Evening briefing Friday 27th June

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0:27Welcome to the Times Evening Briefing on Friday the 27th of June. Sir Keir Starmer says he deeply regrets his Island of Strangers remark when talking about migration and claims he had no idea the phrase had an association with Enoch Powell. He says his speechwriters didn't know either. He made the address the night after his London home was firebombed. His biographer Tom Baldwin has told Times Radio it's to his credit he's held his hands up. Look, in the end, he says it's his responsibility and he made a mistake, explained some of the context of it. he'd been up all night, you know, just come back from Ukraine and then he'd been up all night worrying about his family.

1:05I think that's very human. I think it's understandable. I think it's also really good when you own up and make a mistake. And he says it's his mistake. He doesn't want to hide behind some scuttlebutt about his advisers. He wants to own it himself. Meanwhile, Sir Kirstama says he thinks he's got the right balance on his welfare bill. Having listened, we've made the adjustments. The funding will be set out in the budget in the usual way, as you'd expect later in the year. but the most important thing is that we can make the reform we need. We've talked to colleagues who've made powerful representations, as a result of which we've got a package which I think will work and we can get it right.

1:39The PM's offered to restrict changes to personal independence payments to new claimants. It means 370 ,000 existing recipients will be protected, but there are concerns about a two-tier system. A man who killed a 14-year-old boy with a samurai sword has been sentenced to more than 38 years in jail. Daniel Andjorin was attacked on his way to school in East London last April. 37-year-old Marcus Monzo also attacked a further five people, including two police officers. Mr Justice Benethon sentenced Monzo at the Old Bailey. Members of the public were attacked. Police officers were gravely injured and a clever, talented, much-loved young boy was killed by a savage blow with a sword.

2:23You, Marcus, Edwini, Monzo did all of that A man described as violent, jealous and controlling has been found guilty of murdering his wife as she pushed their baby in a pram 26-year-old Habiba Massam stabbed Kulsuma Akta in daylight in Bradford last April Afterwards he was seen smiling on CCTV He'd tracked her to a women's refuge where she'd been staying to escape him after a previous assault Detective Chief Inspector Stacey Atkinson says it was a brutal attack. We know that he tried several methods over several days to try and trick Kulzuma away from the security of a home address. And we know that he was unfortunately able to gain access to her on the 6th of April last year as she walked to a local shop pushing a son in his pram.

3:10He then tried to encourage Kulzuma back into the relationship and when she dismissed that, he took the knife that he'd brought with him, secreted in his jacket and he repeatedly stabbed her in front of horrified unlookers. And you can follow The Times News briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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