July. 78 tory mps are now leaving parliament, a post war record breaking exodus, with michael gove and Andrea Leadsom becoming the latest mps to announce that they will not stand so the Great British debate this hour ill be asking was rishi right to call an election now. 7 the was rishi right to call an election now . The conservative mp for south thanet, Craig Mckinley . I dont know whether you watched that incredible documentary on gb news. He returned to parliament for the first time this week since his battle with sepsis , which left battle with sepsis, which left him without any hands or feet. Well be discussing the impact and Science Behind this life threatening condition in this weeks hot topic. Then my difficult conversation is with son of the famous photographer david bailey, sasha bailey, a former model who has the nhs waiting list to thank for giving him time to think, stopping him from going down a path of gender reassignment surgery. He says hes happy to be alive. You will not want to miss that story. But before we get started, lets get your latest news with Cameron Walker. Walker. Gnaana. Thank you. It is 3 01. Im Cameron Walker here in the gb newsroom. Now weve got some breaking news. In the last few minutes. An aircraft has crashed into a field near coningsby in lincolnshire. Police and Emergency Services were rushed to the scene just before 120 this afternoon. Its believed to be a single occupant aircraft and nobody else is thought to have been involved. Thought to have been involved. But roads do remain closed. They are in place in areas of dogdyke road and sandy bank. Motorists are being urged to avoid the area. Well. To other news now, area. Well. To other news now, sir keir starmer says the voting age should be lowered to include 16 and 17 year olds. It comes as both major parties pitched their message to voters on the first weekend of the Election Campaign, with the government focusing on economic growth. The labour leader says if you can work, you deserve to have a say in democracy now 78 conservative mps have now stepped down ahead of the summer election, which is a post war record. It also surpasses the record. It also surpasses the previous high, which took place pnor previous high, which took place prior to tony blairs victory for labour in 1997. It comes as the tories trail in the polls , the tories trail in the polls, with all parties continuing their Election Campaigning today. Liberal democrats leader sir ed davey says his party is ready to see a new parliament. The liberal democrats have got a fantastic set of policies on the health service, on the economy and on the environment. Today were campaigning against the sewage problem and weve led that campaign. I think overall were just much more ambitious than some of the other parties. And critically , we want to and critically, we want to transform british politics. We think the politics in our country is broken. It needs to be changed. And were the only party talking about that. Party talking about that. A 17 year old boy from lancashire has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead on a beach in bournemouth last night, Dorset Police said they were called to reports of two women stabbed on durley chine beach at around 1145 in the evening, a 34 year old woman was pronounced dead at the scene while a 38 year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Now year old was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Now there with serious injuries. Now there are still waits of around two hours in the port of dover this afternoon , as an estimated 20 afternoon, as an estimated 20 million cars hit the road for the Bank Holiday Weekend. The aa is forecasting severe delays, with huge queues seen waiting to cross from dover into mainland europe. The port says theres congestion at the French Border , congestion at the French Border, and theyre working closely with kent police to put additional Traffic Management measures in place. Russian president place. Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly ready to pause his invasion of ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that would recognise current battlefield lines, according to four sources whove spoken to the news agency reuters. The russian president reuters. The russian president has grown frustrated by what he sees as western attempts to 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 reality on the ground. Ukraines president zelenskyy has previously said that peace, according to putins terms, is impossible now, despite todays sunny skies, thunderstorms. Im afraid and possibly hail could be on the way later this evening. A yellow warning has been issued from midday tomorrow, with heavy showers possible across large parts of england and the north of wales. But the met office expects the wet weather to settle into light. Weather to settle into light. Patchy showers in time for bank houday patchy showers in time for Bank Holiday Monday , and one of the holiday monday, and one of the most popular us president s is getting the film treatment, as the actor dennis quaid puts his spin on ronald reagan. Spin on ronald reagan. What would you say is the issue of our time . No question about it. No question about it. Communism and the soviet Union Getting the game run for office. Yeah, the first trailer for a new film about the 40th president has just been released. It tells the story of president reagans life from from confronting childhood bullies to becoming a hollywood actor and then taking his seat in the oval office. The cast also includes Penelope Ann Miller as first Lady Nancy Reagan, mena suvari as his first wife, actress jane wyman, and lesley anne down as Margaret Thatcher. Reagan is due for release in august. 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. Nana. Back to. Nana. Thank you cameron. It is fast approaching seven minutes after 3 00. This is gb news. We are the peoples channel. Im nana akua welcome. Oh my goodness. Akua welcome. Oh my goodness. Its time to mock the week. And what a busy one its been. I mean, the week was dominated by the announcement of a general election, with rishi sunak talking with the labour party anthem in the background. Earlier today, i spoke with his majesty the king to request the dissolution of parliament. The king has granted this request and we will have a general election on the 4th of july. Well, this is on a par with theresa may in her conference speech. Remember the one where she lost her voice . The letters fell off and somebody handed her a p45. Well, later , rishi a p45. Well, later, rishi addressed the tory rally on the 5th of july i the keir starmer i will be Prime Minister and he has shown time and time again that he will take the easy way out and do anything to get power. If he was happy to abandon all the promises that he made to become labour leader once he got the job, how can you know that . He wouldnt do exactly the same thing if he were to become Prime Minister . Well, we conservatives have got a clear plan with bold action to secure our future board. So lets take that message and that vision of a secure future to every corner of our United Kingdom. And lets show labour that the british people will never be taken for granted. Never be taken for granted. Labours sir keir starmer and his lacklustre speech was where he was clearly caught by surprise with the announcement. Surprise with the announcement. Most importantly of all, we do all this with a new spirit of service as country, first party, second, a rejection of the gesture, politics you will see in this campaign. I have no doubt from the tories and the snp. Im well aware of the snp. Im well aware of the cynicism people hold towards politicians at the moment, but i came into politics late, having served our country as leader of the Crown Prosecution Service , the Crown Prosecution Service, and i helped the Police Service in Northern Ireland to gain the consent of all communities. Service of our country is the reason, and the only reason why i am standing here now asking for your vote. Well, he looked at me like he couldnt believe his luck. I got a sense of i cant believe i might actually be in power. Ive seen more and more excited when hes his Football Team are playing arsenal, isnt it . Ed davey and his liberal Democrat Crew of neither here nor there. Everyones grinning like cheshire cats. Favourite word change for far too long, people across the United Kingdom have been let down and taken for granted by this conservative government, and this out of touch conservative party. But with this election, we have the chance to win the change our country so desperately needs. Desperately needs. Yeah, theyre all talking about change. Change change, change, reform. Richard tice claiming no nonsense from the other parties and that they will be standing 630 candidates. Do they even have 630 candidates . Everybody feels worse off after 14 years of tory failure. After 14 years of tory failure. Thats the result of incompetence. And these experts , incompetence. And these experts, along with weak, feeble politicians who have broken britain and sadly , that failure britain and sadly, that failure of the establishment and the experts manifests itself in the great scandals that we hear about. The snp made their voices heard. Heard. Never has a government deserved to lose more than rishi sunak government. You want higher Living Standards and a fairer country where everyone can lead, secure, happy, healthy lives. You want a National Health service you can rely upon . Most of you think that brexit was a terrible mistake. You do not think westminster works for scotland and you want scotland to have a strong voice. All of those things sum up what i am about and the dup. There is a Good Opportunity here, but theres a choice for the people of Northern Ireland. Do they want to elect people who dont bother to turn up for them in our national parliament, or they do want to vote for people who are prepared to go to westminster and put forward the best case for Northern Ireland as part of this United Kingdom. Thats the history that we have, and thats the message that we will bring. That we will bring. So thats pretty much it the best of well, i dont know any of them. Take your fancy. Here we go again. We go again. Youre joking. Not another one. Its been a mucky old week. Its been a mucky old week. Well, coming up, comedian josh howie, well be making light of this weeks top stories in mock the week at 320. Its my hot topic and my roundtable discussion. Well be talking discussion. Well be talking about sepsis as inspiring conservative mp Craig Mckinley returned to parliament this week after his battle. Then, at 335, after his battle. Then, at 335, uri geller will be live to discuss the impact of the uks general election on the war in on israel and in israel. And joining me to shine a light on the political hot seat today is, of course, sir john curtis, polling expert and professor of politics at the university of strathclyde. Hes in my political spotlight. At 345. Thats coming up. Tell me what you think on everything were discussing. Send me your views. You can post your comments by visiting gbnews. Com yoursay. Visiting gbnews. Com yoursay. What are we going to do . Just go for it. Right. So joining me now comedian josh howie. Its mock the week where its been pretty mucky. All right lets kick it off. Rishi sunak speech i mean there he was in the rain with there he was in the rain with the music in the background. Well i dont think it was rain. I think it was sweat. I think it was sweat. Do you think it was on top of his clothes . More drenching . No, not just more drenching . No, not just his sweat. Just the sweat of all the tory mps as well. Realising that theyre most likely out of a job very soon. It was so tragic. And the music as well, that the labour party arade dam, that was pretty funny. Why could they not stop the music . I mean, at least just out of respect . Well, it was, i think was it steve bray who did it . I think i mean, i feel for rishi, i genuinely do because but that ive got to go was that was funny. Well it was very funny. I mean its sort of like that sort of almost like a drowned rat, as if everyones jumping off the ship of the tory party, all of them leaving an exodus of mps. Its a sad state of affairs where i heard that one of the reasons why they went to an election now was that they didnt think this country would get any better, or would only get any better, or would only get worse over the next six months or so. And if this is if were at the pinnacle of where a tory government can take us, thats a sad state of affairs. Thats a sad state of affairs. Well, i mean, sir keir starmer, he responded with his speech. Now i mean, i watched that and thought he he looked surprised. Oh my god, i might surprised. Oh my god, i might actually have to do something. Actually have to do something. I know the moment hes been sort of clinging onto for years, but that i mean for me, him talking about gesture politics and then he is like surrounded by, i dont know how many british flags that they uk flags , they could get into the room at one time. And hes literally dressed as a, as a, as a uk flag. I mean he had the red tie, the white shirt. Hes sort of a blue ish. He said. So it was pretty much the whole thing was just like, im, im a patriot and i am not Jeremy Corbyn. That seemed to be the main message. Not that im a change from the tories, but im a change from the 2019 disastrous election for laboun the 2019 disastrous election for labour, deservedly so. Labour, deservedly so. Well, Jeremy Corbyn is hovering around now. Hes an independent candidate , isnt he . Independent candidate, isnt he . Somewhere in north london . Yes, im not sure who im going to campaign for, but i just know id be out there campaigning against him. Gladly. Interesting. And what about interesting. And what about the liberal democrats . Because for me, there was always a confusion as to what colour their banner was, whether it was yellow or orange, yellow, orange , i know, but but thats doesnt maybe that sums them up. We dont really know what theyre about. He seemed very smiley. He was he was just he was very happy to have a chance of getting a couple more mps. I also quite like they had a sort of handheld camera. That was it was very sort of cinema verite. Was very sort of cinema verite. It just showed that the lib dems are dangerous and crazy kids. Were crazy. We got it going on while surrounded by sort of other mps in the background. Yes, exactly. Yes, exactly. So youve got them. Who else have we got . Weve got the snp. Yes i mean they have wrecked scotland pretty much. I know, i mean that was so sort of calling the kettle pot, calling the kettle black or whatever , but because its like, whatever, but because its like, oh they, we accused the tories of wrecking the uk. Yeah. And the snp have wrecked scotland and this is their comining now, that, the you cant talk about the nhs when they controlled the nhs in scotland and have and its much and its actually worse somehow than the uk. Than than than england and even wales. So yeah this is a coming for the snp and, and again about time. Yeah. Theres a feeling that labour will do. Well. I mean they used to have a stranglehold on scotland and then of course the snp came up and to me when i, you know, i would have thought that looked like a failure of the Labour Government to not or the Labour Government to not or the Labour Government to not or the labour party to lose their stronghold on scotland, which hopefully , in my view probably hopefully, in my view probably means the union is safer if at least one of the mainline parties is. Absolutely. I mean, be careful what you wish for and the scottish people wanted or enough of them wanted, nationalism. And they wanted to go nationalism. And they wanted to 90 by nationalism. And they wanted to go by themselves. And they saw what would happen if an snp government came into power and they had it and it didnt work out. Well it was a bit like the management of brexit, really. If you look at it. I mean, weve been given control and we seem to have royally stuffed elements of it up and havent, in my view, taken advantage of some of the things. What about the dup there . There to my only insight is that hes a big boy. Hes a its a if he told me to vote for him, i would probably just do it out of fear. But just him just go, of fear. But just him just go, just vote for me. Id be like, yeah mate, okay, that is pretty much our our roundup of candidates. And were not mentioning greens greens in any way. Another do you think the greens have some sort of. No, i think they become the sort of bastion of cranks. They got kicked out of labour and i feel like they, the greens have been sucking them in and i dont even know if they its the funniest thing for me seeing greens is theyre sort of desperately trying to connect. Theyre new followers, which are frankly a lot of islamist followers and trying to connect the war in gaza somehow to saving the environment. Yeah, its an odd thing, isnt it . Well, i think part of it is the Greta Thunberg connection, b