort to put up these posters and I suppose the most generous interpretation I can come up with is that there are some communities in the United Kingdom who are mistrustful of the police and perhaps you could see this as a sort of Outreach exercise building relationships with

Some communities and ensuring there is a level of trust or at least sort of understanding between the police and some communities please be careful you’re falling into their fluffy liberal wokey kind of trap that they’re setting that they want people to think that way where really millions of victims of

Crime not only within the Mets area but the length and breadth of the country want police to do basic police work prevent crime patr TR streets and investigate crime and that simply isn’t happening the police turn their backs onto the crimes that affect the moderate mainstream of the UK and consequently

The police have become utterly irrelevant to millions of victims and now they go pulling stunts like this for whatever hairbrained reason of their own that they’ve come up with and they’ve scored a massive own goal well I want to know who put the order out on this who

Decided exactly who would have made this decision did it come from the very top uh I don’t know Peter but thank you very much for your time unfortunately we’ve run out of time former met detective Peter Bly always great to speak to you I think it’s absolutely ridiculous anyway

Well let’s get an update from Liverpool where a man has been arrested following a shooting at a cinema yes the 49-year-old was detained by armed officers around 4:45 this morning he remains in custody let’s head over to our reporter in Liverpool Jack Carson for the very latest Jack

Yeah good afternoon to you both so still a very active investigation here at the Showcase Cinema in uh Li just outside Liverpool of course this is where the reports of one of the three uh shots fired last night around the city was of course the police have arrested a

49-year-old man um in connection um with that they’ve arrested them on suspicion of possession of a firearm with the intent to endanger life and robbery now the first report came around 8 p.m. to reports of a man entering a shop um nearby and threatening the shop assistant um with a gun and demanding

Cash they then fired a shot um inside um that before before a man then uh fled um that particular scene then we get these um further reports of of of the shot um fired here in the car park of the Showcase Cinema and of course we’ve heard the testimonials from some of the

Witnesses and of course some of the staff who were threatened by a man um by a man with a gun now police um say that they arrested uh the 49-year-old man at 4:46 a.m. this morning uh after armed police um conducted an arrest warrant um nearby uh from here and of course they

Did also confirm mde police that nobody has been injured in any of the three incidents thank you very much indeed Jack Carson they’re live from Liverpool does seem there have been an extraordinary number of firearms incidents in Liverpool in particular and area uh in in recent months it’s uh quite worrying well absolutely

Terrifying yes you’re absolutely right there have been gun crime seems to be on the rise we often talk about knife crime but unfortunately there are guns circulating in this country too so we’ll be keeping an eye on that we’ll go back to Jack Carson if there are any

Developments but coming up it is of course day two of the longest strike in NHS history we’re going to be joined by a chair of the BMA that’s the union representing the junior doctors in the next hour this is good afternoon Britain here on GB news don’t go

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To find out what’s happening in the heart of Westminster and why it matters to you weekdays from midday we bring you the most compelling stories from across the United Kingdom and from your doorstep to our inbox that’s right we want to hear from you GB news Britain’s News Channel Good afternoon Britain it is 1:00 on Thursday the 4th of January the Prime Minister Rishi sunak has said that his working assumption is that he will hold a general election in the second half of this year we’re live with our political editor EP files prince Andrew Bill Clinton and Steven Hawking have been

Named in a release of court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shaken not stirred James Bond films have been issued a trigger warning the British Film Institute warns that elements and characters in the7 franchise could cause offense to modernday viewers we’ll host a detailed Debate these Epstein files are fascinating because there’s a lot in it that we already knew or that had already been reported but one of the names that stuck out to me and um has really been alighting certain corners of the internet is that of Steven Hawking would

That be the element of the internet that creates memes it might be it might be I just I I mean maybe it’s I I think a lot of the memes are crass um but it does seem peculiar to say the least that the disabled astrophysicist um might have been

Involved in in anything to do with uh what is being alleged yes well there you go we’re going to be talking to uh another Royal commentator particularly around prince Andrew what does this mean for the royal family certainly yet another headache and indeed do court documents mean something that actually

Happened or is it one side of a story we’re going to get to all the detail behind what is air confusing uh tale of twists and turns in the Epstein files but that’s after your headlines with Tatiana Tom thank you this is the latest from the GB Newsroom the Prime Minister has confirmed he’s working towards a general election in the second half of the Year Rishi sunak has been under pressure to call a vote made the comments during a regional visit to the

East Midlands both labor and the liberal Democrats have been pushing for a spring election the Prime Minister declined to rule that out instead saying he wants to focus on the economy cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration my working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year

And in the meantime I’ve got lots that I want to get on with this Saturday we’ll be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people in work worth on average £450 for an average worker because we’ve hared inflation we want to keep managing the economy well and

Cutting people’s taxes and I want to keep tackling illegal migration and we cut the number of arrivals last year by over a third but we’ve got more to do and we want to get the Rwanda scheme through Parliament and up and running so look I’ve got plenty to get on with and

That’s what I’m focused on doing delivering for the British people meanwhile the labor leader says he’s ready for a general election promising to stand up for working people sakir Stam is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless populist gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from from rishy sunak during his

New year’s speech he also said the character of politics will change if labor wins power and the country now faces a year of choice I didn’t expect a front row seat on this Tory performance art a song and dance for your political attention because they find performing

So much easier than the hard graft of practical achievement no I came into politics to serve to get things done to strive each and every day to make a difference to the lives of working people prince Andrew Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are among over 150 people named in US court documents detailing

Connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the unsealed files are part of a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s associate gilain Maxwell who’s serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for him many of those named are not accused of any wrongdoing the document also includes an allegation by Yanna zberg claiming the Duke of York

Touched her inappropriately in 2021 more documents are expected to be unsealed or unredacted in the coming days NHS bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctor strike by calling them back to work more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressure

On Services the British Medical Association has criticized the move and in a letter said it’s nothing to do with patient safety suggesting instead NHS England is bowing to political pressure none of the requests have been granted so far it comes as leading Medics are now warning patients will suffer

Significant harm and Trauma in coming weeks as the service faces a perfect storm of pressure dramatic scenes were caught on camera inside a courtroom in Las Vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack the judge was about to give her decision on the sentence of Deborah Ren when he

Ran up to the bench and jumped over the furniture to assault her shocking footage for those watching us on television he leaps over her desk grabbing her by the hair pulling her to the ground when security quickly sprung into action to restrain him and drag him away and Luke ller has maintained High

Spirits despite losing in the world darts Championship Finals saying he’ll come back stronger the 16-year-old lost to the new world number one Luke Humphrey who beat him 74 last night and it is a landmark success for humph who’s now won four of the last five major tournaments he’s pledged to donate some

Of his prize money to prostate cancer UK a charity close to his heart Humphrey’s told GB news that his dreams have come true it feels incredible um you know it’s something I’ve obviously dreamed of for many many years and uh you know to go out and do it last night in such

Emphatic fashion you know it’s so so pleasing for me um you know worked incredibly hard for this moment and you know to go on and win in my first world final is you know amazing amazing feat this is GB news across the UK on TV

In your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Tom and Emily good afternoon Britain to turn back to that breaking news in the last half hour that the Prime Minister Rishi sunak has said his working assumption is that he will hold a general election in the second half of this year yes so GB news political editor Christopher hope

Joins us now with more on the reaction so Christopher I see a number of high-profile politicians are already tweeting furiously about this saying that sunak is bottling it that’s right the liberal Democrats first out the stocks with a reaction to this statement by Rich sunak they’re calling him squatter sunak Emily and Tom

That because they think and you can argue politically why can’t you go in May that’s when the local elections are happening to have a general election a different time to local elections is a further cost on the country um tens of millions of pounds elections can cost

And so having at the same time as other elections saves money but he can’t do that he’s so too far behind the polls Rich sunak he announced it in a interview with reporters today a pool Cliff as we call it in our jargon he says my working assumption is that we

Will have a general election in the second half of this year now why announc it in a pool clip why not in a big speech why not make a big noise about it do it a newspaper opinion article um lots of questions I don’t know the

Answer to yet I’ll find out them for you through the through the show we weren’t expecting him to declare so soon because uh when the government this government acts the fixed term parliament’s act it was meant to give you some freedom on when to call an election and keep the

Other side guessing La of course were planning for a May general election and therefore they were expending energy and effort on what would have been the wrong moment so rather than hold that advantage over labor the pm has gone early to announce his intention and I don’t know why that’s happened it

Appears to have given up a political Advantage he had I suppose one of the reasons could be that allowing a narrative to build that there will be a May election and then not having an election in May would probably give more Credence to that idea that he’s

Squatting that he’s bottled it in the same way that Gordon Brown in 2007 allowed so much speculation about an early election then didn’t have one I suppose nipping that speculation in the bud probably avoids too much of that narrative setting hold yeah that’s right Tom there’s also a certain amount of party management

Because it’s not just the national party that must have the election it’s MPS too and if they need they need to know that there’s a May election coming they need to know about now it also means by the way that the government doesn’t have to open up the books in whiteall to labor

Now Labour were going to push this month for access to civil servants and say right you know we’re if we are having a May election about 6 months out from an election we are allowed as the opposition to go into into whiteall look at Force civil servants to weigh up and

Cost their plans now that now can’t happen Tom and Emily um or won’t happen I doubt until the summer assuming a November election I did say for GB news on this channel I think November the 7th as my election date that looks a bit more lightly Tom and Emily interesting

Stuff perhaps one of your predictions coming true but also you’ve been following Kia sta today uh what have we learned well that’s right we had a a wide ranging speech from say k Dharma he uh he’s trying to make clear that the the the future of the UK can be reset

With a labor government talked about Hope a lot uh Frank hope and using the word hope and you almost of channeling uh early um Barack Obama um to try and make clear that we know we’re tired of the Tory party as a country as a country

He was saying he wants politics To Tread more lightly um on people’s lives um but not much detail we have to ask him quite specifically about tax would you lift the thresholds to make fewer people pay tax no real answer he said that there would be investing uh in this 28 billion

Pounds a year when fiscal rules allow that’s been interpreted as that putting red tape around that commitment on on Net Zero so we’re getting there with detail but but not that much I tried to get more detail from Darren Jones who the number two Shadow treasury Minister

Here’s what we had to say to me earlier we’ve been very clear that every labor party policy which must be fully costed if I’m going to sign it off and get it into any labor policy document is subject to our fiscal rules and those are two things one that we will not want

To borrow for DayDay spending of Public Services as one of the root cause of failures from the conservatives over the last 14 years and two we’ll get debt falling as a percentage of the size of the economy that’s why growing the economy is the roote to being able to

Make those decisions sustainably and effectively for the country which is why it’s our number one Mission does that mean that we have to wait for any Cuts in say income tax now the reform UK party said he wants to increase the threshold the tax three threshold from

Just over 12 125,000 to 20,000 a year what would you do in that situation so we’ve been very clear that the tax burden on working people is the highest that’s been since the second world war we think that’s too high and we want it to come down when it’s affordable to do

So well not that clear Darren Jones say very clear but I think as we go through the election campaign this year um the toy party will be trying to put more clear blue water between the David party and the Tories on tax I do expect the Tory party to fight the election on

Maybe a fiveyear tax fedge cutting taxes every year for 5 years as they try and make clear that the party to trust on the economy I should say Tom Emily I’m here in the west country near Bristol now we normally view Bristol or the West

Country forgive me as a kind of uh um a blue wall issue a yellow wall issue lived um versus Tories well the labor is challenging very hard in the west country this seat here is filtered in Bradley Stoke under boundary changes a notional 5 a half thousand majority

Which sir K dama thinks he can win at the election really interesting stuff well Christopher thank you so much for bringing us all of that following around Sakia starma uh this afternoon yes so joining us now is our political correspondent Olivia rutley who’s been monitoring closely what Rishi sunak the

Prime Minister has to say so now we hear this General election will be in the second half of the year that’s the working assumption at least why do you think he’s told us this well one of the reasons why it’s a good idea for him to have a general

Election in the second half of this year and why uh both Chris and I have been predicting that that is probably what’s going to happen is because quite a lot of those five pledges that he made a year ago yesterday he hasn’t yet managed to fulfill but the evidence is that it

Could be moving in the right direction he has managed to Harve inflation and it sounds as though inflation will probably start to go down further as the year progresses and interest rates begin to very slowly creep down there is hope on small boats as well he has not stopped

The small boats which he perhaps rather foolishly promised to do but the number of Small Boat Crossings has gone down by 30% from 2022 to 2023 the the economy the growing the economy that was one of his goals too on that there is evidence that things are slowly again moving in the right

Direction at the Autumn statement Jeremy Hunt revealed that the obr has predicted that growth will start to happen in the second half of this decade NHS Wasing list not so great but the hope is that as the effects of the uh pandemic start to sort of filter out of course you had

A long long backlog of people who didn’t see their Doctrine 2020 and 2021 they then going to visit a doctor in 2022 and 23 ending up in a worse position than they would have been in had they gone in the pandemic once that effect starts to slowly filter through then there could

Be some good news on waiting lists as well so politically that is why probably Rishi sunak is deciding to hold off calls for a general election in may also the raw fact is that he is very far behind in the polls at the moment K armor is leading by about 18 to 20

Points now the question of why he’s chosen to announce it now the thing is that his own MPS have to know when a general election is going to be there are merits as Chris mentioned of sort of taking putting the opposition on the wrong foot by sort of implying there’ll

Be a general election and then pulling away but if he did that his own MPS and his own activists would be in the same boat and they need as much warning as they can possibly get about an election a point you mentioned there too Tom which is very important is something

That Richi Sun wants to nip in the bud is the idea that he’s gearing up to a general election and then doesn’t have one because that would leave labor saying that he’s a coward and that he’s squatting in Downing Street he doesn’t have the guts to go to the country by

Announcing it now he does manage to sort of offset that accusation so it could be a Savvy political move for Rishi sunak we’ll have to wait and see well thank you very much indeed Olivia rley our political correspondent we’ll have more on that throughout the show but now for

Former Health secretary Steve Barkley has told Junior doctors to call off their strike action calling them politically motivated this comes as Junior doctors continue their longest ever strike action as the NHS continues to struggle with winter pressures it’s reported that Junior doctors have walked away from the negotiation table

Demanding a 35% wage increase with the British Medical Association the union representing those doctors seeking what they call a more credible offer H so to discuss this further we’re joined by by the chair of the bm’s north temps committee Dr Arjun Singh Arjun thank you very much for joining me striking

Doctors are well NHS bosses are pleading with Junior doctors to get back in those hospitals we’ve had critical incidents announced in Nottingham hospitals are under acute pressure why a junior doctors not returning to work when patients lives are clearly at risk so a few things to say in terms of

The the derogations and the critical incidents we have an agreed process with NHS England and we meet with them four times a day to discuss patient safety matters we actually agreed the derogation process before the first set of strikes and it requires openness it requires honesty and it requires trust

To have exhausted all possible options before calling for derogations because they are of course a last minute Resort so that in that includes uh reallocating staffing incentivizing alternative Staffing what we’ve seen though is that trust this time around in these set of strikes have not given us that evidence

And we make evidence-based decisions so now we are being forced to reject derogations that are inappropriate and we’ve seen this we’ve seen trusts that are requesting derogations predated to the 29th of December Now by The Very nature of a derogation it can’t be pre-planned that’s ridiculous and we’re

Seeing from Consultants up and down the country saying that they’re staffed completely fine and they need derogations so we would implore nhf England to use the process that we’ve already agreed to and that they’ve managed to use fine the last eight Strokes Dr Singh some people might be

Raising an eyebrow at this idea that you can’t uh perhaps schedule in uh a derogation given that this is the busiest week that the NHS focuses on each year each year we know the first week in January is when there is the most acute critical pressure on NHS

Services no Wonder that’s the reason why uh your union has chosen to strike over these six days because that’s when it pinches the hardest that’s when it will make the biggest political impact why then are you refusing some of these derogations so you you missed a

Very key point with what I said I said that we require evidence that trust has exhausted all possible options if trusts are not providing us with that information then we can’t make a a clear decision it’s like someone me to operate on someone that’s broken their pelvis

And then not allowing me to examine the patient or do any scans it’s ridiculous evidence and we can make a decision I’m sorry doctor but your union is playing with people’s lives here we’ve seen tens of thousands of appointments cancelled 1 million appointments cancelled over the

Past year of strike action do you not sometimes look at the actions of your union and think hang on a minute maybe this isn’t the kind and thoughtful thing to be doing you’re a doctor after all all so we’ve opened the door to the government we always have and we’ve said

That a credible offer is all that it would take for us to call off these strikes the government has responded and said they will not negotiate with us during strike action now that is a rule that they’ve imposed themselves and more importantly it’s a rule they don’t follow with the criminal barristers they

Negotiated during strikes in Scotland they negotiated with doctors whilst they had strike action called and more importantly we have seen what happens with the nurses we learned our lesson the nurses had a deal that they rejected but was imposed upon them because they couldn’t renew their mandate for strike

Action well they didn’t meet the threshold Dr AR sing Dr AR sing the nurses didn’t meet the Democratic threshold to carry through another strike if they really wanted to strike if they really wanted to reject that offer they could have voted to to to strike again and they didn’t again

You’re missing the point entirely I said that without strikes being called the government will not negotiate and we’ve seen with the nurses who are asking for negotiations yet the government is rebuffing them at every attempt and they have no Leverage is there not an issue here where we’re talking about the nurses as

One group and very often with unions what happens is that there’s a leadership that believes one thing and a membership that might not be as politically motivated and with the nurses they did not get that key threshold they only needed half of the membership to vote for it to turn out to

Vote for it and they didn’t receive that that perhaps because unlike what the leadership of these unions say the majority of nurses maybe even the majority of doctors don’t think that it’s a reasonable thing to demand of taxpayers for a 35% pay increase so Tom in my pocket I have a

Mobile phone of the numbers of 60,000 doctors from up and down the country I’m sure you’re aware that our mandate for strike action is a world record modern day mandate and we did it back to back and Consultants did it as well doctors do want to go on strike that’s why 98%

Of them voted for strike action this isn’t a political strike I I can’t quite comprehend this this kind of uh this kind of thinking this is a strike because we want to get paid more simply because we’re not going to be able to retain staff unless we get a credible

Offer and no one has been able to give us a solution to the retention crisis or the the government’s in transigent when they’re not going to negotiate during strike action it’s completely illogical and you’re happy to riskay patient lives to do so a lot of people

Simply will not see that as being the best thing for the NHS at all I can’t quite get my head around why when so many NHS trusts are pleading with doctors to come back to the hospitals that you simply refuse at this point in the winter when there will be patients

And families up and down the country who are desperately worried desperately concerned that potentially lives could be lost that they’ve been waiting months for appointments and for surgery and and so on and and just to be told that they’re cancelled well um I suppose we should we

Should probably end on on on on one question which is we know that we’re probably not going to see 35% offed the government has offered 10.3% for first year doctors an average of 88.8% for doctors what sort of ballpark would you looked for to end this sort of strike

Action well you you say you mentioned a very good point we’re not asking for 35% in one go so we’re asking for something that would go towards pay restoration of course I’m not going to negotiate live on there but what I will say is that the health secretary has told us that she’s

Got a credible offer uh waiting for us and I’ll take her for a word I believe that it must be a credible offer because that’s what she said so if she’s got a credible offer give it to us go on go on TV go on social media tell us what it is

Pick up the phone and if it is credible as they say we will call off the strikes right now we will never strike again well that’s a that’s a bold bold proposition I hope we can hear from the health secretary in not too long time

But for now uh Dr rajin Singh chair of the bma’s north temps committee thank you very much for joining us and putting across your case oh sorry got a bit emotional there I’m very worried for people up and down the country who aren’t going to be able to see a doctor

There you go let us again there’s there’s also there there is the point of view that there are doctors leaving uh that there is some sort of ground to be found um it is in I I think many people would agree that perhaps the way that

The BMA has gone about it might be a little intransigent but um just a little there go there you go maybe you have a different view GB views atgb news.com let us know what you think about that but coming up is James Bond offensive well it is for modern audiences

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Under Fire by the British Film Institute warning modernday filmgoers that 007’s movies could cause offense yes the disclaimer States as follows please note that many of these films contain language images or other content that reflect views prevalent in its time but will cause offense today as they did

Then well joining us now is James Bond Enthusiast and author of the7 magazine gram Ry who is in favor of James Bond and the journalist and broadcaster Harriet Minter who has some concerns uh about the content well let’s start with you Graham um what do you think about

This warning being placed in front of James Bond films is laughable and uh what I have particular exception to is the copy that they’ve got in in the brackets which says as they did then they didn’t they didn’t up anybody particularly in any way shape or form in the 60s when they

First came out um the words that people seem to forget when they’re talking or discussing anything to do with J whether it’s Ian Fleming’s wonderfully written novels or the great series of films from 1962 to 2021 is Escapist entertainment it’s supposed to be a scapus entertainment it’s fun and games but

Gram are there not some outdated uh racial stereotypes female Stereotypes well I suppose in some respects uh they may way they may may well be but I think that um you know people are more intelligent than I think probably BFI uh give the credit for because you know people know that these films were made you know Dr No was 1962

Obviously you know it was a different time you know I mean I was born in I was born in September 1951 so that probably automatically makes me sexis misogynist dinosaur you know well Harry let’s throw it over to you is this is this escapism and and frankly are the BFI just not

Treating people as intelligent enough exactly they’re not sorry sorry gr let’s turn this to Harriet I think what the BFI are doing is saying if you’ve come to the James Bond franchise in the Daniel Craig eras you will have experienced a very different side to James Bond than if you were in

The Shan connory Roger Moore eras so if you are going back if you’re starting at Daniel Craig and working your way back it’s going to be different and we want to give you a heads up about that and we want to tell you about that we don’t

Want you then writing a million letters to us complaining about racial stereotypes gender stereotypes violence um disability stereotypes we want to tell you that that exists here in the first place sure but Harriet shouldn’t the why should the British Film Institute decide what we may or may

Not find offensive we are adults mostly that will be watching these films and if not parents can tell their children what is and what isn’t deemed offensive why do we need an organization like the British Film Institute to uh essentially dictate what our morals should be well I

Don’t think they are they’re just saying if you watch this film you might want to look out for this this and this and be aware that it exists well they said that it’s offensive and it’s and it was offensive when they were made they’re not saying you should be offended by it

They’re not saying you shouldn’t watch it they’re not saying stay away these are terrible films they’re just saying be aware that these themes these behaviors exist in these films if that is going to be upsetting for you if that’s not something you’re into this is not the film for you Grim let’s throw

That back to you this is just a warning in front of a film they’re not censoring the film they’re not destroying the film this isn’t book burning they’re just detaching a little message what’s wrong with that well what’s wrong with it is when somebody takes it upon themselves to

Explain to people supposedly that they were you know they caused offense you know when they were released they weren’t they didn’t cause offense to anybody the British Board of film sensors uh worked with the uh film company on Productions that made the films to make sure that everything was

Done as it should be uh there still you know the certificat still run today that’s enough of a warning for anybody when when you see a film you don’t need the holier than thou rather delicately balanced BFI people telling you what you shouldn’t shouldn’t watch I mean I know

What they’re like because I worked with them back in 1990 when I organized the 25th anniversary screening of Thunderball with the director there Terence Young uh but no it’s unnecessary and it’s taken huge Liberties as they did then it’s not a fact they’re lying to the public they didn’t offend anybody

Back I I don’t think we know whether or not they offended anyone back then right because back then in the 1960s 1970s 1980 if you were offended by themes of gender violence if you were offended by themes of racism you didn’t really have the power to speak out about it but also

Film has been categorizing and warning people about the content within films for decades that is what our pg58 rating system is there for right that this is not something new this is what Phil from very beginning yeah that does that does the job that does the job that

The job’s already been done by the British Board of film centers they are the people that have done the job the BFI it’s not up to the BFI to tell anybody about anything like this at all it’s already been done by people that are far far uh more uh you know able to

Do that sort of thing see thousands and thousands of films every year and they have to make some very difficult decisions well gram we gave the first word to you we’ll give the last word to Harriet so let’s conclude this debate I mean I don’t think that anyone

Coming to a James Bond film from the 1960s or 1970s is going to be surprised that the morals within it differ from today but also I don’t think there’s any harm in just flagging that up to people that seems like a fair and honest thing

For the BFI to be doing yeah it does sometimes feel a bit holier than that do it does annoy people it does annoy I understand your point har thank you very oh sorry gr we’re going to have to end it there but very much appreciate your time Graham and of course Harriet Minter

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Ssupport thank you so much good afternoon Britain and in the last two hours we’ve learned some pretty exciting news the date of the general election will be in the second half of this year not a precise date it may be exciting for you it won’t be that exciting for every single person perhaps

News but let’s uh discuss that and some other top stories hitting the news room today with the contributing editor of Navara media Michael Walker and the political commentator and author T Buxton um Michael let’s start with you uh the election in the second half of this year is this groundbreaking seismic

News I’m not quite as excited as you um I mean I suppose R is at least saying he’s not going to wait until January 2025 which I think is what everyone was rather worried about I I suppose the choice was really between this spring or this Autumn and I think he’s presumably

Chosen this Autumn because there’s more time for something to come up I mean he’s hoping for a miracle between now and then or for k d to say something you know incredibly stupid and he doesn’t say much at all so I imagine we will having a general

Election in in Autumn and it will he spoke for rather a long time this uh morning starma did know I’m I’m I’m trying to hard to wake up off you you forced me to listen to it all I was someone has to Ed Davey from the liberal

Democrats has said that uh has said squatter sunak is bottling it he’s it’s he’s not doing anything he is literally you know you know the kind of when you have white noise on the television to put yourself to sleep that is Kama he says and does nothing if you look at his

Five Points even he just has these bullet points he kind of like points and but there’s no backing to them so he’s not just bottling it he’s just not saying anything but T he was challenged on this uh after his speech in the Q&A session saying what was the substance to

Your points uh and he tried to explain himself should we have a little listen NHS not just off its feet but fit for the no lck of clarity there nobody said what you’re talking about I don’t understand that um the opportunities that children young people need for the

Skills they need for their life and the work they’re actually going to do you can’t say well that’s a bit ambiguous I don’t understand that opportunity for life that’s not ambiguous an NHS fit for the future what’s not clear about that it is White Noise isn’t it it’s white

No there’s a great um sketch it’s Bill Clinton and he says forward not backward upward not forward and always twirling twirling twirling towards freedom and I thought that was a great takedown of Bill Clinton it applies obviously to lots of politicians of course Bill Clinton was a very successful politician

So I feel like political commentators political journalists often complain about boring speeches but I don’t think there’s really a single member of the public that actually cares how exciting a political speech is so I think K’s strategy the whole time has to be has been to be quite boring he want to seem

Safe should he be setting out more of a point plan when he says we want a better NHS for example can he do that at this stage at the all we want is not that long dribbly speech we want proper bullet points that are backed up with

Facts of what and and ways of how he’s going to do these bullet points and that’s not what we’re getting at all of course there’s a former labor leader who now sits in the cabinet or the shadow cabinet I should say getting ahead of myself there of of Sakia Dharma and Ed

Millerand and when he brought out a list of pledges he engraved them in stone it was known as The Ed Stone I don’t know if we’ve got any pictures of the edstone that we might be able to show people watching on television but Ed millerand was ridiculed for these pledges because

Again they seemed so vague so vapid so vacuous yeah they all seem to do EX look at it look at it there and NHS with time to care that’s that’s almost exactly the same pledge that s armor is making of an NHS fit for the future well to be fair

When we’ve got crippling strike action at the moment uh with patients going unseen then an NHS with the time to care would be rather nice what does it mean what does it mean and I suppose is are they going to go into the NHS and get

Rid of what is it the 48% of staff that are not forward- facing getting rid of all the middle managers and make the NHS work again is he going to do that because if he said like this is what I’m doing get the NHS back on its feet get

Rid of the middlemen get rid of the diversity managers get rid of all the people that are not actually fixing people helping people if he said that I would have said go on there K T I’ve got a controversial opinion here the NHS needs a lot more middle management no a

Lot more the problem in my view and and there are there are some people who know a lot more about this than me who say doctors spend their times filling forms Frontline service people spend their time in the back room trying to do all the organizational stuff what we need is

Non-clinical staff there doing some of the organizational stuff so the doctors can do the doctoring to a certain extent I can agree with you there but unfortunately the nonm medal staff that are working there are filling in forms about diversity and things like that where we they’re often on higher

Salaries me I think me and Tom read the same Financial Times articles cuz I’m also big fan of NHS management oh God okay go on then so so you don’t think it’s a problem that okay so let’s put it this way when we look at the NHS and its

Failings we blame the government yet there are NH s managers there are NHS Executives there are heads of trusts that do a lot of the resource management isn’t that where we’re going wrong that actually we should hold them just as much accountable as we do the government

Well I think a big problem you had with the NHS over the past 13 years is basically the T squeezed it of money for a very long time and if you’re squeezing something of money for a very long time it’s quite difficult to plan for the future what they then did was they

Flooded it with money after covid-19 and at that point in time you you then suddenly have to say oh we’ll hire all of these stuff but you haven’t got the the infrastructure in place to really handle it so I think we have got a system which is working very

Inefficiently but that’s because there wasn’t much forward planning when it came to funding it was sort of squeeze and then flood which is kind of the opposite get money NHS I just think it’s really bad badly organized it gets enough money it does get enough money I

Know a friend of mine that’s a cardiologist who works in the NHS tells me that he has the the people that are buying in the middle people that are buying in certain instrumentation there’s a different machine on one floor Flor and a different other machine on

The other floor and so they have to have different paperwork to go into that machine or to go into this machine it’s completely inefficient and and it kind of blows the minds of the people who are trying to but isn’t this the problem to some extent with an NHS that is so

Politicized in other countries you don’t get doctors saying we you don’t get politicians saying we’re going to hire X th000 nurses it’s a bit stalinist really we’re going to have this level of tractor production this year um but but but but but what actually happens when you have these sort of populist

Politicians who go and say X number of nurses X number of doctors is the capital investment budget to get really technical then gets cut because no one really cares about how many MRI machines so let’s get down what are you saying privatize the NHS no I’m saying that

Perhaps we should have more capital investment and less worry about has said they double the number of MRI machines or cap machines or whatever they are I mean don’t but should it be politicians saying we need precisely this number of doctors nurses or machines perhaps it should perhaps it shouldn’t be managed

In that sort of politicized way and I wonder if that’s one of the problems but I I don’t don’t think we’re going to fix the NHS the four of us uh here this afternoon much as we would like to there are other stories in the world indeed The Sensational display of darts last

Night um I have to say I’ve never seen a darts game before but this really sort of took the country by stormt it really did I was watching darts last night who knew it’s unbelievable on the big screen on the big screen we were watching it

The whole family which is rare sat down and watched darts darts together and I was I mean was it was you know it’s one of these things that everyone gets behind don’t you say bad things about cuabs it’s the most healthy food that you can eat say

Emily you get it was really impressive I mean we all were kind of rooting for Luke and not rooting for luk the little Luke rather than big Luke as I call them and um and you know we wanted him to win and I’m glad he didn’t because I think

Mentally is the best thing for him but I can’t believe how it United everyone were you watching the D oh I’m going to break the unity I wasn’t I mean obviously have been following the craze on on Twitter I’ve seen those clips I mean for me one of the problems with

With darts so lots of sports when you’ve got a person versus a person there’s lots of variables right they you know tennis they hit it there will they get it back with dce person board if you hit it in that sort of triple 20 the

Simplicity of it but it was a hang on this leads us to our big question for the panel is whether we should make DS mandatory in schools it would be part of uh richy sunak pledge to uh teach people maths until they’re 18 to Hon with as an

Ex primary school teacher I think that a form of Dart in especially in the primary school environment might be fun to teach some maths but not mandatory and not as a sport as a math subject maybe I I have a i there’s part of me that just thinks hold on a second

Everyone’s been saying oh how wonderful this is for the sports this is such good sort of role model sort of um stuff to be happening and and pardon me just just thinks is it the best sport are these the best models very healthy who am I to

Judge uh who am I to judge but perhaps perhaps we’re getting over sort of getting on top of ourselves luk ller is really out of shape and he really does need to look after himself he’s a 16-year-old that’s you know he’s borderline obese and he needs to do

Something about it what was really interesting is that the interview that uh Luke Humphrey’s gave this morning with Bev he was saying that he had Tak this year to get into shape he’d got into shape he was training and eating better and he feels that that’s what

Gave him the edge to win yesterday so that’s that’s but of course Luke liter is perfectly entitled to be happy in himself I suppose and that’s the point it’s the dance culture though isn’t it may that needs to change doesn’t it everybody needs to be looking off

Themselves and taking we talk about the NH loses the fin and then gets called obese on TV I think I think he I think he’s brilliant but as a as a mother I look at that 16-year-old and think if you don’t get yourself into shape now you are

Going to commit your life to ill health should should we park that and turn to the question is darts a sport because I I find it hard to sort of understand why everyone sort of says the sports of D it doesn’t seem to does Sport have to include physical activity clearly you

Don’t need a strong core um Michael is it a sport I suppose it’s as much as sport is like chess is a sport I mean poak would love that snooker is a sport isn’t it or they don’t play in the Olympics is it a yeser is a sport but I suppose the

Definition of playing something in the in the Olympics doesn’t mean I mean when the Olympics was brought back in the 1880s there was competitive plowing there was painting there were all sorts of things included in the original um modern olymp painting I didn’t know that

Well I I do think that you know it is it could can be considered a sport because you do need a talent and a precision and you can train for it but it doesn’t make you an elite athlete to be a s player or a dance player that’s the difference no

It’s not exactly the same as the 100 meters is it but there is something athletic that occurred on the other side of the Atlantic to change topic completely um which happened in a courtroom in where else uh Las Vegas uh should we have a little look for those watching on

Television just being denied parole leaps over uh this desk at the judge it’s the most extraordinary footage perhaps we can play it again actually because it is just shocking uh and we can see that this individual who’s been denied parole just jumps not happy about it he was not happy about it

He launched himself he launched himself I suppose this to some extent probably creates quite a strong case as to why he was denied per role uh here it is that’s about him unbelievable I mean yeah there are almost no words to say Michael what do

You make of this I suppose are you in favor of the prison system as a as a system of justice oh big question uh I’m in I’m Pro prisons anti uh lunging at judges yeah no we don’t lunge at judges toate to be serious here it does it does

Seem like you know the Americans do seem to have a prison system that we wouldn’t really want to ape they lock up a lot of people and lock them up for probably a little bit too long um but at the same time I I I don’t imagine this guy is

Going to do any better at his next parole hearing I I hope they make an example of him though I think he needs to get a really long sentence I anybody else jumping and L going through his head like just sort of this this guy has been said oh you’re

Going to be kept in prison for a little bit longer and then he does he think this will help him do he think fight his way out of the courtroom he can’t control his rage so he shouldn’t be let out into public that’s what that’s proving to me doesn’t look like he’s

Going to be well thank you very much T buckon Michael Walker as ever thank you much for mix of stories uh in the next hour will’ll be speaking to a shadow Minister as Rishi sunak guarantees that next general election will probably be held in the second half of this year see you

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Britain’s Newsroom from 9:30 on GB news the people’s Channel Britain’s News Channel good afternoon Britain it’s 2:00 on Thursday the 4th of January general election time the Prime Minister earlier said it’s a working assumption that the election will be in the second half of the Year this comes as his labor opposition leader has promised to crush what he calls Tory politics of divide

And decline Epstein files Bill Clinton Steven Hawking and Michael Jackson are amongst the list of names released in court documents connected to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey EP and with prince Andrew also on the list is it game over for the Duke of York shaken and stirred James Bond films have

Been issued a trigger warning as the British Film Institute warns the elements and characters in the7 franchise could cause offense to modern day viewers plus The Next Star Wars debut will be female lead hooray here holwood becoming too woke though what’s woke about that I don’t have a single problem with the Star Wars film being female Leed I do have a problem with recasting James Bond as a woman or turning something that is already one thing into something else but but Star Wars different films have different leads that’s fine yeah I mean

People can get grumpy about too much perhaps but we’ll dig into the finer detail we’ll find what is properly irking people about this but female leads as long as it’s not all about evil men all the time I think people did get a bit annoyed about the Ghostbusters uh rejigging whatever it

Was called remake where it was for women leading I I think there was some consternation about sort of I don’t know I think the problem is is when people call for I don’t know James Bond to be a female instead that I think is absurd and ridiculous because

James Bond is a man and should remain so but if you’re making a whole new EXA new characters and there absolutely should be more characters with female leads I don’t know let us know what you think at home GBS atgb news.com do we get too angry about these types of things or is

This all wokeness gone man to say all this rebranding of movies did not expect to be talking about that at the top of this hour but plenty more of course to come including news on that general election and that Epstein list after uh the headlines with Tatiana Tom thank you very much for top stories from the GB News Room the Prime Minister has confirmed he’s working towards general election in the second half of the Year Rishi sunak who’s been under pressure to call a vote made the comments during a regional visit to the

And in the meantime I’ve got lots that I want to get on with this Saturday we’ll be introducing a significant tax cut for millions of people in work worth on average 450 for an average worker because we’ve halved inflation we want to keep managing the economy well and

Cutting people’s taxes and I want to keep tackling illegal migration and we cut the number of arrivals last year by over a third but we’ve got more to do and we want to get the re a scheme through Parliament and up and running so look I’ve got plenty to get on with and

That’s what I’m focused on doing delivering for the British people meanwhile the labor leader says he’s ready for a general election promising to stand up for working people sakir starm is urging voters to reject what he calls pointless populous gestures as he seeks to set himself apart from rishy sunak during his new

Year speech he also said the character of politics will change if labor wins power and the country now faces a year of choice I didn’t expect a front row seat on this Tory performance art a song and dance for your political attention because they find performing so much easier than

The hard graft of practical achievement no I came into politics to serve to get things done to strive each and every day to make a difference to the lives of working people prince Andrew Donald Trump and Bill Clinton are among over 150 people named in the US court documents

Detailing connections to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein the unsealed files part of a civil lawsuit against Epstein’s associate GLA Maxwell who’s serving a 20-year sentence for recruiting underage girls for him many of those names are not accused of any wrongdoing the document also includes an allegation by Yanna zberg claiming the Duke of York

Touched her inappropriately in 2001 more documents are expected to be unsealed or un redacted in the coming days NHS bosses have been accused of undermining the junior doctor strike by calling them back to work more than 20 requests have been made by hospitals for their return because of extreme pressure

On Services the British Medical Association has criticized the move and in a letter said it has nothing to do with patient safety suggesting instead that NHS England is bowing to political pressure none of the requests have been granted so far it comes as leading Medics are now warning patients will

Suffer significant harm and Trauma in coming weeks as the service faces a perfect storm of pressure two people have appeared in court accused of arson following a fire at a conservative MP’s office in North London Mike fr’s constituency office was targeted on Christmas Eve but police say

They’re not treating the case as a hate crime A 42-year-old man and a 32-year-old woman were also charged with arson over a fire at a restaurant that same evening no no one was injured at either incident they’ve now been remanded in custody until their next court appearance dramatic scenes were caught

On camera inside a courtroom in Las Vegas as a convict launched a vicious attack the judge was about to give her decision on the sentence of Deborah Ren when he ran up to the bench and jumped over Furniture to assault her shocking footage for those watching on television

He leaps over her desk grabbing her by the hair pulling her to the ground when security quickly spring in into action to restrain him and drag him away and Luke ller has maintained High Spirits despite losing the world dance Championship final saying he’ll come back stronger the 16-year-old lost to

New World number one Luke Humphries who beat him 74 and claimed half a million pounds in prize money he’s pledged to donate some of that to prostate cancer UK a charity close to his heart the winner told GB news he’s proud to be the new Champion feels incredible uh you

Know it’s something I’ve obviously dreamed of for many many years and uh you know to go out and do it last night in such emphatic fashion you know it’s so so pleasing for me um you know worked incredibly hard for this moment and you know to go on and winning my first world

Final is you know amazing amazing feet this is GB news across the UK on TV in your car on Digital radio and on your smart speaker by saying play GB news now back to Tom and Emily well Rishi sunak is working towards an election in the second half of the Year

Hosting a Q&A at a youth center in Mansfield the Prime Minister insists he still has a lot to do including cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration he also responded to labor leader Sakia starma who earlier opened his campaign for the election year promising his uh party to return his party to the working

Class yes that’s what he had to say so joining us now is Shadow pay Master General Jonathan Ashworth Jonathan thank you very much for joining us on the show now Christopher hope our political editor asked sakir starma uh Your Leader earlier about this 28 billion pound annual pledge green investment pledge he

Asked whether this is coming from taxes or whether it will come for borrowing s starma said it will come from borrowing subject to fiscal rules now I read that green campaigners are increasingly concerned that K starma is simply backtracking on this 28 billion pound pledge and this money won’t be going to

What he initially said it would well let’s be absolutely clear our fiscal rules are what govern our approach to the public finances because you’ll remember of course and your viewers will be feeling it in their pockets what happens when a government plays fast and loose when a government

Is reckless with the public finances it led to a run on Pension funds and many of your viewers pay more on their mortgage more on their credit cards and More in tax as a consequence of Reckless decisions that the conserves took us over a year ago so our fiscal rules will

Will be no there will be no falling back there will be no pulling away from our fiscal rules and all investment that we carry out all investment that we we pursue will be subject to those very clear and tough FIS fiscal rules are you really trying to claim

That interest rates have gone in the way that they have solely due to do with the mini budget of last year they’ve basically tracked what American interest rates have done have they not well you remember the conservative mini budget it led to that run on Pension funds it led to mortgage rates

Ricocheting around the market and the bank of England had to intervene and had to retaliate in the way that it did so you’ll know that when it comes to fiscal policy you always have to be disciplined you always have to be pursue sound finances and that would be the watch

Word of a labor government because we will never Hammer working people we will never Hammer the viewers of GB news by the recklessness of the conservative approach we want to take a sound approach we want to bring back stability to the economy and through that approach

We can grow the economy and use the proceeds of that growth to invest in our Public Services which will be to the Ben of GB news viewers well in which case if there’s going to be all this growth why would s starma even borrow any money for this green investment why would you

Borrow when debt is so high well of course the conservatives uh uh are borrowing but our fiscal rules are clear that you do not borrow to fund day-to-day investment and all of our commitments that we are making are not uh unfunded and not uncosted we explain where every penny piece comes from but

Where you can invest and also because we’re going to work in partnership with the business sector because we’re going to work in partnership with the private sector we think we can unlock capital investment private capital investment in these jobs of the future and these will be good well-paid jobs in every corner

Of the country you know many of your viewers in GB news will be from parts of the country where there used to be industry that powered our country and of course the conserves shut a lot of that industry down well we think we can bring good well-paid jobs to parts of the

Country including Mansfield where richy tun Act was today where in a typically weak and desperate style uh ruled out uh an election and is continuing to squat in Downing Street the British public and people in Mansfield will be asking what he got to hide why is he Running Scared

Didn’t talk about private investment he talked about funding this pledge for green investment through borrowing he didn’t even mention private investment from what I can remember no he did no he did if you go back and look at the Q&A he actually talks about the partnership that we would pursue with the business

Community and how we believe that we can unlock private investment in this type of infrastructure which will create good wealth paying jobs for the future because we’re talking to the business Community all the time we are the party of business we’re not the party that said rather rude word I won’t repeat it

On daytime news but the conservatives use a rather rude word about businesses we want to partnership with business I suppose taking a wider View at this there has been a general criticism and we mentioned the Q&A that your Le leader faced uh this after this morning uh one

Of the questions was about the clarity of some of these pledges there has been some accusations of of a vague sense of what these pledges mean should we just remind ourselves of one of the answers he gave in that Q&A now NHS not just off

Its feet but fit for the Future No lack of clarity there nobody said what you’re talking about I don’t understand that um the opportunities that children young people need for the skills they need for their life and the work they’re actually going to do you can’t say well that’s a

Bit ambiguous I don’t understand that I just can’t help but feel like I’m being a bit gaslit here Sakia stama saying an NHS fit for the future what’s unclear about that that that’s a slogan that’s not a policy well I’ll tell you how we’re going to rebuild our National Health

Service and make it fit for the future we’re going to deliver 2 million more appointments for treatment in our National Health Service we’re going to deliver more appointments for dentistry in our National Health Service because GB news viewers across the country will know how difficult it is to get a get

Get to get to see a dentist we’re going to rebuild mental health services so young people can access mental health care and we’re going to invest in that new state-of-the-art equipment so that if you’re worried that because you’ve got a lump on your skin that you’re worried that that’s cancer you’re going

To get your diagnosis quicker because we know cancer waights for nobody so they are clear costed policies which will rebuild our nhhs and make it fit for the future Jonathan I’ve looked at the costings you’re putting in around2 billion that you say you’re going to raise from non-dom tax uh uh

Status that that’s 2 billion pound the NHS budget has risen from 130 to £180 billion what is it about that extra 2 billion on top of the 50 billion that has gone in that is going to make the magic difference I mean this is the problem um with Westminster that politicians have

Become so casual about2 billion not realizing that is a hell of a lot of money it’s a huge amount of taxpayers money and the key thing here is is to make sure that money is well spent the problem with the conservatives is that they become so casual in the way in

Which they spend taxpayers money they Fritter it away I mean Rishi sunak frittered 7 billion pounds away on covid loans and fraud he signed every check and he’s not trying to get any Penny piece of it back in any effective way look that2 billion is a lot of money and

We’re going to really sweat that 2 billion so we can invest the the equipment to diagnose cancer sooner so we can deliver these extra appointments for treatment and in dentistry look you’ve got to get you’ve got to get politicians here you know really making sure that money is well spent not just

Announcing big amounts of money and thinking that’s job done of course it’s not we’ve got to deliver and that’s what our labor government will be about delivery well thank you very much indeed for your time Shadow pay Master General Jonathan Ashworth appreciate it listening to that uh was uh Christopher hope our political

Editor who is still in Bristol Christopher you listening to what Jonathan had to say there talking about how2 billion pounds could be transformative to the NHS if politicians do what they’re supposed to do and spend it wisely that’s right we’re going to sweat it he said didn’t he because of course

The Tory party is saying that figure has been spent several times over by the labor party in various commitments but the labor is sticking to that number some people say that that number number may fall if non-doms flee the country after the first year of its imposition

Um but they’re hoping it will last longer than that so yeah no lab doubling down on that issue of the non-doms uh tax status the whole um uh all of politics today is a buzz with these comments by Richie sunak making clear that he is planning for the election in

The second half um of this year now I’ve been trying to find out why the pm has announced that in a pool interview with um TV journalists in the East Midlands um they’re saying uh I’m I’m led to believe that there was they got quite alarmed by the speculation over

Christmas when the treasury announced at the March the 6th budget um on a quiet day of Christmas everyone then thought that was signaling uh an early general election and they wanted to reset that conversation and make clear that the planning assumption is for later this year it doesn’t rule it out for before

Um June but more likely to be November October time it’s interesting how this all fits in we’ve now heard Jonathan Ashworth on this program say rishy sunak is squatting in number 10 the labor party have published in the last few minutes a graphic uh saying uh Kia starma Bring It

On Rishi sunak bring it um and of course the liberal Democrats earlier today said that Rishi sunak is a squatter do you think this narrative will set hold or have the Tories done enough now to say actually we were never planning a May election well advisor around uh the PM

Have been told me it’s definitely going to be next Autumn I mean the point is they could have gone for May and you had a degree of political Advantage Tom and Emily because you’re able to say well there’s no fixed term Parliament Act is

Up to up to me when I call it as prime minister that language on squatting was been used by sist Arma himself not just Pat mcfaden or John Ashworth um the the labor leader is saying he’s squatting in number 10 for months on end and as you said earlier Tom that’s language used

About Gordon Brown when he ref he hung on there didn’t he to the very end in 2010 before calling that election um but has been I’m here with um Sama in the west country I’m in a a seat the party wants to win from the Tory Party 5 and a

Half thousand seat after the boundary changes it’s called philton and Bradley stoker a new seat here near Bristol and they just show it’s interesting to see how the labor party is trying to take seats from the Tories not just liberal Democrats often we view it as a lib Tory

Battleground is also Labor uh uh Tory um but the questions we had from earlier from the Prime Minister I asked him about the 28 billion which Emily was was grilling um John ashw there I also asked Mr Sama about the darts last night and here’s what we had to

Say about the darts last night has Luke lit’s maturity and professionalism shown that 16-year-olds are ready to have a vote the voting age should be cut from double N9 to8 first ly I mean Luke ller I mean it’s been incredible watching uh the darts seeing what he has done um I’m

I’m not going to claim I watch darts every day everybody knows football is my game but it has been quite an electrifying couple of days um and I’m a big believer in 16y olds um being able to express their views um have their vote and and win darts tournaments uh I

Thought he did brilliantly I think everybody’s incred incredibly proud of him as a 16-year-old with real composure actually as well I mean um you know to do that on that stage um in that way just up the road from me and alip P was quite phenomenal I

Thought I’ll wait here until I know what to do oh well there we go so there was uh Christopher Hope’s question on luk ller and an answer a fairly definitive answer from K D that he does want to lower the franchise um some people might

Say that hang on 18 is the age that we say people should now leave school 18 is the age at which people can decide whether they want to buy alcohol buy cigarettes although that’s going to be rising soon um people in in all sorts of Liberties and freedoms that are bestowed

Upon people in the United Kingdom and certainly in England the age of maturity is 18 why why in this one aspect are we going to reverse on that trend some people might say it’s ideologically inconsistent some people might say uh it’s because it might offer an electoral Advantage yes well I think that’s

Probably the exactly the reason Tom and it’s an absolute absurdity the whole debate around giving the vote to 16y olds in my view you’re not an adult until you’re 18 so then you can have the vote simple as that I think there is a tradition particularly in Scotland um

Everyone remembers the well greter green because you could get married at 16 in Scotland but 18 in England Scot ‘s always had a slightly different age of majority and whatever but if if we want to bring the age of voting down to 16 I would be absolutely fine in favor of

That if also we were to bring down the age of leaving school the age of drinking the age of smoking the age of driving all of these things that we forbid 16y olds to do surely the only logical thing to do is say 16 year an

Adult or 18-y adult pick in fact I think I’d probably put more criteria onto who can vote and make it stricter but that’s just me I I just like consistency I just like consistency anyway let’s bring Olivia Utley in our political correspondent Olivia thank you for

Joining us again so uh we know now that a general election will be in the second half of the year at least that’s rak’s working assumption does that put to bed the speculation I think it pretty definitively does put to bed the speculation there are good reasons for

Rishi sunak calling a general election in the second half of this year rather than in May the main one being that he made five pledges in January 2023 by the end of 2023 there was only one of them which he could actually point to and say he had succeeded that was harving

Inflation all of the others progress was a bit patchy but things are on the right trajectory in 2024 interest rates have stalled at 5.25% and economists are predicting that they will slowly begin to go down over the course of the year that will have a KnockOn effect obviously on people’s

Mortgages uh people won’t be experiencing these enormous hikes in in monthly repayments which will in turn have effect on the cost of living crisis Rishi Zak is hoping that by the end of this year the economy will be in a much better shape there will be fewer people

Coming across the channel in small boats and maybe just maybe NHS waiting list will begin to be looking a bit smaller why because slowly but surely the effects of lockdown are beginning to wear off and we’re not seeing quite as many people coming in as we were right

At the end of lockdown when we had that huge backlog of people who avoided seeing a doctor during the pandemic years so Richi Zak is hoping that if he just holds out for as long as he possibly can then life in Britain will start to get better and people at home

Will thank him for it it might be a little bit of an optimistic way of looking at things although the cost of living crisis will be eased you know mortgage rates will start to go down from the high that they’re at at the moment but you know people will question

Whether those at home will be that grateful to Rishi sunak that their mortgage repayments are only going up by say £500 a month instead of ,700 a month it’s not all great news for the Prime Minister um but there is good logic and I can see why he’s doing it and it will

Put to bed the fact that he’s amazing the announcement now um will put to bed any sort of speculation that he was calling a general election in May and then sort of pulled out at the last minute due to cowardice no interesting stuff well Olivia rley thank you for

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Good afternoon Britain it’s 28 minutes past 2 and prince Andrew is among a number of high-profile figures named in US court documents released today detailing the connections of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein yes Jay Maxwell a known Epstein associate told her lawyers she was worried about being questioned on her relationship with

Prince Andrew Bill Clinton and Donald Trump are among other high-profile names in the court documents although neither is accused of illegality joining us now is the former BBC Royal correspondent and writer Michael Cole Michael what does this all mean for prince Andrew good afternoon Emily good

Afternoon Tom and happy New Year to you both not a happy beginning for prince Andrew because this is the story he just cannot put behind him his disastrous and Ill judged friendship with the late and unlamented pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and it’s worth saying that prince Andrew and

There you see him in happier times uh has never been charged with anything never been convicted of anything and has always denied the accusations of serious wrongdoing that have been made against him and in a way the release of these names in these court documents in New

York might actually help him get out from under because in this country the focus is on him but in America the focus will be on two former presidents uh Clinton and um and indeed Trump and other very prominent people famous people world famous people who may be mentioned in these documents and what

Are these documents this is the backwash of a a Lial action taken by Virginia Roberts and there we see her at 17 with uh allegedly the arm of prince Andrew around her bare midriff now she took a Lial action against the woman in the back of the picture Elaine Maxwell and

This Photograph was allegedly taken by Jeffrey Epstein at Maxwell’s Muse house in London about 200 yards as the crow flies from the uh Gardens of Buckingham Palace and prince Andrew says that that photograph is a fake uh it’s been photoshopped and he says that he has no

Recollection at all of ever meeting that young lady who was 17 at the time and is now a middle-aged mother married and living in Australia um in America the accent will be very much on who else is mentioned in these documents these were court documents witness statements depositions and interviews and many of

The people are quite innocent evictor Witnesses who who came forward to help in this case which was settled out of court and so none of this ever came to public notice because the case was not tried now the judge Loretta prka has decided that all these names should be

Released now we do happen to know that John Doe number 36 was Bill Clinton now Bill Clinton in his defense says yes he did go on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet but he was only doing so uh in connection with the philanthropic and charitable work that Epstein was

Undertaking and he Clinton there we see him in happier times uh he says that he never went to Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean called little St James well the American Press will be very much focused on the American personalities and they couldn’t be higher profile uh rather than what we

Know about prince Andrew because quite frankly we’ve heard that story the story moves on well Michael Cole thank you so much for that summary of what is going on here and I suppose that is uh an interesting point that to some extent the problem for prince Andrew is diluted

By all these other names that appear some of them really quite shocking not just two former presidents but even the astrophysicist Steven Hawking yes some surprising names in that list but that was Michael Cole thank you Michael if you’re still there former BBC Royal correspondent and writer of course now

We’ll soon be rejoined by our panel today we’re going to be discussing debate stories of the day we’re asking has Hollywood become too woke but before all of that it’s your news headlines with Tatiana this is good afternoon Britain on GB News Tom thank you this is the latest from the GB Newsroom the Prime Minister has confirmed he’s working towards a general election in the second half of the Year Rishi sunow who’s been under pressure to call a vote made the comment during a regional visit to the East

Midlands both labor and the liberal Democrats have been pushing for a spring election the Prime Minister declined to rule that out instead saying he wants to focus on the economy cutting taxes and tackling illegal migration my working assumption is we’ll have a general election in the second half of this year

Apart from rishy sunak during his new year speech he also said the character of politics will change if labor wins power and the country now need now faces a year of choice and the Prime Minister has backed calls by Hospital bosses for junior doctors to leave picket lines and return

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Is most likely going to be in the second half of this year why do you think rishy sunak has uh let us know that essentially I don’t know why he’s done that I’m really surprised I thought he was going to go for January because I

Thought he wanted to just stay in for as long as possible he’s going to lose and so I thought his vanity would want to try and keep in there as long as possible it’s not about the money for him is it it’s about being prime minister so I was quite surprised I

Suppose he would want to lose but not lose incredibly badly I mean he wouldn’t want to lose but he want to minimize his losses if he can and going in January might just make everyone really irritated if he wants to minimize is lost you should have done it in May then

Because once the good weather starts and the boats are just coming and coming and coming it’s a consideration Michael what do you think has fed into this uh well I suppose one thing he was potentially worried about is I think there was a bit of an attempt from the opposition

Parties to say oh he’s going to do a May election and then say he bottled it so remember that was quite damaging for Gordon Brown when he allowed rumors to spread that he was going to have a snap election and then he didn’t um so I suppose you know Richie sunak thinks

It’s better to quash these rumors now um than doing the will he won’t he for the first few months of year that’s a good point it’s a very good point there are other stories however that are dominating some of the headlines at the moment and one is a peculiar issue that

We discussed a couple of hours ago on the program and that is the James Bond films the James Bond films a famous franchise I think just about everyone in the country perhaps in the englishspeaking world to seen a James Bond film at some point or another but the British Film Institute has put

Trigger warnings on the front of the classic films uh suggesting that these are should be watched with discretion include a lot of sexism and things that might not be suitable for audiences T what’s your reaction it just gets on my nerves it just gets on my nerves what

Needs to happen is that people need to stop being so sensitive about things and remember that things were filmed at a certain time and accept that I mean I just it’s like the rewriting of books now to to sensitivity read books have being Rewritten no this is it feels you

Know book burning is to me you should leave it the way it was and just not have to explain it this is what it was like then you know and I quite like you know there’s that that one scene where James Bond gives a little Pat to the

Bottom said off you go men’s work now my husband does that to me every day I love it but T isn’t isn’t this precisely the opposite of rewriting books or taking things out of films because we’ve seen some examples of I believe there’s a Faulty Towers episode that the BBC has

Taken a scene out of cuz it doesn’t want to show it anymore isn’t it better just to stick a warning on the front so that those who might be sensitive disposition know what they’re getting and not change the content I think it’s it’s giving people excuses to be offended I think if

We said nothing and just played those films people go gosh look how old fashioned that is look how funny that is look how ridiculous they were then that’s how people would read it instead you’re getting this warning that’s telling you don’t forget to be offended by that yeah it’s true it actually is

Encouraging offense to be taken Michael it’s interesting the wording from the British Film Institute because they say yes it will it could cause a fense they say it will cause a fense actually and then they said like it did then i. you when they were originally released which

Is totally bizarre why should the British Film Institute know what would offend me I think we probably phrase this in a I think seeing this in terms of offense is is potentially a bit misguided I mean looking at something we were looking at sort of old James Bond

Clips before we came back on and there are sort of images of of James Bond essentially like hitting women across the face right and I think we can all agree that it’s it’s good that heroes in films no longer beat women right and my problem with that isn’t so much that

It’s offensive it’s that it’s giving a very bad message to young men so I think it seems very reasonable to me to say if you’re going to you know kids but I watch episodes of Law and Order Special Victims Unit it doesn’t make me want to

Behave like the characters I see well I think you know certain behaviors do get normalized especially by the hero in the movie right so I think it does make sense to say if you’re a parent showing your child an old James Bond movie you might want to have a conversation oh

Yeah people did used to think it was acceptable for for men to hit women now we’ve changed um isn’t that a good thing so I think this this idea that it’s to trigger vulnerable sort of um easily offended people yeah I’m I’m not that fussed about that but to say there’s

This content in this movie if you’re showing your kids it you might want to have this conversation before or afterwards I think it’s perfect but you don’t agree with sanitizing I don’t butched didn’t he you do the most interesting thing I remember sitting down with my family watching James Bond

Films often on a Friday we’d have pizza and it would be the special T all the rest of it but don’t remember any of the horribleness and I I don’t like to think of myself as a particularly horrible person I don’t think that um I would

Think it’s right to hit people and I’ve seen every James Bond film going I love exactly that scene where the whole family sits down to watch a kind of movie on a Sunday afternoon Saturday night um we were laughing out loud at those clips we were not offended by some

Of them okay there was a lot of them a lot of them were funny but the ones where he’s just hitting if you wanted to that’s that was a spy game and he’s trying to get some spy information so you know it’s all you

Know if you took it like that but I mean you’re still right we don’t want to see we don’t want to see but men do hit women and they still do today unfortunately it’s just it’s just undercover there there’s a difference between the hero hitting a woman and

Being seen as sort of normal and then I mean often what happens in James Bond is then it leads to a sex scene so it’s sort of like oh actually hitting women when they don’t want an advance is itself sort of bring a lot into that

Aren’t you say what was in the clear can Heroes be flawed characters well I think they can I they should but that’s not how it was being I think we can sort of say Society has moved on and that’s a good thing and are we forgetting that since films have been presented in

Cinemas in this country in the Modern Age every film has a what we might describe as a trigger warning before it where it says this film has been approved for Parental Guidance or for those over the age of 15 or for those over the age of 18 every single film

We’ve ever seen has that in front of it so suppose enough that’s enough why so so you already have strong nudity and drug use why not also have and some racism and violence against women I mean it doesn’t seem to me that adding that to the list is well violence against

Women would already be under the violence category well there’s different kinds of VI so so if I think we have violence already If you’re sort of slapping the the the enemy you know from the you know it’s normally Soviet Russia or whatever isn’t it that does have a different veillance to you

Want um shall we uh move on to another story it’s a very peculiar one there’s a petition now to change the name of Wales uh of course we all know that the name of Wales in Welsh is cry we know ped cry is the party of Wales um and of

Course there have been several name changes within Wales in recent times not least the Welsh assembly being renamed the Senate uh and indeed the Breen beacons being rename renamed something utterly unpronouncable Wales so is this a sign that Wales want nothing to do with uh the rest of the United Kingdom that they

Might uh secure Independence at some stage I actually think that there’s no problem if they want to do a referendum and the Welsh people don’t want to be called Wales anymore then that’s fine but they need to do a referendum it needs to be majority decision and

Because we were saying you you looked it up and it said it meant that Wales means Foreigner um and so fine they don’t want to be thought of as Foreigner they want to be called pronounce it again for me Tom Kum um which means Welsh man which

Is fair enough have a re ref do it but not off 3,000 people signing a document that’s not enough I suppose that’s the point so few have signed it but of course Wales isn’t called Wales everywhere the French call it pedal um of course we don’t call well the Germans

Don’t call themselves Germany we call them Germany they call themselves deutchland the French call them alamon you know different people have different names for different things I I suppose if they do change their name to kumry we’ll probably still call them Wales yeah yeah I I want to show off cuz I was

Practicing how to say bre and beacons before go Bai brog oh that’s not actually as long as I thought it would that sounded a bit Russian proba completely wrong on my on my YouTube show the first time I read pled cry I said played Kimu and see how

You supped to know I mean you got to be accepting obviously people getting it wrong but maybe I’ve been culturally enriched by learning how the Welsh alphabet is to some degree well I say like I’m an expert got no idea how most words but I can say p c and Seth rather

Than SED and all the but you do pick up these I suppose these things but is is there a bit of a I don’t know a trend now of just sort of renaming things for the sake of it potentially I mean it’s very interesting with like Welsh language I

Know I had a good friend who um went to a sort of bilingual Welsh language school and he was actually quite annoyed about it because he said his dad sent him there because his dad was sort of a Welsh Nationalist and he became a writer

And he was like I spent so much time writing in Welsh you know I’m going to be a writer in English um so I think there is always this tension between people who want to have a very legitimate sort of cultural ambition to keep a language alive and then there are

Sort of people who are the vehicles for that language who might actually prefer to be speaking something else obviously as an English person you don’t have that you’re sort of the most privileged person in the world when it comes to language because your native language W

The language of the world we’re in that in that particular era in that sort of very I suppose being being someone from these islands you’re quite fortunate in that for well ever since the fall of Napoleon you were the hegemonic power and then it shifted to the United States

Both of which are countries of sort of similar dispositions and the same language but when my mother first came over as a 14-year-old from Cyprus she got sent over and she went ended up in Cardiff um and so yes that’s where she was so I’ve got lots of Welsh cousins um

So she I mean I’ll tell you that she said that she thought that that was probably what hell was like she’d come from Sunny Cyprus eating fresh fruit during the 50s in the smog to Wales and she said that everything smelt B cabbage so it’s quite difficult for her like

That I love like anything about we all love well no no no no you’ve got me wrong now I’m just saying her experience was but what she said is that um my cousins do speak all of them speak a little bit of Welsh so I kind of view

Their Welsh like my Greek school maybe it shouldn’t be something that is kind of as you said bilingually schooled or whatever but an extracurricular curricular activity that everybody can hold on to their culture if they want to rather than it be en forced I suppose

Lots of people in Wales don’t want it to just be something you speak on the weekend they want it to be the first language of of of various parts of world and I think there are parts of Worlds where it is kind of the first language

And I think there what I’m saying is there there are tradeoffs right we don’t have to face that well myself as a sort of native English speaker I don’t have to face the trade-off between you know cultural heritage and functionality of language so I don’t really want to judge

People who do face that I think you have to be practical you just have to be practical and it’s not practical Welsh is quite a difficult language and it’s not that practical but if you want to learn it then fine it should be your extra but who on Earth would want to

Erect you know National istic barriers to trade it would I I don’t know I can’t ever see that talking about being practical one exam board I believe it’s yes edexel is uh saying that GCS English will no longer be handwritten under their plan so from 2025 pupils will be able to take their

Exams their GCSE English with their laptop rather than handwriting is this uh decline or is it just facing the future as it exists I think it’s really practical I’ve got you know I’ve got a 6D year old and an 18yearold and and I think they’d much rather do it on a

Laptop you know and Al their handwriting is abysmal I’m embarrassed for the handwriting of my sons um it’s abysmal and I think they probably lose lots of points because their handwriting is so terrible though I do ache for handwriting you know at calligraphy writing beautifully something needs to

Be done so we don’t lose you could force them to improve their handwriting no I I tried you know the practicality of getting people that do so much now on laptops on computers on keyboards to then sit down and write is is really it’s probably a really good sign T

Because as far as I’m aware the people with the worst handwriting in the world are doctors and so it’s probably probably aligned with those who have pretty high status jobs but Michael I I suppose this is inevitable isn’t it we people we we were sitting around in a

Meeting earlier today and everyone was like how how how how can we possibly do uh exams handwritten and we were all sitting there on our Laptop abely World inevitable Tom at least we should encourage handwriting up to the age of 16 I mean come on well you can encou I

Think it’s probably more for the sake of the examiners than the students right I do have sympathy here I did a master sort of a few years ago my late 20s and one of the modules was sort of done by exam and I remember sort of learning the

Content sort of planning my essays and then thinking oh God I’m going to have to write this down and my I I can barely read my own handwriting it’s more difficult to write it because you can’t go back and just you know move things around and you can’t edit things after

As easy as it’s a different skill to be able to hand WR you think on your skill that’s now becoming redundant because when does anyone need to write St then we’ll just that because I I I don’t think sort of writing a you know people don’t write

People used to write books by hand which is amazing and incredible it’s just ROM I I agree with you you’re being romantic and I understand that Romanticism about handwriting but the practicality is is you know exams are being taken and kids are losing points because their handwriting is so bad but

Will they have spell check we listen people some people like to buy vinyl now and vinyl is nice it’s archaic it’s um it’s peculiar but but it’s it’s not the main way that people listen to music and I suppose you can always have that sort of as a nicity sort of on the

Side could be your proposal for handwriting do it on Saturday but you know what I I think that uh everyone watching a show today and listening to the show today will be on team Emily actually yes keep handwriting we’ll have a look at the inbox GB views atgb

News.com uh but I do think there is that sort of sense that there is um Perhaps Perhaps what you were talking about in terms of being able to write in one flow without going back perhaps we should have some more speaking and listening involved in exams Kia starma was

Speaking uh a couple of months ago about bringing oratory into schools and making sure that people could talk of oratory keeping people interested in what you’re saying they falling asleep he’s L but but it’s not a bad idea right idea because I suppose one of those

Things about how you think about how you write is also about how you think about how you talk I’m sorry I’m not sure I think you need to have something of substance to say first so I think Back to Basics education rather than wasting hours of the school day learning how to

Speak you do both it’s just instead of only writing an essay you then also talk to to uh they do it that’s sort of how traditional Education Works in Italy and Italian FR philosopher said in their final exams what they do is they get sort of just completely grilled by their

By their teacher in in secondary school right so we all agreed everyone should handw write Forever War I yes no no everyone should practice the gift of the gab that’s how you get ahead in life that’s that’s the big that’s the big well I think that’s all we’ve got time

For thank you very much Michael Walker and ton buckton of course that’s all from us for today but we’ll be back tomorrow at 12:00 you’ve been watching good afternoon Britain on GB news up next it’s Martin dney brighter Outlook with box solar sponsors of weather on GB

News hello again I’m Alex bergel here with your latest GB News weather forecast we do have some drier and colder weather on the cards for this weekend but for the time being it’s heavy rain we’re concerned about in the South an area of low pressure is pushing p in its way northeastwards bringing

Some windy and also very wet weather initially to Southern counties as we go through today but that rain does spread its way northeastwards towards East Anglia and Lincolnshire as we go through this evening and overnight likely to see some flooding and some travel disruption here elsewhere we are going to have a

Scattering of showers overnight particularly towards the west but some drier and clearer weather in between under any clear skies could see a touch of frost and perhaps even a few patches of fog first thing on Friday morning otherwise as we go through tomorrow yes a bit of a wet start across Eastern

Parts but that rain should clear away although for Far Eastern parts of Scotland particularly Shetland it is going to be a bit wet and perhaps even a little bit wintry here otherwise the scattering of showers quite likely particularly for western parts of England and Wales Western Scotland and

Northern Ireland likely to have some drier and sunnier weather for a Time temperatures perhaps a touchdown compared to today but near normal for the time of year as we go into Saturday and it’s going to again bring a few showers for quite a few places

But there will be a Westy split in terms of sunshine brightest and sunniest towards the west and through the weekend we’re going to see more dry and sunny weather for most of us but it is also going to turn colder so an increasing risk of some Frost and some fog

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