Evening briefing Monday 8th September

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0:42Francois Beirou's expected to tender his resignation tomorrow after losing a confidence vote in Parliament. He was trying to overcome opposition to his austerity budget. He's been in office for just nine months. The votes were 194 in his favour, 364 against. Sky News correspondent Alastair Bunkle is in Paris. It wasn't even close in the end. And it was predicted this way. And even Francois Beirut, frankly, when he came into the chamber around three o 'clock this afternoon to kick off the debate, the confidence motion that he called in himself, even he acknowledged that it was something that he was going to lose.

1:19The new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the UK will suspend visas for people from countries that don't agree migrant returns deals. But Matt Dathan, the Times' Home Affairs editor, says it's actually something the Tories brought in a few years ago. She didn't name any nations, but she's talking about a power that was actually introduced on the statute book by the last Conservative government in 2022. Through the Nationality and Borders Act, it gave the power to the Home Secretary to impose penalties on countries in the form of their visa sanctions if they weren't playing ball, as Srabanu Bermud put it, in terms of taking back citizens from the UK who have no right to be here.

1:56Labour is to have a six-week contest to replace Angela Rayner as deputy leader. A meeting of the party's ruling bodies approved plans for the election to conclude by October 25th. Up to four candidates have to get 80 Labour MPs to back them by 5pm on Thursday. Harriet Harman, who was herself a Deputy Labour leader, has told Times Radio what she thinks needs to happen. Probably not somebody from London because the leader and the Deputy Prime Minister have both got London constituencies, but certainly not a man. And it needs to be a woman because we've already got a prime minister and a deputy prime minister of men.

2:30And that is quite enough. Six people have been shot dead after two gunmen boarded a bus in Jerusalem. Six others are in a serious condition. Footage from a dashboard camera shows dozens of people fleeing a bus stop. The attackers were shot dead. Political analyst Aria Kovla has given Times Radio more details. The attack was carried out by two Palestinians who lived in a village near Ramallah, which also means very near to North Jerusalem. We're talking really just a couple of miles away. They came in in the car in the morning, brought in by, it seems like, a kind of pretty regular people smuggler who brings people in to work without permits.

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