Shut up. Man. Who will win . Will joe biden stay awake . Thats all coming up between now and 6 00. Well, to the show. Always a delight to have your company. So our Political Editor, chris hoy, was in nottingham last night. Our Political Editor, chris hoy, was in nottingham last night. My was in nottingham last night. My home city this morning sat down in a pub with the Prime Minister, who opened his heart to chris and put it to you. The gb news viewers. He said this people watching can make the difference. Rishi sunak is defiantly saying he can beat the polls. He can turn this around and he needs your help to do that. 7 00 tonight is where that exclusive goes up. Weve got a exclusive goes up. Weve got a sneak preview of that coming up on the show shortly. Get in touch. What do you think . Can touch. What do you think . Can rishi turn this around . Is it possible or is it simply too late . Get in touch , late . Get in touch, gbnews. Com yoursay. Before we kick into the show, its time for your latest News Headlines. Martin, thank you and good afternoon. The top stories this houn afternoon. The top stories this hour. The number of metropolitan Police Officers under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen to at least seven. The force says one, a Protection Officer assigned to the Prime Minister, was arrested last week on suspicion of misconduct in pubuc on suspicion of misconduct in public office. Hes been bailed and is subject to restricted duties. A further six officers have been identified as having placed bets on the timing of the election. The met says the Gambling Commission continues to investigate those cases, but the mets directorate of professional standards is being kept informed at least five conservatives are being investigated by the Gambling Commission as part of its inquiry into bets. Labour has also been dragged into the row, suspending one candidate after he was investigated by the regulator for betting on himself to lose his seat. Sir keir starmer says a Labour Government would work with whoevers in power in france on tackling migrant channel crossings. Sir keir starmer and rishi sunak have returned to the campaign trail today after they clashed over illegal immigration and the betting row in a tv debate last night. The Prime Minister says the country is in danger under a potential Labour Government, with a leader who he says has no plan to stop the boats. Plan to stop the boats. If starmer changes his mind on almost every major position that he has taken and times that were living in, you need leadership which has the courage of its convictions. Thats what ihave. Of its convictions. Thats what i have. You have to ask yourself why is he not telling you his plan for the country , what he plan for the country, what he wants to do . Because he probably doesnt think theyre going to like it when you hear it, right . We know, as you saw last night, those of you that were watching the debate, absolutely no answers about how to tackle immigration right . Ive got a plan. Were bringing immigration down. Weve got a plan to stop the boats. He would make us the soft touch of europe when it comes to that issue. Sir keir starmer has told gb news today that the issue of illegal migration is much more than just a border issue. Than just a border issue. Record numbers of people are coming here in small boats. Hes lost control of our borders, literally lost control not only of the numbers that are coming, but also whos coming. And so this is not just a border issue, its a National Security issue. The deterrent is smashing. The gangs that are running this vile trade so that nobody, but nobody gets into a boat to cross the channel. The Prime Minister is simply interested in a gimmick. The rwanda scheme for people whove already arrived here a few hundred people. Liberal democrat leader sir ed davey says the winner of the general election should pass an emergency budget to fix the healthcare system. The party says its manifesto pledges a £91; says its manifesto pledges a £9. 4 billion spending package for the nhs, healthcare and social care. Sir ed davey says he wants to see a budget, which would be much more targeted in scope than a normal one. Everyone knows that having problems getting a gp, the care system is in a mess. Social care is not there for so many people. We have to start straight away. Its why the liberal democrats put it right at the centre of our manifesto, and why were calling today for an Emergency Health and care budget. Health and care budget. Former Newcastle United owner sir john hall has switched his sirjohn hall has switched his support to reform uk after previously donating tens of thousands of pounds to the conservative party. He was cheered on her to reform speech near sunderland, where Party Leader Nigel farage was speaking. Today farage said it was a privilege to welcome sir john into the family and said hed made a substantial donation to the partys campaign. He said he feels the tories have let him down. The conservative party has let me down. There have been a failure for the last many years for the last 14 years, and they dont speak now, for my english is my way of life, which i feel is my way of life, which i feel is under threat. And i looked around basically who i could find to support, to speak for me and the reform party. I feel and i feel its the only ones who are going to speak and about saving my english culture. Junior doctors in england are striking. For an 11th time in almost a year. The five day strike continues in their long running pay dispute with the government. Theyre asking for a 35 pay rise and say more industrial action can take place over the summer. If negotiations do not move forward in a timely manner. The bma said its already held talks with the labour party. In other news, the mother of missing british teenager jay slater says some of the money raised by a crowdfunding appeal will be withdrawn to help with the search for her son. The appeal has so far raised more than £36,000. The for search 19 year old jay has entered its 11th day after he went missing in tenerife. It was his first houday tenerife. It was his first holiday without his parents. Yesterday, Spanish Police deployed helicopters and sniffer dogsin deployed helicopters and sniffer dogs in mountainous areas of the island and englands football squad has been training for their first knockout game against slovakia at the euros. The three lions topped their group before getting into the knockout stages of the competition. They will be without their midfielder phil foden, who had to leave Training Camp, to and return to the uk for the birth of his third child. It is still hoped foden will be back with the team by sunday, the day of englands last 16 match. Those are the latest gb News Headlines for now im tatiana sanchez. More in half an hour for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code, or go to gbnews. Com forward slash alerts. Slash alerts. Thank you very much, tatiana. Now we start todays show with our big exclusive interview with rishi sunak. And after his. This show ran a major opinion poll yesterday that predicted the tories could win just 60 seats at the general election. The Prime Minister has told gb news that hes just 150,000 votes away from victory. But id say to everyone watching that those polls arent destiny, but people watching can make the difference. And you can turn around a 20 poll point lead for the labour. Theres other Research Shows its Something Like 150,000 voters in key places will make the difference. Those are the people that will be watching, right . If youre watching this show right now, you can make the difference. I get peoples difference. I get peoples frustrations with me, with the party. We havent got everything right. I know that we havent made as much progress as we would have liked, but this is an important election about your future. Do you do not want labourin future. Do you do not want labour in charge with that blank check to do what they want for your Family Finances . Go out your Family Finances . Go out there, vote conservatives. There, vote conservatives. Well, that was the Prime Minister sat down with chris hopein minister sat down with chris hope in a pub in nottingham. My home city, this morning. A Prime Minister at a pub table. Weve all been there now. Im joined by kevin schofield, whos the policies editor at huffpost uk. Policies editor at huffpost uk. Kevin, welcome to the show. This interview goes at 7 00 tonight on gb news. That sneak preview there seems to indicate rishi sunak having a slight pivot of strategy in the face of such overwhelming odds. Every single opinion poll kevin has the conservatives languishing way , conservatives languishing way, way behind. This seems to be a shift appealing to those wavering voters, those marginal voters, those, perhaps, who might be opting to go for reform, rishi sunak putting a plea out to them. The big question is, kevin, will it be enough to make a difference . I fear it will too be little, too late for the Prime Minister, and i think it would take an almighty collapse by labour, a huge, u turn in public opinion. Or maybe the Polling Industry has just called it massively wrong. For the conservatives to win the election from here, i can understand why the Prime Minister is maybe pinning his hopes on undecided voters. And there obviously are a lot of undecided voters out there, but i think there may be more likely just to stay at home in the final analysis rather than, opt to, support rishi sunak. I was actually out on the doorsteps yesterday with a conservative candidate, and i was speaking to one who i would describe as a traditional conservative voter who basically said, i just dont like rishi sunak, but his concerns were about tax. They were about defence, you know, the things that traditionally should be strong ground for the conservatives. And yet he didnt want to vote for the tory party. And i think that is an example of the challenge that, mr sunak faces. Faces. And, kevin, what we saw in this interview here as well was an admission that we havent got things right at the conservative party, he said. I get peoples frustrations with me, with the party. We havent got everything right. I know that we havent made as much progress as we would have liked, but. And the big bird seems to be echoes almost. Kevin of 2019, things will be far worse under labour. Weve heard that card trick before, havent we, abc . Anybody but corbyn. Will it work this time . Theyre betting everything on a similar strategy. It feels like to me. Like to me. Yeah they are. Theyve gone very negative in the last 2 or 3 weeks really. Its just been a purely negative campaign, basically trying to scare voters into not voting for labour. I think its a much more difficult challenge for them than it was five years ago. Keir starmer is clearly a very different labour leader than jeremy corbyn, who isnt even standing for the labour party anymore. In fact, hes standing against the labour party in his in his constituency in north london. So i think thats a difficult , attack thats a difficult, attack strategy for rishi sunak to pull off. And of course, we have the reform uk factor as well, which we didnt have at the last election when nigel farage, agreed a deal effectively with bofis agreed a deal effectively with Boris Johnson to stand down. A lot of candidates , brexit party lot of candidates, Brexit Party Candidates as they were then, and to give the tories a free run in lots of seats. Theyre not doing that. This time. So thats another barrier for rishi sunak to clear. And the longer it goes in the opinion polls dont shift, then i fear hes facing a real uphill struggle. And it feels, kevin, this 150,000 voters, that will be a bunch of tory strategists working out those marginal seats where theres just a swing of a few thousand could make that seat go. And of course, reform uk, as you mentioned, will be that deciding factor , perhaps in that deciding factor, perhaps in letting the labour party in. In fact, thats been a key strategy until now. Vote reform get sir keir starmer. This is more of a direct plea vote tory keep sir keir starmer out. Yeah exactly. And its interesting isnt it. I think labour havent denied that. Theyve effectively stopped campaigning in clacton, where nigel farage is standing, because obviously they would rather, a reform, candidate when, rather than a conservative candidate. So, so yeah , again, candidate. So, so yeah, again, this is another challenge for , this is another challenge for, rishi sunak. I mean, hes pulling out all the stops. Hes pulling out all the stops. Hes tried every trick in the book since the campaign started. We since the campaign started. We had big policy announcements at the start that didnt, change the start that didnt, change the weather. As i say, in recent weeks, theyve gone negative and another negative, poster out today. About dont surrender your family to keir starmer, theyre just trying to scare voters. I think , into either, voters. I think, into either, voting conservative or just basically dont vote labour, but all the opinion polls suggest that its not going to work. Clearly. You know, weve still got a week to go. Nothing. No vote has been cast , certainly got a week to go. Nothing. No vote has been cast, certainly in the ballot box. As the cliche goes. But it would take an enormous upset from here. I think for rishi sunak to still be in number 10 come the 5th of july. And, weve just been joined by chris hope, our political edhon by chris hope, our Political Editor, whos just literally hotfooted it all the way from nottingham before we get him plugged in. Kevin, you have to admit though, last night rishi sunak put in a great performance by every metric out there, almost every commentator, everybody watching felt he had the upper hand in last nights debate. Yeah, i think he did. Well, i think that format suits him better than keir starmer, for sure. I dont think keir starmer is terribly comfortable. He looks uncomfortable in those tv debates. I thought the topics that were, discussed helped rishi sunak as well. Immigration benefits, taxes, you know, they were all quite strong ground for him. And he hit his, his lines very well indeed. I thought keir starmer struggled on occasion, but you just wonder, one, how many people were actually watching and two, how many people were actually undecided going into that debate. And it will have changed their minds. I think most people by now are probably certainly most people tuning in already had decided which way they were going to vote, but certainly, yeah, he can take a bit of a morale boost, certainly from that performance last night, although weirdly, the opinion poll, the snap poll from yougov that came out right after it showed that voters thought it was a 5050 split. So, so it just shows you a lot of it is in the eye of the political beholder. If i can get it out. It out. Post uk and as you just said, im now joined in the studio by gb news Political Editor chris hope, whos literally hotfooted it straight from nottingham. So youre with the Prime Minister. You are sat in a pub with him, a very intimate setting. How did he. I always ask you . Yeah up close and personal. How does he see him . The opinion polls are disastrous. He had a good night last night. How was it feeling . Well, yeah, i think he had a good night last night. And picking up on kevins point there, the yougov polling of 1700 people who watched , the of 1700 people who watched, the debate last night, they started off two thirds, one third against sunak, and by the end of the evening, they were 50 over 50. So he pulled back. So he pulled back. He basically put the two leaders on parity after that. That , event last leaders on parity after that. That, event last night and how many were watching . Well, we dont know. Well, we dont know. Well look at the numbers today and how many were paying attention. Lots of shouting. But i agree with kevin. Kevin, there he definitely landed some blows, rishi sunak to me, hes a kind of pm transformed from the rather broken man i thought i met in scotland. Scotland , forgive me in scotland, forgive me in scotland. On on on. On, monday at the Tory Party Manifesto up there when he was asked five out of six questions all, all about the, the rishi sunak. You mean that ive touched you on the trains . My phone . No, but the point is, i think hes definitely somebody whos got his his mojo back. But whether its his his mojo back. But whether wsfime his his mojo back. But whether its time were week six of this campaign, hes somebody who clearly, is now on top of his game. I think. But whether that will be enough to turn the polls around the strategy is interesting. Just 150,000 voters can change their minds and let me beat labour. Theyre obviously looking at the marginals and theyre trying to get those people who perhaps are thinking about staying at home, or perhaps wavering and going to reform uk to do as they did in 2019. Anyone but corbyn was the message there. Now it seems to be anyone but starmer. The be anyone but starmer. The dystopian future of what might become if you dont vote for me, if you stay home, if you get tempted to play away, its a its a pivot of strategy. Do you think it will work . It might work, he told us in this interview. It might work, he told us in this interview. And weve got this interview. And weve got the clip. If you havent seen it yet, have you seen a clip . We have seen it. Yeah, 150,000 votes in key places, he was saying that if he can just turn those around. And thats why he was talking so energetically, i think to gb news viewers, he told me in terms that he thinks that our viewers are watching. The