Evening briefing Tuesday 20th October

0:00Good evening. Kimmy Badenock has told Times Radio the government must get tough on immigration or risk unrest like France. The Tory leader says her MPs will support tighter reforms, warning the Home Secretary not to give in to Labour ministers and backbenchers. I don't want to see violent protests because the government is not solving problems. At the moment, we have even Labour cabinet ministers like the Energy Secretary criticising the Home Secretary's plans, wanting her to water them down. She needs to toughen them up. Under plans set out last year by Labour, foreign citizens would have to live here for 15 years before getting permanent settlement up from five years.

0:41Counter-terrorism police have re-arrested two men as part of the investigation into activity near RAF Fairford last month. The men in their 20s were arrested on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service. Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock's claim to have thrown a protective ring around care homes during COVID was a cruel lie. That, according to Jean Adamson, who's been speaking on behalf of bereaved families. Leila Moran, Lib Dem MP and Chair of Health and Social Care Committee, told Times Radio she agrees. If you ask any of those families who, you know, they felt gaslit. They felt like they were screaming at, well, Zoom rooms, in Zoom rooms, sounding the alarm at the time.

1:26When Matt Hancock stood there at the podium saying there's a protective ring. I remember being contacted within minutes by people working in the sector going, that's rubbish, that's absolute rubbish. The COVID inquiry has found the social care sector was an afterthought during the pandemic, with failings said to have allowed the virus to spread like wildfire. A woman's told a court Russell Brand was a perfect stranger when he groped her at a London radio station. She says he assaulted her in the mid-2000s. Times Radio newsroom reporter Ollie Cole has been outside Southwark Crancourt. She also spoke about four other people who were in the area at the same time, three men and a woman who were with Russell Brand on this occasion, she says, and she recalls looking at them and them saying nothing and sort of looking at the woman dead in the eye as they just sort of watched on.

2:18Russell Brand denies all the charges against him. Vladimir Zelensky is in Oslo for talks with Special Envoy Steve Witkoff as tensions between the US and Ukraine continue to rise. The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, denied the US had ceased any intelligence sharing with Ukraine. RAF jets have been sent to protect Saudi Arabia's skies from Houthi rebels. It's after attacks described as despicable by West Streeting. And Prince Harry says he wants to reconcile with his family. Harry thinks it's important. People can let go of the past, but he also suggested to GQ other members of his family don't want to find common ground.

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