Daily briefing Sunday 10th May

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0:35This is the Times Radio News Briefing for Sunday 10th May. Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing pressure from Labour backbenchers, with one MP warning she could launch a leadership challenge unless a Cabinet minister does so by tomorrow. The ultimatum comes despite the Prime Minister appointing Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman to advisory roles in an attempt to shore up his leadership. Labour MP Catherine West says she's putting the Cabinet on notice. She told Times Radio she wants to wake up senior figures in the party. The leadership know very well that I am not your average or obvious leadership challenger.

1:10But what I am doing is I am trying to wake everybody up to the reality that unless we act quickly to put together our messaging and our strategy for the next two years, we will end up like our colleagues in local government, with the electoral colour of the country being light blue. The cruise ship at the centre of a hantavirus outbreak has arrived off Tenerife as Spain begins what it calls an unprecedented repatriation operation involving 23 countries. British nationals on board who test negative are to be flown back to the UK to isolate at a hospital on Merseyside. The operation is going ahead despite protests from some local residents.

1:47The WHO Director General Tedros Sadnanam Ghebreyesus is on the island. My message to the people of Tenerife is the risk to the population, to the local population is is low. One is because of the very nature of the disease itself, but second the risk is low because the Spanish government has made all the preparations to prevent any problem. Meanwhile a British army medical team has parachuted onto Tristandakuna, a British territory in the South Atlantic, the eight-strong team jumped from a transport aircraft after a suspected case of hantavirus was reported on the remote island. A man's been charged with sending death threats to Reform UK's Treasury spokesman Robert Jenrick.

2:32Mr Jenrick said he and his wife, who is Jewish, had received anti-Semitic abuse. The 30-year-old from Surrey is due to appear in court tomorrow. Deepesh Gada is Home Affairs correspondent at the Sunday Times. Nick Daly was also charged with sending an anti-Semitic message to the Israeli embassy and multiple hate messages to a Muslim organisation. He's separately accused of possessing an offensive weapon and a small amount of cannabis which was found at his home when police raided it. In sport Daniel Dubois has become the new WBO world heavyweight champion after a dramatic win over Fabio Wardley in Manchester.

3:09He recovered from two early knockdowns before stopping Wardley in the 11th round. Wardley is desperately tired here. Howard Foster's taking a close look. Oh that's it! The start of the overhand. Foster's stopped it. Right hand with two left hands. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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