Evening briefing Tuesday 29th September

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0:38Search IG.com to find out more. IG. Trade. Invest. Progress. Your capital is at risk. Other fees may apply. This is Times Radio's evening briefing on Tuesday 29th September. Andy Burnham has targeted pensions, electoral reform and the UK's relationship with the EU in his first speech as Prime Minister to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. He says the pension's triple lock will be adjusted from 2030 to help fund his new national care service. That means removing the link between pensions and average annual wages, which he says will generate significant savings. This is the deal, a state pension that rises every year, no care charges and a high-quality national care service to give peace of mind in later life.

1:28conference, I am going to go out and argue for that. The PM says a new National Care Service would reflect his party's best traditions. Where everyone contributes and everyone is covered. Free at the point of use and no care charges paid out of your basic state pension.

1:52But critics have hit out at the plan. Reform's Robert Jenrick has questioned why he's going after pensioners. These are people who've worked hard their whole lives, they've juggled jobs, they've scrimped and they've saved. They deserve respect and dignity in the last decades of their lives. And why is he coming after them? Andy Burnham also opened up the possibility of rejoining the EU in some form. And he committed to electoral reform, which could signal a change in the voting system for general elections and see the first-past-the-post system scrapped. In other news, Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules by an independent commission.

2:34Between 2009 and 2018, the club were found to have arranged sham contracts with a number of its commercial partners to artificially inflate its revenues, among other issues. Martin Ziegler, chief sports reporter for The Times, has been looking at the report in detail. The judgment is 40 pages and it's devastating really. It talks about witnesses providing false evidence that they knew to be untrue and so acted dishonestly. And a litany of rule breaches really, it couldn't really be more serious. Counter-terror police say no explosives have been found in vehicles at the centre of a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire.

3:15Five British men arrested on Sunday have been released on bail, with police defending that as an investigative decision. Officers say a quantity of petrol was recovered and the men remain under investigation, including over possible links to a foreign state. The body of a baby has been found on a beach in North Wales. Health officials say they're concerned about the welfare of the mother following the discovery in Bangor. And OpenAI has scrapped plans to release its new artificial intelligence model. It's over safety concerns after it showed what's being described as higher levels of deception than its predecessor.

3:52There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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