Its just gone. 6 00 im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello and this is gb news. Gb news. Breakfast. Well, a very good morning to you. Its nice to have you with us today, our first day on the lovely new set. Lovely new set. Yes, i love it. Do you love in yes, i love it. Do you love it . I do love it. It feels very spacious. It feels very far away. But thats nice. Thats good, thats good. Yeah we had. Now i know everyones been bleating on about the tric awards, yesterday mainly i have got one round. Certainly the one we won yesterday has gone walkabout. Yesterday has gone walkabout. Someones pinched it. Yes. This is the wall. This is the one we won last year. This is the original. This is the original. This is the original. Its this is the original. Its a very nice too. So i just planted it. But actually for us, as lovely as the tricks were. And we had a lovely time, didnt we . And it was very lovely. Thank you for all your votes. Yes. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I couldnt get on to that stage fast enough to tell, but actually we had a very special day, didnt we . It was, it was with something a very special touch , wasnt it . A very special touch, wasnt it . In the morning. Yes. Because we decided. Well, ellie decided, of course, to meet up for a drink before we. Before we went down the green carpet together. And for me, you know, itd be id go for a starbucks or a mcdonalds coffee or something, but. No, no, this ones a little bit fancier. Well, id like to think im fancier. So where do we end up . Claridges. Claridges . And who else was there . Well, the japanese ambassador was , emperor was staying. Was, emperor was staying. The japanese emperor was there. So when we arrived, there were loads of japanese tourists. Werent there . There was security, there was Police Officers. We just sat there having our coffees, thinking, this is all very fun. Yeah. Didnt know they were expecting us, so we thought, well, maybe its time to leave. We thought, well, well just. Well, should we wait for five minutes just for the emperor, just to see if the emperor comes down the stairs, because all his security were sort of gathered around the bottom of the stairs. So we just thought wed wait and see what happened in a car turned up and we thought, well, that must be ready to take him off, and then who should walk in . Prince william . So there he was. There we are. There is me. Im looking very. You look like a proud father. I felt so. Do you know what i felt so proud, actually , i felt really proud to actually, i felt really proud to see him stood there and actually, we were closer than it looks on the camera. There were literally about five feet away. Yeah, you could hear the conversation, couldnt you . Oh, yes. Oh, yes. And you said you were very impressed with his, his conversational abilities. Its the, soft diplomacy. They call it. And that the guy they call it. And that the guy who was talking to we think was the japanese ambassador. I was furiously googling , i was furiously googling, wasnt i, who these people were, and some fella who was next to us, who was japanese and knew his stuff was busy telling us that he was it was the emissary. So i presume he meant ambassador by that. But the way william was and there was, they were talking for a good five minutes, but interestingly, william was sort of said, im going to talk to the emperor about this and that and the other. And some of it was light hearted and fun, and some of it was serious. And about the earthquake that was there recently and all this sort of thing. And it was he was clearly very well briefed. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Oh, definitely. Yeah. He clearly knew what he was talking about. He had calm and confidence with him. I was so impressed. And humour as well. He was joking about the weather. Hes saying, well clearly weve youve brought the lovely weather with you. And it was lovely, really nice. He carried himself very well. Yeah. I mean its the closest ive ever been to him, you were star struck, i think. I was really startled. I was just so impressed and i just have so much respect for him, and i was just what he did there. And considering hes younger than me, and you just sort of think , wow, thats a sort of think, wow, thats a thats a lot that hes taking on. And thats a lot that hes taking on. And just doing these sort of things. Really impressive. It things. Really impressive. It made my day. It made mine as well. And i think our country is in safe hands with him being the heir to the throne, he was just wonderful, wasnt he . And it wonderful, wasnt he . And it didnt end there because then we walked to the tric awards didnt we . Yes. And the convoy came past. Yes. With the. No, with the emperor. The past. Yes. With the. No, with the emperor. The empress and the prince of wales and the prince of wales with this. Oh, heck, what do you call the, military that thats always, i cant remember the name, but anyway, hes a guy called the. You know, the guy said he was all dressed up to the nines. Yeah, hes a guy called rob dixon. Any relation . Any relation . No relation, sadly. But he was. He was no relation, sadly. But he was. He was looking at me. Now, whether he knows , maybe you are whether he knows, maybe you are related. Maybe he knows me from the telly. Or he may, because obviously im married into the military, so maybe he knew something about that. I dont know, but he was equerry. Thats the one im looking for. Thank you. So the one im looking for. Thank you. So he was. He was he was giving me the eye. So. Yeah, he knew me from somewhere. So that was quite side story. Thats a side story. Yeah. That was. So that was interesting. He liked what he saw. He liked what he saw. It might be my in to the royals. Well, maybe with rob dixon, with rob dixon. Anyway, so it was a lovely day on tuesday, was it . Yeah. Weve waffled for on ages. Weve waffled for on ages. Sorry, but we wanted to tell you that story, and it was wonderful. It was a day well never forget for lots of reasons. Yes but thank you for voting and for making it so special for us because it means the world, isnt it . It does. Of course it does. Yeah. Really nice. Now, wed better crack on with politics, because rich tell you a story. Rishi sunak and keir starmer clashed over illegal immigration in last nights final tv debate. In last nights final tv debate. Just a week before Voters Decide whos going to form the next government. Yes, a new poll has now predicted that the conservatives are set to lose most of their seats with fewer seats than the liberal democrats , meaning that liberal democrats, meaning that they would become the official opposition. It also found reform uk , it also found reform uk, which actually would beat the tories in terms of the sort of percentage of the vote, could win about 18 seats, which, you know, is a lot more than the polls have predicted so far. Well, with all of that in mind, lets take a look back at what the politicians have got up to in the past 24 hours. Work is, of course, about pay and being able to pay your own way and, you know, support your family. But it is also about dignity and respect and my dad worked in a factory all his life. He was a toolmaker and having a secure forjob him was really important to his respect and integrity. Would you know where these people come from . No, hes not answering the question. You know where they see that iran. You can see syria, afghanistan. So when keir starmer says hes going to return people, is he going to return people, is he going to return people, is he going to sit down . Are you going to sit down with the iranian ayatollahs . Are you going to try and do a deal with the taliban . Its completely nonsensical what you are saying. I really think we need to review the whole of Gambling Regulation with respect to politics. And i really hope after the election, thats what the new government and parliament gets behind in your lifetime. Do you want to see britain back in the eu because youve got a lot of work to do to even be able to contemplate Something Like that . I wouldnt you wouldnt even get that far. Lets talk to the Deputy Editor for spiked online, frazer myers, good to see you. Good morning. Morning. Look, what did you make of last night . The sort of immediate yougov poll that came out afterwards put them on 5050. In terms of their performance last night, the Prime Minister was definitely on the attack, but he also seemed like a man with not much to lose. Yeah, i think often in these sort of head to heads, i would say sunak has done better overall than starmer. He actually performs well in these kinds of environments because he can actually put starmer on the back foot a little bit and say, well, what are your plans for x, y, z . And keir is very famously quite slippery. So, you know, ive seen some clips there of him not quite able to say how he would deal with illegal migration, not able to say which taxes he would put up and actually, you know, thats been one of the key messages of the Tory Campaign hammering labour on, you know what, where are the tax rises . I think he did actually pin, starmer down to pretty much admit that there will be a tax on the state pension. Now, this is a result of the conservatives setting a trap in the last budget. Well, i say its their own policy. Its their own policy that theyve then reversed in the middle of then reversed in the middle of the election campaign. But then starmer said our position is the same as as the government, i. E. From the next budget, which is basically an admission that there will be a tax on the on there will be a tax on the on the state pension. Thats the first time hes ever given way on any of these things, subtly, but of course, you know, were one week out from the general election. Will this , head to election. Will this, head to head make any difference at all . It seems a bit unlikely. I mean, you know, sunak was 20 points down when he called the election, and every week, you know, you ask, can things get any better . Can they get worse . Theyve only got worse. You know, weve had, this election the last two weeks have been dominated by the betting scandal for instance. Again. So everything you know , he couldnt everything you know, he couldnt he couldnt afford to put a foot wrong. And everything has gone wrong. And everything has gone wrong. So i doubt that this performance where, as you say , i performance where, as you say, i thought sunak did a betterjob. But if the public thinks its only 50 over 50, thats not going to pull things back. But do you think it will pull things back in terms of undecided voters . Because there will be those that go into the polling station next week and they have their pen in their hand, pencil in their hand, and they they hover and they make they they hover and they make the decision in the box right there will last night have made a difference to those people. Well lets see, i mean, that is the great factor in this election actually. You know, were looking at a labour victory, not because people have suddenly flocking to the labour party, not because theres any great enthusiasm out there for keir starmer or his programme, but because people are have been, have gone off the tories and many of those people are undecided. Many of them may not vote at all, many of them going to reform. But again, as you say , there are a lot of votes to play , there are a lot of votes to play for even at this late stage where a lot of people may have voted already with their postal vote. So and, you know, the polls, for instance, which im sure were going to come on to talk about, have been pretty wild in terms of, the differences that theyre showing in terms of the level of support. I mean, the problem is and we showed a clip of the Prime Minister having a go over immigration policy. The problem is its all totally disingenuous, isnt it . I mean, to say , well, you know, what are to say, well, you know, what are you going to do with people from afghanistan, from syria, from, you know, and are you going to negotiate with these people as if the Prime Minister has a plan . Yeah, because rwanda would only send a tiny percentage of those people anywhere. So weve still got the same problem to deal with here at home, i suppose sunaks argument would be that rwanda is a deterrent, and it would stop people coming in the first place. Now, of course, thats untested , and if he wanted to untested, and if he wanted to test out that strategy, then he should have called the election later, which, you know, i think would have made a lot more sense. You could see the flights going off and you could see are people being put off, from coming over here. But at the moment, youre right. You know, we have to sort of take the Prime Minister on trust. But on the basis of a record of the past 14 years where they have consistently missed or consistently missed or consistently broken their promises on, on migration. So, you know, the keir starmer line, quite rightly, that he threw back at rishi sunak was 14 years, you know , what is that. Years, you know, what is that. What is it about the last two years under rishi sunaks government that makes things seem sufficiently different, that he will turn things around . You dont really see any signs of that . No. Fraser, as we look at this new poll out today, because its pretty remarkable, isnt it . Its predicting a labour landslide with a majority of 250 seats, and that the tories will actually lose. Most of their actually lose. Most of their seats have fewer seats than the liberal democrats, and therefore they will become the official opposition. Opposition. This poll is absolutely extraordinary. Obviously, we have to take all polls with caution. And theres a big, you know, theres a big range of outcomes in what in what the polls are predicting. But, you know, to put this in context, this this would be the worst conservative defeat in history. Normally people, you know, political scientists will go back to 1906 as the worst tory defeat in history, where they had 135 seats. This puts them on 60 seats. Now again , that means 60 seats. Now again, that means there are basically no tory safe seats. It means the possibility of the Prime Minister losing his seat again, something that hasnt happened in the post war era. I dont think its happened in the era of universal suffrage. So were talking about a historic route here and some of the candidates as well. That might be left, you know, very few of the very few of the sort of big names that we might expect to be tory leader after this election, most of them are gone. You know, the list of people still staying , people still staying, potentially people like james cleverly, Steve Barclay , mark cleverly, Steve Barclay, mark harper doesnt sound like the kind of people who are going to turn this around. You know, theyre not the people, i think, who could rescue the tories from a historic defeat and bring them back into government, okay, fraser, were going to talk to you a little bit later on, but for now, thanks very much indeed. Thank for now, thanks very much indeed. Thank you. It is going to be an Election Night like no other , actually. I mean, other, actually. I mean, possibly one of the most sort of exciting and dramatic in living memory. So if youd like to join us, gb news will be live in essex as Michelle Dewberry and Patrick Christys host our gb news exclusive coverage. Yes. So if you want to be part of our exclusive Live Audience in essex, you can apply now either by scanning the qr code on the screen right now. If youve got your phone on, you or you can visit gb news. Com and apply to be part of that audience. And it will be brilliant, wont it . That watch party. Yeah, its going to be to be a part of history like that and to sort of be able to stay there through the night and share the experience with other people will be quite something. Yes. So do get on with that. Id be very good and youre doing the coverage here as well, arent you . Yeah. The main coverage thats going to be here in this very studio from 955 on thursday, next thursday week today. Can you believe that thats come around so quickly. So where me and camilla will be here right through till six in the morning . Yeah. Hey be worth tuning in at five just to see what state were in. Oh, no. Itll be itll be an incredible night. It will be really good. Now, since winning the right to vote more than 100 years ago, women have been targeted by politicians hoping to attract their support. Well, in this general election, its no different. Leaders proudly stating their party is the one for women. But come july, the fourth, how much power do female voters have . As values in society shift . Well, our east midlands reporter, will hollis has the story. Jos great, great grandmother, suffragette alice hawkins, was on the front line of the fight for the right to vote. This is the sash that alice wore when she was a suffragette. She wore it to meetings, demonstrations whenever she spoke , arrested and imprisoned spoke, arrested and imprisoned five times. The working class woman sacrificed in her lifetime to earn Voting Rights for women everywhere in britain today, whenever they demonstrated , the whenever they demonstrated, the police were very aggressive. Theres no doubt that they were the victims of police brutality, but it just didnt stop them. In leicester, a statue celebrates alice and the suffragette cause. A hundred years on, people seeking power watch voter trends eagerly. So which issues matter to women here . My thing is for the nhs, womens rights , obviously the womens rights, obviously the future for the kids, for the children. Children. Ahead of the general election, the main parties are trying to attract voters from key groups in demographics, framing themselves as the party for business, for the environment and for women. There are groups of women that parties target and that is sensible, professor of politics Rosie Campbell suggests that women tend to focus on education and the nhs when voting, whereas for men, the economy and europe matter more. Our lives are still to some extent organised around genden to some extent organised around gender, and mens and womens lives are a little bit different i still, exam m still, why do we not seem to talk about the mens vote in the same way that we do the female vote . One of the reasons we focus on women in this way is that elections. Were really interested in undecided voters who will vote, and women make up the majority of undecided voters, but theyre just as likely to turn out on election day. So if you want to go and persuade people late in the campaign to vote for you. Women are massively overrepresented in that group