Daily briefing Sunday 2nd August

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0:45He has said, however, he did not decide to return to frontline politics until June 2024. He also says he did not register previous donations because of the June date, which was close to the general election in July 2024. Ben Habib was the deputy leader of Reform before Farage returned. He is told Times Radio he was kept in the dark. I was gobsmacked when Farage came back in to lead the party on the 3rd of June because nothing had been disclosed to me about any intention of doing it. The first I heard of Farage wanting to lead the party was when he called what he described as an extraordinary press conference the morning of the 3rd of June.

1:26Reform UK has described the story as further disinformation. The EU will hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday. It follows the arrival of 60 ,000 people in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Almost 50 ,000 are said to have returned now to Morocco. Ricardo Fabiani is the project director for North Africa at the International Crisis Group. He's told Times Radio the migrants were helped to make the crossing. I think by now it's fairly clear that there was some degree of Moroccan involvement, official state involvement in what happened in Ceuta. We have testimonies by Moroccan migrants who crossed into Ceuta who said quite openly that Moroccan security forces told them to go into Ceuta, to go to Spain.

2:09We have videos of trucks unloading people going into Ceuta in front of very passive policemen. Spain says it's begun to install a 500-metre floating barrier off its border with Morocco. Mental health experts are looking at whether some people diagnosed with ADHD should be de-diagnosed. Marcus Seiding from Sweden says he was relieved when his own diagnosis was removed. He wanted to be a police officer, but the diagnosis barred him from doing that by law. The Sunday Times' Charlotte Litton says the idea of de-diagnosis started after a Swedish study looked at people diagnosed when they were young.

2:46Because ADHD was previously something that was thought only to apply to children, It was looking at whether these labels or the label for the condition still applied to those who got it as a child when they were adults. Was it still helpful? Did it describe their current state of being? Were they taking medication for something that they no longer needed to take it for? And Scotland's Josh Kerr says he still had plenty of gears to go through after winning gold in the men's mile at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Kerr's success came just two weeks after he set a world record for the distance at a Diamond League meeting in London.

3:21He was almost eight seconds slower last night, but for him, it was all about delivering for the home crowd. You know, I feel like, you know, now I needed to cement my name as a miler. I was able to do that two weeks ago and I can't go out and lose my first mile race back. So, you know, being able to win the heat in the final today, just knowing that my legacy will live on a little bit longer than two weeks. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwC. AI is everywhere. In the news, in our hands, but return on investment, not so much.

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