Afternoon briefing Monday 29th September

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0:35This is the Times afternoon briefing for Monday the 29th of September. New Labour plans to counter the threat from Reform UK will include a good citizen test for migrants to stay in the UK. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will set out plans to make it tougher to qualify for indefinite leave to remain. Sir Keir Starmer called Nigel Farage's plans to scrap ILR racist and immoral. Reform's head of policy Zia Youssef spoke with Times Radio. By Keir Starmer's own logic, his own home secretary is some sort of appalling racist. Look, the British people are sick and tired of it. Reform are the only party that is going to secure our borders, who believe the boats need to stop, who believe that migration, to the degree that there is migration, migrants must pay their way, be a net contributor to the economy, not commit crime and speak English.

1:21And yes, we will uphold our immigration laws. The Foreign Secretary has been telling the Labour conference her party is proud to be British. Yvette Cooper also defended the recognition of Palestine, calling it an inalienable right for Palestinians. She also said the time for peace in the Israel-Gaza war is now. Hamas must end its abhorrent detention of hostages, the calculated cruelty that has split and traumatized families for nearly two years. And the Israeli government must end the moral obscenity of this campaign that has seen food, water and medicine denied and an unconscionable loss of human life.

2:00Later, Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Donald Trump to give Israel's response to a 21-point peace plan proposed by the US. Back here, detectives say a woman was raped outside a church in Oxfordshire by a group of men. The attack happened in the early hours of yesterday morning in the church out of St Mary's in Banbury. Police are appealing for a woman who tried to stop the attack to come forward. The British Medical Association has set a 48-hour deadline for the health secretary to avoid a dispute over an online GP tool. And this week, surgeries will have to keep their online consultation system on during opening hours.

2:33Dr Katie Brammel-Stainer of the BMA says without extra staff or money, that could put patient safety at risk. GPs have never walked out. When we undertook collective action a year ago, we never shut our doors. And indeed now, we're not even saying switch off online we're saying switch off urgent queries for today you can still contact us for a prescription or a blood test result or any certificates you need we just can't manage endless online queries police officers in the country's biggest force could soon have to declare if they're a member of the freemasons the metropolitan police is consulting on whether the membership group should be added to a list of associations that could compromise officers integrity it was one of the recommendations in a review into the handling of the unsolved murder of Daniel Morgan, a private investigator who was killed in 1987.

3:20And dog walkers and locals in Windsor have criticised a huge no-go area designed to protect the Prince and Princess of Wales. Anyone entering the 150-acre exclusion zone around the home of William and Kate could be arrested, with new fencing and CCTV cameras installed. You can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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