Evening briefing Friday 4th September

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0:47In a speech at the party conference, he said in the first 100 days, his government would cut taxes on working people, stop the boats and cut energy bills by£200. He said he had a plan to get things done. We will declare a national emergency. All recess of Parliament will be cancelled. Parliament will sit, if necessarily, for 24 hours a day, for six days a week, until we pass the necessary legislation. And our policies will be explicit in our offering document to the British people. The protesters disrupted that conference speech. The Reform UK leader chanted boring as the first person was removed from the hall.

1:34We spoke to them once they'd been escorted out by security. I've been a Reform member for two years just to be able to buy Reform conference tickets. And they just didn't notice. I don't know what else to say. They didn't notice. And I've been asked by the Reform party to be a councillor. I've been in contact with them multiple times and at no point have they... I mean, I do think it's ridiculous that after I disrupted them last year, they asked me to be a counsellor, but, you know, some people are just a bit dim. In the US, the judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has held off from formally calling a mistrial and given her lawyer the chance to appeal.

2:13Lindsay Clancy admitted to killing her three children but denied murder. Her defence argued she was driven by severe postpartum psychosis. Hundreds of people have gathered in Middlesbrough for the funeral of one of the five young men killed in a head-on collision on the A66. Jacob Matusiak was in the car that was going the wrong way down a dual carriageway and hit a marked police car, killing the two officers. The Foreign Secretary says the UK will uphold the self-determination of the Falkland Islands after the Argentinian president said his country needed to take them back. Javier Mule has announced sanctions against oil companies drilling off the coast of the UK overseas territory.

2:54This week, Donald Trump suggested the US might not support Britain in any future conflict over the territory. Simon Weston is a Falklands veteran. He said Donald Trump wouldn't have a choice. The Falkland Islands, by default, because they're a part of Great Britain, even though they're 8 ,000 miles away, the fact that the matter will remain that they then become by default a part of NATO. So Mr Trump might not want to be there, but if we called on the treaty, then they would have to be there whether they wanted to be or not. Andy Burnham's expected to approve new drilling for gas in the North Sea.

3:28He'll do it alongside a wave of green projects as part of his approach to net zero. The Times has been told that the Energy Secretary will give the green light to new drilling at the Jackdaw gas field off the coast of Aberdeen on September 15. You can follow The Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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