Than yesterday. Heres rachel ayers from the met office. Ayers from the met office. It was an unsettled start to the weekend with storm anthony crossing the uk, but it looks like a drier and brighter second half for us across the uk. Join me later for a full forecast with all the details. Well its lovely to be with you today. Im anne diamond. Im anne diamond. And im Martin Daubney and this breakfast on. Gb news. This is breakfast on. Gb news. So you have been a sunbed hugger . Well not only that, anne. I must confess, i deploy my children like fagin. I send them children like fagin. I send them down early towels on sunbeds before breakfast, and i even direct them from the balcony. No, not that yet. That great. So isend no, not that yet. That great. So i send the kids down because they wake at the crack of dawn and theyre penalty for that is go and get me a lounger. I must confess i do it, but i see. Thats not so bad in that what youre doing is just claiming your right early. But would you hold on to that sunbed if you other things to do if you had other things to do and leave with your and leave it vacant with your towel on it for maybe hours . Yes. Oh yes. You shouldnt do that during a lunch break or a siesta. Siesta. I want to make sure if i if i get there early doors, thats my territory. Thats my the entire day. Im afraid its finders keepers. I get very, very edgy about this. I need my space. About this. I need my space. I need to get it sorted out. Well, ive. I understand that, but its not right. You must feel guilty about it, surely . Not remotely. Not remotely. Not remotely. Because when you leave to go for a lunch or a siesta, for heavens sake, a siesta, you leave your stuff on and you walk away. Do you not feel other people looking at you and judging you . I tend to wear the sunglasses and just just walk quickly. Ashamed . Yeah yeah. Well, you feel a sense of shame in what you do, but i hide my shame behind sunglasses. But a paperback novel. You dont mind paperback novel. You dont mind if it gets stolen . A towel, if it gets stolen . A towel, a hotel towel . I feel it. If you. If you havent sent the children out at the beginning and youre looking out balcony and youre out from your balcony and youre thinking, really to thinking, oh, i really want to spend in the sun, spend the morning in the sun, and look down there and all and you look down there and all the are already taken, the sunbeds are already taken, does that fill you does not does that not fill you full despair . Full of despair . Well, thats why i send the kids down early. Yeah. Ill get ahead tsunami. Yeah, ahead of the tsunami. Yeah, but you you know how you know how you know how appalling is that people do appalling it is that people do it, youre doing it yourself. You cant beat them. You cant beat them. Join them. Join them. You see, thats what i wonder. There probably are. I dont i have. And ive dont think i have. And ive certainly it for certainly never left it for hours because i feel so guilty. Well, people is well, anyway, people say is unknown it. And unknown and shes done it. And nowadays take film of you. Nowadays they take film of you. But i can understand why you have fight back. If many have to fight back. If so many people are doing it in the hotel or where or the beautiful beach where you are everybodys doing it, are. If everybodys doing it, then in a way you just have to join in. Otherwise just join in. Otherwise youre just the that gets left sitting the nelly that gets left sitting on the sand. If you remember that and if you remember that excellent calling advert from years ago, became a National Years ago, it became a national thing. Brits, now the thing. The brits, now the dambusters versus the germans, it a national sport. It became a national sport. And its akin with football. And its akin with football. I a i am shocked to find that i am a i am shocked to find that it still the case. Yeah. If it is still the case. Yeah. If youve ever been a sunbed huggen youve ever been a sunbed hugger, whats your hugger, you know, whats your defence . Or did you feel ashamed . And wed love to hear from you if you were one of the people evacuated from greece from rhodes, for instance, because of the wild fires, because their Prime Minister, who is kyriakos , youre doing well. Mitsotakis thats it has said that if you were one of the people who had to be evacuated, you were affected by those wildfires. He is offering you a free week in in greece. Its an astonishing story. Its an astonishing story. He said either it is free, obviously offering it in the off season, in the spring or the fall, spring or autumn. Not not peak season, but nevertheless, its a free week in rhodes. I think an amazing i think its an amazing offer. Brilliant. I mean, there were 19,000 odd people in total evacuated. So people in total evacuated. So however many of those were brits, we dont know. If you were one of then get in were one of them, then get in touch because it looks like the Prime Minister is giving you a free in greece to give you free week in greece to give you a week. A free week. I think thats a and i think thats a brilliant move because greek Tourism Industry tourism is their main industry and to get back and so theyve got to get back and so theyve got to get back and its all in rhodes and say its all right in rhodes now. Come out and see us anytime , week. And many , some free week. And how many people would probably extend that well. Once theyre that as well. And once theyre out also , i mean, out there and also, i mean, its such wonderful and its such a wonderful place and its so theres much to so historic. Theres so much to see that it doesnt matter if you were going off you were going in the off season. Actually, i think i think first and foremost, think on the first and foremost, what a fantastic piece of pr. What a fan tastic piece of pr. Yeah, you know, its a great, great gesture. Secondly, it sends message open sends out the message were open for you dont for business. You know, dont worry. Life goes on worry. You know, life goes on and free week, an thats and a free week, an thats absolutely. I know. Its just brilliant, i think its just brilliant, actually. Would you go or are actually. So would you go or are you worried there will be wildfires the future when wildfires in the future when weather the other thing . Weather is the other thing . Were going to talk about a lot today . Yeah. How how were you affected yesterday . Us affected yesterday . Both of us in separate homes sprung affected yesterday . Both of us in yesterday homes sprung affected yesterday . Both of us in yesterday. Omes sprung leaks yesterday. Yeah, i had a leak from the window onto the table. My veneers lifted, which ive now window onto the table. My ven to s lifted, which ive now window onto the table. My ven to use ted, which ive now window onto the table. My ven to use an, which ive now window onto the table. My ven to use an ironich ive now window onto the table. My ven to use an iron to ive now window onto the table. My ven to use an iron to get� now window onto the table. My ven to use an iron to get back got to use an iron to get back down. I quite like doing things like that, actually. Ive a bay window and ive got a bay window and there was leak. Was water there was a leak. It was water running the side. So i put running down the side. So i put a running down the side. So i put 6 lug running down the side. So i put a jug underneath it, half a jug full thats a lot, full of water. Thats a lot, thats a litre jug. So its half a water. Thats a big a litre of water. Thats a big leak. That is big worrying leak. That is a big worrying leak. That is a big worrying leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect you yesterday . Id love leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect yfrom sterday . Id love leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect yfrom you. Ay . Id love leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect yfrom you. Iy . Id love leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect yfrom you. I think love leak. Yeah so how did the storm affect yfrom you. I think weve to hear from you. I think weve got better news ahead , though, got better news ahead, though, from weather, especially from the weather, especially if you page of the you read the front page of the daily there it is. They daily star. There it is. They report that people have actually spotted shiny of fire in spotted a shiny ball of fire in the sky. Whats that thing . Whats that . I dont know what it is, but, you know. But they saying that but they also saying that apparently weather is really apparently the weather is really going warm during the week going to warm up during the week at end of the week anyway. At the end of the week anyway. And to have proper and were going to have proper sunshine, and heat at the sunshine, shine and heat at the end week if we believe end of the week if we believe them look into it them. Well, well look into it and and find whether and try and find out whether thats case, because thats really the case, because when its on the front page, you never quite know what to think. Yeah. Was yesterdays story yeah. What was yesterdays story yesterday was joe pasquale was was impaled a moose in skegness. Yeah. Which took a lot of trying to get your head around. In fact, i dont think we managed during the entire managed it no. During the entire show. The weathers show. But anyway, the weathers back. Hurrah the weathers back. Would you consider going to rhodes if youd rhodes if youd been . If youd had because of the had to evacuate because of the fires, would you go back and. And what was the other thing . First yeah i cant remember first one . Yeah i cant remember now. Oh, no. Have you been a sunbed hugger . Yeah, of course. Yeah, thats. How do you justify that . Love to hear from you that . Id love to hear from you. At gb news news. Com. Yeah. News at gb news news. Com. Yeah you got it. Should we move on . Yes. The home secretary has accused keir starmer of trying to sabotage her attempts to end the illegal immigration crisis. Yes, Suella Braverman claims the labour leader has a web of cronies who are blocking any effort to stop small boat crossings from calais. Which begs the question which Political Party would you trust to actually get anything done about this . Were joined now by john ashmore, the editor of cap. Good morning, john. Thanks for joining us. Thats the big question, actually. Its almost as though nobody on either side of the political divide seems to be able to actually get anything done about the migrant Channel Crossings well, the onus is certainly on the party who are actually in government to do something about it. Personally, i think whatever your views on the topic that blaming the opposition for your policies not being executed properly strikes me as pretty weak tea. And if you read the detail of Suella Braverman sort of accusation , were talking of accusation, were talking about a woman whos a lawyer who was a member of a task force advising the labour party. Um, advising the labour party. Um, and then and theres another thing about a Labour Councillor who works for a, a sort of pro asylum group. This does not amount , in my asylum group. This does not amount, in my view, to a web of cronies. Amount, in my view, to a web of cronies. Its a couple of people. Obviously the conservatives are trying to play on the idea of kind of lefty lawyers who dont like the rwanda plan. And so on, and perhaps theres something there. Theyve, you know, this does resonate know, i think this does resonate with some people. But my overall with some people. But my overall view is that if youve been in government for more than 13 years, then you have to carry the can for your own policies. Theyve already got the nationality borders bill, nationality and borders bill, which which was passed which was act, which was passed last year , got an illegal last year, got an illegal immigration through. Immigration bill going through. Now, you know, its ultimately up to the home secretary herself and her colleagues to carry things through. Theres also an element, i think, of. Some people think that theres a sort of cynical element, which is that they they always knew there would be this kind of legal backlash. That part of backlash. And that was part of the the first place. The plan in the first place. I dont necessarily agree with that, but i can see why people do think that. John, we saw couple well, john, we saw a couple of weeks after the uxbridge of weeks ago after the uxbridge by election, out cchq by election, it came out of cchq that they looking for these that they were looking for these wedge to create wedge issues to create deliberate points of difference between tories and labour. Between the tories and labour. And be braverman is not and to be fair, braverman is not only of the weber only accusing of the weber cronies, shes directly attacking this attacking starmer in this exclusive today, which on the exclusive today, which is on the front of the express front page of the sunday express. Shes saying that starmer is successfully campaigned to halt this governments attempts to deport vile foreign criminals, including rapists and murderers , which is a total betrayal of their victims. Shes, of course, referring to a flight in 2020 destined for jamaica. Yeah, this destined for jamaica. Yeah, this is pretty feisty stuff. Do you think this is going to set the pattern for this topic now ahead of the next general election. Of the next general election. Yeah, i think yeah. As you say, after the uxbridge by election there was there was a piece in the sunday times just after that about how you know, the conservatives were changing tack and going for more of these kinds of some people call them kinds of some people call them kind of anti woke , but i think kind of anti woke, but i think its broader than that. Um, its broader than that. Um, yeah. I its broader than that. Um, yeah. I mean , its i personally yeah. I mean, its i personally dont think its a great tactic. I think that people are more concerned about bread and butter issues at the moment, particularly inflation, the cost of living. I think if you are talking about you know, Keir Starmers attitudes or whatever to a flight three years ago and people are wondering why they cant pay their bills and so on, they may wonder why youre talking about that and not the more pressing matter. But yeah, i dont think we should be too kind of pearl clutching about this. Politics has always been a bit of a blood sport and there are plenty of people who say this is perfectly fair game. You know, labour will go after tory politicians in exactly the same way and its always been thus. I just wonder whether its actually , you know, whatever actually, you know, whatever your scruples , whether its your scruples, whether its actually going to be an effective electoral tactic, particularly when you think that rishi sunaks whole , you know, rishi sunaks whole, you know, reputation nye bevan and uh, presentation since hes been Prime Minister has been of the competent, calm , you know, competent, calm, you know, steady hand on the tiller. If he now switches and tries to become a kind of culture warrior, it might look a bit strange. He might look a bit strange. He also just doesnt to my mind, he doesnt have, um , that sort of , doesnt have, um, that sort of, if you like, energy about him as a politician. He doesnt come across as someone who is deeply invested in the culture war or invested in the culture war or in these sorts of issues. So in these sorts of issues. So i wonder if theres an element of kind of authenticity thats lacking there as well. And its worth pointing out to echo your point, an if this is a question of capability , its okay for of capability, its okay for braverman to attack song. But the fact of the matter is that we had a record amount of crossings in july 3299 people made the journey in 63 boats, an average of 52 migrants per vessel. Average of 52 migrants per vessel. So its all fine and vessel. So its all fine and well for the conservatives to attack the labour party. The fact of the matter is a key pledge, one of those five pledges, john, was to stop the boats and on that the conservative lives are measurably failing. Measurably failing. Yeah, i mean, thats exactly my point, martin. Its that , you my point, martin. Its that, you know, theyve stuck their colours to the mast with, as you say, with those five pledges. Um which some of which seemed quite unambitious at the time, you know, halving inflation. Everyone thought, oh, thatll be easy. And its not proving the case. So its a good example of, you know, be careful what you wish but yeah, as say, wish for. But yeah, as you say, i mean, its their asylum system at end of the day at the at the end of the day its funny if you go on if you did a bit of i did a bit of research about the illegal immigration bill and if you go on government website on on the government website on their it says the their own website, it says the asylum broken. You asylum system is broken. You know, youre saying that know, if youre saying that about own system, about your own your own system, you know that then people are going to wonder why youre trying to blame it on the opposition. Absolutely. Especially to turn around and say that the system is broken when youre the people whove been in government for last 13 years. I mean, for the last 13 years. I mean, they might have a point if theyd only just got into government. Know, for government. But, you know, for 13 could have fixed 13 years they could have fixed it. They seem to be it. And now they seem to be flailing blaming flailing around, blaming the other. But equally, mean, other side. But equally, i mean, labour night came labour last night came out saying the tories arent saying that the tories arent doing job properly. They doing the job properly. They havent made a success of this. Havent made a success of this. So although you say it may not be top of the of the issues for the next election, its certainly going to be in there. And i just wonder what voters are going to feel when they are about to cast their vote if this issue important to them, who issue is important to them, who would most to get would they trust most to get anything done about this . What do think . Do you think . No one is my honest answer. I think theres a complete kind of systemic long term failure here. Some of its kind of logistical. There just arent enough staff processing asylum claims. I should just say. I dont think its not a priority for voters. I think i think stopping the boats is really clearly a priority for voters. What priority for voters. What i question is whether making these sort of slightly spurious accusations about the opposition is a good tactic. I think focusing on it and saying that, you know, they dont have a plan, for example , is perfectly plan, for example, is perfectly legitimate. And i think a lot of people will look at labour and keir starmer and say he is clearly not passionate about this issue. He would he doesnt really seem to have any alternative to the rwanda plan. I know, stick on the i think, you know, stick on