Daily Briefing Sunday 1st November

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0:40Welcome to the Times Radio briefing on Sunday, the 1st of November. A cabinet minister has told Times Radio the government is considering giving a formal apology for slavery. The king will speak about Britain's role in slavery when he addresses Commonwealth leaders on Tuesday. He's not expected to offer an official apology himself. But the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds, has told Times Radio that Britain did help to end slavery. I've talked about the brave men and women who campaigned for the abolition of the slave trade. They were absolutely right to do so. But our British government those hundreds of years ago was also complicit in that horrific trade as well.

1:23So it's right that we consider a formal apology, But as I said, financial reparations are not on the table. The former Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, says Britain should rejoin the European Union. Writing in the Sunday Times, she says Brexit has made the UK poorer, weaker and less secure. As many as 80 ,000 young people between 18 and 30 will be able to travel to the UK for up to three years under a proposed youth mobility scheme with the European Union. The Sunday Times understands the government has raised the cap, which was at 50 ,000, to help negotiations ahead of a summit with Brussels later this month.

2:00Amand Menon is Professor of European Politics at King's College London. He says this is a bargaining chip. It's an effort to try and unlock the negotiations started by Keir Starmer, which include not only this youth mobility, but a deal on agriculture to make it easier to buy and sell agricultural goods with the European Union and to link our emissions trading system. The situation we got to is one in which the EU had said, we're only going to do those things if you give us the youth mobility deal we're after. It's claimed an AI programme ignored hundreds of mothers who blamed traumatic labours on the pursuit of a normal birth ideology in the NHS.

2:39Mothers who suffered harm when giving birth have given evidence to a review of maternity care in England led by Baroness Amos. The obstetrician Dr Bill Kirkup resigned from the AMOS inquiry team over AI interference. The reason for it is debatable, but the fact that it happened is absolutely not debatable. This was absolutely evidenced. There are records that demonstrate this. Numerous people told the investigation about this and sadly they've been ignored. Baroness AMOS did not respond to a request for comment. And the Duchess of Sussex wanted to go public with allegations about her father in 2019.

3:20That's when she received a letter detailing sex abuse allegations against Thomas Markle. But the Sunday Times understand she was advised not to speak out by police. Thomas Markle denies any wrongdoing. Sunday Times journalist Dipesh Gadda and Roya Nikar have been working on the story. Roya Nikar says it's strange that Scotland Yard did not investigate. The statement that Meghan put out last week that she was assured it was being looked at by the police, that has been double sourced from another source that Dipesh has spoken to. It does seem very odd that nothing was done about that and I think there will continue to be questions raised around the police's handling of it.

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