Daily briefing Sunday 28th September

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0:44It could mean people already here having to apply for new visas. Nigel Farrell says he wants to end what he calls the era of cheap, low-skilled foreign labour. But the PM says he thinks it's a racist policy and immoral. A new poll suggests Reform UK could have 373 MPs at the next election and a majority of 96. Research by Moran Commer has found Labour could be heading for its worst electoral defeat since 1931 and fewer than 100 seats. Lucy Powell, one of the candidates to be Labour's new deputy leader, has told Times Radio she's not surprised by the results. We've got a huge responsibility to turn this around as the Labour Party.

1:22It's not where we would expect to be at this stage in government, but we are some way away from a general election, absolutely. be, but we have to hear what the public are saying. And what they're saying is, you've not got things right, you've made mistakes. The former Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who now sits as an independent, has told Times Radio that Keir Starmer has been a disaster. I've heard that quite a lot of the new Labour MPs have almost accepted that they're only one-term MPs. If I were them, I'd be so angry with Keir Starmer. Many of those MPs are people that have stood several times before, sometimes in various different seats, they finally get to Parliament.

2:00And this is it. That huge majority has basically been just thrown away. The government has agreed to underwrite a commercial loan to Jaguar Land Rover worth£1.5 billion. The car-making giant has been forced to suspend production after being targeted by hackers. Ben Clatworthy, the Times' transport editor, says JLR employs a large number of people, but there are many more as well. They directly employ about 30 ,000 people in the UK. The supply chain is likely to have north of 100 ,000 people in it and those are the businesses where they rely on regular payments from Jaguar Land Rover in order to stay afloat and pay their payrolls.

2:46And the King has told Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York they're not welcome for Christmas. Sources close to the monarch say he's keeping them at arm's length. He's made it clear he would prefer the pair who divorced in 1996 to be invisible at future gatherings. Roya Nicker, the Sunday Times' royal editor, says the reason is clear. The emergence last week that Fergie had sent this email to Jeffrey Epstein just weeks after publicly denouncing him has just really tipped the balance for the king. And now on in, he just feels he can't really have them publicly anywhere near royal family gatherings.

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