Afternoon briefing Monday 29th June

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0:46Delivering a keynote speech in Manchester this morning, the Labour leadership candidates have laid out his ambition to raise living standards if he becomes Prime Minister in his first major address since Sir Keir Starmer announced his resignation seven days ago. And he pledged to give the country a new direction. After 10 years of political turbulence since Brexit and 20 years of falling living standards since the 2008 financial crash, Westminster hasn't been working for people. In fact, it is broken. And as a result, the country isn't where it should be. It is stuck in a rut and clearly we can't go on like this.

1:27The MP for Makerfield also highlighted his plan to break off parts of the Downing Street operation and relocate them to Manchester. Speaking in London this morning, the Conservative leader Kemi Badenok said Britain is heading for a summer of chaos as Labour makes its transition. She also urged Burnham to get Britain working again. If Britain is to succeed over the next two decades, we are going to need to lead the world in sectors like AI, quantum, defence tech. more regional mayors aren't going to do any of this. Instead of treating the causes of our economic problems, Andy Burnham is going to try and treat the symptoms.

2:07The Education Secretary, Bridget Philipson, says an inquiry into the performance of white working-class children will lay bare these stark inequalities in England's schools. The inquiry, co-chaired by the former Education Secretary, Baroness Morris, has concluded that wide-ranging measures are necessary, including more early year support and restrictions on the use of smartphones in schools. It will also recommend that top schools should be forced to take in more white working class children and the recruitment of more teachers of a similar background. We need to make sure that all schools are doing their bit and making sure that children from those backgrounds achieve successfully in academic terms but also that the best performing schools work with schools that are facing challenges to really address some of that.

2:50but it is the case that often white working class children don't have the full strength of the school experience that they should have that then holds them back. Members of the public will replace judges in deciding asylum appeals under magistrate-style reforms to speed up the deportation of illegal migrants. The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, will announce plans to recruit hundreds of people from a variety of backgrounds to oversee appeals against rejected asylum claims. And leading players at Wimbledon have called off their planned media protest. Players including the world number ones Yannick Zinner and Irina Sabalenka had said they would limit their post-match activity in the first week of the championships to just 15 minutes.

3:31The planned action was part of a campaign by the players to force the four Grand Slams to devote a greater percentage of tournament income to prize money to help cover player welfare programmes. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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