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GBN Breakfast July 3, 2024

Australia for may day and in the sport after 110 attempts, lando norris wins a grand prix in miami last night. Spurs are hammered by liverpool as the hammers are hammered by chelsea , and today hammered by chelsea, and today is the 70th anniversary of one of the most important sporting moments of all time. Good morning. Its a bit of a mixed picture out there weather wise this Bank Holiday Monday, but there is some drier and brighter weather on the way. Find out when in a little bit. Aukus morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is breakfast on gb news is. I have something fun to talk about. Do you. 7 because i have something fun to talk about. Do you . Because usually you come prepared. And i thought today its my time to shine. Oh, good, i in 4. This is quite shocking. I think i in 4 young adults never answered the phone. How are you doing . How are you doing . What . What . And it gets better. And it gets better. And it gets better. Well, obviously someone. What . One quarter of people aged 18 to 30. This front page of the times, this morning, one quarter of people aged 18 to 34, which means my young person and confessed in a survey that they had never answered their mobile phone. A quarter of young people have never even picked up the phone, so they communicate purely by text and emoji. They say they google the number or they text their friends and family back rather than calling them and they would prefer a voice note rather than a traditional phone call. Which made me think of you because you would prefer a voice note. I do a lot of voice noting, but i also do a lot of video calling. Oh you do . Yes, i love a video call. Yes, you are very good at communication. Its lovely. You can keep in touch with the family. Ive got the in laws in in blackpool and my family a bit further north and some in spain, and you can just have a lovely its very techie, so you just do a video call. But yes, 70 of young people said they prefer a text to a call, 37 prefer a voice note. But yeah, a quarter of young people never even picked up the phone. What was shocking , i phone. What was shocking, i think thats really apparently theres too much pressure on a phone call to respond quickly. Do you remember the old i dont know if you remember this. Some of you will remember this when you had your telephone table and you had like, you had your telephone in the hall and we had a little telephone table with a built in seat. Oh, that with a built in seat. Oh, that sounds jazzy. So you could sit down and also a little money box. My dad put a little money box. My dad put a little money box there. So if you use the phone, you had to put a bit of money in to pay the bill. Oh, i didnt know that. Oh, i didnt know that. Yeah, i remember all of those sort of days. Oh, thats fun. Your mother was when they had the telephone table taken out. Yeah, because obviously they didnt even have a telephone there anymore because it was all hands, you know, wireless things. And she was really upset because she really liked it. Oh, she liked a little. Oh, she liked a little. I was like, what are you gonna what are we going to do . Were never going to sit in it ever again. Do you have a landline . No, no, no, no, neither do i. No, i dont no i think those days are gone. I remember being on msn after school, you know, the instant messaging right on the computer, which was underneath the stairs. And then if my parents picked up the landline, you couldnt use the landline, you couldnt use the internet. Do you remember that . Yes, that was the thing. Its all changed very quickly. Its all changed very quickly. Stephen, when you were on dial up. Dial up . Yes. And you could hear it. Yeah. Yeah. It was very, very, very, very , very slow. Very slow. Yeah. Weve come a long way very, very quickly. And now young people cant even pick up the telephone. Lazy devil. Lazy devil. Let us know what you think about that gb news. Com your say its all your generation. So frankly, im blaming you for it. All right, well, youre very techie. You do it all. You do it for all of us. I think. Yes. Right. Lets have a look at our top story before i get slated. Too much. The Prime Minister has claimed. And actually, this is quite an admission. He said the country is hurtling towards a Hung Parliament, with labour being the Biggest Party following a bitterly disappointing set of local Election Results for the tories. Well, this comes as an autumn general election is set to be on the cards, with number 10 ruling out a summer vote, reports suggest that rishi sunak is hoping to improve the economy and kerb immigration before the country goes to the polls. Country goes to the polls. Lets talk to our senior political commentator, nigel nelson. Nigel, i dont remember nelson. Nigel, i dont remember and correct me if im wrong, but i dont remember a Prime Minister heading into a general election ever saying before. Well, it looks like the other side is going to be the Biggest Party after this election. Party after this election. No, i think youre right. And rishi sunak has sort of come to accept reality now that that i cant find a single tory mp who reckons that, they can win the election and the game now is to try and stop as few tory mps losing their seats as possible. Losing their seats as possible. What rishi sunak is doing here is looking around for crumbs of comfort after a disastrous local election , and hes, hes landed election, and hes, hes landed on the projected National Vote share, now we have to be a bit cautious about these figures. What they actually show is that labour would fall around 30 short of an overall majority , short of an overall majority, but these figures are based on local elections. They dont take local elections. They dont take into account the effect of reform , there were no elections reform, there were no elections in scotland. So thats not included. So all its all they tell you is this is what would have happened if the whole country was voting in local elections. It doesnt predict national elections. And the figures go all over the place. I figures go all over the place. I ran, i ran them myself using these figures, but giving reform a very generous 17, which they won in blackpool south. And then you get labour falling short by just six mps. So as i say, lets be cautious about these figures. Nigel were hearing that the Prime Minister is now looking ahead to an autumn election. He wants to give time for the economy. Those Interest Rates to come down and to focus on immigration as well of course, those rwanda flights to take off the front page of the daily express this morning is really interesting, sam lister writing that only big tax cuts and growth can save the tories. Now, do you think thats tories. Now, do you think thats a possibility . Well, i mean , certainly well, i mean, certainly jeremy hunt is working on the idea of tax cuts. So youd expect now an autumn budget , expect now an autumn budget, there will be some tax cuts in that. We will see some flights take off to rwanda, or at least one flight anyway. Probably, and also the economy should improve slightly. Inflation is going down. And but whether or not people will feel an awful lot better come the autumn than they do now is another question that still, the cost of living crisis is the top issue for voters, and the next one down is nhs waiting list, which are still incredibly high, so it is difficult to see how the autumn makes life any really any better for the Prime Minister. But at the moment it couldnt be worse than it is now. So what it looks like hes planning is holding an election by launching the campaign on the back of the Party Conferences in october, which now puts the most likely date for one for november the 14th. Isnt that isnt that timing quite dangerous, though, because, it ties in with the president ial election. Its, you know, its within a matter of, of days, really, of the president ial election , which may president ial election, which may actually force more people to the left, out to the polling booths. If theyre unhappy with what theyre seeing in america, which you know, they are likely to be, then thats going to encourage them, isnt it, to take a stand over here . Yes. I mean, the original plan was to try and avoid this kind of date, because for that very reason that you didnt want to coincide, the British Elections with the american one, but, rishi sunak just simply run out of options. I mean, if we were going back to the end of last year, he was clearly planning for an election on the same day as local elections. So same day as local elections. So we would have had our general election last thursday. The election last thursday. The polls just didnt shift. They the two cuts in National Insurance, didnt do any good. It labour continued continuously look like theyre 20 points ahead as far as opinion polls go. So rishi sunak abandoned the idea of a may. The second election doesnt want to do it over the summer because he needs things to improve and hope something will turn up, like, labour might implode in the meantime. So hes really left with no option but to go late, as i say , october or november. As i say, october or november. November being the most likely. And what do you make of Suella Braverman speaking yesterday to our very own Camilla Tominey actually, of this parish, she said the tories will be lucky to have any mps left at the next general election or after the next general election, i should say. Do you think we are facing total wipe out of the conservative party . No, i think thats being overly pessimistic that the polls will close as the as the general election gets nearer , so general election gets nearer, so i dont think that the tories are heading for total wipe out. I mean, the local elections were really , really bad, but not really, really bad, but not a total catastrophe. Vie, the fact total catastrophe. Vie, the fact that the that the tories were able to keep ben houchen as the mayor in tees valley was really important. He won with 73 of the vote last time, went down to 53 this time. But, it still it still was a win. The fact he kept, council losses to below 600, that would have been catastrophic. That helped slightly. So no, theyre not its not the end of the road for the tories in that sense. But it is a question of how many they save. And at the moment i think were still looking at an overall labour majority. Overall labour majority. Okay, nigel, thank you very much indeed and good to see you. I dont know what to believe from anybody. Now in terms of, i mean, the fact the Prime Minister has said the conservatives are likely not to be the Biggest Party is an unbelievable admission from from a Prime Minister. You never hear that. Youre right. That. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. Youre right. Yeah. I cant quite get my head around him saying its a nice bit of honesty, actually. Its just its just a shock that hes said it. But just its just a shock that hes said it. But how . Just its just a shock that hes said it. But how . Theyre all, said it. But how . Theyre all, i mean, but its the games that theyre playing now. Hes doing that to motivate people. Yeah, this is whats going to happen if starmer playing things down on his side to motivate people to get out. But i think if the timing is in november , i think timing is in november, i think thats crazy because and i know a lot of you support donald trump and many of you dont, but if he if he gets into the white house, the people over here, who would be unhappy about what had happenedin would be unhappy about what had happened in washington , i would happened in washington, i would think that would increase the labour vote, but then was it Kwasi Kwarteng saying that actually donald trump out campaigning before the us president ial election and ahead of november, he will be doing a lot for nigel farage. So if hes anything to do with reform officially by that stage , how officially by that stage, how could that play into reforms hands . Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And thats something that the tories would want to avoid as well. So yeah, thats an interesting school of thought as well. Yeah, can i just say ive said the 14th of november since day dot. Remember that. No, i have im just going to claim it. And you said may until you bring out the tapes to prove that im not, ill find them. You. Ive said 14th of november from the very start, and it looks as though it could be heading that way. According to nigel nelson, if, if thats true, then i expect to see your column in the star by this time next week. Yes, that will be me. Yeah. Predicting our very , very future. Take the stars, do get in touch on any of the stories that were talking about today. Gbnews. Com yoursay now, today is exactly one year since we were set out in the cold, but having a wonderful time as we prepared for king charles being crowned and that incredible coronation that was filled with pomp and pageantry. But 12 months later, the monarch seems to have forged an even closer bond with the people of britain. Following his openness surrounding his cancer diagnosis and all of this, believe it or not, comes as and this surprises me because all the waleses children seem to be very closely. Weve had a birthday a week, havent we, prince . Prince archies this time round. Hes going to be five. Well, hes five today. Yes. Well joining us now is royal and Showbiz Reporter kinsey schofield. Good to see you. This morning kinsey. And shall we start with the king . I cannot believe its already been a year since that incredible ceremony that we saw 12 months ago. Its been the most wonderful year for the king. And also such a challenging one. Thats right. Youll remember the coronation was so carefully choreographed to display what the king called a community of communities with more diversity , communities with more diversity, acknowledging, you know, a multi faith based country. The multi faith based country. The royal rhythm and rituals are primarily safe. It feels under this king charles reign , the this king charles reign, the biggest shock hasnt been outspoken royals or political royals. Its like you said, its been the illness and potentially vulnerability. So much was made out of expectations for his majesty to modernise the monarchy, and we havent seen much of that. But i think that thats been comforting to people. The king has survived. Prince harry, Prince Andrew and even the ghost of diana. Who even the ghost of diana. Who would have ever guessed that people would be accepting of a queen . Camilla, the queens popularity based on the number of people who said they had favourable views of her. Thats increased to 43. More than half of britons surveyed believe that king charles is doing an excellent to. Job excellent to. Job yeah, but he is really becoming a man of the people , becoming a man of the people, isnt it . And he seems to be showing, even through his own struggles. This a tremendous humility, really. Humility, really. I agree with you. And i you know, it was interesting because some of the things that have become such a force today that everybody can get behind, like the environment, you know, he i think his first speech about the environment was in 1968. He was only in his 20s. That was seven years before the phrase Global Warming was utilised. He was so criticised for that , you know, criticised for that, you know, and i think today you see, you almost really admire that. He was ahead of some of these. He was ahead of some of these. He was championing some of these causes that are now the forefront of, of a lot of things that normal , regular people are, that normal, regular people are, you know, passionate about as well as cancer. Weve all been affected by cancer in our families. And to see recently families. And to see recently him at that Cancer Centre , so him at that Cancer Centre, so engaged with people, you really saw empathy and compassion and a vulnerability that we havent had much of a chance to see from him in the past. And its also a special day for the family, isnt it . Kinsey because prince archie turns five today . Thats right. I mean, im going to be honest. We dont going to be honest. We dont know a lot about prince archie. I wish i could sit here and rattle off his favourite colour and what they might the family might be doing, but that would not be sincere or authentic. We know he likes waffles because the queen at one point sent him a waffle maker for christmas. You know, harry and meghan are very protective of prince archie and princess lilibet. That is fine. They are they they are fine. They are they they are americans now. They they can do that. Americans now. They they can do that. I americans now. They they can do that. I imagine that they will be spending this birthday privately. We saw a little bit privately. We saw a little bit of that in the netflix docu series. They had the little Birthday Party with meghans mom. There and so beautiful babies. As far as weve seen. But we have very Little Information about them. Information about them. Itsjust information about them. Its just i information about them. Itsjust i mean, as i was its just i mean, as i was saying earlier on, the fact that, you know, his birthday is actually so close to two of his cousins, and yet two cousins that he doesnt know it just seems a real shame. Well, there are reports here. I dont know how much i buy them, but there are reports here that both families, the waleses and the sussexes , do feel like and the sussexes, do feel like they want a reunion at some point because they dont want there to be strain on on the relationships of the children. Relationships of the children. Oh well thats hope. Oh well thats hope. Yeah, lets hope that would be nice. Kinsey, really good to see you this morning. Its not the kids fault. You are right. Good to see you, kinsey. Thank you very much indeed. Now, in a month, british veterans will return to france to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the invasion of normandy. Yes. Yes. Yes. The d day landings on the beachesin the d day landings on the beaches in northern france were considered to be the largest seaborne assault in history. Well, theyre returning alongside veterans. Veterans this year is on

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