After we, have said we will raise taxes, weve set out what we will raise and what well spend the money on. So what you did hear this morning is that were going to get rid of the tax break for private schools and use that money for the teachers we need in our state secondary schools. We did here is were going to get rid of the non dom status properly and use that money towards reducing reducing waiting lists. The tax reducing waiting lists. The tax burden on people is as high as its ever been under this government, you know, this has been the tax rising government of all time. Of all time. In other news, around 16,000 households in devon have been told to boil their water before drinking it for another week after a parasite was found in a key reservoir. The Uk Health Security Agency says 22 people are confirmed to have become sick , and as many as 70 other sick, and as many as 70 other cases of diarrhoea and vomiting are under investigation. 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The hospitals criticised in the reports following inspections in 2022 and last year, said systems have since been improved and teenagers could be recruited to help plug a shortage of train drivers under new proposals put forwards today. The government forwards today. The government is asking for views on lowering the minimum age for drivers from 20 to 18, which it says would help build resilience across the railway. The average age of a driver is 48 and the workforce is projected to shrink over the coming years, with many due to retire. Its hoped the proposal will set thousands of young people on track to a career in transport. For the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gb news. Com slash alerts. Now its back to. Jacob. To. Jacob. Welcome back to state of the nafion welcome back to state of the nation sir keir starmer set out the labour partys pitch to the people today with six key pledges. Despite the delivery of a man with a plan. The plan itself leaves an aftertaste of repetition and bland deja vu. Delivering economic stability with tough spending rules so we can grow our economy and keep taxes, inflation and mortgages as low as possible. As low as possible. Economic stability. Now this economic stability. Now this is the very foundation of economic growth. Tough spending economic growth. Tough spending rules. Yes, to keep inflation, taxes and mortgages low. Because taxes and mortgages low. Because if you lose control of the economy , its working. People economy, its working. People who will pay the price. Stability is change and thats why it has to be our first step. It all sounds rather similar to its predecessor in tony blairs 1997 manifesto, so the priority must be stable. Low priority must be stable. Low inflation conditions for long term growth by spending wisely and taxing fairly. Government can help tackle the problems. Another of sir keirs flagship pledges is to tackle the other most pressing issue facing britain today, stopping the boats by launching a new Border Security command with new specialist investigators and using Counter Terror powers to smash the criminal boat gangs as brilliantly highlighted by the spectators james heale. There is very little deviation from the bits of the current conservative governments plans that havent actually worked. In the absence of an alternative to rwanda. There are no real plans rwanda. There are no real plans to cut migration numbers. Ending to cut migration numbers. Ending the scourge of people trafficking is of vital importance from both an economic and moral point of view. This is not a separate issue to the unsustainable levels of immigration to which labour has provided no new solution to tackle the cost of living , sir tackle the cost of living, sir keir pledges to set up Great British energy, publicly owned clean power company, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas gains. The problem here is the same as ever with labour policy. Same as ever with labour policy. It is a short term solution. A windfall tax is a one off bill on energy profits, which does not provide a sustainable source of funding for publicly owned provider and therefore cannot hold any guarantee of working in the long term. As the late great the long term. As the late great baroness thatcher put it, garments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other peoples money. Its quite a characteristic of them. Characteristic of them. They always run out of other peoples money. Those words should be engraved in stone across the country, perhaps on an headstone of repute. Along an headstone of repute. Along with blairs pledges to tackle anti social behaviour, education, education, education style blueprints for 6500 new teachers paid for through taxing private schools. The primary takeaway from sir keirs proclamation to the people is the clear cut absence of originality. Radicality ambition and vision. However, its clear that the labour leader is taking notes from a labour election winner , sir tony blair, rather winner, sir tony blair, rather than the most drastic of losers. His old boss, one mrJeremy Corbyn. Its also worth noting that while offering a watered down version of blairism , sir down version of blairism, sir keir just this week met and negotiated with trade union barons the reports claiming he has already been pressuring ed into scrapping certain plans. Following these meetings is what Keir Starmers labour party seems to be offering is a diluted rehash of blairism and recent tory policy , while taking refuge tory policy, while taking refuge in the pockets of trade union bosses. In the pockets of trade union bosses. As ever. Let me know bosses. As ever. Let me know your thoughts, mailmogg gbnews. Com. Im very pleased to be joined now by an old friend of the programme, the pr tycoon and former labour councillor, kevin craig, kevin , councillor, kevin craig, kevin, first of all, you can be bothered to dress properly before speaking to an audience. Why does he dress like a hobo . You. You were lying down in parliament with your slippers on. It went viral. I didnt have my slippers on. I didnt have my slippers on. You might as well have. You might have had a pipe out at the despatch box. Put a tie on. You are. Is this is this very cool and trendy . You are in no position. You are in no position. Is this a new poll on standards . Is this a new. You were in your jim jams . Is this is this a new. You were in yourjim jams . Is this a new box . Is box . Isthb box . Is this a new cool and trendy keir starmer . Hang on, hang on. I tell you, im not sure i would have come, jacob, if id known i had to sit through that at the start. Okay, so i was there today when keir starmer gave his speech. Did you fall asleep . Did you fall asleep . I thought it was. I found it very moving, very hopeful. Some of the other speakers there today included with your monologue, didnt mention to people the chief executive of boots saying that he a friend of david cameron, welcomes the proposals being put forward by laboun proposals being put forward by labour. And with all due respect , you know, and i want to really sort of, you know, always stay polite with you. Its very rich. Some of the things you just said there, when your party, youve beenin there, when your party, youve been in charge for 14 years, growth is i honestly jacob, i cant come again if you dont let me speak, because i will. I will, but the economy. Your friend liz truss cost the families that ive been speaking to in ipswich and suffolk central across recent weeks. Hundreds of pounds. Central across recent weeks. Hundreds of pounds. And with all hundreds of pounds. And with all due respect, the British Public dont think youre in a position to lecture us. Well, were here to discuss labour party policy. Indeed. And its fine for you to make Party Political points about things have happened in the past. Of course it is. And we could go back to where you started it. Of course i did. We could go back to the economic legacy that we had in 2010, when the country was bust and there was no money left. But i think thats boring for voters, because what we want to talk about, i hope, is what the labour partys promising. Now, i dont think this is a stupid electoral strategy, but theyre not promising very much, are they . Thats very cautious. Its very. Jacob, have you read this today yet . Today yet . Ive seen this. Yes. Okay. So this is a summary because we know youre busy. Okay this these are the first steps. But these are to give a flavour to the british people who by the way, kevin, this is motherhood and apple pie. Theyve lost. Who doesnt want to deliver economic stability . Who doesnt want to cut nhs waiting times . Who doesnt want to launch a new Border Security command . Thats all happening. You failed Great British. Come on now, listen, i watched you earlier today. I think it was when mr farage. Right . Yes. Now i think i know it was. You know, almost shakespearean. You know, that the affection there is between you both, he reminded us. He reminded us that between 1066 and 2010. Okay, your guys and girls have let more people in illegally than in that period. Not illegally. Not illegally. Illegally, actually. Yeah. Illegally, actually. Yeah. So legally illegal. But you havent got a grip. Hold your horses. You havent got a grip. The bulk of that migration ian was prior to 2019, before wed left the European Union because because the Labour Government would not apply the restraints to people coming from eastern europe, as you know perfectly well, he told you, im well aware of what he said the two years. But the idea youve beenin two years. But the idea youve been in charge the last two years and we cant duck around that. The last one of the things i was really good, honestly, just to say a new Border Security command, i loved it today. The people with special forces, military experience, experience in the police who are endorsing his plan is really heartening because people do care about always find people to endorse your plans. Its really a question of whether there is any didnt under Jeremy Corbyn, because ill tell you this, i was i was at the lunch for business supporters after the Jeremy Corbyn defeat. It was it was a poor afternoon. You were supporting Jeremy Corbyn, labour party in my life. Yeah. Okay. So you supported Jeremy Corbyn, now youre supporting keir starmer. Keir starmer supported Jeremy Corbyn, didnt he . Liz truss was your girl. Liz truss was your girl. Well i supported boris johnson. Are you actually a conservative . Why dont you join reform . Why dont you join reform . I am, but this isnt about me. Its about the labour party. Lets have a clip of what keir starmer said to Christopher Hope about immigration. Number three, launch a new Border Security command. Youre not saying stop the boat. Nobody but nobody should be making that journey across the channelin making that journey across the channel in a small boat. I think that we can smash the vile gangs that we can smash the vile gangs that are running this trade, that are running this trade, that are running this trade, that are making a fortune putting people into boats. Gimmicks such as rwanda, which cost a fortune and removes less than 1 of those arriving by small boat, is not going to work. I want to tackle the very real problem with a serious response. Response. This is exactly what the government has been trying and this hasnt actually worked. Because without a deterrent for people to come, all the command and control, all the money given to the french, all the extra resources hasnt stopped people coming. And theres no plan to stop the boats. The conservative government, which you personify. Now, tell me about a policy im going to tell you. I was trying to tell me why you dont like the conservatives no, i will tell you. Labour policy. No defence of labour policy. Defence. I was about to explain precisely that. Right. Labour policy is to work with our European Partners and move resources. Let me finish because this is really relevant. Move resources into new officials, big recruitment to deal with the criminal gangs. And we did not. How could we work with our European Partners . When your friend liz truss said, are the french friend or foe, are you having a laugh . Weve been working very closely with the french. Weve been giving tens of millions of pounds to the french, the belgians and the dutch have been cooperating in stopping the small boats, actually, rather more effectively than the french. This has all been happening. Well, i would say happening. Well, i would say without rwanda. How do you stop them . What is the policy in rwanda . What is rwanda other than a gimme more . What more of you and your colleagues have been than Asylum Seekers native to rwanda . Its what keir set out today which is already being done. There is nothing new in that. There is nothing new in that. There is nothing new in that. The government has not deployed the resources, the money and the focus, and keir starmer has made a career out of tackling serious criminals. Thats what he did well, defending them as well from time to time. Perfectly reasonable thing for a lawyer to do. But it didnt just attack them when he and he attacked a civil servant. The cps, he prosecuted more journalists than were being prosecuted in iran at the time. He loved prosecuting journalists. You cant have a ding dong with me about being political. When you do, you do that sort of thing. Im just telling you that the man was made a knight by the by the queen for his services at the cps, cracking on crime and l, the cps, cracking on crime and i, who grew up surrounded by crime on a south London Council estate, cant wait. I really hope he gets a chance to show the british people that we havent managed to get to is that labour is for sensible electoral reasons, being very cautious and not actually announcing proper policies. This is its promising. This is its promising. This is inspiring. This is inspiring. This is inspiring. This wouldnt inspire the lettuce that outlasted liz truss i see, but you have to say that, jacob, because, you know, because theres nothing in it. But i dont understand. And you people are not listening like kevin. I think this is unlike you because what i honestly what i dont understand is why dont you dont admit that this is, in fact, the intelligent electoral strategy . Youre ahead in the polls. Why give hostages to fortune . Also, we havent got the books. We havent got sight of the books. The economy. Thats what Harold Wilson said. No, no, thats back to the 1960s. All in there. And ill tell you, we need hope in this country. Kevin is taking us back to the 1960s, but its always a pleasure to have him on the programme coming up, can you guess how much the covid inquiry is costing you every day and for what . Plus a petrol car is the newest endangered species told. Well, weve been talking about starmer and the labour party, andifs starmer and the labour party, and its extraordinarily exciting. Six point plan. And exciting. Six point plan. And mary says starmer is not blair mach two because hes so bland and boring. Starmer is more and boring. Starmer is more miliband the second. Buyers beware. Sir bob says if the beware. Sir bob says if the private schools are forced to close , the children will go to close, the children will go to state schools. That will cause more costs , which will probably more costs, which will probably be more than the extra tax raised. Just the usual smoke and mirrors from starmer. Well, bob, i think youre absolutely right on that. I think they havent worked out the cost revenue properly and robert says the only part of starmer today that i believe is that they wont lower taxes. Yes, i fear thats likely to be the truth. The covid inquiry is getting out of control in both cost and time scale. Its now on track to become the most expensive inquiry in history, with a daily costs reaching an average of £300,000 for the last year. And thats of your money. Its now projected to cost a total of £200 million. Not be a surprise. If we were to set up a post inquiry inquiry into why it costs so much pointlessly to pontificate about whether we lock down early enough. But it lock down early enough. But it was practically doomed from the start because its terms of reference too broad and seemingly missed the most fundamental question of all were lockdowns necessary or proportionate . Well, im joined now by my most intellectual panel now by my most intellectual panel, gb news senior political commentator nigel nelson, and the journalist and conservative peer lord goodman. Nigel £300,000 a day. I mean, this is a self sucking lollipop for the lawyers, isnt it . Well , except that i lawyers, isnt it . Well, except that i mean, pubuc well, except that i mean, public inquiries are expensive. So i mean, the saville inquiry was one 185 million, although that did go on for 12 years. We hope this one wont go on for quite so long. This is the, you know, probably the biggest event in all our lives. And it seems right to me to hold a proper pubuc right to me to hold a proper public inquiry, dont do it on the cheap. Make it wide ranging, come up with the answers we need to. But other countries have done their inquiries much faster and come out with the basic recommendations. Shouldnt we be learning from that . Because by the time this inquiry is reported , it will have lost its impact. Well, well get the first report towards the end of the yean report towards the end of the year, and so and therell be other reports that reports