Former advisers, piers pottinger, a great friend of our program , is going to tell us program, is going to tell us something very interesting about mohammed and Princess Diana. We want you as well want to hear from you as well this particularly this morning, particularly if you to affected by you are going to be affected by kids able to to kids not being able to go to school. F e at gbnews. Com is the gb views at gbnews. Com is the email we would really, email address. We would really, really from really love to hear from you because an absolute because it is an absolute nightmare. Were meant to nightmare. Were all meant to have to School Feeling have that back to School Feeling and some of them, many of you in fact will not have kids going back school. Let us know back to school. Let us know whats you, wont whats going on for you, wont you . Whats going on for you, wont you. 7 heres whats going on for you, wont you . Heres the you . First, though, heres the very tatiana very latest news with Tatiana Sanchez. Beth, thank you very much and good morning. This is the latest from the newsroom. Ministers are from the newsroom. Ministers are under pressure to explain how theyll keep schools safe from a certain type of concrete as children return to school. Chance jeremy hunt says the government will spend whats needed, but the money will come from the education budget over 100 schools have already had to close or partially close. The government says students who cant go to school in person should learn remotely for a short time. But they havent said exactly when things will get normal. All teachers get back to normal. All teachers say more children are likely to arrive at school this term with unclean clothes and unbrushed teeth. Nearly 3 in 4 of school staff say theres been an increase in hygiene, poverty, a poll of 500 school staff in the uk also found that dirty uniforms and pe kits were the most cited indicators of hygiene, poverty. Three new mps hygiene, poverty. Three new mps are expected to be sworn in to the house of commons as parliament returns after summer recess. This keir mather steve recess. This keir mather Steve Tuckwell and sarah will take their seats on the green benches. Its after winning contest triggered by the departure of three conservative mps, including former Prime Minister boris johnson. Minister boris johnson. Meanwhile, sir keir starmer is reportedly set to reshuffle his shadow cabinet as the former Civil Servant sue gray starts her new role as labours leader, chief of staff. If drivers would chief of staff. If drivers would hit were hit by one of the biggest monthly fuel prices in more than two decades in august. Thats according to the rac, which says the £0. 07 per litre spike was the fifth largest monthly increase in 23 years. The company says rising pump pnces the company says rising pump prices have been caused by an increase in the cost of oil. And increase in the cost of oil. And ryanair says 63,000 passengers have been impacted by the air Traffic Control failure. More Traffic Control failure. More than a quarter of all flights to and from uk airports cancel last week after an issue with processing flight plans. Automatic ryanair says more than 350 of its flights were cancelled because of it. You can cancelled because of it. You can get more on all of those stories by visiting our website, gbnews. Com now its back to andrew and. Bev andrew and. Bev good morning. Good morning. Good morning to you both. Well good morning to you both. Good morning to everybody. Thats more than i think quite a lot more more than two of you watching. Yeah. Yeah. And listening. The chancellor says hunt says says thats jeremy hunt says theres extra theres going to be no extra cash by the cash for schools affected by the concrete crisis, with repair costs from existing costs coming from existing education budget. And they could run hundreds of millions of run to hundreds of millions of pounds. Jeremy hunts pounds. Honestly, jeremy hunts comments pounds. Honestly, jeremy hunts commenthat the list of demand that the full list of buildings affected be released. Government students government says students who cant go to School Person cant go to school in person should learn remotely for a short sound familiar . Short time. Sound familiar . Ive no words for this ive got no words for this today. Andrew pierce. So today. Andrew pierce. Im so angry about i cant even angry about this. I cant even tell you what its like as a parent. Of you out there parent. A lot of you out there probably dont even yet if probably dont even know yet if its school. School, do you its your school. School, do you know . Please let us know it know . Please let us know if it is you and youre affected. Well you on the telly. Well get you on the telly. Yeah. Tell us yeah. Come on. You can tell us how are. How are you how angry you are. How are you going to cope . Know 104 have we know 104 have been identified england. We know 104 have been ideisome england. We know 104 have been ideisome have|gland. We know 104 have been ideisome have closed completely. Some have closed completely. Others to close, others have had to close, partially theyre partially in wales. Theyre just about survey. Wales about to start the survey. Wales is, controlled is, of course, labour controlled problems in scotland. Weve got the political commentator piers pottinger with us. Piers, what a mess for the government as kids go back to school, do something in the intro that rishi sunak could do without. And its not as if they know this was coming. No, its a shambles and another shambles from the department of education , an department of education, an incredibly since 2010, there have been ten an education secretaries, an amazing figure, all none of whom have achieved anything as far as i can see. Its been a good question to see if we could name six of them, frankly. Well, youd struggle. You would . One them would . I would. One of them included truss , who many included liz truss, who many people in the department of education have said to me was the worst. Most people think of Gavin Williamson as the worst, but theyve all been pretty dreadful for michael gove, i think did longest stretch of think did the longest stretch of any them. But theyve any of them. But theyve achieved nothing. This is a shambles and actually its of the governments own making because the first announcement was dreadful and just produced immediate scaremongering from everyone. However, its not just the conservative cvs that need to be attacked here because the schools themselves are governed. Many of them by local authorities initially, and many of those are labour controlled or even worse, lib dem controlled. Yeah thats if you can control anything as a lib dem. But the schools themselves have governors, they have of visits from the health and safety executive. What are they do, by the way . Well, 7 well, i . Well, i mean, 7 well, i mean, why . Well, i mean, why , why well, i mean, why, why werent the governors, why werent the governors, why werent the governors, why werent the local authorities doing something about this if they were so concerned and knew about it . Most of the schools that were talking about 1 of the total number of state schools , but there may be many schools, but there may be many more buildings in different areas. And of course , its not areas. And of course, its not just the rac, its the asbestos as well , that when theyre as well, that when theyre trying to repair this, it can shift the asbestos, which can be lethal for people and it will make some of the repairs very, very complex. And but the blame very complex. And but the blame culture we have , its easy just culture we have, its easy just to go straight to the government and blame them entirely for this. That is not true. Even the new the National Education union has a role to play and they are always consulted over almost any issue in state schools. And one issue in state schools. And one wonders why they werent doing something about it themselves as well. I guess from what bev is saying, as a parent, they wont care whos to blame, piers. Theyll just think this mess has come again. Weve got i mean, the government will take, in the end the blame. Im saying is and what im saying is it and its fine for the for Bridget Phillipson to rant and rave about this as it was inevitable she would. But there are an awful lot of labour politicians in the past and in local authority ages who have a share of this blame. And so if i was her, id be a little bit careful about it. About it. When i heard this story breaking over the weekend or just before, piers , i thought just before, piers, i thought these are going to be all the labour constituencies. I thought someones playing politics with childrens lives here. Thats what this is going to be. But it doesnt look that way, does it . I think it is split across all. Think it is. I think it is. I think it is. It is. Thats what im saying is i dont think this really is a political problem. Its a problem of government and infrastructure in this country, which is a worrying, worrying thing. It really is. And its sorry, it was a report going back all the way to two thousand and seven when tony blair was Prime Minister. Of course, from a body called the Standing Committee on structural awareness, which recommend. In two thousand and recommend. In two thousand and seven that this this concrete had a maximum 30 year shelf life and was saying then that buildings should be stripped of it two thousand and seven. And here we are. What 18 years later . Nothing not nothing has happened. What a scandal. Well, it is a scandal. And i mean, its a of third world mean, its a kind of third world scandal. You know, youre used scandal. You know, youre used to seeing in third world countries, buildings collapse and poorly constructed. And being poorly constructed. And youd also think with schools, youre going to invest and think about the safety of the children as well as hospitals with patients. I mean , people in hospitals today , people in hospitals today, its not just schoolchildren will be lying in their beds thinking, i hope this doesnt fall. Story about the hospital that will not allow obese patients on a certain floor, particularly if theyre 19 stone or more , theyre 19 stone or more, because the flipping floor could go through. That is appalling. Go through. That is appalling. And they havent named the hospital. Hospital. I mean, it is i think this is going to be a problem that is obviously going to grow and grow. And i fear its going to get worse and worse. And the government inevitably will be blamed for the whole thing , even blamed for the whole thing, even though its not entirely down to them. There are so many questions and not enough answers at the moment about this. It feels to me i want rishi sunak to come out and make a statement about this. This is this is sufficiently serious that schools have been neglected for there to be an official. I mean, Gillian Keegans been talking this morning. Shes doing a statements afternoon, but not if afternoon, of course, but not if it seems satisfactory. And what we her and what would we expect her to what could say that to say . What could she say that might put parents minds at ease . I think itll be very difficult for her because shell be barracked. But actually some of the stuff shes been saying this morning is lot better this morning is a lot better than was on. The first than it was on. The first announcement was crass, very badly and not thought badly handled and not thought through. And thats whats caused the scaremongering and quite frankly, panic around the place. And its not going to get better in the short term. We have massive infrastructure problems in this country. But dont forget , weve got 2500 dont forget, weve got 2500 people work for the health and safety executive. We have building inspectors, we have school inspectors. What have they been doing . Regulators all over the place. We why on earth are all these people who the taxpayer funds to the tune of hundreds of millions , billions hundreds of millions, billions of pounds a year. Why werent they doing something about this as well . I know. And but i mean, its i know. And but i mean, its a huge political problem because this some reports that some of these schools be closed these schools could be closed until december. Again, you see, i mean, and again, you see, i mean, lockdown did enormous damage to childrens education. Absolutely and long term damage. This is and long term damage. This is the last thing School Children need. And its about time. And i think what this has done is actually bring education to the forefront. Its not something that governments can just tolerate. And put to one side. Its now a major issue. And it its now a major issue. And it is the issue of the moment, which means rishi is going to have to address this. Have to address this. The big other big issue , the big other big issue, migrants Record Number on saturday. I want to say i wish the prime sir would stop saying the prime sir would stop saying the number cumulative total for the number cumulative total for the year is down. Its to all do with flipping. Weather, with the flipping. Weather, isnt was warm, mild isnt it . It was a warm, mild day, so flooded across. Am day, so they flooded across. Am i to use that word . I allowed to use that word . Probably not. Flooded across the channel their numbers nearly channel in their numbers nearly 900 its appalling 900 on saturday. Its appalling. Theyve not got a grip of it yet. We read that everyones on red alert for big numbers coming over when the sea is calm and they all come over, they do. They all come over, they do. I mean, we goes back to the french really quite happy to see these migrants going out of the country. And incidentally, when country. And incidentally, when the French Parliament reconvenes, the first thing theyre going to be talking about after their summer recess is immigration themselves. Its is immigration themselves. Its the single Biggest Issue in france at the moment. And macron is under enormous pressure to do something about his own immigration problem, which is why hes quite happy to let as many as possible come over to us. Us. Weve got to go to an interview with chris hope and the education professor before we let you go. You advise mohamed al fayed, who was the owner of harrods. For many years, who died aged 92, 93 last week. Hed had dementia for a long time, a complicated man, rather unpleasant man. I thought when interviewed have when i interviewed him, you have an extra ordinary story which has never been told him has never been told about him and advised him for a short i advised him for a short time over what was meant to be the flotation of harrods international. Right. And it was aimed particularly at american investors, Salomon Brothers were the lawyers and herbert sorry , the lawyers and herbert sorry, Salomon Brothers were the Investment Bank and herbert smith. The lawyers here and mohammed told me that that his trump card was when he was going to announce that Princess Diana would be president of harrods international. He said thatll bnng international. He said thatll bring all the american investors in, wont it . And i said, well, yes , yes, i think so. Not that yes, yes, i think so. Not that she had a particular business brain. I dont think i dont wish to be unfair to her. But i mean, i said, well, thats absolutely amazing. And sadly, because there was not a mohammed would not disclose all the information you had to in order to become a public company. The flotation never happened. And so flotation never happened. And so it none of it ever happened. And very and of course dodi was with her and the reason he was with her and the reason he was with her at that time was to mohammed was saying give her anything she wants because i want her to be president of harrods. And he did tell me at one point that she had agreed to do this. Now, had agreed to do this. Now, i dont know whether that is true , and i never will, obviously, but thats what he said. So it was it was certainly she would have been a great ambassador for the company. She would have been. And he was he had a very shrewd business brain. He was a clever man. And, as say, clever man. And, as you say, complicated. Yeah, ruthless. Complicated. Yeah, ruthless. Very ruthless. And sometimes is rather. Yeah. Off the off the wonder whether she was being manipulated. Piers, thank you so much. Piers, thank you so much. Always good to talk to you. Always good to talk to you. Right. Well, weve been talking about this schools closures story this morning and ive to in ive been asking you to get in touch. Earlier, touch. But earlier, our political hope touch. But earlier, our politicto hope touch. But earlier, our politicto the hope touch. But earlier, our politicto the education ope spoke to the education secretary, keegan, about secretary, Gillian Keegan, about this very issue. Publish a list. We will publish a list. We will publish a list. Publish this well publish a list this week. But we want to well publish a list this week. But we want to just make sure that every school because not all the schools are back. We just go around the loop just want to go around the loop again and just check. Every schools had the to tell schools had the chance to tell the sent. We have the parents we sent. We have a caseworker each caseworker working with each school. Template school. They have a template letter parents. So letter to tell parents. So everybody should know by now. But just to check that but i just want to check that because be awful because it would be awful if a parent found out from gb news, for , will number go for example, will the number go up from 150 schools . Up from 150 for schools . If 150 schools, 156 that we have at the moment. Have at the moment. So they were 52 critical, already mitigated 104 which were non critical. Weve changed to non critical. Weve changed to critical because of an incident that happened just towards the end of august where a panel fell in a school, end of august where a panel fell in a school , not end of august where a panel fell in a school, not in this jurisdiction , but we went to see jurisdiction, but we went to see it and we i decided to take a very cautious approach. So its uben very cautious approach. So its uber, uber cautious. But what we a