Daily briefing Saturday 28th June

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1:21This is the Times Daily Briefing for Saturday 28th June. Hospital funding will be linked to patient satisfaction and medical salaries will be connected to success in reducing waiting lists as part of the Prime Minister's 10-year plan to reform the NHS. The Times has learned that patients will rate their treatment in one of several measures designed to improve care and cut waste. Dr Peter Carter is the former General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing. Speaking to Times Radio, he questioned the fairness of the proposals. Is a trust serving an inner city area under huge pressure? Is it a bad trust?

1:58Now, occasionally it will be about deficient management. And where that happens, is the solution to find the trust or is the solution to say to those managers, I'm sorry, things are really not going well here? President Trump has announced he's ending all trade talks with Canada and will announce new tariffs on Canadian exports to the United States next week. It's in response to Canada's decision to impose a new tax that is predicted to cost giant tech companies more than$7 billion over the next five years. Republicans and Democrats are united in their criticism because the levy mainly affects American companies.

2:37Jerry Baker is the editor-at-large of The Wall Street Journal. He wants clarity on issues over things like the digital services and things like that. And it looks like the government of Mark Carney has not come up with the concessions that he wanted. So essentially, by saying I've broken off all trade negotiations with them, he's going back to the situation that when he imposed the tariffs, the high tariffs of a few months ago. The Archbishop of Wales has announced his resignation with immediate effect after revelations of a culture of excessive drinking, sexual promiscuity and bullying at Bangor Cathedral.

3:12Andrew John will step down from his role as the Bishop of Bangor at the end of August. Neither his statements nor those from senior colleagues made any reference to the scandal that has engulfed Bangor over recent years, but he said he took full responsibility for failings under his leadership. A senior academic says Britain needs to be serious about racial justice, amid plans by the Jamaican government to ask King Charles to request legal advice on the issue of slavery reparations. Under the Judicial Committee Act, the King has the authority to refer such matters to the Privy Council, which is the final court of appeal for some Commonwealth nations, including Jamaica.

3:50Gehindi Andrews is a professor of black studies at Birmingham City University. He says there are no credible arguments against such reparation payments. Jamaica is a place where 80 % to 90 % of the population are only there because their ancestors were transported, were worked for 300 years with no pay. Once freedom happened, it's not like we were paid reparations. In fact, reparations went to the slave owners, the largest payment in British government's history, to bail out the slave owners, and we actually had to work for our own freedom. And soldiers from a Scottish army battalion are relocating to Cyprus for two years in response to emerging situations across the Middle East.

4:27The battalion has been based at Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire for 10 years, but will take on a new role as a standby formation. You can follow the Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.