Daily Briefing Saturday 27th September

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. Hello, this is your Times Daily Briefing for Saturday the 27th of September with me, James Kitchen. The Chancellor says Britain must sign an ambitious migration deal with the EU that allows young Europeans to live and work in the UK Speaking to the Times, Rachel Reeves argued a youth mobility scheme would help bolster economic growth and reduce the need for tax rises in the upcoming budget It comes after the Reform UK leader Nigel Farage warned such a scheme would effectively be a backdoor to free movement Sikir Starmer's former chief of staff, Sam White, told Times Radio this forms part of a wider strategy.

1:08It feels like this is part of the unlocking move to get a better deal with the EU on some of the border friction, which is costing our companies, businesses, traders, farmers so much money, particularly those perishable goods, foods and things like that, that we want to get exported from British farmers into the continent. And at the moment, they're often sitting at the border being delayed. And if they can get this deal, this so-called SPS deal, which covers food and perishables and things like that. That is a big win for British exporters. The Prime Minister is facing further demands that he scrap the two-child benefit cap as Labour prepares to kick off its conference in Liverpool.

1:44Several of the country's largest education unions have warned a government announcement to offer 500 ,000 more children free school meals isn't enough to give them the best start in life. Speaking to Times Radio, the Children and Families Minister, Josh McAllister, refused to be drawn on whether the cap would be lifted, but he insisted ministers are committed to alleviating child poverty. The two-child benefit cap has an impact, a big impact, on child poverty rates. We want to grow the economy, make sure that we are costing all the things that we do so that we can reduce the cost of borrowing, reduce inflation, reduce interest rates, get the economy growing.

2:20That is the surest way to making sure that we can pay for things like lifting hundreds of thousands of kids out of child poverty. A petition calling for the government not to bring in digital ID cards as top 1.5 million signatures. Sir Keir Starmer announced yesterday the new system will be rolled out by 2029 and will be mandatory for anyone working in the UK. The Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Reform UK are all against the scheme. Petitions which receive more than 100 ,000 signatures are considered for debate in Parliament. The US President Donald Trump has suggested a deal to end the war in Gaza is very close.

2:58The Times of Israel is reporting Washington has proposed a 21-point plan for peace. It comes ahead of a meeting between Mr Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. The Times' correspondent in Tel Aviv, Gabrielle Weineger, has been looking over the proposals. We're seeing that US President Donald Trump is now supporting Palestinians to stay in Gaza. Of course, that's been a very controversial issue when he first brought up the idea of a US takeover of Gaza and the expulsion, the forced expulsion of Palestinians. He's now saying those who leave, who choose to leave, can come back, but they will be encouraged to stay.

3:32The plan also will see the release of all living and dead hostages within 48 hours of the acceptance of the deal. We've previously seen hostages released in stages that's been very traumatic for families. Elon Musk has denied planning to visit Jeffrey Epstein's island after his name appeared in newly released files. The Duke of York is also named as a passenger on the sex offender's private jet, but he strongly denies any wrongdoing. And in sport, Team Europe take a three-point lead over the USA into the second day of golf's Ryder Cup. The defending champions are five and a half to two and a half up after the opening foursomes and four balls at Bethpage Black in New York.

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