Evening briefing Monday 5th October

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1:23This is your Times evening briefing on Monday the 5th of October. The Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffiths said lowering taxes would be his North Star in government. He told a Conservative Party conference in Birmingham that he wanted to bring in lower, simpler and fairer taxes, adding he didn't come here to raise taxes but to lower them. No country in history has ever taxed its way to prosperity. So we will cut taxes, but only when we can afford to do so. and always saying clearly how we will fund that. We've already set out some of our plans. Scrapping the family farm and family business death tax, removing the spiteful VAT on independent schools and cutting business rates for a quarter of a million pubs, shops and high street businesses.

2:09Elsewhere, Jeremy Clarkson has called for a reduction in farming regulations. Speaking before the shadow chancellor, he added Labour has disincentivised business in Britain, arguing the cost of running a farmer and a pub were astronomical. He said most farmers can be trusted to protect their land without extensive government rules. If there were far fewer rules and regulations, yes, there would be bad apples. The farmers I know, they want to protect their farms because they want to hand them on to their children. They want to look after the land. They want it to be healthy. So I just think far, far fewer rules would be what I'd like to see.

2:46The US Secretary of State says the removal of American bombers from RAF Fairford wasn't directly tied to arrests made over a suspected terror plot last week. Marco Rubio says the US is still confident of all of its bases are secure. Earlier, No. 10 also insisted the base in Gloucestershire remain safe. Green Party leader Zach Polanski has liked a social media post telling people who oppose the Green Party's Zionism is racism motion to get over yourselves and move on. Party members voted on Sunday to declare that Zionism, the movement that led to the creation of Israel as a Jewish state, will be treated as any other form of racism by the party.

3:26Polanski wasn't present for either the debate or the vote at the party's conference in Brighton. A 15-year-old boy has had his hand torn off by a police anti-riot grenade during the latest day of protests by sixth form students in France. The incident came as 413 lycées were hit by blockades or demonstrations across the country, with President Macron's government struggling to contain a movement that began in the Paris suburbs last month. Adam Sage, Paris correspondent for The Times, says there are conflicting reports about what happened. The police said they threw the grenade, he picked it up and it exploded in his hand.

4:04Some of the other pupil students who were with him, his classmates, say that it hit him in his hand then either way he's been seriously injured the most seriously perhaps injured of all the dozens of six formers teenagers who have been injured since the start of this movement. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor taking legal action against police is the wrong move but entirely in keeping with his personality that's according to British monarchy historian Professor Anna Whitlock. It does seem somewhat misguided but I think if we think back to Andrew's other interventions, not least, of course, that infamous Panorama interview.

4:43Being arrogant, having a sense of entitlement and ultimately being misguided would seem very often to be his MO. The King's brother has challenged the legality of Thames Valley police searching his homes in February. A private high court hearing will be held on Thursday. And you can follow the Times Radio News briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. That's your Times evening briefing on Monday 5th October.