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Actually. Be quite nice, but its not all plain sailing, particularly if you go to the costa sol. Apparently this costa del sol. Apparently this is in the mail this morning. Costa del sol. Apparently this is in the mail this morning. And is in the mail this morning. And i imagine you doing this i can imagine you doing this queuing for two hours to get a sunbed out. I would do that. Thats something id find myself doing. Look, that is the most british thing you have ever seen your life. People seen in your life. People have actually chairs to actually pulled up chairs to queue sunbed. Queue for a sunbed. I just think its sunlounger i it is hm it is crackers. But youd have to youd have to stay in the queue at your best to have a seat because then you can continue to get your tan on. Cant you just on yeah. Cant you just lie on the tan . Mean, i would just the tan . I mean, i would just lie on towel at that point. Lie on the towel at that point. Theres grass there. Whatever spot think its not worth it spot you think its not worth it though, is it . No. But youre going to be there for ages, arent you . Because wait for because youve got to wait for people clear off the sun people to clear off the sun loungers. Its people to clear off the sun loungers. Its going be loungers. Its going to be several hours, it . Yeah several hours, isnt it . Yeah absolutely. Bonkers apparently people queuing for 2 2 more just after 2 2 hours or more just after dawn. Dawn. Its probably around this kind time. Kind of time. In the this isnt this is in the this isnt easy me to say. This is in easy for me to say. This is in the hotel is double talk quebrada. Quebrada. Yeah. Nice near malaga. Yeah. Nice near malaga. Yeah. Nice near malaga. So there you go. So if you dont want to i wouldnt go there if you if you want an easy access to a sunbed, its madness. Apparently every time the gate opens to the sun lounger area , madness ensues lounger area, madness ensues with people literally running in. And i find that stressful experience actually trying to get sunbed , trying to get a few get sunbed, trying to get a few together. Impossible mission. And theres people the worst kind of people who set their alarms for 5 am, get down to the pool. They lay out their the pool. They lay out their towels with no intention of being there till about 10 am. No. What about taking an inflatable . Could you do that . And just lying like a like a lilo . Thats quite a good idea, actually. Then youve got to be willing to lay in a pool for several hours. No, you could lay it on the side. Yeah its not the same. Its not the same. Its not the same. Im not as daft as i look. Youre not as daft as you look. No, but i do think thats probably a really good idea. Mm hmm. Youve cracked the code. That m code. That be it. Maybe if that could be it. Maybe if you there, you. Doesnt you lie there, you. Doesnt matter if youre lying matter if you. If youre lying on inflatable. Lilo with a on an inflatable. Lilo with a dnnk on an inflatable. Lilo with a drink long as your drink in drink as long as your drink in a book involved youre going book involved and youre going to fine. Problem is, how to be fine. The problem is, how much drink cost . Much will that drink cost . Thats it. Because if youre here in the uk, at least different in spain. But if different story in spain. But if youre here in the uk, well, your is likely to be your booze is likely to be getting a lot more expensive alcohol duties. Seeing its biggest single rise in 50 years from today as hospitality bosses are warning that the rise, which is about £225 million, could cripple the industry. Well, the Prime Minister has hailed the changes, which will see drinks taxed according to its strength as the most radical simplification of alcohol duty in over a century, made possible. He says because of brexit. But the wine and Spirits Trade Association isnt happy. Theyve accused the government of inflicting inflation, misery on customers. Well, our east Midlands Reporter will hollis has more on this story. This story. When youre in the business of helping brits get leathered , of helping brits get leathered, theres no better place to set up a brewery than an old leather factory. See, when you drink too much beer , you get a pot belly. So we beer, you get a pot belly. So we call it pot belly brewery, pot belly has been brewing beer here in kettering for nearly 20 years with ian as head brewer selling barrels and bottles. Hes seeing a shift in sales i years ago, we delivered big barrels, 144 pints, but theres too much now. Nobody will touch one of these. A lot of pubs that ideal one of these. A lot of pubs that i deal with want the little ones with 36 pints because its cheaper and it lasts twice as long from grain to glass. A single brew takes a week. This one just in time to be taxed under the new system. From today , duty will be measured on today, duty will be measured on booze of all kinds, using alcohol by volume. A simplified tax on strength. Meanwhile while a new draught relief dubbed the brexit pubs guarantee lowers the price of a pint by up to £0. 11 compared to supermarkets according to the treasury. But the new system puts pot belly in a pickle. The beer here in the pint glass is exactly the same as the one in the bottle. Its just that the duty is calculated differently now under the new rules , the bottle costs about an rules, the bottle costs about an extra £0. 30 in duty and the government is making them more expensive because ultimately they want drinkers to choose to dnnk they want drinkers to choose to drink weaker beers in the pub rather than stronger ones at home. Greg says the system will squeeze businesses like his. The price is on a barrel of beer should remain fairly constant. Isnt the one anomaly constant. Isnt the one anomaly is when you then dispense beers in less than 20l. So so anything thatis in less than 20l. So so anything that is in a small ten litre box or in a bottle of beer , the or in a bottle of beer, the price is then doubled in the duty side of it. Emma is chief exec at the british beer and pub association. She says that the reforms mean the industry will pay reforms mean the industry will pay an extra £224 million in tax at a time of high production costs. Beer duty , unfortunately, is beer duty, unfortunately, is still one of the highest in the whole of europe. Here in the uk , and we hope that some of these changes will incentivise people to be brewing lower strength beers to help consumers moderate their consumption. But their consumption. But unfortunately we probably wont see a much difference in prices at this moment in time in terms of them at the pub, the of lowering them at the pub, the cost of beers and cans at home are going to be increased some 10. 1 because of the changes that are being introduced today. Back at the brewery, sam, the teams youngest, is on clean up i my favourite job of the day. My favourite job of the day. Digging out the hops out the copper. Digging out the hops out the copper. Its digging out the hops out the copper. Its a its a bit warm in there and dirty , but its one in there and dirty, but its one of them. Jobs have got to be done, im afraid. Washing away the old duty is gone. The old duty is gone. Its replacement needs to pump up the industry rather than drain it dry. Will hollis gb news in kettering. News in kettering. Well, former adviser to the chief secretary to the treasury , sir leon emirali is in the studio. Good to see you this morning. Good morning. Good morning. This is a bit of a tricky one, isnt it . Because on the surface you go, well, booze is going to cost us more. Thats a bad thing. Yeah but if youre drinking in a pub and drinking draught beer, then youre all right. So. Its boost to draught beer, then youre all right. Isnt its boost to draught beer, then youre all right. Isnt it . Ts boost to pubs, isnt it . It is a boost to pubs even, but its a small boost to pubs. And i think thats the key thing here. Theres an imbalance because the booster pubs, a couple off a pint, couple of pennies off a pint, whereas buy whereas if youre going to buy a bottle wine from the from the bottle of wine from the from the supermarket, youre potentially looking quid on that looking at an extra quid on that bottle wine. So i think there bottle of wine. So i think there is a slight imbalance here. The government obviously government are obviously going to and spin this and to want to try and spin this and say, actually weve simplified alcohol this country, say, actually weve simplified alcohcfor this country, say, actually weve simplified alcohcfor long s country, say, actually weve simplified alcohcfor long hasuntry, say, actually weve simplified alcohcfor long has been say, actually weve simplified alcoh complicated, has been say, actually weve simplified alcoh complicated, whereasi quite complicated, whereas theyd have different rates for beers, wines, ciders, spirits theyd have different rates for beerallvines, ciders, spirits theyd have different rates for beerallvinezrestiers, spirits theyd have different rates for beerallvinezrestierrit. Ipirits theyd have different rates for beerallvinezrestierrit. Now its and all the rest of it. Now its and all the rest of it. Now its a flat rate and it depends on the alcohol content that the alcohol content of that particular so the idea is particular drink. So the idea is it simplifies and deters it simplifies it and deters people from getting hammered basically. Mean, you say, it so i mean, as you say, it depends the alcohol content. Depends on the alcohol content. So like spirits so well see things like spirits and becoming more and wines becoming more expensive, draught beer expensive, although draught beer will cheaper. But that will become cheaper. But that will become cheaper. But that will mean for the hospitality sector, they will probably have no choice but to pass on those rate rises to customers. This is part of the problem. Ellie. A lot of businesses that generate these types of higher alcohol content, so maybe youre looking at fortified wines, maybe youre looking at specific spirits. Those specific gins or spirits. Those businesses are saying actually , businesses are saying actually, this is a real problem for us because already costs are because already our costs are going because of inflation going up because of inflation more and now the more broadly. And now the government adding extra government is adding this extra tax alcohol duty that tax onto our alcohol duty that we either pass on the we either pass on to the customers or we out of customers or we go out of business. So its a conundrum for those those alcohol producers, but also for those people who want to enjoy a drink at the end of a day or at the weekend. You know, this is just another increase, increasing cost that were seeing across the and its that the board. And its that inflation continue to run. All right. But its the there is element of and is an element of this. And i know big brother style in in know the big brother style in in how we consume things isnt always very, very positive. But theres a bit of an alcohol problem in this country, isnt there . And we are drinking with certain generations , at least certain generations, at least drinking more than previous. Only if this puts a bit of a kibosh on that. Well, thats quite good, isnt it . And thats really where this policy stemmed from. It was policy stemmed from. It was introduced by rishi sunak when he was chancellor, and he wanted to be able to say that actually the country is drinking too much and we shouldnt be rewarding those. Should actually be those. We should actually be trying to put in place a deterrent for who drink deterrent for people who drink a lot and particularly lot of alcohol, and particularly high alcohol. Thats high strength alcohol. So thats the it, the intention behind it, stephen. Always , with stephen. But as always, with these types of rises, they seem negligible, but they add up over a of time and will a period of time and it will raise a lot of money for the exchequer. Will also exchequer. Yes but it will also take lot of out of take a lot of money out of peoples pockets. I think peoples pockets. And i think when at those health when you look at those health benefits, been benefits, theres clearly been some of calculation within some sort of calculation within the treasury that says actually this is better off for the pubuc this is better off for the public can reinvest public purse. We can reinvest it. That alcohol duty into it. That extra alcohol duty into the service were all happy. Hold on a minute, though. £225 million is the extra cost , £225 million is the extra cost, but thats nothing to the treasury. I mean, they wont nofice treasury. I mean, they wont notice that will they . Well, its the 225 million extra cost, but its also, stephen, about that health benefit. If youre to benefit. So if youre able to deter people drinking deter people from drinking alcohol, people not getting alcohol, from people not getting the diseases that are associated with alcohol use, then with heavy alcohol use, then obviously theres a saving that then on through then gets passed on through the nhs that gets nhs. Theres a saving that gets passed through health care passed on through health care that we pay for in this country. So theres the wider picture. The treasury looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasury looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats looking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats whyoking at. So theres the wider picture. The ireasurthats why this g at. And i think thats why this policy ultimately being policy is ultimately being lauded the government. But it lauded by the government. But it isnt without its potential pitfalls. Mean , sunak pitfalls. I mean, rishi sunak is painting benefit of painting this as a benefit of brexit, isnt he . Hes saying that this is enabled brexit. That enabled by brexit. The fact that we essentially make our own we can essentially make our own rules now. Absolutely. And this is yeah, absolutely. And this is part of, i think the formation of this policy. The government want to able to say were out want to be able to say were out of european now. We of the European Union now. We can things differently as a can do things differently as a result of and this is one result of that. And this is one of things that they will of the things that they will point quite tangible. Point to thats quite tangible. It you a nice headline it gets you a nice headline because down and you because you can go down and you can say actually your pint down the pub is to going be cheaper. And brexit. Thats and thanks to brexit. Thats why. Think this is a lot why. And i think this is a lot of politics at play here, it gives that headline, as you gives them that headline, as you say, the numbers are say, stephen, the numbers are actually small when actually quite small when we look in round, but look at it in the round, but its all about politics here. Its about positions, its all about positions, the country can do Things Country as if we can do things differently now that were outside european outside the European Union. Okay . Okay . Want em okay . Want to ask gem we just want to ask you about another big story today, which is coots coots bank. Theyre going nigel back going to give nigel farage back his and his his business account and his personal , and he is now personal account, and he is now asking for compensation , an and asking for compensation, an and asking for compensation, an and a formal apology. Bring us up to speed. It was quite an extraordinary turn of events, isnt it . I mean, this time last week we were discussing nigel farage losing now he losing his bank account. Now he may be given bank may well be given his bank account coots. And account back by coots. And i think because of the think this is because of the political pressure that weve seen placed on only coots, seen placed on not only coots, but natwest as the holding but the natwest as the Holding Company ceo company that owns coots, the ceo obviously departed last week as did the ceo of coots. So nigel farage has come out and said, actually there is no place for political discrimination in in banking. And think the banking. And i think the political powers have got behind him that. We now find him on that. And we now find ourselves in a situation where he could get his bank account back. It isnt without coots back. But it isnt without coots his reputation being damaged in the i think they his reputation being damaged in the have i think they his reputation being damaged in the have wished hink they would have wished that they didnt in the first didnt start this in the first place theyre the ones place because theyre the ones that come more bruised that have come out more bruised than has. Than nigel farage has. Liam, good to see you. Yeah. Liam, good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. You. Thank you. Thank you. Can understand position can understand his position on nigels position on that. I dont if want to bank dont know if id want to bank with anymore. With them anymore. All, the first thing after all, the first thing i thought i said, does he want it back . Back . Well, then hes saying hes struggling accounts elsewhere. Does. So he does. So he does. Suppose he does. But i. So i suppose he does. But i. I wouldnt want them to get to have the benefit of my money. No, i agree with you. No, no, i agree with you. Its first thing i thought its the first thing i thought was i said. But as he said was when i said. But as he said to us, ten banks have refused to take his money, essentially. So take his money, essentially. So i think hes quite grateful. He says hes welcome and the move, but he would like compensation now and a formal apology. So this story is just going to continue to roll, isnt it . Yes it is for the time being, anyway. Now, the arrival of the first set of Asylum Seekers on the stockholm barge in dorset has been delayed amid fire safety concerns. The home office had been planning to send the initial group of 50 migrants to the barge. Its currently docked in portland , but the plan has been portland, but the plan has been held up following last minute talks. Well, lets speak now to former immigration security adviser henry bolton. Good morning to you , henry. Good morning to you, henry. So this has been delayed. Was this expected . This expected . Well , of course, initially, well, of course, initially, no, it wasnt. I think, you no, it wasnt. I think, you know, as of yesterday or the day before, it really became a sort of realistic prospect that it would be delayed. Whats quite would be delayed. Whats quite incredible about this is the demonstration that at the home office has not done its planning and preparation correctly or thoroughly. You know , the thoroughly. You know, the problem here is one of the fire inspections and the signing off the accommodation as suitably fireproof. And you know, to be fair in a sense , the probability fair in a sense, the probability of a fire on there, the fire control on board the bibby stockholm is adequate. What the problem is, is evacuation action. Should there be a fire and thats one of the problems with using vessels of this sort. But its quite incredible that it wasnt signed off in the planning and preparation stage of this. But that rather of this. But that rather reflects the poor planning across the board when it comes to dealing with the large number of Asylum Seekers that weve got , particularly those coming across the channel there should be an end to end approach, a strategic approach that deals with the upstream disruption of organised crime at every conceivable and possible point from the point of origin of these Asylum Seekers on the organised Crime Networks all the way through to and within the United Kingdom. There also needs United Kingdom. There also needs to be more resources and more planning put into the processing of the whole thing. And part of that should be not only resourcing the system correctly because it is far from well resourced. As ive said before, the David Cameron and theresa may cut policing by 21,000 and that okay, the conservative party is mitigating that somewhat by bringing another 20,000 police officers. But what people didnt see was that they did a similar thing with our whole immigration system. Theyve cut corners, theyve reduced training, theyve reduced training, theyve reduced the pay , pay, grades and reduced the pay, pay, grades and so on. Theres a theres a massive problem in terms of resourcing. So that needs to be resourcing. So that needs to be deau resourcing. So that needs to be dealt with in the process thing. And then youve the and then youve got the accommodation accommodation and then youve got the accommodpart| accommodation and then youve got the accommodpart of accommodation and then youve got the accommodpart of the ccommodation should be part of the processing. When somebody processing. So when somebody comes across the border , for comes across the border, for example, across the channel then they should be put in a Processing Centre rather similar to airside. If you travel into the uk, you land in gatwick, youve arrived in the United Kingdom, but for immigration purposes you are not deemed to have entered the United Kingdom until youve transited immigration controls. We should immigration controls. We should have similar legal and physical facilities on our maritime border to do a screening and those people, for example, albanians , who we now we now albanians, who we now we now have a fairly thorough agreement with for returns, should be returned directly from there rather than be brought in to more permanent accommodation. That accommodation should be deau that accommodation should be dealt with in a more strategic long term manner, not just ad hoc hotels and pardon pardon the pun in relation to the bibi, but Firefighting Solutions with bases and so on, because theres also a similar problem to this at scampton, where it hasnt been properly signed off yet by the, the, the local planning authorities. So so and so thats delayed somewhat to this is a comedy of errors and failure of Strategic Planning from start to finish. Its shocking. Finish. Its shocking. I mean, as you say, it is shocking because even the sticking plaster solutions dont work here. So why cant the home office get to grips with this . Office get to grips with this . Well, i think it really boils down to this. They dont have the knowledge or the expertise. And im not im not trying to be funny here, but you know, if you bring somebody in from border force to a planning unit within the home office , what within the home office, what does border force know about combating transnational organised crime as far back as the middle east or the sahel and maghreb of africa . What does what do such people civil servants, for example, know of that subject . What do know of that subject . What do they know of logistical planning of this scale . They dont know what is required. As i have done for other countries. I have brought in multiple agencies from across the government , from across the government, International Working groups answering directly to the cabinet. Sometimes even the president , to enable president , to enable coordination and the correct authority thats needed to move the machinery. You bring them all in. You create a Strategic Planning group with working groups in each Government Department to follow this through. And thats simply not happening in the British Government and id just to branch this out slightly in the whole brexit thing in the run up to us leaving the European Union, that in fact before the referendum, um, you had every country that we had great deaungs country that we had great dealings with, particularly those in the European Union , who those in the European Union, who had set up specific , uh, cross had set up specific, uh, cross governmental departments , cross governmental departments, cross governmental, not separate departments in order to, to assess and prepare for the impact on them of us leaving the European Union. I know that European Union. I know that because i was chief planner for Common Security and Defence Policy in the eu at the time and in the uk we did not. It was incoherent. It and it really incoherent. It and it really blew the minds of all of our international partners. The incompetence within whitehall is stark and were seeing it in this. Were seeing it in health care, were seeing it in education, were seeing it in defence, were seeing it in transport. Um, this is just this, this is a very open public demonstration of that failure. Demonstration of that failure. And somehow weve got to bring leadership and Strategic Planning and operational planning and operational planning into whitehall. But the Civil Service are pretty close to that idea. Okay. Henry really good to talk to you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Very much indeed. Well, you will have an opinion on what henry bolton had to say there. So do get in touch to say there. So do get in touch with your thoughts. With your thoughts. Vaiews gbnews. Com. You would think how difficult is it to get 50 people onto a barge . Wouldnt you . You . I you . I mean, the problem is with all this, i mean, henry bolton was saying, you know, there isnt the expert. Hes in the home office to sort all this out. Its not Rocket Science , is. Its not Rocket Science, is it . I mean, it really isnt Rocket Science. And i know youve got problems when youre deaung youve got problems when youre dealing with with people who actually come into the country because to deal with because youve got to deal with other and all the rest other countries and all the rest of it. But really shouldnt of it. But it really shouldnt be difficult. And i think be that difficult. And i think this is what everyones struggling anyway, and struggling with. But anyway, and i hope does the i mean, what hope does the government see government have then to see rwanda planes actually taking off . We cant get 50 people onto a barge portland. Barge in portland. Yes. Yes. Anyway , as as that situation anyway, as as that situation continues, struggling to house migrants on a barge , campaigners migrants on a barge, campaigners in chelmsford in essex have condemned the government for approving the acquisition of an entire luxury apartment complex for Asylum Seekers. Well, in the gb news exclusive, our Homeland Security editor mark white uncovers the harsh reality of british families being stuck in substandard accommodation. While some migrant boats moved into the plush new apartments. Its billed as one of chelmsfords most sought after residential complexes , a residential complexes, a multi Million Pound conversion of an old office block into luxury apartments. The marketing photographs show just how comfortable these flats are, but for now, at least, none of the 98 units here are for local use turned over. Instead to the home office to house Asylum Seekers. Office to house Asylum Seekers. Dozens of migrants have already moved in the refurbishment work on the remaining apartments is almost complete , but the mould almost complete, but the mould was all up there, all around , was all up there, all around, down the floors, along all the pipework and across the ceiling and just running down the walls. It was absolutely disgusting i Tasha Burgess moved into this damp and mould infested property in chelmsford five years ago, only last year was the family finally moved out while those problems were fixed, but not before she and her children developed chronic respiratory ailments. Its very frustrating that that people can come illegally and get the accommodation when youve got people that are homeless. Not by fault that need accommodation as well. And a lot accommodation as well. And a lot of families that are not in suitable accommodation size us either and its squashed in flats and stuff, waiting on lists for months and months or years. Years. Even the local council says it has only limited grounds for a legal challenge against the home office and does not intend to take court action on local Campaign Groups say the housing of Asylum Seekers in luxury apartments is grossly unfair. When more than 400 chelmsford families are in temporary accommodation , many of those accommodation, many of those properties in substandard condition. Condition. They are illegally here and yet theyre living in absolute luxury and i think thats whats frustrating and annoying so many people is that theyre getting every thing and People Living in some of these places that we see last year during the damp and mould, you wouldnt have put a dog it because it was dog in it because it was disgusting with bibby disgusting with the bibby stockholm barge stockholm accommodate a barge receiving first asylum receiving its first Asylum Seekers and more arriving at the former wethersfield airbase in essex , the government says its essex, the government says its committed to moving away from expel hotels, but this luxury apartment complex surely cannot be with the home secretary meant by a move to more basic accommodation for Asylum Seekers i mark white gb news in chelmsford. Chelmsford. If you look at it on paper, i can see why they make the decision like this because they 90, decision like this because they go, well, if we move people out of accommodation that theyre already in, that isnt very good. And then weve got to redo that up it will cost more that up and it will cost more money than just. But how can it be right if british people are really struggling with their accommodation and other people who could well be i mean, i dont know the specific circumstances with everybody, but could well be illegal. But certainly in the process of being processed and getting fans accommodation, i mean, im not it would get you back up, wouldnt it . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, of course. Of course it would. Especially as we just heard from the lady in that report there living in mouldy conditions really, that are making her and her son sick. I mean, nobody should be living in those sorts of conditions. And trying to hit that and its trying to hit that situation are situation where we are compassionate people , compassionate to with people, but fair with people, which is andifs but fair with people, which is and its very difficult. Yeah, very difficult. Would you let us know what you think of mark whites exclusive report there . Vaiews gbnews. Com lets bring you up to date with the rest of todays top stories and the skyscraper in russias capital has been hit again by a drone after initially being targeted on sunday. In a short statement, the mayor of moscow claimed several other drones were shot down and Emergency Services were on the scene. Russias Defence Ministry scene. Russias Defence Ministry has blamed ukraine for the attacks. Attacks. Food Price Inflation has slowed to its lowest level this year due to falling prices for staples such as oils. Fish and breakfast cereals. Thats according to new figures. Food inflation decelerated by 1. 2 in july, but overall, shop prices were 7. 6 higher in july than a year ago. Year ago. And the uks First Drone Delivery Service , which can be delivery service, which can be conducted on a permanent basis, has been launched in orkney. So has been launched in orkney. So not much use to most of us anyway. Its delivering mail. The Drone Service will deliver letters and parcels between the island and is expected to significantly improve Service Levels and delivery times. Ive levels and delivery times. Ive been great for them , but we need been great for them, but we need more of that. We need a bit more. Yeah, i was about to say we need to see a bit more of that down here. That would be nice, wouldnt it . And food inflation is. Thats a good headline, isnt it . Yeah somewhat. Just need to see it passed us now. But itd be passed on to us now. But itd be nice the prices come down nice to see the prices come down in the shops wouldnt it. Well will they come down or will they just. They wont will they just. Well they wont come will they. In that come down will they. In that sense theyll just more slowly. Yes thats true. Yes thats true. Thats reality. Yes thats true. So thats reality. Yes thats true. So were ats reality. Yes thats true. So were not reality. Yes thats true. So were not actually. Yes thats true. So were not actually going to see a huge drop in prices. No. No. Which is an issue which is an issue now, heres one ive got ive to talk about this. Ive got to talk about this. I want on google want your views on this google in east yorkshire. Have a look in east yorkshire. Have a look at this picture. If youre on the radio, its two local towers called the salt and pepper pots one and if youre listening on the radio, ones a big sort of wide white water tower and ones a little narrow brick one and theyve been called the pepper pots, the salt and pepper pots for years and years and years. For years and years and years. And theyve now made actual salt and pepper pots out of them. And pepper pots out of them. You can buy sweet, but heres the problem. They cant work out which ones are salt and which ones the peppen well, obviously, the salt is the white one. No, you see, i would have said the salt. The salt was the other salt always comes in a thinner thing and its just got one hole at the top. Whereas the peppers one hole at the top. Whereas the peppers lots of in it i yes, the id go by colour so peppers black, which is going to be the one on the left, the thin one and salt, its obviously white. So thats thats what id go with. You see weve both looked at that and thought it was obvious. I thought that was really obvious. But weve come up with different answers. So this is what to know from you what you want to know from you this this morning. Gb views gbnews. Com those is gbnews. Com which one of those is salt which ones pepper . Salt . Which ones pepper . Because usually were in sync with things we are not on that one. No. If i was, i can see why theyre having issues. If i was reaching for the salt, id go for the little one. No just make any sense. No just make any sense. Wrong colour. Its the wrong colour. Its the wrong colour. Let us know what you think. In the meantime, um, heres your forecast with alex. That warm feeling inside from boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news morning alex weather on. Gb news morning alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious. Every where. Quite a cloud this morning over a lot of cloud this morning over northwest parts northwest england, parts of northern ireland, north wales, further of here further outbreaks of rain here and showers in southern and some showers in southern scotland, in this zone, we scotland, too. In this zone, we will a showers through scotland, too. In this zone, we willday. A showers through scotland, too. In this zone, we willday. The showers through scotland, too. In this zone, we willday. The odd howers through scotland, too. In this zone, we willday. The odd how coming in. This to be coming in. This is going to be on side as well as it on the heavy side as well as it spreads in through this evening across south west, then into across the south west, then into parts wales and its an area parts of wales and its an area of pressure that will of low pressure that will dominate weather through dominate our weather through tonight. Tomorrow. Tonight. And most of tomorrow. This sweeps this line of rain sweeps northwards kind of northwards and then kind of liking to halt during liking to grind to a halt during wednesday. In some wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across the south. Further north, we could dip into single figures in some rural mostly rural spots, but mostly its about rain and the wind about the rain and the wind tomorrow quite blustery tomorrow getting quite blustery along coast along the south coast and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across Northern England across parts of Northern England , southern scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, but with the winds in from the north winds coming in from the north or is not going to or the east, it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high teens, low 20s at best. 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Im not a fan. I much prefer the little blue bird. Yeah, i do. Let us know what you think on that. Right. Lets talk sport, shall we . Joining in the studio go joining us in the studio to go through sports through the biggest sports stories day is aidan stories of the day is aidan magee. Morning to you. Magee. Good morning to you. Good to see you both. Good to see you both. What a finale yesterday. What a finale yesterday. I was up out my out my seat. I couldnt it. Its not i couldnt believe it. Its not often cricket gets me that often that cricket gets me that excited, but this has been a series to remember over the 24 days, thereve been in days, thereve been stories in every weve seen, and every test that weve seen, and its as well it its wonderful as well that it goes around the country as well. Everyone leeds and manchester everyone in leeds and manchester and managed to and birmingham have managed to see of it and it is thats see a bit of it and it is thats how the England Football Team used years ago. Used to be. 20 years ago. Remember shut remember when wembley was shut and to take around and they used to take it around the country . A lot of the players said they actually actually appreciated the engagement people in engagement with with people in the it all the localities. So it was all about stuart broad yesterday taking final wickets. About stuart broad yesterday tak announced nal wickets. About stuart broad yesterday tak announced his wickets. About stuart broad yesterday tak announced his retirementts. About stuart broad yesterday tak announced his retirement on he announced his retirement on friday forms test friday from all forms of test cricket. So forms of cricket. So all forms of cricket. So all forms of cricket. Fact he said he cricket. In fact he said that he wants to there for his for wants to be there for his for his wife and his the baby whos on the way and so he on the way as well. And so he took the final two wickets just as needed to force as england needed to force a draw. Was so sad because in draw. It was so sad because in some ways we all know what happened week at old happened on last week at old trafford. The rain that trafford. It was the rain that scuppered they scuppered england. They they would produced a32 win from would have produced a32 win from a 2 0 deficit. Remember stevens saying needs to go. And i saying bars needs to go. And i have say sometimes you need have to say sometimes you need to stick to your principles. I was with you in some ways i thought something has to change. In first two tests, england in the first two tests, england had played this really expansive cricket. Reckless cricket. It was a bit reckless there. Theyve been criticism for michael vaughan, michael there. Theyve been criticism for micha geoffighan, michael there. Theyve been criticism for micha geoff boycott, chael vaughan, geoff boycott, kevin pietersen. Call vaughan, geoff boycott, kevin pi batting call vaughan, geoff boycott, kevin pi batting without call vaughan, geoff boycott, kevin pi batting without brains call vaughan, geoff boycott, kevin pi batting without brains and it batting without brains and michael called michael vaughan. I think called it cricket. And so they it kamikaze cricket. And so they stuck principles and stuck to their principles and they heard the they would have heard the criticism would have criticism and they would have heard challenge to what heard the challenge as to what they were trying to do. And sometimes you just once youve gone its gone down some road, its difficult turn round a difficult to turn round and do a reverse and back, reverse ferret and go back, isnt and it sorry, reverse isnt it . And it sorry, reverse ferret. Ferret. fi yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Whats reverse ferret . Whats a reverse ferret . Whats a reverse ferret . Go. You know, thats when you go. You know, ive heard that phrase before. No, when you go down 1 1 no, its when you go down 1 1 road you just realise, road and then you just realise, oh, actually weve hit dead oh, actually weve hit a dead end, to go back. End, so we have to go back. Yeah. Squirrel your way back. Yeah. Squirrel your way back. It draghi. It was draghi. It was draghi. Back. It was. It was way back. It was. It was draghi yesterday. It was. Do we now weve got do we ago now weve got reverse ferrets. Weve gone back to form. Have indeed. Look. We have indeed. So look. Absolutely outstanding. Yesterday how yesterday and in terms of how stuart will remembered, stuart broad will be remembered, i nobodys taken more test i mean nobodys taken more test wickets against australia, particularly test particularly in ashes 604 test wickets total, retiring at wickets in total, retiring at the age of 37. And what a way to go. That seems very young. Is that seems very young. Is that young for a cricketer . No , id say it was probably no, id say it was probably around about average, actually. I compared to other sports i mean, compared to other sports , probably around the same , probably around about the same thing when i was thing is when i was when i was youngenl thing is when i was when i was younger, i would say the typical retirement age for a sportsman would be probably five years before but with the before that. But with the improvement sports science, improvement in sports science, youre seeing sportsmen going longer and so longer and longer. And so i think maybe five, ten years time we might see them retiring at 40. Jemmy anderson is still going. Course, 40 years going. Of course, hes 40 years old, right . Well, go. Well, there you go. Well, there you go. Can we talk about the football, the womens football, because china because theyve got china to this morning. Midday, high noon they have midday, high noon down in front of down in adelaide in front of 13,500 people. Now, its strange , this one, because if you win your first two matches in a group stage, normally thats enough to see you through. But its not quite enough for england yet. Just because their record almost identical record is almost identical to chinas and there is a situation where if they lose today by two goals to nil and denmark beat haiti, then england would actually plane home, actually be on the plane home, which would be very, very harsh considering have taken six considering they have taken six points nine. I mean, its points out of nine. I mean, its possible in some of those groups situations, possible situations, its possible to get through points. It through on four points. So it just would seem very, very strange england would out strange if england would go out because got because of that. Theyve got a problem. Obviously, walsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured obviously, walsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured with usly, walsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured with a sly, walsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured with a knee walsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured with a knee injuryalsh because of that. Theyve got a prinjured with a knee injury. Sh is injured with a knee injury. Sanna is injured with a knee injury. Sarina wiegman says that shes confident they can go on confident that they can go on without her. Shes not been ruled the entire ruled out for the entire tournament. Dont know tournament. They just dont know exactly. Time frame exactly. Theres no time frame on to going return. On when shes to going return. So, yes, we had 23in the squad. Weve now got 22. You have to make, do mend. There make, make, do and mend. There are no, no, no. Top coaches ever give excuses like that. You know, youve got move on with know, youve got to move on with it. Theres a job do it. And theres a job to do still. Theyve got to get through itll a through that. And itll be a huge shame went out in huge shame if they went out in the group stage. Having arrived in european champions. Well, best of luck to them today. Just very, very today. And just very, very quickly, kane, bayern quickly, harry kane, bayern munich, theyre set to break their record and they their transfer record and they are indeed. £85 million. So this yeah. £85 million. So this will bid for harry will be a third bid for harry kane. These officials go kane. These officials wont go home theyre not home from london. Theyre not going they take harry going home until they take harry kane them. And as i said at kane with them. And as i said at the start of the end of last week, i felt there would be a resolution and resolution this week. And i think harry go to think well see harry kane go to germany, right . I really do. Which will be sad in some ways, but for him. But probably good for him. Think he to go i dont think he wants to go anyway. My take on things. 600 grand a week. 600 grand a week. You i think he probably wants to go. Be fair, ill go for to go. To be fair, ill go for half that. Yeah, bet you half that. Yeah, i bet you would, adrian. Very indeed. Good thanks very much indeed. Good to you. To see you. Do you stay with us now, do you stay with us because nigel is calling because nigel farage is calling for formal apology from coots for a formal apology from coots after agreed to after the bank agreed to reinstate accounts. Be reinstate his accounts. Well be discussing we go through discussing that as we go through the thats next 641 morning. Lets have a look at the front pages for you. Well start with the telegraph has a new study that suggests lock down harmed nearly half of children in the times. Shoplifters will face prison sentences under a new crime crackdown. The express has a warning to banks to stop ripping off savers i and finally, in the guardian , it was a fairy tale ending for stuart broad as england seal a draw in the ashes oh, there you go. Now lets go through the papers in a bit more detail then this morning with former lib dem minister norman baker and columnist for conservative home. And one of ours, of course, emily carver. Good good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, norman. Good morning, norman. Lets start off with the guardian. Should we and farage and coots . And coots . Well, i mean, this has been a roller coaster story, hasnt it, for a few days. And it appears that nigel has been successful in keeping his accounts. We dont know the full facts even now. And perhaps we shouldnt do. Its a personal matter between him and his bank. But what appears to be the case, however, is that koch took action reasons. I think. Action for two reasons. I think. One is that nigel apparently didnt their commercial didnt meet their commercial limit in terms of how much he had in his bank account, which was a legitimate bank issue. And the other one, of course, is that it appeared to take a view on his personal political views, which totally inappropriate. Which is totally inappropriate. So fact keeping his so the fact hes keeping his accounts, i think is useful. Accounts, i think is useful. Hes now demanding an apology from the bank and wants to meet their top guys. Of course , weve their top guys. Of course, weve already had two people resign from the bank. Hes had an apology, hasnt he . Hes had an apology of sorts. He wants to meet the entire board, i think, or to have his say. Obviously milking it say. Hes obviously milking it slightly. In a i cant slightly. And in a way, i cant blame him because its been embarrassing have bank embarrassing to have your bank details across. Embarrassing to have your bank det it s across. Embarrassing to have your bank det it would across. Embarrassing to have your bank det it would quiteiss. Embarrassing to have your bank det it would quite the it would be quite the climbdown if he is offered his coutts bank account because of course dame alison rose. She in her letter said, oh, well continue to offer you a natwest account , which obviously isnt account, which obviously isnt as high status and wasnt the bank account that he once had. So yes, this would be quite the turn of events. But nigel farage turn of events. But nigel farage is not to be messed with. Dont you think nigel but dont you think nigel farage of this farage has come out of this very, very well . He has a huge amount he has he has a huge amount of it. Hes of coverage for it. Hes apparently hes almost won what he to win, which is he wanted to win, which is keeping and getting keeping it account and getting a lot coverage. Hes raised lot of coverage. Hes raised a genuine issue about whether the bank be able shut bank should be able to shut peoples because peoples accounts because of their the their political views. The government his government is following in his trail and doing what he wants effectively. So, yes, hes a very good crisis, you like. Very good crisis, if you like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Emily, lets go to you, shall we . Front page of the we . The front page of the mirror. This fury, as the mirror. And this is fury, as the prime allows oil Prime Minister allows more oil and wells. Yes. And gas wells. Yes. This was always going to be the case. Rishi sunak has the case. So rishi sunak has given green light to new given the green light to new drilling, new licences in the nonh drilling, new licences in the north sea for oil and gas. Lots of people arent very happy with this, unsurprisingly, not just Just Stop Oil activists, but people within his own party. Chris , for example, chris skidmore, for example, said this is the wrong decision at the wrong time. The mirror is at the wrong time. The mirror is calling these Energy Giants greedy and that they shouldnt be given these new licences, as some people are pointing out, that this wont necessarily improve our Energy Security because we actually essentially have to buy back the gas that we put into the system. So it may not actually make bring our bills down because its sold on the market. Then we bring it back in. But well, it may not bnng back in. But well, it may not bring it down, but surely it should provide us with more security, more security. I meant security, more security. I meant in terms of bills, it wont necessarily bring the bills down, terms of security, down, but in terms of security, yes, youre right. It may well improve it. And also, theres a lot people in scotland who lot of people in scotland who are about the are deeply concerned about the number that could have number of jobs that could have been if government been lost if the government didnt give green light to didnt give the green light to new licences. And of it new licences. And of course, it can be taxed and used for our green transition. Weve got an opportunity to invest heavily in renewables in this country, renewables. Were almost blessed with for almost blessed with options for renewables , not just offshore renewables, not just offshore wind and onshore wind , but tidal wind and onshore wind, but tidal power, power , even power, wave power, even Geothermal Power in cornwall. Geothermal power in cornwall. And this is where the futures going to be. This is a regressive step, and i have to say that the worst thing about it, in my view, is the reason hes doing this and the reason hes doing this and the reason hes picking traffic hes picking on low traffic neighbourhoods hes picking on low traffic neiinsourhoods hes picking on low traffic neiins because the tories are else is because the tories are in freefall in terms of election and in terms of Electoral Prospects in the next election. And he found a slither of hope in the uxbridge by election where because of ulez and the mayors scheme, he had the opportunity to say, ah, here we are. Heres a way we can get back at labour. And i think a lot of what hes doing now is simply finding an argument to try a vote basis. Try and find a vote basis. Norman i dont, i dont necessarily think youre right. Many experts are saying that were going to need gas and oil for quite a longer to for quite a lot longer to support transition to green support our transition to green energy. We cant be risking the lights going out. And weve seen how High Energy Bills have gone up. Have a baseload up. We need to have a baseload we have the nuclear that we dont have the nuclear that we dont have the nuclear that we should currently. So what are you suggest . Were not you going to suggest . Were not going of energy going to get all of our energy from turbines or from Wind Turbines or geothermal. We need have gas. Geothermal. We need to have gas. Getting well, first of we are getting well, first of all, a lot of gas comes in pipelines. Its cleaner pipelines. Its a lot cleaner than the north sea. Than gas from the north sea. Secondly, 80 the stuff secondly, 80 of the stuff produced sea is produced in the north sea is exported. Not for our own exported. Its not for our own use anyway. Thirdly, theres no suggestion down suggestion of shutting down existing fields, will existing fields, which will keep us 2050. That us going until 2050. In that transitional period. But its not about and gas. Its not just about oil and gas. Its about low traffic about a low traffic neighbourhoods. About the neighbourhoods. Its about the other stuff hes doing. Hes trying a wedge issue trying to find a wedge issue between and labour, trying to find a wedge issue betvits| and labour, trying to find a wedge issue betvits playing and labour, trying to find a wedge issue betvits playing politics labour, trying to find a wedge issue betvits playing politics with jr, and its playing politics with the planet and i think thats pretty disgraceful. Is youve got but the point is youve got to to the people, havent to listen to the people, havent you . You look you you . And clearly you look at you look and south look at uxbridge and South Ruislip clearly the people ruislip well, clearly the people care mean, the care about that. I mean, the tories should have lost that seat by a big margin. Well, almost lose it. Well, he almost did lose it. Of 7000 votes but of course, 7000 votes down. But i mean, the mayor mishandled it, to perfectly frank with you, to be perfectly frank with you, that was largely air that was largely about air pollution quality rather pollution and air quality rather than Climate Change. But i think, know, the think, you know, the conservative leadership is looking a way find looking for a way to find a wedge issue help them with wedge issue to help them with the election. And theyve the next election. And theyve landed on net zero on the environment. I dont think help with i dont think ltns help with pollution really. No, they dont. No, they dont. They just they just they just push. They just push congestion to other roads. Yes, be if you yes, it might be nice if you happen live on one those happen to live on one of those quiet residential roads now, but for its absolute for everyone else its absolute gridlock. Em em elm okay, norman, lets have a look shoplifter in the times. Look at shoplifter in the times. Yes well, going back to my experience as a home office minister, say that the minister, i have to say that the way deal with reducing crime way you deal with reducing crime is twofold. First of all, you have to have the belief amongst those who will commit crime that they will be caught. They have to believe theyll be caught and thats a disincentive to commit crime , not actually the length crime, not actually the length of a sentence. Likelihood of a sentence. Its a likelihood of a sentence. Its a likelihood of caught. Secondly, of being caught. Secondly, you have to invest in the police and make sure the police their make sure the police do their job and there are job properly. And there are a whole crimes are whole lot of crimes which are now not pursued by the now not being pursued by the police. Saw figures the police. We saw figures of the day showing youve got day showing that youve got a chance of getting with chance of getting away with a burglary across the burglary across half the country. So thats the issue, is Getting Police to their getting the police to do their job properly giving people getting the police to do their job prop that giving people getting the police to do their job prop that if giving people getting the police to do their job prop that if theying people getting the police to do their job prop that if they do people getting the police to do their job prop that if they do breake the fear that if they do break the fear that if they do break the theyll be caught. And the law, theyll be caught. And actually length of a prison actually the length of a prison sentence is a way neither sentence is in a way neither here nor there. Point. Fair point. Fair point. Yes, very, very few shoplifters caught. There shoplifters get caught. There are statistics. Are some shocking statistics. Something terrible Something Like 3. Yes terrible shoplifting actually shoplifting lifters. Actually get charged. So you get caught and charged. So you have shopkeepers who sadly dont know what to do because unless they have hire very expensive private security, nothings going to happen and theyll continue to be robbed. It really is a state of affairs. Is a bad state of affairs. Yeah, well, we have the co op on the programme the other day who there a thousand who said there were a thousand incidents day happening. Incidents a day happening. Thats shocking in terms of shoplifting. And its not just individuals. Its gangs, individuals. Its now gangs, criminal gangs that are targeting and very few of targeting shops and very few of those are actually investigated i so its so its a free hit. You go and you steal something even if youre caught, youre youre caught, even if youre caught cctv, the police will caught on cctv, the police will do nothing about it half the time. Yeah. Time. And|. Time. And the dont get and the public dont get involved anymore because obviously of weapons. You wouldnt it, would you wouldnt risk it, would you . You wouldnt risk it, would you no, you wouldnt risk it. No, you wouldnt risk it. No, you wouldnt risk it. Okay, look, weve got to leave there for now. Leave it there for now. Emily, norman, thank both emily, norman, thank you both very indeed. Well see you very much indeed. Well see you a little bit later on. Much. Thanks very much. Thanks very much. As been now, as weve been discussing, many of us are worried the increase worried about the increase in alcohol many products. Alcohol duty. For many products. But the governments keen to stress brexit. Pubs stress that its brexit. Pubs guarantee that comes force guarantee that comes into force today. Theres this new sort of taxes on alcohol, but the brexit pub guarantee should mean if youre buying a of draught youre buying a pint of draught beer your local well , beer down your local well, youre not going to pay any extra for it. Theres going to be big difference be quite a big difference between that and what you pay in the well, roads and local well, roads and local transport richard transport minister Richard Holden us now. Good holden joins us now. Good morning to you, richard. Very morning to you, richard. Very good to see you this morning. I mean, this is the biggest single rise in alcohol duty for 50 years. This is going to severely impact the Hospitality Industry, an industry that was decimated dunng an industry that was decimated during covid. Do you want to damage the Hospitality Industry . Well, this 7 well, this is . Well, this is off the back of yet another freeze that weve had on on on alcohol duties. And that was from february all the way through to now. And weve frozen alcohol duties for a very long period of time. And today is actually part of a really big reform, which means that actually youre not going to see the price of a pint up in the price of a pint going up in your local pub due to our new draught beer duty relief, something have something that we couldnt have done the done when we were in the European Union. That differential now between what you in the supermarket on you pay in the supermarket on terms tax and what you pay in terms of tax and what you pay in a pub is now its gone up from 5 to 9. 2. So it is a big differential, al, and its a big increase in terms of that that difference in tax level. Also so for a lot of products weve had very different alcohol duties across the board for about 150 years. Again we couldnt change those where we were in the eu , those where we were in the eu, but instead what were now going to do is have alcohol duty basically based on the percentage of alcohol in your dnnks percentage of alcohol in your drinks that means for a lot of products like prosecco, for example , and canned drinks with example, and canned drinks with mixers in so you know a vodka and coke or a gin and tonic in a can actually the duty on those products will come down because weve had this really quite weird system which was very much based on individual drinks rather than on the percentage of alcohol in them. So for a lot of products, actually, youre going to a tax reduction today, to see a tax reduction today, which i think is really important, particularly for those sparkling those new english sparkling wine producers, really producers, which has really taken off in large parts of the south england. So thats very south of england. So thats very good for them. Also in terms good for them. And also in terms of cider, that gets on an even keel with other products as well. So i think, yes , weve well. So i think, yes, weve obviously had to take difficult decisions and more broadly, but i think on the specifics, when people drill down into it, theyll see that the new system makes more sense than the makes much more sense than the old one. Makes much more sense than the old well, the wine and spirit well, the wine and Spirit Trade Association saying trade association is saying essentially going to see essentially youre going to see on bottle wine, youre on a bottle of wine, youre going about an increase going to see about an increase of around £0. 53 when you include vat £0. 44 in duty and then goes up to £0. 53 with with vat on top. That doesnt raise a lot of money for the treasury. Well it doesnt raise a lot of money for the treasury, does it . 200 and odd Million Pounds. Thats nothing. So why are you doing it . I mean , is this about it . I mean, is this about preventing people or trying to put off people from drinking more than they should and no, this is two big things here. One is to have that sensible limits so that what youre doing is actually so, for example , a is actually so, for example, a prosecco, which might be say, 9, will be paying up to 90 1pa will be paying up to 901pa bottle less tax. And under the bottle less tax. And under the old system , um, a bottle of old system, um, a bottle of prosecco would pay the same as fortified wine in terms of tax. And what weve done is weve said we want to do is have lower taxes on lower alcohol products and higher and a graduated tax on higher alcohol products because it just didnt make any sense for that to be the case in fact, particularly for drinks that women like, like prosecco predominantly or some of those canned drinks that people like they were really disproportionately taxed on. The broader thing weve also wanted to try and help pubs particularly by ensuring that their tax levels are kept lower. So thats why weve got that deferral. Now between the tax and the duty you pay on, can you buy from the supermarket and a duty you pay in the pub . Thats duty you pay in the pub . Thats a big brexit benefit for pubs because now we can now charge a lower amount on draught than we did before, where we had to, under eu rules, have the same tax on whether it was sold in the supermarket or in a pub. So basically were saying a very simple system in terms of a higher percentage. Then you pay more. But in terms of pubs, we can now have that differential because we realise and we recognise you know, ive got a lot of pubs in my own constituency, pubs and clubs. I want them to see as many of the benefits as possible. So were keeping their duty despite inflation, were keeping their duty basically at the same level as before for and its only the other products which are going up in price. The things you get from the supermarket in order to help our hospitality sector after what has been a pretty difficult you my difficult time. You know, my first was a local pub first job was in a local pub and i really hope that that sector now will see some of the benefits of this because i want people to be out and about socialising, easing. And if we can that in a sensible way, can do that in a sensible way, then i think this is good plan then i think this is a good plan for future. For the future. I wanted to ask you about one of rishi sunak five key pledges, which is to stop the boats. Many which is to stop the boats. Many would not going very would say its not going very well mean no rwanda well, is it . I mean no rwanda plans. Planes have taken off so plans. Planes have taken off so far. The cruise ships that were meant to be used to house Asylum Seekers, they werent allowed to dock. And now the bibby stockholm barge getting just 50 people onto that barge has now been delayed. How difficult is been delayed. How difficult is it to get 50 people onto a barge . Well, 7 well, look, 7 well, look, i 7 well, look, i mean, weve been fighting tooth and nail in that building just behind me to try and get these immigration measures through, to tighten up. Weve been opposed 72 times by the labour party on it. Weve got this court case around the rwanda plan, which were continuing to pursue. You know, continuing to pursue. You know, im that going im confident that were going to Illegal Migrants taking to see Illegal Migrants taking off from the uk at some point, but we to go through the but we have to go through the Legal Process on that. I want to see us do everything that we possibly can to people out possibly can to get people out of hotels and stop coming across the channel in those small boats. Okay. Richard holden, really okay. Richard holden, really good to talk to you. Thank you. Lets get a check on the weather. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Looks like things are heating up with boxt boilers proud sponsors of weather on gb news is morning. Is morning. Alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall, a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious everywhere. A of cloud everywhere. Quite a lot of cloud this morning northwest this morning over northwest england, Northern England, parts of northern ireland, wales, further ireland, north wales, further outbreaks rain here and some outbreaks of rain here and some showers southern scotland, showers in southern scotland, too. In this zone, we will keep too. In this zone, we will keep a the day. A few showers through the day. The further south, but the odd one further south, but some spells and some brighter spells here and across much of central and northern see northern scotland. Well see a bit of sunshine coming through. Still of breeze blowing, still a bit of a breeze blowing, but probably feeling still a bit of a breeze blowing, butwarmer probably feeling still a bit of a breeze blowing, butwarmer than ably feeling still a bit of a breeze blowing, butwarmer than yesterday. G bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures, though, still mostly average mostly around or below average for time of year and down to for the time of year and down to the southwest. Look this more the southwest. Look at this more wet coming this is wet weather coming in. This is going on the heavy side as going to be on the heavy side as well as it spreads in through this evening across the south west, into parts of south west, then into parts of wales and its an area of low pressure dominate our pressure that will dominate our weather tonight. And weather through tonight. And most this line of most of tomorrow. This line of rain northwards then rain sweeps northwards and then kind grind to a kind of likely to grind to a halt wednesday. Will halt during wednesday. It will bnng halt during wednesday. It will bring some milder air. So bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across south for night across the south for further could dip into further north. We could dip into single in some rural single figures in some rural spots, but mostly its about the rain wind tomorrow rain and the wind tomorrow getting the getting quite blustery along the south seasonably south coast and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers here staying across parts staying fairly wet across parts of england , southern of Northern England, southern scotland, brighter spells scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, but with the winds coming in from north or the east, in from the north or the east, it not going be it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high 20s at best, high teens, low 20s at best, looks like things are heating up i boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news stay with us. Us. Weve got more on that. Good morning. 7 00 on good morning. 7 00 on tuesday, the 1st of august. Today the biggest single rise in alcohol duty for 50 years. The Hospitality Industry is warning. The £225 million tax rise that comes into force today could cripple business. This under new measures , tax this under new measures, tax will be levied according to a dnnks will be levied according to a drinks strength, meaning a bottle of wine could cost up to 20 more for overnight, the home offices plan to house 50 migrants on a barge in dorset has been delayed following last minute talks over fire safety. Minute talks over fire safety. Nigel farage says cootes has offered to reinstate his accounts following talks with the new chief of the bank. The gb news presenter is seeking compensation and a formal apology. Apology. In case you missed it and well bring you the latest forecast with alex after such a wet july the 1st of august does promise something a little drier for most of us today, but its not really going to last more wet and windy weather to come tonight. And tomorrow. Join me later for a full weather update. Good morning to you. Im stephen dixon. Im stephen dixon. And im ellie costello. And im ellie costello. And im ellie costello. And this is breakfast on. And this is breakfast on. Gb news. Lots of you are getting in touch on that alcohol duty rise today. Jenny from bishops waltham, weve got the right name for this story. She says he cheers us up. The Prime Minister by making sensible moves away from the idiotic net zero obsession. But then slaps more tax on alcohol. Does he want to lose alcohol. Does he want to lose the election . The election . Yes. Yes. Yes. Its. Do you know what . This is fascinating, though, because weve just talked to a government minister who said this is great news for the Hospitality Industry because in effect, therell be no change in pnces effect, therell be no change in prices on on draught beer. But Everything Else seems. What was he saying was getting a bit cheaper as well. Something like if you buy those mixer cans , you if you buy those mixer cans, you know, a gin and tonic or whatever in a can that should actually get cheaper because its all based on how much alcohol is in whatever you buy rather than what it is. So hes spinning it as a good line and maybe it is good for pubs, maybe it will drive more of us to the pub than rather than buying it from the supermarket and sitting at home with a bottle of wine. Thing i would have so one thing i would have liked asked him, we liked to have asked him, we didnt was i think didnt have time was i think many people would see this as a sexist because wine, sexist tax because wine, gin, vodka , spirits, even cream, vodka, spirits, even cream, sherry , theyve all gone up in sherry, theyve all gone up in price , whereas a draught beer price, whereas a draught beer you can get cheaper. I think many people would say thats sexist, but he did say, didnt he . He did say that things like prosecco, which could be cheaper and the mixer drinks the canned canned mixers which he said a lot of ladies prefer to drink. Lot of ladies prefer to drink. Hes not wrong there. Hes not wrong there. Well be getting cheaper. But its interesting because the spin from from the Hospitality Business is this is terrible news. Yeah. So id love to know what you think about all of this because maybe it will just get us down to the pub using the pub a bit more, not actually paying any more for a pint or a shandy or a shandy if youre that way inclined in the ladies glass. Do you remember that it was always good to have a pint or or a half was a ladys glass . Yeah, thats was a ladys glass . Yeah, thats a bit sexist, isnt it, really . Thats true. Actually. Thats true. Actually. It was in the old days. It was in the old days. Bernard and salford isnt happy. Bernard and salford isnt happy. He the government happy. He says the government raises taxes to get more money in, but then they spend. They waste loads on covid and last but not least, on migrants. I like a nice red wine in the evening, having worked all of my life from the age of 15 and not one day on strike. Im 76 and for the first time in my life im not going to vote. Yeah. Yeah. I dont know. But this £225 million, this is going to raise. Oh, its not a lot of to raise. Oh, its not a lot of money. I mean, its not literally peanuts, but no one. No ones going to notice a difference. Excuse me, but is it difference. Excuse me, but is it all about keeping us healthier or, you know, not having not drinking as much at home, not having those those sort of alcohol related problems which cost the nhs an awful lot of money . Bernard also says we waste government money on things like the military. Oh, really . I like the military. Oh, really . I dont think id agree with you on that. But but there you go. Each to their own. Anyway, all each to their own. Anyway, all this in the wake of the fact that alcohol duty is seeing, in effect, the biggest single increase in 50 years. And hospitality chiefs are saying that this could cripple the industry. Industry. Yes. The Prime Minister has hailed the changes which will see drink taxed according to its strength as the most radical simplification of the duty in over a century made possible, he says, because of brexit, i could probably do with a drink myself this morning. But the Wine Spirits Trade Association says the government is inflation and is inflicting inflation and misery on people. Our east misery on people. Our east Midlands Reporter will hollis has more. Has more. When youre in the business of helping brits get leathered, theres no better place to set up a brewery than an old leather factory. Factory. When you drink too much beer, you get a pot belly. So we call it pot belly brewery, pot belly has been brewing beer here in kettering for nearly 20 years with ian as head brewer selling barrels and bottles. Hes seeing a shift in sales i years ago, we delivered big barrels, 144 pints, but theres too much now. Nobody will touch one of these. A lot of pubs that ideal one of these. A lot of pubs that i deal with want the little ones with 36 pints because its cheaper and it lasts twice as long from grain to glass. Long from grain to glass. A single brew takes a week. A single brew takes a week. This one just in time to be taxed under the new system. From taxed under the new system. From today, duty will be measured on booze of all kinds, using alcohol by volume. A simplified tax on strength. Meanwhile a new draught relief dubbed the brexit pubs guarantee lowers the price of a pint by up to £0. 11, compared to supermarkets, according to the treasury. But the new system puts potbelly in a pickle. The beer here in the pint glass is exactly the same as the one in the bottle. Its just that the duty is calculated differently now under the new rules , the bottle costs about an rules, the bottle costs about an extra £0. 30 in duty and the government is making them more expensive because ultimately they want drinkers to choose to dnnk they want drinkers to choose to drink weaker beers in the pub rather than stronger ones at home. Greg says the system will squeeze businesses like his. The price is on a barrel of beer should remain fairly constant. The one anomaly is when you then dispense beers in less than 20l, so. So anything less than 20l, so. So anything thatis less than 20l, so. So anything that is in a small ten litre box or in a bottle of beer, the price is then doubled in the duty side of it. Duty side of it. Emma is chief exec at the british beer and pub association. She says that the reforms mean the industry will pay reforms mean the industry will pay an extra £224 million in tax at a time of high production costs. Beer duty, unfortunately, is still one of the highest in the whole of europe. Here in the uk and we hope that some of these changes will incent devise people to be brewing lower strength beers to help consumers moderate their consumption. But unfortunately consumption. But unfortunately we probably wont see a much difference in prices at this moment time in terms of moment in time in terms of lowering them at the pub, the cost of and cans at home cost of beers and cans at home are going to be increased some 10. 1 because of the changes that are being introduced today. Back at the brewery, sam, the teams youngest, is on clean up. My favourite job of the day, digging out the hops, out the coppen digging out the hops, out the copper. Its a its a bit warm in there and dirty , but. Its in there and dirty, but. Its one of them. Jobs have got to be done, im afraid. Washing away the old duty is gone. Its replacement needs to pump up the industry rather than drain it dry. Will hollis gb news in kettering. News in kettering. Well, earlier the government told us the changes will actually help hospitality seco, for example , and canned drinks for example, and canned drinks with mixers in so you know a vodka and coke or a gin and tonic in a can actually the duty on those products will come down because weve had this really quite weird system which was very much based on individual dnnks very much based on individual drinks rather than on the percentage of alcohol in them. So for a lot of products, actually, youre going to see a tax reduction today. Tax reduction today. Oh its interesting. So oh yeah. Its interesting. So which side of the fence do you fall on on that . Tony says people drink at because people drink at home because they afford to go out. In they cant afford to go out. In my view, this just seems like another way to separate people from money. Maybe they can from their money. Maybe they can afford to go out, tony, because its going cheaper than its going to be cheaper than than staying in, if you know what i mean. If you drink pints. Yes, that if you drink pints. Yes, that is. Andy agrees and says the is. Andy agrees and says the increase in alcohol duty is just another attack on the working class purse. It has nothing to class purse. It has nothing to do with the health of the nation, richard says. Its things like which its things like this which make relieved. I dont drink. Make relieved. I dont drink. Yeah, well, it does. Lets talk yeah, well, it does. Lets talk to the former adviser to the chief secretary to the treasury, leon amaral, whos here. Good morning. Morning. Who do you believe on this then . Well see. I see benefits in both of those arguments. You know, i think the government have tried to simplify alcohol duty for too long. Its been quite complicated. We have different dufies complicated. We have different duties ciders, duties for beers, ciders, spirits,. Now theyve spirits, etcetera. Now theyve standardised it and the duty is based on how much alcohol is in each beverage. So i think on that side the idea is that we deter people from drinking too much, deter people from people from particularly from drinking, particularly strong then on the strong drinks. But then on the other does seem to be other hand, it does seem to be a hit on peoples pockets because the cost of a bottle of wine could be up to as much as £0. 75 a bottle, which in the middle of a bottle, which in the middle of a cost of living crisis in the middle of inflation continuing to know, thats to rise. You know, thats another extra cost for another bit of an extra cost for people who just want enjoy people who just want to enjoy a dnnk people who just want to enjoy a drink at the end of the day. So i think there is pros and cons to this, but ultimately i think theres going to be a lot of people who are going to be disappointed people who are going to be disiiipointed people who are going to be dis. | mean,d people who are going to be dis. | mean, the treasury has i mean, the treasury has described the changes as designed to help the Hospitality Industry par with industry kind of be on par with the of prices that wed see the kind of prices that wed see in a supermarket but the in a supermarket market. But the hospitality not hospitality sector, theyre not very this all, very happy about this at all, are theyre theyre are they . Theyre saying theyre already under pressure with inflation business rates, inflation and business rates, national the rest, contributions, all the rest, theyre to raise theyre going to have to raise theyre going to have to raise the prices alcohol. Theyre the prices of alcohol. Theyre going have to pass on to going to have to pass it on to customers. Arent they . Going to have to pass it on to custheys. Arent they . Going to have to pass it on to custheys. A|and they . Going to have to pass it on to custheys. A|and i1ey . Going to have to pass it on to custheys. A|and i think this is they are. And i think this is part of problem with this part of the problem with this policy. Its intended. Policy. Its well intended. And i think of getting i think the idea of getting people actually into pubs is a good one. And, you know, people away necessarily drinking away from necessarily drinking in and into in their homes and get them into pubs, thats but there pubs, thats great. But there are bigger issues at are far more bigger issues at play are far more bigger issues at play here for pubs. The cost of energy, for example, is huge energy, for example, is a huge one. Business are another one. Business rates are another one. Business rates are another one where, you know, a of one where, you know, a lot of businesses with. One where, you know, a lot of buzlnesses with. One where, you know, a lot of bu | think; with. One where, you know, a lot of bu | think there with. One where, you know, a lot of bu | think there are with. One where, you know, a lot of bu | think there are biggerth. So i think there are bigger things the government can be doing to support the Hospitality Industry to just industry as opposed to just changes tinkering to alcohol changes and tinkering to alcohol duty. I the duty. So, you know, i admire the intention, think the intention, but i think the execution potentially is a little off. Right. Little bit off. Right. Well, keep your thoughts coming one. In coming through on that one. In the meantime , same as weve got the meantime, same as weve got you here. Weve had you here. Weve just had the latest house prices through , latest house prices through, according nationwide house according to nationwide house prices, average uk house prices, the average uk house prices, the average uk house price down 3. 8 year on year from this july to last july. Well, its no surprise really when you consider Interest Rates have been rising and people are maybe looking at what they can afford and how much it would cost them to borrow for a mortgage and are saying, actually, lets put things on hold. So that doesnt come as a huge surprise. But still, there huge surprise. But still, there is the average price of a home, £260,000, just over £260,000. Its still high. And the reason for that is because we arent building enough homes in this country. Theres too much demand, not enough supply. And i think until thats redressed, were always to were always going to have a slightly inflated market. But if you a first time and you are a First Time Buyer and youre looking these figures youre looking at these figures , a little bit of , maybe theres a little bit of positivity prices positivity and that house prices are falling. But for everyone else, it seems to be, you, your, your goes down. So your asset goes down. So whatever you go into reflects that. Whatever you go into reflects that. So i whatever you go into reflects that. So i think its no real surprise that theyve gone down a little bit. A little bit. Wanted to ask you lee, i wanted to ask you about the astonishing turn of events, really, which is nigel farage being re ranked after being. Being debunked. Well, last week we were talking about nigel farage losing account this losing his bank account this week talking about him week were talking about him getting back. Getting his bank account back. And its just been an and i think its just been an extraordinary u turn. Weve extraordinary re u turn. Weve seen the of natwest losing seen the ceo of natwest losing her job, seen the ceo of natwest losing herjob, natwest being seen the ceo of natwest losing her job, natwest being the company that owns coots, the ceo of coots , losing their job over of coots, losing their job over this and i think, you know, nigel farage has come out of this made mockery of really this made a mockery of really what trying do what theyve been trying to do as they tried to get rid of nigel to their nigel farage to bolster their reputation. All theyve done is reputation. All theyve done is trashed their reputation, and they may be back in the they may well be back in the same place they were anyway, with nigel them as with nigel banking with them as he before. So i think its he was before. So i think its shone a spotlight as well. On the de banking, the practise of de banking, which he to achieve. Well, this is i think this is the moving forward, isnt the thing moving forward, isnt it . Theres all focus it . And theres all this focus on nigel fair play to him is on nigel and fair play to him is brought a spotlight onto this situation. But are we any clearer what is going on with the thousands of people so were told who are de banking every year and not all for political reasons. Of course therell be reasons. Of course therell be a whole host of reasons, but the problem seems to be that banks can just do it and dont have to tell you whats going on. Yeah, and i think we arent any closer at the minute. Stephen but what nigels campaign done effectively campaign has done effectively is made this made people understand that this is and even if it is going on and even if it doesnt affect i think doesnt affect you, i think a lot people look at that and lot of people look at that and think you should always have access a bank account because access to a bank account because you function in you cant really function in society one. And youve Society Without one. And youve got very senior got politicians now, very senior politicians prime politicians from the Prime Minister looking at minister downwards looking at this, these this, looking into these practises and potentially implementing practises and potentially impleme stop] practises and potentially implemestop people being that can stop people from being debunked. I think this is debunked. So i think this is been quite an illuminati thing period, weve been able to period, where weve been able to see these practises and the pubuc see these practises and the public roundly said its public have roundly said its not on. Okay, leon, good to see you this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank this morning. Thanks very much indeed. Thank you. Now the arrival of the first set of Asylum Seekers on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset has delayed amid fire has been delayed amid fire safety concerns. Well, the home office had been planning to send just 50 migrants to the barge initially , which is currently docked in portland. But thats all been held up following last minute meetings about fire safety. Well, lets speak to gb news, south west of england. Reporter jeff moody, who joins us live live from portland. Good morning to you, jeff. So whats the delay about . Delay about . Good morning. Well, yes, this good morning. Well, yes, this was supposed to be the day, the day that the first of the Asylum Seekers arrive here in Portland Port. Theres a welcome meeting thats been planned by the home office and Dorset Council thats supposed to be taking place on the port at 9 00 this morning. Ive heard that its still happening, which is quite strange considering as the Asylum Seekers arent actually arriving today at all. Originally they were supposed to be 50 of them arriving. Then we heard it was 25. And then fairly late last night we were told that there are none at all coming today, although apparently they are still coming this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. Delay has tomorrow. Well, the delay has been with fire safety. Been to do with fire safety. Were not exactly sure what the issue is, but we do know that wiltshire and Dorset Fire Service have been providing the home office with various bits of guideline and various advice around this issue. And that really is all we know at the moment. One of the more sensational , sensational moment. One of the more sensational, sensational Media Outlets said that the problem was that people are very wary, very wary that this could become another grenfell and that putting that many men on one boatis putting that many men on one boat is a recipe for disaster. Im joined now by alex bailey from no to the barge campaign, whos been campaigning down for here weeks and months now. Alex i feel i know you far too well. You werent invited to this welcome. Im drinks this welcome. Im drinks this morning. Were you . Well , im morning. Were you . Well, im still wondering where the cake is, jeff, but yes, the people of portland, the people of weymouth and the people of weymouth and the people of weymouth and the people of dorset were not ianed people of dorset were not invited to this welcoming event. Would you have expected an invitation . Bearing in mind that invitation . Bearing in mind that youve been campaigning for the barge not to come here and for it not to happen here . Why would they not . Why would they invite you at all . Do you think . So . This was an event organised by Dorset Council and funded the home office with funded by the home office with our taxpayers money. Theyve our the taxpayers money. Theyve ianed our the taxpayers money. Theyve invited various groups , invited various groups, including several unions , to including several unions, to this event. I including several unions, to this event. I would including several unions, to this event. I would hope that this event. I would hope that with our money, with the people , money that we would be invited. And i wonder where my invited. And i wonder where my invite is and where my slice of cake. Its lost in the post. Alex, for now, thank you very much. Well, as i say , we do think that well, as i say, we do think that they will be coming this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. So will be down here so we will still be down here reporting back to you as soon as they arrive. Okay, moody, thank you okay, jeff moody, thank you so much for that update. There in portland. Lets talk to political well, lets talk to political commentator evans, whos commentator suzanne evans, whos here morning to here in the studio. Morning to you. Whether you agree with you. Look whether you agree with the idea of the barge or not, and thats almost a separate issue in a sense, the going ahead with it, 50 people, they still cant hit that target. They still cant make that work. It seems astounding. It seems astounding. Yeah, i mean, its quite astonishing , isnt it . Before astonishing, isnt it . Before you rent out anything you have to have certain Risk Assessments done and a fire Risk Assessment is one of the most crucial things. So i find it quite incredible if reports are correct that this hasnt yet been done, you have to been done, and you have to remember the and remember that under the fire and rescue services of 2004, the rescue services act of 2004, the local fire authorities have the most incredible and arguably draconian powers. They can literally come into a. Com , literally come into a. Com, edation, and they can say , no, edation, and they can say, no, this isnt safe. Everybody out turf you out on the streets and youre not allowed back in to your home. So this is a very serious issue. But but that serious issue. But but that said, this barge has already been used to house Asylum Seekers in the netherlands and in germany. Seekers in the netherlands and in germany. Its seekers in the netherlands and in germany. Its been used for in germany. Its been used for construction workers by the oil and gas company petrofac. And i and gas company petrofac. And i think it was originally planned to also to be used for students in ireland , although that never in ireland, although that never nothing ever, ever came of that. That was scrapped. But that scheme was scrapped. But i think a people might also think a lot of people might also be saying, you its quite be saying, you know, its quite ironic, it, that this is ironic, isnt it, that this is now stopped now being stopped on safety grounds. Its a big ship. Its a stable ship. Its a well stable ship. Its a well equipped ship. And yet the men who are going to be housed in it came on leaky little came across here on leaky little barges leaky little barges and leaky little dinghies. So it its quite an quite an really, that quite an irony, really, that i think isnt isnt on people think isnt isnt lost on people , complaints that , that there are complaints that this massive great secure ship isnt safe when people have risked their lives crossing in dinghy. You make a point. But cheryl says, morning, cheryl. She says, no matter what you think about migrants, their is still migrants, their safety is still important. Important. No, absolutely right. And of course, you cannot have a situation migrants are put situation where migrants are put into accommodation and there has been and been a safety failing and perhaps they die or a seriously injured. I mean , that would not injured. I mean, that would not look good and it would be fundamentally theres fundamentally wrong. Theres absolutely no argument about that. Absolutely no argument about that. I absolutely no argument about that. I do think its interesting, though. I do wonder interesting, though. I do wonder who the and use that who told the times and use that phrase. Is a floating phrase. This is a floating grenfell. Mean, is very i grenfell. I mean, that is very i was going to say incendiary. Thats not the right thats probably not the right word use, its very word to use, but its a very dramatic statement to use and you do wonder how this story actually came about and who has raised the alarm about this. As i say, its very easy to phone up your local fire and rescue service and say, i think theres a problem. Im worried about this. And then, as i say, they can come in and they have very draconian powers be able to draconian powers to be able to close things down. But yeah, so a delay. I cant imagine this wont eventually get up and running that fire Risk Assessment will done. Then assessment will be done. Then there be certain there will be certain recommendations that will have to be into place probably to be put into place probably within time frame. Within a specific time frame. And of course, if those boxes arent ticked, then migrants arent ticked, then the migrants wont allowed on. Yeah. Wont be allowed on. Yeah. Okay. I just have to yeah. Okay. I just have to wait and see, arent we . But its the. Its just the fact that its a sticking plaster solution and even that isnt working. Yeah. Itll last, you know, itll fill up in two days. Arguably with crossings. Yeah. Yeah, it will. Suzanne, good to see you. Thank you very much indeed. Now, lets bring you up to date with the rest of todays top stories. The average uk top stories. And the average uk house price has suffered their worst fall since 2009. Data from the Nationwide Building Society shows house prices fell by 3. 8 annually in july , and the annually in july, and the average house price now sits at £260,000. As you can see from these pictures, a skyscraper in russias capital has been hit again by a drone. It was targeted first on sunday. The mayor of moscow said several other drones were shot down. An Emergency Services were on the scene. Theyre blaming ukraine for the wave of attacks. For the wave of attacks. Food Price Inflation has slowed to its lowest level this year due to falling prices for staples such as oils , fish and staples such as oils, fish and breakfast cereals. Thats according to new figures. Food inflation decelerated by 1. 2 in july, but overall , shop prices july, but overall, shop prices were 7. 6 higher in july than they were a year ago. They were a year ago. On that barge issue, stephens been in touch. Im astonished that the debate regarding this chaps like me, whove worked on barges, rigs and ships all of our lives have never had an issue with fire safety. But i guess its different if you working there and youre trained on these things rather than putting civilians in, as it were. I civilians in, as it were. I mean, you need it to be i think a lot of it is to do with how they get off the boat. That would seem to be the issue. Oh, i see. Yeah. Oh, i see. Yeah. That was whats been raised. But whether someone is just called it in, if you like, and then the, you the fire then the, you know, the fire service has to say, well, we need to let anyone in till need to cant let anyone in till weve done another check. I dont know. Well sue in lincolnshire says obviously home office obviously the home office doesnt people doesnt have the right people doing filtration. And doesnt have the right people doir says, filtration. And doesnt have the right people doirsays, im filtration. And doesnt have the right people doirsays, im notfiltration. And doesnt have the right people doirsays, im not talking|. And doesnt have the right people doirsays, im not talking about she says, im not talking about ministers instance ministers in this instance because there is the suggestion really that the preparation wasnt done thoroughly or properly for these sorts of fire checks, not to have been done. Maybe so we need to get to the bottom of it and we shall try to do that for you. In the meantime, lets check in with alex for a look at your weather. Looks like things are heating up. Boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news morning. Of weather on. Gb news morning. Alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall, a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious everywhere. Of cloud everywhere. Quite a lot of cloud this morning over northwest england, Northern England, parts of northern ireland, wales, further ireland, north wales, further outbreaks here some outbreaks of rain here and some showers scotland , showers in southern scotland, too. In zone, we will keep too. In this zone, we will keep a few showers through the day. The one further south, but the odd one further south, but some spells and some brighter spells here and across central and across much of central and northern well see northern scotland. Well see a bit of sunshine coming through. Still a a breeze blowing, still a bit of a breeze blowing, but overall, probably feeling a bit than yesterday. Bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures, though, still mostly average mostly around or below average for time of year and down to for the time of year and down to the south west. Look this, the south west. Look at this, more weather this more wet weather coming in. This is to be on the heavy side is going to be on the heavy side as well as it spreads in through this evening across the south west, into of south west, then into parts of wales and an area of low wales and its an area of low pressure that will dominate our weather and weather through tonight. And most tomorrow. This of most of tomorrow. This line of rain northwards then rain sweeps northwards and then kind to a kind of likely to grind to a halt during wednesday. It will bnngin halt during wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across the south, further north, we could dip into single figures some spots, but figures in some rural spots, but mostly about the rain and mostly its about the rain and the tomorrow getting quite the wind. Tomorrow getting quite blustery south coast blustery along the south coast and windy, heavy and seasonably windy, some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across of northern across parts of Northern England, southern scotland , some england, southern scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland , probably not seeing scotland, probably not seeing too but with the too much rain, but with the winds coming in from the north or it is not going to or the east, it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high low 20s at best. High teens, low 20s at best. It looks like things are heating up, boxt boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Now, do you stay with us as the Prime Minister pledges to max out the uks fossil fuel reserves, well debate whether nonh reserves, well debate whether north sea drilling will destroy britains climate commitments. Thats. Next it is 728. Still to come today, coming up at 8 00, were going to talk to the owner of a pub who says the rise in alcohol duty is actually the last thing he needs at 820. As rishi sunak eyes scrapping inheritance tax to help conserve lviv chances at a general election , well ask. Its the election, well ask. Its the right thing to do. And if the right thing to do. And if the tax is fair. Yeah so do get in touch on those views because then we put them to our guests. Gb views gb news dot com. Dot com. Now rishi sunak has pledged to max out the uks oil and gas reserves as he approved more than 100 new north sea oil and gas licences. Well, the move has prompted condemnation from environmental groups who says its putting a wrecking ball through the uks climate commitments . Climate commitments . Well, joining us for todays debate is monica mccarthy, who says we need to end these projects. And harry wilkinson, who argues that we actually need more gas and oil exploration. Well, good morning to you both. Very, very good to have you with us. Monica, lets start with you. Your stance is we need to stop any new drilling. Stop any new drilling. Yeah, the International Energy agency says the planet already has enough reserves to get us through to net zero and we can only afford to burn 50 of current oil reserves if we dont want to break through the terrifying target of 1. 5 c. And so the un , the un, the un so the un, the un, the un general secretary said it is moral and economic madness to invest in new fossil fuels. So invest in new fossil fuels. So therefore look at the context. Therefore look at the context. Just in the last month we have seen the highest temperature on the planet in 125,000 years and the planet in 125,000 years and the highest co2 in 800,000 years. And the scenes developing in roads and in canada where the wildfires are now 147 times more than the background level of wildfires. And the idea that the wildfires. And the idea that the Prime Minister would announce in response to that that instead of fiddling while rome burns, this nero is actually throwing oil on the fire. All right , the fire. All right, harry, the fire. All right , harry, how do we all right, harry, how do we respond to that then . Because its one thing to talk about plugging a gap as we as we head towards net zero. But if. Uk is right and that gap is already plugged, then what are we playing at . Well, i think the reality here is that we still need fossil fuels for about 75 of our energy needs. So we will need so much more oil and gas regardless that can either come from domestic supplies or it can come from countries like qatar, russia , places where we cant russia, places where we cant necessarily rely on the political situation. So its supporting jobs here in the uk compared to being relying, being reliant on other countries. So its absolutely vital that we do support those jobs. If people want to say no new oil and gas here in the uk, then they should explain why we should pay Higher Energy prices as a result, why they think its acceptable just to cut off jobs. Mainly in to cut off jobs. Mainly in scotland. Theres about 200,000 jobs that rely on the oil and gas industry in scotland. And so those people would just lose their jobs and the those people would just lose theirjobs and the industry their jobs and the industry would disappear. Yeah, without those sort of skills being changed for maybe the Green Industries of the future, you know, there just wont be time and well have lost those jobs before people can find new industries. Industries. Okay. Jonica, on the way to green energy, 75 of our needs, energy needs come from fossil fuels. So as harry says, you import it or we use our own. Doesnt that just make sense . No , what we do is we actually no, what we do is we actually create our own green energy. And whats extraordinary the whats extraordinary is the Prime Minister claiming he Prime Minister claiming that he wants green energy wants to produce green energy is maintained putting on the maintained, putting a ban on the cheapest form energy, which cheapest form of energy, which is wind. We are the only is onshore wind. We are the only country in the world that has banned the cheapest form of energy, i. E. Onshore wind. And secondly, the prime secondly, what the Prime Minister is proposing to do is invest £20 billion of taxpayers money to fund shell disposing of their Carbon Pollution instead of storing Carbon Dioxide pollution. The Prime Minister decided to invest in storing green energy. Then britain could green energy. Then britain could actually keep our lights on day and night from from fossil from Renewable Energy such as solar and wind. And wind. And what about jobs . What about those 21,000 jobs that are going to be available now in scotland . 21,000 jobs are actually in the oil industry when we could have hundreds of thousands of jobs green industry, have hundreds of thousands of jobs actuallyen industry, have hundreds of thousands of jobs actually is industry, have hundreds of thousands of jobs actually is the ustry, have hundreds of thousands of jobs actually is the industry which actually is the industry of the future. The Prime Minister seems to have responded to the disaster on the world by going full speed ahead with the with the energy thats destroying the planet. This is destroying the planet. This is the greatest act of National Self harm. Um, in 20 years. And self harm. Um, in 20 years. And what we need is a Prime Minister to lead to actually invest in sorry, the person there talked about increasing bills. How do you bring bills down is you invest in cheap green energy and insulation and what the Prime Minister is doing, instead of investing in homes, insulation for poor peoples homes, hes investing in the oil industry. The amount of money hes given away industry in the away to the oil industry in the last year would fund free solar panels and batteries for every single poor household in britain. The there is an argument, harry, in all of this, isnt there, whether and its sort of whether you think this is a good idea or not, that we do need to be looking at things like storage for effectively batteries , a sort of huge scale batteries, a sort of huge scale Battery Storage for the energy that we can produce in a in a more green way. Weve weve got to be looking at that, havent we, if were going to move forward . Well, its not an either or. You know, you can keep open the nonh you know, you can keep open the north sea oil and gas sector while you invest in storage while you invest in storage while you invest renewables, while you invest in renewables, while you invest in renewables, while invest in other while you invest in other technologies. And, you know , technologies. And, you know, this is thats a false choice. This is thats a false choice. Weve just seen a devastating energy crisis. And in which so many people were struggling to be able to afford to heat their homes. If you cut off an industry, then prices will go up as a result. Ive no doubt about that. So when we talk about that. And so when we talk about storage , you look at wind donica storage, you look at wind donica was saying that is the was saying that wind is the cheapest actually cheapest energy, but actually when to back up that when you have to back up that wind, its notorious, highly unreliable. We cant be sure that wind will blow. And you that the wind will blow. And you consider the costs of all that back up, all storage, you back up, all that storage, you know, costs look very know, the costs look very different. And for different. And its for not politicians for even to be politicians or for us even to be able predict the future. You able to predict the future. You know, competition that know, its competition that will drive so much drive prices down. And so much of the decarbonisation agenda has been about state planning. Its about politicians picking which technologies they like. Its not always about what we would like, you know, its about the market and different the market kit and different technologies competing against each reveal which are each other to reveal which are the cheapest. So we need to allow competition to allow that competition to happen. We want to get the happen. If we want to get the pnces prices down. Thats very good well, thats a very good argument us to not invest argument for us to not invest £20 billion in storing the pollution from from harrys oil industry. Lets lets face it. Look 50 years ago, the scientists working for exxon, bp and shell discovered that the fact that Climate Change is a threat to the planet , they threat to the planet, they predicted by 2005 the impacts of burning fossil fuels will start revealing themselves. They will get worse in the 20, and there will be disaster by the 2050s. So what did the oil industry do in response to their own scientists . They decided to do a pr campaign to persuade the planet not to act. They fund groups like like harris multi billionaire American Oil Industry funding disinformation industry funding disinformation in the uk , trying to hijack our in the uk, trying to hijack our policy. We need to take our policy. We need to take our policy back from the Oil Billionaires and invest in peoples homes and peoples Renewable Energy so that people in britain like me, ive got my homes insulated and ive got Renewable Energy and ive got batteries. So for ten and a half months a year, i dont give a single penny to harrys oil industry. Am single penny to harrys oil industry. Am independent. Why industry. I am independent. Why cant for every poor cant we do that . For every poor household britain . Household in britain . Not my oil industry. You its not my oil industry. You know it is zero. Watch does not fund a penny. You dont reveal who funds a watch does who funds . Thats a complete misinformation. Who funds the reason we dont say exactly reason why we dont say exactly who donors are is because, who our donors are is because, i mean, weve just been attacked by Just Stop Oil. They threw paint our offices. You know, paint at our offices. You know, people frightened dip people are frightened to dip their this debate their toes in this debate because of the intolerance of, im afraid, environmental activists who dont like people disagreeing with them. And actually, you know, when were talking the oil industry, talking about the oil industry, there are benefits. So there are disadvantages in terms of the environment. Those are important environment. Those are important that we acknowledge those. But at time, you know , at the same time, you know, theyve achieved huge amounts for we for global prosperity. We wouldnt have the world we know today fossil fuels. And today without fossil fuels. And we have to consider benefits we have to consider the benefits as well as the disadvantages and only talking about the disadvantages misses half of that story. It misses the fact that story. It misses the fact that actually it powers the incredible world that we live in today. The fact that you can travel around world, the travel around the world, the fact can stay warm, we fact that we can stay warm, we can be a studio like this, can be in a studio like this, all these things powered all of these things are powered by fuels. Lets remember by fossil fuels. Lets remember the and of the advantages and some of the Renewable Technologies dont have and have those same benefits. And thats rely on them thats why we dont rely on them as much as maybe might. Thats why we dont rely on them as much as maybe might. Oh, yeah. Okay, look, weve got to leave it there. Harry donica, thank you both very much indeed. Im a view on im sure youve got a view on that. Let us know what you that. Yes. Let us know what you think. Even if youre somewhere in the middle sitting on the fence, good to have fence, still be good to have your gb views your thoughts. Gb views gbnews. Com. Yes we love to hear from you. 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The express has a warning to banks to stop ripping us off as savers arent benefiting from the soaring Interest Rates and finally, in the guardian, it was a fairy tale ending for stuart broad as england sealed a draw in the ashes yeah, well, it could have been a better ending. Could it be nicer if we didnt have rain . Yes. Anyway cant blame it all on the rain. I dont get it. Is it was the rain. Is it was the rain. Bazball useless. Anyway, lets have lets have more detail from the papers this morning with former lib dem minister norman baker and columnist from conservative home emily carver. Good morning to you both and gb news presenter yes. Oh, i dont know if i meant yes. Oh, i dont know if i meant to put that in or not. Ill make you try and sound more sort of separate for this. I dont know. Dont know. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. Keep smiling. Thats just keep smiling. Thats what say. Lets have look at what i say. Lets have a look at the theyve got an the mail. Theyve got an investigation into false asylum claims. Claims. This has been a big yes. This has been a big scoop by mail over the last scoop by the mail over the last few. They that there few days. They found that there are of corrupt law are a number of corrupt law firms where essentially lawyers are taking a lot of to money invent asylum cases, essentially. And now three of these law firms that have been exposed have been shut down. So this has happened quite quickly. And its quite interesting. The paper details what some of these lawyers have been doing. So theyve cases , theyve been inventing cases, horrific backstories for people who want to come and seek asylum here for fees of 4000 to £10,000 per case. So this is a real example of corruption within our legal system. Suella braverman has said this is only the tip of the iceberg. She fears you would have thought the home office would be on it if she knew it was only the tip of the iceberg. But yes, say youve been a Trafficking Victim , one lawyer Trafficking Victim, one lawyer said. One said, you know, well well well make up a case of you being part of a sikh separatist group so that you can get here and seek asylum. So just making up complete fabrications. Fabrications. Right . So, i mean , i hate to right . So, i mean, i hate to say it because its very its very bad, actually , to tar very bad, actually, to tar everyone with the same brush. Everyone with the same brush. But is this just a case of the lawyers wanting to make money . On its just just a money making oh its just just a money making scheme. Oh, absolutely. It seems like it. And there is a lack of morals here. I think in my view, i dont think you should be making false asylum claims to this country and taking huge amounts of money to do so. But i imagine that to do so. But i imagine that there are lots of law firms that are doing similar things. Many people have suspected that this is the case and now weve got the evidence and its quite good to see that the regulator has deau to see that the regulator has dealt with it so swiftly with three law firms already just shut to this. Shut down due to this. Norman well, i agree with all that, and think its that, actually, and i think its disgraceful. Should disgraceful. People should behave in an immoral, immoral and way. And its and unprofessional way. And its right that there should be an investigation to this. I do think all firms are the same. Think all firms are the same. There will be firms behaving properly , there some properly, but there are some behaving improperly they behaving improperly and they should be dealt with. What i would say this, that would also say is this, that there who are seeking there are people who are seeking asylum who have been tortured, there are people who are seeking asylum waeenve been tortured, there are people who are seeking asylum waeen subject tortured, there are people who are seeking asylum waeen subject to death who have been subject to death threats, has been at threats, whose life has been at risk, and they are being diminished in a sense as well by the behaviour of these sorts of. Thats very true. Yes, because now people are sceptical all asylum sceptical of all asylum claims off stuff. Off the back of this stuff. Its like crying wolf, isnt it, norman rishi sunak flying, yes. According to the daily star, arrogant rishi vows to carry on flying. Im arrogant rishi vows to carry on flying. Im keeping arrogant rishi vows to carry on flying. Im keeping hold of my flying. Im keeping hold of my choppen flying. Im keeping hold of my chopper. It says here in the daily star, which it refers to as helicopter , of course. And as helicopter, of course. And this is the extraordinary behaviour of the Prime Minister , who has to take the helicopter , apparently wherever he goes. And he says, a helicopter, wouldnt you do that . No, i wouldnt you do that . No, i wouldnt actually. And in fact i made a point, for example , when made a point, for example, when i would for example, when i was a minister, refused a minister, i refused a ministerial because it was ministerial car because it was pointless to have but pointless to have one. But anyway, rishi is taking anyway, so rishi sunak is taking anyway, so rishi sunak is taking a helicopter everywhere. He said this but this to be more efficient. But actually, example, when he actually, for example, when he went southampton in which went to southampton in which by the an hour from the way is about an hour from waterloo on train, had to waterloo on the train, he had to go to raf northolt, north of go up to raf northolt, north of london, and get a helicopter fly down and go into down to a heliport and go into southampton. It took longer than it done the train. It would have done by the train. He the West Midlands he went to the West Midlands last minutes from last week, 90 minutes from euston helicopter. You have euston on a helicopter. You have to ask yourself, this a kind to ask yourself, is this a kind of thing for or of status thing for him or doesnt want to meet the doesnt he want to meet the public . Is he finally reaching the public train . The public on a train . Be that or the well, this may be that or the abuse he might get at stepping into train carriage. Into a train carriage. The train strikes, maybe the train strikes, maybe strikes. Maybe the train strikes, mayes. Strikes. Maybe the train strikes, mayes. Its strikes. Maybe the train strikes, mayes. Its not strikes. Maybe the train strikes, mayes. Its not very. Es. Maybe the train strikes, mayes. Its not very reliable. Yes. Its not very reliable. Yes. Its not very reliable. The used to take the queen used to take a train, a normal train to sandringham, up to norwich on a train. Know, previous prime train. You know, previous Prime Minister why minister has taken trains. Why cant on a train . Cant he get on a train . Surely she booked out a carriage at least. Well, you would she wouldnt be. Would do. She wouldnt be. Wasnt just sat in she wasnt just sat in standard class. She wasnt just sat in sta|iiard class. She wasnt just sat in sta|i thinklass. She wasnt just sat in sta|i think she sat in first i think she sat in first class, which is fair enough. Sat the like jeremy sat on the floor like jeremy corbyn, you remember that. Corbyn, if you remember that. He had some seats. Of course, to to. To go to. Yes. Just chose not to do yes. He just chose not to do so. It was it was a good, so. It was it was it was a good, a good picture thing, wasnt it . I dont know. Ijust. I dont know. Part of me just says if youre the Prime Minister and youve a youve got access to a helicopter, wouldnt use it . Helicopter, wouldnt you use it . Maybe the idea. Maybe thats just the idea. Hugely expensive the its hugely expensive for the taxpayer lets face it. Taxpayer as well. Lets face it. I mean, you might think rail fares expensive, nothing fares are expensive, nothing compared to hiring a helicopter. No i suppose. No no, i suppose. You have perk as cant you have a perk as prime a prime Prime Minister being a Prime Minister perk in itself. Minister is a perk in itself. Yeah. Minister is a perk in itself. Comezah. Minister is a perk in itself. Come on. Sure about that. Ill tell you what. Ill tell you what. Ill tell you what. I want to throw this open to both of you because i know its. Its technically not normal this, but i want to talk about this, but i want to talk about this duty rise right. This alcohol duty rise right. The got lot on it. But the suns got a lot on it. But what i dont understand and with this talked to the this having talked to the government morning and government this morning and weve hospitality weve heard from hospitality groups , what dont groups as well, what i dont understand bad news understand is, is this bad news for hospitality or is it good news for pubs . News for pubs . Its better news for pubs. Its better news for pubs. But let me just say that this is unusual, but im going to absolutely agree with what the government minister said on Richard Holden, the transport minister the screen. Minister, earlier on the screen. Because to be the because i used to be the minister responsible for drugs and alcohol in the government and alcohol in the government and i the damage that and i saw the damage that alcohol does. Alcohol does far more damage society both more damage to society both economically and otherwise than actually drugs do. The cost is actually drugs do. The cost is billions every year. We know, for example, theres a strong link as well between over consumption of alcohol and domestic violence. Theres a domestic violence. Theres a whole range of problems in our streets with police having to deal with people are drunk deal with people who are drunk all time. So the all the time. So the governments of linking governments policy of linking the strength of the the duty to the strength of the alcohol absolutely right. Alcohol is absolutely right. Youre making so youre making this a pubuc so youre making this a public issue . Yes. I Public Health issue . Yes. I dont thats what the dont believe thats what the governments intention is. Its just and theyre just a money maker and theyre trying a bit fairer trying to make it a bit fairer in terms of the rate of the strength of the alcohol, because also you say that its a cost on our society. Okay. Yes in some circumstances, course is. Circumstances, of course it is. But its also absolutely massive live industry, which brings in huge amounts of money to the exchequer. And huge amounts of money to the exchequer. And i imagine it probably balances out if not comes down on the side of, well, the government has said it is actually one of their Public Health. Its one of their intention organs is Public Health aim. Organs is a Public Health aim. Well then they may they just well then they may as well the whole hog and go as well go the whole hog and go for minimum unit pricing. Well, in are in scotland, where you are essentially financially essentially punished financially for drinking , essentially punished financially for drinking, minimum unit pricing in scotland has been success. Yes. No, it hasnt. It has. Yes. No, it hasnt. It has. Ive looked at the data. It hasnt. Its had no impact on problem drinkers. Well okay, we disagree problem drinkers. Well okay, we disagre but the point the point is that minimum pricing is that minimum unit pricing is designed to make it more expensive to strong expensive to buy very strong cider example, in cider for example, in supermarkets and then to go out and drink that on the streets and drink that on the streets and relatively cheaper to go into which is secure and into a pub which is secure and supervised environment which is better, better to better, where youre better to be, where youre driving, drinking. You do that, drinking. And if you do that, then the chances are that youll end with fewer alcohol end up with fewer alcohol problems you would do problems than you would do without so without minimum unit pricing. So im of no, doesnt im in favour of no, it doesnt work , but i can almost imagine work, but i can almost imagine it being something you would get behind if we were if we were , behind if we were if we were, you know, 3 or 4 years ago when there was all this moaning from there was all this moaning from the pubs , understandably so. The pubs, understandably so. Its not a criticism, just you saying, well, were all shutting down because theres too much cheap booze in the supermarket markets. So people are buying it, drinking at home rather than the pub. This rather than the pub. Well, this balance is balances it back in favour of the pubs it favour of the pubs and it wouldnt you have supported. I mean could have well i mean they could have reduced the duty across the board. That might have made things a little its, you little bit better. But its, you know, picking and know, theyre picking and choosing actively choosing where they actively cost wouldnt cost us money, wouldnt it . Well, difficult it, well, its difficult isnt it, because presumably the this freeze, this isnt going to theyre going pass on theyre not going to pass on this of £0. 03 on to this small fall of £0. 03 on to the consumer. Theyre really are they theyll probably they in pubs theyll probably take it as as hopefully a little bit of profit. But i mean youve got 25 pubs shutting every week in there in this country. Clearly there are clearly they feel like theyre being taxed too much. Theres a bit of work. Theres a bit of work. Theres a key statistic which i dont know the answer to, and i dont know the answer to, and i dont know the answer to, and i dont think its in the story is whether not the overall is whether or not the overall impact this change in duty impact of this change in duty terms will produce the same amount the amount of money for the government overall because some drinks, whether drinks, some down, or whether its to be a fund, a tax its going to be a fund, a tax raiser, i dont know the answer to that. Its not in the story. No. Its not in the story. No. Mean, figures weve got i mean, the figures weve got is that its and we could is that its and again, we could be corrected on this, but i think it will raise 225 million, which nothing. Which is nothing. Not a great deal. No. Its not a great deal. No. But i do think that people should the alcohol should not discount the alcohol harm have in our harm. So what we have in our society and if we end up making it more attractive to buy cheapen it more attractive to buy cheaper, attractive, cheaper, more more attractive, to buy strong alcohol and to buy less strong alcohol and less attractive to buy very strong alcohol, thats going to be outcome. Yeah but if be a good outcome. Yeah but if youre worried alcoholics, youre worried about alcoholics, its stop them from its not going to stop them from finding something to drink, is it . And thats the problem with minimum pricing. It minimum unit pricing. Yes, it has. Reduced the amount has. Overall reduced the amount people drinking scotland people are drinking in scotland by amount. But when people are drinking in scotland bycomes amount. But when people are drinking in scotland bycomes to amount. But when people are drinking in scotland bycomes to problem1t. But when people are drinking in scotland bycomes to problem drinkers hen people are drinking in scotland bycomes to problem drinkers and it comes to problem drinkers and alcoholics, had absolutely alcoholics, its had absolutely no because its price no impact because its price inelastic. People will drink if inelastic. People will drink if they want to drink. Yes, thats because if youre actually an alcoholic, which is actually an alcoholic, which is a disease rather than anything else , its very difficult to else, its very difficult to come off alcohol. When i went to a Rehabilitation Centre as a minister in i think it was kensington and i went there expecting to find a whole lot of heroin addicts and the professional staff there in that unit told me it was more difficult to come off alcohol than come heroin. Yeah, than to come off heroin. Yeah, i was astonished by that, but thats me. Thats what they told me. Yeah. So i guess this in yeah. So i guess this is in terms of health, this terms of Public Health, this would not necessarily be would be not necessarily be about those people are about those people who are already alcoholics, but preventing from preventing new people from becoming alcoholics. Is right that, you yes, emily is right that, you know, core will not be know, the hard core will not be affected whatever you affected by whatever you do. Thats you thats perfectly true. But you can the people underneath can get the people underneath who to something to who who want to buy something to dnnk who who want to buy something to drink and can control their drinking and we all like drinks. I as much as i have a drink as much as anybody but might want anybody else, but you might want to something which is to go for something which is a slightly less strong as a consequence. Thats to be consequence. Thats going to be a good thing. Emily got 30s and emily weve got 30s and please us some good news. Please give us some good news. That is coming back. That summer is coming back. Yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Express. To express. To express. Well, we might have to wait to express. The l, we might have to wait to express. The ends might have to wait to express. The end ofiight have to wait to express. The end of augustve to wait to express. The end of august for o wait to express. The end of august for a wait to express. The end of august for a bitt till the end of august for a bit of sun. I mean, it has been a miserable month, but i will remind everyone june was remind everyone that june was absolutely for about at absolutely fabulous for about at least i cant speak least down here. I cant speak for the country, but for the rest of the country, but there were about three weeks of beautiful sunny weather, got up to about 32 degrees. On beautiful sunny weather, got up to about 32 degrees. Oh look. And going become 32 and its going to become 32 degrees the end of degrees again at the end of august, good news august, which will be good news because of my friends because one of my best friends is getting that last is getting married on that last weekend so fingers weekend of august. So fingers crossed her. Crossed for her. Oh, well, yeah, fingers crossed. Not that anyone cares, but care. You care. Thats lovely. You care. Thats lovely. Well, thank you both. Well see little later on. See you a little bit later on. In meantime, lets see what in the meantime, lets see what the weather is going to do for you today. Heres alex. Like things are heating looks like things are heating up. Boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news sponsors of weather on. Gb news morning alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious. Every where. Quite a lot of cloud this morning over northwest england, parts of northern ireland, north wales, further rain here further outbreaks of rain here and showers in southern and some showers in southern scotland , too. This zone, we scotland, too. In this zone, we will a few showers through will keep a few showers through the the one further the day. The odd one further south, but some brighter spells here of central here and across much of central and scotland. Well see here and across much of central a|bit scotland. Well see here and across much of central a|bit of scotland. Well see here and across much of central a|bit of sunshine tland. Well see here and across much of central a|bit of sunshine coming ell see a bit of sunshine coming through. Bit a breeze through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, but overall, probably through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, bit overall, probably through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, bit warmer probably through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, bit warmer than ably feeling a bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures, though, yesterday. Temperatures, though, still around or below still mostly around or below average for time of year and average for the time of year and down to the south west. Look at this, wet weather coming this, more wet weather coming in. Is going to be on the in. This is going to be on the heavy side as well as it spreads in this evening across in through this evening across the then parts the south west, then into parts of its an area of low of wales and its an area of low pressure that will dominate our weather and weather through tonight. And most tomorrow. Line most of tomorrow. This line of rain northwards and rain sweeps northwards and then kind grind to a kind of likely to grind to a halt during wednesday. It will bnngin halt during wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its going to be a cold its not going to be a cold night across the south. Further north, dip single north, we could dip into single figures rural spots, but figures in some rural spots, but mostly about the rain and mostly its about the rain and the tomorrow getting quite the wind tomorrow getting quite blustery south coast blustery along the south coast and windy. Some heavy and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across Northern England across parts of Northern England , southern scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, but with the winds coming in from the north or the east, it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high 20s at best, high teens, low 20s at best, looks like things are heating up i boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news restoring of weather on. Gb news restoring you. You. Stay with us. Well have more on how the Hospitality Industry is reacting to the biggest rise in alcohol duty in 50 years. As when the news happens, it happens here. Im really important. Im really important. Im really important. Breaking news, breaking news this morning on tv, radio and online. The news starts here on britains newsroom. All the biggest stories and the answers that you need from across the uk and beyond. Join britains newsroom from 930 on gb news. Warning that the Million Pounds of tax rises that come into force today could cripple businesses under new measures, tax will be levied according to a drink strength, meaning a bottle of wine could cost up to 20 more overnight at the home Office Planned to house 50 migrants on a barge in dorset has been delayed following last minute talks over fire safety. Minute talks over fire safety. Nigel farage says cootes has offered to reinstate his accounts following talks with the new chief of the bank. The gb news presenter is seeking compensation and a formal apology. Apology. The average uk house price has fallen by 3. 8, but thats year on year for july , it means year on year for july, it means its the weakest rate since july 2009, the biggest drop since 2009. The price of an average home is now 4. 5 below the peak in august 2022. And well bring you your latest Weather Forecast after such a wet july the 1st of august. Does promise something a little drier for most of us today, but its not really to going last more wet and windy weather to come tonight and tomorrow. Me later for tomorrow. Join me later for a full weather update. Full weather update. Morning you. Im stephen dixon. And im ellie costello. And and im ellie costello. And this is breakfast on gb news. Do you like a trip to the zoo 7 do you like a trip to the zoo . Thats my question for you this hour. This hour. No, i dont actually like going to the zoo, and ill tell you why. Because and i used to love it when i was child. But love it when i was a child. But now i go, ijust love it when i was a child. But now i go, i just think the now when i go, i just think the cages are so small. Oh, and it makes me feel sad. Oh, no. Makes me feel very sad. Oh, no. This should be bigger. Bigger things also out now, because it is about conservation. Is all about conservation. Theyre different maybe theyre different now. Yeah, maybe theyre different now. Yeai, maybe theyre different now. Yeai mean, zoos are doing i mean, zoos are doing incredible conservation work. Theyre not just there for us to gawp animals, but if gawp at these animals, but if you go the are you you do go to the zoo, are you actually looking at a genuine animal . Thats the question. This morning. Its a its a weird one. But have a look at this. This is a its a its a what kind of what type of bear it is. Its called moon bear. A black bear. No, no , no. Its not black bear. No, no, no. Its not a black bear. But anyway , this a black bear. But anyway, this bear was stood on its two feet. And you can see its got its slightly baggy around the bottom. Yeah. Saggy bottom. Its got a saggy bottom. It was got a saggy bottom. And it was stood like that. And stood up like that. And apparently a lot people are apparently a lot of people are concerned learned its not concerned learned that its not a bear in chinese zoo. Its a bear in this chinese zoo. Its a bear in this chinese zoo. Its a its an employee in an outfit. So just elaborate costumes. Yeah so its so there you go. So yeah so its so there you go. So the zoo has now its the sun beanl the zoo has now its the sun bear. I beg your pardon . Not a moon bear. A sun bear. And anyway, its now. Now, the zoos anyway, its now. Now, the zoos had to put a statement out saying, no, this is actually a bear and not a human in a bear suit , just a bear with a very suit, just a bear with a very saggy bottom. Yeah, theyve clarified. Yeah, theyve clarified. Yeah, theyve clarified. Well, you can understand why people would think just look extreme human. Yeah, it does. Even the way its standing. It does look like a human, doesnt it . So theres been a furious onune so theres been a furious online row in china over this. Apparently, theyre livid and barely believable. Barely believable. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Did you make that up yourself . I did. Like, do you like that . Like, do you like that . Like, do you like that . Nice is the headline, the headune nice is the headline, the headline in the paper. Oh, youre still getting sued. Oh i know, i know. But yeah, let us know what you think about that. Its giving a giggle this morning. Vaiews gbnews. Com. Yeah you do. So some bear and you moon bears. You do get moon bears. Know all of that. Honestly he knows everything. Hes like theres cyclopaedia. Theres a cyclopaedia. Yeah, theres a cyclopaedia. Yeah, theres rescue charity theres a bear rescue charity actually that i used to actually in china that i used to do bobs with and do some bits and bobs with and he just comes with these he just comes out with these stories about all these things hes done. Called moon bear rescue they called moon bear rescue or something i think or Something Like that. I think they, look like that. Well, they, they look like that. Well, they, they look like that. Well, they up quite that they werent stood up quite that straight. Have saggy straight. Did they have saggy bottoms it didnt. No. Bottoms. It didnt. No. I extraordinary. Its the trainers that put me off. I dont know. Is it real or not . Is it. Oh, it doesnt look real to me. But the zoo claimed such deception would not happen as a state run facility. State run facility. Well, that doesnt give me a whole lot of confidence in china. No, no, to be fair, thats true. Anyway, you pay as your true. Anyway, you pay as your money. You take your choice, dont you . There you go. Anyway, dont you . There you go. Anyway, let us know what you think. Gb views gbnews. Com you might need a drink after that , but if you might need a drink after that, but if you do, thank you. Learn from the best. But if you do, it might be a little bit more expensive because alcohol duty will see its biggest single increase 50 years from today increase in 50 years from today , hospitality warn. , as hospitality chiefs warn. The £225 million rise could cripple the industry. Well, the Prime Minister is saying the changes are really good for the industry. Industry. They say its going to see dnnk they say its going to see drink taxed according to its strength and its the most radical simplification of duty in more than a century, all made possible because of brexit. But the wine and Spirits Trade Association has hit back, accusing the government of inflicting inflation, misery on customers. Our east Midlands Reporter will hollis has more on this story. This story. When youre in the business of helping brits get leathered, theres no better place to set up a brewery than an old leather factory. Factory. When you drink too much beer , you get a pot belly. So we call it pot belly brewery pot belly has been brewing beer here in kettering for nearly 20 years with ian as head brewer selling barrels and bottles. Hes seeing a shift in sales i years ago, we delivered big barrels, 144 pints, but theres too much now. Nobody will touch one of these. A lot of pubs that ideal one of these. A lot of pubs that i deal with want the little ones with 36 pints because its cheaper and it lasts twice as long from grain to glass. Long from grain to glass. A single brew takes a week. A single brew takes a week. This one just in time to be taxed under the new system. From taxed under the new system. From today, duty will be measured on booze of all kinds, using alcohol by volume. A simplified tax on strength means while a new draught relief dubbed the brexit pubs guarantee low as the price of a pint by up to £0. 11, compared to supermarkets, according to the treasury. But the new system puts pot belly in a pickle. The beer here in the pint glass is exactly the same as the one in the bottle. Its just that the duty is calculated differently now under the new rules, the bottle costs about an extra £0. 30 in duty and the government is making them more expensive because ultimately they want drinkers to choose to dnnk they want drinkers to choose to drink weaker beers in the pub rather than stronger ones at home. Greg says the system will squeeze business like his. The price is on a barrel of beer should remain fairly constant. The one anomaly is when you then dispense beers in less than 20l, so anything that is in a small ten litre box or in a bottle of beer, the price is then doubled in the duty side of it. Of it. Emma is chief exec at the british beer and pub association. She says that the reforms mean the industry will pay reforms mean the industry will pay an extra £224 million in tax at a time of high production costs. Beer duty, unfortunately, is still one of the highest in the whole of europe. Here in the uk and we hope that some of these changes will incent devise people to be brewing lower strength beers to help consumers moderate their consumption. But unfortunately we probably wont see a much difference in prices at this moment in time in terms of lowering them at the pub, the cost of beers and cans at home are going to be increased some 10. 1 because of the changes that are being introduced today i back at the brewery, sam, the teams youngest, is on clean up. My favourite job of the day, digging out the hops, out the coppen digging out the hops, out the copper. Its a its a bit warm in there and dirty , but. Its in there and dirty, but. Its one of them. Jobs have got to be done, im afraid. Washing away the old duty is gone. Its replacement needs to pump up the industry rather than drain it dry. Will hollis gb news in kettering. News in kettering. Well, earlier the government told us that the changes will actually make some drinks cheaper. Cheapen zico, for example , and canned zico, for example, and canned dnnks zico, for example, and canned drinks with mixers in so you know a vodka and coke or a gin and tonic in a can actually the duty on those products will come down because weve had this really quite weird system which was very much based on individual drinks rather than on the percentage of alcohol in them. So for a lot of products, actually, youre going to see a tax reduction today. So weve heard from the brewers and weve heard from the brewers and weve heard from the government. But what about pub landlords . Well, were very pleased to be joined now by the owner of the seckford pub, david lonsdale. Good morning to you, david. Were really, really pleased to have you with us in the studio. So make then . Well, 7 well, i . Well, i think its fair enough that alcohol is taxed according to strength. I dont have a problem with that. But actually overall, the taxes are going up by 10. 6. So although the minister will point out that on draft beer, the taxes has remained more or less unchanged on a glass of wine is going up by 20. So overall the taxes are going up by well above the rate of inflation, 10. 6. Theyre based on the inflation in september , but its the worst september, but its the worst possible time to be hitting pubs with an extra cost. But isnt there an argument in all this . As the minister was was trying to make that actually this will hopefully really get people away from buying certainly their beer in the supermarket and send them through your front door instead . Well, 7 well, not . Well, not really. Thats 7 well, not really. Thats one of our problems is that we think that the supermarkets are have a very good deal. That the supermarkets are have a very good deal. They actually very good deal. They actually dont pay any vat , for example, dont pay any vat, for example, on food sales , whereas of course on food sales, whereas of course we have to pay vat at 20 and they pay very much less rates per sale than we do. So overall, per sale than we do. So overall, theyre very likely treated and actually no , overall the tax is actually no, overall the tax is going up by 10. 6. Plenty of people drink wine in pubs and that will be more expensive for them. And we think that pubs are them. And we think that pubs are a very safe place for people to dnnk a very safe place for people to drink and the minister earlier was talking about questions of pubuc was talking about questions of Public Health. Thats important. But are a safe. But pubs are a safe environment. People dont binge environment. People dont binge dnnk environment. People dont binge drink pubs in the way that drink in pubs in the way that they might at home. They might buy drinks cheaply at buy drinks very cheaply at supermarkets drink at supermarkets and drink at home in of the television, much in front of the television, much better them in a safe better to have them in a safe environment. But all the research pubs are Research Shows that pubs are good for peoples Mental Health. Coming very good coming out is very good for social cohesion to add to social cohesion in so to add to the burden pubs this time the burden on pubs at this time is really , i think, rather is really, i think, rather unfair. Well, lets talk about the burden pubs time , burden on pubs at this time, because there are many, many pressures, there . Pressures, arent there . Well, yes. Well, yes. So one, i would say so number one, i would say the increase energy the huge increase in energy costs, course, costs, thats of course, affected but you see affected everyone. But you see pubs they have cool pubs because they have to cool and the same time. They and heat at the same time. They have a very High Energy Bills. The bills for my pub went up from £0. 13, roughly a kilowatt hour to £0. 64, and im paying that until so its four times as much. Theres some subsidy from the government , but its the government, but its limited. Then of course, weve had the fact that during the pandemic people stopped coming into the offices. So that affects a pub like mine in central in central london. And then had train strikes then weve had the train strikes that hasnt helped. So that that hasnt helped. So weve had all these pressures on us anyway. And i think really us anyway. And i think really a pub should be treated like a pubuc pub should be treated like a Public Library in that the sense that its an institution thats worth keeping and for the reasons that ive, ive given , i reasons that ive, ive given, i think its sad when pubs close down and have. Down and a lot have. So what are you seeing in terms of i mean, look, youre your are clearly going your profits are clearly going to affected increase to be affected by the increase in costs that youve got. But what you seeing in terms of footfall . Well, thats gone down since before the pandemic. Theres no doubt its doubt about that. And its because weve lost the people who came into the offices in large numbers and would have their Office Gatherings at the end of the week. So we actually are seeing we used to have make all our profits on friday evening. Thats not really happening mean, spread happening. I mean, its spread much across the week. Much more across the week. I mean, weve got to work hard. Weve got to work hard to keep our customers. I do think our customers. But i do think its. I mean, my pub is its sad. I mean, my pub is fine. A very popular pub, fine. Its a very popular pub, its pub, and so were its a lovely pub, and so were doing all right. But i do think its sad to see the number of pubs that closed these are pubs that have closed these are important places and important Historical Places and weve lost across the country about 12 of them since march 2020. Thats a huge number, 12 across the entire country. And across the entire country. And in central london, i looked at the figures this morning. Its 15. 6. That would include quite a large area. And of course, amongst that, 15. 6 are many lovely old historical pubs. And its a shame. Its a shame. So yeah. Like your own. Yeah so yeah. Like your own. Yeah well we havent close yet. Well we havent close yet. Well we havent close yet. Well no we havent. Well no we havent. But youre, youre an old, an old pub. Yeah. 1828 we opened and weve been continuously open ever since. We, want to ever since. So we, we want to carry on. Course carry on. Course m carry on. Course do. Yeah. Of course you do. Yeah. Of course you do. Yeah. David. Really good you david. Really good to see you this morning. You very, this morning. Thank you very, very much for having me on. Thank for a good show. Well, thats very kind of carry on. Well have to come down and celebrate it with a drink. Of course. Course. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. But isnt it i think david makes a good point makes a really good point because theyre part of because pubs are theyre part of our British Institution in a way, in a way that, you know, your bars in europe and things arent its not the same. Um, its same going down its not the same as going down your local with all the history and the atmosphere and all and the, the atmosphere and all that sort of thing. Its they are a really important part of what makes us british. And i think you made a really good point as well about Mental Health and being in a pub as well. There are so many more benefits to being in a pub and being social when youre drinking than drinking home, drinking than drinking at home, perhaps there are perhaps by yourself. There are so to having a pub so many benefits to having a pub and being in close proximity. If you are someone who drinks even if youre now, theres many if youre not now, theres many good theres good alternatives. Oh theres loads free now loads of alcohol free stuff now , which is good because , which is which is good because i more. I dont drink any more. Thats good. Thats good so thats good. Thats good for can get out and i have for me. I can get out and i have a good time in a pub now. No, i drink enough for the two of you. Do you do . Thats fair enough. But ill tell you what. Its you see, david, put it in perspective we talk its you see, david, put it in perspethe e we talk its you see, david, put it in perspethe fact we talk its you see, david, put it in perspethe fact that we talk its you see, david, put it in perspethe fact that theres. K about the fact that theres going to be, you know, basically youre not going to any more youre not going to pay any more for for a pint of draught. For a for a pint of draught. Thats not going change under thats not going to change under this were told, this scheme. And were told, well, great. Its great well, this is great. Its great for pubs, great for the for pubs, its great for the industry. But then if you balance it overall, youre balance it out overall, youre talking 10. 6 talking 10. 10 point 6, 10. 6 across which is a big across the board, which is a big jump. Its inflationary, jump. I mean, its inflationary, isnt it . Yes i dont know. Its it difficult one . Well, weve heard from everybody across the board, havent we . Weve heard from government. Weve heard from brewers. Now heard from brewers. Weve now heard from a landlord. Us know what landlord. So do let us know what you at home. Gb views at you think at home. Gb views at gb dot com. Gb news dot com. Yeah. Now the arrival of the first set of Asylum Seekers on the bibby stockholm barge in dorset has been delayed. Well, dorset has been delayed. Well, no surprise everything when it comes to this sort of issue seems to get delayed. This time its over. Fire safety concerns. Well, the home office had been planning to send a group of 50 migrants to the barge, which is currently docked in portland , it has been held up , but it has been held up following last minute meetings. To our south west lets talk to our south west of england. Reporter jeff moody, whos in portland us this Portland Port for us this morning. So whats going on, jeff. Jeff. Hello, stephen. Well, yes, as you say , they were expecting 50 you say, they were expecting 50 Asylum Seekers to arrive this morning. Then we heard yesterday that it was going to be only 25 at this initial stage. At this initial stage. Apparently theyd all been theyd all been ready to come here. And then late last night, we heard that there had been a delay. We dont know how long this delay is. We think that its only a temporary delay. We think that things may get underway by tomorrow or certainly by the end of the week. But the reason, as you say, is fire safety. Were heanng say, is fire safety. Were hearing all sorts of reports that the corridors are too narrow on board compared to the number of people there. Theres not enough fire exits, theres not enough fire exits, theres not enough fire exits, theres not enough smoke alarms. And weve heard that there are a welders and there are builders in there frantically trying to get the barge ready to pass that all important safety check. All important safety check. There was supposed to be a Welcome Party obe on the at the gates of the port right here at 9 00 this morning. That was supposed to be organised by the home office. We havent heard home office. We havent heard that thats been delayed. So that thats been delayed. So there may well still be people turning certainly no turning up, but certainly no Asylum Seekers today. Well alex bailey is from the no to the barge campaign and its. What do you make of this delay . So were really not experts on fire safety so cant really comment on that one. However, this is part of a list of ongoing failures and lack of considerations. Jeff and really, this is the Fawlty Towers of the sea , the Fawlty Towers of the sea, the Fawlty Towers of the sea, the Fawlty Towers of the sea , indeed. Sea, indeed. Yes. Yes, indeed. But when yes. Yes, indeed. But when they do arrive, because they will arrive this is just a temporary delay, isnt it . I mean, they will be here probably tomorrow, certainly by the end of the week. We think work for you guys. The emphasis changes slightly, does it not . It . So were still looking at the legal avenue, which we believe a judicial review is definitely an angle. Were also looking at possibly a repurposing of the barge. Also how this community barge. Also how this community are rural and deprived. Community is going to be helped with all this money thats coming in again from the taxpayer , from the home office. Taxpayer, from the home office. Okay alex, for now, thank you very much. But were down here live all day to bring you any developments. For now, back to you now as the home office struggles to house migrants on a barge, campaigners in chelmsford in essex have condemned the government for approving the acquisition of an entire luxury apartment complex for Asylum Seekers. Seekers. And the gb news exclusive are home and security editor mark white uncovers the harsh reality of british families being stuck in sub standard accommodation by some migrants have moved into the plush new homes. Its billed as one of chelmsfords most sought after residential complexes as a multi Million Pound conversion of an old office block into luxury apartments. The marketing luxury apartments. The marketing photographs show just how comfortable these flats are, but for now , at least, none of the for now, at least, none of the 98 units here are for local use turned over. Instead to the home office to house Asylum Seekers. Office to house Asylum Seekers. Dozens of migrants have already moved in the refurbishment work on the remaining apartments is almost complete. Almost complete. The mould was all up there, all around, down the floors, along all the pipework and across the ceiling and just running down the walls. It was absolutely disgusting. Tasha burgess moved into this damp and mould infested property in chelmsford five years ago. In chelmsford five years ago. Only last year was the family finally moved out while those problems were fixed, but not before she and her children developed chronic respiratory ailments. Ailments. Its very frustrating that that people can come illegally and get the accommodation when youve got people that are homeless. Not by fault that need accommodation as well. And a lot accommodation as well. And a lot of families that are not in suitable accommodation size enhen suitable accommodation size either, and its squashed in flats and stuff, waiting on lists for months and months or years even. Years even. The local council says it has only limited grounds for a legal challenge against the home office and does not intend to take court action. Local Campaign Groups say the housing of Asylum Seekers in luck century apartments is grossly unfair. When more than 400 chelmsford families are in temporary accommodation. Many of temporary accommodation. Many of those properties in substandard condition. Condition. They are illegally here and yet theyre living in absolute luxury. And i think thats whats frustrating and annoying so many people is that theyre getting everything people getting everything and People Living in some of these places that we see last year during the damp and mould, you wouldnt have in it because it have put a dog in it because it was disgusting. Was disgusting. Bibby stockholm with the bibby stockholm accommodation barge receiving its Asylum Seekers and its first Asylum Seekers and more arriving at the former weathers field air base in essex, the government says its committed to moving away from expensive hotels, but this luxury apartment complex surely cannot be with the home secretary meant by a move to more basic accommodation for Asylum Seekers. Mark white gb Asylum Seekers. Mark white gb news in chelmsford does not seem right, does it . No. Lots of you get in touch on that, jay says. I truly feel on that, jay says. I truly feel sorry for poor people with Young Children in essex who are just waiting to become ill this winter whilst Asylum Seekers have the nicer provisions. Yeah carol says this is an appalling situation to think that homeless british people are being put up in mouldy disgusting accommodation while Asylum Seekers get offered such luxury i i i feel terrible for people subject to such terrible living conditions. And its not that conditions. And its not that you wish. I mean, as carol says, you wish. I mean, as carol says, no matter what you think about migrants, safety is important. Migrants, safety is important. And whether its on a barge or whether its in that luxury apartment block , you know, you. Apartment block, you know, you. But at what point do you say youve got to put british people first and people who are working here putting, you know, paying their you know , dont we their taxes, you know, dont we have to take priority or maybe thats not the i dont know. I dont know. Maybe thats not the right thing to say. I dont know. Well do let us know what you think. Do you keep your views coming in gbviews gbnews. Com. Now lets get your Weather Forecast with alex looks like things alex deakin. Looks like things are heating up. Bob boilers proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Weather on. Gb news. Morning alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news overall a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be everywhere. Quite be glorious everywhere. Quite a lot this morning over lot of cloud this morning over northwest england. Parts of northern north wales, northern ireland, north wales, further here further outbreaks of rain here and showers in southern and some showers in southern scotland, zone. We scotland, too. In this zone. We will keep a few showers through the day. The odd one further south, some brighter spells south, but some brighter spells here central here and across much of central and scotland. Well see here and across much of central and of scotland. Well see here and across much of central and of sunshine tland. Well see here and across much of central and of sunshine coming ell see a bit of sunshine coming through. Still a breeze through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, but overall, probably feeling warmer than feeling a bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures, though, still or below still mostly around or below average for the time of year and down the southwest. Look at down to the southwest. Look at this, more wet weather coming in. This going to be on the in. This is going to be on the heavy well as it spreads heavy side as well as it spreads in through this across in through this evening across the south west, then into parts in through this evening across th bnngin halt during wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across the south. Further north, could into single north, we could dip into single figures spots, but figures in some rural spots, but mostly its about the rain and the wind tomorrow quite the wind tomorrow getting quite blustery south coast blustery along the south coast and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across of Northern England across parts of Northern England , southern scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, but with the winds in from the north winds coming in from the north or is not going to or the east, it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high teens, 20s at best. High teens, low 20s at best. It looks like things are heating up by next boilers. Proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. Youre watching gb news, britains news channel. Still to come is inheritance tax punishing the british people . Punishing the british people . Well, well be debating that in just a moment. Whats worrying me slightly, what its making me feel old this morning. Our floor manager today is quite young. Shes today is quite young. Shes quite young , and shes coming quite young, and shes coming out with all these terms. I have noidea out with all these terms. I have no idea what shes talking about , but shes teaching you. Shes teaching me. Apparently. Ive got some things which are flex today, which are quite cool. Today, which are quite cool. Youve got a cool flex. A cool flex. Yeah. And there was Something Else earlier on this morning. I didnt know what was what she was saying. Was saying. Did maria teach you that one as well. Oh yes. Something about having rahman means something. Oh, i dont oh, you have rahman. Oh i dont know that one. Oh, yes. Youve talking youre talking to talking if youre talking to someone, say , yeah, i someone, if you say, yeah, i know work were know someone at work and were talking, it youre sort of talking, it means youre sort of sort dating or. Oh, talking. Sort of dating or. Oh, talking. Yeah. Its like kwarteng. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we keep you young. Mean, we keep you young. Its like a whole new language. I didnt was language. I didnt know it was out there. Very, very odd. Language. I didnt know it was out anyway, very, very odd. Language. I didnt know it was out anyway, thank very odd. Language. I didnt know it was out anyway, thank you, odd. Language. I didnt know it was out anyway, thank you, maria. But anyway, thank you, maria. Thanks, maria, for keeping me up to date. Still to come, for you this morning at 9 00, just after nine, were going to talk to the former treasury minister, david mellor, find out if the mellor, and find out if the government is right to hike up alcohol duty at a time when businesses are struggling. At 915, well, its yorkshire day. Were going to go live to the region to celebrate all things yorkshire. Im looking forward to that. Yes. Yes. Yes. Anna riley but we also love. Anna riley but we also love. Oh, well, yes. I mean, you dont get more yorkshire than anna anything you to anna riley. Anything you want to talk youre in talk about . If youre in yorkshire, touch. Gb yorkshire, get in touch. Gb views gbviews gbnews. Com. Now views gbviews gbnews. Com. Now a new survey has revealed that nearly half of british adults think inheritance tax is unfair. Now that comes afterjeremy. Now that comes after jeremy hunt decided to freeze the levy threshold until april 20th, 28, but is inheriting tax fair or doesit but is inheriting tax fair or does it instead punish the british people . British people . Well, matthew lesh is director of Public Policy and communications at the iea and thinks the levy is unfair. Dumas. Meanwhile, political consultant emma burnell thinks its one of the fairest taxes going on. All right, emma, thats a controversial statement. Why because ultimately this is money that is given to people unearned and we have to have some form of taxation and it is hard and harder to justify giving people who are older and older because thankfully we are living longer and longer and therefore inheritance is coming to people not when theyre in their 20s and 30s and might need a start, but when theyre in their 50s and 60s. Both of my parents are still alive. If i inherit any money from them, it will come to me in my 50s at, you know, at the earliest. This is not the time that i need to be handed a whole bunch of free money that ive done nothing to earn other than being born to the right people. So youve got to have this system which thinks about the least punitive way of taxing people. And frankly , taxing people. And frankly, taking a small amount from a very small amount of the highest level of estates, and then redistributing that and making sure that every 100 of citizens get things like their roads and their Public Services paid for by it, just seems to be the least punitive way of taxing people. I can think of. People. I can think of. Okay, matthew, what do you make of that . Look i think inheritance tax is absolutely one of the most pernicious taxes going around. We have to be absolutely clear here that the state does not own your money. Theres nothing wrong with working hard throughout lifetime, paying throughout your lifetime, paying tax scrimping tax at every stage, scrimping and saving and then wanting to hand that on to your children. And no entitlement by and theres no entitlement by others your cash. And its others to your cash. And its perfectly reasonable , though. I perfectly reasonable, though. I think the reason why people do find inheritance tax or death dufies find inheritance tax or death duties unfair this idea duties so unfair is this idea that basically the state is knocking on your door in a very grim way after youve just gone through one of the most difficult parts of your life, which losing a loved one and which is losing a loved one and demanding tax revenue. Now, demanding some tax revenue. Now, we know you know, in we also know that, you know, in tax because who up tax unfair because who ends up paying tax unfair because who ends up paying not tends to be paying it . Its not tends to be the ultra wealthy who manage to organise their affairs in organise their tax affairs in such to not pay very much such a way to not pay very much of it ends up being the next of it. It ends up being the next rung cant quite afford rung down who cant quite afford the professional get the professional support and get stung this levy. Now stung with this levy. Now it doesnt actually end up raising particularly much revenue. Its less all government less than 1 of all government revenue. So for all that revenue. So for all that intrinsic unfairness that people feel, a particularly feel, its not a particularly necessary tax to Fund Government services, theres certainly better it. And better ways to do it. And theres also some longer Term Economic Research Suggests Economic Research that suggests that tax discourages that inheritance tax discourages saving. Discourage saving. And if you discourage saving, ultimately discourage investing and Capital Formation and productivity growth and Economic Growth. So inheritance Economic Growth. So inheritance has all sorts of negative longer term consequences, but Term Economic consequences, but its the really those, i suppose, direct consequences on families people find most families that people find most unethical and wrong. Yeah , i mean, look, within yeah, i mean, look, within all of emma , there is all of this, emma, there is the argument and i mean, matthew didnt touch on it, but i think its probably a lot of its probably one that a lot of people really, really feel, which that this is which is that this, this is money which has been earned and on which we, you know, weve paid tax thats then getting taxed again. So its doubled and at 40. I mean its not a small amount of tax. Its talking 40. But its not 40 of the whole estate. Its 40 over a certain amount. You have to be incredibly rich to have that money then taken further off. Also so if youve ever bought anything that you pay vat on with your wages, thats exactly the same argument you know, this double taxation argument is a red complete red herring. Now matthews best argument there was the fact that it is a very emotive thing and it is you know, we do want to hand something on to our children and no one is stopping that happening. What were saying is that if were talking about the children the whole country, children of the whole country, we better by spreading we can do better by spreading that passing that. There will that passing on that. There will be absolutely people will be inheriting and should be inheriting and should be inheriting something from their parents. But its not the whole thing. We also live in a society thing. We also live in a society that we want to invest in and thats what these taxes pay for. And finally, matthew is right that the rich are very, very good at avoiding their taxes. Thats not an argument for taxing them less. Its an argument for stopping that avoidance. Avoidance. Matthew well well, perhaps , yes. But the problem here and we see with tax is that ultimately more and more people are being forced to pay it. We found out this week from the official hmrc forecasts that 50,000 more households than previously thought are going to be paying this over the coming 7 or 8 years. And thats because the government is actually frozen the threshold for so long. So you can basically start paying inheritance from inheritance tax in the uk from £325,000 with some additional exemptions for hanging on to specific family members. If you compare that to the us where you dont start paying inheritance tax until £10 million is in the equivalent us dollars, youre seeing that the uk system is actually kind of hitting that middle much, much harder. And its not just the ultra rich who end up with some assets in their life. The people who end up paying life. The people who end up paying this are those who basically die with houses in their names, particularly ones that are that have appreciated in value and go over that £1 million threshold. Often that ends up if you have two parents, you end up having to pay for that. So it isnt just the you know, ultra rich who are paying this tax. In fact, as weve already agreed, now theyre not in fact, paying this tax in any significant quantities. So significant quantities. So youve got to ask yourself, is this really the best way to tax people for something that we know doesnt raise particularly much feel is much revenue . We know feel is feels particularly unfair it feels particularly unfair and it is little bit different to is a little bit different to paying is a little bit different to paying taxes when you transact because youre just paying tax on something that youve already paid tax on all the earnings related to that income. So you put that together, it put all that together, it doesnt a particularly doesnt feel like a particularly great tax for the government to continue imposing. And in fact, many places gotten rid of many places have gotten rid of their taxes. That their inheritance taxes. That includes of sweden and includes the likes of sweden and norway social democracies norway to social democracies that advocates would that arguably advocates would say are more equal societies. So you dont need an inheritance tax to ensure equality between the generations or equality across society. I would say , matthew, i dont i would say, matthew, i dont know if there is a tax in existence which feels like a particular good tax. To fair , but ill get your to be fair, but ill get your point. Sadly weve got to leave it there. Matthew. Emma thanks very indeed. Sure very much indeed. Im sure youre going have a view on youre going to have a view on that. Gb views cbnnews. Com. That. Gb views cbnnews. Com. Should we pay inheritance tax . Should we pay inheritance tax . Is it unfair . Do you have a view on it . Even if you dont think you sort of fall within that threshold . So a lot of people do now with the house prices going up . Yeah and thats the think and thats the thing. I think if house at the if you bought your house at the right you could find right time, you could find yourself within that threshold without necessarily being cash rich. Just rich. You know, youve just bought and youd like to bought well and youd like to pass on your children pass that on to your children and not something thats and its not something thats possible. , but possible. Well, it is, but youre going to be taxed at substantially on it anyway. Its a lot. Yeah let us know what you think. But coming up next, were going to be discussing which is to be discussing which day is best your emails. If you best to send your emails. If you want a quick response. Best to send your emails. If you wartuesdayk response. Best to send your emails. If you wartuesday. Response. Tuesday. Tuesday. Oh, thats my thats my stance. Oh, is it. Oh, well, well find out if thats right in just a moment. Welcome back. The time is 841 and its paper time. And joining us to go through more of the stories this morning is liberal democrat minister norman baker and gb news presenter and columnist for conservative emily carver. Emily, happy now . Emily, happy now . Im delighted. Yes. Well people might get a bit confused. Got your title right. Got your title right. I swear ive seen her somewhere. Norman, lets start with you, shall we . And this is a story on the mail online. Meghan markle for the white house. Yes. Is for the white house. Yes. Is this april the 1st . If you can believe this story , if you can believe this story, then joe bidens political activist sister valerie has said she endorsed Meghan Markle to be the candidate for the democrats for the white house. And if you can also believe it for this next election. Yes. So shes not backing her brother then . No, no. Shes backing. Well, no, no. Shes backing. Well, no, shes not, actually. Thats an interesting point. Thats an interesting point. Thats true. Maybe shes just saying true. Maybe shes just saying shes the best female candidate for the white house because maybe but shes also apparently, according to this story in the mail online, if you believe the mail online, then shes the most popular female potential candidate ahead of kamala harris, a Vice President ahead of Hillary Clinton in i mean, its extraordinary, isnt it . I mean, american politics is bonkers, but thats one beyond bonkers. This is what we were always saying, that Meghan Markle had ambitions. Do you think she got ambitions. Do you think she got political ambitions . Absolutely. Ambitions. Do you think she got politic exactly tions . Absolutely. Ambitions. Do you think she got politic exactly what absolutely. Ambitions. Do you think she got politic exactly what she. Olutely. Ambitions. Do you think she got politic exactly what she wants. Thats exactly what she wants. And its theres a little bit i think its a bit tricky between her and harry in this respect. They have very different ambitions. She wants everything. Yeah i think shed want to be head of the universe if she could and i think harrys. Could be. And i think harrys. Well, hes stuck in past well, hes stuck in the past with court cases going with all his court cases going on, on. Its all a bit. On, rumbling on. Its all a bit. Its all a bit strange, really. But markle in the white but Meghan Markle in the white house. Would house. Now, that would be something maybe he wouldnt mind being first or first prince being first duke or first prince or whatever. Be first, first, it would be first, first, first gentleman. Because his first gentleman. Because his first it . First lady, isnt it . First gentleman. Perhaps. I dont know. I dont know. What do you think, norman . What about she got chance as she wanted it american politics is so unpredictable. Look, we had trump did. I mean, just who knows what they will over there . Will do over there . I mean, this is what worries me about american politics. In all lot of all seriousness, i know a lot of all seriousness, i know a lot of a lot of you watching and listening quite like trump and all of it. But hes all the rest of it. But hes just turned into reality show. Just turned into a reality show. Oh, it does. It feels like somehow. Has. Yeah, it has. Yeah, it has. Make a sort of i could make a sort of british observation, which is that politics with that politics is better with three it works three parties because it works better that way rather than the antagonism that comes with just two parties. Funny you should say that, but agree. I agree. But i agree. I agree. The third party doesnt always have much influence, do they, though . They sometimes do not. Do. Not. Many votes sometimes do. Sometimes do. Sometimes do. Like think i do. When i i like to think i do. When i was in government . Yeah yes. Well, you were a top top minister. Indeed. Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. Lockdown kids in the telegraph. Emily. Lockdown harmed 50 or thereabouts of children. Yes. Children. Yes. This is according to a survey of 6000 families, parents are reporting that children are now more worried. Theyre appearing more worried. Theyre appearing more worried, more anxious , more more worried, more anxious, more easily losing their confidence , easily losing their confidence, hence more prone to tantrums and also low moods. After covid lockdowns. And its hardly surprising when youve been stuck indoors. Probably using your smartphone, your ipad, your computer, far more to be a lot more anxious. And theres also more anxious. And theres also more research in here thats talking about eating disorders among children. Theyve doubled just in the last six years, 11,800 children began treatment on the nhs for eating disorders last year. And thats up from 5006 years ago. So that is a huge increase. And we know things like anorexia are some of the most deadly Mental Health diseases out there. Your chances of living long are really, really curtailed. So again, we knew the lockdowns had a negative impact on children, but this is just more evidence to back up those claims. Yeah , its worrying. Yeah, its worrying. Yeah, its worrying. Ill tell you what im the eating disorder thing really worries me because i do get a bit sometimes when bit perturbed sometimes when its to set its all we need to set up clinics for for, people who are addicted to their x box. And im not saying its not a real problem, but it just seems like its not quite as real as an eating disorder. No itd be fatal. No, its terribly sad. I no, its terribly sad. I mean, when its something that sticks with you throughout your life, if youve been anorexic and it can be a killer, a really dangerous killer. And so presumably we need more resources into that. But then you say xbox and all of this, like thats all a lot. A lockdown knock, a knock on from lockdown. Yeah , i think made worse by yeah, i think made worse by at least yeah. Norman lets talk about stuart broad, shall we . On waterway. Talk about him. I mean, this talk about him. I mean, this is this is such a happy story. Its such a perfect story. And i was it was a fantastic test series, the ashes. It was great to the last hour of the potential use of time for the ashes and of course we know that there was a great result yesterday for england and for stuart broad and what a fairytale ending that his last hes retiring from test cricket of course his last score with the bat was a six over the boundary and his last ball ever in test cricket was to take the last wicket and to square the series for england. So what a fantastic fairytale ending. I mean, that is quite remarkable actually. When you remarkable actually. When you when put it like that, its brilliant. And i just just to love and i just i just to love test i watched through test match. I watched it through the days and it was the last few days and it was just fantastic entertainment. And people , if there are and those people, if there are any, who dont like cricket, hey, get stuck in. Its great. And theres lovely photos of the family, arent there . The family, arent there . There are, yeah. There are, yeah. Let me show you this one. This is on the front of the daily telegraph, but hes on most of the front pages, to be honest. Just a fantastic honest. But just a fantastic photo there. If i move it like this. Yeah, very happy this. Yeah, ive a very happy family. Thats fiancee, family. Thats his fiancee, mollie their baby. And mollie king, and their baby. And arabella king. On arabella king. Was she on saturdays fame . Yes, in the saturdays. And i only realised this a few weeks ago myself. Emily yeah, shes a pop star. Yeah, shes a pop star. She was pop star. She was pop star. Its a small world. Its a small world. There you go. Well, there you go. Well, there you go. Lets hope they make a lovely little family. Well they already do. Well, yes, they need to get married. So stephen, get married . Yes. Well, they are engaged. Yes. Well, they are engaged. Need to get he needs to get i need to get he needs to get her the aisle. Yeah, yeah. Her down the aisle. Yeah, yeah. Beat you cannot you cant beat you cannot beat being married. Got beat being married. Hes got time now. Getting changes. Its getting changes. Its getting changes. Life. He brought her your life. He brought her oven your life. He brought her over. Get out of it. Oh, get out of it. Oh, get out of it. Very good. If you want very good. Now, if you want to me an email. Emily, to send me an email. Emily, which never which youve never done. Actually, its a very upsets me when is the best time to send me an email . So its sunday afternoon, which is when you least which is when you are least likely to to receive a work likely to want to receive a work email. It the best time email. But it is the best time to send an between three to send an email between three and a sunday. Get and 6 pm. On a sunday. Get those emails in before the start of the week. Its the most likely to be read. Apparently 94 read if you 94 of emails are read if you send at that time. But its send them at that time. But its also the time that is going to enrage your your colleagues the most. So you may not have many friends in the office, but if you want a response, thats probably the best time to send it because people are generally free on a sunday afternoon and people are anxious on sunday. People are anxious on a sunday. Right. Checking to see right. Theyre checking to see if theyve forgotten whats happening monday. If happening on monday. And then if you send an email in, you send a send an email in, its going to go to the top of the inbox. Little tip here little, little tip here actually one get through actually, one way to get through to government minister would actually, one way to get through to be yvernment minister would actually, one way to get through to be the1ment minister would actually, one way to get through to be the case. Minister would actually, one way to get through to be the case. Now. ;ter would actually, one way to get through to be the case. Now. It r would actually, one way to get through to be the case. Now. It was uld not be the case. Now. It was a few years ago, was to send them a fax because normally in the office in the corner , theres a office in the corner, theres a fax machine no one ever uses. And suddenly this thing chugs into action and people go, whats that . And they go and find the fax youve sent them. Oh, there you go. Thats useful know. You how do useful to know. But you how do you fax now . You send a fax now . I wouldnt even know where to begin. A fax machine . A fax machine . No, im surprised at that. I would have said to thursday. Really . Well, tell why. Really . Well, ill tell you why. Because you the inbox on a because you clear the inbox on a monday and then fresh on monday and then youre fresh on a and then youve got a tuesday and then youve got the rest of week to respond. The rest of the week to respond. Thats tuesday. Thats tuesday. Well, maybe thats true. Well, maybe thats second best. Thats the second best. They havent us second best time. Ill tell you what never ill tell you what i never have emails up, though. Have emails piling up, though. If an email, read it and if i get an email, i read it and respond it immediately. Respond to it immediately. Good. Very good. Very good. Well, it drives me mad. Otherwise one these otherwise im one of these people that i dont do people that if i dont do something immediately, it does not done. Something immediately, it does not done. Oh, im happy to not get done. Oh, im happy to have 16,352 emails just waiting there. There. Is that how many youve got . Is that how many youve got . Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. That figure actually im thats very impressive. Same. Thats very impressive. But same. Thats very impressive. But some same. Thats very impressive. But some people ne. Thats very impressive. But some people have to have everything clear. They have to have read every whatsapp message, every email. And t. W. Six and youve got 153. Whats that , miss cole . Miss whats that, miss cole . Miss cole. Miss cole. Miss cole. Miss cole. 404 messages and an instagram notification. 104 messages that youve not read. Oh, no, im very bad. I couldnt. I couldnt. I mean, i can feel a panic coming on. Just looking. That might something. You that might be something. You might something and that might be something. You migijust something and that might be something. You migijust very something and that might be something. You migijust very popular, hing and that might be something. You migijust very popular, you and that might be something. You migijust very popular, you see. Hes just very popular, you see. So i glance at things. So i just glance at things. So i just glance at things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When yeah. When youre yeah. When youre on yeah. When youre on my yeah. So when youre on my text youve ms text now, youve got ms cole from ziggy. Cole from ziggy. Yeah. Hes cole from ziggy. Yeah. Hes going. Yeah. Hes going. Im going through my phone now. Oh. So theres nothing dodgy in there. Is that your mother , jmt costello . Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Joan. Joan. Joan. What is she saying . I dont know. Shes in galway now. Shes in galway now. Shes in ireland. Shes in ireland. That was on the 18th of. That was on the 18th of. She was, wasnt island. She was, wasnt island. Oh. I need to. On grandma maria are here to. Careful. Ill tell you what. Careful. Ill tell you what. Thank you. Youre not reading my message. Is that on there. Ill tell you honestly. Ill tell you. Im sorry, joan. I can only apologise on her behalf. Come here. Look at this behalf. Come here. Look at this sewage. How do we go from that to a sewage . Scampton dont know, norman. Not a happy story, but sewage spewed into conservation sites in the uk for 300,000 hours last year, and parts of the Lake District got more than 6600 tonnes of sewage in the seat. The parliamentary constituency of trudy harrison, who is a defra minister responsible for the Natural Environment and land use. So she seems to be not looking after her own backyard. But i just her own backyard. But i just wonder why cant the government get a handle on this . Dont know. I dont know. I dont know. I dont know. I mean, what can they well, i mean, what can they do try to get the do really . They try to get the company to deal it, havent company to deal with it, havent they . They havent. They . Well, they havent. Theyre anything. Theyre not doing anything. Unlimited fines theyve got unlimited fines now being brought in. They just they just be £100,000 or they used to just be £100,000 or something which obviously to these companies is nothing. Get Suella Braverman and charge lock up people. Charge and lock up these people. Thats the answer, isnt it . It might not be a bad idea. Lock up the chief executives that to them out. Its disgusting. Its disgust costing. Its disgust costing. We pay enough for all these water services. Im not necessarily this is im not necessarily against concept, this is against the concept, but this is absolutely of absolutely failure of privatisation. Say, privatisation. I have to say, privatising Water Companies back in well, know what . I would with you that i would agree with you that water has the strongest water probably has the strongest case for ownership out of case for Public Ownership out of all our, you know, utilities all of our, you know, utilities. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, there you go. I like it when you two agree its a re establish conservative lib dem coalition, isnt it . Well , well, we agree lib dem coalition, isnt it . Well, well, we agree on Meghan Markle. Meghan markle. Yeah, you do you agree she shouldnt be the president . No, hes agreed on a few things this morning. Very harmonious in here. Very harmonious in here. Very harmonious in here. Very nice. Have got a have very nice. Have we got a have we got time for the telegraph . This is quite a good one. This is quite a good one. Go on then. It is quite a good one. Yes. So a chef theres a chef in notting hill and hes bit in notting hill and hes a bit of tock influencer as of a tick tock influencer as well. And opened a shop well. And hes opened up a shop well, restaurant in the very well, a restaurant in the very trendy part of london. And all his white males. His staff are white males. And theres picture. As you theres the picture. So as you can many people on can see, many people on instagram tick tock instagram and tick tock have looked at this picture and their first thought is shock, horror. Theyre all white males and first thought is shock, horror. Thitheresl white males and first thought is shock, horror. Thitheres beene males and first thought is shock, horror. Thitheres been a males and first thought is shock, horror. Thitheres been a massive and so theres been a massive controversy in his comments and its got into all the papers today and hes said and people some people have been saying i wouldnt work there because theres no diversity. This is awful, blah, blah, blah. Others have that, know, have pointed out that, you know, no one complains about chinese and restaurants, no being and indian restaurants, no being being chinese or all indian being all chinese or all indian background. So, you know, mixed reviews. But it just shows how obsessed we are with this sort of diverse city stuff. Can i point out the england cricket teams all white males dressed white as well . Dressed in white as well . Yeah. Think stuff like yeah. I just think stuff like that crazy. Yeah. I just think stuff like that crazy. Its yeah. I just think stuff like that crazy. Its crazy. Yeah. I just think stuff like that crazy. Its crazy. If that is crazy. Its crazy. If there i mean, theyre different ages and who knows what their backgrounds are. Theyre just diverse city in a different way. Well, yeah, people are saying they should you know, they should have, you know, hired hired a woman. They should have, you know, hireand hired a woman. They should have, you know, hireand apparentlynan. They should have, you know, hireand apparently he. They should have, you know, hireand apparently he says male and apparently he says male dominated industry. And apparently he says male doritsited industry. And apparently he says male dorits the industry. And apparently he says male dorits the same ry. And apparently he says male dorits the same if. And apparently he says male dorits the same if you look at its the same if you look at a building site, for example, and theres and youre saying, oh, theres not women. Well, theres not enough women. Well, theres a women wouldnt a lot of women just wouldnt want to work. No, no, no. But i as a matter of fact, ellie, would you not . Not. Im not. Im not. Not really. Not really. I dont id survive the i dont think id survive the day a building site. Day on a building site. Great wolf whistle. You could whistle at all the fellas walking past. You see . Thats true. Be. No, thats true. Thatd be. Thatd be then. Thatd be equality, then. One could complain. And no one could complain. There you go. Lovely. Its been really good to see both this morning. W e very much morning. Very much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you very much indeed. Youre wonderful suit, and youre wonderful suit, norman. Of purple. That is quite special. That is quite special. Thank you. Thank you. To his socks. Hes got down to his socks. Hes got different shades of purple. Yeah, its honestly, if youre the radio, youre listening on the radio, youre listening on the radio, you need to have look at you need to have a look at normans its absolutely remarkable. Blackcurrant squash something. Delivering tray. Delivering milk tray. Delivering milk tray. Fabulous. Its fabulous. Its fabulous. Lets get the milk tray. Lets get the weather for you. Heres. Alex weather for you. Heres. Alex looks like things are heating up boxt boilers are proud sponsors of weather on gb news news morning alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious everywhere. Quite a be glorious everywhere. Quite a lot cloud this over lot of cloud this morning over northwest parts of northwest england, parts of northern wales, northern ireland, north wales, further rain here further outbreaks of rain here and some showers in southern scotland, too. In this zone, we will a few showers through will keep a few showers through the the one further the day. The odd one further south, some brighter spells south, but some brighter spells here across much of central here and across much of central and northern well see and northern scotland. Well see and northern scotland. Well see a sunshine coming a bit of sunshine coming through. Of a breeze through. Still a bit of a breeze blowing, overall probably blowing, but overall probably feeling bit warmer than feeling a bit warmer than yesterday. Though, yesterday. Temperatures, though, still mostly around or below average time of year and average for the time of year and down to the south west. Look at this, wet weather coming this, more wet weather coming in. To be on the in. This is going to be on the heavy side well it spreads heavy side as well as it spreads in through this evening across the south west, then into parts of wales. An area of of wales. And its an area of low pressure that will dominate our tonight. And our weather through tonight. And most this of most of tomorrow. This line of rain northwards then rain sweeps northwards and then kind grind to a kind of likely to grind to a halt during wednesday. Will halt during wednesday. It will bnngin halt during wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across the south. Further north, could dip single north, we could dip into single figures spots, but figures in some rural spots, but mostly its about the rain and the tomorrow quite the wind tomorrow getting quite blustery south coast blustery along the south coast and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across parts of Northern England. Southern scotland, some brighter between the brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, with the too much rain, but with the winds coming in from north winds coming in from the north or east, it is not going to or the east, it is not going to be particularly so again, be particularly warm. So again, high teens, low 20s at. tannoy this is the final call for all Long Distance lovers. Im flying round the world to marry a man that ive never met. How do i know that youre even the person you say you are . Please fasten your seatbelts. Maybe were not actually supposed to be in this relationship. As we expect turbulence ahead. Can you not see my insides breaking . How far would you go for love . Brand new 90 day fiance uk, available to stream only on discovery . Watch at no extra cost. Say, get discovery into your voice remote to activate. Best good morning to you. Its 9 00 on tuesday, the 1st of august. Today the biggest single rise in alcohol duty for 50 years. The Hospitality Industry warning that the tax rise that comes into force today could cripple businesses. Cripple businesses. Under new measures, tax will be levied according to drink strength , meaning a bottle of strength, meaning a bottle of wine could cost up to 20 more overnight , the home office plans overnight, the home office plans to house 50 migrants on a barge in dorset have been delayed following last minute talks over fire safety. Nigel farage says fire safety. Nigel farage says coutts has offered to reinstate his accounts following talks with the new chief of the bank. The gb news presenter is seeking compensation and a formal apology. Also coming up for you, the latest weather with alex after such a wet july the 1st of august does promise something a little drier for most of us today, but its not really going today, but its not really going to last more wet and windy weather to come tonight. And tomorrow. Join me later for a full weather update. Morning to you. Im stephen dixon. And im ali costello. And this breakfast on. This is breakfast on. Gb news. All right, lets kick off talking about booze this morning. We all like a drink , but i we all like a drink, but i had a good weekend. Did you . But alcohol duty is going to see its biggest single increase in 50 years from today as hospitality bosses are warning this multi Million Pound tax rise could cripple the industry. Could cripple the industry. Yes, the Prime Minister has hailed the changes though, which will see drink taxed according to its strength as the most radical simplification of the duty in over a century , which he duty in over a century, which he says is all made possible because of brexit. But the wine and Spirits Trade Association is hitting back, accusing the government of inflicting inflation. Ms misery on all of us. Ms misery on all of us. Well, earlier the government told us that the changes will actually make some drinks cheaper. Cheapen seco for example , and canned seco for example, and canned dnnks seco for example, and canned drinks with mixers in so you know a vodka and coke or a gin and tonic in a can actually the duty on those products will come down because weve had this really quite weird system which was very much based on individual drinks rather than on the percentage of alcohol in them. So for a lot of products, actually, going see actually, youre going to see a tax reduction today. Head to the well, lets head to the shakespeare in birmingham. Shakespeare in birmingham. Should we . Jack carson is there for us this morning. What do people making of it, jack . People making of it, jack . Well, good morning to you both. Yeah, this is the biggest overhaul, isnt it, really, in the alcohol duty for some time . I mean , alcohol duty in the uk i mean, alcohol duty in the uk has been been frozen since 2020. And it was this rise was meant to go ahead earlier in the year with the cost of living pressures. The chancellor, jeremy hunt, put it back to now and although prices are still rising, theyre rising at a lower rate. And so the government have decided to go ahead these changes today. Ahead with these changes today. And a big overhaul judging and it is a big overhaul judging it. And simplifying it with how the duty works by taxing , of the duty works by taxing, of course, depending on the volume of alcohol, it does mean that it is promoting some of those lower alcohol coffee content wines such as english, sparkling wine particularly, is going to benefit very well from this. Of course, we know thats a big emerging industry within within britain, of course. And this is of course, all possible the of course, all possible as the government saying, government have been saying, because brexit. But it does because of brexit. But it does mean that some of the things, some the alcohol consume some of the alcohol we consume the in the uk, such as the most here in the uk, such as wine, is going to go up a typical bottle of wine with an alcohol volume of alcohol percentage volume of about is going to go up by about 12 is going to go up by about 12 is going to go up by about four £0. 44, but wine with about four £0. 44, but wine with a 15 alcohol content will rise by about £0. 98 thats according, of course, to the wine and Spirits Trade Association. They Spirits Trade Association. They have hit at the government , of have hit at the government, of course, for that, saying that this is a more inflationary measure. Hours on, of course and measure. Hours on, of course and crippling some of that industry thats trying to of course cope after the pandemic. But yeah, this new alcohol duty coming in today and people on the street have been telling me today, of course, that they think its a good thing, that its promoting maybe less drinking. Of maybe less drinking. But of course, cost of course, with this cost of living, not necessarily living, theyre not necessarily happy living, theyre not necessarily happy prices more happy that more prices and more things buy are going things that they buy are going up okay. Carson , really okay. Jack carson, really good to see you this morning. Thank you very much. Well, lets talk to former chief secretary to the treasury, david mellor, who joins us now down the line. Oh, and just were just getting him established , as we say in the established, as we say in the business, david mellor, there he is. Good to see. Good to see you, mr mellor, what do you make of this . Because good to see you. But now im banned from the studio. I have to talk to you from dorset. Oh, weve banned you, have we . Well, quite right to talk to myself. What great subject. They want to talk to man of my to talk to a man of my distinction about it. Turns out to be booze. Am i becoming typecast . Well, possibly. Well, possibly. Possibly. Youve enjoyed a dnnk possibly. Youve enjoyed a drink or two over the years. I mean , the government is telling mean, the government is telling us that this is you know, its a brexit bonanza. You know, theres no going to be no increase on on draught beers served in the pub, but everyone else saying its a disaster. Well i dont think its disaster. And if people have to pay a quid more for a bottle of wine, i dont think thats the end of the world. This is i suppose its not quite a stealth tax, but it almost is. But governments like to persuade people theyre not raising governments like to persuade people tax. Theyre not raising governments like to persuade people tax. Butire not raising governments like to persuade people tax. But of not raising governments like to persuade people tax. But of course,;ing governments like to persuade people tax. But of course, what income tax. But of course, what theyre is raising taxes theyre doing is raising taxes on everything in people enjoy spending their money on. But i mean, getting real about this. Im a bit of a wine buff. Okay. Im a bit of a wine buff. Okay. Im sorry to have to admit it. I hopeit im sorry to have to admit it. I hope it doesnt shock too many people and i have a cellar full of nice wine. Im not drinking it at the moment since im trying to exercise restraint. Trying to exercise restraint. But you notice is if you but what you notice is if you have any interest in wine, is how much the strength, the alcoholic strength of wine has gone up in the good, backslash, bad old days. Wine might be 10 or 11 proof. Now, if you look at the bottle of wine, you last drunk, 13. 5, 14, 14. 5, 15. Thats a big increase in alcohol. And that is not in our best interests health wise, nor in my opinion , on does it affect in my opinion, on does it affect beer officially, the taste of the wine. The wine. Its a very good point, david, actually. And if you dont mind , well come back to dont mind, well come back to you on that because we just want to talk to you. A shadow government minister, and at which point well get your reaction to what he has to say as well. I know david wont mind hanging on because steve reid is standing by saying, yes , steve standing by saying, yes, steve reid is the shadow secretary of state for justice. Joins now very good to he joins us now very good to see this morning, steve. And see you this morning, steve. And youre here talk to us about youre here to talk to us about thousands criminals thousands of criminals who escape or are mistakenly released from jail. And you want to talk about what the labour party would do to stop this. Party would do to stop this. Well, yes , thats absolutely well, yes, thats absolutely right. Its their released by accident or escape, but the numbers are quite shocking. So numbers are quite shocking. So over the last ten years, 2000 prisoners who should have been behind bars have instead been let loose. And that works out at three accidental releases or abscondment every single week for a full decade. Now, those are cold statistics. And if you look behind the statistics at what that really means , its what that really means, its cases like a guy called william fernandez, who was being held awaiting trial for sexual assault. And because he was assault. And because he was released in error, released in error, he went out and he raped a 16 Year Old Girl and assaulted another teenage girl. That should never have happened. And its because weve got a government that has lost control of the criminal Justice System from end to end. We heard those other statistics, stats , other statistics, stats, statistics, didnt we, yesterday where only 1 in 10 offences ever results in any kind of prosecution . We know that the jails are full up, so we have the justice secretary writing to the justice secretary writing to the judges, telling them to stop locking offenders up because theyve run out of space in the prisons. After the conservatives closed down, got rid of 10,000 of those prisoner cells. Now are things we need to do about this. One is we could join up procurement across all the Police Forces to make enough savings to put 13,000 extra police streets. That police back on the streets. That would help to we train up would help to we could train up assistant prosecutors to act as crown prosecutor to bring down the court backlogs. But we really need to get a grip of the entire criminal Justice System rather than have this revolving door of leadership that weve had conservatives that had under the conservatives that has justice has seen ten different justice secretaries over the time theyve been in office. They barely last a year before theyve on to another job theyve gone on to another job again, one has got control again, no one has got control over this system. Thats why we need to change the that need to change the way that were approaching crime. I dont think well, look, i dont think anyones going to argue with the fact shouldnt fact that people shouldnt be released in error or being able to abscond. So lets hope that to abscond. So lets hope that gets looked at. And look, can i ask you about this, this north sea oil issue . Because weve had this huge announcement and it is huge from the Prime Minister saying, you know, were going to have licences for north sea have 100 licences for north sea oil and gas export nation. Its going to create its going to keep a lot of jobs going and create 22,000 more. And its going to be green because were going to be green because were going to be green because were going to have really proper Carbon Capture linked to all of this. This Carbon Capture linked to all of this. This has led to an accusation that the labour partys plans on all of this actually is just going to make the country poorer for. Well its the conservative government that have made this country poon if you look at what happened over last winter compared to the 18 months before that, energy pnces 18 months before that, Energy Prices in this country had gone up three times, 300 increase. And thats under this Current System that the conservatives seem to want to keep plugging away at. As if it could make any difference. We already know the damage that it caused. Just look across channel france and across the channel at france and their bills went up a fraction of what ours went up. And the reason that, because theyve reason for that, because theyve invested in nuclear and Renewables Wind power, renewables like wind power, where they have wind farms in their in their country, weve had no new Nuclear Power stations opened under this government and weve had no new onshore since 2015. And yet onshore wind since 2015. And yet the conservatives think that just plugging away at the same thing that led to the crisis were in today is the way to continue into the future. Theres a better way than that. And labours plan is to transition to us the clean energy of the future. We can become a clean energy, super power if we invest in wind, wave, solar and nuclear. But it takes a government to coordinate that. Labours proposing setting up a publicly owned Company Called gb energy that will be based in scotland that would direct public and private funding to make sure that we get the Home Grown Energy much more secure , much lower cost secure supply, much lower cost that can fuel Economic Growth into the future. So the into the future. So the conservatives have said nothing about had 13 about that and theyve had 13 years do something and years to do something and theyve absolutely nothing. Theyve done absolutely nothing. Now think the same now they think more of the same is help and it wont. Is going to help and it wont. Before you go, because just before you go, because i know tight time, mr know youre tight for time, mr reid, i just ask you about reid, can i just ask you about the alcohol issue . The the alcohol duty issue . The government this is going to government says this is going to be good pubs. Everyone else be good for pubs. Everyone else seems disagree. Do seems to disagree. What do you make what seeing . Make of what were seeing . Well, its just another way of clobbering working people, isnt it, from a government that seems to have got a fetish for just making Household Budgets squeeze us as tightly as they possibly can. They crashed the economy last autumn, didnt they, with that disastrous mini budget prices mini budget that sent prices through the roof, that sent mortgages and Interest Rates and forgive me, mr reid, out of control. This is yet another control. This is yet another this is yet another way that the government is just clobbering hard working people. What about the Public Health issue . Issue . Well, i think you do that through educate action, not by inflicting more Financial Hardship on families. I dont know why they keep doing this, but weve got the highest levels of taxation under this of personal taxation under this government had 70 government that weve had for 70 years. The root cause of that is that they failed to grow the economy for 13 years. We have to grow the if you want to grow the economy. If you want to put money back in peoples pockets. This government has had 13 if they knew to how do 13 years. If they knew to how do that, seen it now. That, wed have seen it by now. Steve good to see you. Steve reid, good to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Lets get reaction from well, lets get reaction from the former chief secretary to the former chief secretary to the treasury david mellor, who still line us now. Still is on the line for us now. David, really good you. David, really good to see you. What you of that then . What do you make of that then . Lets about the duty on on lets talk about the duty on on alcohol, shall we . And steve reid saying its clobbering working class people. What do you make of that . Hes rather primitive, well, hes rather primitive, isnt he . Hes a bit like a caveman, really. He doesnt have intelligent thought processes. In fact , im a big fan of the in fact, im a big fan of the punch and judy show we have locally. And its hard to tell the difference between punch and judy and him, except punch has a string of sausages. Maybe steve should have a string of sausages. Look, its absolute nonsense theres nonsense what he says. Theres nonsense what he says. Theres no way a clobbering, you know, its class war stuff, a clobbering. The ordinary working people. What were trying to do is save the lives of ordinary working people. And you do that best by allowing them to drink whilst not inflicting more damage than you have to on their livers. Have made the point livers. Have made the point about beer , about wine. I can about beer, about wine. I can make the same point about about beer. Make the same point about about beer. When i was a kid sneaking beer. When i was a kid sneaking an illicit drink in a pub and i was a beer man myself. The was a beer man myself. The alcohol strength of that beer was far less than it is today for various reasons. The manufacturers of this stuff and the producers of wine have chosen to boost the alcohol content. Its bad for our health andisnt content. Its bad for our health and isnt actually that good for the drinker because the taste in improvement is not worth the risk of ruining your liver. Yeah, i think thats a sensible point. I do have to say, david, look , weve got to say, david, look, weve got to leave it there. Its been good to see you. Well see if we can lift the ban on you. Coming back into the newsroom, if you like. Thanks, david. Now britains newsroom is coming at 930 bev newsroom is coming up at 930 bev turner and tom harwood are here to us about it. Good to tell us all about it. Good morning, you two. Morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We in thats very we did that in sync. Thats very nice. That might be the only morning timing. Right. Morning that our timing. Right. I to you guys on i was listening to you guys on the way in this morning. I hope we sounded good. You were so good. Honestly, you doing such honestly, you were doing such a and i was sort of a great job, and i was sort of really grappling with this alcohol to whether it alcohol story as to whether it is or bad news. And is good or bad news. And i shared sort of frustration shared your sort of frustration actually, whether this is actually, as to whether this is going to help the consumer. But not the publican or help the publican, but not the home drinker. I publican, but not the home drinker. I still dont feel very clear on it. It seems like its entirely what you drink if youre someone who exclusively drinks prosecco, its for you. Its a good day for you. If youre someone however, if youre someone who enjoys a fortified wine, then bad day for you. It then its a bad day for you. It seems like a system that was designed to simplify something has then had some carve outs and its made a little bit more its made it a little bit more complicated. You complicated. But what do you think what david mellor think of what david mellor just had say . Had to say . Was a very good point which was a very good point actually, that wine is more alcoholic than it used to be. Beeris alcoholic than it used to be. Beer is more alcoholic than it used and thats bad for used to be, and thats bad for our if it brings our health. So if it brings those back again, those levels back down again, but wont affect but does it it wont affect human behaviour. Want a pint, youre if you want a pint, youre not going to have it because its £0. 11 cheaper, although it might, it might even it might even be different that. Even be different than that. Be that if youre it might be that if youre someone a problem drinker, someone whos a problem drinker, if you have a compulsion to have alcohol, not going be alcohol, youre not going to be affected rises. Whereas affected by price rises. Whereas if moderate if youre a moderate drinker, someone compulsive to someone who is not compulsive to dnnk someone who is not compulsive to drink this stuff, you will be affected. So perhaps were cracking down on the wrong people here. But but thats one of the stories were talking about. Going to be about. Were also going to be looking fatties in looking at fatties in the workplace, which is apparently on the rise as people who are obese feel discriminated against in their place of work. Obese feel discriminated against in their place of work. And in their place of work. And were going to be debating that a little bit. Yeah. And yet it feels like yeah. And yet it feels like its more acceptable its never been more acceptable to larger size. Were to be of a larger size. Were accommodating School Uniforms for bigger children. You know , for bigger children. You know, bigger etcetera, bigger plane seats, etcetera, bigger plane seats, etcetera, bigger train which bigger train seats, which bizarrely still cost the same amount as smaller plane seats. Im paying more for my if im paying more for my baggage, know why baggage, i dont know why someone me someone twice the size of me should have exactly the same price for that plane. Cant all be thin as a fat i its not an easy conversation. Its not an easy. No, its not. But we dont mind tackling it this morning. Okay, lovely. We look forward to a little later on. On. Thank you. Go on. You do this bit now. Stay with do the accent. Stay with us. Do the accent. Stay with us. Do the accent. Is yorkshire day and today is yorkshire day and were going to be going live to the region celebrate the region to celebrate everything. Yorkshire. 920 its yorkshire day. 920 its yorkshire day. 920 its yorkshire day. I think thats brilliant. I i think thats brilliant. I didnt know there was one. So lets talk to our yorkshire and humberside reporter anna riley who joins us now. Hello good morning. I should say good morning. I should say a up and it is yorkshire day isnt it . First of all, 1st of august, 1st of august, every year that the day is celebrated and its all about whats best about yorkshire. Our culture, our heritage and our history. And although its celebrated all across yorkshire on yorkshire day each year a different place in yorkshire is chosen to host the civic ceremony. So thats the civic ceremony. So thats when vips , mayors from all when vips, mayors from all across the county come together along with the yorkshire society, to make it a good old day. And im joined by leanne. Shes been organising this all. Shes been organising this all. Shes head of culture at the council. Just tell us whats yorkshire day all about and what can we expect here in rotherham today . So yorkshire day is a celebration of all of the identities and traits that make up yorkshire from all of the towns and villages and cities that make up our fantastic county. Its a very traditional celebration, so theres quite a lot of civic ritual that dates back to the 1700s. But in rotherham weve decided to go with a bit of a twist for our celebrations. So we will be the worlds first childrens capital of culture in 2025. So weve handed over our event to our children and young people. So you can expect to see a mayor joining our mayor on the parade. Weve got Young Artists in residence, so weve got singers and dancers, poets wholl be leading our creative programme. Weve got young presenter who weve got a young presenter who will be presenting and hosting alongside the mayor for all of the civic celebrations as weve got readings and films that are all created by young people, all our young producers have created mayor fm to keep the mayors entertained on their way to wentworth woodhouse. So yeah, its celebration of the its a real celebration of the next generation of potentially future mayors and Civic Leaders i thank 5mm thank you so much, leanne. Thank you for speaking to us this morning. And that is something that will be covering throughout so watch throughout the day. So. So watch out news for the of out on gb news for the rest of the day here in rotherham. But now and ellie, have now stephen and ellie, i have a quiz for you because something that we pride ourselves in that we pride ourselves on in yorkshire our dialect, our yorkshire is our dialect, our slang that we use and our slang words that we use and our accents. So if i said to you both, moftah shop, do you know what would that mean . Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. For the shop. For the shop. Do you want anything . Do you want anything . Yeah, love it. But you know, it sounds better. Start it off easy. Start it off easy. Yeah. Yeah. Keep them coming. Keep them coming. Keep them coming. E begum. What does that mean . Right. 7 right. No, havent got that. You what we say. But i mean i say begum a bit but its just like sort of baekje isnt it. Whats going on or what. Oh my gosh. A bit of a oh my gosh. He begum next one. Put the wood in all or put wood in all haha. How did you not know that one . What no, shut the door. Shut the door. Shut the door. Shut the door. Thats shut the door. Thats it. Shut the door. Thats it. Put the wood in the hole. Shut the doon the wood in the hole. Shut the door. Thats the one. If i said to you both shut your cake oil, what would that mean . Shut your mouth. I know that one. Shut your mouth. Mouth. Love it. Anna riley. Thats it. Shut your mouth. Keep your mouth zipped. Final one. Go on. If i said to you, smithy, what would that mean . Smithy see you later. Goodbye oh, thats it. Later. Goodbye oh, thats it. You got it, love it. You got it, love it. Ill tell you what. Its always a joy to talk to you because you really bring a bit of yorkshire on to the programme, which is why we love it. Anna, thank you very much indeed. Good to see you. Thanks, anna. Thanks, anna. Cheeks from oh, my cheeks hurt from smiling much. I love anna. Smiling so much. I love anna. I love her. Shes great, right . That is it from us. Were back tomorrow morning 6 00, back tomorrow morning at 6 00, so it. But up next, so dont miss it. But up next, its the twosome of its trouble with the twosome of bev tom just wiping marks bev and tom just wiping marks off of toms feet here. Goodness, he needs to be camera ready. Its 930. Weve got an amazing show coming up, though. Weve got so much to talk about. Bev, what are we talking well, the alcohol talking about . Well, the alcohol duty. To work out were going to work out whether good you or whether this is good for you or bad you. It seems like for bad for you. It seems like for some people its good and for others its bad. Which camp do you fit into . Which camp do you fit into . Also, had the news this also, weve had the news this morning that nigel farage has been offered a bank account back from he take from cootes, but will he take it . Be discussing it . Were going to be discussing that. And weve got sandy johnson. Stanley johnson, not we do. Stanley johnson, not just alcohol just talking about that alcohol rise, course, the rise, but also, of course, the prime has been jetting Prime Minister has been jetting up country. Should up and down the country. Should a minister be taking a Prime Minister be taking helicopters jets . Helicopters and private jets . I think Prime Minister a g7 think a Prime Minister of a g7 country probably should, except think a Prime Minister of a g7 counwhen obably should, except think a Prime Minister of a g7 counwhen he bly should, except think a Prime Minister of a g7 counwhen he says, |ould, except think a Prime Minister of a g7 counwhen he says, well, except think a Prime Minister of a g7 counwhen he says, well, itsapt that when he says, well, its convenient for me. You know what, rishi well, you know what, rishi sunak using my car is convenient for me. So lets have a chat about as well. Dont go anywhere. Looks things are heating looks like things are heating up. Boilers sponsors up. Boxed boilers proud sponsors of on gb news as morning i alex deakin here with your latest weather update from the met office for gb news. Overall a drier day today compared to yesterday. Some of us will see a little bit of sunshine as well, but it wont be glorious everywhere. Quite of cloud everywhere. Quite a lot of cloud this morning over northwest england, Northern England, parts of northern ireland, further ireland, north wales, further outbreaks rain here and outbreaks of rain here and some showers southern scotland , showers in southern scotland, too. This zone, we will keep too. In this zone, we will keep a few through the day. A few showers through the day. The one further south, but the odd one further south, but some brighter here and some brighter spells here and across central and across much of central and northern see northern scotland. Well see a bit of sunshine coming through. Still bit a breeze blowing, still a bit of a breeze blowing, but overall, probably feeling a bit than yesterday. Bit warmer than yesterday. Temperatures, though, still mostly around or below average for time of year and down to for the time of year and down to the south west. Look at this, more weather coming in. This more wet weather coming in. This is be on the heavy side is going to be on the heavy side as it spreads in through as well as it spreads in through this evening across the south west, then into of south west, then into parts of wales and an area of low wales and its an area of low pressure that will dominate our weather tonight. Weather through tonight. And most of tomorrow. This line of rain northwards and then rain sweeps northwards and then kind likely grind to a kind of likely to grind to a halt during wednesday. It will bnngin halt during wednesday. It will bring in some milder air. So its not going to be a cold night across the south. Further north, could dip into single north, we could dip into single figures spots, but figures in some rural spots, but mostly its about the rain and the tomorrow getting quite the wind tomorrow getting quite blustery south coast blustery along the south coast and windy. Some heavy and seasonably windy. Some heavy showers fairly wet showers here staying fairly wet across of Northern England across parts of Northern England , southern scotland, some brighter spells between the zones of rain. Again, northern scotland, probably not seeing too much rain, but with the winds coming in from the north or it is not going to or the east, it is not going to be particularly warm. So, again, high low 20s at best, high teens, low 20s at best, looks like things are heating up i boxed boilers, proud sponsors of weather on. Gb news. It is 9. 30 on tuesday, the 1st of august. Good morning. 1st of august. Good morning. This is britains newsroom on gb news with bev turner and tom harwood today and today sees the biggest single rise in alcohol duty for 50 years. The treasury says the new principles are common sense with tax being levied according to a drinks strength. Drinks strength. And im here in Portland Port, where the home offices plans to house 50 Asylum Seekers has run into problems due to fire safety concerns. Ill have the latest from the ground in a few minutes. Few minutes. And nigel farage is de banking scandal rumbles on. Kooks have offered to reinstate the gb news presenters accounts, but will that be enough for nigel to put the matter to rest 7 nigel to put the matter to rest . I guess