And taiwan. An aide well be keeping up with the hopes this morning as we catch up with our political editor, Christopher Hope, and his children as they set off on the London Marathon. Set off on the London Marathon. Good morning. Manchester city reached the fa cup final for the second successive year, with rivals united looking to join them later today. But city boss Pep Guardiola blasted his players unacceptable schedule in the premier league. Arsenal return the summit. Well hear return to the summit. Well hear about the snooker World Champion who the limelight. Who hates the limelight. Theres still some sunshine on many of us today, on offer for many of us today, but some rain arriving in the north later. Join me for the full forecast with all the details. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. Bit of worrying news this morning, stephen. Oh, really . Whats going on . Oh, really . Whats going on . Potato prices are soaring. Are they . Yeah. Its going to affect our chips and our crisps , affect our chips and our crisps, which i know you feel very seriously about, i do. Very serious about chris. Im not going to eat them. Theyre my big down of crisps and peanuts and my big downfall. Oh yeah. I this is a problem for i know this is a problem for you. Could a 25 price you. We could see a 25 price hike. Really . According to the daily mail. Why is it, though, when yeah. Why is it, though, when you go buying potatoes, you get some that are quite expensive. But for the, the but then if you go for the, the i go like the bog i always go for like the bog standard bigger bag home brand. I for the red ones. Yeah, i go for the red ones. Yeah, i go for the red ones. You. But theyre quite oh do you. But theyre quite expensive. Think so. No, i think so. No, i think so. You can get them for like a third of the price if you buy the supermarket own brand. Yeah, perfect i do. Yeah, perfect i do. Are these quite fresh are these not quite as fresh or something, not quite sure or something, im not quite sure , but be warned. Could see to 25. Could see up to 25. Apparently its been too wet. Oh, just you watch. Theres oh, just you watch. Theres going to be, hosepipe bans in the summer. Going to be, hosepipe bans in the summer. Record going to be, hosepipe bans in the summer. Record rainfall. The summer. Record rainfall. Apparently, its not been good for the potato crop this year. And lots of other veggies as well. 25 of britains fresh vegetables are currently under water. Oh, not so good. Oh, not so good. No, im bad news for the farmers, actually. Yeah, because theyre going to suffer with what many money they can make. Nightmare. Ive just noticed. And this is in the sun this morning, apparently , queen morning, apparently, queen elizabeth, loved it when things went wrong. No. No. Samantha cohen, the queens press secretary for 17 years, says her majesty loved it when things went wrong and it spiced up her life when a cake was not cutting or a plaque didnt unveil. So she liked it. So she liked it. When it all went, she just rolled with the punches. Yeah, thats quite nice. Thats quite nice. Apparently she used to have a good. Good chortle. Well, i think that shows that she has good sense of humour. She has a good sense of humour. Oh, her, we miss yeah. Oh, bless her, we miss her, we . Her, dont we . We miss her. We do miss her. We do miss her. We do miss her. We do. We do. Oh thats nice. Oh thats nice. Its a nice little anecdote, isnt it. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Should we crack on . Should we crack on . Yes we should. Yes we should. Yes well, the former home secretary braverman is secretary Suella Braverman is leading for the leading calls today for the metropolitan chief, mark leading calls today for the metropotoan chief, mark leading calls today for the metropoto quit chief, mark leading calls today for the metropoto quit overchief, mark leading calls today for the metropoto quit over what mark leading calls today for the metropoto quit over what shek rowley, to quit over what she describes as a litany of failures in policing pro palestinian rallies. Yes, the latest scandal embroiling the met is the forces reaction after an officer used the terms openly jewish to describe an anti sex autism activist. Gideon falter was stopped from crossing a road near a pro palestinian march by the officer , who described him as officer, who described him as quite openly jewish. While the force has since apologised not once but twice. Apologised not once but twice. Well, joining us in the studio is political commentator john oxley. Good to see you this oxley. Good to see you this morning, john. And this is just going from bad to worse, the metropolitan police, isnt it . Absolutely. So this has been developing the course of developing over the course of the obviously, theres the the week. Obviously, theres the background already of questions over handled these over how theyve handled these protests, there was this protests, but there was this incident last weekend, that received a lot of publicity. Then they apologised and theyve now actually had to apologise over their apology because it was so poorly worded and seen as just as inflammatory as their first mistake. Just scrapping the man at the top. Help. I mean, hes not been top. Help. I mean, hes not been in the job very long for a kick off, i mean, if he if he can give assurances that things will change, perhaps hes best left in place to get on with that. Well, this is the long running issue that we had with his predecessor, Cressida Dick, who came under criticism for different reasons, particularly in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, but , in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, but, you in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, but , you know, in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, but, you know, part of in the wake of the Sarah Everard case, but , you know, part of the case, but, you know, part of the question is if the police are still struggling to find someone who can affect these sort of changes, do we to think changes, do we have to think more broadly about an organisation . Know, the organisation . You know, the current it, you know, mr rowley already being criticised around his response to the review following the murder of Sarah Everard and how the police have handled a range of issues, so the question is, you know , if the question is, you know, if hes not right, is there anyone who can get this organisation acting properly and in the pubuc acting properly and in the Public Interest . Makes you think about the comments from the anti extremism tsar about a month ago, who warned that there were no go zones forjews in were no go zones for jews in Central London and the man in the centre of this row, gideon falter, the man who was told that he looked openly jewish. Hes written in the sunday times today saying that not only are there no go zones forjews, are there no go zones for jews, but he now says its a police enforced jew free zone. What do you make of those comments . You make of those comments . I think its very hard to comment to someone who isnt jewish, but i think what were seeing from a number of members of the Jewish Community is they are very much feeling that way, and incidents like this show, you the polices primary you know, the polices primary approach here seems to be trying to avoid trouble, but doing so by taking away what they think is going to inflame protesters , is going to inflame protesters, rather than addressing the fact that these protests are apparently so volatile that the police consider even the presence of someone who looks jewish and is wearing jewish dress , a provocation. And i can dress, a provocation. And i can see why thats exceptionally worrying. If you are jewish, i mean, you can understand why some people and its not that these people and its not that these people dont have a right to protest, as long as its done peacefully and that there isnt the hate language and all the rest of it, but you can understand why people get annoyed it seems to be annoyed in that it seems to be the police are scared of doing anything which would be perceived as in any sense racist or against a against a muslim group or a Palestinian Group or whatever it may be. Yes. And thats exactly the yes. And thats exactly the point. Thats sort of coming out about this, that if there were any other sort of protest and any other sort of protest and any other sort of protest and any other sort of minority, the Police Response wouldnt be that minority has to remove themselves from the area in case it provokes the protesters. It would be how do we treat this as a public order thing . How do we make sure this minority person is safe . And that would probably mean, you know, some quite robust the robust policing against the protesters, not just, you know, pulling this person out of the situation. Yeah. Situation. Yeah. Yeah, its the whole argument about policing in a, in a, without fear or favour. Is it which, which they dont seem to be doing. Be doing. No. And thats exactly it. And they dont seem to be taking on these, you know, protesters when theres potential to become violent in a robust way. And that points , you know, you you that points, you know, you you have to have sympathy with the individual officers on the ground. You know, it shows something wrong about the directions. Directions. Theyre being given and the overall strategy. And thats when you have to ask i to try and fend off russias invasion. Now this was after some objected to sending money overseas instead of spending it on the us, mexico border. Well, ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was grateful for the decision, which he said keeps history on the right track. Meanwhile, moscow says the passage of the bill would further ruin ukraine and result in more deaths. Well, joining us now is chair of republican overseas, greg swenson. Good to see you this morning, greg. And its taken months to get to this point. Hasnt it. It really has. So its in many ways its about time. And i think theres a general consensusis think theres a general consensus is that this is great news. Wish it happened earlier. Why was it being blocked out. Why was it being blocked out. I think it was being blocked for good reason , many for good reason, many republicans wanted to tie this to the border. And contrary to popular belief, where, you to the border. And contrary to popular belief , where, you know, popular belief, where, you know, the argument was we need more money for the border. It wasnt actually money. And in the in the initial proposals had more funding for the border from the democrats. Thats not the point. They could flip the switch and, and down the border to and shut down the border to a certain degree. So it wasnt as much the money going out the doon much the money going out the door. Its that the Biden Administration decided to open the border when he took over in early 21. So if they had just this could have happened. This funding could have happened two months ago. If biden had agreed to shut down the border like it was closed during the trump administration. And yet, how does it fit within . I mean , i dont know within . I mean, i dont know about your personal view is, but for a lot of republicans who say we fed up of being the we are fed up of being the worlds policeman, yeah, there is element of the party. Is that element of the party. Theres an isolationist wing in republican its in the republican party. Its relatively that relatively small. You saw that the majority of republicans, a great majority of republicans, voted of the funding voted for all of the funding yesterday. It is this fringe kind of extreme element. Its not necessarily conservative. You know, sometimes you read, oh, the conservative wing of the party. Thats not the case. The conservative movement is very pro defence. You know, we endorse military spending. We endorse military spending. We endorse defence spending. Biden has cut the budget in real terms by 2 for the last two years. Thats dangerous at a time like this. So yes, there is this fringe wing and those are the ones that will probably or possibly file a motion to vacate on mike johnson, the speaker of the house, who really pushed this , aid bill through. This, aid bill through. I mean, weve just heard from zelenskyy there who says hes very grateful. What do you think this means for ukraine and what message does it send to putin . Well, it definitely sends a message that the is willing message that the us is willing to support the defence of ukraine. And this is a good thing. And, you know, even this is very reagan esque in many ways where, you know, the Reagan Administration was very much behind allies, behind behind our allies, behind democracy , fighting for their democracy, fighting for their freedom. You had proxy wars going on at that time in nicaragua, for example. And so this is a way for the us to get ahead of it, right . Wed rather help ukraine defend itself. Now than have a bigger problem later. Its actually Cost Effective in many ways. Of course, that also includes i mean, theres more money going to israel as a result of this. Theres also money going to taiwan. Thats right, thats right. And then and then the last element is the is forcing tiktok to be sold to an american owner. Yes. And that that was another priority. But you know, and that was bipartisan in many ways. So tell us a bit more about this. This tiktok. Sure part of what was going on yesterday. Yes. The there is that that threat, that tiktok, you know, being owned by the chinese, tied to the chinese, to the ccp as well as the prc, they they you know, theres an argument that thatis know, theres an argument that that is data and, and potential influence peddling that we just cant live with. And, you know, its similar to, to restrictions on media ownership or Television Ownership by by foreign owners. And so this was important to again, it was for the most part bipartisan. And its a Great Security risk to have the chinese owning that kind of data, and can i ask you about obviously now this very strange situation. Now, obviously, you know, youre going to have trump as a president ial candidate , youve president ial candidate, youve got the various court cases which are getting underway now and all more to come before november. I mean, its all its all very complex and highly contentious. You were not contentious. You were not a trump supporter in the run up to all of this. Whats your all of this. Whats your position now . Would you still like would you i mean, as a as a republican because hes your candidate. Would you like to see him get in . Definitely. Definitely. And now on, thats what and now come on, thats what i struggle with. Sure. A little bit. You know, you, i think you were desantis. Right. Very much so. Thats right. Very much so. Thats right. Very much so. Who was in, in a lot of respects, diametrically opposed to a lot of what trump was standing for. So if you said, well, i wanted desantis and not trump, how can you then go, well, im happy for to go well, im happy for trump to go in well for a few in anyway. Well for a few reasons. Is its a binary choice. One is its a binary choice. At this point, its trump or biden. And to a biden. And that to me is a complete no brainer. Secondly, if in many ways had if ron desantis in many ways had was was similar trump, he was was was similar to trump, he was drawing the same part of drawing from the same part of the of the electorate. He had that, you know, sort of traditional conservatives, but also type. And also the new populist type. And thats that was the appeal of desantis. And that was also the desantis. And that was also the challenge for desantis, because he was drawing from the same part of the electorate as opposed to nikki haley , who was opposed to nikki haley, who was drawing more from the moderate wing or even democrats and wing or even some democrats and independents. So. So ron desantis, many ways was like desantis, in many ways was like trump. Hes a fighter. He he definitely leans toward the populist wing. Yet he was much more disciplined. So i thought hed be a much, much more effective president than trump. Do you not have concerns . Do you not have concerns . Youre not diametrically opposed. But the discipline part. Yeah. Is interesting. Are you not concerned about trump getting back in with his lack of discipline , that unpredictability . Stephen, im very concerned about it. Right . I mean, its back in 2016. We were concerned about it. I back in 2016. We were concerned about it. I was more back in 2016. We were concerned about it. I was more concerned about it. I was more concerned at the time that he would govern less as a conservative and more as a populist or a moderate, because he didnt really have a conservative track record. We conservative track record. We were pleasantly surprised when he did govern as a conservative. And if you look at his policies and his outcomes , they were very and his outcomes, they were very conservative in nature. But the discipline , you know, was a was discipline, you know, was a was a real headwind for the administration. You know, his sort of unfiltered rhetoric. Sometimes its refreshing. And i sometimes its refreshing. And i think that was one of the reasons he won in 2016. He was saying what people were thinking , but it does create an and it leaves a lot of room for chaos. Leaves a lot of room for chaos. And there was a lot of turnover in the administration. So yeah, of course im concerned about it. And we see that even weve seen that even recently. Now is that going to be a deal breaker . Is that going to make him completely ineffective . I dont completely ineffective . I dont know, but i would argue hes probably going to be better at this than he was in the first administration. Youve got a lot of support, a lot of think tanks. Im told from sort of inner circle that the campaign is remarkably more disciplined than it was in 2016. Hes you know, hes had the experience. So we can expect it. Yes, we can expect some some chaos. And thats just the nature of president trump. But what we for hopeis president trump. But what we for hope is that hes better at it this time. Youve got the heritage foundation, for example , putting together what they call the 2025 plan. They are they are right now putting