Evening briefing Friday 5th September

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0:45She's replaced by David Lammy, while Yvette Cooper becomes the Foreign Secretary. The Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is promoted to Home Secretary, while Senior Cabinet Minister Pat McFadden takes on a beefed-up Department for Work and Pensions. Times Radio's Adam Bolton says the quick reshuffle is good media management. There's this old saying in politics, don't let a crisis go to waste. And I think they have moved ahead with a major reshuffle, basically moving around all the key posts in the Cabinet except for Chancellor. And they are making the running in the news cycle, not the travails of Angela Rayner, who quit the government, and certainly not Nigel Farage at his annual conference.

1:30As well as leaving government, Ms Rayner has also resigned from her role as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. that means an election will take place in the coming weeks and months. Labour MP Andy Macdonald, who's on the left of the party, told Times Radio that needs to be an open contest. The duty on the Parliamentary Labour Party is to ensure that there is a broad range of candidates and it's essential that there be a full and democratic process. The members will want that and I think if we were to deliver a closed decision I think that would be counterproductive. Elsewhere, Nigel Farage has promised the Reform UK party conference he will stop small boat crossings in the Channel within two weeks of a new reform government.

2:13And we will detain and deport those who illegally break into our country doing what nearly every normal country around the rest of the world does. You cannot come here illegally and stay. We will stop the boats within two weeks of winning government. He did not give details about how he would achieve that. He gave his leader's speech three hours earlier than planned in order to react to the news of Angela Rayner's resignation. A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering two women five months apart. He was initially arrested in April on suspicion of the murder of 53-year-old Carmenza Trujillo and released under investigation.

2:5839-year-old Cheryl Wilkins was found dead on August 24. 4th. Officials from the Foreign Office say they're supporting the families of three British nationals killed in a funicular railway crash in Lisbon. 16 people died in the Portuguese capital on Wednesday. The Prince and Princess of Wales have paid tribute to Catherine, Duchess of Kent, who has died aged 92. She was the wife of the late Queen's cousin, the Duke of Kent, and was the oldest member of the royal family following Elizabeth II's death. She was perhaps best known in public for handing out trophies at Wimbledon and consoling emotional finalists.

3:32And Tesla's board has offered Elon Musk a$1 trillion compensation deal. He'd need to increase the company's market capitalisation from about$1 trillion today to$8.5 trillion over 10 years in order to achieve that award. Don't forget to subscribe to the Times News Briefing on Spotify or listen live to Times Radio online.

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