About how they fit everything in and in the sport this morning. Were leeds. Make it to the championship play off final. They thrashed norwich four nil and theyll take on the winners of southampton versus West Bromwich albion who play tonight. Tyson fury wouldnt look at Oleksandr Usyk in the eye yesterday ahead of their world title fights. This is how world title fights. This is how intimidating you can be and who is the richest person in sport. Well find out later. Good morning. Its going to be a warmer day for most of us today, but there is a risk of thunderstorms for some. Find out all the details with me a little later on. Good morning to you. Im Ellie Costello and im tom harwood this morning, although im tom harwood every morning. Every morning. But im here this morning. This is breakfast on gb news. On gb news. Well, welcome tom harwood this morning. Its a delight to be here. A slightly earlier alarm than usual, but you know what. 7 its all worth it. What time did you wake up. 7 3 00. Did you. 7 yeah. What time did you wake up . 3 00. Did you . Yeah. Oh. Very good. Ive got to, you know. Get ready, put on your moisturiser, my moisturiser, all of the makeup to make me look vaguely presentable. You always look presentable. But i do hear look presentable. But i do hear that youve been having tips on moisturiser. Oh, yes , from from the shadow oh, yes, from from the Shadow Health secretary. The Shadow Health secretary . Yeah wes streeting. This is true, which is a great story , i think. Great story, i think. No, i think its a good story. I mean, it seems to work for him. He looks younger. He does look very young, to be fair, but apparently wes streeting its all about having moisturiser that has sun cream in it. Spf factor. And how long have you been doing this . For a couple of years now. I think you look very young as it is, tom. I dont think, well, this thing im actually 56, but thats the trick. Apparently. Moisturiser with spf in it. Yeah, well, its the two things that age you the fastest sunlight and smoking. Oh, and there are. There are all sorts of studies where they looked at identical twins, where it so happens that one of thems a smoker and one of them isnt, or one of them has been on lots of Summer Holidays and one of them hasnt. And the difference is huge, particularly on fine lines and all the rest of it. Well, i wear factor 50 every single day. Wow. Even. And you know, ive actually started to do it on my hands. Well, no, youre upstaging me because mines i think only factor 30. Well, you need to up your game. Jeez, you should have been speaking to wes streeting about that. Perhaps. I hope he is not just dishing out sun cream advice and actually has some plans for the nhs. Well, i think he does actually some. Yeah, quite speaking. Speaking at the, at the big laboun speaking at the, at the big labour, i suppose it was a rally announcement yesterday talking about everything that hes going to do to the nhs and its to some extent has riled up some of the people that would normally be on the side of labour because he says its not just more cash that it needs, but it needs reform as well, which is a, i think, a pretty, a pretty enticing line really, when it comes to how the Health Service runs. Well it is. And theres a school of thought that it has to be the labour party to reform the nhs because they, as the polls would suggest, are the ones that are trusted with the nhs. So if theres going to be root and Branch Reform of the nhs, it has to be the labour party. Do you agree . Let us know what you think. Gbnews. Com yoursay. And just before we move on, do you want to ask sir keir starmer with his sleeves rolled up yesterday, intentional do we think . I think entirely intentional. Youll notice on the on the pledge card that they unveiled yesterday. Its also hes not wearing a jacket on that either. Yes. Hes hes hes sort of looking like hes hes not sitting behind a desk. Hes getting on for business. Although i remember back in october when it was the labour party conference, and he stood up for his big speech, he was wearing a jacket initially and then a protester ran up and sprinkled glitter all over him, and he had to take the jacket off and roll up his sleeves. But but that ended up working quite well. Worked out well for him. I wonder if i wonder if hes sort of learned a lesson in sort of how to present himself as a bit more, i dont know, out there at the coalface, rather than sort of the slightly snoozy, jacketed , glasses wearing look that he had before. Yeah. I mean, he wants to look like hes ready to get stuck in, but does it work for you . Would you trust him to let us know what you think . Gb news. Com your say now to our top story this morning and southwest water has said that cattle manure could have led to the outbreak of a disease in devon that has led to dozens of people experiencing vomiting and diarrhoea. Its all down to a parasite in the water, isnt it . Not nice to talk about this time in the morning, but its thought a damaged air valve on a pipe thought a damaged air valve on a pipe in a field containing cattle that has been identified as a potential outbreak at the site. Well, this comes as thousands of people have been told to stop using tap water for drinking without boiling it first, as some schools have also been forced to shut. Well, were joined now by nhs gp doctor david lloyd and david just lay out for us what exactly this disease is doing, because ive read that some people are are likely to have symptoms for up to six months. I yes, i think thats at the extreme end of the spectrum. Its a horrible condition to get in terms of the, the gastrointestinal side effects, diarrhoea and tummy pain. And it can last in most people for a couple of weeks. But if you do have any serious conditions that are altering your immune system, yes, you can have , more severe yes, you can have, more severe symptoms. But the, the important thing is that its not in the world health authoritys top ten of most deadly waterborne diseases. This isnt a terribly diseases. This isnt a terribly dangerous one, youd much youd much rather have this one than cholera or hepatitis a or Something Like that, its a its a its a mild illness and virtually everybody gets over it , and its got a fatality rate of about 0. 017. So its a its a very mild illness in that respect, there was a there was a breakout in milwaukee in 1993, and 403,000 people were affected very much the same sort of way. Contaminated water in a reservoir , and they only had 69 reservoir, and they only had 69 deaths. So its not a its not a terrible disease, but it is a sign that. Did you say 69 deaths sign that. Did you say 69 deaths or six, two, nine deaths there . 69. So 69 still pretty significant in a in a developed country. Yes. No, its a it as i say, if you if youre immunocompromised, you can have a you can have a torrid time. And unfortunately there arent any good drugs to treat it. There is a there is a, a rare drug that we use for treating this in people who really do need it. But, the average person in the street, im afraid there is no antibiotic cure for this. What sort of symptoms can we expect to see in people . Were expect to see in people . Were heanng expect to see in people . Were hearing about sickness and diarrhoea and how is it affecting people . I mean, the young and the old. So i think thats right. Watery diarrhoea seems to be the number one. But you can get stomach cramps. And of course in stomach cramps. And of course in hot weather if you dont drink enough when youve got diarrhoea , you can get dehydrated and so you can feel a bit sick and you can occasionally vomit and get a fever and lose weight. So those are the sorts of typical gastrointestinal symptoms you get with any, any condition that causes diarrhoea. Causes diarrhoea. It does seem extraordinary that this can just be transmitted through Drinking Water, something that people would ordinarily expect to be really rather safe. What really rather safe. What precautions can people take if theyre in devon, if theyre in this area . So i think, i think that , i so i think, i think that, i think the Water Company have issued alerts about boiling water, and theyve also been issuing bottled water as well. Issuing bottled water as well. So i think thats, thats that would be the standard advice. I dont think theres anything more you need to do in terms of protecting yourself that way , protecting yourself that way, yeah. No it is. But the trouble is, once its in the in the reservoir or in the water supply, it is at such a tiny organism that its quite difficult to treat. And you difficult to treat. And you cant just filter it like you cant just filter it like you can with other bugs. You have to treat the water with ultraviolet light as well to kill wimereux. And people have been advised, as weve been hearing, to boil their tap water if theyre going to drink it. What about washing . Because, i mean, i dont have a background like yours, but would it be safe to shower in parasitic water . I dont know if id feel as though that would be safe. Well, i think youd be. Keep your mouth shut. I think youre probably all right. Yes okay, just just finally , if okay, just just finally, if this, entire reservoir is contaminated. Infected . This could take quite some time to fix. How do you actually expunge a disease like this from a vast, vast water supply . And might it be stuck in all sorts of pipes and taps and how long might this last for people . Golly, youre asking a doctor a very techie question there. The answer is, i dont know all i know is, is that if you treat it with ultraviolet light, which is part of the standard process of processing water from reservoirs, you will kill off the cryptosporidium. The cryptosporidium. Okay. Good stuff. Doctor david lloyd, good to see you this morning. Thank you very much indeed. And if you are in southwest devon and you have been affected by this toxic water, do you get in touch with us . Wed love to hear from you this morning. Gbnews. Com slash your say. We do have a statement from southwest water who said we are working with Public Health partners to urgently investigate the source. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will continue to keep customers and businesses updated. Well, turning to political news now, the chancellor has pledged additional tax cuts as he sets out a dividing line between his party and the labour party. Yes, he warns that labour will be forced to raise peoples taxes to pay for their spending pledges , as he reiterates his pledges, as he reiterates his own commitment to eliminating National Insurance. Well, joining us now is gb news senior political commentator, nigel nelson. And nigel, it was telling, wasnt it, yesterday in Keir Starmers big launch of his six new pledges that none of them were about committing to tax cuts. About committing to tax cuts. No. And i dont expect labour to commit to tax cuts. I no. And i dont expect labour to commit to tax cuts. I mean the big dividing line is whether youre spending money on Public Services, things like the nhs or whether you would have put, put a little bit of extra money in peoples pockets, which obviously jeremy hunts already done with his two National Insurance cuts, so no, i dont think labour are going to go down the road of tax cutting, jeremy hunt is talking about getting rid of National Insurance altogether, labour accuses him of a £46 billion unfunded promise. But i think were going to get an awful lot of this as were now obviously in the firmly in the Election Campaign. So scaremongering and promises are exactly what politicians on both sides will do. Nigel, is it clear to say that perhaps the first time were seeing clear blue water between labour and the tories in this campaign so far, it looks as though theyre going to be the parties now of tax cutting and tax rises. And tax rises. Well, im not sure that were talking about tax rises as such. If you get a Labour Government, if you get a Labour Government, i mean, what keir starmer was claiming yesterday at his big policy launch was that everything that he was promising there is funded now as youve seen from the, from the gb news poll, not everybody is convinced about that. But certainly nothing in there was suggesting that taxes would have to rise to pay that taxes would have to rise to pay for it. On that point, though, there are tax rises that the labour party is talking about even more windfall taxes on energy companies, taxes on private schools, but also keeping these frozen thresholds until the end of the decade. These these stealth tax rises that as inflation pushes peoples wages up, the thresholds for tax levels remain the same , dragging levels remain the same, dragging many more people into higher tax brackets. The labour partys sticking with that. Yes, youre right. Sticking with that. Yes, youre right. And so the yes, youre right. And so the tory party at the moment, so youre looking at the, at the higher sort of tax burden in more than 70 years and it doesnt look like either side will be able to reduce that significantly. But yes, i mean significantly. But yes, i mean there is this dividing line that the, the tories are, are banking everything now on tax cuts. And everything now on tax cuts. And it doesnt seem to be working. I mean certainly jeremy hunt was hoping for a bounce in the polls when he cut National Insurance last year. Cut it again this yeanis last year. Cut it again this year, is promising to cut it later in the year in another, in another budget, and it doesnt seem to have happened as the poll, the poll this morning is showing at the moment, labour have a 27 point lead, which would almost if that was repeated in a general election, pretty much wipe out the tories and make them the third party rather than the second one. But why isnt it working, nigel . Are people just not feeling the pound in their pocket . Yeah , i eddie, i think thats yeah, i eddie, i think thats thats absolutely right. That, cost of living still remains the top issue for voters. Thats top issue for voters. Thats followed by nhs waiting lists and people just arent feeling better off. There was a tuc survey earlier on this week which showed that that had wages risen the same rate as the 16 years up to 2008, the average worker would be £10,400 a year better off now, it is the legacy of a variety of things. The the financial crash back to 2008 covid, the war in ukraine, all these things have mounted up to stop peoples wages rising. But thats why theyre feeling the pinch so much right now. Nigel, you did mention this poll that shows a huge lead for the labour party yet again , but the labour party yet again, but but also in this poll, perhaps something a little revealing about enthusiasm towards the opposition. Just 29 of the pubuc opposition. Just 29 of the public believe that the labour party are ready for government. So whilst whilst it seems that the public are pretty fed up of this government, the public are pretty fed up of this government , theyre not this government, theyre not entirely enthusiastic about the potential next one. No, tom, i think youre absolutely right. Theres this kind of feeling of, disillusion with politics and politicians and, and at the moment, it really is the tories. In peoples minds, doing so badly, which is which is the result of this poll. I mean, labour could almost sit back and do absolutely nothing and probably still win, win the election. And so what, were coming down to is this sort of feeling of time for change. Weve had 14 years of the tory government. People feel that labour could do a better job if only a slightly better job. And thats the way these electoral cycles go. Margaret thatcher lasted 13 years. New labour lasted 13 years. So probably its time for a change and thats what people are feeling. But no, youre right. No great enthusiasm about it. No great enthusiasm. And it doesnt look as though theres a lot of trust. If youre looking lot of trust. If youre looking at this poll, only 5 of respondents said that they trust labour to deliver on these six pledges that were set out yesterday day, but 24 say they dont know, 23 say not at all. What did you make of those six pledges yesterday, nigel . Well, i mean, all of them are achievable, i mean, one of the things that the that keir starmer has been criticised for is not enough figures tucked away in there, although there were more if you look a bit more closely. So the idea being that you can actually have, 40,000 more n. H. S ops , a week, thats more n. H. S ops, a week, thats by, paying for nurses and doctors to work overtime. That should be deliverable. All should be deliverable. All great. British energy is a policy hes had out there for some time. That should be deliverable. Cutting down on on anti social behaviour didnt contain a figure , but actually contain a figure, but actually the figure behind that 13,000 more Neighbourhood Police and Police Support officers , and you Police Support officers, and you have the tax rise that tom was referring to by, removing the vat break for private schools that should pay for 6500 more teachers. Teachers. Of course, those teachers will have to be paid for because lots of private school kids might well end up going into the state sector. So they could be greater demand for those services as well, i suppose, is the flip side. But nigel, one of the flip side. But nigel, one of the flip side. But nigel, one of the big issues here is that this is being compared to tony blair compared to 1997, the five point pledge card that tony blair put out at that election. I suppose keir starmer thinks he has a run on tony blair because his isnt five points, its six points. But one of tony blairs points was that he wouldnt raise income tax. Vat or National Insurance. So cast iron guarantee that the new Labour Government would not raise any one of those three taxes. Keir starmer is not making that same pledge. Pledge. No, youre absolutely right. And if you actually look at the old 1997, tony blair pledge card, in fact, there were a lot of figures in there , but the of figures in there, but the ambitions were in fact fairly moderate, moderate. So, it was moderate, moderate. So, it was 100,000 off nhs waiting lists, for instance, he achieved that class sizes of under 30, for 5 to 7 year olds. He achieved that. In to 7 year olds. He achieved that. In f