Daily briefing Sunday 5th July

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters? PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. This is your Times News Briefing for Sunday 5th July. Nigel Farage's team has denied allegations he could be in breach of parliamentary rules following reports he failed to declare receiving benefits from a convicted criminal.

0:47A Sunday Times investigation says George Cottrell gave the Reform UK leader support with security and social media staff in the year before he entered Parliament. Deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell was asked by Times Radio if these new details should be added to the investigation into the Reform UK leader currently being undertaken by parliamentary authorities? Absolutely I do. This article and this investigation leaves some very, very serious questions and either Nigel Farage has mistakenly completely misunderstood the rules or has deliberately misunderstood the rules, but he has misunderstood the rules of declaration and transparency.

1:28In his first interview with a British newspaper since he took office, the vice president, J.D. Vance, said the UK has been failed by its leadership for a very long time. Vance said he hopes whoever the prime minister is figures out how to get Britain back on track. He was interviewed by The Times and Sunday Times Washington editor Katie Balls, who asked him what he thought of Andy Burnham. He said he didn't know much about Andy Burnham. He made the point, though, that the Trump administration was keen to work with whoever is prime minister, including Andy Burnham, as successfully as they could.

2:01Airport and airline bosses are demanding the immediate suspension of the new entry-exit border check system over the summer until design flaws are fixed. Travellers are facing long delays at a number of airports across Europe as the busy summer season begins. The chief executive of the company which operates Rome Fiumicino Airport said processing times at the border had doubled since the system was fully rolled out in April. Cathy Adams is Travel News Features Editor for The Times and Sunday Times. Airport bosses are basically saying, look, we want this to be frozen now until September. There is a sort of small amount of flexibility that, you know, airports and kind of countries can use.

2:39But what they're saying is they want it kind of officially taken out, you know, suspended so that we can go back to our old ways of getting in and out. A victim of the infamous Rochdale grooming gang led by Shabir Ahmed is being given additional security measures at her home by police to ensure her safety. Ruby, who was 12 when Ahmed's group began abusing her and was previously threatened at gunpoint for going to the police, has been given an urgent response marker by Greater Manchester Police. Officers were told Ruby does not feel safe with Ahmed in the community. The special measures come after he was released last week after 14 years in prison.

3:15England will play Mexico overnight tonight at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. TalkSport's Jim Proudfoot is there. He told Times Radio that England team will face challenges. The principal problem that England will face is the altitude. They've made absolutely certain in press conferences that they're not going to use that as an excuse. It's an observation that when you're playing at 7 ,000 feet, it's going to take a little bit of time to acclimatise. And that's time that England haven't had. You can hear more of these stories on Times Radio.

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