Transcript of Sky News at Ten | Dozens reportedly killed in two Israeli strikes on refugee camps in Gaza

It's 10:00. This is Skynews at 10:00, our top story. Dozens of people are killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, as Benjamin Netanyahu vows to punish Iran for trying to assassinate him. See For yourselves, the Israeli military reveals new footage of the late Hamas leader, Yaya Sinwa, just hours before the seventh of October attacks on Israel. She slipped from my hand. A grieving father tells how he lost his baby girl trying to cross the channel. A vigil for Liam Payne, as one of the singer's former One Direction bandmates, postpones his tour dates. Minsters explore plans to hand ownership of the post office to thousands of sub-postmasters. Thus, we report from Moldova as officials warn that Russia is actively disrupting a referendum on whether to join the European Union. We'll take a first look at tomorrow's front pages in our press preview from 10:30. Good evening. We begin with the situation in Gaza, where dozens of people have been killed in Israeli airstrites in the past 24 hours. The attacks took place across the Strip. As the Israeli military revealed tonight, new footage, which it says, shows the former Hamas leader, Yaya Sinwa, just hours before a deadly seventh of October attack on Israel.

An IDF spokesperson said Sinwa had planned the massacre for years in order to maximize harm to Israeli and Gaza civilians. Well, Let's take you through the latest developments. Earlier today, a drone was fired from Lebanon at the Israeli Prime Minister's holiday home in the town of Sezarea. Neither Benjamin Netanyahu or his wife were at the house, and there were no reports of any injuries. Meanwhile, in Lebanon, two people were killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian majority town of Juney, north of the capital, Beirut. In central Gaza, at least 10 people, including two children, were killed killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Zaweda. Another strike killed 11 people, all from the same family in the Al-Megazi Refugee Camp in Deir El Bala. And overnight in Jabbalea, in northern Gaza, Israeli forces struck at least three houses, killing at least 40 people. In the last hour, there have been reports that dozens more have been killed in a strike on nearby Bait Lahia. From Jerusalem, Adam Parsons reports.

In Gaza today, fear, panic, and yet more deaths. An Israeli airstrike hit this, the Mikhaasi Refugee Camp in central Gaza. It's believed at least 12 members of the same extended family died here, and there were other deaths and other attacks. At the Jablilir camp, flames rolling out from a score. Camp's been bombarded by artillery for hours. And it's not just Gaza that Israel has targeted. This is Juna on the edge of Beirut, two killed here as Israel continued its assault on its northern neighbor.

We could hear the sound of the drone.

I was three minutes away from the strike.

When I got here, it had struck.

There were two people, a man and his wife, who were dead.

Their body parts were everywhere, all the way to the police point there.

This is not one-way traffic. Israel says around 55 projectiles were fired into its northern towns from Lebanon. Nobody was reported injured, but a drone did land near this, a house owned by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. There was no damage, and he seemed untroubled.

We're going to win this war.

So was that going to deter you? No.

And all this in the wake of the death of the Hamas leader, Yaya Sinwa, killed by Israeli forces. The Israeli military has now released footage of Sinwa and his family moving into a tunnel just before October seventh, the day of the attacks that he masterminded and which were the catalyst for all that has followed.

There were no hostages with Seymouar when he was eliminated.

Killing Sinoar is the result of a year of operational and intelligence efforts to bring him and other Hamas leaders to justice.

Sinoar has been eliminated, but our mission is not over.

We will not rest until we bring all our hostages home by any means possible.

Ali Khamini, Iran's Supreme Leader, praised Sinaouh as a shining face of resistance and declared that Hamas is alive and will remain alive. Hamani doesn't just mourn Simwa. He watches these fresh attacks and wonders when and how Israel will launch its missiles in Iran's direction. That attack is surely inevitable.

Adam Parsons joins me now from Jerusalem. Adam, the death of Yaya Sinwa hasn't yet led to a ceasefire. And this latest footage of the former Hamas leader that's been revealed tonight by the Israeli military. What do you think that they're trying to achieve by releasing that footage now?

I think they're trying to do what they did in the first place. When they killed Yaya Asimwa, there are many here who thought that it was the crowning achievement of a year of effort. And they put out that footage that showed him in a room, and the Israelis felt that it cast him as a pitiful figure, trying to throw a stick at a drone and dying on his own. But across much of this region, perhaps around the world, it was interpreted as a very different way. It was seen as a man dressed in patiques, wearing a Palestinian scarf, who, although terribly injured, clearly facing his death, his final act was one of defiance, throwing that stick at that drone. And for many, it has created almost a legend status around that act of sheer defiance. I think the Israelis are aware that the narrative they wanted was not the narrative they've got. So they have now put out this footage, which they I think demeans Yaya Simwa much more. It shows him in the run up to October seventh, the attacks that he orchestrated, as they would have it, hiding away in a tunnel with his wife, with his children, rather than being out with his soldiers.

The IDF spokesperson, Adon Haigari, making a point of saying that when Simwa was killed, it was the first time that he had engaged with Israeli soldiers during this campaign. So they are trying to take away some of the luster, trying to stop this man being portrayed as a heroic martyr, despite the rhetoric that we have heard, of course, from Hamas, but also from Iran, from Yemen, and from many Palestinian supporters around the world. Your initial point, though, will this killing, will Surma's death lead anywhere near to a ceasefire? Well, initially, there were lots who said Hamas will now change direction. It will be more open to some peace deal. There is frankly no sign of that. What there is, is the grimly familiar stories of death and destruction, whether that is in refugee camps that I was reporting on earlier, or whether it is tonight in northern Gaza, where Hamas says more than 70 people have died in this latest Israeli airstrike, which will, of course, keep the total spiraling. Hamas inspired Health Ministry says that the numbers now well north of 44,000 people have died, and somewhere around 100,000 people who have been injured in this campaign.

You might think that with the global pressure to push for a ceasefire. Anthony Blinken will be here later this week on behalf of the United States government. Joe Biden, Common Hour, is desperate for some resolution before the presidential election that there would be pressure to push us towards a ceasefire. And yet, as you have heard today from both Hamas and from Benjamin Netanyahu, there is, in a sense, a more sense of both sides wanting an absolute victory that, realistically, neither is likely to achieve.

Adam, thank you very much. The father of a baby girl who died in the channel on Thursday night has told Sky News how he fought desperately to hold on to her. Aras Behez says, Mariam, who who was just 40 days old, was wrapped in a black bin bag to keep dry when he, his wife, and two other sons boarded the overcrowded vessel in France for England. Rachel Venables has the story.

She was born on the move and killed on the journey.

On Thursday, at just 40 days old, Maryam Bahes was in her mother's arms, wrapped in a black bin bag to keep dry on a migrant boat headed for England. But her father, Aras, told Sky News the packed dingy soon started to take on water.

We all told the people in charge to please turn around, please turn around. We said, Don't go, but he did not listen to anyone and just sailed. Then the water got to my waist. My trousers were submerged in the water. Then the dingy burst and I don't know how it happened, but everyone fell on top of each other and on top of me and my little girl. She went into the water, but I brought her up. Then a few others fell onto us. Then she went into the water and I brought her up for the in time. Then others fell on me, and then she slipped from my hand and fell into the water the third time. I lost her.

The French Coast Guard sent out several vessels and a helicopter rescuing 65 people on board, but recovering little Mariam's body from the sea.

Despite their tragedy, Aras still wants to get to England for the sake of his two surviving sons.

I will never try the sea route again, but I have come with the aim of getting to Britain so my my children will have a future and so I can feed my children.

I want to work and raise my children like any other children.

It's been the deadliest year yet for channel Crossing, with more than 50 men, women, and children killed so far, either by drowning or in the suffocating crush of those small, cramped boats. But in that time, 26,000 people have made the journey, like 20-year-old Salman, who arrived four weeks ago.

In Afghanistan, my community is being persecuted by the Taliban.

We're being killed or forced to leave our homes.

If my life was not in danger, I'd never have made such a dangerous trip.

And with the demand still high, smugglers continue to reap huge profits from those people who are determined and desperate to make it to Britain, no matter the risk. Rachel Venables, Sky News.

Former One Direction singer Zane Malik has announced he's postponing date on his upcoming tour, following the death of his former bandmate, Liam Payne. Fans have continued to pay their respects at vigils this weekend, following the death of a 31-year-old in Argentina. Liam's sister, Ruth Gibbons, joined her family's emotional tributes describing her late brother as her best friend. Skye's Martha Kellner reports from Buenos Aires.

Surrounded by people on the loneliest of missions, Liam Payne's father, thousands of miles from home, here to bring his body back to the UK. He visited the makeshift altar outside the hotel where his 31-year-old son died, accompanied in his grief by One Direction fans. How did it feel, Cecilian's dad walking around? It was shocking, really shocking.

We never expected. I think that it's so hard because you lost your son across the world and in a country where you don't even speak the language.

He died alone without his family in a foreign country, without his girlfriend, without anybody. And that's the saddest thing. Jeff Payne spent around eight minutes here, stopping occasionally to put his glasses on, to read the tributes written in English, picking up pictures of his son and thanking fans for being here. Inside the hotel, Jeff walked the corridor to the room where Liam spent his final days. A police Policewoman stands guard. He's not allowed inside. This is still an active investigation scene, but he did view a similar room. Investigators have been here, too, reconstructing Payne's last day. Toxicology reports on Payne's body are expected in the coming days. In Liverpool, fans gathered at the docks to remember him, and one of Liam's two sisters, Ruth Gibbons, wrote an emotional statement, insisting she'll help take care of his son. Liam is my best friend, she wrote. No one could ever make me laugh as much as him. You just wanted to be loved and to make people happy with your music. I'm sorry I couldn't say 'I believe you. ' 'Love you, oh how my heart misses you. ' 'One last time, I need you to know.

I'm here if you need anything. I drive to the end of the universe to bring you back. ' 'Pains' One Direction bandmate Zane Malik postponed the leg of his tour, which was due to begin next week. 'Until she broke inside' And around the world, vigils held to remember him, a boy from Wilberhampton who found stratosphoric Fame and discovered its pitfalls, too. Martha Kellner, Sky News, Buenos Aires.

Sky News understands that ministers are exploring plans to hand ownership of the post office to thousands of subpostmasters across Britain. The organization is currently entirely by the state and receives an annual subsidy from the government. Our correspondent, Dan Whitehead, reports.

Former subpostmaster, Vipin Patel, still opens his shop's counter every day. Now, It's just his personal office. His wrongful conviction of stealing tens of thousands of pounds was quashed in 2020. He welcomes talk of post office ownership being transferred, but says it mustn't put extra risk on those still working on the front line. It would be a good idea to change the model, provided the model works effectively with full governance and accountability and actually provides a good living wage for the postmasters. Skynews understands the government has asked consultancy firm BCG to assess whether handing ownership to thousands of sub-postmasters is viable, with a report due in the coming months. Any plans to mutualise the post office are at a very early stage. While there may well be appetite for wholesale change at the top, this is an institution that remains in crisis mode as it continues to deal with the fallout of the Horizon IT scandal. That includes the ongoing public inquiry, millions in unpaid compensation, and continuing IT issues. I'm sure the Horizon scandal could have been avoided if the post office had been mutually owned.

These concerns of subpostmasters would not have been ignored.

They would have been raised, they would have been addressed, they would have been dealt with. The Employee Ownership Association has detailed research that shows employee ownership works for everyone.

It works for the business.

It works for those who work in that business. It works for communities as well as the economy as a whole. Sure. The Department for Business declined to comment on the reported plans. Any change, of course, comes too late for the likes of Vipin, who, despite being cleared of any wrongdoing, continues to wait for compensation. Dan Whited, Sky News, in Horsesmouth, Oxford.

Thank you. You're welcome. To Moldova now, where people are facing an era-defining boat this weekend. People in the former Soviet Union state, which borders Ukraine, will decide if it should join the European Union. There have been accusations that Russia is attempting to skew the outcome, but the Kremlin denies any involvement. Our Europe correspondent, Siobhán Robbins, reports now from Moldova.

90-year-old Luca remembers Moldova's time under Soviet rule fondly.. It was good. Everyone worked here. No one left. Not like today, he says.

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This weekend, Moldovans will vote in a referendum on joining the EU. Polls suggests the majority are in favor, but not Luca. When it comes to Europe and Russia, he's clear where his loyalties lie.

It will be better with Russia.

Putin, he's the best person, he says. In the pro-Russian autonomous region of Gagosia, where Luca lives, many feel closer to Moscow than the West. Europe will not be good for us because in Europe there's nothing good, Luca's daughter Tatiana adds. But up the road, we meet pro-EU Ivan. He hopes a yes vote will lead to more jobs. But his wife says Russian propaganda and misinformation has rocketed, ahead of the referendum and presidential election. I I think 70% of people are zombies, she tells me. Claiming Kremlin proxies are encouraging people to vote no or not to vote at all. Police sees money and tech linked to Russian-backed groups. They claim bribe more than 130,000 people to vote against the EU. They also say this video shows Moldovans in Russia being trained to start riots. So these would be given in the street, put in the doors. And on the edge of the capital, police show us a warehouse filled with the seized anti-EU propaganda. This really shows you the level of organization inside this alleged campaign to derail the vote. So as well as this huge pile of pamphlets. We've also got packets and packets of these, at least 100,000 leaflets telling people to vote no.

It doesn't stop there. Moldova's police chief says they're fighting an unprecedented project to spread fear and manipulate voters. We are talking about over $15 million that was transferred in September for the purpose of corrupt or disrupting the democratic electoral process in Moldova. Do you believe that the Kremlin and Moscow has a direct hand in this?

In terms of the actions and goals they follow, I think so.

While Moscow denies meddling behind the scenes, the pro-European President has been using more traditional methods to drum up support. Both sides know Moldovans are at an historic crossroads. One way leads back east, the other, a new path west. Siobhán Robbins, Sky News, Moldova.

The Metropolitan police have made several arrests after pro-Palestinian protestors blocked Tower Bridge earlier this evening. It's since been cleared. Earlier in the In central London, hundreds gathered in Trafalgar Square, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and denouncing Israel's offensive in Lebanon. Protests have become violent in Chile, where police have fired water cannon and tear gas at crowds in the capital, Santiago. People were out to mark five years since mass riots that shook Chile's political system. What began as demonstrations in 2019 over high transport fares, descended into mass riots and a crackdown that led to dozens of deaths. Some electricity is flowing again in Cuba, according to the country's leaders, after a nationwide outage that's been going on for two days. Power plants failed earlier this week, leaving millions cut off. The government has suspended school classes, shut down state-owned businesses, and canceled some services to reduce pressure on the power grid. Time now to catch up on the latest sports news with Vishali.

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So Gunther, new book, Gunther Steiner unfiltered. So I brought the swear box along just in case. Have you got some money? Not much. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but I did go to the end. At the end, you detail the phone conversation with Jean Haas, where he explains he's not renewing your contract. Now, that happens after a row between the two of you. Had you been more of a yes man, might you still have been in the job now? Yes, for sure. If I would have just been always, Yes, let's do this, let's not do this. But I couldn't see where the team is going by where he wanted to go, and that frustrated me. Obviously, if I would have said yes to everything, I would be still there and be unhappy. I'm gone now, but I'm happy. In a way, you were at Loggerheads. It makes sense. Yeah, exactly. There's been some litigation. Probably not a lot you can say about that, but what about your relationship? Is there one anymore, you and Jean? You and Jean? No, the answer. There is not a relationship. What is the relationship There is none.

That's the easiest answer. Obviously, I don't want to get into my core case, but they sued me for the first book. That's been dismissed. That has been dismissed. Hopefully, it stays dismissed, but you never know. Had you still been in the job, would you be enjoying the results that the team are getting now? Can you be confident about that? The car was made last year, and a lot of credit care goes there to the team which did it, to Simone Resta, which now is a Mercedes at the time. We sat down last year in June and made the decision that this car was born in the beginning of the year. I found strange beginning of this year when it was said, The car will be last. I was like, I think you're wrong. We were confident that the car will be in the midfield. But in the virtual world, these two are definitely back markers.

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While we're on the subject of unfiltered, should drivers be filtered? I cannot look at you at your spare box. What do you reckon to all of this? Is Gustap and right to take Can you stand against the FIA for this punishment he's had or not? What do you think? My opinion there is, I think what Max said in the press conference, was it right? No. Was it wrong? No. He described how he feels about the car and used the F word. Obviously, in the race, you cannot... I think if you start to prohibit this in the race, it's almost impossible because the TV takes it out anyway with the bleeping. I think the penalty was too harsh. What it started off, a big controversy about it. It could have dealt in a different way with it. What about the style of leadership of the FIA President, Mohamed bin Soulayem? Is he too in people's face? Is he too confrontational? I think sometimes there would be better ways to handle some of the problems there are. It's like just maybe speak with the guys more direct instead of speaking with them by giving them fines. Just sit them down.

They're all good guys. I mean, Vincent Lyon was a driver himself before, so he knows how these guys think when they are competing. They are very competitive. Sometimes, you say something you don't really want to say. It's just an emotion and the adrenaline getting out of your mouth. Good. You've beaten me. I'm prepared to say that. You didn't swear. Yeah. Fair enough. Which you don't usually on the pit wall, but you have on drive to survive. I'm going to offer you the chance to atone for some of those swear words by putting some money in this swear box. I give you some money. Good old Scotman needs some money. It's all for a good cause. We'll make it. Would this be a chance for revenge? Maybe not. Okay, we're going to play this reactions game. You can answer questions while I do this, when I'm going to ask you about this season. All right. Who's going to win the drivers champion?

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Well, this is the first time we'll have seen the King and the Queen out and about in public since their arrival late here on Friday evening. Yesterday, of course, was the rest day, the down day, very much factored in to allow for the King's health. Ahead of the engagements, though, the Palace has issued a new photo of the couple, which was taken on Friday evening with a short message accompanying it, saying, What a backdrop after a rest day at the beautiful Admiralty House today. Their Majesties will begin their first day of official engagements in Australia. That photo taken just over on the other side of the Harbor here, Admiralty House being the official residence of the Governor General. So today, they're starting their Sunday with a service. They're going to St. Thomas's Church in North Sydney, going to the service there. It's an old church. Afterwards, there will be a walkabout, their first chance, the first chance for members of the public to see and meet the King and Queen. After that walk about. The King is then heading to the Parliament of New South Wales, where its legislative council, its upper house, if you like, is marking its 200th anniversary.

There's a reception there. He will address the guests who've been attended there, make a few short comments, we're told, before meeting up again with the Queen, where they will hold an audience first with the Governor General, and then with the Governor of New South Wales. That's both the King's national representative in Australia and his local representative positive, too. And then that is it. So that takes us up to roughly lunchtime, and that is it for the day. So you're getting a real sense of how this trip has been altered to factor in to allow for the King's health. And then on Monday, they will be heading to the capital, Cambridge, Iillian.

Laura, thank you. Well, that was Sky News at 10:00. Coming up, we'll take a first look at tomorrow's Newspapers in the Press Preview. Tonight, we're joined by the political commentator, Benedict Spence, and the journalist and author, Christina Patterson. Amongst the stories, we'll be discussing this on the front of the Sunday Times. It's headline, Sir Chris Hoye reveals he has terminal cancer. We'll be right back. Do stay with us.

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Welcome back. You are watching the press preview, a first look at what's on the front pages as they arrive. In the next half hour, we'll see what's making the headlines with Benedict Spence, political commentator, and Christina Patterson, journalist and author. Let's see what's on some of those front pages for you now. The six-time Olympic gold medalist, Sir Chris Hoy, has revealed that he has terminal cancer and has been given two to four years to live. That story is on the front of the Sunday Times. On the front of the mirror, Liam Payne's sister's tribute to her brother, I'm sorry, I couldn't save you. Ruth Gibben's moving open letter also appears on the front page of the Sun. The Observer claims the Chancellor will tax businesses to plug a £9 billion gap in NHS funds. And according to the Telegraph, millions of people receive smartwatches to track blood pressure, glucose spikes, and monitor how cancer patients are responding to treatment in an attempt to treat more patients at home and take pressure off the NHS. On the front of the Mail, a new poll shows more people think the conservative Party are more reliable, looking after their families' finances than labor.

The Sunday Express leads with Tauri leadership hopeful, Robert Jenrick, saying if pensioners freeze to death this winter, the Prime Minister will be to blame after cutting the winter fuel allowance. The Daily Star features the World Concert Championship winner, sharing his relief after being cleared of cheating. And a reminder that by scanning the QR code you'll see on screen during the program, you can check out the front pages of tomorrow's Newspapers while you watch us. And we are joined tonight by Benedict Spence, political commentator, and Christina Patterson, journalist and author. Welcome to you both. Let's start with the Sunday Times front page, and this very sad story, revelation from Sir Chris Hoy, that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. We did previously know that he had cancer, but he's now been told that he has between two and four years to live. Just so, so sad.

Yeah, it's very, very sad. He's 48, and he's got two young children. And obviously, for anyone getting a terminal cancer diagnosis is devastating. But what makes this even more tragic is that his wife, the mother of his children, has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. So you can just imagine this stress on that family. And he says in this interview, which I think is an extract from an interview, probably in the magazine, that his greatest torment has been having to tell their children Callum and Chloe. And it's just very, very sad. He said he's trying to remain optimistic, and he has genuine moments of joy. But it must be agonizing to know that you're not going to be seeing your children grow up. So, yeah, awful.

Yeah, just incredibly sad, as we say, there isn't really much more to say.

No, there isn't. I mean, obviously, everybody knows Chris Hoy, an individual in peak physical fitness throughout much of his life, and it goes to show that actually this can hit you no matter what a person you are, it's not very fair. Ultimately, it's one of the few things that in Western medicine, actually, we've made great leaps and bounds in is detecting and treating cancer in the last couple of decades. But we are almost playing catch up because the rates at which people are developing it at younger ages, all sorts of more aggressive types of cancer than perhaps they would have done before. It is a real battle. It's a real fight. Examples such as this as people that you just wouldn't have thought would be the person to get this diagnosis. It's very sobering, I think. And as Christina says, a really unfortunate time all round for his family, what was his wife's very unfortunate diagnosis as well.

Yeah, our thoughts are with him, certainly. Let's look at a bit of politics now, shall we? Turn to the budget, the upcoming budget on the 30th. Much speculation, much leaking. We almost seem to know every word that's in the budget, we think, but we shall have to wait and see. But certainly, tax rises or with tax freezes, but essentially, tax rises, that's one of the main issues that has been thrown up. Also this, I guess quid pro quo, that if there are tax rises, there will be more investment in the NHS. That might be the sugar that sweetens the pill.

There might be, although we're talking about 9 billion, as the observer says on the front page, and the NHS's budget for next year will be about 190 billion at a conservative estimate. It's not a huge amount, and it's the thing that I suspect actually, where's trading has probably been asked behind the scenes, can you also make that up in cost-effective measures in savings elsewhere? It's relatively quite a small uptick for the NHS. I don't think it's going to clear any of the backlogs or anything like that. It's certainly not going to improve the lot of many hospitals that are facing dereliction in some cases that need their IT systems updated. Lots of things need to be done in the NHS, and this won't really cut it. I suspect we'll probably see a separate plan developed at some stage over the next couple of years for that. But it's a really difficult balancing act that Rachel Reeve is having to do here because labor has come out and said, We understand growth is what is needed ultimately long term to fund a lot of these things, be it public services or to bring down the tax burden on people.

But there is no doubt that with the tax burden as it is at a record high in the postwar period and the prospect of more taxes to come and no immediate uptick in lots of other services beyond the NHS, There's no other word for it. It's a new form of austerity. It's the thing that I think they absolutely did not want to do, but facing down the barrel of the gun on this. It just hits everybody, be it the end of the winter fuel credit for some pensioners, be it the removal of exemptions for farmers in terms of passing on their land, which some people say that that's a way of avoiding paying inheritance tax. But a lot of farmers rightly point out, Well, we're not making any profits at the moment, and this will mean farms go out of business when the older farmers die and they want to pass it on to their children. It's an incredibly difficult situation. Those are just two examples. We could go into many more. The observation that Rachel Reeve, the Chancellor, is staking her reputation on this, and I think that's an understatement right there. Labor have come in right off the bat.

They've promised a more mature approach to politics, and they are going to be raising people's taxes and not necessarily improving the public services in the short term. Keir Starmer came out straight away in his first week and said, Look, it's going to take more than five of years to sort these things out. Will the public have the patience for that? That's what we're going to find out.

The article suggesting that Rachel Reeve is understood to believe that the public will accept a multi-billion pound hike in business taxes if that is linked to repairing the NHS.

Yes, they've commissioned some research from a think tank called Labor Together, which is a poll of 6000 people. So it's not a tiny poll, but it's not a massive poll either. But I think the thing is, if you say, should business is pay more tax so that the money goes to the NHS. I mean, who's going to say no? Nobody thinks-Yes, we need to see the question. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to be... Because although Labor made a promise that they weren't going to put increased taxes on so-called working people, and there are many angels have danced on pinheads in defining what a working person is since most people have to actually work to pay the bills, the The challenge is that for small businesses, for example, raising national insurance will affect working people, and also people who run small businesses are also working people. So there are absolutely no easy answers in this. I think the whole shenanigans, actually, since Labor have been elected, and I support Labor, and I was delighted that they won the election, and I think it's a nightmare for anyone, and I'm pleased that they are in power, but There are no good options for any government at the moment.

It really is a case of finding the least bad option.

Benedict, the Sunday Times talking about the one billion inheritance tax raid as well, also predicted.

Yes, and this, of course, touches upon the agricultural relief that is potentially going to be got rid of amongst other things. But it's a curious thing.

Just to say that you didn't talk about farming families. Family farms are exempt, will be exempt, apparently.

Not entirely. The devil is in the detail. That's always That's the problem, of course, isn't it, with these things, is that there were some people who are going to win as a result of this, but far too many farms are in far too dire financial straits that actually lots of them probably are going to end up having to sell up either way. But I mean, one of the curious things about inheritance tax is it's always been painted as this something that's very unpopular amongst most members of the public, but is only paid by a very small portion of the population, whereas lots of people have this idea that lots of them pay for it. But as wealth has been accrued over time and property values have gone up, more and more pensioners find themselves living not particularly wealthy existences, but in properties that suddenly creep over the threshold. Their assets suddenly are encapsulated by that. I think about a third of pensioners, certainly by the end of this decade, are expected to live in million-pound households. That is a great store of wealth that the government is obviously going to be eyeing up. But it's one of those things where they possibly don't need to change the rules around inheritance tax at all.

One of the things that they are talking about doing is extending the gift period from seven years to 10 years so that you have to give away your property or your money, somebody 10 years rather than seven years in advance to not have to pay inheritance tax on it. Will that make that much of a difference? I'm not so sure. It's a tax that I think through the process of just drag, if you like, of the inflation of value of property is going to end up making the government a lot of money in the short to medium term anyway. Will it go down particularly well amongst members of the public to hear Labor saying, We're going to increase the net on inheritance tax? Possibly not. They probably didn't need to do that anyway, seeing as so many households are about to fall into this criteria.

But it is worth noting that the plans for inheritance tax will particularly hit aristocrats who own 30% of the land in England. I'm not sure how unpopular that will be as a move. The other thing to mention here is that this is about business relief, people who bought property through businesses. It's not actually affecting for most people. There's no change, according to this.

It's about the reform of business relief.

When it comes to the subject of aristocrats with lots of land, who do they end up selling that land to and for what purpose? If farmers are also very much up against it, a lot of this is agricultural land, they're not necessarily in a position to be buying more. What a lot of this land will end up being bought up for is either property developers who will sit on and speculate on the land until we actually improve planning laws so that they can start building houses more easily, or by hedge funds, which is happening rather a lot in the UK and is happening a lot in the US, that those who already have catastrophic amounts of money are going, People are having to sell land. Now is a great time to buy because they're not making any more of it.

More bad news for the government in the mail. Voters are saying that they don't trust labor with their money.

Well, you wouldn't really expect a Mail front page to say, British public absolutely delighted by impending labor budget. It doesn't give the details of this poll. But look, I think what the labor government have discovered is that governing is incredibly high Hard. I mean, much, much harder than any of them dreamt it would be. I actually think this policy of delaying the budget and having this drip, drip, drip of agony has been a mistake because now the whole country is frightened to death. And of course, their big promise was about delivering growth, economic growth. Well, now, there was this investment summit on Monday, and apparently that went pretty well. And what's his name? Bloomberg What's his name? Michael Bloomberg. No. What's his name? He has spoken about this being a great time for businesses in the UK and with some stability and so on. So the picture is not all completely miserable. But I think this drip, drip, drip of impending doom isn't really helping anyone. So I can't wait to get the budget over, and I hope that they manage to make it slightly less miserable than we're currently expecting it to be. And then everyone might be delighted.

Who knows? Yes. Maybe that's the intention. So to get all the bad stuff out now and then pull that massive rabbit out of the hat. Bendikt, we're going to have to leave it there for the moment. After the break, there'll be much more to speak about. Thank you both for the minute. Coming up on the front of the Telegraph with Robert Generick saying he would tear up the Climate Change Act. Do stay with us for more.

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Welcome back. You are watching the press preview. Still with me, Benedict Spence and Christina Patterson. Let's take a look at the Telegraph, this very interesting article on the front page. Robert Jenrick saying that he'll tear up Unconservative Climate Change Act. He said he'll scrap major pieces of Blair and Brown era legislation, including the Climate Change Act, Equality Act, and Human Rights Act under a Great Reform Act. If he makes it to number 10. Christina.

Yeah, he is determined.

Not a tearing up that he's going to be doing, isn't it?

He's becoming more and more Trump-like, actually. It's quite strange. Actually, no more like JD Vance.

I was going to say, Trump's got a sense of humor I've not heard. I've not heard.

You're right. Generic cracker joke. You're right. Generic is totally untrouled by a sense of humor, and it seems determined to drag us back to 1862. So any acknowledgement, for example, that there might be any a climate emergency, clearly that gets pushed out of the picture. Any sense that you might want to make any progress in terms of equality in this country, that gets torn up. And of course, any nasty foreign court that might want to protect human rights, that gets torn up. So hard to know what he won't tear up. The idea that he thinks, since we have just, in case he hasn't noticed it, had a very big labor majority, the idea that he thinks these policies will be popular with the majority of the British public, it's completely for the birds. I mean, I'd be delighted, absolutely delighted, if he became Tories leader because I think it would hugely reduce the chances of the Tories winning the next election. And they have a mountain to climb anyway, given Labour's electoral majority. But he's gone... I mean, nobody seems to have any idea what this man believes because he has changed his views with every single Prime Minister he has served, or rather not served, because I think what he's really served, and is currently serving more than anything, is his own ego.

He just makes it up as he goes along, and he's shifting from this So it was a centre-ground guy who was apparently pro-Cameron, and pro-Boris, and pro-whoever, and now he's just pro-him, but nobody knows what he believes, and that is a pretty bad sign, I think.

Is he a shapeshifter, Benedict?

I think he is. I've got to be honest. I think he's saying what he can to pander to the Tori right, but also to pander to Tori members and voters who may have gone to reform in a bid to say, Look, I can still appeal to you as well. Don't go over to Naja Faraj. Come back to me, and we'll all be one big happy family. Whereas, Camille Bednock has... In the past, she has actually drawn the ire of a lot of certainly more Brexitier Tori MPs for refusing to just go gung-ho and start ripping up EU, former EU laws and stuff. Just as and when. Actually, I can't remember which MP was that she had some rather sharp words for to select committee when she said, It's not actually in the best interest of the country to throw the baby out with the bathwater just because that's what you would like us to do. I think, let's say, hypothetically, that there are issues with all of these things that Robert Generic has identified and that they could all be updated or changed. Okay, great. What is the alternative? That, I think, is you can say these things to the Torrey members.

We're going to rip up this. We're going to leave that. They will all go, Yes, fantastic. This sounds great. How do you then transform that into a message to go to the country more broadly, which is not necessarily in favor of ripping up all of these things without an alternative already in place? This is what I don't ever hear from conservative MPs who want to go down this route. What is it that you plan on replacing these bodies with? We should actually have that conversation. If you want to be taken seriously, you need to give voters a viable alternative. You can't do what we have done in the past with certain other rather important decisions, go, Well, we're just going to do this thing. We'll figure out the details later. That doesn't tend to work out.

There's going to be a great reform act. What is it, DeMal?

It sounds great.

It also sounds like another political party. Yeah, but also what about I mean, on a serious note, Northern Ireland, that is completely ruined if we tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, that goes.

Itty-bitty details, according to Robert Gendrick. It'll all be fine. It'll It will absolutely be fine, I'm sure.

Just very quickly, who are you two calling it for the leadership?

I think it's going to be Kemi Badenock.

I really do fear that it won't be Kemi Badenock. I think it might be Robert Gendrick. Interesting.

We shall see. Okay, let's talk about some We're in the American politics now, shall we? The Observer have Vice President Kamala Harris pictured on the front page. She's out there doing the interviews, holding rallies. She's described Donald Trump as being a little bit shy at recent times. He's not been doing interviews. He's been turning them down, and she's really calling them out for that.

He's done a few interviews, but they've not been quite as high profile as hers. I think actually she's also trying to draw attention away from the fact that her campaign, I I think is feeling a little bit jittery. There was the Call Me Daddy podcast that actually didn't go down particularly well because it's not a good idea to laugh at working-age men who might be drafted and sent to the South China Sea in the next couple of years. That was replayed by right-wing social media posters ad nauseam, and it has not done her any favors. There was the suggestion that she might even go on Joe Rogan as an immediate reaction to the understanding, Oh, I've made a bit of a mistake here. But really, what we have to just focus on right now is the polls, and they are really quite narrow. I saw two today, the latest ones, put her between 1.5 and 2.4 points ahead nationally, with Trump ahead in several really key swing states. If you put the shy Trump effect, which has been a thing the last two elections, if you feed that into the matrix, I wouldn't bet on her winning right now.

That's the thing.

I mean, the voters that won't admit that they are going to bet.

Those voters, and it's happened twice where people have said, It's not going to be this, and then, Oh, my word, it's quite a lot more. If this happens a third time, which we have no reason to believe that it wouldn't have, she's in a lot of trouble, frankly. I think that a lot of this high energy that you're seeing from her now and trying to paint Donald Trump as being very low energy is a reflection of that.

Okay, Van Dyck and Christine, we must leave it there. We've run out of time, but very interesting. Let's take a look at the weather for you now. We'll storm Ashley. We'll bring heavy rain and widespread gales tomorrow with 80-mile-an-hour gust, likely in the Northwest and damaging waves on the Coast. The Met Office has an Amber warning for disruptive winds over Western Scotland tomorrow and more widespread and more widespread yellow warnings into Monday. Ireland has Amber and yellow wind warnings, too. There'll be a technically mined but very windy start to the day with prolonged rain over Northern Ireland, the east of Ireland, and much of Western Britain. Coming up next on Sky News at 11: Dozens of people are killed after the latest Israeli strikes on Gaza.