Evening Briefing Monday 26th October

0:00As John Healy delivers his first budget, Times Radio will be unpacking what the Treasury's decisions mean for your family, your business and your pockets. Facing fierce economic headwinds, are tax rises now unavoidable? Join Andrew Neil and Joe Coburn from One on Wednesday and then meet John Pienaar bringing reaction from all the key Westminster players on Drive. Follow every moment of the autumn budget live and free on Times Radio.

0:31Hello, this is your Times Radio evening briefing for Monday the 26th of October with me, James Kitchen. The Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has launched an independent review into the murder of Henry Novak in Southampton. The 18-year-old was handcuffed as he lay dying after being stabbed in December. The case sparked protests after it emerged his killer, Vikram Digwa, had falsely alleged that the student racially abused him. The crime and policing commentator, Danny Shaw, says the review will examine whether opportunities were missed. He's going to go through what was known about him, about Digwa, with other agencies.

1:10It could be schools, it could be employers, faith organisations, the police and so on, were complaints made about him. He had an interest in knives. He was Sikh and as part of that, Sikhs are allowed a sort of ceremonial knife to carry with them. So I think there are questions around cultural sensitivities in this case and whether they got in the way of good policing. Consultant doctors in England are staging two days of industrial action next month in a row over pay and working conditions. Members of the BMA will walk out on the 25th and 26th of November. The Health Secretary, Yvette Cooper, says she's disappointed, calling the strike action irresponsible.

1:52Speaking to Times Radio, the co-chair of the BMA's consultants committee, Dr Helen Neary, insisted the action wouldn't be dangerous for patients. We are committed to safe industrial action. We've delivered safe industrial action previously and we will ensure that emergency care and life-saving care is still provided, much like how care is delivered on Christmas Day. Nigel Farage says Reform UK will fight Andy Burnham after he called for an honest conversation about Britain's relationship with Brussels. The Prime Minister announced the UK won't sign up to EU freedom of movement without a referendum.

2:29He's ruled out rejoining the bloc this parliament, but said he would like to see the UK return in his lifetime. Speaking at the launch of his party's economic rescue plan, Mr Farage said the PM was not telling the truth on migration. Free movement would be good for the British economy. Out-of-date ideas that have all been knocked down. The period of mass migration gave us vastly reduced levels of productivity, massively depressed wages of British people in Britain, put up the price of rents, put up the pressure of the National Health Service. And frankly, as we've learned, mass migration of low or unskilled labour makes Britain poorer.

3:14Household energy bills are forecast to surge by 27 % from January, leaving consumers facing the highest domestic gas prices yet. According to an EDF forecast, Ofgem's energy price cap is to rise to£2 ,192 a year. The US-Iran conflict has pushed the wholesale gas price to a fresh four-year high. The artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has filed papers to sell shares to the public for the first time. The filing sets up the San Francisco company for a Wall Street debut next month in what could be the biggest ever initial public sale of stock. Anthropix suffered a loss in the first six months of this year, while two unnamed customers were responsible for nearly a quarter of all revenue.

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