Daily briefing Saturday 6th September

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0:36This is the Times News Briefing for Saturday, September 6th. A senior minister has told Times Radio Sir Keir Starmer's major reshuffle is about delivering on his promises to the public. Half the cabinet now have new jobs, including David Lammy, who moves from the Foreign Office to be Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary. Angela Rayner's resignation has also sparked a potentially divisive internal election to elect a new deputy leader. Darren Jones is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. This is about now putting the machine on four cylinders to deliver on the priorities that we set out of the election, that we were elected to deliver for the public.

1:12The full reshuffle came slightly earlier than had been anticipated. The Prime Minister had already been planning to do a reshuffle on a slightly slower time frame, but because Angela Rayner had to resign as Deputy Prime Minister, he decided to bring that forward, which is why that happened at the end of this week. Meanwhile, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has warned the government is deep in crisis. He'll bring his party's conference in Birmingham to a close later after he told activists to prepare for a general election in two years' time. Farage says many Labour members will soon join Jeremy Corbyn's new party.

1:42This battle for deputy leader of the Labour Party will be very like the battles they had back in the early 1980s. The left of the Labour Party will rear its voice. We're used to hearing stories of splits in the Conservative Party. We're about to witness a big rift in the Labour Party too. A fire has broken out at the former BBC television centre in London. Around 100 firefighters are battling the blaze in the upper floors of the building where there are flats and a restaurant. London Fire Brigade says they're evacuating nearby homes. Hundreds of people are expected to risk arrest in support of the banned terror group Palestine Action protests today.

2:21Demonstrators are taking action in London, Belfast and Edinburgh. The Metropolitan Police says anyone attending the demonstration in Westminster will be acting unlawfully and could face arrest. Police in Lisbon have named a British couple killed in the funicular crash on Wednesday. Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and lecturer Will Nelson shared pictures of their trip to the city shortly before the accident. The third British victim is yet to be named. Sixteen people died when the tourist attraction derailed on Wednesday night. And there are warnings the last pub in the UK could close in 2050. with five shutting down for good every day there's now only one for every thousand people the campaign for real ale says in 1870 there was one pub for every 130 people tom stainer is from the group and there's a huge number of pressures that pubs are facing a lot of it is taxation you've also got you know the struggles of doing business the cost of doing business but also the fact that you know with beer being more expensive because of duty rates it's just more difficult to get people off their sofas and through the door of your pub You can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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