Britain. This inspirational young girl who set up a cod charity for hospitalised children following her own Life Experiences and battle with illnesses as. Battle with illnesses as. Well, as you know, this show is nothing without use. We would love to hear what you think on any of the stories that we are talking about today. Gbnews. Com yoursay say please do get in touch now folks, before we do anything. We do anything. Cameron walker has all your News Headlines. News headlines. Thanks, darren. Good morning. Its 10 00. Im Cameron Walker its10 oo. Im Cameron Walker here in the gb newsroom. Michael gove says its time for a new generation to lead after he became the latest high profile conservative mp to step down. In a letter to his local Party Chairman, he said hed made mistakes in his political career, but hed always tried to be a voice for those who had been overlooked and undervalued. Been overlooked and undervalued. Mr gove has had a varied career at the front line of politics, from chief whip to education secretary, as well as environment and housing. It comes as both main parties continue their election campaign. Economic secretary to the treasury bim afolami says a re elected conservative government would bring economic growth. Weve been very, very clear about the next parliament, which is a growth in public spending in real terms above inflation every year of the next parliament, and we set out our plans on how were going to cut the double taxation on work by Cutting National Insurance and Cutting National Insurance and cut tax for people and have a better environment for small business. But labours shadow chief secretary to the treasury, darren jones, says chancellor jeremy hunt hasnt been clear about how hell pay for the tories policies. Tories policies. Getting into a bit of a habit of announcing unfunded tax cuts. Theyve already promised to aboush theyve already promised to abolish National Insurance altogether, costing £46 billion altogether, costing £46 billion a year, without saying how theyre going to pay for that. Are they going to cut pensions, the Health Service . Are they going to increase income tax . We going to increase income tax . We need to know the answers to that. And now jeremy hunt is saying that he thinks he wants to abolish inheritance tax as well. Thats going to cost a billions of pounds more on top each year. Each year. 20 million vehicles will be on the move. This bank holiday weekend, according to the latest estimates from the aa. Theres estimates from the aa. Theres already severe disruption around doven already severe disruption around dover, with huge queues leading to the port heading to mainland europe. The port of dover says theres currently a two hour processing time at the French Border, and is advising travellers to remain in their vehicles for their own safety. A vehicles for their own safety. A total ban on smartphones for under 16 seconds could be considered by the next government, after a new report by mps, the house of Commons Education Committee says. Tougher guidance on phones in schools and at home is needed to ensure young people are protected. It says the age of digital consent should be raised, raised from 13 to 16, with a statutory ban on phones at school, the Committee Found theres been a 52 increase in childrens screen time between 2020 and 2022, with a quarter displaying addictive behaviour. Displaying addictive behaviour. A Murder Investigation has been launched after a woman was found dead on a beach in bournemouth last night. Dorset police said last night. Dorset police said there were called to reports of two women, both from poole, stabbed on durley chine beach at around 11 45 pm. Yesterday. A 34 year old woman was pronounced dead at the scene while a 38 year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Hollywood with serious injuries. Hollywood Actor Alec Baldwin will stand trial as scheduled in july after a us judge denied a bid to dismiss a criminal charge against him. Baldwin had previously pleaded not guilty to Involuntary Manslaughter after a prop gun he was holding fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in october 2021. The judge ruled that the grand jury process was not prejudiced against the 66 year old actor, clearing the way for an unprecedented trial of a hollywood actor for an on set death. If convicted, he could death. If convicted, he could face 18 months in prison on. Vladimir putin is reportedly ready to pause his invasion of ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that would recognise his current battlefield lines, according to four sources who spoke to the news agency reuters. The russian president has grown frustrated by what he sees as western attempts to derail possible negotiations. Derail possible negotiations. Asked about the report during a visit to belarus yesterday, putin said talks should resume and negotiations should be based on the realities on the ground. Ukraines president zelenskyy has previously said that peace, according to putins terms , is according to putins terms, is impossible. Now its the biggest game in manchester as city and united meet once again in the fa cup final in front of a sell out wembley crowd. Pep guardiolas side want to follow up on last sundays title triumph by sealing a domestic double. United head into the match with speculation about manager erik ten hags future following their Worst Premier League finish, ending the season in eighth. We spoke to some fans who gave their predictions ahead of the big game. I think weve got to get it man united. Weve not had a good season. We want to. We want the excitement, the way theyve been playing. Id way theyve been playing. Id say 5050. Bit nervous. And why have you not had a great season . But we werent doing great and we still beat liverpool a few weeks ago. So anything can happen in 90 minutes, cant it . Its derby day. Im always nervous on derby day. Obviously the added pressure of it being an ea the added pressure of it being an fa cup final. For the latest stories , sign for the latest stories, sign up to gb news alerts by scanning the qr code on your screen or go to gbnews. Com alerts. Now its back to ellie and. Darren. Back to ellie and. Darren. Thank you, cameron, and welcome to saturday morning live. And of course, we start with this post war record breaking exodus. Its been reported that nearly 80 tory mps are leaving the commons , and are leaving the commons, and former leadership contenders Andrea Leadsom and michael gove are the big names that have announced their resignation. So does this mean that the tory party have accepted defeat or is it, as michael gove has said, that its time for a new generation of leaders . Well, lets talk about this. Were delighted to be joined by political commentator joana jarjue, former special adviser to michael gove, Charlie Rowley and ceo and founder of the youth vote uk, alex cairns. Very good morning to all of you. And morning to all of you. And Charlie Rowley. You know im coming to you first because you know, michael gove very, very well. Whats going on. Have they just given up. Well i know him a little bit. Had a monster twice. Met him once or twice. I worked for him for a few years, no , i dont for a few years, no, i dont think so. I mean, look, you know, the resignations that took place yesterday, if you take michael gove, if you take Andrea Leadsom, if you take john redwood. Theyve been in parliament for a number of years. Theyve served in successive conservative governments, both leadership contenders, as you say, andrew and michael. And i think after whats been a long 14 years in government, if youre a conservative, its probably about time to take a step down. And thats what theyve decided to do individually. So this isnt a mass resignation, this isnt a mass resignation, this isnt everybody deciding the games up. I isnt everybody deciding the games up. I think isnt everybody deciding the games up. I think theyre games up. I think theyre looking at their own individual circumstances and coming to that conclusion on it is record breaking, though, which would say it hasnt. It hasnt been seen before. Not since the post war period. Joanna, whats going on . Well, i actually do think its a mass resignation. You its a mass resignation. You know, if the tories were up, i dont think that we would see this, you know, theres some people who spend a lifetime in parliament, whether its in opposition or not. And i think that thats where we can kind of recognise whether this job really is a vocation for some people that they see for life. You know, something thats for service. You know, they see themselves in that position. And then obviously theres people who are more kind of career politicians. I would actually to be a bit lighter on michael gove would say that hes probably somewhere in between. I would have expected that he would have stayed because obviously hes been such a big figure within the Political Party over the last 20 years, which is obviously significant, and i just would have expected him to stay because hes been through it. You know, obviously he had his whole situation with Boris Johnson and people accusing him of kind of stabbing him in the back, and hes been able to kind of survive all of that. So i would have thought that maybe he would have thought that maybe he would be here pushing, but i guess for him in the future, hes maybe thinking, well, do i actually see myself staying and being in opposition . Maybe for two further terms, and then trying to start that fight all over again . Thats the interesting thing, isnt it . Especially with these heavyweights like Andrea Leadsom, its would you see them in opposition . Would they want to do a term potentially even two in opposition . No, i completely agree, actually, with joanna. I actually, with joanna. I actually think that a lot of them have looked at the situation. You know, i think politicians are quite calculated. Theyve got a lot of analysis that theyve been given around, you know, potentially their majority. Is it vulnerable. And actually theyre thinking, what is life like in opposition, you know, to be really honest, lots of them have been used to being in cabinet, you know, used to having power. A lot of politicians want power. So theyre looking at the situation and thinking , im going to tap and thinking, im going to tap out, you know, go and work in the private sector and make some money, probably, now, charlie. Jeremy hunt this morning calling for inheritance tax to be scrapped. Now, you might be be scrapped. Now, you might be forgiven for assuming that jeremy hunt hasnt been part of a conservative party thats been in government for the last 14 years. Well, yes , that is true. He well, yes, that is true. He has been he served in a number of cabinet posts as well. But i think the circumstances that you find ourselves in at the minute where hes chancellor, you know, youve come through a very, very difficult time, a very difficult pandemic, obviously, you know, under a very keen tax cutting conservative, liz truss that lasted about 49 days, you know, that didnt have the impact on the economy that i think she wanted to achieve. So look, the Great Success of the conservative party is its ability to adapt. And so when things go wrong and when the economy takes a turn, you react accordingly to put things right. Thats why its a party that, you know, banks on its economic success. And, you know, jeremy hunt has had to steady the ship along with rishi sunak. Hunt has had to steady the ship along with rishi sunak. And now along with rishi sunak. And now is the time, i think, having gone through covid, having gone through, the war in ukraine where energy bills have had to go where energy bills have had to 9 up where energy bills have had to go up and youve had to step in again to protect Peoples Energy bills, now is the time, having deau bills, now is the time, having dealt with the difficult decisions that the economy has turned a corner, inflation is down. Youve got growth again. Where were now able to talk about things that matter to conservative voters like tax cuts, including inheritance tax. Well, hang on, lets have a little look at what earlier we spoke to gb news. Gb news. Shadow secretary, the labour partys shadow chief secretary to the treasury darren jones. And he had this to say on jeremy hunt slamming inheritance tax. Well, the first thing i would politely say to jeremy hunt is hes getting into a bit of a habit of announcing unfunded tax cuts. Theyve already promised to abolish National Insurance altogether, costing £46 billion altogether, costing £46 billion a year, without saying how theyre going to pay for that. Are they going to cut pensions, the Health Service . Are they going to increase income tax . We need to know the answers to that. And now jeremy hunt is saying that he thinks he wants to abolish inheritance tax as well. Thats going to cost a billions of pounds more on top each year. So i think the conservatives really need to set out in detail how they plan to fund and cost their policies when they announce them during this election campaign. This election campaign. So, joanna, you heard that there. Darren jones saying the tories dont know how theyre going to pay for this tax cut, but a lot of people on the conservative side of politics are saying, well, labour have spent what they, their tax raising proposals about ten times over now. Well i think that labour have been very clear in terms of how, you know , theyre going to cost you know, theyre going to cost certain things. So obviously theres the non dom , tax status theres the non dom, tax status and also the vat as well when it comes to private schools. And i think that labour have been very careful this time to really put fiscal responsibility at the forefront, because theyve had that kind of reputation in the past, though if you go with laboun past, though if you go with labour, theyre just going to spend all this money willy nilly without enough thought. And so i think Rachel Reeves is really kind of, you know, doubled down on that. And, but i think, you know, overall, you know, this is probably a good conservative strategy going into the election talking about inheritance tax, even though it doesnt actually affect that many people in the country. I think that its a kind of clear dividing line between the two parties. And sometimes we have a bit of weve had a bit of kind of the muddying of waters in terms of where do people stand . Do you for the middle class, are you for the middle class, are you for the middle class, are you for the working class . And obviously keir starmer has been talking a lot about being working class himself and kind of identifying with that demographic. Nick. And i think demographic. Nick. And i think that jeremy hunt is doing something similar with inheritance tax as well, and showing that tories are the ones to cut taxes, even though it wouldnt be that significant anyway for the majority of people. Alex, this isnt the first time that weve been talking about a death tax, right . The tories have done this before. Weve heard it all before, but as i said earlier, 14 years and they didnt do anything about said death tax. Yeah i agree, i think its you know, we always see in elections that suddenly everyone becomes, you know, very interested in certain things. Interested in certain things. And actually youre bang on. A lot of people look at inheritance tax and think, im never going to be be a luxury to actually have a potential second property. And, you know, i think a lot of young voters are thinking, why does inheritance tax even matter to me . So, as you say, i think its just him deciding to play to his base. Id say, yeah, its going to be really interesting in this general election. Im sure you agree. The role of the lib dems and reform in all of this, because lib dems are going to be going for the blue seats, the would be tories, and of course reform are going to be going for the red wall. So ed davey this week saying, look, were not going to form a majority, im not going to be Prime Minister were going to be looking at local issues in the blue wall. So lets have a little listen about what he had to say. There are so many seats that have been traditionally conservative that the liberal democrats are the ones who can take off them. And increasingly in the south west, the west country , which used to be country, which used to be a stronghold for the liberal democrats, were back there again. Weve seen that in the again. Weve seen that in the by election victories in somerset and devon. Weve seen somerset and devon. Weve seen that in council victories this yearin that in council victories this year in dorset, that in council victories this year in dorset , last that in council victories this year in dorset, last year in devon, the Previous Year in somerset. So across the south of england, i think people realise now if they want to get rid of the conservatives, they vote liberal democrat. Liberal democrat. How much of a threat to the tories are the lib dems and reform going to be . Charlie. So who was that man, sir ed davey . So you also know very well so no one ever heard of it. No hes been absent for, you know, i mean, people will just look at ed davey, i think, and they wont forgive him at all for his absence during the post Office Scandal when he was the post office minister. And i think thatll be a stain on him and his party for this whole campaign. But look, you know, at the end of the day, people know across the country that youre only going to get either rishi sunak or sir keir starmer as the Prime Minister on the 4th of july, any vote for anybody else will just be, something that i think people, even though they might want to vote for an alternative party if youre bored of the two mainstream ones. But if you really want to have a say, if you really want a government that is going to do things for you, then i think youve either got to vote tory